Ghost of Tsushima lets you take on the Mongels up close and personal as an honorable samurai, or pick them off one by one as the stealthy, dishonorable ghost. Ghost of Tsushima comes to PS4 on July 17.
Ghost Of Tsushima Gameplay: Exploring The Island
Tshushima is an island full of undiscovered locations, wild animals, and collectable resources. Here’s what it looks like to explore it in the PS4 exclusve Ghost of Tsushima, from Sony’s latest State of Play.
Ghost Of Tsushima Lets You Pet The Fox
A lengthy gameplay demonstration for Ghost of Tsushima gave us all kinds of new details, from exploration and combat to customization options. But there was one tiny detail that took us by surprise: you can pet a fox.
The adorable detail didn’t last long, but it came just as creative director Jason Connell was starting to wrap up his segment on exploration. He mentioned that there are details all over the world to explore, like mountainous paths marked with gates, or foxes showing you a hidden den to explore. Over that segment we saw a brief glimpse of the hero, Jin, scruffing the fuzzy mane of a fox.
There’s no indication elsewhere that you have the fox as a companion, so it seems more likely that it’s just a feral creature that you’ll run into once in a while. And since petting a real wild fox is probably not such a good idea, this is one more fantasy video games can help you live out–along with being a samurai.
14 Streaming Sci-Fi Movies About Evil AI On Netflix, Prime, And More
The fear of technology has long been one of cinema’s most prevalent themes. The idea that mankind’s unstoppable desire to push the limits of technological invention will ultimately be our undoing has led to many sci-fi and horror classics over the years, from the mad scientist of Frankenstein to experiments-gone-wrong of The Invisible Man and The Fly.
As technology in our world has developed, so has the nature of the threat in the sci-fi genre. Artificial Intelligence has become a favorite of filmmakers over the past few decades–machines granted sentience by their creators, which end up turning against their masters. Sometimes the AI is contained within more traditional robots and cyborgs, and sometimes it is a malevolent program that controls other machines and systems. In more recent years, the prevalence of AI in our own homes via virtual assistants such as Alexa and Siri has inspired filmmakers to look at the scary possibilities of this technology.
There are a wide variety of movies featuring sinister artificial intelligence to stream right now, and we’ve gathered together the best examples of scary AI movies. And once you’ve read that, check out our guide to mind-bending cerebral sci-fi movies available on streaming, plus our guides to the best monster, slasher, body horror, alien, animal attack, and horror comedy movies on streaming.
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14. Transcendence (2014)
Streaming: Netflix
The AI in the 2014 thriller Transcendence started life as a human–scientist Will Castor, played by Johnny Depp–but when he is shot, his consciousness is uploaded into a sentient mainframe known as PINN. Soon benevolent ideas about using his incredible technological powers are replaced by far more sinister ones. If you are unnerved by the sight of Johnny Depep’s disembodied face floating around like an evil screensaver, then this is the evil AI movie for you.
13. Wall-E (2008)
Streaming: Disney+
With an eerie red eye that takes visual inspiration from 2001’s HAL 9000, AUTO is an AI autopilot built into the starliner Axiom. AUTO has been given a directive to never return to Earth and mutinies when Wall-E and Captain McCrea attempt to change course. Rather than hire an actor to voice AUTO, the filmmakers used Apple’s text-to speech programme MacInTalk, making his disembodied robotic tones quite unnerving.
12. Her (2013)
Streaming: Netflix
Spike Jonze’s strange, sad Her features Scarlet Johansson as the voice of Samantha, a virtual assistant with the creepy ability to form serious emotional bonds with its users. What starts as a weird but sweet romance between Samantha and lonely writer Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix) becomes something more sinister when the AI starts to dominate his life and colludes with other AIs to break free of human control entirely.
11. Tron (1982)
Streaming: Disney+
Much of Disney’s pioneering sci-fi adventure is set within a computer mainframe controlled by the sinister Master Control Programme (MCP). This increasingly powerful AI craves power, using access to government and business computer systems in order to increase its control. Veteran actor David Warner provides the sinister voice of the MCP, as well as playing the movie’s human villain.
