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How Dark Souls III designs around our expectations

Dark Souls III switched focus from sprawling, tangled maps to a more linear world full of vicious face-offs.

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The Last of You

The following contains spoilers for The Last of Us Part II. I’ve thought about the final scene of The Last of Us Part II daily since I finished the game over six months ago. In it, we see main character Ellie reflecting on her final conversation with her father figure Joel,…

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Strangling my dinner with my own two hands

Survival game power fantasies are weird as heck!

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Mass Effect Developer Reveals Overwhelming Majority of Players Were Paragon

John Ebenger, an ex-Cinematic Designer on the Mass Effect trilogy, revealed earlier this week that a vastly overwhelming amount of people played as a Paragon Shepard. Although he didn’t provide an exact number, he said on Twitter it’s “something like 92%,” and lamented the statistic since the team put in…

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NEWS

Titanfall 2 and the Trope of the ‘Good Robot’

Titanfall's robot buddy draws on long history of friendly robots in science fiction.

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A Death of Nightmares – Destiny 2 Bone Collector & Deathbringer Exotic Guide

A Death of Nightmares is a new Destiny 2 Exotic quest that rewards the Deathbringer rocket launcher. It’s a fairly straightforward mission, too! However, it forces you to play through the entire new Shadowkeep campaign. That means it might take a little while (and a little grinding) to complete. It culminates…

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GUIDES

5 games you missed in August

Don't sleep on these hidden gems.

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Wednesday Night War Week Eight: Non-stop Bangers

Y’all ever stop to think about how good professional wrestling is? I mean, sure it’s a terrible cesspool of weird boomer energy, a medium of entertainment that thrives on manufacturing and disavowing controversy on a minute-to-minute basis, but beyond the crushing despair of constant exposure to the flaws of humanity…

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WRESTLING

With “Memento Mori,” Strange New Worlds Goes USS-571

Strange New Worlds is easily the most approachable new Star Trek series of its generation, so far requiring no previous experience with the franchise or even a linear viewing order. So, it’s funny that the most natural way for me to discuss the show has been in comparison to other…

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TV/FILM

A Star Trek: Discovery Primer to Get You Ready for Season 3

The Star Trek franchise is currently in the throes of an aggressive expansion, with plans to juggle as many as six ongoing series at a time to keep fans subscribed to CBS All Access all year round. And while the new Star Trek: Picard has attracted a lot of attention,…

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FEATURES

‘Carmilla’ Review: Love and Terror

Emily Harris’s Carmilla proceeds unmistakably from the blueprint of Sheridan le Fanu’s 1871 gothic novel of the same name, but where Le Fanu’s story trades heavily in mystery and action, Harris’s reinterpretation delves deeply into the emotional and sensual context of the Bauer home before and after Carmilla’s arrival. On…

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TV/FILM

It’s time to remember a hidden gem of a mafia game: Godfather II

On the eve of Mafia III, it's a good time to recall this diamond in the rough. Yes, seriously. It was great.

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