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Anime and manga fans know better than to judge a series by its title, whether it’s one of those overly-literal mouthfuls like the fake-dating manga I Married My Best Friend Just to Shut My Parents...

What makes a vampire scary? Is it that they’re immortal? Is it that they can shapeshift, physically overpower you, and drain your blood with their teeth? Is it that their undead nature might be tied t...

I was in a bit of a downer mood this past weekend. Maybe you know the feeling, since there’s a lot of it going around lately — listless, bored, and a little snippy. Lacking any better ideas, I booted...

Xavier Coelho-Kostolny wants you to know that he sculpted the nipples on Spider-man.

Izuku Midoriya is a classically “good” protagonist. The main character of My Hero Academia is characterized by an earnest desire to help as many people as possible and an unshakeable ambition t...

I’ve been writing a fair bit about how I’m on a Pokemon kick, and that includes going back to play some old games I never finished. First up is Pokemon Ultra Moon, which I’m now playing...

Can I interest you in trying to capture control points while a guy with a 20 point power advantage on you really tries to give it to you, but good? If so, load up Iron Banner, which is back in

As my old bones march inexorably towards the age of 30, and therefore the grave, I wind up increasingly drawn to games I can play at my own pace. That’s not easy. The games I play for work are mostly...

Life is Strange 2 does a pretty good job through most of its five episodes of not crossing the path of Sean and Daniel Diaz with that of Life is Strange stars Max Caulfield and Chloe Pri...

Happy Dawning, Guardians, and welcome back to The Vainguard, a Destiny fashion column. It’s a new season and a new event, and I can already see the styles changing in the Tower. People are actually we...

Guardians who logged on to Destiny 2 today after the weekly reset were treated to something unexpected — a brief cutscene featuring Osiris and the Warmind Rasputin. In it, Osiris en...

The hype has been building for Animal Crossing: New Horizons for weeks. What started as a slow-moving train has transformed into a hypers...

To say Warcraft 3: Reforged is “a bit of a disappointment” would be a massive understatement. It’s buggy, under-delivers on promises, and forces custom game creators to abandon their intellec...

The makers of giant robot anime rarely, if ever, set out to make something believable — hell, that tends to be the exact opposite of their goal. From Gunbuster compressing the planet Jupiter in...

So far, the track record for YouTube’s dark media scene in the mainstream is a bit like Tiny Tim (the Dickens one): short and unfortunate. Unsurprisingly, it’s not really the original creators’ fault;...

Of all of the weapon types in Destiny, the least practical has historically been swords. In a game about ranged combat, using a sword is literally bringing a knife to a gunfight. Sure, t...

For a game that swears up and down that nobody in its universe is queer, how is it that every time I hang out with one of my male friends in Persona 5 Royal things just seem…gay?

Ever since the Festival of the Lost started in Destiny 2 a few weeks back, players have been blocked from completing one particular triumph. That’s because the item required to unlo...

Final Fantasy VII Remake is not a self-insert RPG, but that didn’t stop me from finding some of its very heteronormative scenarios and dialogue off-putting.

Welcome back to The Vainguard, a column described by Commander Zavala as “a gross misuse of resources” and “published weekly.” This week I had no theme in mind — I just asked you to show me your favo...