Could Resident Evil’s t-Virus Really Exist?

Zombies are freaky. It doesn’t matter where they come from, decaying humans that mindlessly cannibalize flesh will always be just plain upsetting. And there’s seemingly no end to the sources of the living dead in media — we’ve had toxic waste, necromancers, evil skin-grafts (thanks Cronenberg), invisible zombie-creating portals, and…

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Imbroglio review

This tiny roguelike has enormous depth.

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Fallout 76 PVP Guide – Pacifist Mode and How to Deal With Griefing

Vault-Tec has charged the inhabitants of Fallout 76 with re-colonizing West Virginia. That’s not the easiest task, considering the state of things. Towns are littered with the remains of those who didn’t make it to a Vault or the few who ventured out prior to Reclamation Day. Super Mutants have…

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GUIDES

Nicolas Cage in a Post-Ironic Universe: On a Decade of Cagesploitation

Nicolas Cage is an actor forever associated in the popular imagination with his most outrageous scenes. In 2016’s Dog Eat Dog, for example, Cage sprays ketchup and mustard bottles on a shirtless Willem Dafoe. In 2018’s Between Worlds, his character reads from the book “Memories by Nicolas Cage” while he…

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The Fancies 2021: Natalie Flores’ Game of the Year List

2021 has often been pretty terrible, but at least it’s been a fantastic year for video games. I genuinely mean that. Video games are in some way tied to every source of happiness I’ve had throughout the last 12 months. That they’ve had such a spectacular year, offering plenty of…

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Kill Your Backlogs

We’re nearing the end of the year, which in video games world means one thing — Game of the Year discussions, awards, and events. I always tell myself it’s going to be different, but every year plays out the same. All through winter, spring, and summer I find myself adding…

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Noct Preview

Whatever it is, it's probably going to eat you.

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Warframe: Heart of Deimos Takes Stumbling Steps in the Right Directions

Heart of Deimos is the latest in a string of open-world “expansions” for Warframe, the free-to-play shooter. It adds a lot of content (all of it free) to an already bulging base. And there is much bulging in Heart of Deimos… Plus shrieking, pulsing, oozing, and dripping. This update is…

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Revenant Is Apex Legends’s Newest Hot Revenge Robot Man

Apex Legends is always introducing spicy new characters into its fray of edgy life and exciting death. Now, Revenant, the newest legend, turns up the heat pretty high. Maybe literally. But at the very least figuratively. Revenant is yet another robot, joining fellow bot Pathfinder in the fray. Difference is,…

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NEWS

Professional Wrestling Does Not Deserve You

“There shouldn’t be any wrestling right now.” Outside of an acknowledgement of the NBA suspending its (now concluded) season and the WWE moving an episode of SmackDown from Detroit to the WWE Performance Center, this is the first sentence I wrote about professional wrestling in what we’re probably going to…

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WRESTLING

Kiki’s Delivery Service is More Relevant Than Ever 30 Years Later

Millennials — maligned murderers of motorcycles and other industries — are will-o’-wisps of productivity, burning with dazzling flames and then abruptly fizzling out. Burnout is not unique to millennials, but overwork and burnout are disproportionately afflicting the younger generations in an economy that has become increasingly defined by hustle. Stereotypes already…

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Banner Saga 3 review

Memento mori.

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