Today I’m talking with Harvey Mason Jr., who is CEO of the Recording Academy — that’s the outfit that puts on the Grammy Awards. I last talked to Harvey in 2024, when it was obvious that generative AI would upend the music industry, but still not exactly clear how that would happen. Well, it’s been […]
Things are bad out there. Despite 2026 shaping up to be a great year when it comes to actual games, it couldn’t really be worse for the people that make them or the industry as a whole. Hardware prices keep going up, layoffs have shown no signs of stopping, and even big-budget titles backed by […]
If you cried watching Years and Years and It’s a Sin, new Russell T Davies show Tip Toe, now streaming on Channel 4, is somehow even more devastating.
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The filmmaker behind He-Man’s latest film has confirmed it includes a nod to a very popular Masters of the Universe meme.
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The A Minecraft Movie sequel officially has a title: A Minecraft Movie Squared. What’s more, we now know that Kirsten Dunst will star as Alex, the game’s female character option, and that Matt Berry is set to play an even bigger role in this film. He voiced Nitwit in the first movie, but in this […]
From the opening moments of bitknot, it’s obvious that Feeble Little Horse has found an entirely new gear. Where on Girl with Fish the blown-out textures were more ’90s indie rock and shoegaze, on their latest LP, there’s a more modern edge to the distortion and the riffs cut cleaner. Similarly, where the digital glitchiness […]
‘If you can’t tend to your own planet, none of you deserve to live here.’
Earlier this month, I finally achieved the elusive goal I had set for myself in Bungie’s Marathon. I collected six of the game’s rarest items, allowing me to attempt and then successfully clear the raid-style Compiler boss. I felt a massive weight lift off my shoulders – nearly 185 hours of playtime and I had […]
From farming and walking sims to space trucking, you can live that cozy life… but in space!
New Russell T Davies Channel 4 drama Tip Toe is the most important binge watch since… well, It’s A Sin. But it comes with a stark warning as horrors are ‘happening right now’.
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