From its title to its premise, Getting Over It With Bennett Foddy reads as a dark joke. Whether that a joke includes you or not, though, is impossible to say. It's true that the PC game is uproariously, darkly funny. It has a simple aim: climb this mountain. The only problem is that your character […]
Nothing rankles some Star Wars fans more than mentioning The Prequels. Derided when George Lucas started releasing them in 1999, The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, and Revenge of the Sith have been a sore spot from the beginning, a cartoonish blemish given to an otherwise perfect franchise. In the intervening years, critics have […]
Westworld, faithful watchers, has come galloping back to life. Now that you've persevered through several episodes of Leaky Brain Bernard staggering around in a daze, the endless build-up of Maeve’s quest for her daughter, and Dolores as an indomitable but ho-hum ice queen, you have finally been given an episode with some real blood in […]
What should a superhero movie be? What can it be? With Black Panther, we finally have an answer worthy of our time. In the last decade alone—where the promise of progress in Hollywood read first as fantasy, then as farce—America’s cathedral of heroes offered little access to depictions that fell outside the mechanisms of the […]
This was a slow week in gaming, but here at Replay we've still got some news for you. For one, fans finally know how Disney feels about its relationship with Electronic Arts—and it's not bad! Also, sales numbers are in for the hottest new battle royale title around and there's a Halo theme park in […]
On the first Friday of SXSW, a warm, sunny afternoon in Austin, I walked up to a large hangar across from a half-built luxury condo. A line snaked down the block, all hopeful visitors to one of the festival’s many “experientials.” This one was meant to gin up excitement for Game of Thrones’ final season […]
This week on Replay, we've got more Steam antics, a bit of gloating, and a new trend. Because if games can do something once, they can do it over and over. You know how it goes. Red Dead Redemption 2 is Going the Way of Grand Theft Auto Sometimes it's validating to be right. With […]
Just days after the massive layoffs at Activision Blizzard, the developer of Guild Wars announced this week it would be letting go dozens of members of its staff members. But that doesn't mean all the news in the world of videogames is bad. Fortnite's new season is here, y'all. Also, Pokémon! What else do you […]
The LeBron James era in Los Angeles began, predictably enough, with all the flash and drama of a Hollywood blockbuster: a home-court introduction from rapper-actor Ice Cube, a slew of replay-worthy dunks, and an end-of-game fracas against the Rockets that culminated in a miasma of ejections, suspensions, and fines. Just as predictably, the LeBron James […]
Happy Monday, everyone, and welcome to another edition of The Monitor, WIRED's twice-weekly roundup of everything you need to know about the world of pop culture, from box office results to awards-season chatter. This week: Black Panther starts picking up trophies, Deadpool has a big weekend in China, and Amazon is shelling out major money […]