The Other Lord of the Rings Composer: An interview with Chance Thomas

Howard Shore's videogame counterpart poured years of intensive study into Tolkien's worlds before he scored The Lord of the Rings Online.

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The Good Omens Miniseries is Definitely a Fanfic I Read in 2006

Just about every Good Omens fan has a story about a copy (or two) that was lent out and never returned as a point of pride. And the book’s struggle to make it to adaptation are nearly as legendary as the book itself, spawning a Gaiman short story (“The Goldfish…

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FEATURES

The zombie apocalypse, 10 years on

This small group of dedicated players have been playing the same abandoned browser game together, almost continuously, for ten whole years. What keeps small communities stuck to dying games like this one?

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WWE Recap: Bad Husbands and Big Boys

Only one day left til The Greatest Wrestling Match Ever, and WWE blows their load on a Very Good Wrestling Match airing on free television. This is a little embarrassing. New Tag Team Troubles Asuka was out first on Monday night, but before we got to see any more dance…

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WRESTLING

7 Things That Happened in WWE the Week of 5/5/2019

1. The Wildcard Rule The biggest story heading into WWE TV this week was the real life tale of really, really bad ratings. Raw has had historically low ones through the past year, but after an exciting WrestleMania, some were expecting things to bounce back. They haven’t. The solution? Having…

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LISTS

Animal Crossing: New Horizons Villager Gift Guide – Best Gifts for Each Villager

If you finally have some disposable income in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, you may be eager to start giving gifts to your friendly neighborhood villagers. But what are the best items to give them? Whether you’re simply trying not to give them something they hate, or trying to maximize your…

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GUIDES

Why Do People Hate it When Tony Khan Makes a Huge Announcement?

They are the seven sweetest words in professional wrestling: “Tony Khan will make a huge announcement.” Every time AEW posts a match graphic about Tony Khan and his huge announcements, Twitter goes buckwild, as if the very soul of professional wrestling is at stake. Tony Khan will be making a huge…

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WRESTLING

How I Gave Shepard His Own Loyalty Mission in Mass Effect 2

The following will contain spoilers for Mass Effect 2. Reader discretion is advised. They may be the star, but Mass Effect 2 isn’t really about protagonist Commander Shepard. The second game in Bioware’s science fiction trilogy centers around a suicide mission, and you, as Shepard, spend most of the game…

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Horizon Forbidden West’s Bold Swagger Comes With Some Stumbles

You can’t change your context — and context is everything. Five years ago, Horizon Zero Dawn launched on PlayStation 4 as something of a surprise. Guerrilla Games hadn’t made a new universe since Killzone launched in 2004, and all of those games had been first-person shooters. It introduced us to Aloy and…

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REVIEWS

Why 2016 is the perfect time for a noir thriller about the Berlin Wall

We chat with the lead designer behind upcoming alternate-history tactics game All Walls Must Fall.

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WWE Recap: Men in Suits (Also, Trunks and Kilts)

In their usual post-WrestleMania celebration, WWE embarked on “spring cleaning” this week, which means letting go a bunch of wrestlers under the guise of budget cuts during a time where they made record profits. Among the cuts, some of the most surprising were Samoa Joe, who literally just called Mania,…

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WRESTLING

Horizon Forbidden West Doesn’t Believe in Gods, it Believes in People

The following will contain spoilers for Horizon Zero Dawn and Horizon Forbidden West. As a gay man born and raised in the Bible Belt, I’ve spent much of my life pushing back against weaponized Evangelicalism. In my teenage years to early adulthood, I was told to listen earnestly to people…

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