Destiny 2‘s Season of the Wish is the last time Bungie will use its seasonal content system, switching instead to a new episodic story format between its major expansions. Part of that change is a response to feedback from players that, after four years, the seasonal approach of weekly short …
Read More »How Destiny 2 Finally Got A Dungeon Where You Get Trapped In A Literal Dungeon
Warlord’s Ruin, the Destiny 2 dungeon released with Season of the Wish, took players in some unexpected directions when it released on December 1. Where the last two dungeons had a more sci-fi feel, Warlord’s Ruin carries a much more Dark Souls vibe. It takes place in a ruined castle; …
Read More »Mass Effect 2's Human Reaper Was Dumb And I'm Sad We Didn't Get More Of It
Mass Effect 2 is celebrating its 14-year anniversary today, January 26, 2024. Below, we look back at one of its strangest aspects, and how it set up a broader subplot that went almost entirely unexplored. The Suicide Mission of Mass Effect 2 is one of the all-time great climaxes of …
Read More »Destiny 2's Riven's Wishes Will Let You Pick Raid Weapons, Exotic Armor As Rewards
Most of the story of Destiny 2‘s Season of the Wish is over for now, but Bungie will give you new reasons to return to the Dreaming City next week with the addition of Riven’s Wishes. The new weekly pursuits are set to give players access to high-end rewards, including …
Read More »The Last Of Us 2's Roguelike Mode Is Fun, But Highlights How Its Elements Don't Quite Fit Together
Combat in The Last of Us Part 2 creates a pretty specific feeling. It’s often slow and heavy, providing a weight to every interaction that demonstrates just how tough it is to kill someone and how quickly things can go wrong. At the same time, it relies heavily on improvisation …
Read More »Destiny 2's Season Of The Wish Isn't Over; New Story, Moments Of Triumph Coming This Month
Destiny 2‘s current content season, the Season of the Wish, isn’t quite done with its story. Despite seeming to wrap up its narrative last week, according to developer Bungie, there’s more to come at the end of January. Bungie dropped a few hints about what we can expect from the …
Read More »After 10 Years, Destiny 2 Will Soon Let You Change Your Characters' Faces
Bungie is finally adding the ability to change your Destiny 2 characters’ faces and body types with an update ahead of its next expansion, The Final Shape. The update was announced in Bungie’s weekly This Week In Destiny blog post with some details about how the new character customization options …
Read More »FX's Alien Show Is Making The Monster Scarier By Dropping Prometheus's Plot
Sharks have been basically unchanged for millions of years. Essentially a torpedo with teeth, the shark is a creature incredibly honed to its particular ecological niche of eating stuff while swimming fast. Though, according to the theory of evolution, it was created through a confluence of random events–millions of generations …
Read More »The AI George Carlin Special Sucks For Every Reason You Thought And More
To even judge “George Carlin: I’m Glad I’m Dead,” an hour-long YouTube video of bad AI-generated images, narrated and purportedly “written” and “performed” by a generative artificial intelligence model as an imitation of a dead famous human man, as a “comedy special” would be to lend it legitimacy. “I’m Glad …
Read More »Noah Hawley's Alien Show Is Dropping Prometheus Backstory Because It's Not 'Useful'
When Ridley Scott released Prometheus, he made canon an element of the Alien series that fans had always speculated over. Prometheus and its sequel, Alien: Covenant, make it very clear that the alien that appeared in Scott’s 1979 original was an engineered organism, created by through the combination of a …
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