The most important character in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey isn’t even in the original poem

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is a movie adaptation of a massive text that dates back thousands of years. Homer’s epic poem is over 500 pages long in most English translations, featuring Gods, monsters, and disasters that delay Odysseus’ journey home. On the road to adaptation, some changes were bound to be made, and while a…

Slay The Spire 2’s New Update Tries To Make The Silent Less OP

It’s been another two weeks, which means we all get another Slay the Spire 2 beta patch. This week’s v0.110.0 patch isn’t anywhere near as silly as the previous patch—in fact, the latest patch is actually trying to undo some of the silliness that was introduced in patch v0.109.0–but it does feature a wealth of…

Escape From Tarkov is adding a battle pass

The first Escape From Tarkov season is about to start, and Battlestate Games has confirmed that, as previously hinted at by Studio Head Nikita Buyanov, it will feature a battle pass system. However, the extraction shooter’s developer has now calmed fears of potential microtransactions by confirming that the Kord Breach battle pass will be free,…

What Are You Playing This Weekend? (1st August)

Now then, what’s everyone playing this weekend? Mai Ladyman, Video Producer My backlog has been looming over me again, so outside of work I’ve not really been able to play any different games; however, I did manage to finish a couple this week. This includes completing the story for Pokémon Pokopia (at last) after 95+…

PS Plus Extra April 2026 Game Disappears From Catalog

A popular PS5 action game that was added to PS Plus Extra in April 2026 has mysteriously disappeared from the catalog. Squirrel With a Gun was removed from the catalog sometime over the past day or two, but the game isn’t officially scheduled to leave the service. Subscribers who previously downloaded Squirrel With a Gun…

In happier times, Sony was courting PC gamers with lavish magazine ads for its ‘most popular CD-ROM titles’

Well well well—what a difference, uh, 30 years makes, huh? While the Sony of 2026 is insisting that it should, or must, carry on with the execution of physical media for its forthcoming PlayStation 6, and has backed away from releasing its prestige games on PC, the Sony of 1996 was in a very different…

A Comedic Driving Game That Encourages Vehicular Manslaughter Is The First Isekai I Don’t Hate

Perhaps one of my most “old lady yells at cloud” takes is that I hate isekais. It’s a genre wherein a person is transported from one world to another with shenanigans ensuing, and it’s dominating the anime, manga, and Asian TV drama space. Characters often go from present day to the past or to fantasy…

Cyberpunk 2077 in 2026: still alive, and still iconic

Lauren spends most of her time dead in League of Legends, or equally as dead in Valorant. Don’t ask her about Vampire: The Masquerade. Published: July 31, 2026 Cyberpunk 2077 is the very definition of a success story. It’s no secret that its launch wasn’t great; bugs were popping up left, right, and center, and…

10 new movies to watch this weekend on Peacock, HBO Max, and Hulu (July 31

It’s that time of the week again. If you’re not too busy scrambling for Spider-Man: Brand New Day tickets, there’s a lot of stuff you can watch from home, whether you’re renting or catching the latest streaming release. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is now available on Peacock. Based on the beloved video game franchise,…

Super Mario Sunshine Joins Nintendo Switch Online GameCube

Super Mario Sunshine is the next classic GameCube title joining Nintendo Switch Online’s classic game catalog. The 2002 platformer arrives on August 13. Super Mario Sunshine sees Mario and friends travel to the tropical Delfino Island, where an imposter known as Shadow Mario vandalizes the destination with graffiti and abducts Princess Peach. Mario teams up…