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Death of the Outsider Breaks Dishonored, for Better or Worse
Death of the Outsider is not the swansong Dishonored calls for. It ties into the greater universe, paying off on a decade-long story ...
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Scarlet Nexus’ Monsters Have Big Silent Hill 2 Energy
The following article contains spoilers for both Silent Hill 2 and Scarlet Nexus. I don’t know whether Silent Hill 2 artist Masahiro Ito ...
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Aliens Didn’t Try to Repeat Alien, It Engaged with It
Aliens was released 35 years ago this month, and it remains one of the best sequels ever made. Alien was a masterpiece of ...
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Rick and Morty Doesn’t Just Escalate Its Gags, It Exponentializes Them
The latest episode of Rick and Morty, “Mortiplicity,” is already being hailed as an instant classic. The second episode of the fifth season ...
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Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus Was a Glimpse of the Future
It’s astonishing how unstoppable the Ratchet & Clank series is. The franchise has translated to virtually every Sony platform from PlayStation 2 to ...
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Max Payne 20 Years Later: Aging Narrative Tropes, Timeless Gameplay, & Life in Slow Motion
Max Payne will celebrate its 20th anniversary next month. Going back to it now, particularly in light of its sequels and legacy, feels ...
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The GreedFall Expansion Is a Chance to Take Colonialism On
The following discussion of GreedFall and its colonialism contains spoilers for the base game ahead of the release of its expansion. With GreedFall’s ...
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Raiders of the Lost Ark Is a Theme Park Ride – and Cinematic Marvel
Raiders of the Lost Ark is 40 years old this June. It is a masterpiece. It was the highest-grossing movie of the year ...
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Loki & the TVA Offer a Complicated Take on Multiverse Theory in the MCU
I was pretty hard on the Time Variance Authority (TVA) in Loki last column, so I think it’s only fair to give them ...
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Knights of the Old Republic Showed the True Power of the Dark Side
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (KOTOR) is one of the most influential RPGs ever made, if not one of the most ...
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The Mass Effect Novel So Hated That BioWare Apologized for It
Lore discrepancies aren’t anything unusual in extended works of fiction. With dozens, if not hundreds, of people working on the biggest properties, it’s ...
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The Fast and Furious Franchise Is About Family, but F9 Lacks Heart
It’s a cliché to describe the Fast and Furious movies as about “family,” but that doesn’t make it inaccurate. As they’ve evolved, the ...