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For most mere mortals, beating Super Mario 64 takes around 12 hours. Unless you happen to be Twitch streamer Cole “GreenSuigi.” In that same time frame, the 19-year-old player could easily clear the game a dozen times or more, in a handful of different ways. Actually, with half a day …

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Chris Stapleton, Jelly Roll, and Shaboozey are all slated to perform at EA Sports’ Madden Bowl two days before Super Bowl LIX gets underway. Fresh off his first-ever …

Since launching on Dec. 6, Marvel Rivals has quickly become one of the most popular games online. The 6v6 competitive hero shooter that pits players against each other using a variety of Marvel characters has drawn heavy comparisons to Overwatch, although its current popularity dwarfs that of Blizzard’s game with …

Sun pours through the lush foliage of a jungle, bleaching the pale limestone as a rotting man stands in the center of an otherwise empty arena, his yellow eyes leering from beneath a fringe of limp, blonde hair. Positioned around the edge are a hundred bodies, Orcs and Trolls and …

The multiverse is everywhere, from the unstoppable Marvel machine to Oscar-winning films like Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) — and even dozens of fan theories about My Little Pony. Every single facet of entertainment has started toying with universe-hopping storytelling, and yes, that includes video games. This year alone, …

In a year filled with massive open world RPGs and AAA live service games with ambitious season passes, it’s incredible that the title that truly captured the hearts (and free time) of players in 2024 was actually just a silly little poker riff called Balatro. Produced by a single anonymous …

PlayerUnknown‘s Battlegrounds, best known as PUBG, continues to harness hundreds of thousands of players since its 2017 release. The battle royale sold 40 million copies in its first year, and reached over 3 million concurrent players on PC via Steam in 2018 — a record that still stands to this …

There’s an increasing trend of remedial media literacy among modern audiences. People miss obvious narrative moments and thematic elements, only really engaging with media on a base level, perhaps due to sheer amount of content they’re ingesting every single day. This most recently became clear with the release of Life …

For over 30 years Goichi Suda, otherwise known as Suda51, has been one of the gaming industry’s few true auteurs. His calling card is imbuing familiar genres with unconventional twists, whether it’s making the hero’s journey a tragedy in Super Fire Pro Wrestling Special (1994), a cel-shaded adventure game take …

Back in 2017, just over two months after Fortnite came out, it had already morphed into a different experience than what was originally intended. Initially envisioned and released as a wave-based survival shooter called Save The World, Epic Games quickly took the toolset they built and reconfigured it into a …