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Competitors Concord and Dustborn Help Explain Black Myth: Wukong’s Success

AlexGherzo | Aug 26, 2024 | 4

We’ve watched Black Myth: Wukong, the new Soulslike game from Chinese developer Game Science, become a legitimate sensation over the past week, with 2,415,714 concurrent players at its all-time peak on Steam and a 95.58% positive audience score as of this writing. It’s also on track to be the fa...

Black Myth Wukong Review Guidelines Ban “Feminist Propaganda”

AlexGherzo | Aug 19, 2024 | 4

The makers of Black Myth: Wukong are not playing around with games journalists. The Soulslike action RPG from Chinese studio Game Science (their first game, which is hard to believe when you see how good it looks) will be released tomorrow, August 20, on PlayStation 5 and PC – and Xbox Series X|S...

The Snow White Remake is in Trouble, and Disney is Scrambling to Save It

AlexGherzo | Aug 16, 2024 | 2

“Absence makes the heart grow fonder” is true everywhere except Hollywood. They’ve cracked the maxim’s code by becoming so unappealing that the rest of us can’t forget whatever they’ve done this time, no matter how long their latest impending cultural desecration has gone away. Take Snow...

Is Elon Musk Planning to Buy Disney?

AlexGherzo | Aug 8, 2024 | 2

Elon Musk’s attempt to defeat wokeness may not stop with the platform formerly known as Twitter. The Tesla CEO who bought the social media company, renamed it X, and rebranded it as the place to go for free speech, has had some tussles with Disney in the past, most memorably when he brought up var...

Concord Early Access Beta is a Bomb

AlexGherzo | Jul 18, 2024 | 3

The main attraction at this year’s PlayStation State of Play was Concord, a sci-fi first-person shooter developed by Firewalk Studios (which is owned by Sony, hence the focus at State of Play). It was pretty underwhelming, a goofy-looking game with some nice visuals but little to draw anyone in. ...

Microsoft Eliminates DEI Team

AlexGherzo | Jul 16, 2024 | 1

A sea change appears to be coming in the tech industry. In April, Google CEO Sundar Pichai sent a memo that the company’s employees were to leave their politics out of the workplace. Now comes news – first reported by Business Insider – that Microsoft is going even further. Starting July 1, 2...