When Star Trek: Discovery launched on CBS last September, it went where no Star Trek show had gone before. The Battlestar reboot was hailed as a new classic, while Stargate Universe was compared to shows like Galactica and Lost. The original Trek, Battlestar, and Stargate franchises all initially followed a predictable formula: each episode raised a challenge that was usually resolved by the end credits. Star Trek: Discovery is the biggest change to the Star Trek franchise in years, adopting the

Oscars 2018: Winners, losers and everything else Who will take home Oscar gold? It’s that time of year where we all gather around our televisions (or laptops) to watch the who’s who of Hollywood come together and celebrate their achievements in film. The 2018 Oscars are shaping up to be one of the more interesting years, with hard-to-define genre films competing with typical Oscar-bait pictures. Coco will compete with The Boss Baby for Best Animated Picture, and Star Wars: The Last Jedi will try

Scrambling to figure out how to watch the Oscars is a time-honored tradition. There is a workaround, however, for cable cutters who are signed up for Hulu’s live TV service, YouTube TV or Sling. and ABC throughout the evening for ongoing red carpet coverage. If you don’t have a fancy antennae or cable package, however, Facebook is teaming up with the Academy this year. “The Oscars: All Access” will provide red carpet and behind-the-scenes coverage during the show tonight.

Anyone who has put just 400 or so hours into The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim knows this song by heart. You can buy it off any bard for a few septims, and it’s one of two “neutral” ballads heard anywhere throughout the land. It’s “The Dragonborn Comes.” Performing now is Sabina Zweiacker with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. “The Dragonborn Comes” is one of two neutral songs heard in taverns across the land (available on request!) Others sing “The Dragonborn Comes,” too, but I consider Delany’s

The original StarCraft turns 20 years old on March 31, and Blizzard Entertainment is celebrating that anniversary with a series of streams and in-game giveaways. Here’s a peek at what Blizzard has in store for players for StarCraft’s 20th anniversary, followed by how players can earn these in-game rewards. StarCraft: Remastered — Log in to StarCraft: Remastered after March 6 to receive a commemorative 20th Anniversary UI Skin for StarCraft: Remastered. Heroes of the Storm — Log in to Heroes of t

The original StarCraft turns 20 years old on March 31, and Blizzard Entertainment is celebrating that anniversary with a series of streams and in-game giveaways. Here’s a peek at what Blizzard has in store for players for StarCraft’s 20th anniversary, followed by how players can earn these in-game rewards. StarCraft: Remastered — Log in to StarCraft: Remastered after March 6 to receive a commemorative 20th Anniversary UI Skin for StarCraft: Remastered. Heroes of the Storm — Log in to Heroes of t

The Zandalari Trolls, one of the new Allied Races being added in World of Warcraft’s next expansion, are getting a unique upgrade. Thanks to some datamining from WoWhead, we can now see that the Zandalari are getting their own, uniquely themed Druid forms. When in Travel form, Zandalari Trolls will be cool pterodactyls or quick raptors. Since those are going away in Battle for Azeroth, these new Druid forms could spell race-specific forms for all the current Druid races in the game. This post wi

For its part, the ESRB seems unwilling to call out loot boxes as any kind of special or distinctive transaction. The ESA has been clear since the Battlefront 2 controversy broke that it does not consider loot boxes to be gambling, as Lee and other regulators and lawmakers allege. ”I’m sure you’re all asking why we did not do something more specific to loot boxes,” Vance said. But it’s supposed to provide meaningful advisories to video game consumers, and this in-game purchases label really isn’t

Polyarc’s Moss on PlayStation VR doesn’t just show you all of that, it lets you live it — or as close as you can, anyway. For a game centered so much on storytelling, Moss’ technical prowess and rich world-building do most of the talking. Wherever I was, I made it a point to look behind and around me, and doing so in VR is Moss’ most breathtaking feature. I would do anything for QuillA lot of these immersive qualities come from Moss’ successful marriage of visual and sound design. So many times

Horror movies rarely get recognized at the Academy Awards. So the fact that Get Out is up for four of the “Big Five” awards (Best Actor, Best Screenplay, Best Director and Best Picture, but not Best Actress) is pretty noteworthy. Only two horror movies have taken home the Best Picture award in the history of the Oscars: The Silence of the Lambs (1991) and Rebecca (1940). And only a handful more horror movies have even been nominated. The first-time filmmaker is only the fifth black man ever to b

