THIS POST CONTAINS spoilers for ‘Hades’ and ‘Hades II.’ Over the last few weeks, the gaming community has been in a frenzy about Hades II. As the game trends across social media, setting Tumblr and Reddit alight with fan art and endless theorization, the conversation has become, “Should you play …
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Rhythm games, as a rule, have largely been ignored over the past decade. Though Guitar Hero made a splash in the early 2000s and spawned a wave of me-too music titles that persisted throughout the late 2010s, the genre has all but evaporated. Long-running franchises like Dance Dance Revolution and …
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