Code Vein Tips Guide – 19 Things the Game Doesn’t Tell You

Wanna know all our best Code Vein tips? Well, here’s one: this game is just anime Dark Souls. No, seriously, the game makes no bones about almost directly copying that influential series from the ground up. Although Code Vein undeniably has a style and certain charm all its own. There’s a…

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Code Vein Tips Guide

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Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice Is a Meditation on Letting Go of Fan Expectations

You’d be forgiven for thinking we’re in a “meta moment” for games and film right now. The Matrix Resurrections revived Neo and Trinity for an evisceration of the original trilogy, and it’s coming up on two years since Final Fantasy VII Remake’s heroes fought back against audience expectations — literally…

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2019 Was the Year of Arena Combat in Games

Arena fights were everywhere in 2019. I don’t mean “arena shooters.” The style of FPS gameplay popularized by Quake is still alive and well, but I’m talking about a more specific trend. In 2019, video games made you fight for your life while an audience watched, clapped, gasped and applauded.…

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‘The Lost City’ Review: Desperately Seeking D

The Lost City, this week’s new adventure/comedy/romance starring Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum and directed by Aaron and Adam Nee, used to be called The Lost City of D. Paramount elected to remove the sexual innuendo from the title before promoting the film, leaving it with a much more forgettable…

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The Lost City

TV/FILM

Persona 5 review

Time is a cruel thief.

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Gigantic review

As in the game Gigantic, not, er, a particularly long review.

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That Dragon, Cancer Review

A game about searching for grace, even when it's hard to find.

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Lost Judgment Biker Gang Guide – Tips to Defeat All Four Gangs

Lost Judgment is full of surprises, but going undercover in a motorcycle gang probably wasn’t on your bingo card. The Biker Gang is one of the clubs in School Stories, and introduces a racing minigame. Yagami is tasked with beating four different groups from the underground scene in Ijincho, which…

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Teamfight Tactics Best TFT Glacials Team Comp (Patch 9.14) – Glacial Brawlers

Technically, the best way to play Teamfight Tactics is to adjust as things happen. When TFT offers you a couple of Nobles or Wild, generally you should lean into those and utilize them for early game success. However, sometimes I find myself chasing after a certain team comp before the…

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Ashen is Dark Souls for People Who Don’t Like Dark Souls

Fight. Die. Drop your experience points. Run back and pick them up. It’s all the elements that superficially add up to a Souls-like — a game heavily influenced by From Software’s Demon’s Souls and Dark Souls series. Even your light and heavy attacks map to the right shoulder buttons in Ashen, the…

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Ashen Dark Souls

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Signalis Feels Like Screaming Inside a Numbers Station

Look at a screenshot of Signalis and you’ll see the same pixel-heavy art style shared by a lot of games these days. Watch a video, however, and you’ll see something quite different. In motion the game reveals itself as a 3D survival-horror game — something in the vein of early…

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Game of Thrones Season 8, Episode 2 Recap: “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms”

“A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” isn’t the tightest episode of Game of Thrones ever aired. Nor is it the most thrilling, or the saddest, or the most visually accomplished. For a season with six episodes it feels oddly like it’s marking time, running out the clock on the last…

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