In The Gone World, he introduces an even more ambitious investigation: one that jumps back and forth in time, and which could decide the fate of humanity. The Gone World opens with a 20th-century NCIS agent named Shannon Moss on a training mission in the distant future of 2199. In a recent interview with Syfy, Sweterlitsch says The Gone World was inspired partly by chatting with his brother-in-law, an NCIS agent. Sweterlitsch uses the story to examine the consequences of our actionsThese shiftin

But now that Flash is supported on fewer devices, many games of the past run the risk of being lost in the wake of changing technology. If these games aren’t adapted for modern devices, it won’t be long until they become completely unplayable. When I reminisce about the long-gone era of Flash games, I always think fondly of the game (I Fell In Love With) The Majesty of Colors. The Majesty of Colors was one of the first ambitious Flash games that I remember checking out, and it’s stuck with me th

But now that Flash is supported on fewer devices, many games of the past run the risk of being lost in the wake of changing technology. If these games aren’t adapted for modern devices, it won’t be long until they become completely unplayable. When I reminisce about the long-gone era of Flash games, I always think fondly of the game (I Fell In Love With) The Majesty of Colors. The Majesty of Colors was one of the first ambitious Flash games that I remember checking out, and it’s stuck with me th

She’s been received well by Overwatch fans all around and at Heroes Never Die, we said she’s the game’s most interesting support yet. Xbox One consoles are also being bundled for a discount with great games like Destiny 2 and Grand Theft Auto 5. They’ve already featured games like Cuphead, and there are sure to be other great games on sale over the next few weeks. Earlier this week, The Verge had a beat on a USB adapter that turns a PS4 controller into a Nintendo Switch controller. It’s a great

She’s been received well by Overwatch fans all around and at Heroes Never Die, we said she’s the game’s most interesting support yet. Xbox One consoles are also being bundled for a discount with great games like Destiny 2 and Grand Theft Auto 5. They’ve already featured games like Cuphead, and there are sure to be other great games on sale over the next few weeks. Earlier this week, The Verge had a beat on a USB adapter that turns a PS4 controller into a Nintendo Switch controller. It’s a great

Horror movies rarely get recognized at the Academy Awards. So the fact that Get Out is up for four of the “Big Five” awards (Best Actor, Best Screenplay, Best Director and Best Picture, but not Best Actress) is pretty noteworthy. Only two horror movies have taken home the Best Picture award in the history of the Oscars: The Silence of the Lambs (1991) and Rebecca (1940). And only a handful more horror movies have even been nominated. The first-time filmmaker is only the fifth black man ever to b

For its part, the ESRB seems unwilling to call out loot boxes as any kind of special or distinctive transaction. The ESA has been clear since the Battlefront 2 controversy broke that it does not consider loot boxes to be gambling, as Lee and other regulators and lawmakers allege. ”I’m sure you’re all asking why we did not do something more specific to loot boxes,” Vance said. But it’s supposed to provide meaningful advisories to video game consumers, and this in-game purchases label really isn’t

Polyarc’s Moss on PlayStation VR doesn’t just show you all of that, it lets you live it — or as close as you can, anyway. For a game centered so much on storytelling, Moss’ technical prowess and rich world-building do most of the talking. Wherever I was, I made it a point to look behind and around me, and doing so in VR is Moss’ most breathtaking feature. I would do anything for QuillA lot of these immersive qualities come from Moss’ successful marriage of visual and sound design. So many times

The Zandalari Trolls, one of the new Allied Races being added in World of Warcraft’s next expansion, are getting a unique upgrade. Thanks to some datamining from WoWhead, we can now see that the Zandalari are getting their own, uniquely themed Druid forms. When in Travel form, Zandalari Trolls will be cool pterodactyls or quick raptors. Since those are going away in Battle for Azeroth, these new Druid forms could spell race-specific forms for all the current Druid races in the game. This post wi

Today is the one-year anniversary of the launch of the Nintendo Switch. • March 3, 2017: The Switch launches with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. • July 21, 2017: Another month and another hit on Nintendo Switch: Splatoon 2. • Aug. 29, 2017: One of the strangest crossovers and a big splash announcement at E3 2017 launches: Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle. Well, there’s Labo, and there’s a Pokémon RPG (as yet unnamed) that was announced at E3 2017 but has no launch date yet.