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Opinion

Sekiro Is Not From Software’s Best Ninja Video Game

When a ninja throws an industrial wrecking ball into the oozing carapace of a badly beaten spider the size and girth of an ...
By Anthony John AgnelloApril 9, 2019
News

Microsoft Reportedly Bundling Xbox Live and Game Pass

Online services are the Xbox’s bread and butter. Xbox Live became a staple of Microsoft’s console in the mid 2000s, and the company ...
By Riley ConstantineApril 9, 2019
Art Must Be Ruined

Parents Are the Real Monsters in Stephen King’s Stories

Stephen King called Pet Sematary “the most frightening book I’ve ever written.” The new movie version doesn’t live up to that hype. It’s ...
By Noah BerlatskyApril 9, 2019
Column

The Difficulty of Talking About Soulsborne Games

Two weeks ago, From Software released Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, the latest entry in the awkwardly named Soulsborne genre that includes Demon’s Souls, ...
By Shamus YoungApril 9, 2019
Column

The Reckoners Board Game Lacks the Twists of Brandon Sanderson’s Series

Brandon Sanderson’s bestselling The Reckoners YA series is set in a post-apocalyptic future where people started gaining superpowers and almost universally became villains. ...
By Samantha NelsonApril 8, 2019
News

Captain America: Beard or No Beard?

Avengers: Endgame looms. On April 26, the epic conclusion to the known Marvel Cinematic Universe will hit theaters and all it’s remaining secrets ...
By Riley ConstantineApril 8, 2019
Movies & TV

Stop Me if You’ve Heard This One

The Joker movie promises a radical new take, so why does it already look so familiar?
By Bob ChipmanApril 8, 2019
From the Developer

How to Make a Game with your Spouse and Still Have Fun

“How the hell do you make that work!?” That question, or some variation of it, is most people’s reaction when they find out ...
By Ian BeckmanApril 5, 2019
Pet Sematary
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Pet Sematary

Pet Sematary the book is somewhat notorious as the ‘80s Stephen King novel that even Stephen King thought was too dark to actually ...
By Bob ChipmanApril 5, 2019
Video Games

Super Meat Boy Forever Delayed for Good, Healthy Reasons

Crunch is an epidemic in the video game industry. Ranging from indie titles like At The Gates to major AAA releases like Anthem ...
By Riley ConstantineApril 5, 2019
Column

The Fox and the Batman: How Zorro Shaped a Century of Heroes

Across five weeks in 1919, the pulp magazine All-Story published an adventure novel by Johnston McCulley called The Curse of Capistrano and then ...
By Kenneth LoweApril 5, 2019
Git Over Yurself
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Git Over Yurself

Is there a mode that turns off people complaining about easy modes?
By Bob ChipmanApril 4, 2019

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