Video game adaptations have seen a huge resurgence lately. With The Last of Us, Arcane, Fallout, and The Super Mario Bros. Movie prove that this genre can be successful outside their respective media; More and more studios are taking big swings with their major gaming properties. One of the most beloved franchises in this industry is the action-adventure titan Lara …
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Will the next Battlefield save the series and bring it back as a major player in the shooter space? Is that something that it could even do? EA would certainly like the answer to both of those questions to be ‘yes’, and the publisher has been working to secure every possible advantage to help get it there. Those ambitions could …
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“Squid Game” is as big as ever. Netflix revealed that the second season of the smash South Korean drama debuted to a whopping 68 million views globally since debuting on the streamer on December 25. Netflix says it’s a record for the streamer, notching the most views in a premiere week ever, beating a record set by “Wednesday” in 2022, …
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Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk is speaking out about the ending of season two and why they decided to conclude the season at that point. Spoilers ahead! The season ended with The Front Man (In-ho/Young-il) shooting and killing Jung-bae next to Gi-hun, who then breaks down at the sight of his friend’s death. Gi-hun is not yet aware that The …
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Editor’s note: The below contains spoilers for Squid Game Season 2. In both seasons of Squid Game, the deadly children’s games began before the players ever stepped into the familiar arena, facilitated by the elusive man dubbed the Salesman or Recruiter (Gong Yoo). In Season 1, this was a relatively harmless game of ddakji, which the Salesman used to lure …
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Screenshot: AIHASTO Steam’s latest mini-sensation has arrived and it’s called MiSide. The meta thriller in the vein of Doki Doki Literature Club has already racked up one of the highest ratings on Valve’s storefront just a couple weeks after its completely under-the-radar launch, thanks in part to streams by Mark “Markiplier” Fischbach and others. The Top 10 Most-Played Games On …
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Once Squid Game became the most-watched show in Netflix history after its premiere in 2021, it was inevitable that there was always going to be more from the world created by Hwang Dong-hyuk. Squid Game Season 2 dropped all seven episodes on Netflix the day after Christmas and the show has once again been a smash hit, topping the charts …
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Will Ferrell brought some Christmas spirit to the latest Los Angeles Kings game! The 57-year-old comedian and actor stepped out to cheer on the professional hockey team in their faceoff against the Philadelphia Flyers on Sunday (December 29) at Crypto.com Arena. However, he did so dressed up as Buddy the Elf – his character from Elf. Keep reading to find …
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Oh, look, another Night Dive Studios joint! This time around, the team remastered a beloved cult classic from the PS2 era: The Thing. The third-person shooter might not have had the best combat around, but it made up for it with great atmosphere and a unique AI/squad system that forced you to be careful around your NPC friends lest they …
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Editor’s note: This article contains spoilers for “Squid Game” Season 2 It’s weird to say that there are any “joys” to “Squid Game” given how sharply cynical director Hwang Dong-hyuk’s vision is for a gamified corporate organ-harvesting program — one that now has its own corporate-powered continuation, at that. But it is to the credit of the Netflix series that …
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