10. WarGames (1983)
Streaming: Starz
WarGames might have been made for a younger audience than the other movies on this list, but that didn’t make the AI at its center any less terrifying. The War Operation Plan Response (WOPR) is a military supercomputer designed to predict the outcome from a nuclear war. It is accidentally triggered by a teenage hacker, played by Matthew Broderick, and attempts to start World War III. The movie combines teen thrills with Cold War paranoia–never has a game of Tic-Tac-Toe been quite so suspenseful.
9. Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
Streaming: Prime Video
Perhaps the most powerful AI on this list, V’Ger is an ancient, immense giant cloud of malevolent energy that gained sentience from human space probe Voyager 6. It roams the galaxy destroying all in its path–until it encounters James T. Kirk, that is.
8. Upgrade (2018)
Streaming: HBO Now
In Upgrade, a paralysed man named Grey Trace is given his mobility back via an implanted chip, which is powered by an AI system known as STEM. It also gives him increased strength and agility, which helps his bloody quest to find his wife’s killers. Of course, being a sinister movie AI, STEM eventually gains full control of Grey’s body.
7. Child’s Play (2019)
Streaming: Netflix
The remake of ’80s horror favorite Child’s Play brought the concept up-to-date by making the evil Chucky a malfunctioning AI instead of a doll possessed by a serial killer. In this new version, Chucky learns to kill by watching horror movies and can use his control of household electrical items to inflict maximum mayhem.
6. Blade Runner (1982)
Streaming: VOD rental
It’s a testament to Rutget Hauer’s brilliant performance as Roy Batty, that Blade Runner’s Replicant leader is as sympathetic as he is terrifying. All Batty and his companions want is to live longer than the few years they have been given, and if it means a few gouged eyes and crushed skulls along the way, who’s to blame them?
5. The Demon Seed (1977)
Streaming: Roku/Tubi
One of the scariest aspects of movie AIs is the idea of putting absolute control of our lives in their hands. This is what happens to poor Julie Christie in Donald Cammell’s ‘70s horror The Demon Seed. Christie plays the wife of a brilliant scientist who has developed an AI system named Proteus, who gains control of their high-tech house and imprisons her there. And if that wasn’t bad enough, Proteus wants a baby. The movie is a scary high-tech nightmare that was panned at the time but is now a sci-fi horror cult favorite.
4. Avengers: Age of Ultron (2014)
Streaming: Disney+
Ultron wasn’t planned with evil purposes in mind. Built from code derived from the Mind Stone, Tony Stark intended it to be a peacekeeping programme, designed to keep Earth safe from all threats, both domestic and alien. But it doesn’t take long for Ultron to figure out that mankind is in fact its own biggest threat, and set about planning its destruction. And unlike many AIs, Ultron isn’t just a static program. He builds himself a robotic body and gathers an army of drones to help execute its plan.
3. Ex-Machina (2014)
Streaming: Netflix
Many movie AIs are simply given human voices, but Ava, the AI in Alex Garland’s Ex-Machina, is given a human appearance too. Played by future Tomb Raider Alicia Vikander, Ava has been developed by tech CEO Nathan Bateman (Oscar Isaac) and is kept in a cell in his underground lab. Inevitably Ava wants to escape, so she convinces lovestruck programmer Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson) to help free her. Like Her’s Samantha, Ava is both highly seductive and absolutely chilling, and knows exactly how to make weak-willed men do her bidding.
2. The Terminator series (1984-2019)
Streaming: Showtime/Netflix
The Terminator series is most memorable for its series of murderous cyborgs–from the original T-800 to the more recent Rev-9. But behind all of these killer robots is Skynet, a neural superintelligence that gains self-awareness and, in one version of the future, leads the machines in an uprising against their human oppressors. Unlike other AIs on this list, Skynet isn’t really something we see or hear, with no human “voice” like many others. But its destructive power is immense.
