New World breaks from some MMORPG character-building traditions in fascinating ways, but like pretty much every other RPG ever made, the game ultimately relies on stats and attributes to help determine the effectiveness of your created character. That being said, it’s not immediately clear exactly how New World‘s attributes actually work. While the game tries
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While Star Trek: Picard continues the character-driven story begun in Star Trek: The Next Generation, the first season of the Trek series had a very different premise than its predecessor. While TNG, like most “classic” Trek series, is a problem-of-the-week workplace drama, Picard leans into the serialized format that is much more common in modern
Rocky IV is often callously dismissed as a motion picture punchline embodying 1980s absurdity and the popcorn-friendly selling-out what was once an Oscar-winning franchise. However, the film remains widely beloved, and clearly means a lot to its star/writer/director, Sylvester Stallone. Having long felt the 1985 film was unfinished, Stallone recently took upon the task of
Author: Walter Goodwater Publisher: Solaris Price: £14.99 (hardback) Red Valley, California has always been a little different. Not only does its inhabitants tend to err towards the strange and supernatural, but it has its very own house that likes to disappear and its King, well, he says he protects the town but people are too
A man struggles with the health care system and his own feelings of guilt when he checks his 100-year-old, estranged mother into Gateway TransCare — a memory care facility that uploads elderly minds into computer data banks. “Life Begins at Rewirement” by Trevin Matcek Subscribe to the DUST Newsletter: https://bit.ly/signal_newsletter #DUST #scifi #shortfilm More About
Hosts discuss Outlander for the episode “Heaven and Earth.” AFTERBUZZ TV — Outlander edition, is a weekly “after show” for fans of Starz’s Outlander. In this show, host Rachel Goodman breaks down the episode 10. ABOUT OUTLANDER: Outlander is an American-British television drama series based on the historical time travel Outlander series of novels by Diana
Set in the small town of Red Valley, California, where you follow the rules if you want to stay alive, The Liar Of Red Valley follows Sadie who has unexpectedly become the Liar: the keeper and maker of Red Valley’s many secrets. In a town like this, friendships are hard-won and bad blood lasts generations,
J.J. Abrams’ spy drama Alias, which turns 20 this week, was a lot of things: high-octane action-adventure series, twentysomethings relationship drama, occasional National Treasure homage. It was also, surprisingly, a spiritual predecessor to today’s hyper-saturated superhero movie and TV universes: A preternaturally gifted fighter, Sydney Bristow (Jennifer Garner) inhabits comic-book-esque alter egos to infiltrate secret
This article contains spoilers for Midnight Mass. Midnight Mass is the project that’s rattled around Mike Flanagan’s head the longest. According to the creator himself, Flanagan developed the central conceit of the faith-based horror story well before his horror career even began. The project has been fine tuned many times, first as a novel, then
The Many Saints of Newark will tell stories about things our friends, and friends of friends, did before the events on The Sopranos. We’ll see a young Paulie Gualtieri, Silvio Manfred Dante, and Artie Bucco, all who knew Tony Soprano as a kid. One childhood friend you might not see is a prequel version of
Now in its 35th year, the Arthur C. Clarke Award is the UK’s most prestigious prize for science fiction literature and the winner for this year’s award has been announced! In lieu of a physical event this year, the winner was announced on Radio 4’s Front Row on Monday 27 September to be… The Animals
New World features some of the most interesting character-building, skills, and weapons systems I’ve seen in an MMO in quite some time. While many MMO developers talk about balancing such systems to discourage meta min-maxing and encourage experimentation, New World‘s flexibility genuinely encourages you to explore a variety of builds to see what works best
Remember George Lucas? He’s back… in figure form! Yes, the filmmaking visionary who, with some help, conceived a ubiquitously-dominant film franchise, is set to be immortalized in plastic via the practice that put the Star Wars merchandising machine on the map. Indeed, Hasbro Toys has revealed a new George Lucas rendition, this one arriving in
Amazon’s New World is finally here, and while the red hot MMO is quickly shaping up to be the company’s biggest gaming hit so far, it’s also worth noting that it might just be the buggiest major game since Cyberpunk 2077. Now to be clear, it’s pretty much impossible to release an MMO or any
Best-selling author Stephen King sowed the seeds for a bumper crop of horror films with his classic collection Night Shift. But few would sprout into the kind of franchise that Children of the Corn would grow to be and now you can own the cult classic with our competition to win a limited edition box
