Best Game Soundtracks May 2017

As the days get hotter, chill out to some refreshing new game sounds.

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Pretty Nice With the Fork: AEW Fyter Fest Night 2 Recap and Review

Last Week’s Notable Happenings on AEW Dynamite’s Fyter Fest Night 1: In last week’s sorta-rushed but ultimately awesome main event, Darby Allin Coffin Dropped himself into the wooden coffin Ethan Page was sealed inside of after losing the match—causing a lot of people to try to get me to watch…

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Check out these games that take 30 years to play

A soap opera game? A game that's actually a lamp? These designers were challenged to invent games that would last thirty years, and the results are pretty unusual.

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Star Trek: Discovery Season 4 Episode 13 “Coming Home” Review

At its best, Star Trek: Discovery is a thrilling, emotionally-charged space drama that deeply invests in its lead character’s path to becoming a righteous space hero. At its worst, it’s a cloying, self-important product that is mortally afraid of hurting its audience’s feelings. Discovery’s fourth season finale, “Coming Home,” contains…

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Five MMA Comments I Could Go The Rest Of My Life Without Reading Again

The way I see it, being part of the MMA community is pretty much like being part of anything: It can be a lot of fun, but it can also hurt your brain and ruin your day and make you wish you had one of those universal remotes from 2006’s…

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Like Father, Like Son: AEW Dynamite Recap and Review

Last Week’s Notable Happenings on AEW Dynamite: Chris Jericho made it through four grueling matches in concurrent weeks to get his hands on MJF—only to be forced to tap out.  Thunder Rosa and Penelope Ford stole the show in a match with no storyline build—par for the course for AEW’s…

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Why Can’t We Have a Good Vampire Chronicles Adaptation?

Outside of Dracula, no other book has shaped our cultural image of vampires as much as Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire. It explicitly shifted the genre’s focus from a monstrous Otherized invader to the existential dread of immortality, paving the way for other sympathetic, sexy vampires as it went. The…

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FEATURES

The Truth Behind Tomb Raider’s Fake Religions

Crystal Dynamics studied medieval heresies while writing Rise of the Tomb Raider

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Star Kid’s Nightmarish Take on Superheroes Was Ahead of Its Time

The year was 1998. Pokemon Red & Blue’s North American release was right around the corner, Apple was gearing up to unveil the first iMac, Titanic was on its way to becoming the highest grossing film of its time and Green Day and The Offspring ruled the radio waves. Before…

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An Interview With Kevin Ku, One of the Best Independent Wrestlers in the World

When Kevin Ku enters the Zoom call, he’s wearing an American Dragon hoodie. No shock, he and I share the same favorite wrestler. In fact, the first time I had the opportunity to interact with Kevin Ku online was when he volunteered to be a talking head on my “Bryan…

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Is “Hangman” Adam Page the Voice of a Generation? (Part 4: Death of an Heir of Sorrows)

I. Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me Is Gone When FTR rode into Daily’s Place in a custom pickup truck, “Hangman” Adam Page seemed to revel in the arrival of true kindred spirits. A tag team deeply entrenched in the art of pro wrestling (to the extent where they’re quite…

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BLOOD & GUTS: AEW Dynamite Recap and Review

It has been nearly 14 months since the announcement of the first Blood & Guts match between the (then-fracturing) Elite and the (then-dominant) Inner Circle. If you’ve been following Dynamite through the year of pandemic wrestling, you’ve known for a while that match was wisely aborted for the health and…

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