Month: August 2019

This article contains spoilers for the ending of The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. For those who have watched all ten episodes of The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, it’s clear that the unresolved ending indicates that Netflix and The Jim Henson Company are counting on being able to further explore the confrontation between the
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Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge tie-in novel Black Spire is about good people, but, unfortunately, isn’t a very good novel.  Resistance spy Vi Moradi is on a mission for General Leia Organa: build a Resistance base on the out-of-the-way planet Batuu. If she fails, the First Order could wipe out the Resistance for good. For a book set after
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With the arrival of World of Warcraft Classic, longtime players can once again quest through the game’s original versions of Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms. The two continents have been restored to what they looked like before Deathwing reshaped the world with 2010’s Cataclysm expansion. Part of the Classic restoration includes the return of many
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From his adventures in The Clone Wars to his classic role in A New Hope, Obi-Wan Kenobi is Star Wars‘ quintessential Jedi mentor. With an Obi-Wan television show officially on the way (finally!), now is a good time to revisit the venerable Jedi and talk about his history and many adventures.  Below, you’ll find 10 facts
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Cyberpunk 2077 will be CD Projekt Red’s first game outside The Witcher universe, and its first foray into science fiction. Based on the Cyberpunk series of tabletop games, it is, as its name suggests, inspired by the pioneers of the cyberpunk subgenre – namely William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. We can, therefore, expect plenty of cyborgs, AI, benighted cities, and
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It’s Steven’s universe and we’re all just living in it.  After the climatic end to Steven Universe Season 5, we learned that we will be getting a Steven Universe Movie and we’ve got all the news about it! If you want to know what we thought of the movie, head on over to our spoiler-free review
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The Serial Box team hasn’t rested on its laurels since announcing a partnership with Marvel to create new prose serials, based on the comic powerhouse’s characters. Instead, they opened arms to the other comics giant, and DC supers will be joining the Serial Box suite with their own new stories. Three of DC’s most popular
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This Yellowstone review contains spoilers. Yellowstone Season 2 Episode 10 “Don’t let ‘em take it away from you,” a dying John Dutton Sr. (Dabney Coleman) tells his son (Kevin Costner) in a flashback. “Not a goddamn inch.” Many, many years later, the child-turned-patriarch sits on the porch of his massive Yellowstone Ranch home, reflecting on
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How is it that the work of Jack Kirby, which contains some of the most colorful characters and influential mythology of the last century, still manages to feel so personal? Comic books are now known at least as much as source material for exciting movies as they are for being currently published graphic stories. Kirby’s
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Sega has released the reveal trailer for Yakuza 7, and it’s already clear that this upcoming sequel will represent a significant departure for the series.  Let’s get right to it: according to an interview translated by Gematsu, Yakuza 7 will feature a turn-based combat system. Given that Yakuza‘s real-time brawling combat is one its trademarks
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El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie is arriving on Netflix on October 11. The annoucement was made seemingly by mistake, with the trailer just appearing on Netflix’s Coming Soon section on August 24. To some, it seemed like an uncalculated move considering that Netflix’s new rival, Disney, was dropping major news left and right during their
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Authors launching the second book in a series have a great advantage over their first installment in a new world: by book two, a good chunk of world building has already been done. But series writing comes with a disadvantage, too. Ilona Andrews, whose well-known “Kate Daniels” series wrapped a year ago, discussed the problems of revisiting
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Release Date: August 30, 2019Platform: PS4 (reviewed), XBO, PCDeveloper: Supermassive GamesPublisher: Bandai NamcoGenre: Interactive Horror Game The latest release from Supermassive Games, the makers of the horror favorite Until Dawn, is an intriguing offering called The Dark Pictures: Man of Medan. It’s a horror game set at sea, which allows the player to control various
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One of the better parts of Avengers: Endgame was the fact that Professor Hulk was a viable character, able to exist in normal scenes without sticking out like a sore thumb. Once they had that tech figured out, it was only a matter of time before She-Hulk became part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. And
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You Know Nothing…about the Black Knight. Get it? Because the Black Knight is being played by Kit Harington? You know, the dude that played Jon Snow on Game of Thrones? So like, “you know nothing…” Ah, forget it. Ahem. So it seems that the Black Knight is joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe in The Eternals. This
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It appears that Telltale Games is making an unlikely comeback after a company called LCG Entertainment purchased the shuttered studio’s assets. The specifics of this arrangement are still being sorted out, but it sounds like LCG Entertainment intends to open a game development studio under the Telltale Games name. The studio will be headed by CEO Jamie
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This Young Justice: Outsiders review contains spoilers. Young Justice Season 3 Episode 25 Young Justice uses the second to last episode of the season to take a break from the endgame and look back at how far the team’s come. The result is one of the strongest episodes of Young Justice season 3.  The episode follows
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This Young Justice: Outsiders review contains spoilers. Young Justice Season 3 Episode 26 All told, Young Justice: Outsiders has been up and down. It’s been a lot more up than down, but the negatives of the season are there and undeniable. And true to the entire season before it, “Nevermore,” the season finale, does just about
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This The Terror review contains spoilers. The Terror Season 2 Episode 3 The Terror season 2 has been a slow burn thus far, even as “Gaman” begins and ends in a completely different place for protagonist Chester, who decides that the best way to solve his problems, both with his pregnant girlfriend Luz and the
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Ion Fury developer Voidpoint has decided not to remove a controversial slur from their game.  This strange story starts about a week ago when some Voidpoint staffers made homophobic and transphobic comments on the company’s Discord channel. Shortly thereafter, users found similar controversial content in Ion Fury itself. For instance, an area of the game
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Sure, connected universes may be all the rage these days, but Archie Comics has been ahead of this curve for decades. Long before the Marvel Cinematic Universe or Crisis on Infinite Earths were even a glimmer in a young nerd’s eye, the plucky publisher had Archie and the gang interacting with Josie and the Pussycats
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This Preacher review contains spoilers. Preacher Season 4 Episode 5 In the world of Preacher, characters seem to be drawn into situations not based off of free will, but divine providence. As Eugene often says, God has a plan, and we’re all just following his plan no matter how directionless we might feel during a particularly
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