#CallofDuty #BlackOps7 has been divisive, but it's not the only game in the franchise to turn heads. @cadeonder.bsky.social ranks every Black Ops game for @rollingstone.com -- including the new one. www.rollingstone.com/culture/rs-g...

Basically everything said by Ryan Gosling in ‘The Nice Guys’ (2016).

Now's a great to time to cling to my copy of Metroid Dread and lay in bed.

I don't like this guy.

Metroid has always been my favorite Nintendo series, and I've been cautiously optimistic about Prime 4. Based on the preview, I'm still cautious. The small slice was a little too linear, too simple, and gave Samus an *escort mission.* preview @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/culture/rs-g...

Here’s my massive interview with Dispatch’s writer Pierre Shorrete - touching on superhero fatigue, the nature of choice in narrative games, how it started as live action, how it became a “far greater” succes than expected, and what’s next www.inverse.com/gaming/dispa...

Season One of 'Dispatch' wraps up with a couple loose threads and multiple outcomes — sticking the landing on its playable TV show premise. A full recap of the finale and retrospective @rollingstone.com *Spoilers for Eps 7 & 8* @adhocstudio.com www.rollingstone.com/culture/rs-g...

New York Times killed Weinstein and Epstein stories but just asked Ms Rachel if she was funded by Hamas.

I find it funny that the Steam Machine marketing angle is, "It's 6x times more powerful than this 3-year-old handheld device." I'd fucking hope so.

Steam Machine looks like one of the little modular IKEA cubbies. Kewt.

Finally, Gabecube

Brie Larson is an extremely obvious pick — she's Nintendo's celebrity show pony, but Benny Safdie? They're trying to tip the scales away from The Discourse with that one.

The rhythmic block-clearing series gets a 'Tetris Effect'-style overhaul that's heavy on the synesthesia, if light on actual content. Review ↓

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To be a James Bond author and genuinely be this stupid is wild. People have understood how different interpretations of the same character works for generations. Bond is no different than a comic book character — pick your flavor and entry point, and go. It's that simple.

While I wasn't *quite* as smitten by Lumines Arise as everyone else, I was enthralled for a stint. Especially in VR, it was like a wild two-day bender of stress relief, but I don't see myself coming back to it as often as I do other puzzlers. @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/culture/rs-g...

Was writing about F.E.A.R. for @rollingstone.com enough? Nay. Was talking about it with @murph04.bsky.social and @stolisomancer.bsky.social on the Daydremcast enough? Nope. For last month's Skydive, the Skybox crew sat down to talk about one of the best horror shooters ever made. F.E.A.R. forever.

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

The turning point of Season One sees the Z-Team bonding over big secrets and bloody bar brawls as the endgame takes shape. (This post contains spoilers). Recap ↓

Monolith's horror-shooter stars a ghostly little girl, but players have always missed the point of its tragic story.

Rounding mid-season, Dispatch isn't showing that its choices make a huge difference — but it still feels like more than the sum of its parts. I'm really enjoying living in this world and replaying each episode multiple times. EP 5+6 recap @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/culture/rs-g...

Rounding mid-season, Dispatch isn't showing that its choices make a huge difference — but it still feels like more than the sum of its parts. I'm really enjoying living in this world and replaying each episode multiple times. EP 5+6 recap @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/culture/rs-g...

George Santos lived in Huntington, Long Island before becoming a member of Congress. He lived in the Federal Correctional Institution in Fairton, New Jersey after that.

If you have a Tesla you should get rid of it immediately.

Nancy Pelosi secretly being queen of the stock market and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez vocally opposing elected officials profiting off the stock market feel like intrinsically connected facts that quietly explain their instant bad blood the minute they became House colleagues

The third spin-off in the musou mash-up series is out today and is a pitch-perfect blend of genres that lets the princess — and players — kick butt. Review ↓

I had to do it. I had to watch this Kim Kardashian / Ryan Murphy show out of morbid curiosity. I can’t comprehend how any of this got made. Every minute, dollar, brain cell burnt on this must have been part of some group psychosis. Is it anti-art?

