Play It Slow And Sad: This Modern Movie Trend Needs To Go

Music is so important to the atmosphere of a film, but when a ton of projects use the same trick over and over, it can start to send the wrong message. The modern trend of slow sad covers of popular songs used to market films has grown tired, boring, and often unintentionally hilarious. Whether a film uses an original orchestral score or aperfectly-placed needle drop, the right track can make or break a scene....

August 2, 2025 · 4 min · 805 words · Amanda Tapia

Pokemon GO Adding Team Rocket Shadow Raids

A newPokemon GOupdate is adding Team Rocket Shadow Raids and similarly mysterious Pokemon to the mobile AR game. Needless to say, this Team Rocket addition could shake things up forPokemon GOplayers.Maintaining the momentum that it garnered uponPokemon GO’s launch, Niantic has dropped countless patches that offered bug and crash fixes, new features, content, and more. Beyond these updates that have been released over the years, Niantic has also ensured thatPokemonfans have more activities to do with events likePokemon GO Fest, tours for Kanto and Johto, and regular community days that revolve around specific Pokemon....

August 2, 2025 · 2 min · 424 words · Tammy Herrera

Pokemon GO Teases Shiny Ditto

Pokemon GOhas been celebratingPokemon’s 25th Anniversary in a number of ways, one of which will be the special Kanto Tour event. This upcoming event will feature the original 151 Pokemon, and culminates in a chance to catch Shiny Mew for the first time ever in the game. Niantic has already given plenty of details concerning the event, such as the fact that buyers will need to choose between a Red or Green Version, and that both will feature boosted Shiny Rates for certain Kanto Pokemon....

August 2, 2025 · 3 min · 593 words · Timothy Williams

Pokemon GO: How to Battle Jessie and James

The latest Special Research has arrived and that meansPokemon GOplayers are powering through a new list of tasks in order to unlock some exciting rewards, including a shiny Celebi encounter! The new special research, Distracted by Something Shiny, is a part of theSecrets of the Jungle tie-in event and featuresthe iconic Team Rocket duo, Jessie and James, as the quest givers instead of the usual Professor. Most ofthe tasks required for the new Special Researchare very simple and just including catching certain types of Pokemon or transferring a certain number of Pokemon....

August 2, 2025 · 3 min · 461 words · Devin Gray

Pokemon Masters EX's Zygarde Is Emblematic of Larger Team Building Issues

ThePokemonfranchise is in an interesting place. After November 2021’sBrilliant DiamondandShining Pearlwere followed up by January 2022’sPokemon Legends: Arceus, Game Freak announcedPokemon ScarletandVioletwill come out this holiday seasonas the series' first fully open-world mainline entry. That’s not to mention the ongoing success of mobile titles like Niantic’sPokemon GO, as well as DeNA’s more nichePokemon Masters EX. WhereasPokemon GOthrives on the hook that Pokemon can appear in one’s real-world neighborhood,Pokemon Masters EXis more a celebration of the franchise’s human characters....

August 2, 2025 · 5 min · 987 words · Dwayne Sosa

Pokemon Unite's Perfect Opportunity to Release Sinnoh Pokemon

Pokemon Uniteis the most recent release from thePokemonfranchise, and it’s been a surprisingly big hit. Back when it was announced, it was met with some backlash because it basically looked like a reskinnedLeague of Legends. However, now thatPokemon Uniteis finally out, many fans have been having a blast with it, albeit despite a few qualms as well. One of those qualms is how few Pokemon there are onPokemon Unite’s roster. Currently, the game only includes 21 playable Pokemon, half of which come from theKanto region’sPokemon RedandPokemon Blue....

August 2, 2025 · 3 min · 483 words · Martha Taylor

Resident Evil Village Will Be Less Scary In Third-Person

While theResident Evil 4remake was the star of Capom’s recent announcements, the company has made it clear that it still has a lot in store forResident Evil Village.Resident Evil Re:Verse- the six-player PvP multiplayer experience that was supposed to release alongsideResident Evil Village, is finally being released on June 02, 2025. Alongside it comes Mercenaries: Additional Orders, which will allow players to take control of Chris Redfield, Karl Heisenberg, and the Internet’s favorite tall lady Alcina Dimitrescu....

August 2, 2025 · 4 min · 772 words · Brian Davis

Roblox: Re XL Codes

Re XLis aRobloxgame, the peculiarity of which is a diverse combat system. At first glance, the experience resembles an RPG, but fighting is essentially the only thing you can do here. Fortunately, battles are enjoyable thanks to the various weapons and abilities. At first, you only have a spear, but over time, you will get super powerful elemental abilities that have a large area of effect and can destroy weak NPCs with a single blow....

August 2, 2025 · 2 min · 307 words · Andrea Shepherd

Rockstar Games Issues Statement Regarding GTA 6 Leak

Rockstar Games has officially acknowledged and issued a statement regarding the massiveGrand Theft Auto 6leaks that took place over the weekend. While there was no doubting the authenticity of theseGTA 6leaks, many were looking to the company and how it would react. In general, the message from the studio indicates it is “extremely disappointed” in this happening but doesn’t surprisingly anticipate any longer-term effects. As many may be aware, a hacker apparently was able to illegally access and download several items pertaining toGrand Theft Auto 6....

August 2, 2025 · 3 min · 480 words · Nancy Evans

Sifu Trophy List

Quick Links Hot off the heels of 2017’sAbsolver, Sloclap’sSifuis a kung-fu action rogue-like where each death ages the protagonist. Building on its previous martial arts game,Sifufeatures a combat system that could rival a Jet Li film. ButSifuisn’t solely an action story. It’s also a revenge thriller and mystery. The nameless protagonist is not only hunting his father’s killers, but he’s also trying to figure out why he was murdered. Sloclap already confirmed that players will have torun throughSifumultiple times to fully understand it....

August 2, 2025 · 2 min · 340 words · Mary Jennings

Skull and Bones' Customizable Pirate Captain May Be a Buried Treasure for the Game

Ubisoft Singapore’sSkull and Boneswas announced back at E3 in 2017. Its initial announcement garnered heavy appeal, but since then there’s not been a lot revealed about the upcoming game. The current prediction forSkull and Bones’ release is sometime after March 2021, so that doesn’t narrow down a date either.Skull and Bones' development stage isn’t all a mystery, though, as the developer revealed that the game had taken on a different vision compared to what was previously advertised....

August 2, 2025 · 3 min · 624 words · Melinda Perez

Star Trek Fan Argues The Franchise Never Showed A War-Free Utopia

Summary WhileStar Trekhas always been perceived as giving an optimistic and utopian view of the future it portrays, one fan takes to the internet to argue that this view isn’t realistic at all, despite decades of fans holding new shows and movies to this standard. Star Trekhas always primarily portrayed the far future of humanity, with interstellar travel and a world united in the face of a vast universe filled with other intelligent species....

August 2, 2025 · 4 min · 685 words · Daniel Cross

Stellaris: How to Become the Crisis

Stellarisis a space exploration and empire-building simulator that is truly massive in scale. Originally created for PC, itsolder DLCs have also spread to its console versions. That said, new DLC forStellarishas been released regularly. The latest DLC, called Nemesis, gives new options for aggression between interstellar empires, both in terms of hard and soft attacks. There are new espionage options introduced, but also a hitherto unprecedented option unseen before: the option to become the Endgame Crisis....

August 2, 2025 · 3 min · 430 words · Douglas Smith