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Buckle up, stargazer. The waning crescent Moon forms a challenging square with Jupiter, indicating stifled progress and decreased motivation. The post Daily Horoscope: May 22, 2025 appeared first on VICE.
There are a lot of different types of video games. Some are directly inspired by the world of Anime or Manga. Others just do what they can to emulate the style, to mixed degrees. Games like Guilty Gear look Anime enough to be considered for a spot here. We’re breaking down boundary walls and trying […] The post Waypoint Wishlist: Anime/Anime-Styled Games Edition appeared first on VICE.
I’m a sucker for a good deep dive on anything. I’ll watch documentaries until my eyes bleed. My favorite right now is this Secret Base supercut on the history of the Seattle Mariners. It’s one of the best sports documentaries I’ve ever seen. So of course, when I saw that Nintendo rolled out their “Ask […] The post Nintendo’s “Ask the Developer” Series on ‘Mario Kart World’ is a Great Look into the Making of the Game appeared first on VICE.
Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke is a pretty unique guy, and he often has some wildly unconventional ideas surrounding his art. Recently, Yorke released a new music project with electronic producer Mark Pritchard, titled Tall Tales. As part of the collaborative album’s experience, the pair had coins forged and buried all around the world, and they […] The post Radiohead Frontman Thom Yorke Wants You to Find His Buried Coins appeared first on VICE.
India, alongside other South Asian countries like Pakistan, has been seeing a solid boom in representation. Games like SAFA, which is essentially Silent Hill set in Pakistan, have me very interested. But my more curious side has me wondering more about Mukti. This upcoming first-person adventure/puzzler looks to take some inspiration from games like Blue […] The post ‘Mukti’ Brings India to the Forefront of the Adventure Genre in a Stunning New First-Person Title appeared first on VICE.
Billy Strings fans have long known the Grammy-winning bluegrass musician is a huge fan of heavy metal, and played in metal bands as a teenager, but now he’s getting a chance to play with one of the most metal bands of all time: Cryptopsy. Metal Injection reports that metal label Season Of Mist is reissuing […] The post Bluegrass Star Billy Strings is Playing on a Cryptopsy Album appeared first on VICE.
Thanks to a crew of Chinese astronauts and the Shenzhou Space Biotechnology Group, we’re now aware of a new kind of bacteria. And how they found it is only a little bit scary… Niallia tiangongensis is a hardy little bacterium scooped from the walls of China’s Tiangong space station. And no, they didn’t bring it […] The post A New Kind of Bacteria Mysteriously Appeared on a Space Station appeared first on VICE.
A tale as old as time. Monster Hunter Wilds emerges, and another Street Fighter collaboration must be added. Teased by the official Monster Hunter Wilds account, it looks like we’ll be seeing our favorite Street Fighter combatants enter the Grand Hub. But more importantly, several people are just… really interested in hunting and killing Blanka? […] The post ‘Monster Hunter Wilds’ Looks To Be Getting a ‘Street Fighter’ Collaboration, and I’m Shoryuken Dress up as Your Favorite Characters appeared first on VICE.
Suck up this deal before it turns to dust. My Dyson cordless stick vacuum was one of the best purchases I’ve made for my apartment. It’s nimble, it’s versatile. Only it was, like everything Dyson, expensive. So in turn, I always recommend Dysons, with the caveat to wait for a deal. Now that one has […] The post Knock $110 Off the Dyson V8 Cordless Vacuum With This Spring Cleaning Deal appeared first on VICE.
Things always feel at least a little suspicious when they’re too perfect. When something is too correct, it starts to feel unnatural. Like it was manufactured. This is not only true in life on Earth, but with life in space, as a team of astronomers recently found a supernova out there in the vastness of […] The post Astronomers Found a Suspiciously Round Object in Our Galaxy appeared first on VICE.
