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Nintendo doesn’t want achievements, except when it does

It’s hardly a surprise, but it was worth confirming: the Nintendo Switch 2 won’t have achievements. When Polygon asked Nintendo’s vice president of...

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Oli Welsh

The best part of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is it explains nothing

I am weary of exposition in video games. Don’t get me wrong — I love when a game has well-developed world-building and lore. But I don’t love...

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Maddy Myers

Matt Mercer’s Avowed quest sold me on the game’s lore system

I love good world-building in my video games: pouring over fantastical geography, untangling the relationships between the people who live there,...

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Clayton Ashley

Anime is perfect for Anne of Green Gables

When I first heard about Anne Shirley , the new Anne of Green Gables anime series from The Answer Studio, I knew exactly which scene from L.M....

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Petrana Radulovic

Sinners is a good reminder that we’re talking about movies’ box office all wrong

Weekend box office reporting is a seminal part of entertainment media. In recent years alone, it has served as everything from a checkup on the...

22.04.2025 3

Austen Goslin

The Last of Us made its big twist stronger with one simple story change

After 10 episodes, HBO’s The Last of Us has finally gotten to the issue being talked around since the show first dropped: What happens between Joel...

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Zosha Millman

These horror games are set outside the US, and that’s infinitely more interesting

Some of my favorite horror games are set in familiar places: coastal towns, sleepy suburban streets, a quiet family home. Many classics pull on the...

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