Grand Theft Hamlet’s creators put Shakespeare in GTA to put chaos back into Shakespeare
Grand Theft Hamlet is a documentary film, kind of. It’s also an experimental theater project. It’s also a rough-and-ready feature-length machinima, made entirely in-game in Grand Theft Auto Online. It’s also a slapstick comedy of errors about three friends trying to fill an empty period in their lives by staging a production of William Shakespeare’s […]
Premium live-service games are failing. Why is Diablo 4 a success?
Live-service gaming is in a difficult, transitional moment. Even as the sector consumes more and more millions of player hours, successful new launches are few and far between, and the frequency of shutdowns has increased. Franchises like Destiny and Overwatch have pivoted to free-to-play models in an attempt to keep their player numbers buoyant, and […]
The next Barbenheimer? A date change tees up Wickiator
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Wicked now goes up against Gladiator II
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The forbidden episode of Bluey is forbidden no more
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Well, it’s on YouTube (officially)
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7 Days in Hell did Challengers before Challengers — threesomes and all
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Andy Samberg stars in a tennis mockumentary full of Challengers-level ridiculous rallies, homoerotica, and more
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Jesse Plemons’ Civil War character says the quiet part out loud
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‘What kind of American are you?’
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There’s bleak — and then there’s Netflix’s Nazi occupation thriller, Will
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This drama about World War II collaboration and resistance is astonishingly brutal
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Everyone is so wrong about Netflix’s ‘erotic thriller’ Fair Play
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This tense workplace drama is memorable, but it’s been completely mislabeled
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Epic only realized it had ‘financial problem’ that led to layoffs 10 weeks ago
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Unreal Engine to get more expensive — but not for game developers, CEO Tim Sweeney says
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Forza Motorsport is OK with being the boring Forza
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Turn 10 turns in an accomplished, stripped-down circuit racer that’s all business
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