Halsey Details Suffering a Miscarriage During a Live Concert

Halsey is opening up on another personal hardship. 

The “Bad at Love” singer (real name Ashley Frangipane) detailed her experience with past miscarriages, sharing she had two within the same year—years before welcoming her son Ender with ex Alev Aydin. 

“I miscarried during a concert,” Halsey recalled on the Aug. 6 episode of the She MD podcast. “I started miscarrying before the show, and I was in a really tough position because it was really early on in my career and there was a lot attached to the show. There was a corporate partner, there was a greater media entity partner, but more important than that to me, there was like a thousand kids who had waited all day long to get into the show and see me.”

The 29-year-old—who is currently dating Victorious alum Avan Jogia—noted that…

In what is arguably a case of really not-great timing, the open beta test for Capcom’s upcoming dinosaur shooter Exoprimal is now underway. The beta test, which is available on Steam, went live last night and is set to run until 5 pm PDT on March 20.

The Exoprimal open beta will support cross-platform play with a range of maps, modes, and missions, and will give players a chance to try out all 10 armor suits that will be in the game at launch. Capcom said the content included in the beta “is but a portion of the full retail content,” and also reminded everyone that this is actually a test, so technical issues are possible.

“This game is still under development, so we cannot guarantee a stable gameplay experience,” the open beta page warns. “We appreciate your understanding regarding this matter.”

Capcom would also very much like it if Exoprimal beta participants filled out a survey about their experience with the game. To encourage participation (because let’s be h…

Blizzard’s reputation has taken a pummelling over the last few years. In 2021, horrifying descriptions of the company’s toxic workplace culture spilled onto the Internet, after a lawsuit was filed by California’s Department of Fair Employment regarding “unlawful harassment, discrimination, and retaliation”. Following the lawsuit, Blizzard made extensive promises about how they were going to address these problems. In an article published in January 2022, former President Mike Ybarra explained the company had established clear internal guidelines as to appropriate conduct, and had made multiple hires to improve culture leadership, human resources, and equality within the company.

Three years on from the initial fallout, you might be wondering how all that is going. Well, if recent statements made by former Overwatch 2 artist Chris Sayers are anything to go by, the answer is ‘extremely badly.’

On Thursday evening, Sayers took social media to describe a shocking run of even…

Since the massive leak of Xbox’s internal roadmap in September 2023, rumors have circulated about the possibility of a forthcoming Xbox handheld from Microsoft. Lately, some of the blame for those rumors belongs to Phil Spencer himself. In an interview during IGN Live, after evading questions about recent studio closures, Spencer indicated Microsoft is doing something related to “different form factors” for Xbox, continuing his months-long streak of being delicately vague on the subject.

“I think we should have a handheld, too,” Spencer said when asked about the rumored Xbox handheld. “The future for us in hardware is pretty awesome. The work that the team is doing around different form factors, different ways to play, I’m incredibly excited about.” Pressed further about whether an Xbox handheld would—purely hypothetically, mind you—be a cloud-based device or running games locally, Spencer said that “I think being able to play games …

I don’t know what I expected when I sat down to rifle through award-winning actor Nicolas Cage’s new Dead by Daylight voice lines today. I’m actually glad I went in without expectations, because nothing could have prepared me for this.

Nicolas Cage fully enters Behaviour Interactive’s asymmetrical multiplayer horror hit later this month, though he’s currently available on the Dead by Daylight public test build on Steam.  Nic plays himself as a survivor, bringing his customary thespian flare and zany antics to the Realms. 

He’s tried to prepare us for this, waxing lyrical about his mystical ability to mind-meld with us unsuspecting gamers like no actor before him, promising he’ll become fused to us, that we’ll become one. Well, welcome to the Nic Cage hivemind.

