Limbo

After Grand Theft Auto 6 developer Rockstar Games told employees that they all must return to the office in April, several employees have called out the studio. VGC reports that several anonymous Rockstar employees aren’t happy with the decision, and believe that Rockstar is “snatching away lifeline”. “After so many broken promises we now fear management may even be paving the way for a return to toxic ‘crunch’ practices. Senior leadership need to rethink their reckless decision making and engage with their staff to…

The Embracer Group has been on an intense cost-cutting drive as part of a major restructuring over the last six months, as it has canceled games, laid off workers and shut down studios. The company confirmed that in the three months to September 30, it reduced its headcount by around 900 people, some five percent of the workforce. The cuts didn't end there, as it emerged on Tuesday that Embracer laid off around 50 workers from Chorus developer Fishlabs.Free Radical Design, which was reformed a couple of years ago to work…

An international effort to revive an ancient roundworm, frozen in Siberian permafrost for millennia, has unleashed a lifeform even older than scientists once thought.In 2018, several resurrected nematodes, of the genus Panagrolaimus, were dated to around 32,000 years old. But now, more precise radiocarbon dating suggests these soil worms have remained 'dead awake' in parts of Siberia since at least the late Pleistocene, around 46,000 years ago.If correct, the record absolutely smashes the longest known state of extreme…

A nameless narrator arrives in a “remote northern country” to run her eldest brother’s household. The position comes naturally: she has been a “faithful and perennial servant” to her siblings since infancy. But her brother soon departs, leaving her alone to struggle with the traumatic legacy of a vaguely outlined past event.She quickly learns that the inhabitants of the nearby small town all hate her. Or fear her. Mothers cover their children’s eyes when she passes. At a cafe, unable to speak the language, the narrator…

With Secret Invasion entering the home stretch, it’s time to start looking ahead to what Marvel Studios has to offer on Disney Plus for the remainder of the year, and it may have just significantly increased as a whole extra show we weren’t necessarily expecting this soon is apparently on its way. Meanwhile, things are looking up for The Marvels after early signs indicate we’re in for something very special this Fall. Last but not least, Deadpool 3 is all but confirmed not to bring back one particular OG Marvel icon. A…

Image via Sony Pictures Animation Fans are always saying that Sony needs to sprinkle some of its Spider-Verse magic on its live-action Marvel movies, and it looks like the studio was trying to do exactly that on the next one to go before cameras. Unfortunately, the film in question has been pulled from the schedules thanks to long delays combining with the writers’ strike, but there’s still a chance it could go ahead and pull off this intriguing crossover. Sony has officially removed El Muerto from its January…

Screengrab via Marvel Studios/Disney Plus The first five minutes of Secret Invasion have been released, and they look suitably epic, but some well-intentioned if overly familiar words from someone who helped bring the show to life have nevertheless dented the hype for the incoming Samuel L. Jackson vehicle somewhat. Elsewhere, one of the many MCU Phase Five productions affected by the writers strike may already be back on the right track as Disney Plus offers us a moving first look at the next Marvel Studios…

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After making last year’s Loveland, a heavily ponderous and unsubtle sci-fi film set in Hong Kong, the Indigenous auteur Ivan Sen – most famous for directing the Mystery Road movies – has returned to crime in the sunscorched desert. And damn it’s great to have him back doing outback noir, because Sen is so bloody good at it. His latest work, Limbo, is an eerily meditative production with top-notch performances and a harshly beautiful monochrome veneer.Simon Baker leads the cast as Travis Hurley, a tough, sorrowful,…

In the days before Los Angeles’ “mansion tax” took effect, the luxury market moved at hyperspeed.Prices were slashed, escrows were rushed and million-dollar deals were closed as panicked sellers offered exotic cars and lucrative bonuses to anyone willing to buy their properties by the end of March. It was a manic, desperate attempt at avoiding Measure ULA, a new transfer tax that levies a 4% charge on all residential and commercial sales in the city above $5 million and a 5.5% charge on sales above $10 million.On April…