It’s pretty hard to make it through the holidays without a gift card or two ending up in your wallet. They might not be the most exciting gift, but with post-holiday and New Year’s sales going on, they can be pretty handy this time of year. If you got an Amazon gift card, you can find hundreds of comic titles from Marvel and DC marked down to $5 or less. The Vive Store is also offering a special discount on the HTC Vive VR headset, packing it with Fallout 4 and a $50 Steam gift card. Even if you

Jim French, a Seattle radio host and voice actor who later supplied the voice of Bill Overbeck in 2008’s Left 4 Dead, has died. A veteran of World War II, French was one of the last full-time voice actors producing radio theater on commercial stations in the United States. It is French’s role as William “Bill” Overbeck in Left 4 Dead for which he would be best known to video game enthusiasts. During World War II he was a writer and presenter for weekly shows broadcast over the Armed Forces Radio

Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland has a new PlayStation VR game from Crows Crows Crows and Squanch Games, and what better way to get the word out than a hype track with some of the best SoundCloud rappers? “WhosThatInTheTree” is a song about a mysterious creature in Accounting+, shown in the video above, who hides in a tree. The video that accompanies the song takes place entirely in-game, and Roiland can be heard voicing the creature throughout. Roiland is joined by game developer Willia

After a challenging year in 2016, crowdfunding for games rose sharply on Kickstarter this year. That’s according to a tweet from Luke Crane, head of games at the leading crowdfunding platform. In 2016, Kickstarter crowdfunding as a whole was down significantly with 5.8 percent less in backer revenue than the year before. Video games in particular were hit hard, with a nearly 60 percent decline. It’s not known at this time what the breakdown is within the games category, with regard to video game

After a while, however, some complaints turned into harassing messages, and the Reylo fandom started to ignore them altogether. I mean, we tried to explain ourselves for two years and were brutally shot down.”Reylo Art, another Reylo fan on Tumblr, recounted her own story. Reylo Art told Polygon via email that after she created her Reylo-centric blog in December 2015, she dealt with four instances of harassing emails. The Last Jedi was ammoWhen The Last Jedi came out, I noted there was undeniabl

Marvel Create Your Own is a digital platform that will give users the ability to create their own comics using Marvel Characters, kinda. Put it all together and users will be able to make their own comics with Marvel Characters and share them with other users of the app (and anybody who wants to look at screenshots of the app, presumably). Everything created on the app will belong to Marvel Comics, according to the terms of service — a pretty common clause for any service inviting fans to create

This scales to your character’s power level, so make sure you’re buying Xur exotics on your highest level character. It’s a pulse rifle that, due to its exotic perk Harsh Truths, fires in five-round bursts instead of three. Vigilance Wing can do very high damage very quickly, especially if you hit an enemy in their critical spot. The second exotic perk, Last Stand, gives better stability and handling when you are the last living member of your fireteam. Its exotic perk, Mecha Holster, will reloa

Jude Law is no longer the uncharacteristically cool young pope, but instead a dapper young Albus Dumbledore, as seen in two new photos from Warner Bros.’ upcoming sequel, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. Law can be seen as Dumbledore in the photo below, sitting in what appears to be an office, as seen by the stack of books and quill on the desk behind him. Just for added effect, here’s a behind-the-scenes photo of a young Albus Dumbledore talking to a young Newt Scamander. Another in

Jude Law is no longer the uncharacteristically cool young pope, but instead a dapper young Albus Dumbledore, as seen in two new photos from Warner Bros.’ upcoming sequel, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. Law can be seen as Dumbledore in the photo below, sitting in what appears to be an office, as seen by the stack of books and quill on the desk behind him. Just for added effect, here’s a behind-the-scenes photo of a young Albus Dumbledore talking to a young Newt Scamander. Another in

After Lucasfilm announced that the eighth Star Wars movie would be called Star Wars: The Last Jedi, people had questions. The Jedi order claim to be righteous, but fail to hold up their end of the bargain. That Jedi Order engages in cruel practices that negatively impact not only the families of Jedi recruits, but padawans and Jedi knights themselves. Both are characters that were not only let down by the Jedi Council, but whose lives were ruined by it. Yoda — a Jedi Master of the highest order

