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Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who: Stop Going Back, Start Moving Forward
Bob Dylan once argued that the times were a-changing. It seems that sometimes they can a-change right back. If the 2010s were the ...
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Spacelords Breaks the Rules of ‘Games as a Service’
Spacelords (or the game formerly known as Raiders of the Broken Planet) is easily the most uncharacteristic entry in developer Mercury Steam’s output. ...
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Watchmen Received One Great Season — Maybe That’s Enough
It seems highly unlikely that HBO’s Watchmen will produce a second season. To be fair, showrunner Damon Lindelof always made it clear that ...
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Game of Pwned: Game of Thrones’ Trial by Combat Has Real-Life Applications
A Kansas man recently made the news after asking a judge for permission to resolve a custody battle through “trial by combat.” As ...
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Parasite Is an Infectious Class Act
Parasite is a superbly produced and blackly comic social commentary thriller. It is best to see Parasite blind. Not necessarily because the film ...
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Trevorrow’s Duel of the Fates Has a Big Advantage Over Rise of Skywalker: It Will Never Exist
First it was #ReleaseTheJJCut. Now it’s a glimpse at the Colin Trevorrow “Star Wars: Duel of the Fates” script breakdown. It seems safe ...
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How Unreal Championship 2 Solved the Single-Player Hero Shooter Problem
Be it Battleborn, Agents of Mayhem, or even Overwatch’s dalliances with PvE content, the industry’s best studios have struggled with crafting a single-player ...
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Avatar’s Lack of a Cultural Footprint Might Be Its Best Feature
When concept art from the first two Avatar sequels was unveiled last week, the standard response was, “Who cares?” Much has been made ...
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Golden Globes Winner 1917 Is a Triumph of the Cinematic Experience
1917 is a propulsive and pounding cinematic experience — an immersive gaze into the abyss. 1917 picked up both Best Director and Best ...
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Chris Chibnall’s Doctor Who Looks Modern, but Its Storytelling Harks Back to 1963
The most striking thing about Chris Chibnall’s Doctor Who is how old-fashioned it feels, as if trying to recreate the show’s earliest seasons ...
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Dead Space 2’s ‘Severed’ DLC Is the ‘Sequel’ You Probably Never Played
The following contains spoilers for Dead Space 2: Severed and the Dead Space franchise. Shared universes are a major buzz term these days. ...
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The Star Wars Saga Needs to ‘Grow Beyond’ the Skywalkers
It appears that The Rise of Skywalker will not be the end of the “Skywalker Saga” for Star Wars. Despite the heavy emphasis ...
