Boba Fett is finally getting his very own stand-alone movie. James Mangold, who directed and co-wrote Logan, is set to write and direct the Boba Fett film. The Hollywood Reporter didn’t suggest whether it will be the next standalone movie in the Star Wars franchise, though the report did indicate that Fett was one of multiple classic Star Wars characters set to receive his own movie, including Obi-Wan Kenobi. Rumors about a Boba Fett spinoff have circulated for years. The studio was working on a

The Switch has become a perfect platform for masocore games. Those are just the new masocore games; the genre has a lot of titles on the Switch. You’re invested in playing a longer session, which is perfect for an atmospheric game like God of War but wearying for masocore titles. Spelunky, for example, never quite ran perfectly, and performance equals life when you’re playing games in which every frame matters. The Switch is no graphical powerhouse, granted, but masocore games rarely push the ha

YouTube is trying to make scrolling through subscription feeds easier by introducing an idea that, according to creators, threatens the ecosystem: personalized feeds. Why wouldn’t someone want a personalized feed? Personalized feeds always sound great, but they rarely are. Not only did it suggest a move that no one asked for, but it introduced even more concerns over how YouTube’s subscription boxes worked. As Klein alluded to in his tweets, personalized feeds feels like the final nail in the co

Rifter’s soundtrack alone is enough to drop you headlong into a kickass ’80s movie training sequence. Or, if you’re of a certain age, back to the golden age of synth-pop, when bands like Japan, Depeche Mode and Visage lit up the school disco strobes. He says the ’80s aesthetic works for him at a practical level. This allowed me to use strong colors like green and magenta for signaling, without them feeling out of place. And with a game this fast-paced, communicating with the player in a clear fa

Six months after its initial release — and after almost a month on the Xbox One test server — Miramar, the second map for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, has finally been released for the Xbox One version of the game. The update also comes with a few cosmetic additions to the game, including the instructor set and the golden tracksuit set. Both of these new cosmetic sets will be available for $4.99 and can be purchased directly from the Xbox Store. Miramar has been in the Windows PC version of PU

The main reason for that uncertainty was the rich library of expansion packs released for The Sims 3, which turned the game into a whole new experience. One of the most popular expansion packs in The Sims’ history as a franchise is Seasons, which introduces the four seasons and assorted weather to the world. Seasons is coming to The Sims 4 as the game’s next expansion pack on June 22 on Mac and Windows PC, publisher Electronic Arts announced today. First of all, there’s the impactful weather you

The Iron Banner went live in Destiny 2 this week, the first time since season three and the Warmind expansion launched a few weeks ago. But the Bungie community is currently up in arms that a new, Iron Banner-themed emote can’t actually be earned by playing the mode itself. The emote will cost players 1100 Silver, which sells for $9.99, and Bungie community manager Cozmo confirmed on a Reddit thread that the emote currently doesn’t drop from any other location. Iron Banner has the same “old knig

The most recent title, Battlefield 1, took the series back to World War I. Battlefield 5 promises to borrow elements from many other games in the series, but will also pave its own way forward. The deluxe edition of Battlefield 5 will unlock on Oct. 16, with the standard edition coming out on Oct. 19. Fans of the Battlefield series will be happy to know that many of the large-scale multiplayer modes that have been popular for the last few entries in the series will be returning, including many f

StumbleUpon is finally shutting down after 16 years, and with it an era of time well spent being bored on the internet. Before we relied on curated news feeds, Twitter lists, roundups and publications with dedicated internet reporters telling us about a cool new thing online, there was StumbleUpon. StumbleUpon turned boredom into play. “StumbleUpon turned boredom into play”But we don’t really stumble upon anything anymore. We’re trying to beat boredom on the internet by returning to our favorite

Or rather, in this case, to get rid of what they don’t want: season passes and loot boxes. Loot boxes are also gone, although the game will offer an impressive number of customization options for each player’s soldiers. But the big stuff that players complain about in terms of pay-to-win and randomized loot boxes? “I am fine with cosmetic loot boxes if it means we get free DLC content, and we will. The Battlefield subreddit, on the other hand, seems to be melting down over the lack of “realism”

