Yearly Archives: 2018
16 New Titles, Including PUBG, Are Headed to Xbox Game Pass
During Microsoft's Inside Xbox: X018 Special, it was revealed that 16 new games will be added to Xbox Game Pass, including PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds.
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds launched on Xbox Game Preview on December 12, 2017, and will be free for all Xbox Game Pass members in just a few days on Monday, November 12.
Alongside PUBG, Ninja Theory's Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice will also be arriving on Xbox Game Pass next month on December 17.
A few days later, Ori and the Blind Forest will join Xbox Game Pass on December 20. In addition, its sequel, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, will also join Game Pass when it launches in 2019.
Why Grindelwald Is More Dangerous than Voldemort
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is shaping up to bring its titular character into the spotlight, giving Harry Potter fans a chance to see one of the series’ most formidable villains in action at the height of his power.
Why is the focus on Grindelwald as a villain especially intriguing? In the original books, Voldemort is considered the evilest Dark Wizard of all time. In retrospect, Grindelwald was not crueler than Voldemort. He wasn’t decisively more powerful than Voldemort. Instead, what makes the focus on Grindelwald so exciting is that he was probably more dangerous than Voldemort -- a notion that has everything to do with his relationship with an unequivocal good guy: Albus Dumbledore.
25 Obscure Facts About Game of Thrones
Game of Thrones winning the Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series for the second time was truly an awesome thing, but also a stark (hah!) reminder that we've still got a crazy long wait until the series returns for its eighth and final season.
To help satiate your hunger for all things Thrones, to tide you over through the long fearful winter, we've compiled a rogues gallery of facts and tidbits about the blockbuster series from all angles of adoration. There're odds and ends about the books, the genesis of the show, some behind-the-scenes show shenanigans, and entertaining Easter eggs.
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Forget About Wires, Get the Best Wireless Gaming Mice Today
If you haven't tried using a wireless gaming mouse you should. There’s a lot of convenience and freedom with a wireless gaming mouse—once you get used to whipping your mouse around without dragging a cable along with it, it’s hard to go back. Wireless mice used to come at a higher premium, but all that extra freedom and mobility hardly comes at a cost any more as some excellent models start at $50 or less now.
That said, regular wired mice can game forever while the battery life of wireless gaming mice still hovers around weeks. No wireless mouse can ever be as lightweight as a wired mouse either as long as batteries are included in the equation. For some, those are big deterrents. For others, the joys of using a completely untethered mouse make these minor setbacks seem trivial. After all, given all the hours you spend using your mouse, shouldn’t that experience be as pleasant as possible?
Here Are the Best Graphics Cards From Both Team Green and Team Red
The GPU market is in a pretty interesting place right now. Nvidia introduced a 1.5 version of Turing with Super versions of its high-end RTX GPUs and some of its most affordable GTX graphics cards yet. Meanwhile, AMD introduced its Radeon VII and its first Navi graphics cards are shaking things up a bit by giving gamers a 7nm GPU alternative to Nvidia's fully-fleshed out Turing line-up.
Westworld Location Burns Down in Woolsey Fire
The Western town location seen in Westworld has burned down in the California wildfires.
The Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area tweeted that "the Woolsey Fire has burned Western Town at Paramount Ranch."
The Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area tweeted about the destruction of the iconic Westworld set.
Inside the Outlander Premiere’s Brutal Final Scene
This interview contains spoilers for the Outlander Season 4 premiere, "America the Beautiful." Check out our review of the Season 4 premiere here.
Season 4 of Outlander brings our star-crossed heroes, Claire (Caitriona Balfe) and Jamie (Sam Heughan), to North Carolina - where they hope to start a new life in the New World.
But a chance encounter with a charming convict named Stephen Bonnet (Ed Speleers) will have major consequences for the Frasers after Jamie and Claire help him escape being hanged early in the episode, only to have him repay their kindness by robbing them and killing their friend Lesley in the final minutes of the Season 4 premiere. And this isn’t the last we’ll see of Bonnet this season…
Picard Show Will Be “Grounded, New and Different”
Full spoilers follow for the Star Trek: Short Treks episode “Calypso.”
CBS All Access just dropped the Short Treks episode “Calypso,” perhaps their best addition to the Star Trek universe since they started making new episodes last year. And no doubt much of the success of the short is the result of the script by Michael Chabon, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author who has made the jump to TV with “Calypso” and is also on the upcoming, untitled Picard show’s writing staff.
Watch the trailer for Calypso above.
In “Calypso” (read our review here), a lost solider named Craft (Aldis Hodge) finds himself onboard the USS Discovery, which somehow lost its crew a thousand years earlier. In the millennium that has passed, the ship’s computer has evolved into an AI named Zora (voiced by Annabelle Wallis), and it is she who nurses the injured Craft back to health. But of course, an unlikely bond forms between man and machine, even while the question of what it means to be a man, or a machine, or a woman arises… This is Star Trek, after all!
What GTA 6 Can Learn From Red Dead 2
After roughly 80 hours, I finally rolled credits on Red Dead Redemption 2, and even with lots still left to do in that world, it’s hard not to look to the future. Rockstar has done some amazing things in their rendition of the Old West, and despite some of its faults, they’ve set a new bar for themselves as a studio. From the gorgeous environments to the world’s interactivity, there are plenty of new ideas and mechanics that would be great additions to the studio’s flagship franchise -- but there are few smaller lessons that we think Red Dead’s older sibling could benefit from, too. Here are 8 things that GTA 6 can learn from Red Dead 2.