January 2026

When you first look at a Divinity: Original Sin 2 map, you might think it’s a bit small. Surely, there can’t be that much to deal with in such a tiny area, right? Wrong. Original Sin 2 stuffs every map, even the prologue map, with quests, secrets, lore, optional fights, allies, and essential equipment, and […]

The sun is shining and the Dawntrail field operation and relic weapon is here, as of patch 7.25. For those wanting to get a jump on the relic grind, we got your back, as we detail how to get the Phantom relic weapon in FFXIV below. Just like other relics, the Phantom relic is no […]

The RuneScape franchise turns 25 this year. Old School RuneScape (OSRS), which launched in 2013 using the 2007-era source code from RuneScape, is at the height of its popularity right now, peaking at 240k concurrent players in 2025. Last year, OSRS got its first-ever new skill in the form of sailing, which brought waves of […]

It’s a very fanciful week for streaming. Cosmic Princess Kaguya!, a modern spin on the same Japanese folktale that inspired Studio Ghibli co-founder Isao Takahata’s final film, lands on Netflix. SpongeBob has a haunted pirate adventure in The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants, which sails onto VOD. Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie go on a […]

When I first sat down with Bowen “Monsoon” Fuller, we were both out of breath. Moments earlier, he and his teammates on team Oblivion had just pulled off the unthinkable: winning the Apex Legends Global Series (ALGS) Year 5 Championship in Sapporo, Japan. On the fourth and final day of the competition, Fuller and his […]

Most comedy fans know the overall story of Wet Hot American Summer and its rise to cult classic status: A hyper-specific genre parody made on a relative shoestring, debuted at Sundance, packed with now-familiar faces, limited-released to box office obscurity and mixed reviews, eventually reclaimed as maybe the funniest broad comedy of the 21st century. […]

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is the latest Game of Thrones spin-off from HBO, but it’s a drastically different show compared to anything we’ve seen before. Based on The Hedge Knight, a series of novellas written by George R.R. Martin, the series tells a much smaller and more focused story about Ser Dunk the […]

Elden Ring Nightreign players received a game-changing update on Thursday, thanks to patch 1.03.2, which has big buffs for two of the game’s Nightfarers: the Raider and Executor. But FromSoftware’s latest update to Nightreign has more than just buffs (and a nerf for fan-favorite Ironeye), with sweeping changes to relics, spells, and field bosses. One […]

Game of Thrones’ epic scope was always part of the show’s appeal. The ambitious story, sprawling across kingdoms, continents, and the cast of dozens of primary characters made HBO’s George R.R. Martin adaptation feel monumental and consequential, especially as the story narrowed down to a single massive war that would define the fate of the […]

In these days of shrinking attention spans, the success of a game is too often determined by its overture: you either capture the audience during those crucial early minutes, or you never get another chance. Developer Bethesda understood this quite some time ago, and since 1992, dramatic openings have been one of the most notable […]