Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation Gold

Here's how Marvel fighting games evolved over 30 years from arcade classics to tag-team titans.

Shawn Layden may not be at Sony anymore, but the former PlayStation boss has a lot of thoughts about the company, its games, and the industry as a whole. Specifically, he'd love to see a return to the PS1- and PS2-era of games, and he has a (somewhat vague) plan to achieve it. In a July 23 interview with Eurogamer, Layden spoke at length about how unsustainable the current model of game development is. He discussed the untenable ballooning budgets of recent years, how niche gaming is compared to the universality of movies and music, and how the current structures just don't hold up. Tucked int

Zack Hoyt, the popular streamer known online as Asmongold, has again received a temporary ban on one of his channels, following a "violation of Twitch's community guidelines."

Greek translator and University of Pennsylvania professor Emily Wilson has unleashed a scathing review of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, calling it a "confused" and "abysmal" adaptation of Homer's text.

Checking in with the PS5 generation.