Law enforcement degrees online

2064: Read Only Memories might have my favourite opening of any game ever. I'm thinking specifically about the bit you can play in a demo on Steam. You're a writer, sat in your tiny apartment, procrastinating about writing a review of some fancy new headphones. You manage to power through the review and go to sleep after flicking eyes across the local news, and then you wake up in the middle of the night when a polite robot breaks in and tidies up. 2064 is the work of MidBoss, a studio based in Berkeley, California, and which specialises in games with a LGBTQIA+ focus and a strong sense of diversity and inclusivity. The game is an adventure affair set in a future poised on the brink of three singularities, and in the opening ten minutes there's a brilliant joke about being a writer and an excellent discussion of Asimov's laws of robotics. I've spent the morning playing the demo for Read Only Memories: Neurodiver , the studio's follow-up. It's every bit as good as 2064. It might … [Read more...] about Read Only Memories: Neurodivers revels in the corrupted past

Don’t be alarmed by any cracking or dripping noises you may hear—Call of Duty’s Cold War has been thawed this week by the warm glow of nostalgia. After frontloading the game with ambitious new ideas like Fireteam: Dirty Bomb and VIP Escort—to varying degrees of success, depending on who you ask—Treyarch has begun to relent and introduce some beloved modes from previous entries in the COD canon. Gunfight , the low-player-count skulking simulator first seen in 2019’s Modern Warfare, has been ticking away successfully in Cold War since December. And now we have Gun Game, a mode that might be older than some of Cold War’s players, based on some of the prepubescent voice chat I've heard bouncing off the walls of Nuketown. Parents, come on: it’s rated 18. Rooted in a classic Counter-Strike mod, Gun Game looks like a shootout but is actually a race. Every player starts with the same, single weapon—a piddly pistol—but once they bag a kill, that’s replaced by two pistols, one in … [Read more...] about Cold War’s Gun Game is a high speed arms race for the old timers

It looks like a leaked Elden Ring trailer may be circulating online ahead of a long-awaited official announcement about FromSoftware's next game, but take any individual videos or images you see with several grains of salt. According to reports from VGC , Eurogamer , and beyond, a partial, off-screen recording of a new Elden Ring trailer has been making the rounds around the internet for the last few weeks. While some have shared snippets from the trailer on social media, others are taking the opportunity to sow confusion by uploading grainy, altered footage of other Souls-like games and claiming it comes from the source in question. We've reached out to Bandai Namco to see if it can share any information about the allegedly leaked trailer or any updates on Elden Ring in general. Even as confusion remains about what specifically is from the leaked trailer and what is from fakers, it looks like we're finally due to get some kind of official update on Elden Ring … [Read more...] about Elden Ring trailer and images leak, but they’re not all legit

Thor: Love and Thunder is currently filming in Australia, and once again as in early February , photos from the set have leaked, revealing some potentially surprising cameos. The photos, which were posted online by Daily Mail , show Melissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids, Ghostbusters) and husband, Ben Falcone (The Happytime Murders, The Boss) on set. In the photos, McCarthy can be seen laughing maniacally in a green Hela headpiece, alongside Matt Damon as Loki and Luke Hemsworth as Thor. The latter pair previously portrayed these roles in Thor: Ragnarok for an Asgardian play that depicted Loki's death in Thor: The Dark World--likely suggesting (and we'll have to wait until the movie's out to know for sure) that the Asgardian actors from Ragnarok are still acting. It's unclear from the photos alone what role Falcone is portraying. That McCarthy and Falcone would wind up on Thor: Love and Thunder is hardly a shock, given that the couple over the holiday break uploaded an Instagram … [Read more...] about Thor Love And Thunder: Melissa McCarthy Spotted On Set Wearing Hela Costume

Wrong Turn got a very different remake this year--moving away from cannibal hillbillies to focus on a more civilized people who live off-the-grid in the Appalachian mountains called The Foundation. However, there was one scene cut from the movie that landed it the infamous NC-17 rating. During the Wrong Turn audio commentary from director Mike P. Nelson, he explained the exact moment where the MPAA slapped the naughty rating on it. "[The] execution scene with Adam here was the moment in the movie in which we got an NC-17 from the MPAA," Nelson explained during the movie. The scene in question features travelling city-boy Adam about to be executed in a bizarre court of law by The Foundation after Adam is found guilty of murdering another member of the hermit tribe. "Originally, this scene played straight through, in which you saw Adam get his head bashed in, and it did not cut away, like it's going to do there," Nelson continued. "It keeps going and going, and you see his head … [Read more...] about Wrong Turn Remake Director Reveals Scene That Landed NC-17 Rating