Like a lot of Genshin Impact players, I’m hungry for new stuff to do. Genshin Impact update 1.5 looks incredible but it’s still a week away, and that only makes the wait harder. So like a starving castaway daydreaming about food, I’ve frequently caught myself imagining what new, harder end-game …
Read More »Resident Evil 4 retrospective: Why Capcoms 2005 action masterpiece is still without peer
More than ten years later, it still hasn’t been topped: Resident Evil 4’s opening remains the yardstick by which all others must be measured. No doubt some will make a compelling argument for The Last Of Us, though repeat plays reveal how Naughty Dog ensures the player’s arms and legs …
Read More »Shadow and Bone: How Netflix is building a fantasy series that wants to welcome everyone
“When I wrote Shadow and Bone, I was really echoing a lot of the fantasy series that I grew up on,” author Leigh Bardugo recalls. “And those series were largely straight and largely white.” We’re here to discuss Netflix’s adaptation of Shadow and Bone, a fantasy series with a difference …
Read More »The Reborns rebound for The Resistance round two, Uprising
The world is in upheaval. The powers that be have failed us, and young people are rising up all across the world to combat them. If that sounds like a report from the real world, that’s because, well, it is. But it’s also what’s going on in the pages of …
Read More »The Marvel’s Avengers next-gen update impresses, but is it enough for the game to finally succeed?
The Marvel’s Avengers next-gen update has offered a shot of redemption for the scrappy superhero fighter. After a rough launch – from the negative reaction to Spider-Man being a PlayStation exclusive character to the swift dip in active players – the chance to showcase the game at its technical peak …
Read More »Best Shots review: The adventurous spirit of Flash #768 is infectious
Wally West is done being the Flash. Tired with the catastrophic life of the Speedster, Wally enlists Barry Allen’s help to cut him off from the speed force and return him to civilian life. In the attempt, Wally finds himself inhabiting the body of a prehistoric speedster while Barry, Green …
Read More »Zack Snyders Justice League redeems some of the DCEUs biggest controversies
The DCEU has had its fair share of controversy since launching in 2013. And while there’s been dozens of canceled movies and a fair few critical duds, the most controversial release has no doubt been the theatrical cut of Justice League. After taking over from Zack Snyder throughout the reshoots, …
Read More »Have you tried… playing the best mixtape of 8-Bit action platformers in Cyber Shadow?
If you’re old enough to have been there, or young and full of investigative vigor, screenshots of Cyber Shadow will give you pause, am I looking at a game released in 2021, or am I looking at the hottest rental from Blockbuster in 1991? Developer Mechanical Head Studios have pulled …
Read More »The Lord of the Rings: Gollum does the impossible and makes me excited to play as Gollum in a video game
When I first see Tolkien’s famous fictional character in Daedalic Entertainment’s The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, he’s running through a dark tunnel covered in tangled webs. Spiders are hot at his heels, and the unsettling scuttle of the arachnids echoes out as Gollum just barely escapes. Now, our protagonist …
Read More »Razer speakers guide: desk-bound audio never looked so good
Razer speakers prove that the gaming tech behemoth isn’t just about best-in-class Razer headsets; it excels in audio elsewhere, too. In fact, it’s not a stretch to say that the results are among the best computer speakers you can get, period. Now, while there’s not a huge range to choose …
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