Back in 1988, ninjas were all the craze. The teenage mutant turtle variety had taken over Saturday morning TV and waves of shoddy martials arts flicks filled the shelves at video stores. They had infiltrated video games, too, with two different titles donning the Ninja Gaiden name hacking and slashing …
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Since Borderlands 3 launched in 2019, a lot has changed — in the world, obviously — but also in gaming. That’s one of the challenges that Gearbox confronted when developing Borderlands 4 (out Sept. 12), a sequel that’s due to arrive in a very different gaming landscape than its predecessor. …
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Move over, Call of Duty. There’s a new jingoistic military simulator in town. This morning, Electronic Arts revealed the first official look at Battlefield 6, the latest entry in their long-running first-person shooter series. Published on the official Battlefield YouTube channel, the trailer gives players a taste of what to …
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After spending over a decade as a plus one to Mario’s many parties and sports outings, Donkey Kong is back to leading star status with the upcoming Switch 2 title, Donkey Kong Bananza (out July 17). It’s a big deal for a few reasons: not only is it the first …
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NBA champion and league MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is on a set so huge it makes his 6’6” frame seem small in comparison. Gilgeous-Alexander, better known as SGA, walks past a massive fur-collared coat hanging on a garment rack and over to a director’s chair, a plastic cup overflowing with Airheads …
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When you think about it, it must kind of suck to be Donkey Kong. Despite introducing the modern world to Nintendo games with 1981’s arcade classic, the great ape was quickly sidelined in favor of making Mario a star. While the mustachioed plumber and his brother became the face of …
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It takes a specific kind of marketing mind to imagine that a dark and gritty reboot of a beloved children’s character can amount to anything good. While the Golden Age of Comic Books ultimately gave way to edgier storytelling in the Seventies and Eighties, and everything from Steamboat Willie to …
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Death Stranding 2: On the Beach is like a symphony — a gorgeous classical concerto where an electric guitar occasionally cuts in to shred an off-putting, yet surprisingly sick riff. As a whole, it’s weird and uneven, but there’s something undeniably compelling about how those disparate parts fit together. If …
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Amid an aggressive escalation of immigration enforcement and country-wide raids that have resulted in mass protests, police brutality, and arrests, young players of one of the most popular video games in the world have taken to the virtual streets to protest Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). What first began as …
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When it comes to any government clean up job, there’s going to be some dirty work. The work just happens to be dirtier when extra-dimensional ghouls are involved. That’s the premise of Remedy Entertainment’s new cooperative shooter, FBC: Firebreak (out now), and it’s one that the developers have leaned into …
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