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Studio Kai’s adaptation of Rocket Shokai’s 2020 light novel Sentenced To be a Hero is an absolute visual feast, immediately grabbing your attention with a jaw-dropping opening battle that flaunts its animation budget and sets the stage for nonstop eye candy. Yet as dazzling as this anime may be, the story initially struggled to hook me. The 58-minute, movie-length premiere throws viewers straight into a sprawling world with its own rules; no primer included. But if you stick with it, the new show’s knightly backdrop and honorable scoundrel of a protagonist offers a helpful point of comparison: everyone’s favorite Westerosi…

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. After over two decades of waiting, player housing is finally live in World of Warcraft for those who preorder the game’s upcoming Midnight expansion. Anyone who wants a home in Azeroth can claim one, and Blizzard’s decorating toolset allows for what feels like close to infinite creative possibilities when it comes to decorating them.Housing in WoW is in many ways a game within a game, and it’s clear many players are treating it as such. As players level up their housing level,…

Activision has made a major announcement regarding a particular feature in this year’s Call of Duty, Black Ops 7. The game, which had its full reveal at gamescom just one week ago, will no longer support Carry Forward. Carry Forward is a feature that allows players to bring Black Ops 6 weapons, operators, skins and other cosmetics with them to the new game. Unfortunately, that’s made it more difficult for players to be excited about the upcoming game. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settings While Carry Forward is something that would typically be celebrated for…

Whenever my kids get stuck playing a game, they run around the house yelling for me to help them. Doesn’t matter where I am or what I’m doing. Making dinner, taking out the trash, going to the bathroom, nowhere is safe. I patiently try to explain to them that back in my day, there was no grownup to help me beat Snake Man in Mega Man 3 or find Excalibur in Final Fantasy IV. I just had to bash my head against the wall until I figured it out or give up until I got older. They never find this…

Image: Capcom I’m a card-carrying Resident Evil lore sicko. Or so I thought. When Capcom revealed Resident Evil Requiem, the chorus of “it’s Alyssa Ashcroft from Resident Evil Outbreak” posts that broke out on social media made me realize there was a whole chunk of Resi lore I had no idea about. A janky multiplayer game that people love now, despite hating it at the time? Starring an ace reporter whose murder is the premise of Requiem? This, I thought, was a knowledge gap I absolutely had to address — and not just with fan wikis. The games are, in…

At CES 2026 this week, Lego introduced its brand-new Smart Play system–a series of high-tech Lego bricks, tiles, and minifigures equipped with sensors, accelerometers, light and sound sensors, a miniature speaker with an onboard synthesizer, and more. The company says these pieces can communicate to enhance interactivity. The system will launch in March with three Star Wars sets, available for preorder starting January 9.While this isn’t the first time Lego has experimented with electronic components, there are key differences with Smart Play pieces. For starters, they can detect nearby NFC-equipped smart tags. They’re also wirelessly charged. This is a big…

If you got your hands on a shiny new Nintendo Switch 2 last year, first of all, congrats, it’s a wonderful console, and a whole lot of fun. Second, it is probably, unfortunately, already yelling at you about storage. The console ships with 256GB of onboard space, which sounds generous until you download a couple of chunky first-party games, dabble in a few third-party ports, and suddenly find yourself doing mental gymnastics over which titles you can afford to delete. Thankfully storage for the Switch 2 is a whole lot cheaper than it was only a few months ago, especially…

2025 is over. Its big gaming showcases and grim real-world events are now all in the past. It’s far too early to say how 2026 will shape up by comparison. But before we move on to the future, it’s worth taking one last glance at the past, lest we be doomed to repeat it. And I don’t think anyone wants to repeat 2025, unless they spent all of their time playing video games which, depending on who you ask, were some of the best and most varied we’ve ever gotten in a single 12-month span. Here’s our definitive round-up of…

What better way to spend the day after your wedding than by watching movies for 16 hours straight? If that doesn’t sound like your ideal honeymoon, maybe don’t invite Paul Thomas Anderson to the festivities. The director of One Battle After Another recently made news for curating a movie marathon to celebrate the wedding of Jonathan Levin and Este Haim (who has a small role in PTA’s previous film, Licorice Pizza). While Anderson’s selections include Hollywood classics like Casablanca, Barry Lyndon, and Casino, the biggest outlier is a 42-year-old indie science fiction film that may have flown under most people’s…

The upcoming gray edition of 8BitDo’s great modernized Nintendo 64 controller is back in stock at Amazon for $45. Scheduled to launch January 30, the new edition matches the color scheme of the N64 controller that debuted with the console back in 1996. The 8BitDo 64 Bluetooth Controller originally launched last August for $40 with two color options: solid black and solid white. Nostalgia will cost you an extra five bucks, but the gray edition looks very good. The 8BitDo 64 Controller works wirelessly on Analogue 3D, Nintendo Switch, Switch 2, PC, Apple devices, and Android.The controller’s reimagined form factor…