The Male Love Interest in Life Is Strange: True Colors Seems Unproblematic, Good for Him

To celebrate the fact that Life is Strange: True Colors is almost here, Deck Nine Games and Square Enix have released its first official gameplay trailer. This substantial and wonderful 13-minute look shows when Alex first arrives at Haven Springs’ local record store, where she meets love interests Steph Gingrich…

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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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The Garden Path Gets Fully Funded, Will Have Switch Port and Local Multiplayer

Earlier this week, the gorgeous slice-of-life simulator The Garden Path successfully concluded its month-long Kickstarter. Not only did it reach over 150% funding from over a thousand backers, but it also met its stretch goals to make its way to the Nintendo Switch and feature local multiplayer. Made by studio…

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NEWS

WWE Recap: Bloody Mediocre Time

In case you’re spending your weekend under a rock, CM Punk was the leading news on Friday night. Personally, I wasn’t a huge fan of The Girl on the Third Floor, so I can’t say I was as psyched as others seemed to be, but I’m glad everyone had fun.…

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How Do You Deal with Learning Your Favorite Fighter has Terrible Opinions?

Content warning for a reference to transphobia. MMA has always been a sport full of colorful characters: that’s part of the appeal. These are seemingly larger-than-life people doing truly herculean feats of physical and mental skill, half naked in a cage for all the world to see. But when those…

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SPORTS

Why Does The NCAA Exist?

Every week in her Good Form column, Natalie Weiner explores the ways in which the sports world’s structural inequalities and injustices illuminate those outside it — and the ways in which they’re inextricably connected. You can read previous columns here. Content warning for a mention of sexual assault. The NCAA…

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Bret Hart Calling It “The Summerslam” Instead of “Summerslam”: A Review

The Summerslam was unquestionably Bret Hart’s PPV. Yes, he has his fair share of WrestleMania and Survivor Series classics, bangers littered around King of the Ring tournaments and In Your House shows where he wasn’t expected to carry a feud against Jerry Lawler that would have sunk anybody even a…

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Halo Infinite Will Not Launch with Campaign Co-Op or Forge

It’s been a long and bumpy road for Halo Infinite over the last 18 months. After finally getting a gameplay reveal in 2020, feedback to the presentation was mixed, prompting developer 343 and publisher Microsoft to delay the game to this fall. Since then, things have been looking up for Master…

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‘The Protégé’ Review: Missing the Mark

Of the recent wave of stylish action films about assassins (this is the third I’ve reviewed this year), The Protégé is the feature with the best pedigree. To begin with, it’s got Martin Campbell at the helm, the director of Goldeneye, Casino Royale, and The Mask of Zorro. It’s also…

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REVIEWS

Saints Row Reboot Teased for Gamescom

Saints Row, a series that began life as Grand Theft Auto with a comedic edge, eventually went off the rails in good and bad ways. By the end of the fourth game, the third-street Saints were an unstoppable superpowered force that could travel through time. There is nowhere that a hypothetical Saints Row…

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Dragon Age: Inquisition’s Best Romance Was its Least Popular

Dorian Pavus is my favorite character in the Dragon Age series. He’s my beau in BioWare’s fantasy world, and I hope he gets to play some kind of role in the next game, even if it looks like the Inquisitor won’t be returning in a protagonist role (to the detriment of the…

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Debunking the Labour Party: AEW Dynamite Recap and Review

Last Week’s Notable Happenings on AEW Dynamite: Christian Cage went to the boss (the real boss, not Our Cool Republican Boss) for a challenge for the debut episode of Rampage: an Impact World Championship match against Kenny Omega—as well as an AEW tag team title match for Jurassic Express this…

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