Mortal Kombat II Movie Review – Faithfully Fatal

The Mortal Kombat franchise has one of the most storied links to film adaptations in the entire video game industry. Following 1995’s excellent adaptation, it was followed by the universally bashed Annihilation in 1997, before giving way to a series of decent-to-good animated Legends films that ran from 2020 to 2023. In 2021, we received…

GameStop Wants To Sell You Random Pokémon Cards For $5,000 A Pop

As GameStop tries to buy eBay with $56 billion of fictional money, it’s also putting a lot of effort into pump its own profits by price-gouging customers on collectibles like trading cards. Today, the retailer came up with a brand new way to do that: selling single, randomized, PSA-graded Pokémon cards for $5,000 a pop….

Dying Light boss Tymon Smektała is stepping down, but “can’t wait to experience its next chapter”

Dying Light Franchise Director Tymon Smektała has announced he will be stepping away from developer Techland in order to pursue new things. Smektała, who acted as producer on both the first game and Dying Light 2, has since been the Polish studio’s man in charge of the series. While his departure is certainly a blow,…

All Active Neverness To Everness Codes May 2026 For Free Beetle Coins And More

NTE: Neverness to Everness officially launched in April 2026 and follows Hotta Studio’s previous open-world adventure, Tower of Fantasy. Set in a near-future fictional Japanese city filled with skyscrapers, fast cars, and neon signs lighting up the night sky, you’ll fight against anomalies by using your character’s Esper powers, neutralizing them before they cause too…

How Do You Pronounce These Pokémon?

Image: Nintendo Life / The Pokémon Company After 30 years and well over 1000 Pokémon in the National Dex, coming up with snappy names for Pocket Monsters is tough. Add in all the languages the games are localised into, and potential issues around certain words and puns which don’t translate well, and it’s no wonder…

All Of The Best Cosplay From Lvl Up Expo 2026

2026 is truly raising the game for cosplay. After the extraordinary outfits we featured that appeared at WonderCon, we’ve got another extraordinary gallery of incredible costumes from 2026’s Lvl Up Expo, via the photography magic of Mineralblu. The Vegas show, which is all about pop culture and gaming, has cosplay at its core, and people…

Hit 2023 PS5 Action Game 70% Off in PS Store Deal, Lowest Price

An award-winning, universally-acclaimed 2023 PS5 action game is 70% off in a limited-time PS Store deal that ends tomorrow, May 7, 2026. Remedy Entertainment’s horror adventure Alan Wake 2 is at its lowest price once again, so those who missed out on the PS Plus freebie should grab this deal. GOTY nominee Alan Wake 2’s…

Elon Musk said Gabe Newell gets ‘two thumbs up from me’ for the OpenAI board but Jeff Bezos is ‘clueless’

The legal fight between OpenAI co-founders Elon Musk and Sam Altman has seen much internal documentation from the firm’s earliest years released to the public. One minor revelation has been the serious involvement of Gabe Newell from the start, who gave the company over $20 million and was the sole member of its “informal advisory…

Critical Role officially reveals when Campaign 4 tables will reunite

Campaign 4 of Critical Role has been a whirlwind since it debuted on Oct. 2 last year. After a four-episode Overture introducing the cast, characters, world, and lore of Aramán (a world entirely different from the previous campaign’s Exandria), the 13-player cast split into three tables: Soldiers, Seekers, and Schemers. Over the past few months,…

Steam Controller took “easily hundreds” of attempts to get its layout right, but did Valve nail it?

The Steam Controller was first envisioned almost as soon as the Steam Deck landed, and, according to Valve product designers Lawrence Yang and Steve Cardinali, those early stages of its development involved “easily hundreds” of initial prototypes. Wanting to create a product that harnessed the brilliance of the dual-trackpad controller design of the Steam Deck,…