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In 2007, Marvel Comics took one of the bravest editorial decisions in its long history. Editor-in-chief Joe Quesada felt that the company’s most...
Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls is out, and reactions to the new tag fighter have proven to be a mixed bag so far. Windows PC players have had it the...
They just don't make games like Golden Sun anymore. After Camelot and Nintendo released the much-lauded RPG for the Game Boy Advance in August...
Last New Year's Eve marked the 30th anniversary of the ending of Bill Watterson's seminal newspaper strip Calvin and Hobbes, the impact of...
From his first introduction, Eren Yeager from Attack on Titan is not your typical wide-eyed, optimistic shonen protagonist. While characters like Goku...
It took all summer, but we’re finally getting a third look at Grand Theft Auto 6. Developer Rockstar Games announced Thursday that the...
Put a group of Star Wars fans in a room and ask them to explain the Force and you’re almost guaranteed to get multiple, conflicting answers....
I like Pokémon Pokopia's Bubbly Basin as a whole. The marine aesthetic is lovely. Post-apocalypse Cerulean City hit me in the feels, water types...
There’s a new Halo game out in the wild. Well, okay, fine, there’s an old Halo game out — again. Halo: Campaign Evolved, a remake of 2001’s...
There’s a lot to love about Pokémon Pokopia, the Nintendo Switch 2’s cozy life sim. I enjoy cleaning up destroyed towns, creating habitats, and...
Keep your tomatoes holstered for a moment, please, and hear me out. Beast of Reincarnation, the new not-Pokémon action RPG game from Pokémon studio...
Growing up as a kid with a rebellious streak, there was a time in my life when I tried to resist my Italian heritage. My father was born in Abruzzo,...
The scope and scale of Star Wars is virtually unlimited. Using the concept of the Force, along with lightsabers, Jedi, Sith, and the binary of Light...
The Aug. 4 Nintendo Direct was all about Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave, the tactical RPG coming to Nintendo Switch 2 next month. The showcase...
GTA 6 is set in Vice City. I get why. Of all the GTA locales over the decades, we've seen Vice City a handful of times, none of which were enough...
After an underwhelming (but admittedly cute) June update, Pokémon TCG Pocket is back with a vengeance. July’s booster pack, Ruler of the Skies,...
You're supposed to like your parents, and they're meant to like you too, or at least treat you well. Popular media rarely questions what...
Cozy games have ossified, and it's mostly thanks to Stardew Valley. These days, regardless of a cozy game's setting, you know exactly what...
While the MCU has flirted with its more spooky side with Disney Plus projects like Ironheart and Werewolf by Night, Blade getting stuck in development...
There aren’t many Nintendo villains that I truly fear. The kid-friendly nature of most Nintendo games means that even the toughest boss fights are...
In July 2022, Marvel Studios returned in person to San Diego Comic-Con with the force of a thousand Thanos snaps. After going virtual for two years,...
George R.R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire series is full of memorable deaths, and House of the Dragon is no exception. Readers of the Fire &...
As Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of The Odyssey is dominating the box office, many are comparing it to the director's previous film,...
I feel tired. I boot up Path of Exile 2. I select my level 49 Chronomancer, and as I traverse the maze-like maps, hordes of four-arm humanoid...
We’re more than one year into Nintendo’s Switch 2 era, and the hits keep on coming. Games like Donkey Kong Bananza, Pokémon Pokopia, and Splatoon...
Christopher Nolan’s movies are famous for being hard to follow. From Memento to Tenet, his films typically require multiple viewings to fully...
There's been a trend lately of semi-recent titles receiving a Nintendo Switch 2 version and still requiring players to buy it at full price —...
Splatoon might look all cutesy and approachable, with its turf wars and stylish squid kids. (And no, that's ink, not blood.) And sure, it's...
After a decade of tweaking its familiar multiplayer formula, Nintendo’s Splatoon series just got its biggest shake-up yet. Splatoon Raiders takes...
Sometimes, it’s easy to forget how diverse the original Xbox game library really was. Early in its life, a handful of major Japanese publishers...
Modern action movies really want to make sure you understand them. Characters explain the plan before carrying it out, remind us of the stakes while...
Never speak to me about anything called “Avatar,” unless you’re going to immediately clarify whether we are talking about blue people or a bald...
Fallout 4, despite being reviewed favorably by critics, was incredibly polarizing among players upon release. On one hand, it vastly improved upon...
Panthalus is hard to miss: The water elemental is by far the largest monster in Palworld. The Pal, which controversially appears to take inspiration...
We're less than two months out from the release of Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave, and the series' official X account has been revealing...
I've fallen down the Anno 117: Pax Romana rabbit hole this year, despite the negative buzz around it. Steam reviews and the Reddit consensus hold...
I am not going to argue the point with Christoper Nolan that the ideal viewing format for his new film The Odyssey is IMAX 70mm. The images that...
Rockstar caught my eye when it opened pre-orders for GTA 6 with a look at some of the game's various clothing options. Not so much Lucia's....
Cheats have been a foundational part of video games since the medium’s earliest days. At first, most of them were used as development tools to...
It's been 17 long years since director Karyn Kusama and writer Diablo Cody came together to debut the horror-comedy Jennifer's Body. At the...
Denshattack! is so chock-full of ridiculous moments that it’s hard to single out one that stands above the rest. I mean, we’re talking about a...
Overwatch 2 (now just Overwatch again) was my first experience with Blizzard's hero shooter, so I never quite understood the fuss about how the...
The beauty of running tabletop role-playing games as a Dungeon Master is that you're practically guaranteed to run your games differently from...
There are plenty of anime protagonists I'd gladly spend an afternoon with, whether it’s Megumi Fushiguro from Jujutsu Kaisen or Kikuri Hiroi...
I’ve been living with the Steam Machine long enough now that the initial novelty has settled and I have a better sense of what it’s like to live...
In 2006, Atlus released Persona 3 for the PlayStation 2 in Japan. While following the premise of the first two games and pushing the series'...
Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced is a hit, with a 94% score on OpenCritic. Players are enjoying it too (well, besides those microtransactions),...
With the release of The Odyssey, Christopher Nolan is facing some rather obnoxious backlash. Some people are complaining about the historical...
Remember, in 2021, when TikTok was suddenly awash with sea shanties? It remains one of the most inexplicable, albeit wholesome, online crazes of the...
Fans finally got their first look at Persona 6, the next installment of Atlus's hugely popular RPG-meets-social-sim series, back in June at...