Category: Story

The first playable moments of Far Cry 5 are a chase—but you're the one being pursued. You're a nameless, silent police deputy fleeing from radical doomsday cultists who intend to gun you down. Feet pounding through the woods of rural Montana, you run, bullets whizzing past your head as you barely manage to escape. As…

I held my breath and pushed the button. “Delete All,” it read. Yes, I clicked, do it. “Are You Sure?” it asked. I wasn’t. But I’d made a decision, about which I’d written an entire article already, and I wasn’t about to renege. The tweets started disappearing in batches. I refreshed my timeline every few…

The first door Madotsuki opens leads her to a sprawling forest. It's quiet. Ghost-like figures stand in place, scattered around the brush; they don't respond to her when she comes close. On the ground, the shape of a huge insect flows from one edge of Madotsuki's vision to another, like a moving mural. She wanders…

Did you guys see? The Rock has a new movie out. It’s called Rampage. It’s based on an mid-’80s arcade game—though you’d never know that—and, like most Dwayne Johnson movies, it involves The Rock wearing an impossibly tight T-shirt over his muscle-wall frame. Things blow up; the ones that don't get smashed to pieces. Tactical…

Videogames have been around for so long it’s almost impossible that anyone under 60 hasn't spent some time playing them. So when someone says they enjoy gaming, it’s not entirely surprising. What might warrant a double-take, however, is actor Justin Theroux saying he often plays videogames with Will Arnett. "We play Call of Duty," Theroux…

At this year’s Sundance Film Festival opening weekend, Gloria Allred, the famed women’s rights attorney, got on a snow-covered stage in Park City, Utah and declared “this entire year has been the winter of our discontent!” She was commemorating the first year of Donald Trump’s presidency, but also the one-year anniversary of last year’s Women’s…

On “Told You So,” a mid-album track from Miguel’s just-released War & Leisure, the R&B singer offers liberation in the guise of pleasure. “I wanna set you free, just come with me,” he croons over a bed of neon bass. That’s not a foreign sentiment for the artist—above all, his music speaks to how the…

As surreal as it may seem, America has a missing First Lady. Sorta. As of this writing Melania Trump hasn’t been seen in public since May 10, and people have started to notice. Of course, it’s not helped by the White House being strange about the whole thing, or this Proof of Life tweet that…

If the internet made a movie, it might look like Justice League. That shouldn’t be read as a compliment or an insult. It’s both. The internet is a fantastic place full of smart people; anything it produced would have moments of brilliance and humor. It's also a cesspool of tribalism and in-fighting, and anything it…

Generally, this time of year is slow at the box office. With the Oscars on the horizon, it's in some ways still the tail end of the previous cinema year, and even with summer blockbuster season creeping earlier and earlier, the big-budget tentpoles don't start rolling out for another six weeks or so. A couple…