@theverge.spaceWe’ve got Stranger Things at home.
Now that Stranger Things is over — the main series, anyways — you can finally own the whole thing on disc. Arrow Video is releasing a box set of the complete series on Blu-Ray and 4K UHD, which will be available in July. I hope the collection spans exactly 11 discs.
A weekend project.
Project Hail Mary premieres tomorrow, and it’s the kind of big, exciting sci-fi movie I’d highly recommend seeing on a big screen. For more on the movie, check out my review as well as my interview with author Andy Weir and screenwriter Drew Goddard about adapting the story for film.
Weird Nintendo never went away
The Switch 2 may be a boring upgrade, but the new Talking Flower toy shows that Nintendo remains playful at its core.
Time to get cracking (some codes).
One of my favorite games so far this year is Inkle’s cryptic mystery TR-49, and on April 7th the game is launching on the Switch so Nintendo fans can check it out.
Detective games get extra cryptic with TR-49’s code-breaking mystery
Remedy’s live-service shooter Firebreak is getting its final major update
But the studio plans to keep the game playable ‘for years to come.’
Nvidia’s DLSS 5 is like motion smoothing for video games, but worse
The generic, homogenized ‘AI face’ has come for gaming, and it doesn’t look good.
Starfield is coming to the PS5 and getting a pair of major updates in April
Bethesda calls it ‘the biggest update to the game since launch.’
Why Project Hail Mary’s creators were ‘scared’ about making the sci-fi adaptation
Author Andy Weir and screenwriter Drew Goddard talk about turning the book into a cinematic experience.
Ol’ blue eyes.
The first image from Dune: Part 3 isn’t particularly revealing, but it does give a glimpse into Paul Atreides’ new look, which has something of a Sub-Zero vibe. The movie hits theaters in December.
The Subnautica / Krafton story gets even messier.
In the latest update, a judge has ordered Krafton to reinstate former Unknown Worlds Entertainment CEO Ted Gill, saying the publisher violated its contract when Gill and his fellow co-founders were fired last summer. The suit also claims that Krafton CEO Changhan Kim “consulted an artificial intelligence chatbot to contrive a corporate ‘takeover’ strategy” and get out of paying a $250 million bonus.
