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Overwatch 2 Developers Say They're Leaning Into What Works - Aftermath

The state of Overwatch 2 in the three-ish years since its release could be mapped onto the “we’re so back, it’s so over” meme chart. Peaks and valleys, false starts and lost features, and waxing and waning player numbers have plagued Blizzard’s hero shooter sequel, which was promised as one thing and has since morphed into another entirely. The years-long identity crisis Overwatch 2 has faced since its 2022 launch has greatly affected its playerbase, and the launch of hero shooter Marvel Rivals...
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Gamescom 2025 Is An "Indicator That There Are Positive Times Ahead," Says Organizer

Gamescom 2025 is shaping up to be the biggest iteration of the Cologne, Germany convention yet, and its organizers believe that’s a sign the video game industry is on the mend.
With record attendance numbers expected, increased global reach, and a massive boost in the size of the event since the covid-19 pandemic, organizers, which include Game, the German games industry association, and Geoff Keighley, who hosts the Opening Night Live kickoff show, were in high spirits during a pre-Gamescom pre...
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Capcom Is Releasing Three Games Next Year, And I Played Them All at Gamescom

In 2026, Capcom will release three wildly different and highly anticipated games: the samurai action game Onimusha: Way of the Sword, the sci-fi shooter Pragmata, and the survival horror title Resident Evil: Requiem. Fans are waiting for all three upcoming titles for a variety of reasons, as well: Pragmata has been trapped in production status for years, Requiem is poised to shake up the Resident Evil franchise, and Onimusha is the first mainline entry in the beloved series in nearly 20 years....
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Marvel Rivals Made Me Quit Competitive Gaming

A few weeks ago, after yet another frustrating match of Marvel Rivals caused me to power off my console and loudly deride the game and its players, my boyfriend asked how many hours I had played. The game launched shortly after my segue into the world of freelancing, and I had a lot of spare time on my hands. When my boyfriend, who often plays when I do, told me he had logged 16 hours so far, I conservatively guessed "at least double that."When I looked at my stats, I nearly threw up. I had spen...
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Is Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 just another ‘lazy’ addition to the franchise?

In early August, just days before a major Black Ops 7 preview event in Los Angeles, former Blizzard president and Microsoft executive Mike Ybarra called the Call of Duty franchise “lazy”. Posting on X, the veteran exec wrote that EA’s upcoming Battlefield 6 would “boot stomp” CoD this year and force the team to make “better FPS games”. And with Splitgate 2 head Ian Proulx mocking Call of Duty in his Summer Game Fest presentation just two months ago, it seems the blockbuster series has become the...
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Roblox Responds To Louisiana Lawsuit And “Erroneous Claims” Of Child Endangerment Amid Mounting Pressure

Facing mounting pressure from lawmakers and a newly filed lawsuit by the state of Louisiana, Roblox recently issued a lengthy statement addressing what it calls “erroneous claims and misconceptions.” But reports suggest the Louisiana lawsuit is just the tip of what will eventually be a very large legal iceberg, as the platform faces rampant allegations that it has failed to protect the young people who make up the majority of its playerbase.Roblox is a wildly popular game creation platform that...
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An Aperol Spritz and a Catholic Mass in Rome the Day After Pope Francis’ Funeral

It’s April 26, and the car that picked me up from Fiumicino Airport is careening down Rome’s narrow, cobblestoned streets, barely missing tourists. The driver (wearing one pair of eyeglasses on his forehead and another on the bridge of his nose) realized I speak the language, and is chatting rapidly in Italian about the recent death of Pope Francis while maneuvering the car like he’s in a Roman version of The Fast and the Furious. 
“Dovrei accendere un fuoco per il fumo,” he jokes, suggesting he...
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I Did the Vanderpump Rules Bar Crawl So You Don’t Have To

Thanks to #Scandoval, 2023 will be remembered as the year of Vanderpump Rules. The Bravo reality TV series about a gaggle of hot, young, wannabe actors who work in one of several Los Angeles restaurants owned by Bravolebrity Lisa Vanderpump became the network’s biggest draw this year after Tom Sandoval finally proved himself to be the insecure little man-baby we all assumed he was. In March, it was revealed he’d been cheating on long-term partner Ariana Madix with newcomer Rachel “Raquel” Leviss...
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I’d Like to Blame Sex Negativity for These Cringe Celeb Interviews

Not once but twice during her award-winning night on Sunday, The Bear actor Ayo Edebiri was asked about her co-star Jeremy Allen White’s recent Calvin Klein campaign. The tasteful seminudes that the brand is known for quickly went viral after they were unveiled online and on massive billboards IRL, prompting TikToks and tweets and a few hundred thousand people making the same “yes, CHEF!” joke. According to WWD, it generated $12.7 million in media exposure in 48 hours because everyone’s a thirst...
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I Went to a Professional Women’s Hockey Game and It Was So Beautiful, I Cried

I’ve been to dozens of these events before but tonight, something’s different. The familiar smells are here: hot dog meat, spilled beer, and popcorn, all wafting up my nostrils as I stride through an equally familiar wide corridor to get to my seat. I recognize the thruways but they’re less crowded than usual, affording me a rare opportunity to pause and admire the memorabilia on the walls—and to note just how clean and fresh everything feels in this basically brand-new, brick-laden space that c...
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I Drank Espresso Martinis & Danced With Glittery Femmes at Sabrina Carpenter’s 'Short n’ Sweet' Tour

