Cyberpunk 2077 Gets a New Game Director

Cyberpunk 2077 now has a new game director. Going forward, Gabriel Amatangelo, who joined CD Projekt Red in January 2020 as a creative director for the title, will fulfill the role. The news was first reported by GamesIndustry.biz earlier this week on May 27. Amatangelo was previously the design director…

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Chicory: A Colorful Tale Will Bring Color Into Your Life Next Month

Earlier this week, the developers behind the incredibly charming Chicory: A Colorful Tale announced its release date. The much-anticipated creative exploration game that will let you play as a dog who wields a magic brush will be released on June 10. Chicory: A Colorful Tale was first officially unveiled on…

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Upcoming Life Simulator The Garden Path Is One of the Most Beautiful Games I’ve Seen

Developer carrotcake revealed The Garden Path, a slice-of-life sim about the joys of gardening and the comforts of building a safe place with new friends, earlier this week. It’s set to release in 2021 — and it’s one of the most beautiful games I’ve ever looked at. You inhabit the…

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WWE Recap: Is This a Re-Run?

I’m beginning to wonder if the Raw creative team genuinely doesn’t realize that they’ve been showing the same episode since WrestleMania. There’s just no other explanation for booking another Drew McIntyre title shot. At least NXT’s main event was fresh and new, in that it happened last month and then…

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‘Things Seen and Heard’ Review: Is It Feminist to Get Murdered?

Ladies, is it feminist when a woman is brutally murdered? I assumed we were all on the same page, but recent releases have left me wondering. Things Heard and Seen, Netflix’s adaptation of Elizabeth Brundage’s novel All Things Cease to Appear, offers a supposedly feminist spin on the ghost story,…

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Mass Effect Still Matters Because No One Does it Better

Mass Effect is the closest a video game has ever come to feeling like home to me. It’s a universe where I existed as Commander Shepard, a hardened Renegade acting as a leader in humanity’s early years in the galaxy. Across three games, I fostered relationships with friends I viewed…

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51 Years of the Women’s College World Series

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. It took a man named Don “Pappy” Joe to create the Women’s College…

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Ubisoft Wants You to Know Their Banana Republic Game is Not Political

You might take a look at Far Cry 6 and think, wow, Ubisoft is really going for it. It’s speaking to former guerilla rebels to get an actual sense for the lives, motivations, and meanings of guerilla warfare from firsthand accounts. It’s putting out trailers that use heavy imagery of fascism,…

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NJPW Road to Wrestle Grand Slam Review: Does Anybody Want To Stop at 7/11 Before We Start Down the Road to Dominion?

Remember New Japan Pro Wrestling? That company Yuji Nagata that sent to fight Jon Moxley? After coronavirus-induced show cancelations and a few weeks of inactivity, NJPW returned for three consecutive nights at Korakuen Hall with a vacant world title, prominent roster members still recovering from COVID-19 or quarantining due to…

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Far Cry 6 Gets October Release Date After Gameplay Premiere

Ubisoft has finally premiered the first gameplay footage of Far Cry 6 since its announcement almost a full year ago. Which is honestly mindboggling to me now that I think about it, considering the game would already be out if it launched in its originally announced February release window before being…

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A List of Things to do on a Bellator-less, UFC-less weekend

If there’s one thing this past year has taught us it’s that neoliberal capitalism has failed us all and it is now an existential imperative that we reimagine the way we organize as a society. But, perhaps of more relevance to the point of this particular column, it’s taught us…

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Sega Accidentally Reveals the Name of New Sonic Game

Yesterday, Sega teased a new game in the Sonic the Hedgehog series as part of its stream celebrating its 30th anniversary. I’m going to try and describe it to you without making a joke about going fast, but the whole trailer was basically nothing and felt like a pretty anticlimactic reveal.…

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