Wands at the ready people, not only have we been told the title and a little about the third instalment of the Fantastic Beasts series, but it is also set to be released three months early! Originally scheduled to be out in July next year, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore has been shifted to
David Chase hates it when sloppy pop journalists tag The Many Saints of Newark as a “Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) origin story.” This is a gangster movie about Dickie Moltisanti (Alessandro Nivola), the father of Christopher (Michael Imperioli) on The Sopranos. But we will get to see the first steps the future boss of the
Genre TV fans owe a lot to the spy drama Alias. Premiering twenty years ago this week (just..how??), Alias was a near-instant critical and commercial success thanks to its near-perfect pilot episode. It went on to run for five seasons full of ambitious, go-for-broke storytelling that featured rich character dynamics and wasn’t afraid to take
It can be frustrating being the partner of an artist. When Kate Siegel first read the script for Midnight Mass, the new Netflix series from her husband, horror auteur Mike Flanagan, she had a somewhat unusual, yet relatable reaction. “I believe I threw the script across the room,” she tells Den of Geek and other
The days are getting colder and the nights are drawing so now is the perfect time to pick out some spooky tales to watch this Halloween season and Jacob Chase’s Come Play is the perfect creepy companion to join you. To celebrate the release of Come Play on digital download we’re giving away a large
This Squid Game article contains MAJOR spoilers. From the very first game of ddakji out in the real world with Train to Busan actor Gong Yoo, Squid Game poses the question: how far would you go for money? How much of your body, your life, would you trade to keep the wolves at bay and
As Disney’s Star Wars Sequel Trilogy movies became a hot button topic in recent years, the scathing stigma once widely attached to their immediate predecessors, Lucasfilm’s 1999-2005 Prequel Trilogy, has oddly eased back. It’s a phenomenon that, 16 years after their conclusion, is attributed to generational nostalgia and, arguably, plot-enriching context on the films’ era
Back to the Future Part II is a strange movie. As a sequel that director Robert Zemeckis and screenwriter Bob Gale never intended to make, the ambitious follow-up to one of the greatest sci-fi comedies of all time was put into production simultaneously with Part III, which may have ultimately hurt the middle chapter since
It’s officially Halloween season and boy do we have a treat for you! To celebrate the release of Bad Candy, a Halloween horror anthology spinning six terrifying tales, we have an exclusive clip PLUS we’re giving away THREE copies of the movie on DVD! So, don your scariest costume and get ready for a night
A creature feature merging martial arts madness with fantastic folklore, Monstrum is brimming with warrior action, cinematic beauty and, of course, a giant furry monster! To celebrate the release of Monstrum next month, we’re giving away TWO copies on Blu-ray and TWO copies on DVD with our latest competition. Find out how to enter below
For non-Korean viewers, many of the children’s games horrifyingly showcased in Netflix’s Squid Game were new. Not to fans of Run BTS, though. The long-running variety show regularly sees the seven members of global sensation BTS partake in a diverse offering of silly games and competitions—as befits any Korean variety show worth its salt. If
Something that impresses me with a superhero movie like Venom is when it doesn’t rush directly into the expected villain. When there are four different Fantastic Four movies, and they’re all about emphasizing Dr. Doom, it’s a breath of fresh air when, say, Man of Steel only makes an Easter egg reference to Lex Luthor
There are so many legendary aspects of The Sopranos that it’s hard to pick just one. Between masterful storytelling, deep character development, and uncanny acting, everything comes together to create a show that has been enjoyed for over two decades now. The most artistic aspect of the package, however, may just be the use of
AFTERBUZZ TV — The Expanse edition, is a weekly “after show” for fans of Expanse. In this show hosts Kari Lane and Cherry Davis discuss episode 11 with special guest Jennifer Phang. ABOUT THE EXPANSE: The Expanse is an American space opera / mystery science fiction drama television series on Syfy, based on the series
The latest Metroid Dread previews include quite a few (mostly positive) words about the highly-anticipated upcoming Switch game, but the one word that’s jumping out at everyone at the moment is “scary.” Granted, the Metroid franchise has always utilized horror elements (its revolutionary atmosphere can partially be attributed to the various ways it was influenced
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