Returning to Call of Duty: Blackout after months of playing Call of Duty: Warzone (opens in new tab) night after night is a bit like downing a Bud Light to cap off a bougie weekend at a craft beer festival. Our tastes are fickle things, after all, susceptible to refinement …
Read More »Is a movie ever complete? In the age of streaming giants, it doesn’t have to be
Leonardo da Vinci, renaissance legend and namesake of a sword-wielding adolescent turtle, once pointed out that, “Art is never finished, only abandoned.” Had the artist and inventor lived 500 years later, however, he may have had cause to rethink his stance. While his statement about the artistic process has been …
Read More »More games should give us the option to walk through worlds, instead of pushing us to sprint through them
Humans, even meta-humans, don’t often converse while sprinting from one place to another. When exploring new places, we don’t reach down and pump up our Air Max shoes for a quick lap around the perimeter. We take our time, drink in the details and admire the view. Our brains notice …
Read More »The Umbrella Academy season 2 ending explained
Warning: this article contains spoilers for The Umbrella Academy season 2 (opens in new tab). Turn back now if you want to avoid major spoilers for the Netflix series… The Umbrella Academy season 2 went out with a bang! The Hargreeves siblings were able to prevent another apocalypse of their …
Read More »Halo Infinite is set on Zeta Halo Installation 07, 343 confirms
Halo Infinite is being positioned as a spiritual reboot. 343 Industries is building its next-generation Halo to harken back to Master Chief’s earliest adventure, including returning us to a Halo ring – something we haven’t done in the series since Halo 3. While speaking with 343 studio head Chris Lee …
Read More »Far Cry 6 cant be just another Far Cry game, but deserves the Assassins Creed: Odyssey and Watch Dogs Legion treatment
Reading the Far Cry 6 (opens in new tab) sales pitch makes for a surprising exercise in deja vu. Monologuing villains, a vast open world to liberate region by region, makeshift weaponry, guns for hire, and a tonal whiplash between its sombre, deeply political story and often outlandish first-person gunplay. …
Read More »With its focus on Assassins Creed Valhalla and Watch Dogs Legion, Ubisoft Forward lacked a forward-thinking message
Say what you will about Ubisoft, but it knows how to put on a show. The publisher’s conferences are often a highlight of the season, acting as both a frenetic showcase of the titles it has on the horizon and a celebration of games as a medium. Things were always …
Read More »The McElroys explore the Adventure Zone deeper than ever before with Pedals to the Metal
Get ready to push it past the redline in the latest installment of The Adventure Zone original graphic novels: Petals to the Metal (opens in new tab)! Based on the hit Maximum Fun podcast of the same name (opens in new tab) and published by First Second, Petals to the …
Read More »How Empyre unites the Kree and Skrull to conquer the Marvel Universe
Marvel’s big summer comic book event Empyre will finally fully kick off with #1 on July 15, following a delay of several months caused by COVID-19. With the prequel issue Empyre #0: Avengers (opens in new tab) having officially enlisted the Avengers in the conflict, and the Fantastic Four’s lead-in …
Read More »Big in 2020: Fuser proves that Harmonixs golden touch is as strong as ever
Key info (Image credit: Harmonix) Game Fuser Developer Harmonix Publisher NCSOFT Platforms PC, PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch Release Fall 2020 Fuser, Harmonix’s latest ode to the joys of music, flips the script on what you’d expect from the Boston studio. Instead of following in the footsteps of your favourite songs, learning how to …
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