Sonic Mania remixes the franchise’s legacy with creative surprises, like a DJ breathing new life into a classic track with modern elements. The fight plays on decades of Sonic games, subverting expectations while also rewarding folks like me who remember the series’ many diversions. By the end of the act, I had regained the muscle memory of classic Sonic games. Previous Sonic games have the odd flow of hurrying through acts to an awkward conclusion. In Sonic Mania, that destination is just as en

Before Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk came out this summer, the director spoke about how much influence the movie took from the bygone era of silent films. A new edit of Dunkirk from YouTuber “Like Stories of Old” reimagines Nolan’s war epic as an eight-minute silent film, removing all of that unnecessary dialogue and exposition. The goal was to showcase how powerful Nolan’s directing and shaping of the film was; how conversation was an added bonus for Dunkirk viewers but not necessary. Nolan said

This scales to your character’s power level, so make sure you’re buying Xur exotics on your highest level character. It’s a pulse rifle that, due to its exotic perk Harsh Truths, fires in five-round bursts instead of three. Vigilance Wing can do very high damage very quickly, especially if you hit an enemy in their critical spot. The second exotic perk, Last Stand, gives better stability and handling when you are the last living member of your fireteam. Its exotic perk, Mecha Holster, will reloa

After Lucasfilm announced that the eighth Star Wars movie would be called Star Wars: The Last Jedi, people had questions. The Jedi order claim to be righteous, but fail to hold up their end of the bargain. That Jedi Order engages in cruel practices that negatively impact not only the families of Jedi recruits, but padawans and Jedi knights themselves. Both are characters that were not only let down by the Jedi Council, but whose lives were ruined by it. Yoda — a Jedi Master of the highest order

[Warning: The following contains spoilers for Star Wars: The Last Jedi.] One of the most popular Star Wars ’ships of late is Rey and Kylo Ren, or “Reylo.” It’s also one of the most controversial. After a while, however, some complaints turned into harassing messages, and the Reylo fandom started to ignore them altogether. I mean, we tried to explain ourselves for two years and were brutally shot down.”Krystell Barraza, another Reylo fan on Tumblr, recounted her own story. The Last Jedi was ammoW

To find one of Pokémon Go’s new region-exclusive Pokémon, you may have to take a vacation. With just around six million people living in these countries combined, not many Pokémon Go trainers have seen the coveted water- and rock-type. The ones that have, though, are piping up on The Silph Road to confirm their sightings. That makes Relicanth the fifth new region-exclusive Pokémon as of Pokémon Go’s last major update. For Zangoose and Seviper, that separation is explained in-game; the two Pokémo

This is a serious documentary about iconic American toy lines, including Star Wars, Barbie, He-Man and G.I. The first four episodes are up on Netflix right now, with the promise of four more to come in 2018. Each nearly hour-long program is crammed full of on-camera interviews with the principal designers of these major toy lines. Subjects include former CEOs of major toy companies and even members of the legal teams that negotiated historic licensing agreements. The Toys That Made Us: He-Man Ha

This is a serious documentary about iconic American toy lines, including Star Wars, Barbie, He-Man and G.I. The first four episodes are up on Netflix right now, with the promise of four more to come in 2018. Each nearly hour-long program is crammed full of on-camera interviews with the principal designers of these major toy lines. Subjects include former CEOs of major toy companies and even members of the legal teams that negotiated historic licensing agreements. The Toys That Made Us: He-Man Ha

Police in Wichita, Kansas shot and killed a man after responding to an emergency call, according to a report from The Wichita Eagle. Follow-up reports from players and viewers familiar with the individuals involved say death may be a result of swatting. Unconfirmed reports from Call of Duty community members suggest that the victim was unknowingly looped into the argument of two Call of Duty: WWII players. Call of Duty players point to a wager-based match of Search and Destroy in Call of Duty: W

Police in Wichita, Kansas shot and killed a man after responding to an emergency call, according to a report from The Wichita Eagle. Follow-up reports from players and viewers familiar with the individuals involved say death may be a result of swatting. Unconfirmed reports from Call of Duty community members suggest that the victim was unknowingly looped into the argument of two Call of Duty: WWII players. Call of Duty players point to a wager-based match of Search and Destroy in Call of Duty: W