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Having predicted everything from the Trump presidency to Disney’s purchase of Fox, The Simpsons has gained a reputation for prognosticating the future. Yet 25 years ago, another Fox series featured a plotline that foretold one of the most significant moments in American history just six months before it actually happened. That series was The Lone Gunmen, a spinoff of The X-Files which focused on the adventures of Byers (Bruce Harwood), Langly (Dean Haglund), and Frohike (Tom Braidwood), the three publishers of a conspiracy-centric supermarket tabloid named The Lone Gunman. In the show’s pilot episode, which aired on Mar. 4, 2001,…

Pokemon Pokopia is a cozy sim that lets you live alongside Pokemon in a game centered around crafting and building instead of battling. Building your own settlement with Pokemon can take time, but there is a hack if you want to speed things up.Much like Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Pokemon Pokopia features a day-night cycle linked to real-world time, meaning that a day in the game is as long as a day in real life.Time traveling on your Switch 2 can be used as a hack to allow you to speed things up and see your projects come to life…

The Sims 4 has officially entered into its paid mods era. Developer Maxis announced The Sims Maker Program, and The Sims 4 Marketplace – two new destinations to publish, and discover new add-on content. The two new features will arrive first on PC and Mac, starting March 17. PlayStation and Xbox players will receive them over the next couple of months, which is very much in line with how other franchises have rolled out their own paid mods systems. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settings The Maker Program is a way for community creators to…

I’ve always been a generation or two behind on the general consumer electronics curve. My family didn’t get a home PC until late into the ’90s. I had a desktop in college instead of a laptop because it was cheaper. My first cellphone was pay-as-you go and my first smartphone wasn’t until 2012. Cutting-edge electronics, especially of the high-end variety, just have never been a part of my life. I spend every day of my life writing online and my laptop is a 10-year-old Asus Zenbook that’s missing three keyboard keys. All of which is to say that the new…

Link copied to clipboard Published Mar 4, 2026, 9:16 AM EST Play characters from the actual play show’s first three campaigns Image: CGE The award-winning board game Codenames remains one of the most popular party games, challenging players’ creativity as they compete to guess words based on hints from their team’s Spymaster. That success has led to multiple licensed spinoffs tied to Disney and Marvel, The Simpsons, and, controversially, Harry Potter. Now, CGE and designers Vlaada Chvátil and Felix Podlesny are working on a Critical Role-inspired game expected to be released by the end of 2026. Previous licensed versions of Codenames…

Fortnite is known as much for its paid cosmetics as it is for having arguably the best Battle Royale modes around. But these days, Fortnite offers so many free cosmetics at any given time that it’s easier than ever to enjoy it without dropping a penny on skins, emotes, or other cosmetics.With so much free stuff, it’s not always easy to tell what is available to unlock, since there’s no “here’s all the free stuff you can earn” page in Fortnite itself. Scroll on to find out what exactly you can get, and what modes you’ll need to play or,…

Released last month, High on Life 2 from Squanch Games is the bigger, wilder and funnier comedy shooter sequel to 2022’s High on Life. This time around, Squanch added more of everything and tried to one-up the previous game’s over-the-top moments and action. But in doing so, they produced a script with over 10,000 pages, pushed the boundaries of fair use, and almost created a boss fight that was too wacky to pass console certification. In an email interview with Squanch Games narrative director Alec Robbins, I asked about a boss fight involving an alien sleazebag (voiced wonderfully by Richard…

Highguard is shutting down, developer Wildlight Entertainment announced on Tuesday. The free-to-play “raid shooter” from former Apex Legends and Call of Duty developers will cease to be playable on March 12 when its servers go offline. “Despite the passion and hard work of our team, we have not been able to build a sustainable player base to support the game long term,” Wildlight said in a statement on X. “Servers will remain online until March 12th. We hope you’ll jump in with us one more time to show your support and get those final great matches in while we still…

Nintendo has yet another livestream kicking off in a few minutes, and this time, the focus is on indie games. The short broadcast will run for 15 minutes, and like previous Indie World Showcase events, you can expect to get a closer look at several indie games coming to Switch and Switch 2 consoles in the future.As usual, we’ll be rounding up all the reveals in case you don’t have time to watch them, and we’re expecting to see several games in the spotlight that will feel right at home on the Switch consoles. An Indie World Showcase was held…

It’s kind of hard to see the massive discounts on Ubisoft games on Steam this week and not think: fire sale! The company’s stock price took a head-first dive in January after its latest botched attempt at “restructuring,” and incredibly it’s yet to show any signs of recovery. Share prices today are the same as they were on the day of that January 22 crash, leaving the company worth less than a twentieth of its value in 2018. Things are bad. So presumably there’s hope that knocking half the price off of last year’s Assassin’s Creed Shadows might at least keep…