The next big expansion for The Sims 4, Lovestruck, is going to be a momentous one. It’s slated to dramatically overhaul the game’s romance mechanics to add depth and better reflect the social dynamics we experience in real life–including a new romantic skill for your sims to level up. The …

Your dollar doesn’t go as far as it used to with most things, but movies aren’t one of them–at least not in this sale from Universal. In this deal, Universal is offering a big discount on streaming copies of some of its movies, with a ton going for as little …

I have been cautiously enjoying The Acolyte–through six episodes, I think it’s really good, actually. But as a TV viewing experience, The Acolyte has gotten supremely irritating because each episode is so bizarrely short. All of them come in under 40 minutes if you subtract the “previously on” segments and …

Another month has dawned, and that means Humble has another bundle of PC games available for its Humble Choice subscribers ($12/month). This month, there are eight games available in the bundle, including some big-name indie sequels like A Plague Tale: Requiem and Ghostrunner 2, plus a selection of shooters, strategy …

South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut 25th Anniversary Edition $23 (was $26) See at Amazon See at Walmart See at Target Considering that South Park is still going strong as a TV show in 2024, it’s pretty impressive that the movie version, South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut, came out …

Team America: World Police 20th Anniversary Limited Edition $20 (was $26) See at Amazon See at Walmart See at Target A few years after creating South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone tried to leverage the show’s success by making a puppet action movie, and the result was 2004’s Team …

Fortnite Reload–a new version of battle royale in the vein of Call of Duty: Warzone’s Resurgence mode–came out of nowhere this past weekend, a surprising shot in the arm to a game that’s needed one badly after the launch of the vehicle-oriented summer season fell flat for a lot of …

Warning: This article contains a small spoiler about a minor character appearance in Episode 4 of Star Wars: The Acolyte. One of the more appealing aspects of Star Wars: The Acolyte has been its standalone nature, taking place so far before the main parts of the franchise that it feels …

A great movie trailer can single handedly turn a movie into a success story–like that genius Cloverfield trailer in 2007 that didn’t say what the title of the movie was. But it’s more common these days, I’d argue, for a trailer to have the opposite impact. A generic trailer can …

The latest Disney+ Star Wars series, The Acolyte, has drawn raves from critics (including me!) and fans alike, and there’s one thing that kinda binds those of us who enjoy it: That it’s completely apart from the rest of the franchise because it takes place 100 years before the movies. …