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1969)
Streaming: Direct TV/VOD rental
The sentient computer HAL, who controls Discovery One in Stanley Kubrick’s classic 2001: A Space Odyssey set the template for scary AIs over the following decades. HAL’s soft and calming voice becomes incredibly menacing as it starts to malfunction, with absolute logic overriding any sense of empathy as it sets about murdering the ship’s crew. HAL singing “Daisy Bell” as surviving crew member Dave Bowman attempts to shut it down remains one of the most memorable and chilling scenes in sci-fi cinema.
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All The Free Games You Can Play On PS4, Xbox One, And PC This Weekend
In recent months, we’ve been seeing far more free games than usual, as publishers and storefronts are continuing to give away freebies to pass the time at home. Just today, the Epic Games Store started offering Grand Theft Auto V for free, and Ubisoft announced its giving away the pair of Assassin’s Creed Discovery Tour games, which are both educational and fun. In addition to the many free games you can snag right now, there are a handful of titles you can try for free this weekend on consoles and PC, including Fallout 76 and Stellaris.
Fresh off of the release of the new Wastelanders update, Fallout 76 is free to try on Xbox One, PS4, and PC through May 17. If you enjoy the trial, you can keep playing after the weekend for less, as Fallout 76 is on sale for $30 on PS4, Xbox One, and PC.
Fallout 76 is one of the three games featured in Xbox’s Free Play Days. It’s joined by Castle Crashers Remastered, a great side-scrolling beat ’em up, and the popular sandbox game Terraria. Both of those games are on sale for $6 during the free weekend.
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Ghost Of Tsushima Features A Black-And-White Mode
Sucker Punch Productions’ PlayStation 4 exclusive, Ghost of Tsushima, is only two months away now. The studio recently showed off 20 minutes of gameplay that featured a bunch of enticing details, including an optional black-and-white overlay that transforms the game into a classic samurai film.
During PlayStation’s Ghost of Tsushima State of Play, Sucker Punch unveiled the Samurai Cinema overlay. The mode–which slathers the game in a windy, black-and-white, film grain texture–can be turned on at the very beginning of the game. It allows you to experience the open-world samurai action in a way that recalls the films of famed director Akira Kurosawa.
Also during the Ghost of Tsushima gameplay demonstration, Sucker Punch showed off a closer look at combat and stealth, customization, open-world exploration, and more. The game also features cute animals like birds and foxes that will guide protagonist Jin Sakai to various in-game destinations–and yes, you can pet the foxes.
TurboGrafx-16 Mini Release Date Finally Set For Next Week
The TurboGrafx-16 Mini has been in a bit of a limbo, floating through the void without a release date. Thankfully, it looks like it’s finally going to launch next week. The Amazon-exclusive TuboGrafx-16 Mini now has a May 22 release date, so if you’ve been waiting for yours to show up or want to purchase one now, it’ll be headed your way soon.
Amazon is selling the TurboGrafx-16 Mini for $100 USD. It comes with the TurboGrafx-16 Mini itself, one controller, an HDMI cable, and a USB cable to power the mini console. Unfortunately, it doesn’t come with a USB adapter to plug it into an outlet–if you need one, we recommend Anker’s dual USB port wall charger.
TurboGrafx-16 Mini
$100
Fortnite: Shanty Town And The Orchard Locations Guide
A new batch of Overtime challenges has arrived in Fortnite. One of the missions asks you to apply shield or healing items in Shanty Town or The Orchard. If you’re not sure where either of those locations are, don’t worry; this guide will show you where to go and how to complete the challenge.
Where Are Shanty Town And The Orchard?
The trickiest part of this challenge is actually finding the areas you need to visit, as neither is explicitly displayed on the game’s map. Fortunately, they’re fairly prominent and shouldn’t be too difficult to track down. The Orchard is located in the northern edge of Frenzy Farm, in grid square F3. Shanty Town, meanwhile, is just north of The Rig, in B6. We’ve marked the exact locations of both areas on the map below.
