A Very Long Rope to the Top of the Sky

Christopher Nolan’s many odysseys: How the filmmaker’s latest epic draws on his nearly three-decade career.

Mortal Kombat: Annihilation’s place in the annals of video game adaptation history has calcified into a cautionary tale for what not to do. But there have been a lot of video game movies since then and we’ve gotta say: What Annihilation lacks in quality, it compensates for with the right instincts… instincts which the just-released Mortal Kombat II largely share.

Microsoft is removing more titles from Xbox Game Pass, and it looks like there could be a lot of removals for July. The "leaving soon" page on Xbox's website lists off 11 titles set for removal on July 15. These include Golf With Your Friends, Stellaris, EA Sports FC 24, PowerWash Simulator, and Shadow of the Tomb Raider. You can see the full list below, as relayed by PureXbox. While PowerWash Simulator is leaving, PowerWash Simulator 2 is still on Game Pass. This is expected to be the first of two sets of removals for July, as Microsoft typically axes titles in the middle of the month and the

House of the Dragon, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, and Avatar: The Last Airbender return, while the DCU expands with Lanterns.

HBO's Game of Thrones show is a hit, as are George R.R. Martin's books that it's based on. So why haven't we gotten a great GOT video game yet?