NJPW G1 Climax 30 Nights 1-2 Review: The Most G1derful Time of the Year

G1 Climax 30, New Japan Pro Wrestling‘s sixth out of seven tournaments so far this year, begins with two nights in Osaka. These September 19-20 G1 shows don’t totally avoid the worst things about wrestling in 2020, but they deliver, soundtracked by organic crowd noise, some of New Japan’s most…

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Highlights from the 2022 Virtual Sundance Film Festival

On January 5th, just two weeks before opening day, the leadership of the 2022 Sundance Film Festival announced that they would cancel all of their in-person events and hold all of their premieres and screenings virtually for the second year in a row. This is unquestionably a wise safety measure,…

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REVIEWS

A Brief History of Creeps In Professional Wrestling

[Content Warning on this piece for discussion of sexual violence and trauma.] Over the last two weeks, wrestling has been confronted with a problem that, frankly, too many people within and without the industry have known was coming for some time. When #MeToo began spreading at a pace faster than…

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Fear of a Yellow Planet: Why We Need to Actually Understand Cyberpunk

This December, two things are bound to happen. First, CDPR will release Cyberpunk 2077 to its rabid fanbase of gamers amid concerns about labor practices at the notoriously crunchy studio. Second, we’ll see a lot of talk about race in the game, which, by virtue of its name, has become conflated with the…

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FEATURES

The Planet’s Champion: A Look Back at the “New” Daniel Bryan

Undefeated in singles competition since arriving at AEW in September, Bryan Danielson has reaffirmed his standing as his generation’s most gifted in-ring performer by putting on a series of engrossing clinics. Though presented as a babyface from the moment he debuted, the “American Dragon” had been exhibiting a slightly menacing…

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On WWE’s Best and Worst Character: Vince McMahon

Earlier this week, “Vince McMahon” trended on Twitter. Before I found out why, I felt a weird mix of excitement and anxiety. Was the whole of the wrestling world changing? Was he he stepping down? Sick? Involved, beyond the obvious way in which he’s involved, in some Trump-related scandal? No…

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The Royal Rumble Is Wrestling’s Greatest Gimmick Match

Tonight is the Royal Rumble, the one night in 365 where, regardless of how good or bad WWE’s endless narrative grind is, everything feels fresh, new, and full of possibility. I would charitably call myself a lapsed viewer of WWE television, but the Rumble—the match itself, that is—always brings me…

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Teamfight Tactics Classes Patch 9.17 Tier List – All TFT Classes Ranked, Champion Priority

We all know who the best of the best Champions are in Teamfight Tactics, Riot’s auto chess title, but we also know that in most cases, one unit isn’t going to win the match. Team composition is important, and units get buffs depending on their Class and Origin, and how many…

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GUIDES

Dark Souls III PvP guide: builds for besting all comers

Want to get really, really good at Dark Souls III PvP? Here are three sample builds and boatloads of detail to get you kicking embered behind.

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ICYMI: Every New Game Announced During Today’s PlayStation 5 Reveal

Well folks, we made it. The PlayStation 5 was officially unveiled today during a two-hour livestream event, wherein we all learned that its design is a lot more, uh, interesting than many of us (read: me) anticipated, and that Sony is still leaning heavily on the whole “console exclusive” thing…

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NEWS

The Demon Juice of Orange Cassidy: AEW Dynamite Recap (7/29/20)

Last week, Eddie Kingston challenged Cody Rhodes for the TNT Championship, and that’s pretty much the best thing that’s happened in American wrestling this summer. You can read Martin’s recap from last week, listen to LB and Danielle talk about it on the Fanfyte podcast, and take a brief detour…

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CM Punk Is Back. I Am Happy.

I know it has to have happened at some point in the history of wrestling, but I am drawing a blank: There has never been an event like CM Punk’s AEW debut, his return to professional wrestling after over seven years of retirement. It’s weird: Everything and nothing was working…

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