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Popular YouTuber and Kick streamer Jack Doherty made news over the weekend after he crashed his pricey sports car into a guardrail. The crash happened during a livestream on Kick and he has been banned from the platform permanently. Iconic Director And Proud Nerd Kevin Smith On Sneaking Into Movies, Mallrats, And More On October 5, 21-year-old Doherty crashed his custom (and very expensive) McLaren 570S while live-streaming. In video footage shared online, the content...

Gif: NEARstudios / Kotaku Hawthorn is an upcoming game from some ex-Bethesda devs about animals harvesting produce, setting up dinner parties, and generally chilling about in the great outdoors and fulfilling everyone’s cottagecore dreams. It looks sort of like Animal Crossing if it took place inside of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. What Is Dragonsplague? Dragon’s Dogma 2’s Devastating Contagion Explained It’s in development at NEARstudios, a new team led by Heather Cerlan (Bethesda, Naughty...

Image: EA on X (formerly Twitter) God, I have seen what you’ve done for others, and I ask only that you offer me just a sliver of your generosity—like the New York Rangers winning the Stanley Cup next year, a win that EA Sports’ NHL 25 has just officially predicted. Iconic Director And Proud Nerd Kevin Smith On Sneaking Into Movies, Mallrats, And More NHL 25, the latest entry in the annual hockey sim centered...

A new report about a hacked “AI girlfriend” website claims that many users are trying (and possibly succeeding) at using the chatbot to simulate horrific sexual abuse of children. Iconic Director And Proud Nerd Kevin Smith On Sneaking Into Movies, Mallrats, And More On October 8, 404 Media reported that the chatbot website Muah.ai—which lets users create their own “uncensored” AI-powered sex-focused chatbots—had been hacked and a large amount of user data had been stolen....

There is already plenty to love in Street Fighter 6, with the insane crossover DLC characters currently the most recognized. Something else the fighting game especially excels at is providing you with tools to improve, via Modern Controls and the extensive Training Mode. The latest update has made this even better, with the much-desired addition of Replay Review—match replays where you can jump in and take control of a character at any time you like....

One of the most well-known principles of theatrical storytelling is widely referred to as “Chekhov’s gun.” The principle suggests that if some element is introduced to a story, even in a casual, offhand way, by the end, it had better prove significant. Or, as it’s often summed up, if a gun shows up at some point in your story, by the end, it had better go off. So, when a gun shows up early in...

Back in 2022, Sifu made waves for having the grit and style of a confident kung-fu revenge film. Starring a pupil who sees his master get killed by a vengeful former student called Yang, the story picks back up years after the inciting incident, as the former fights his way through the criminal underworld of their city to get revenge. Along the way, they challenge Yang’s personal vanguard, all assailants who were there the fateful...

Image: Rockstar Games Over a decade after it first landed on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, Red Dead Redemption is finally going to be available to play on PC. Rockstar Games announced the hit open-world Western will arrive at the end of October alongside its zombie apocalypse add-on, Undead Nightmare. The Week In Games: Return To Hyrule Red Dead Redemption and Undead Nightmare come to PC on October 29, letting millions of new players experience...

Maybe my most successful tweet ever was this one, four images from episode five of Andor accompanied by my reaction: “Whoa.” In those images, young Karis Nemik, the most intellectually engaged member of the small band on Aldhani planning a massive heist of Imperial wealth, passionately imparts some of his ideas to Cassian Andor, who is undergoing his own reluctant political awakening. “So much going wrong,” Karis says, “so much to say, and all of...

Matt Reeves’ Batman universe is far from a silly one, but apparently one source of inspiration for The Penguin’s look is on the sillier side. Colin Farrell, if you didn’t know, doesn’t typically look how he does in The Penguin. No, it’s done by this thing called special effects make-up, as impossible as it might be to believe, obviously transforming the actor in such a way where you probably wouldn’t know it’s him...