Month: February 2025

When it comes to delivering a memorable and tense experience, not many games can match up to the original Dark Souls. Many fans swear by the approach From Software takes with its stoic and uncompromisingly bleak action-RPG series where one wrong move can cost you dearly, and it’s become one of the most challenging and anxiety-inducing franchises in recent memory. Coming off the recent release of Dark Souls Remastered on PC, PS4, and Xbox One, the Souls series now brings its particular style of high-pressure gameplay to the Switch–marking its first appearance on a Nintendo console.

While this new release isn’t as visually and technically impressive as the other current-gen versions, it is an admirable port that reinforces what makes Dark Souls memorable. It effectively makes use o…

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HBO’s Game of Thrones series was a cultural phenomenon and its prequel spin-off series, House of the Dragon, had a hit Season 1 with Seasons 2 and 3 on the way. The ongoing WGA strike has had a pencils-down effect on several shows as the studios continue to not negotiate, leaving the fate of some productions unknown at this time.

One of those productions is the Jon Snow spin-off series with Kit Harington. The show was pitched by Harington to Game of Thrones writer George R. R. Martin successfully but kept the details of the show close to his chest. “There’s not much more I can tell you, not until HBO gives me a green light,” Martin said at the time.

However now that show might not make it to production. Talking to Deadline, Max’s head of drama Francesca Orsi explained that n…

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Driven by pastel views and a Studio Ghibli-like take on existentialism, Season: A Letter To The Future is a reposeful illustration of how memories define who we are. The new IP from the team that worked on 2018’s Darwin Project follows a young woman named Estelle who leaves her home for the first time to meet other people and document moments for the future before a mysterious cataclysm washes everything away. It’s an indie adventure that provokes creativity with a film camera and a bicycle tour that steadies the heart with immersion, so here’s how long it actually takes to beat Season.

For more tips, keepsakes, and polaroids, read our Season review.

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