I grew up watching The Simpsons every Friday. Every Week. Who Shot Mr Burns is a cultural touchstone for me. To be able to contribue to the show/characters/lore in my own small way has been a dream come true. Young Andrew would be out of his mind if he knew.

Like many, I've been sucked into #Fortnite again thanks to #TheSimpsons. @rollingstone.com has an exclusive look at the alternate couch gag produced by The Simpsons team, Gracie Films, for the monthlong crossover: www.rollingstone.com/culture/rs-g...

A genuinely hilarious story from at the bizarre scene at Sliwa's party last night, courtesy of @nikkimcr.bsky.social @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

It’s going to feel so fucking good to just get up in the morning and go about the day without *that* feeling again. Instant vibe shift.

The third spin-off in the musou mash-up series is a pitch-perfect blend of genres that lets the princess — and players — kick butt. Review ↓

Samus is the only character that gets a pass to do the Akira Slide. She’s it.

Gaming embargoes have been extra egregious lately. The whole "no story details whatsoever" bit in the pre-release review window is bad. There's also another game out where the embargo is basically demanding not to spoil anything *post* release, while also backtracking on pre-release access entirely.

Nintendo's embargo for Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment was so restrict IGN is waiting to publish its review until launch. www.ign.com/articles/hyr...

As someone who’s played a dumb amount of #HyruleWarriors, #AgeOfImprisonment is the game I wanted this series to be, adding more #Zelda mechanics to the gameplay, with more fluid and diverse combat, and it doesn’t run like shit. Full review @rollingstone.com

Amazing Election Day omen.

Happy to have spoken with @ryangaur.bsky.social for this story on retro gaming. 🔥👾 www.backmarket.co.uk/en-gb/c/tech...

It’s genuinely funny when the lie is so big and blatant that stretches the bounds of reality. So, an eighth of the entire city is just going to vanish on Wednesday like the Rapture?

“There’s no official word, but it’s worth noting that Godzilla Minus One was so-called because it took place before 1954’s Godzilla.” So we’re just making things up now?

The latest update of Epic's online game includes character skins for Homer, Marge, and Flanders — and an all-new Battle Royale map. More: www.rollingstone.com/culture/rs-g...

D'oh! @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/culture/rs-g...

Week 2 of #Dispatch evolves past the sitcom pilot & tutorial stage and quickly picks up speed to show how its branching narrative could play out, while still retaining the feeling of a scripted TV show. @rollingstone.com @adhocstudio.com Recap w/ *SPOILERS* www.rollingstone.com/culture/rs-g...

Wrote about Dispatch, the real hole that’s been left since Telltale’s closure, and the place I think episodic games could have in a binge-obsessed society www.inverse.com/gaming/dispa...

It is, in fact, so much dumber.

Making my @rollingstone.com debut writing about Monolith's incredible F.E.A.R. and how the story's meaning has kind of gotten lost over the years. Alma isn't F.E.A.R.'s villain. Armacham and the people that made her are. She's as much a victim as anyone else, a spirit of vengeance made, not born.

A @rollingstone.com Halloween special: writer @edgarallanbro.bsky.social looks back at #FEAR, the 2005 horror game whose famous monster has been totally misunderstood for 20 years. It's a great read. www.rollingstone.com/culture/rs-g...

White people will watch ‘The Bear’ and implicitly understand the casual use of “cousin,” but a brown person says “aunt” and it’s suddenly time for the DNA check.

Week 2 of #Dispatch evolves past the sitcom pilot & tutorial stage and quickly picks up speed to show how its branching narrative could play out, while still retaining the feeling of a scripted TV show. @rollingstone.com @adhocstudio.com Recap w/ *SPOILERS* www.rollingstone.com/culture/rs-g...