A French chef tried to whip up a new dish—vegetables à la human. Philippe Schneider is currently standing trial in France, where he is accused of murdering Georges Meichler, dismembering his body, and cooking pieces of it alongside vegetables in an effort to mask the smell, The Telegraph reported. When Meichler’s daughter had trouble reaching […] The post Chef Accused of Killing, Dismembering, and Cooking Man in Pot of Vegetables appeared first on VICE.
The Oura Ring debuted way back in 2015 as a Kickstarter product. Not only did it achieve its funding goal and make it to market, it helped grow an entirely new market segment. What if you want to track your health throughout the day, but without the bulk of a smartwatch or fitness tracker strapped […] The post Personal Health-Tracking Oura Ring Just Got a Huge Free Upgrade appeared first on VICE.
Natalie Bergman is numinous. The spiritual-minded artist writes songs that seem to have been around for decades, perhaps even hundreds of years. And yet they are brand new. With a blend of gospel, doo-wop, rock, and soul, Bergman offers an authentic bent on music that is timeless. VICE caught up with the standout musician to […] The post Natalie Bergman Releases Single ‘Dance’ Ahead of New LP ‘My Home Is Not in This World’ appeared first on VICE.
With Summer Game Fest just around the corner, many players are wondering whether games like Kingdom Hearts 4 or Resident Evil 9 could be shown at the event. However, a new leak has sparked hope that we might actually see some pretty big releases from several Japanese studios. Could We See A ‘Resident evil 9’ […] The post Could ‘Kingdom Hearts 4’ or ‘Resident Evil 9’ Be Revealed At Summer Games Fest? New Leak Sparks Hope appeared first on VICE.
In a recent Twitch stream, Jennifer English revealed that she was able to play Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 thanks to the game’s story mode. The Maelle voice actress was actually responsible for the easy mode addition to the game after she told Sandfall Interactive that she struggles with challenging RPGs. Here’s why I believe her […] The post Jennifer English Was Able to Play ‘Clair Obscur: Expedition 33’ Because of Story Mode – Here’s Why Easy Difficulty Options Matter appeared first on VICE.
By now, we’ve all accepted that microplastics are everywhere. It’s raining down from the sky. It’s somehow made its way deep into caves that have been closed off to people for decades. It’s in nearly every organ in our bodies. Just when you thought it couldn’t get worse, scientists discovered that a plastic spoon’s worth […] The post The Microplastics in Your Brain Might Be Making You Depressed appeared first on VICE.
The Ostok Sanctuary, a once-peaceful animal refuge on the outskirts of Culiacán, Sinaloa, in Mexico, loaded 700 animals onto trucks and quietly slipped out of town under white flags. This was a sign of peace displayed prominently so as not to get caught in a bloody war between rival cartels. Detailed by The Associated Press, […] The post Circus Animals Caught in a Cartel War Are Fleeing a Mexican City appeared first on VICE.
Are you really a Miku fan if you aren’t listening to DECO*27? The musician has been working with Vocaloid for nearly two decades now, and he’s created some of the most iconic Hatsune Miku songs of the past couple years. If “The Vampire” doesn’t ring a bell, then I’m sure you remember the fuss over […] The post One of My Favorite Hatsune Miku Songs Just Got an Incredible English Cover appeared first on VICE.
Microsoft isn’t playing around, as Xbox Game Pass in May 2025 is bringing players Metaphor: ReFantazio and a handful of other excellent games. The subscription service continues to dominate the competition with multiple months of bangers back to back. Here are the games you should check out in May’s Xbox Game Pass Wave 2. Everything […] The post Wave 2 Xbox Game Pass in May 2025 Continues to Dominate Sony With ‘Metaphor: ReFantazio’ and More appeared first on VICE.
As hard as it may be to believe, one man really wanted to go back to high school. Anthony Emmanuel Labrador Sierra was arrested on May 19 in Ohio after he allegedly pretended to be a 16-year-old high schooler, according to ABC News, who obtained the police report. Per the outlet, Labrador is accused of […] The post 24-Year-Old Man Arrested After Posing as a High Schooler appeared first on VICE.
