Why Persona 3 Portable Coming to Xbox and PC is a Big Deal

One of the biggest surprises of the Xbox and Bethesda Games 2022 Showcase wasn’t just the announcement that the modern Persona games are coming to Xbox consoles and PC, it’s that Persona 3 Portable, specifically, was getting a re-release at all. It will be a retooled version of a PlayStation…

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FEATURES

Death’s Door Has a Promising and Intriguing Opening

In all kinds of fiction, there’s a fascination with death as a bureaucracy. The finality of it all is maybe slightly lessened or made more palatable if we think of the great beyond as pencil-pushers doing their jobs the same way we spend most of our lives. Death’s Door, an…

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REVIEWS

Eleven Years Ago Today, John Cena Announced the Death of Osama bin Laden

May 1, 2011 was a day like any other in WWE history, a pay-per-view in Tampa Bay, Florida whose content, unless you’re a true weirdo, I can’t imagine you’d remember. Highlights from Extreme Rules 2011 include Randy Orton defeating CM Punk in a Last Man Standing Match, Jack Swagger and…

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WRESTLING

10 Games That Should’ve Won the Grammy for Best Video Game Score

The Grammy Awards, which annually recognizes the year’s best in music, has finally added a dedicated category for Best Video Game Score. This comes just after 8-Bit Big Band won an award for Best Arrangement with their version of “Meta Knight’s Revenge” from Kirby Super Star. The award is a…

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10 Games That Should've Won the Grammy for Best Video Game Score

FEATURES

The Vainguard, a Destiny Fashion Column: Xur’s Exotics Edition

Welcome back to The Vainguard, a column where you dress up your Destiny 2 characters in fun outfits because you can only kill the Undying Mind so many times before you need a break. This week, I asked you to put together looks using one of the Exotics Xur had…

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WandaVision Episode 9 “The Series Finale” Review

Enjoying serialized television requires patience. Since the story is ongoing, you have to give the storytellers the benefit of the doubt that whatever dangling thread or dodgy narrative choice that’s bothering you is doing so on purpose, that you may see it resolved in a satisfying way by the end.…

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REVIEWS

Sigh, I’m Gonna Kiss the Boring Boy Scout in Life is Strange: True Colors

My luck with love interests in the Life is Strange series has been uh, nonexistent, I guess we’ll call it. Not because I’ve gotten through Dontnod and Deck Nine’s teen dramas without letting my versions of its various protagonists have some love in their lives, but because the relationships I’ve…

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How Video Game-related Fan Signs Took Over Wrestling Nerd Culture

There’s been a recent renaissance in the world of expressive wrestling fans in the past few months. Instead of hand-made signs focusing on a favorite wrestler or proclaiming that a local friend sucks, everyone seems to be bringing signs about their opinions on video games and crowd shots suddenly resemble…

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WRESTLING

Paper Mario The Origami King – Where to Find the Shangri-Spa Snifits

Shangri-Spa is one of the major locations you will visit in Paper Mario: The Origami King. This floating paradise is filled with angelic Toads looking to relax after a hard day’s work of running the Mushroom Kingdom. However, after Bowser’s Fortress crashed into this massive spa, the Toads have put…

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GUIDES

God of War is the Next PlayStation Exclusive to Come to PC

God of War (2018) is coming to PC, and it’s coming fairly soon. Sony announced Kratos’ Norse reboot/learning how to be a good dad simulator will leave its PlayStation 4 exclusivity and head to Steam and Epic Game Store on January 14, where it will run you $49.99. According to…

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NEWS

Disco Elysium Is a Brain Genius Simulator with Divorced Dad Energy

Disco Elysium is not at all what I expected. The so-called “detective RPG” stars an amnesiac cop in a bizarre, post-communist world that is not our own. It owes as much to Planescape: Torment as The Continental Op. It’s hard to describe, and even harder to talk about without getting…

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