Today, PlayStation released their first State of Play for 2025, with a whole bunch of new games announced. You can watch the whole presentation below: And here are the individual trailers: Monster Hunter Wilds I’ve never played any of the Monster Hunter games, but this looks like fun. The graphics are excellent, and the gameplay looks …
Here’s your seemingly daily reminder that games journalism, just like regular journalism, has devolved into little more (oh, who am I kidding – nothing more) than political activism. You’ve probably heard that, upon assuming office, President Donald Trump renamed the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. Most people had some laughs (because it’s pretty …
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Disney realizes they need a new hope… but only up to a point. Disneyland has a yearly event called Season of the Force, which is a kind of Star Wars celebration (not to be confused with Star Wars Celebration) that features various rides, shows, and other attractions all geared towards Star Wars. This year, the Season of …
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Is Disney scrapping its DEI policies? Maybe, maybe not, but it certainly wants people to think it is. In their 2024 SEC filing – as reported by The New York Post – Disney has left out two of its big DEI programs, “Reimagine Tomorrow” and “The Disney Look,” both of which were featured in the company’s …
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While most Hollywood studios were releasing trailers for their big 2025 movie releases during yesterday’s Super Bowl, Disney decided to promote… itself. Don’t get me wrong; there were trailers for the first Marvel movie of the summer season, Thunderbolts*, and their latest unnecessary live-action remake of an animated film, Lilo & Stitch. But Disney bizarrely …
This year’s Super Bowl has come and gone, and while trophies are placed on mantles, rings adorn fingers, and bookies go out collecting gambling losses, a series of new trailers and TV spots for the year’s upcoming movies are making the internet rounds. I may not know who won or what the winning play was …
The MCU version of the X-Men may be taking shape. In May, we learned that Marvel was fast-tracking an X-Men movie, partly because of the “success” of X-Men ‘97 (they must mean that it was well-liked by people who saw it because it didn’t get good numbers on Disney+) and partly because… you know… they’re the …
It’s looking more and more like Batman will be returning to Arkham. Warner Bros. Games is in a bad place right now. Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League was a titanic failure that cost the company $200 million, according to an investor call, and seemingly ruined the beloved Batman: Arkham universe. It was so bad that …
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Love Hurts is the most frustrating kind of movie: the kind that has flashes of greatness, like a much better film is trying to break out of the box it’s been shut in. You can feel the usual 87North traits, the consistent themes that make it a much better movie than the trailer hints at, the …
Brie Larson has learned from her mistakes. The Oscar-winning actress first played Carol Danvers, alias Captain Marvel (nowadays), in the MCU in 2018, but leading up to her Marvel movie debut, she made comments that drew the ire of fans, particularly ones dismissive of white men. She also gave the impression of being smug and …
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