One of the proudest moments in my games journalism career is having the honor of reviewing Immortality for Common Sense Media. Sure, it’s not exactly the first place you’d go for game reviews, but personally? It meant everything. Because, to this day — and even considering that review — I’m woefully unqualified to describe how […] The post ‘Immortality’ Is Getting a Limited Physical Release, Even Though We’re All Unworthy appeared first on VICE.
What’s that? You haven’t read The Collector’s Piece by Taylor Jenkins Reid?! How could you have skipped Migrations by Maggie O’Farrell?! It’s one of the most important books of the decade! Honestly, if you haven’t read Tidewater Dreams by Isabel Allende, I don’t even want to talk to you. Unfortunately, no one will ever be able to […] The post Newspaper’s Summer Reading List Was Filled With Fake, AI-Generated Books appeared first on VICE.
Apple has the MacBook, a svelte nugget of aluminum that’s become an iconic laptop of the 21st century. Windows has…a bunch of imitators, jostling for the top position in the much wider field of Windows laptops. Most of them imitate the MacBook’s form, and several do an impressive job. The ThinkPad, a family of (mostly) […] The post The Lenovo ThinkPad Is the Ultimate Windows Machine, and It’s Half Off Right Now appeared first on VICE.
Despite many players believing DOOM: The Dark Ages had flopped due to low player numbers on Steam, Bethesda has announced that the game is a massive success. According to the studio, it’s actually id Software’s biggest launch in history. Is this a sign that we’re maybe too obsessed with Steam Charts? Steam Charts Might Not […] The post ‘DOOM: The Dark Ages’ Success Proves That Steam Charts Can’t Always Predict A Flop appeared first on VICE.
Two hikers in the Czech Republic thought they were taking a shortcut. What they found instead was a literal treasure chest sticking out of a rock wall—and it might be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. The aluminum box was wedged into a stony hillside in the Krkonoše Mountains, a forested stretch near the Polish […] The post Hikers Stumble on Mystery Treasure Worth Hundreds of Thousands appeared first on VICE.
If you hear screaming in the trees this month, don’t panic. It’s not the apocalypse (probably)—it’s Brood XIV, the latest wave of periodical cicadas rising from the dirt like horny little undead. After 17 years underground, billions of them are emerging across the eastern U.S. for one brief, insane mission: climb, molt, scream, mate, die. […] The post A Parasitic Fungus Is Turning Cicadas Into Hypersexual Zombies appeared first on VICE.
To celebrate National Endangered Species Day, the Quick Response Fund for Nature (QRFN) launched an OnlyFans account. Yes, that OnlyFans. But instead of spicy human content, subscribers get Aldabra tortoises going “slow and steady,” blue iguanas putting in work, and lemurs doing their best “I like to move it” impression. Welcome to OnlyEndangereds—conservation with just […] The post This OnlyFans Account Is Saving Endangered Species With Mating Content appeared first on VICE.
On Christmas Eve 2022, Ying Shen headed out of her Vancouver apartment to spread some holiday cheer by wishing the concierge of her apartment complex a Merry Christmas. Instead, Shen got bit by Juliet, a mini–Australian Shepherd, a dog that lived in the building. The bite left a superficial wound on Shen that caused her […] The post Woman Loses Injury Case After Tribunal Says ‘Every Dog Is Entitled to One Bite’ appeared first on VICE.
It’s been seven years since astronomers were thrilled over the discovery of the TRAPPIST-1 system, a seven-planet solar system orbiting a star 40 light-years away. At first, it looked like it had all the right elements to sustain life. Today, we still don’t know if there’s life over there, but the theory that there could […] The post Potentially Habitable TRAPPIST-1 Planets May Be Covered in Water appeared first on VICE.
