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ARC Troopers Were the Original Bad Batch in Star Wars
It’s funny how ideas cycle through franchises over time. Where for many audience members, Star Wars: The Bad Batch is presumably their first ...
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Resident Evil 3’s Brevity Is Its Greatest Strength
Capcom’s always been willing to explore bold revivals of its IP, possibly none more successful than 2019’s Resident Evil 2, a remake so ...
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Devotion Has Survived the Scandals, but Was It Worth the Wait?
I’ve been waiting to play Taiwanese horror game Devotion for two years now. It’s been delisted, relisted, and hounded by China for all ...
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Silent Hill: Homecoming Is an Earnest Silent Hill Successor, for All Its Faults
They say you can never go home again — a very real concern of Silent Hill fans with Double Helix’s Silent Hill: Homecoming. ...
Movies & TV
How Ultimate Marvel Was the Snyderverse of Marvel Storylines
The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) seems like a permanent fixture in modern media. It’s hard to remember the days when Iron Man, Thor, ...
Previews
Fling to the Finish Is the Cooperative Fall Guys Game You’ve Been Waiting For
Controlled chaos is hard to do right, especially in multiplayer. How do you make utterly manic slapstick a delight to play again and ...
Previews
Life of Delta Is a Playable Wall-E with Dinosaurs and More Robots
The old world is dead. Humanity is nothing but a faint memory burned into the sands of a grim post-apocalyptic world rebuilt from ...
Previews
Hidden Deep Could Be the Perfect Fusion of Aliens & Lost Vikings (with Co-Op)
Hidden Deep isn’t the typical sort of game you expect from Daedalic Entertainment. Death lurks around every corner, as do countless mysteries as ...
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God of War Made Me Rethink What I Want in a Game
I like wide-linear adventures with an emphasis on diegetic storytelling, meaty but not overly complex combat, meaningful power progression, and a customizable play ...
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ECHO Is the Best Stealth Game That Somehow No One Played
Often when covering a game on this column, I can paint a clear line to why a project failed to be a huge ...
Books
What Is Star Wars: The High Republic, Why Does It Matter, & Is It for You?
So, you may have heard about Star Wars: The High Republic, the new multimedia push in the Star Wars universe told across novels, comics, ...
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Spider-Man: Web of Shadows Is the Last True Spider-Man Sandbox Game
It’s strange to think it’s been over a decade since Treyarch’s landmark hit Spider-Man 2, a sequel to an already amazing tie-in game ...