In 2019, my sister made me go to Ariana Grande’s Sweetener World Tour at Madison Square Garden, despite my having no vested interest in the pop princess (I’m a Gaga girl). But I left covered in glitter and a huge Ariana fan. Five years later, my sister managed to convert me again.
On Sunday, she had me accompany her to the Short n’ Sweet tour in the same arena to see a new pop girly who, just a few months ago, I also had no vested interest in; Sabrina Carpenter. But this time around, my sister p...
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Ariana Madix Is Pretty Damn Good on Broadway

I didn’t know what to expect walking up to the Ambassador Theater for my 7 p.m. showing of Chicago starring Vanderpump Rules’ Ariana Madix. I’m not a Broadway girl–I haven’t seen a show in over a decade (Book of Mormon), but I do love the Chicago movie and unabashedly adore Moulin Rouge. And, like many women who have dated a toxic narcissist, I wanted to see Madix—whose very public 2023 breakup with fellow VPR co-star Tom Sandoval shook the reality TV world so much it expanded into Hollywood and...
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Wimbledon, Keep Trinity Rodman’s Correct Name in Your Mouth

Trinity Rodman is a soccer phenom. In 2021, at 18 years old, she was (at the time) the youngest player ever to be drafted in the National Women’s Soccer League. She earned Rookie of the Year that season, too. The next year, she joined the U.S. Women’s National Team at 19 and instantly became a star, racking up 11 goals and 9 assists in 47 appearances. She scored three goals at the 2024 Paris Olympics, where the squad took home gold. In December, The Guardian voted her the fifth-best women’s socc...
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Caitlin Clark Exposes the WNBA’s Officiating Problems...Again

Since getting drafted first overall by the Indiana Fever in the 2024 WNBA draft, Caitlin Clark has sparked both controversy and conversation about in-game fouls and preferential treatment. She’s a boon for the league and will likely go down as one of the best basketball players of all time—but she’s also seemingly getting rocked by rival players in nearly every match. Tuesday night’s game between the Indiana Fever and Connecticut Sun proved, once again, that the league really doesn’t know how to...
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How Can Anyone Love the New York Rangers After This?

My entire life, I’ve been a diehard New York Rangers fan, thanks largely to my late grandfather, who swore that he only survived his 1994 quadruple bypass because he watched the Rangers win the Stanley Cup from his recovery bed. I’ve been to close to 30 games, have chirped with opposing teams’ fans during mid-season bouts (one of which turned into an all-out brawl during a Rangers/Islanders Valentine’s Day game), and I own limited-edition merch from several streetwear collabs, as well as multipl...
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I Had an Existential Crisis at the Tom Sandoval Concert

It’s an abnormally warm May evening in New York City and the line for Tom Sandoval’s concert—the Vanderpump Rules star and #Scandoval key player—at the Gramercy Theater snakes around the block. Taryn Delanie, the famous TikToker and former Miss New York, interviews people for LiveNation. Saturday Night Live cast member Chloe Fineman steps away to take a call. Behind me, two people start chanting “cheater, cheater” at a film crew. A grandmother, who says she stopped watching Saturday Night Live a...
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Why Are ACL Tears Benching Way More Women Soccer Players Than Men?

During the July 28 FIFA Women’s World Cup match between England and Denmark, midfielder Keira Walsh went down hard while reaching for a pass. She came up mouthing words that would unease most athletes, especially professional ones: “I’ve done my knee.” Walsh is a key part of England’s footy game, but she was even more important going into this World Cup. Prior to the start of the tournament, which kicked off in Australia and New Zealand in mid-July, three other English players were out of the co...
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Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Angel Reese on Becoming 'NBA2K' Cover Stars

NBA champion and league MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is on a set so huge it makes his 6’6” frame seem small in comparison. 



Gilgeous-Alexander, better known as SGA, walks past a massive fur-collared coat hanging on a garment rack and over to a director’s chair, a plastic cup overflowing with Airheads and other chewy candies in his hand. Clad in his full Oklahoma City Thunder uniform, he sits gracefully into the almost comically small chair and gingerly places the candy on the table in front...
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The Outer Worlds 2, the most expensive Xbox game yet

The Outer Worlds 2, from RPG makers Obsidian, will be the first first-party Xbox game to cost $80 (£70). Given that Nintendo Switch 2 games are already priced at least that high, and Sony’s own PlayStation 5 games have been pushing towards it for a while, you might not expect this development to ignite a pricing debate among gamers – but it did. The increased cost of video games is a hotly contested topic, given the unsustainably ballooning budgets that most blockbuster games are working with th...
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Children Are Clashing in Anti-ICE Protests and Raids in 'Roblox'

Amid an aggressive escalation of immigration enforcement and country-wide raids that have resulted in mass protests, police brutality, and arrests, young players of one of the most popular video games in the world have taken to the virtual streets to protest Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). What first began as some Roblox players roleplaying as ICE agents has turned into a series of organized protests in the virtual world, filled with Mexican flags, anti-Trump signs, and, often, gunfir...
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