Long before fake news and AI slop, cascades of bullshit were falling from the sky in the physical form of printed propaganda leaflets. It’s a tradition with a long history—airborne propaganda was dropped from hot air balloons during the 1870 Franco-Prussian war—but its most eager modern proponents are the U.S. Army’s PSYOP divisions. During the […] The post The Strange Propaganda Art That the U.S. Military Drops From the Sky appeared first on VICE.
Your brain might not want to admit it, but your body could already be waving red flags about your relationship. Hormone expert Mike Kocsis says that when something’s off in a relationship, our internal systems tend to react—long before we consciously make a decision to walk away. If you’re constantly anxious, physically exhausted, or just […] The post How Your Body Might Know a Breakup Is Coming—Before You Do appeared first on VICE.
Fresh off the presses today from Google I/O 2025, akin to Google’s springtime Christmas morning, where they announce all sorts of new products and master plans, comes an AI filmmaking tool called Google Flow. It’s available to use starting today, although you have to have a paid Google AI plan. But you can get a […] The post Google Is About to Unleash an AI Filmmaking Tool for Anyone to Use appeared first on VICE.
Police in France just accidentally recovered a lost gravestone bust of late rock singer Jim Morrison while investigating a completely different crime. In a public statement, French police shared that “after 37 years of absence, the bust of Jim Morrison, stolen in 1988 from the Père Lachaise cemetery, has been found.” Officials explained that “this […] The post Jim Morrison’s Lost Grave Bust Randomly Recovered by French Police appeared first on VICE.
The Red Planet has always fascinated humanity. Today, it’s inextricably linked to the world’s richest man, Elon Musk. The founding mission of Musk’s aerospace company, SpaceX, is to make humans a multiplanetary species, and last April he told employees that he expects 1 million people to be living on Mars in 20 years’ time. As […] The post We Asked an Expert: Are We Really Going to Colonize Mars? appeared first on VICE.
Oftentimes, judgment comes from a place of fear or insecurity. We believe that by harshly judging those around us, we are actually keeping ourselves safe. The same goes for ourselves. Think about it: when you judge yourself based on, say, your appearance, you’re silently telling yourself that your worth comes from superficial things like physical […] The post Are You Super Judgmental? Here’s Why That’s a Bad Thing. appeared first on VICE.
In a very unusual turn, the members of Black Flag are now 75 percent Gen Z now. The iconic hardcore punk band’s founding guitarist and only remaining original member, Greg Ginn, recently announced a whole new lineup, and the members are all significantly younger than him. “Texas-based band Black Flag is officially turning the page […] The post Black Flag Just Unveiled a New Gen Z Lineup appeared first on VICE.
Granted, Apple hasn’t had much time to offer deals on their latest iPad, given that it was only just released on March 12, 2025. This Apple is only juuust ripe. No matter, because you can snag it for $50 off. the cheapest ipad is still a swanky tablet There are faster iPads in Apple’s lineup. […] The post Apple’s Newest iPad Is Back to Its Lowest-Ever Sale Price appeared first on VICE.
Happy Gemini season! We start under a conjunction of Neptune and Ceres on the cusp of Pisces and Aries. How will your sign fare? The post Daily Horoscope: May 21, 2025 appeared first on VICE.
Before I start this review of Blades of Fire, I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out that MercurySteam was also the developer of Metroid Dread. Given the credits issue that popped up shortly after the release of that game, it is my sincere hope that everyone who worked on this game got credited for […] The post ‘Blades of Fire’ Is a Soulslike With a Lot of Potential, but There’s Still Some Work To Do (Review) appeared first on VICE.
I love a nice, cozy adventure as much as the next person. But sometimes, a bit of adventure thrown into the mix never hurt anyone. Gaucho and the Grassland looks like it could be that perfect middle ground, mixing the exploration and musicality of The Legend of Zelda with the tried and true cozy gameplay […] The post ‘Gaucho and the Grassland’ Takes a Dash of ‘The Legend of Zelda’, a Pinch of Cozy Goodness, and Releases July 16 appeared first on VICE.
