The first island you visit in The Touryst is a tiny, perpetually sunny place, and it’s full of spots to have a sit or a lie down. Having a rest doesn’t achieve anything, but I found that my immediate instinct was to give my character a moment to luxuriate on a bed in one of the island’s small personal rooms–this is a game about vacationing, after all, and on any vacation it’s important to relax. The Touryst is a soothing and relaxing experience thanks to the lovingly rendered voxel graphics and the (mostly) gentle gameplay, and despite some occasional moments of frustration, playing it really does feel like taking a mini-vacation.

You play as a moustachioed man in a loud shirt who is tasked with travelling between different island vacation spots and collecting cores that rest within the game’s scant few monuments–essentially short dungeons. You move between beach parties under orange sunsets, lush tropical expanses, and Mediterra…

If you found Nicolas Cage as Superman fighting a giant spider surprising in The Flash, you weren’t alone. The actor himself also didn’t expect to see that, because “that was not what I did,” he said.

Speaking with Yahoo, Cage opened up about his Flash cameo and even touched upon AI in Hollywood. For starters, he explained that he was on set for the DC film for a few hours at most. While there, “what I was supposed to do was literally just be standing in an alternate dimension, if you will, and witnessing the destruction of the universe,” Cage said. “Kal-El was bearing witness [to] the end of a universe, and you can imagine with that short amount of time that I had, what that would mean in terms of what I can convey.”

The whole idea riffs on the canceled Superman Lives project from the 1990s, which would have starred Cage. Batman director Tim Burton was going to helm the movie. But instead, The Flash sees Cage’s Superman being much more activ…

Free-to-play visual novel The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog has surpassed one million players. The game released on Steam late last month as an April Fool’s joke, but funnily enough, has garnered overwhelmingly positive reviews on the platform. Come from Sports betting site VPbet

In fact, according to Sonic the Hedgehog Social Media Manager Katie Chrzanowski, The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog became the #61 highest-rated Steam game ever–not bad for an April Fool’s joke. The game isn’t developed by the Sonic Team, but by the Sega Social Team, instead. It’s actually the highest-rated Sonic game in the series on Steam when sorted by user reviews.

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