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The trend-setting studio is betting $200 million on Alex Garland’s FromSoftware adaptation, having only seen that kind of box office mojo once with Backrooms
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Initial estimates for Clayface's opening weekend box office are in, and the lower-budget horror film took the top spot with a $24.5 million gross. Its success means Skydance, the company created when Paramount and Warner Bros. merged, has topped the box office for two straight…
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The Sports/Racing category has a number of almost inviolate rules, which are as follows:
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BioWare's canceled Mass Effectgame would have been more than just one "universe."
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Former Overwatch developers Jeff Kaplan and Tim Ford are currently working on a survival game called The Legend of California at their new studio Kintsugiyama. While the game was previously slated for a Steam Early Access release in 2026, a new r/pcgaming Reddit AMA affirmed it…
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Is MAPPA just too busy working on Chainsaw Man and Jujutsu Kaisen, or is this a sign that a second season of Vinland Saga was a commercial flop?
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It's been a while since we've gotten any official updates on A24's Elden Ring movie, but a new report has revealed that the film has a massive budget. Elden Ring is certainly more expensive than any other movie the Backroomsstudio has made before, so it'll be A24's first true…
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Magic items are an important component of the Dungeons & Dragons experience; collecting and using wondrous artifacts is a given in a role-playing game of heroic fantasy. This is why, in D&D, every character class has access to magic items, starting at the very first level.…
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A new trailer for Avengers: Doomsday dropped on Oct. 24. While it's not very long, it shows a surprising amount of new footage rather than rehashing clips we've already seen. In particular, it has some great moments featuring Captain America (all three of them).
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With the imminent release of Grand Theft Auto 6, I decided it was time to revisit what was probably the biggest game of my childhood: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. In 2005, GTA: San Andreas was one of the first four games I bought for the PlayStation 2, alongside Final Fantasy…
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The original side-scrolling Super Mario Bros. is widely considered to be one of the best games of all time, and the list of reasons justifying that assertion is long. The NES game made Nintendo into a household name, and Mario into a media icon as recognizable as Mickey Mouse.…
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We've never had a male Quarian on the team before
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One of the biggest differences between The Far Side and most other comic strips is that The Far Side doesn’t have a recurring cast of characters. Charles Schulz’s Peanuts, for example, had Charlie Brown, Linus, Lucy, Snoopy, and the rest of the gang, while Jim Davis’ Garfield…
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We are 10 minutes into The Abominable Dr. Phibes, and nobody has spoken a word. Robert Fuest’s 1971 horror film is a surreal, kitsch, and intentionally funny murder-museum of a movie. But it's also dreamlike and deeply strange in a way that lingers after you've watched it.
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Psychological thrillers trigger a fight-or-flight response within a controlled environment and entertain us at the same time. Interpersonal relationships become the source of anxiety, as there’s more at stake than someone’s physical safety — their very sanity is on the line. The…
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Buffy’s writers gave Spike some of the show’s sharpest one-liners — who could forget “Out. For. A. Walk. Bitch.”? But his best line comes in the series finale, “Chosen.” It’s the natural culmination of a character pulled between heroism and selfishness for most of his life, and…
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That said, the phenomenal success of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune movies proves that the impossible is always within reach. So far, Villeneuve’s adaptation has captured the sheer scale of the books and also made some meaningful changes to the source material. This version of Paul…
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H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds is a punchline now, and it's Amazon's fault. At time of writing, the newest adaptation of The War of the Worlds is a "screenlife" movie from 2025 that’s a frontrunner for the worst film of the 21st century.
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