Sources: Polygon, Kotaku
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Xbox is watering down Game Pass benefits to cut costs. Starting in November, cloud gaming will receive a major overhaul, and one of the most notable changes is the time limit that will be assigned to each Xbox account depending on its Game Pass subscription tier. Cloud gaming…
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Frankenstein stories usually treat resurrection as a tragedy. A brilliant, mad scientist violates the laws of nature, creates an abomination, and discovers that playing God ultimately dooms the monster (and its creator) to a life of misery. The resulting creature, desperate for…
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Happy weekend! While highly anticipated movies like Coyote vs Acme and Onslaught have hit theaters, there’s plenty to watch from home, whether you’re renting or streaming. Here are some of our favorite picks.
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In Solo Leveling, gifted Hunters fight vicious beasts to protect humanity, but the notoriously weak Sung Jin-woo finds himself trapped in a hopeless survival loop. Whereas the power levels of all Hunters are fixed, Jin-woo is chosen by the enigmatic "System" and is given the…
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Netflix’s animated musical Kpop Demon Hunters was an unexpected sensation, spending a full year in the streaming service’s global top 10 list. The film about a K-pop band whose music secretly empowers a mystical barrier protecting the world from demons racked up more than 500…
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Spider-Man continues to prove that he's the most popular superhero on the planet. With Spider-Man: Brand New Day continuing to break box office records and Amazing Spider-Man #1000marking a major milestone in comics history, it looks like the sky's the limit for the web-slinger.…
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Coined in 2009 by TV producer and comic book writer John Rogers, "competence porn" is a sort of informal subgenre of entertainment that's built around watching characters who are genuinely quite good at their jobs. Rogers' own show Leverage is a primary example thereof, but fans…
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It's been a few years, but the X-Men are back in the spotlight. Thanks to the radical success of X-Men '97 and Marvel Studios' upcoming reboot, the mighty mutants are finding a whole new generation of fans. Naturally, those fans are trying to get into the massive maze of X-Men…
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After nearly a decade in hibernation, StarCraft is (maybe) officially back. In the wake of a new report that Blizzard Entertainment is reviving StarCraft with help from Korean publisher Nexon, there appears to be some actual movement in the real-time strategy sci-fi game series…
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I do not want to know about any of this
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The music video pays tribute to every monster, big and small
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I, too, would love to distance myself from HBO’s shoddy adaptation
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Playground Games talks about the scope and limits of its fantasy RPG simulation
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Kenji Kamiyama shares his hope to create change, even in small ways, during this current era of ‘great separation’
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During a surprise appearance at Final Fantasy 14 Berlin Fan Fest, Final Fantasy 7 Revelation director Naoki Hamaguchi revealed his desire to release the remake trilogy's finale on physical media. With the announcement that the game will be released on April 8, 2027, we know now…
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