{"id":681106,"date":"2026-06-03T03:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T03:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/681106\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T03:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T03:27:10","slug":"the-internet-reacts-to-jack-quaids-talking-god-of-war-cube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/681106\/","title":{"rendered":"The Internet Reacts to Jack Quaid’s Talking God Of War Cube"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have never played a God of War. I have watched other people play large chunks of them, but I have never felt compelled to take on the persona of big axe muscle man stomping around mythology myself. However, I think I may be about to play a God of War for two reasons: one, the protagonist is a beautiful, powerful, magical woman. Two: Phranque, the talking cube.<\/p>\n

\"State\u00a9SonyThere he is! Yes, this is a real character in the new God of War, titled God of War: Laufey. The game follows Faye, Kratos\u2019 wife, who has died and been sent to Everywhen, the afterlife of the gods, which appears to be a big wonderful mishmash of all the mythologies of the world ever tossed into one place. One of those world religions from some time and place seemingly worships a large gelatinous cube named Phranque (pronounced \u201cFrank\u201d), so he\u2019s here (along with his friend, who\u2019s a sword) to help out Faye. He\u2019s not just decoration, either. He bounces around the battlefield and tries to crush things to help in combat.<\/p>\n

Anyway as you might imagine, everyone loves Phranque. For some people, like me, he was the highlight of the trailer:<\/p>\n

Some disturbing individuals want to eat him:<\/p>\n

Some people just want to understand him better:<\/p>\n

This is pretty clearly some sort of Dungeons & Dragons reference to the Gelatinous Cube enemy, which has been a fan favorite for decades now, but I am very much looking forward to examining the godhood of Phranque.<\/p>\n

Some people are acknowledging (rightly) that the cube is very stupid but also they (rightly) love him and feel that more video games should be stupid in this way:<\/p>\n

it’s a cube lol so random you get it right hahaha so quirky so random hahahahahahah omg who would have thought i love that cube he’s actually so human but it’s so random isn’t it a talking cube but i would die for him i love the cube i love the cube i love cube cueb cubebcueb<\/p>\n

\u2014 Jake Steinberg (@jakesteinberg.substack.com)<\/a> 2026-06-02T22:07:35.023Z<\/a><\/p>\n

Some folks are reacting to the news that Frank is voiced by Jack Quaid, who has appeared as Hughie Campbell in The Boys, Brad in Star Trek: Lower Decks, and Superman in My Adventures with Superman. I\u2019m just obsessed with this image of him doing, I kid you not, MOTION CAPTURE, as a giant cube:<\/p>\n

\"God\u00a9Sony <\/p>\n

I have yet to see a single person who is unhappy about Phranque, the most premier little guy I\u2019ve seen this year so far. I\u2019m sure someone will come out of the woodwork to hate on my gooey buddy, but for now I\u2019m fully on board with this massive upgrade to Atreus. Give me a magical lady afterlife adventure with the cube by my side. We can do anything together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I have never played a God of War. I have watched other people play large chunks of them,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[137734,1014,82499,74],"class_list":["post-681106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-god-of-war","tag-sony","tag-state-of-play","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}