A video chock-full of Nic Cage goodness, courtesy of Youtube channel Syrekx, is now available. Here are a few of my favourite quotes:

• “I am completely and utterly cow-tit FUCKED.…
  

As AI gradually encroaches into every aspect of our lives, videogames have proven to be no exception. Almost all big publishers are starting to incorporate AI tools into parts of their process, in the hope the technology can automate tasks that would otherwise be labour-intensive. Modders have already started plugging things like ChatGPT into existing games (with very mixed results). And now John Ricitiello, CEO of major engine company Unity and former CEO of EA, reckons it could be used to replace things like Simlish.

“I was involved in launching The Sims in 2000, and it was wonderful game,” said Ricitiello in a new interview with the Washington Post. “And you know how they used Simlish, right? Did you know why? Because there’s so many things you can do in The Sims, it’s like a crazy number of interactions you can have because you’re actually creating characters. Those characters interact with each other. No writer could ever write all the appr…

Hideo Kojima’s games are loved by their devotees for, among other things, the amount of surprises his development teams manage to squeeze into unexpected places. There’s a level of detail to the worlds they create that is unique and, while much of it is ready to be found, certain interactions or possibilities are always buried-away for the most dedicated and experimental of players. Now fans have begun to take widespread notice of a Death Stranding secret that has previously been discovered, but never seems to have made much of an impression before.

The secret is that during the game’s climactic boss battle with Higgs, the comically evil antagonist, players can choose a pacifist route to frustrate the enemy. Do this long enough, blocking Higgs’ blows but refusing to retaliate, and the boss will grab Sam and trigger an animated sequence, one in which Higgs punches Sam repeatedly before pulling him close and biting off a chunk of his ear.

There seem to be two things in the…

I’ll admit I’ve never been a fan of League of Legends. I gave it the old college try after a group of friends convinced me to play about six years ago, but that’s as far as my experience goes. My partner on the other hand is an avid fan. Having spent over a decade playing, with his first ranked season being season two, he’s been trying to get me back in the saddle to no avail—until now. But that’s thanks to its new game mode and my partner convincing me it’s pretty much Vampire Survivors. 

Swarm, the game mode in question, has you facing a constant onslaught of enemies with auto-firing weapons and seeing how long you can survive. As you take down enemies, you’ll earn power-ups which you’ll need for when a boss rears its head to shake things up. If you’ve played any amount of Vampire Survivors, you’ll instantly note the similarities between the two. It’s the exact same formula with a League of Legends reskin. From an outsider’s perspective, Swarm also looks li…

I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of Starfield players gathering or spawning vast numbers of mundane objects and dumping them all in one place, but for now I think I’ve found my favourite. It involves a lot of milk, and not for the first time.

As shown off by Space_Scumbag in the Starfield subreddit, through the magic of console commands it’s possible to spawn far too many milk cartons in space, leave your ship, and then joyfully smash into them, sending them hurtling into the void. It’s truly a sight to behold.

Before the carnage begins, the cartons form a shape that calls to mind a race track, evocative of Mario Kart’s Rainbow Road, but it’s definitely not stable enough for a vehicle, as evidenced by what happens when the cartons are collided with. There’s something undeniably appealing about demolishing neat, orderly rows of objects, and thanks to the lack of gravity, colliding with these cartons sees them dramatically spin off in all directions.&nbsp…

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is out Friday. I started playing it over a week ago, and while it’s undeniably a great game (read my review), it ran like crap on both PCs I tried it on. As Wes remarked earlier this year, we’re living in a new age of bad PC ports. Jedi: Survivor is just the latest of a string of releases that struggle to hit a minimum 60 fps mark and slow to a crawl at an alarming frequency.

Now that other reviews are out, it’s clear I wasn’t alone: several reported generally poor performance on machines that would kick my PC’s butt, including broken cutscene audio and slowdowns into single-digit frames when using the galaxy map or loading into a new level.

As spotted by Tom’s Hardware, German PC publication GameStar recorded some pretty disappointing stats in an 11-minute demonstration of Jedi: Survivor running on a 4090 and a top-shelf CPU: 30-40 fps at 1440p with occasional bumps up to 80-90 fps in enclosed areas. Even worse, the game devours up to 21GB of VR…