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If you’ve been keeping up with all of Marvel’s various TV shows and movies over the last several years, then you might have recognized everybody in the recent Thunderbolts* trailer. The upcoming MCU film brings together a slew of returning B-tier characters from the past, with Florence Pugh’s Yelena Belova in the… Read more… ​ 

Assassins’ Creed began as a game about sneaking up behind people and stabbing them. Decades later it’s much, much more, and the latest game in the franchise, Assassin’s Creed Shadows, appears to be building on its ever more complex open-world RPG architecture with a new base-building minigame that looks straight out… Read more… ​ 

Baldur’s Gate III is a massive game, and a huge amount of its content isn’t plot-critical. This means, moving about the world organically, you’ll likely miss a lot of the best quests! Some are cleverly hidden, others require special stat checks or certain prerequisites to be met before you can reap the rewards, and… Read […]

A small film production company you’ve never heard of called Stellarblade is suing Sony and Shift Up over the use of Stellar Blade in this year’s hit action-adventure. Read more… ​ 

Visions of Mana is a predominantly linear game, but Chapter Seven throws a curveball. With three boss fights against the Benevodons down and only five to go, you can choose to take on the next four elemental demons in any order you like. It’s a vaguely Mega Man style structure, since each boss will unlock […]

One perk of PC gaming is that the big two console manufacturers keep releasing their best games on Steam, so we don’t have to pick between one or the other. A little over a week ago, PlayStation had its own big sale that slashed prices on games like God of War and Marvel’s Spider-Man. Now […]

Of all the games I’ve played this year, Children of the Sun is far and away the most hostile. This trippy shooter follows The Girl, a survivor of The Cult’s abuses, as she takes her revenge on them and The Leader. Yes, those terms are all capitalized properly, Children of the Sun sees fit to […]

Chappell Roan, the Pink Pony Girl that you are. You’re a gay icon who takes no shit, a nerd with an affinity for medieval fantasy like the rest of us, and you’re also calling out how the United States’ political systems have made even some who pretend to be progressive complicit in genocide. They could […]

If you’re on the lookout for a whimsical, polished, bite-sized masterpiece on the Switch, look no further than Bzzzt. It’s an action platformer starring an adorable robot tasked with navigating one mischievous death trap after another. It scratches the same itch as Astro Bot’s most challenging levels, and I’ve been… Read more… ​ 

Hold onto your baseball caps because Eric Taylor, AKA the coach from Friday Night Lights, AKA Kyle Chandler, is going to star as Hal Jordan in a Green Lantern series for HBO, according toHollywood Reporter and Deadline. The in-development show, called “Lanterns,” will apparently have a darker, grittier vibe more akin… Read more… ​