A Week in the Life of Asocial Giraffe

How the Backrooms accidentally predicted where the Internet was headed

The Boys season 5 series finale is over but Prime Video has a victory lap set for June 6 and 7.

Sony’s big State of Play announcement was God of War Laufey, the next game in Sony Santa Monica’s God of War franchise due out exclusively for PlayStation 5. While the fact the game would focus on Faye as opposed to Kratos had leaked months before the showcase, it’s fair to say Sony’s 20 minute gameplay reveal sparked a vociferous reaction across the internet.

After five seasons, The Boys wrapped up this week with the series finale, “Blood and Bone.” And as you might expect, not everyone made it out alive after the climactic showdown between Homelander (Antony Starr) and Billy Butcher (Karl Urban).

If you've played the Call of Duty games in recent years--arguably any of them past the first handful--then you know the games tend to star heroes with near-superhuman reflexes, athletic abilities, and rapid decision-making. For Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, Infinity Ward is taking a step back, partially, from these larger-than-life heroes and putting you back in the boots of a regular "grunt" soldier. The decision to move back to regular soldiers--which should be familiar to Call of Duty 2 players, for example--came about as Infinity Ward developed the setup for Modern Warfare 4's story. Set