Confronting the Possibility of a Disney Live-Action Dragon Ball Movie

Remember that part in Dragon Ball: Evolution when Justin Chatwin’s Goku Dukes-of-Hazzard-slid across the roof of a car using his absurdly strong hair? This moment is only one among the many poor decisions made in the making of the critical and commercial failure that was the live-action Western Dragon Ball film.…

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Why Persona 3 Portable Coming to Xbox and PC is a Big Deal

One of the biggest surprises of the Xbox and Bethesda Games 2022 Showcase wasn’t just the announcement that the modern Persona games are coming to Xbox consoles and PC, it’s that Persona 3 Portable, specifically, was getting a re-release at all. It will be a retooled version of a PlayStation…

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Eating Grief in Channel Zero’s No-End House

In No-End House, the second season of Nick Antosca’s horror anthology series Channel Zero, memories feed on each other. Visitors to the titular house are preyed upon by parasites in the likenesses of their lost loved ones, idealized selves, and other, more mysterious incarnations of their inner lives. These “cannibals,”…

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How Video Game-related Fan Signs Took Over Wrestling Nerd Culture

There’s been a recent renaissance in the world of expressive wrestling fans in the past few months. Instead of hand-made signs focusing on a favorite wrestler or proclaiming that a local friend sucks, everyone seems to be bringing signs about their opinions on video games and crowd shots suddenly resemble…

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Disco Elysium Is a Brain Genius Simulator with Divorced Dad Energy

Disco Elysium is not at all what I expected. The so-called “detective RPG” stars an amnesiac cop in a bizarre, post-communist world that is not our own. It owes as much to Planescape: Torment as The Continental Op. It’s hard to describe, and even harder to talk about without getting…

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The Vainguard, a Destiny Fashion Column: Xur’s Exotics Edition

Welcome back to The Vainguard, a column where you dress up your Destiny 2 characters in fun outfits because you can only kill the Undying Mind so many times before you need a break. This week, I asked you to put together looks using one of the Exotics Xur had…

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10 Games That Should’ve Won the Grammy for Best Video Game Score

The Grammy Awards, which annually recognizes the year’s best in music, has finally added a dedicated category for Best Video Game Score. This comes just after 8-Bit Big Band won an award for Best Arrangement with their version of “Meta Knight’s Revenge” from Kirby Super Star. The award is a…

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WandaVision Episode 9 “The Series Finale” Review

Enjoying serialized television requires patience. Since the story is ongoing, you have to give the storytellers the benefit of the doubt that whatever dangling thread or dodgy narrative choice that’s bothering you is doing so on purpose, that you may see it resolved in a satisfying way by the end.…

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Sigh, I’m Gonna Kiss the Boring Boy Scout in Life is Strange: True Colors

My luck with love interests in the Life is Strange series has been uh, nonexistent, I guess we’ll call it. Not because I’ve gotten through Dontnod and Deck Nine’s teen dramas without letting my versions of its various protagonists have some love in their lives, but because the relationships I’ve…

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Paper Mario The Origami King – Where to Find the Shangri-Spa Snifits

Shangri-Spa is one of the major locations you will visit in Paper Mario: The Origami King. This floating paradise is filled with angelic Toads looking to relax after a hard day’s work of running the Mushroom Kingdom. However, after Bowser’s Fortress crashed into this massive spa, the Toads have put…

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Deep Rock Galactic Tips – 7 Things the Game Doesn’t Tell You

Deep Rock Galactic is a game with an easy goal to grasp — mine minerals and don’t die. That said, accomplishing that goal can be a little tricky, since the game doesn’t signpost certain abilities and mechanics as well as it could. That’s understandable, since as of this writing it’s still…

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