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Cancelations and Escalation: How NJPW Has Responded to the COVID-19 Pandemic So Far

After more than a year with no cases linked to the company, New Japan Pro Wrestling experienced a COVID-19 outbreak in its roster this weekend, with nine wrestlers testing positive for the coronavirus. These cases come while Japan is under a state of emergency because of a nationwide surge in…

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PUBG Mobile 1.4: Release Date, Features, And How to Download

After an entire month of testing on the beta servers, PUBG Mobile 1.4 is finally set to release. This time tomorrow, the game servers won’t be taken down, but after a quick update, you’ll see a swathe of new features, maps, and events kick off the next month or two…

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Dontnod Seemingly Done With Life is Strange

Dontnod, French developers of games like Life is Strange, Tell Me Why, and Remember Me, recently made waves for something they’re not developing: The upcoming Life is Strange: True Colors. Despite making the first two games, Dontnod is conspicuously absent from the third, as the developers of the intercedent Life is Strange: Before the…

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Hitman 3’s Season of Pride Offers Assassins Multiple Paths

As Hitman 3 moves through the seven deadly sins, having last month reveled in Greed, it’s always interesting seeing how the developers at IO Interactive choose to personify the various concepts and make them into both targets and missions. Today, we get a chance to look at the roadmap for Pride…

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Gears of War Developer Coalition Not Announcing Anything Anytime Soon

There was a point where Gears of War was synonymous with Unreal Engine. Then-developer Epic would show off videos of Marcus Fenix interacting with a cube of meat to show off new technologies and breakthroughs with the engine, until ultimately finishing the series and selling it off to Microsoft. It’s no…

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Watching Venom Work in the Kitchen is Stressing Me Out

I don’t really know whether Venom: Let There Be Carnage is supposed to be a comedy or a horror spin on the usual superhero song and dance we as movie watchers have become accustomed to, but it’s leaning heavily into both in its first trailer. The nearly 3-minute video begins with…

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Resident Evil Village Makes Me Appreciate Games With Good Journals

I finished Resident Evil Village (or Resident Evil 8, whatever you prefer) yesterday. I liked it well enough! It was fun to watch unfold, even if it fell apart in the last quarter and never reached the highs of Resident Evil 7: Biohazard for me. It has an exquisite art…

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The Witcher 3’s Modding Community May Be Involved With Its Next-Gen Upgrade

In September, CD Projekt Red announced The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt will be getting a PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S upgrade in 2021. The next-gen package will be called The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Complete Edition, which will include the base game and its additional content along with…

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Unbeatable [White Label] Is the Only Demo I See Myself Replaying Until the Full Release

Out of all the video game demos that are constantly released, a rare few will capture your attention well enough to make you check them out. Even fewer will spark your interest strongly enough to entice you for the full release. But, as incredible as many of the demos I’ve…

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Booker T, the Glass Ceiling, and the Life Lessons of Being a Black Wrestling Fan

I. I became a wrestling fan in the downstairs den of a North Carolina group home. The only other kid staying there at the time was sitting in front of the television set while I was still processing what led me to this group home; the pyro of WCW Monday…

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Colorful and Relaxing Mech Adventure Stonefly Is Out Next Month

Stonefly, the beautiful and tranquil top-down action-adventure from Flight School Studio and MWM Interactive, is coming out on June 1. In Stonefly, you play Annika Stonefly, a brilliant and optimistic but naïve young inventor on a quest to recover a lost family heirloom. One day, a mysterious thief in the…

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