Like the original series, X-Men ‘97 has been adapting a variety of comic book storylines from the 90s. Thus far, the likes of Inferno, The Trial of Magneto, and Grant Morrison and Frank Quietly’s New X-Men run have been brought to life, with varying levels of time and success. The show has a lot of stories it can… Read more…
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Nintendo has revealed the file-sizes for its two big upcoming games for the Nintendo Switch via the Nintendo eShop. First up is the remake of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door for the Nintendo Switch family of systems which will weigh in at 5GB and launches this month. The next is Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD which… Read More »Paper Mario and Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD Switch file sizes revealed Source
A recent paper by cybersecurity-focused firm Akamai has found that queries to suspicious domains impersonating the US Postal Service accounted for nearly as much internet traffic as those to the actual USPS in a four month span between 2023 and ’24. The firm’s conservative criteria for avoiding false positives, meanwhile, might mean that traffic to phishing sites was actually far greater than to the actual Postal Service. Akamai collected one dataset of domains containing malicious JavaScript and HTML code with “usps” featured somewhere in the address, and a second set of domains with “usps” in the address that led somewhere…
Even as members of Helldivers studio Arrowhead Games say that discussions around Sony’s controversial PlayStation Network sign in requirement for Helldivers 2 on PC are still ongoing, it looks like the publisher is doubling down on the move, halting sales of the game in countries where it doesn’t offer the service. In theory, Helldivers 2 was always supposed to require players to sign into the PlayStation Network in game, but this was not required at launch due to network infrastructure limitations (remember Helldivers 2’s early server woes?). Two days ago, Sony announced that it would begin enforcing that requirement in…
A just-announced Halo: The Master Chief Collection mod project is working on a full singleplayer and cooperative campaign in the style of Halo: CE and Halo 2, and has released a trailer, statement, and screenshots that are pretty promising. The trailer does some flyover shots of what might be the destroyed colony world of Reach before transitioning to the familiar environment of the Halo ring, then showing off some unique takes on the older covenant alien designs. The RedShift team, a seven person group called Blimp Brigade, described their project like this on ModDB: “RedShift is a large open-ended Halo…
This week, we’ll help you sharpen your stellar blade, harvest XP in Final Fantasy 16, find great gear and adaptations in Another Crab’s Treasure, and more. Read on! Read more…
Ask the average person what high-profile actor should join the MCU that already hasn’t, and Giancarlo Esposito will be one of the common answers. Folks have wanted the Breaking Bad star to be a part of the superhero franchise for years, and it apppears they’ll finally get their wish—but only up to a point. Read more…
When Fallout 4 released in 2015, it received generally positive reviews from critics, but also sparked a discussion online picking apart the game.
Hello reader who is also a reader, and welcome to Booked For The Week – our new Sunday feature where we ask a selection of cool industry folks questions about books! The very first book was famously written in the 1200’s by notable scholar and six-time wrestling world champion Booker T, a fact you’d know if you simply read more books. This week, it’s voice of Horizon Zero Dawn’s Aloy and many others, writer, singer, and endless other cool stuff, Ashly Burch! Cheers Ashly! Mind if we have a nose at your bookshelf? Read more
Bernard Hill, the actor that brought Lord of the Rings’ Théoden to life memorably in Peter Jackson’s movie adaptation trilogy, has died at the age of 79. Read more…