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Ok, everyone. Gather ’round. It’s time for some Real Talk™. Knack is a bad video game. It is the very definition of a two-and-a-half-star game (opens in new tab). Like its protagonist, Knack has no heart and it falls apart completely under any kind of close scrutiny. It’s difficult, but …

As the first non-Episode Star Wars movie, Rogue One (opens in new tab) has a lot of live up to, but if the first trailer (opens in new tab) is anything to go by, it’s off to a great start. We know relatively little about the spin-off movie (even compared …

It’s been years, but I still remember those watermelons like it was yesterday. Maybe you know the ones: strewn throughout Siberia, the first level in the legendary FPS TimeSplitters 2. There was no logical explanation for dozens of uncut watermelons sitting on shelves in a research lab-turned-military outpost, nor did …

The best parts of the open-world Arkham games come at the end. That’s not a slight against the games’ quality. I love them a great deal – with the sole exception of Origins – and have sunk more hours than I wish to calculate about into rinsing City and Knight. …

When you think about the Marvel Universe, you think Spider-Man and the X-Men, sure – but Iron Man and Hulk and Thor and Captain America and the Fantastic Four and all the rest too. DC has older properties (Wonder Woman, born in 1942; Green Lantern, from 1940; the Flash, who …

Disappointed with your TV’s speakers? You need a dedicated audio solution! Something that’ll boom when you want it to, but provide clarity in quiet spoken scenes. If you’re looking for something to team with your contender for best gaming TV, and don’t fancy a big old surround sound system (opens …

Twenty years changes many things, but this much is true: Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars is the best role-playing game starring a plumber with Boogie Nights facial hair and big ups. Many games have challenged the title held by this collaboration between Nintendo and Squaresoft. Paper Mario …

The Statue of Liberty’s head bounces down 5th Avenue, crushing cars, her patinated face ravaged by claw marks from an unseen creature. Audiences seated for Transformers in 2007 caught sight of this in a short teaser (opens in new tab) for an untitled movie, unaware of what it was promoting. …

The Criterion Collection has long been the gold standard for home video releases, a ‘film-school-in-a-box’ that offers the best-looking and most comprehensive editions of classic, contemporary, art house, foreign, and cult films alike. Featuring gorgeous covers, booklets filled with film critique and interviews, and video transfers that simultaneously restores and …

That Ghostbusters trailer, then. I wasn’t expecting that. I wasn’t expecting anything as exciting as that. It’s not that I wasn’t on-board already, you understand. I’m a lifelong Ghost Head. Like so many of us, I’ve been through the decades-long rollercoaster of hope and disappointment that has come with the …