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Deliberate mistake or inattentive image searching? You decide. Whatever the reason, the Hotel Figueroa in LA currently has a lovely shot of Los Santos from GTA 5 (opens in new tab) on its website.  Here’s the shot from the site (as noticed on Reddit (opens in new tab)). It’s worth …

After a low-key season five Game of Thrones (opens in new tab) came back stronger than ever for one hell of a season six that rocked out its killer send-off on Sunday. With that finale being heralded as one of the best-ever episodes (opens in new tab) of television, setting …

PS4 and Xbox One owners, you won’t have to wait until October’s Titanfall 2 for a fast-paced mech game with plenty of hot metal-on-metal action and explosions. Hawken is coming to console; July 1 for Xbox One, and July 8 for PS4. Much like EA’s own robotic combat series, Hawken …

Resident Evil has become a superpowered zombie-slaying soap opera in the last decade, but that wouldn’t really work for Resident Evil 7 biohazard (opens in new tab). The game’s producer and director weren’t willing to offer many clues to the main character’s identity on the official Capcom blog (opens in …

It’s well-known by now how absurd and self-referential the official Sonic the Hedgehog Twitter (opens in new tab) account can be. But rarely do things get more bizarre and fourth wall-breaking than when Sonic himself and eternal nemesis/frenemy Dr. Eggman (AKA Dr. Robotnik) start answering fan questions, which is exactly …

[UPDATE: Telltale’s Job Stauffer has contacted me to clarify that it’s ‘aiming’ to complete the season by the end of the year. There’s always ‘room for dates to shift’ but the plan is to see the majority, if not all, the episodes this year.]  How Telltale’s more narrative focused take …

Reshoots are common practice on big budget films, but when news broke that Star Wars: Rogue One (opens in new tab) was headed back to a galaxy far, far away for some additional filming (opens in new tab) many were worried about what it might mean for the highly anticipated …

Aside from the Cursed Child stage production, Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them (opens in new tab) is the first proper return to the Potterverse since the last movie dropped in 2011. Expectations are high. The first teaser (opens in new tab) delivered a snippet of goodies for Potterphiles …

Xur, Destiny’s weekend trader, bratwurst aficionado, and artisan baker of fine breakfast pastries, is back. This week he’s in the Tower, down by the Speaker. But what’s he selling? Well, a mix of underwhelming guff and one or two things you should actually pay attention to.  Mk.44 Stand Asides (Exotic …

We knew Vader would be returning to the screen in Star War’s Rogue One (opens in new tab) but Entertainment Weekly (opens in new tab) has now given us more details about the character, his place in the movie and, most importantly, confirmed original actor James Earl Jones will be …