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A giant green elephant stands near a well in key art for Palworld which has Palworld mods.
Eight of the best mods for Palworld
Palworld

Here's a few favorites that make the game a bit smoother

A Palworld hero rides a Faleris with kindling in Palworld.
How to get Kindling in Palworld
Palworld

Light your fire

A character in Dead By Daylight crouches behind cover, watching a murderous scene play out in front of them between other players
Watching a video game is basically playing it
Spicy Takes Week

My total playtime doesn’t account for the thousands of hours I spend watching games online

Gideon Van Der Koy (Brett Gelman), a balding, bearded man in a big, dark fur coat, yells and waves a gun in the air in Boy Kills World
Video game movies keep relying on the wrong kind of violence
Opinion

Middling films like Boy Kills World have incredible fights, but they’re missing the point

Lucy (Ella Purnell) turning and looking at something over her shoulder with a Vault hallway behind her
Fallout’s bloody wedding continues one of fiction’s longest-running tropes
Fallout

Weddings have gone dangerously wrong throughout the history of storytelling, from the Bible to Kill Bill

A graphic of Kyle MacLachlan in the Fallout TV show standing at a podium and old fashioned microphone in front of a bold yellow background
Kyle MacLachlan’s subtle dread and kind smile made him perfect for Fallout
Fallout

Overseer Hank is an all-American nightmare

A white-skinned green-haired Blythe, a dark-skinned pink-haired Blythe with glasses, and a light-brown-skinned Blythe doll with a black afro styled in Chanel lined up
The collector scene that treats big-eyed dolls like custom gaming PCs
Culture

Barbie might be everything, but Blythe dolls have $120 scalp attachments

A grid image of titles featured in this post
The 50 most anticipated new games of 2024

2023 set a high bar for video game releases, and 2024 looks no different

Ethan Winters from Resident Evil, photoshopped to be wearing a santa hat, standing in front of some Christmas trees.
I lived like Ethan Winters for a week to survive the horrors of the holidays
Culture

The Resident Evil protagonist is surprisingly well adjusted

Artwork from Starfield: On a distant planet, as a giant moon sets, a lone astronaut turns their eyes to the heavens. Meanwhile, a robot welds the hull of their ship
The 10 best Starfield mods to upgrade your gameplay
Starfield

Let Deep Space ReShade and Instant Digipick take you to a more abundant deep space