Month: February 2025

Capcom is no stranger to ultra-expensive promotional merchandise for its games, and in its latest move, the publisher has joined forces with Fender to create a very flashy guitar. The Monster Hunter Rathalos Telecaster arrives next year, and it’s sure to turn some heads.

Retailing on Fender’s website for $2,000, the Monster Hunter Rathalos Telecaster was created to celebrate the franchise’s 20-year anniversary. The guitar was designed to evoke the “magestic presence” of Rathalos, both on the body and on the rosewood fretboard. It also comes with a (faux) tortoiseshell pickguard, even as we all continue to argue about whether dinosaurs were more like reptiles or birds.

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Ghostbusters director Ivan Reitman, known for that film and many others across a decades-long career in filmmaking, has died. He was 75.

Reitman passed away peacefully in his sleep on Saturday, February 12 at his home in Montecito, California, his family confirmed to the Associated Press.

“Our family is grieving the unexpected loss of a husband, father, and grandfather who taught us to always seek the magic in life,” his children Jason Reitman, Catherine Reitman, and Caroline Reitman said. “We take comfort that his work as a filmmaker brought laughter and happiness to countless others around the world. While we mourn privately, we hope those who knew him through his films will remember him always.”

One of Reitman’s first big films was the 1978 college comedy National Lampoon’s Animal House, a project that he produced. He would later direct Bill Murray in Meatballs and Stripes before making arguably his biggest movie ever, 1984’s Ghostbusters. Reitman would go on to have a long and successful career as a producer, earning an Academy Award nomination for Up in the Air.

Reitman also produced Ghostbusters: Afterlife, which was written and directed by his s…

If you’re tired of seeing pictures of apes on Twitter or hearing about game publishers like Ubisoft and Square Enix dabbling in NFTs, you’re in good company. According to a survey of 2,700 game developers from the Game Developer’s Conference, most of the people making games aren’t interested in NFTs or cryptocurrency.

When asked to gauge their interest in using cryptocurrency as a payment tool, 72% of respondents to the GDC survey said that they weren’t. Similarly, 70% of game devs who took the survey said they had no interest in NFTs.

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Fanatical has several video game bundles available at any given moment, but for something a little different, you can check out this new bundle deal on digital manga volumes. Comic books from Japan, these manga compilations from publisher Kodansha encompass a wide range of genres and this deal will fill your library up pretty quickly with some excellent reading material. Come from Sports betting site VPbet

Available in three tiers, you can spend $1 to unlock five digital manga volumes. You’ll get the first volumes of Knights of Sidonia, Pumpkin Scissors, Ghost in the Shell, Vinland Saga, and Basilisk, a deal valued at almost $60. Spend $10 and you’ll unlock the second tier alongside the first one, adding three volumes of Parasyte alongside more Vinland Saga, Knights of Sidonia, Pumpkin Scissors, and Ghost in the Shell collections.

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