Things Less ‘Family-friendly’ Than a Love, Simon Series on Disney+

On the heels of it touting out a character in Onward as its first example of queer representation in a Pixar film, Disney has decided to pull a sequel series to the 2018 gay teen comedy Love, Simon from Disney+ on the basis that it’s not “family friendly.” Variety reports that the…

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A Love Letter to Breath of the Wild’s Prince Sidon

The Hyrule of Breath of the Wild is a lonely, ruined world, its wide expanses inhabited by just-out-of-reach memories, ghosts, moss-covered ruins, monsters and trepidatious travelers. Settlements are scattered, their residents more focused on rebuilding than forging new connections with strangers. And there is beauty in the solitude this creates.…

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How to Avoid Burnout and Enjoy MMA in the Long Run

I think it’s safe to say that I really love MMA. I train and compete on the grappling side, running off to an MMA gym most evenings after work (and weekend mornings), I follow fighters on social media, and I watch fights and grappling competitions often — but even I…

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Bryce Dallas Howard and Seth Gabel Will Play the Starring Roles in Maquette

Publisher Annapurna Interactive and developer Graceful Decay have announced the upcoming recursive puzzle game Maquette will have a pretty high profile duo voicing its main characters: Hollywood actors and husband and wife Seth Gabel and Bryce Dallas Howard. The two will be voicing a man and a woman who meet…

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Street Fighter 6 is Really Good

I approached Street Fighter 6 this weekend expecting to be disappointed. You can’t really expect to be disappointed, I suppose, but the game had a number of things working against it from the outset. To begin with, when I made an appointment for a secret Capcom game at Summer Game Fest,…

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7 Friendships I Loved in WWE the Week of June 16, 2019

Sometimes when I need to be cheered up, I put on the late 1960s Soviet stop motion children’s short Gena the Crocodile. The story goes like this: Gena the Crocodile, who works at the zoo as the crocodile, realizes he is sorely lacking in the friend department. So, he decides…

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Mechanics of Wrestling 101: Observation

This is Part 3 of an ongoing series! Check out Part 1 on Space and Part 2 on Force. The “why” behind pro wrestling has always been a little murky, though no murkier than the impetus motivating any other professional sport. In your standard Big Four American pro sports, the…

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SOMA’s design team nearly made a ‘wuss mode’ of their own

At the Game Developers Conference today, SOMA design lead Thomas Grip discussed the game's protracted development, its focus on story over gameplay and yes, that he's just fine if players want to turn off the scares.

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Disney is Using its Quarantine Time Wisely By Making and Releasing Frozen Shorts

Disney as a company is in a weird spot right now thanks to the coronavirus pandemic shutting down movie theaters across the world. Not only did it do a lot of damage to Pixar’s Onward in the box office, resulting in the movie’s early push to digital storefronts and the Disney+…

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Is “Hangman” Adam Page the Voice of a Generation? (Part Three: Leaving Your Horse Behind)

This is Part Three of a series! Read Parts One and Two to enrich your mind with cowboy shit. I. With Friends Like You, Who Needs Friends? “Hangman” Adam Page feels alone even in the company of his closest friends. A faraway look flashes across his face for the bulk…

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As ‘The Good Place’ Wraps Up, What Have We Learned?

The Good Place, which wraps up its fourth and final season on Thursday 30th January, graced our screens at the perfect time. First airing on NBC in September 2016, the Michael Schur-created comedy about the afterlife straddled the election of Donald Trump. When protagonist Eleanor (Kristen Bell) realized that the…

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The Wet and Wild History of American Nintendo Cartoons

Video games and animation have had an interesting relationship over the years. In Japan, video games commonly lead to anime series and vice versa, with some of the most popular anime series starting out as visual novels or dating sim games and some of the most popular video games being…

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