For Some Reason, An Acclaimed Maker Of Visual Novels Has Announced An AI-Generated Quake Clone
The studio behind celebrated visual novels like Steins;Gate admits to 'developing' the shooter almost entirely with AI
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Resident Evil Director Reveals He ‘Stripped Out’ A Bunch Of Jokes Because Test Audiences Found It ‘Too Funny’
Cregger stated that he 'also liked the movie a lot more' after following test audiences' advice, and that he doesn't miss 'a single joke' that was removed for the final cut
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You Probably Overlooked The Most Important Retro Rerelease In The September Nintendo Direct
The game that led to Pokémon Mystery Dungeon and pioneered a genre is available in English for the first time
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PlayStation Reportedly Dropped Kojima’s Game Due To A Growing Budget And Missed Deadlines
Physint is still reportedly years away from release
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GTA 6 Fans Track Down Real-World Version Of The Nudist Resort, Then Try To Extort It
According to Cypress Cove Nudist Resort, reviewers have demanded money to remove references to gun violence
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13 Horror Movies Coming Out This October
I’m sure you’ve heard, but it’s been a big year for horror movies. Over the past few months, there have been all sorts of releases for horror fans, from undersung gems like 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple to unexpected hits like Obsessionand what seems to be the start of a…
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Star Trek's 3 Versions Of Captain James T. Kirk: The Definitive Ranking
The easy way to rank the three live-action versions of Kirk would be to simply declare William Shatner the winner and move on. After all, he's the actor who delivered us one of science fiction's most enduring characters. But that would overlook what Chris Pine and Paul Wesley…
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Miami Beach Has The Most Ridiculous Debate About GTA 6: ‘We’re Not Giving Away Pistols And Cocaine To People’
Local commissioners voted 4-3 to approve negotiating a marketing campaign after some bizarre grandstanding
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Gary Larson's 10 Best The Far Side Comics, Ranked
What, exactly, is the measure of greatness when it comes to comic strips? The daily newspaper comic is a very limiting art form, with only a few panels — and sometimes even just one panel — to express a joke or a sentiment. Because of its brevity, it's easy to trivialize the…
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33 Years Later, the Best Sci-Fi Show of the '90s Is Officially Streaming for Free
Created by Chris Carter, The X-Files is about a pair of FBI agents who investigate cases involving the paranormal — and Carter interpreted “paranormal” very broadly. The agents investigated everything from aliens to urban legends to ghosts to many other strange goings-on. The…
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Marvel’s Wolverine Has Already Been Consumed By A Debate About ‘Fart Gas’ And It’s Not Even Out Yet
The PS5 blockbuster has been criticized for being too inrails and afraid to trust players
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24 Years Later, the 220-Episode Action Classic That Defined a Generation Is Free to Stream on YouTube
Some anime feel less like TV shows than cultural events woven into the fabric of our childhoods. Dragon Ball Z introduced generations of viewers to the idea that a fight could somehow last 12 episodes and still leave you breathless. Cowboy Bebop proved that anime could blend…
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13 Years Later, Warframe is About to Be Bigger Than Ever
In late 2026, Warframe will take players to Tau, an entirely new solar system. But in what has become the norm for the long-running multiplayer game, creative director Rebecca Ford is looking backward and forward at the same time.
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David Harbour's Santa Goes Full Hunger Games in Violent Night 2 (Exclusive)
Hollywood has given us pretty much every possible version of a Santa Claus movie over the years. We've had good Santa, Bad Santa, Tim Allen Santa, and even evil robot Santa. But in 2022, Violent Night managed to put a fresh spin on the character by combining Santa Claus with the…
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Steel Ball Run Director Says JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Is About to Get Even Weirder
Steel Ball Run uses its 1890s setting to follow a grueling cross-continental horse race across North America with a $50 million grand prize attached to it. Paraplegic ex-jockey Johnny Joestar and the charismatic Gyro Zeppeli team up to win this multi-stage race, but the…
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The scariest survival thriller of 2026 was filmed on sacred land deep in the Amazon
"Look at the giant snake movies that have come before us," Nelson tells Polygon. "With the exception of Anaconda, they're kind of jokes." (To be honest, even Anaconda is kind of a joke, to the point that Jack Black and Paul Rudd turned the concept into a meta-comedy in 2025. And…
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Someone Recreated The Weirdest-Looking Moment From The Big GTA 6 Trailer In Real Life
Turns out Jason's odd backflip is possible, if you are a skilled athlete who loves flipping
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I Played A Game That Turns Tetris Into Doom, And It’s For Babies
A child could do it, if you gave them a gun
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