I will continue to bang the drum for Bluesky being an incredible place to find indie games. Or in the case of Voyagers of Nera, a great place for indie games to find you. One direct message and an email later, I was looking into this beautiful survival crafting game that reminded me of my […] The post Voyagers of Nera-If You Ever Wanted a Playable Moana, Here You Go (Demo Impressions) appeared first on VICE.
Despite launching over a month ago, many The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion Remastered players are still desperately waiting for a patch. While the remake was widely applauded for its incredible production values, the RPG is riddled with performance issues. And no, we aren’t talking about the usual Bethesda bugs that we all secretly love. Fans Are […] The post ‘The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion Remastered’ Released A Month Ago and Players Are Still Waiting for a Patch appeared first on VICE.
Culture moves quickly, and it seems to have accelerated in the past 10 years or so. This is evident in how quickly our language develops pejorative neologisms, new words negatively describing some kind of phenomenon or quirk of human behavior. The latest such term can join the ranks of “manspreading” in the list of words […] The post People Won’t Stop Bare Beating on Public Transport appeared first on VICE.
There’s no reason the digital world can’t be more tactile. Right? I believe so. So much of our work and personal lives is conducted online, in a non-tangible atmosphere of pixels and bytes, that we overlook the hardware that our bodies interface with to make all those glowing bits of text and color dance around […] The post The Corsair K70 Mechanical Keyboard Is More Than 50% Off Right Now appeared first on VICE.
The return of Brand New has been a wildly controversial move for the band, quite specifically due to frontman Jesse Lacey’s alleged history of… as Protest the Hero vocalist Rody Walker puts it… “grooming children.” During a recent show, Walker took a second to address the crime of sexually violating children, saying to the crowd: […] The post Protest the Hero Called Out Brand New’s Jesse Lacey for ‘Grooming Children’ at Recent Show appeared first on VICE.
People used to kill time on the toilet by reading magazines or reading every ingredient listed on a bottle of shampoo. Now, in this brave new world we live in, we have smartphones and tablets and handheld gaming devices that let us text, game, browse, read, and doomscroll, all while we poop. The more things […] The post Toilet Scrolling Is Hurting Your Butt appeared first on VICE.
Another day, another point and click game for me to get into. Well two. Because after seeing some gameplay of Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer, I’m convinced that I need to just go ahead and grab the first one and run through them both. Seeing a game that looks great has a prequel I didn’t know […] The post Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer is Helping Me Continue My Attempts to Fill My Mystery Backlog appeared first on VICE.
Not only is the real Nicolas Cage aware of Nicolas Cage Fighter—the Australian hardcore band that borrowed his name—but he’s also very clearly a fan. During a recent interview with The Guardian, the actor was asked about bands using his name in their monikers, specifically the tribute band Nic-Cage Against The Machine. “I am not […] The post Nic Cage is Actually a Fan of Australian Hardcore Band Nicolas Cage Fighter appeared first on VICE.
Razer isn’t just back to selling laptops in the US after a short, tariff-induced hiatus. It’s back to introducing new laptops. Enter the Blade 14, the latest entry into Razer’s Blade family of gaming laptops. So-named because of its 14″ screen, Razer announced the Blade 14 on May 19, 2025 and put it up for […] The post Razer Just Announced This Sweet New Blade 14 Laptop—And You Can Buy It Now appeared first on VICE.
The New York accent may be iconic, but apparently, it’s also incredibly irritating—at least according to most Americans. A new survey by AI voice platform Podcastle found that nearly 60% of respondents find the New York accent annoying. And in a twist of brutal self-awareness, 45% of New Yorkers agree. It’s the accent behind the […] The post Americans Hate This Accent—Even the Ones Who Have It appeared first on VICE.
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