Twisted Metal is back — at least on TV. While the beloved PlayStation-era game franchise has remained dormant since its last entry in 2012, the vehicular carnage returns this summer in season two of Peacock’s live-action adaptation. The first teaser for Twisted Metal’s second season has arrived, providing a first …
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Much of the tension in the Netflix animated fantasy epic Arcane: League of Legends involves two potential mergers, both of them incredibly volatile. The first is the plan by inventor Jayce (Kevin Alejandro) to use technology to harness the power of his world’s bygone age of magic, in a combination …
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Video game adaptations are in vogue right now. While interpretations like Five Nights at Freddy’s (2023) and The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) have dominated the box office, longform series like HBO’s The Last of Us (2023) and Amazon’s Fallout (2024) have taken the Emmys by storm, catching mainstream audiences …
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There’s a recurring trend in the gaming industry where developers and studios rush to announce alive action adaptation only for it to never materialize. Look no further than Netflix’s fumbling of its Horizon Zero Dawn adaptation, a fan-favorite franchise whose streaming debut was announced and subsequently halted after two years …
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Cate Blanchett has played queens, prime ministers, psychiatrists, artists, hipsters, thieves, Southern belles, evil stepmothers, Norse deities, Nazis, Katherine Hepburn, Bob Dylan, and an elf. She’s an actor who’s fearless in her choices and boundless in her versatility. So you can imagine her being approached to play a bounty hunter …
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It’s a frigid February day on the Brooklyn waterfront, and the world is ending. A dusting of snow powders the makeshift walkway through the rubble stacked high. Underneath, shanties made of scrap flex and creak with each step. Directly ahead, the disembodied nose of a commercial airliner dangles from the …
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When The Last of Us debuted early in 2023, I began my rave review by saying, “Among the many compliments I can give HBO’s The Last of Us is that it eventually made me forget that it’s based on a video game.” Some gamers took this as both a backhanded …
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Over the course of an acting career that began when he was a teenager fresh out of Georgia, Walton Goggins has played crooked cops (The Shield), racist gunslingers in Quentin Tarantino movies (Django Unchained and The Hateful Eight), villains in both traditional superhero projects (Ant-Man and the Wasp) and off-kilter …
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“War. War never changes.” It’s a grim warning, which leads the introductory monologue to every mainline game in the Fallout franchise. It’s a real mood-setter, usually accompanied by a summary of the state of society: In an alternate future, the world is living in retro-futurist, atompunk bliss. That is, until …
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In an era of complicated first-person shooters, detailed world-building, and dueling consoles, one of the internet’s most popular games built a gaming fandom with a simple point-and-click. First released in 2014, Five Nights at Freddy’s was an indie game initially crowdfunded, then released for players on Steam by developer Scott …
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