When Epic added the new Charge SMG to the Fortnite loot pool this season, pretty much everybody reacted the same way: “What the hell is this, and why would I bother with it?” The very sight of the thing, which required players to hold the trigger to charge up a …

I’m 35 years old, and I play Fortnite. That’s not really that weird–lots of adults are Fortnite fans. But for those of us of a certain age, Fortnite is just a game we play sometimes, whereas for younger players, it’s part of their social fabric. It’s where they live. We’re …

In Fortnite, there’s a character who is more or less a human-sized ice cream cone with arms, legs, and–on top of everything else–a face. And this week, to kick off Fortnite’s No Sweat Summer event, he’s released a suggestive hip-hop song and dance about eating ice cream that’s got everybody …

What is the MCU even doing right now? In Phase 4 we’ve gone from an interconnected shared universe with a cool overarching story to… an unconnected, only slightly shared universe with only standalone stories? Warning: The following contains spoilers for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. If you have …