Alpha, Beta, Cuck: AEW Dynamite Recap

After the insane highlights of AEW’s Winter is Coming special, it’s appropriate and justifiable that last week served as a cooldown episode. Some narratives were built upon in fascinating ways — like Sting blowing off Cody’s overtures and praise to shout out Darby Allin, the Inner Circle agreeing to coexist…

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After Yang Uses Robots to Explore the Expectations of Being Asian

After Yang is a quiet and often beautiful film, set in a future where people and technology seem a little more attuned to nature rather than the climate-ravaged dystopia we are plainly headed towards. But one of its early touches is surprisingly showy, a delightful competition held in living rooms…

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After Yang

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Here’s the Lore: Destiny 2 – Mara Sov & The Coming Darkness

Destiny lore is a deep, dark world with branching pathways and incredible stories. For the majority of the franchise, the lore has been left to books and Grimoire cards — out-of-game snippets of story you need to read online. But with the advent of Destiny 2: Forsaken, the story being told…

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Professional Wrestling Is Already Cinema, Losers

WrestleMania 36, the collective fever dream of a world hungry for live entertainment and yet somehow sick to death of the WWE’s signature brand of live entertainment, took place last week, forever altering many fans’ perception of what wrestling is—what wrestling is capable of being—through its presentation of the Undertaker/AJ…

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Miro’s Redemption Was One of 2021’s Best Stories

Of all the ex-WWE talents reviving their careers in AEW, none had a more dominant 2021 than Miro. Now one of the promotion’s top stars, the wrestler formerly known as Rusev broke free from WWE’s creative restraints and reinvented himself as a terrifying behemoth hell-bent on wanton destruction. As the…

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AEW Miro TNT Championship

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The Real Cop Influencers of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare

Most of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare’s “operators” are wholly fictional characters created for multiplayer and Warzone battle royale. A few are drawn from the game’s narrative campaign. A handful, though, are modeled closely on real life figures. I wanted to know more about the people these characters were based…

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Mechanics of Wrestling 101: Space

Viewers of professional wrestling have to accept two counterposed realities at the exact same time: No, this isn’t really happening and Yes, this is really happening. These realities aren’t as irreconcilable as they first appear to be, woven together as they are by a (mostly) consistent internal logic. As long…

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NJPW Road to the New Beginning 1/17-19 Review: Main Event Wato

After ending the wrestling year with two nights at the Tokyo Dome and kicking it off at New Year Dash!!, January 17-19 saw New Japan Pro Wrestling start down the Road to the New Beginning. Building to events on January 30 in Nagoya and February 10-11 in Hiroshima, these three…

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To This Day, Coheed and Cambria’s Sci-Fi Prog Rock Embodies Mass Effect to Me

Progressive Rock band Coheed and Cambria’s tenth studio album, Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking Mind, is out — and it’s excellent. It’s refreshing to hear a band be around this long and still constantly evolve its sound and structures. The record not only leans hard into the band’s…

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Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds puts teamwork above competition

A chicken dinner tastes better with friends.

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Elder Scrolls: Legends preview impressions

This online CCG adds MOBA-style 'lanes' to the play area.

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Berserk Will Resume Publishing, Supervised By Holyland Creator

It was a shock when Berserk creator Kentarou Miura died last year.  The mangaka passed away at the age of 54 due to acute aortic dissection. Miura had written and drawn Berserk since 1989, meaning he had weaved the tale of Guts, Casca, Griffith, and the rest for a long…

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Berserk 2022 Continuation

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