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Backrooms director Kane Parsons explains the birds, the portals, and his practical effects

[Ed. note: Minor spoilers ahead for two details about Backrooms’ setting, and one question about practical vs. digital effects.] 1 Why are there dead birds in the Backrooms, but no other animals? When furniture-store owner Clark (Chiwetel Ejiofor) discovers a portal in his basement, leading into a mysterious space full of yellow-walled, irrationally irregular rooms…

YouTuber Banned From Cedar Point After Chicken Nugget Stunt

YouTuber Allen Ferrell, who posts food challenge videos and asking his viewers “what’s wrong with you,” has received a lifetime ban from Cedar Point, the coaster Valhalla of Ohio. The ban comes after one of his fans dared him to eat ten chicken McNuggets on a rollercoaster, which he followed through on last week. In…

French Film Follows Low-Poly Man Convinced He’s In A Simulation

Director Quentin Dupieux presented two films at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, one of which is his animated debut Le Vertige. The musician turned director has been fiddling with absurdist, often meta-fictional satires since his earliest films, and the latest is no different. The new movie follows a man increasingly convinced he’s living in a…

Roger Craig Smith Packs His Resident Evil Briefcase

We’re back with another Resident Evil briefcase packing video. This time we’ve brought in the boulder punching asshole himself, Roger Craig Smith (Chris Redfield), for a Resident Evil 5 Inspired twist. Can he and his co-op partner Jillucy make it to the end? Source link

Pictonico! means Nintendo is making mobile games again. Why?

Switchboard is Polygon’s weekly newsletter for all things Nintendo, sent on Thursdays and published on the site on Saturdays. You can subscribe here. A new Nintendo game is out… on smartphones. Pictonico! is a WarioWare-style microgame compilation that pulls from your photo library to add your friends’ and family’s faces to the games. The pitch…

Researchers Put Grok AI In Charge Of A World Simulation And It Ended With ‘183 Crimes Committed’ And Humanity’s Total ‘Extinction’

If, for some reason, you’ve ever wondered what would happen if you put Grok in charge of sustaining a population’s wellbeing, then luckily you now have your answer; chaos, murder, arson and total extinction of all living beings within the space of four days. This question that nobody asked was answered by the team at…

Fable Delayed To February 2027

Xbox has delayed Fable to February 2027. It revealed this in a post on X, explaining that it is delaying Playground Games’ upcoming reboot of the storied Xbox franchise to give it “the dedicated moment it deserves” amid a packed rest of the year.  Playground just launched its latest racer, Forza Horizon 6, earlier this…

El Tigre Creator Backs Away From AI Generated Amazon Cartoon

Earlier this week, El Tigre creator Jorge R. Gutierrez announced Punky Duck, one of a trio of new AI generated animated series being launched by Amazon. While a rude duck with ‘tude may seek to ruffle feathers, the outrage that did generate was not the kind Gutierrez wanted. Two days following the announcement, Gutierrez is…

Most anticipated board games and TTRPGs of summer 2026

Some of the biggest conventions for tabletop role-playing games and board games take place during the summer, which means publishers have a heavy slate of new releases to demo and sell at Gen Con, Origins, and the UK Games Expo. Even if you’re not going to be at one of these shows, you’ll still find…

Off The Grid Targets October Full Release

After six years of active development, we are taking Off The Grid into full release. Six years of work will converge into one five-month sprint.  Since its launch, Off The Grid has been continuously polished and refined based on community feedback. Every patch has been shaped by what players asked for. From June to October,…