But it figures to me that such an intimate exposure to marketing a blockbuster video game would at least recuse him from making this tired and discredited talking point about America’s problems with gun violence. Call of Duty is a great video game franchise and a great pop culture icon. Maybe if he steps down as the NRA president and is paid to market another video game, he’ll like them again. That dishonesty is now embodied by Oliver North, a man who made money from helping to create a violent

Epic Games has published a detailed blog post discussing some of the changes and updates planned for Fortnite, and there’s some big stuff in there. It’s a feature that people have been asking for, and it’s great to see that it’s coming to the game. “This represents our initial step into what a creative mode looks like in Fortnite,” Epic Games said in the post. Epic Games says it’s tracking these issues with more detail and addressing them, so hopefully they will soon be a thing of the past. As t

There’s a lot of outrage circulating the internet regarding the inclusion of women in the latest Battlefield 5 reveal. Wojtek the Bear was a real member of the Allied forces. That’s right, he participated in World War II. If we’re rounding out EA’s version of the battlefield, we may as well include the bear. For a bear that stood at around six feet tall, Wojtek was known to have a gentle disposition.

That premium currency can be used to buy cosmetic items for use in-game. The existence of a premium currency was confirmed for Polygon today by representatives of publisher Electronic Arts. Both were included as part of random loot boxes, available for purchase with a similar kind of premium currency. Outcry was so severe that, just before the game was launched in November 2017, EA removed the ability to purchase premium currency from the game. Premium currency did not return until April 2018.

A cornerstone of horror is that it reflects the crises of the culture it’s made in: The more cultural anxiety people experience, the more horror media is produced and consumed. But horror movies rarely deal with crises head-on. This is why a zombie story told in 1932 will differ from a zombie story told in 1968 or 2018. Just the title clues you into the fact that this isn’t like other zombie games. This shift is also probably part of the reason building is a mechanic we’re seeing more and more i

Which raises the question: Forty-one years after his introduction, what is canon in the life of Han Solo? The official canon currently includes novels, novels and YA lit published by Del Rey, comic books published by Marvel Comics, video games published by Electronic Arts, and various animated entries like Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars: Rebels (which aired on television) and Star Wars: Forces of Destiny (a collection of shorts focusing on female Star Wars characters which aired on TV a

I missed you.”Shapiro and Hal are not a rarity in the Star Wars community, or any vibrant fandom. Right now, Star Wars disciples are readying themselves on the eve of Solo: A Star Wars Story’s release for the next wave of dirty, sweet, ridiculous, tear-jerking, hopeful and angst-ridden fics. Before we find these stories (then bookmark a couple in an Incognito browser), it’s essential to understand the history behind Star Wars’ most anticipated ’ship. Star Wars fans took their work seriously, and

Dark Souls: Remastered was scheduled for a May 25 release, but the game has launched a day early on Steam. If you’re interested in a rebuilt and improved version of the modern classic, you can jump right in today. Dark Souls: Remastered is also coming to Nintendo Switch, sometime this summer. The game is available for $39.99 on Steam, but existing owners of the previous Dark Souls release will be able to upgrade for half price. The reviews of the remastered version of the game are already mixed,

Astro Bot: Rescue Mission for PlayStation VR takes the adorable robots of augmented reality game The Playroom and its virtual reality sequel, and gives them a full-fledged, stand-alone VR platformer. The action and premise are simple — rescue your fellow ’bots in a series of platforming levels — but Astro Bot is another great example of how much fun 3D platformers can be in virtual reality. Developed by Sony Interactive Entertainment’s Japan Studio, Astro Bot puts you in control of Astro, a robo

It’s time for another event mode in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, and this time, the game is asking players to be a little stealthier than normal with the Ghillie Crossing mode. Ghillie Crossing takes all guns and vehicles out of PUBG entirely, and replaces them with crossbows and melee weapons only. Alongside these weapons are regular items like grenades, health items and attachments, as well as ghillie suits, which, for the first time, will be a regular loot item in this mode. Ghillie Crossin