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Soulframe: The Secret To Digital Extremes’ Live-Service Success Is Keeping ‘The Amount Of Public Scrutiny As High As Possible’

If you haven’t watched NoClip’s excellent two-part documentary about Digital Extremes’ sci-fi MMO shooter, Warframe, I highly recommend doing so. For the purpose of this story, that documentary is a great primer for the struggles the studio endured leading up to the launch of Warframe. But now, more than a decade and some change later, Warframe is…

Fans Accuse Pragmata’s Twitch Emote Of Referencing Pedo Meme

Capcom’s Pragmata is officially out today, and, by all accounts, the game itself is pretty great. To celebrate its release, Capcom and Twitch have partnered up to offer Pragmata fans a chance to earn an official “Cryana” Twitch Chat Badge, but several folks online are already accusing said badge of being a reference to a…

The Mandalorian and Grogu was inspired by The French Connection’s iconic chase scene

From a certain point of view, A New Hope is more of a collage of other films than an original movie. George Lucas famously clipped in sequences from Battle of Britain when he screened an unfinished Star Wars to his friends, but even the completed movie borrows liberally, recreating visuals and scenes from classic Westerns…

Fortnite Showdown: Where To Find Every Chaos Cube Available So Far

Years ago, Epic frequently filled the Fortnite island with collectibles that players could find for XP, but they didn’t do much of that the past few chapters. But the collectibles have returned in a big way in Chapter 7 Season 2, with the dozens of Chaos Cubes that are scattered all over the island. There…

Steam Super Hit Windrose Is What Skull & Bones Should Have Been

As I was sailing the blue, open waters of the Caribbean, circa the 18th century, in my big pirate ship, my crew sang a shanty. The winds shifted, the gusts filled my sails, and we sped up now that the breeze was coming from behind. A small enemy boat appeared on the horizon, and a…

The Street Fighter Movie Still Looks Absolutely Bonkers In Latest Trailer

Street Fighter, the upcoming live-action film based on Capcom’s tentpole franchise, has a lengthy new trailer ahead of its October 16 premiere. Although the entire cast gets a spotlight, this new look shines a particuarly larger light on Ryu and Ken.  The film shows Chun-Li’s quest to find champions for the tournament, seeking out Ryu…

The Division Was Originally A World Of Warcraft Clone, Says Ubisoft

The Division didn’t start life as a third-person cover-based looter shooter. Instead, as explained in a new video from Ubisoft, developer Massive Entertainment’s online tactical shooter was originally planned to be a World of Warcraft-like MMORPG with hotbars and everything. Ubisoft even showed off a bit of this early version, providing an interesting look at…

Metro 2039 Preview – Grim Fiction Inspired By Darker Realities

The Ukrainian-based 4A Games, developer of the Metro series, has been through hell since releasing Metro Exodus in 2019. Like all of us, it endured the hardships of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. But unlike most of us, it had an unfortunate front row seat to watch its country become embroiled in a brutal – and…

I saw the first 15 minutes of The Mandalorian and Grogu and I have a lot of thoughts

The Mandalorian and Grogu is facing a lot of pressure to refuel the sputtering franchise. Ever since the disastrous conclusion of the sequel trilogy with 2019’s Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker, Star Wars has been relegated to pumping out TV shows for Disney’s streaming platform. Now, the franchise is making a theatrical comeback with…

Sonic The Hedgehog 4’s First Trailer Debuts At CinemaCon

Another CinemaCon is here and that means Paramount is once again showing the first glimpse of a Sonic the Hedgehog movie to event attendees and not to the rest of us. Just as it did with Sonic the Hedgehog 3 in 2024, Paramount presented an early look at Sonic the Hedgehog 4 at the industry…