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07 Sep

CoD Warzone’s New Pacific Map May Fix Some of Verdansk’s Biggest Problems

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While the recent Call of Duty: Vanguard showcase was supposed to focus on the upcoming game’s multiplayer modes (and perhaps help distract people from Activision Blizzard’s ongoing harassment lawsuit and the fallout of the accusations made in that lawsuit), it’s hardly a surprise that most Call of Duty fans are instead focused on the brief glimpse of Warzone‘s new Pacific map that we got during the Vanguard event. We don’t know everything about this new map yet, but we do know that it is designed to resemble a Pacific island, will of course be tied into Vanguard‘s WW2 storyline in…

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24 May

Why Diablo 4 and Overwatch 2 Won’t Fix Blizzard’s Biggest Problem

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While some gamers have spent the last few years speculating that Blizzard’s string of public problems (which includes layoffs, botched remasters, delays, employee departures, and a series of PR disasters) meant that the company was in serious trouble, a recent report from IGN seemingly confirms that the company is at least struggling to maintain its culture and standards just as new financial issues make the upcoming releases of Diablo 4, Overwatch 2, Diablo Immortal, and Diablo 2: Resurrected more important than ever. If you haven’t read the report, please be sure to find the time to do so. It’s a…

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23 Apr

Mortal Kombat: Biggest Changes the Movie Makes to the Games

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This article contains spoilers for Mortal Kombat. The Mortal Kombat movie may be one of the first true blockbusters of 2021, but for millions of fans of the games, it’s also another chance to “get it right.” Sure, 1995’s is a somewhat underrated live-action adaptation of a video game, but its irredeemable sequel, Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, left many fans doubting that we’d ever see another big-budget live-action Mortal Kombat movie much less one that comes close to capturing what makes the games special. You can read our review of the film itself for a better look at how close the new…

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03 Apr

Wynonna Earp Just Fixed Its Biggest Plot Misstep

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This Wynonna Earp article contains spoilers for Season 4, Episode 11: “Better Dig Two.” “Better Dig Two,” the penultimate episode of Wynonna Earp Season 4, gave viewers a lot to unpack. Waverly was a Dark Angel, and then she wasn’t. Doc was the Clanton heir, and then he wasn’t. Everything was fucked, and then it wasn’t. This show does such a good job raising the stakes, but it doesn’t always nail its pacing. I would have liked to see the story beats hit in these last two episodes stretched out a bit longer, and really explored. Is the Dark Angel…

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01 Apr

Shudder Boasts its Biggest Horror Movie and TV Line-Up Ever in April

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Shudder is pulling out all the shivery stops to commemorate the startling fact that we are exactly halfway to the most beloved date on any horror fan’s calendar, Halloween. Yes, that’s right, this month (April) is the six-month mark and the world’s scariest streaming outlet is celebrating with “Halfway to Halloween,” a massive slate of programming that begins on April 1 and continues throughout the rest of the month. This is no April Fool’s joke (although we have some if you want). Shudder is rolling out a brand new batch of exclusive and/or original programming, including the second season of…

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18 Feb

Biggest Movie Traitors and Backstabbers in Cinema

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Last week, as part of the streaming service’s ongoing plan to bring Warner Brothers’ slate of theatrical releases to audiences at home, HBO Max premiered Judas and the Black Messiah on the same day it opened in theaters. Directed by Shaka King, the incendiary historical drama centers on the rise of Fred Hampton, the charismatic Black Panther Party leader, and his tragic betrayal at the hands of FBI informant William O’Neal.  Daniel Kaluuya stars as Hampton, a scorched-earth performance that attempts to recreate the magnetism and magma-like intensity of the revolutionary figure, but Kaluuya is somehow not the star of the…

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29 Dec

The Biggest Geek Culture Moments of 2020

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This article contains a spoiler for The Mandalorian Season 2 2020 has been a wild and unpredictable year for most of us, but it also brought with it a ton of key cultural incidents and shifts that kept online news and trade outlets pretty busy at their keyboards. As we finally grind toward the end of a very weird 12 months, we’ve been looking back at some of the more stand-out moments in geek culture, which we’ll recap with you here. You may find that these cultural markers aren’t listed in chronological order. That’s because in 2020, time ceased to…

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11 Dec

Secret Invasion: Nick Fury Disney+ Series May be Biggest Marvel Event of All

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Back in September news broke that Marvel was bringing a Nick Fury TV series starring Samuel L. Jackson to Disney+. At the time, it wasn’t clear what shape the series would take, since Fury had last been seen in Spider-Man: Far From Home zipping off into the depths of space on a Skrull ship. Despite the fact that Jackson’s Fury had a prominent role in that film (in terms of the stuff going on on Earth), it was revealed that it wasn’t Fury at all…but rather the shape-shifting Skrull Talos played by Ben Mendelsohn who Fury had aided and befriended during…

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09 Dec

Cyberpunk 2077 Bugs: The Biggest Performance Issues So Far

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Cyberpunk 2077‘s early reviews suggest that the most anticipated game of 2020 is quite good. Yet, there is a worrying takeaway from those initial impressions, too. The game appears to be very buggy. While we anticipated that Cyberpunk 2077 would ship with plenty of bugs, which honestly wasn’t all that difficult to predict given the game’s turbulent year, those who have played the full version of Cyberpunk 2077 have confirmed that the game isn’t just burdened by the usual array of open-world performance issues but a truly worrisome collection of game-breaking glitches that could severely impact the title’s launch. Based…

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02 Dec

Rian Johnson Avoided the Biggest Mistake of the Star Wars Alterations

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Star Wars Sequel Trilogy 2017 middle act The Last Jedi may have a share of detractors for numerous reasons, but the 2019 release of J.J. Abrams’s closing follow-up, The Rise of Skywalker, and three whole years of hindsight have put it into perspective, generating a unique appreciation for director Rian Johnson’s renegade franchise offering. However, Johnson has revealed that a key scene almost revisited one of the most maligned retroactive alterations to the sacred Original Trilogy: Hayden Christensen’s Force Ghost Anakin Skywalker. Johnson recently provided a potent answer to a fan’s question on Twitter about an unrealized concept for The…

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22 Nov

New Mutants References One of the Biggest Marvel X-Men Events

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This article contains New Mutants spoilers. Ah, the sorry tale of the New Mutants movie. Completed just as Disney absorbed 20th Century Fox, Josh Boone’s horror-tinged YA X-Men flick never got its promised reshoots, was shelved, had its release date kicked around the calendar – first by an indifferent studio and then by the pandemic – before finally arriving with a whimper in limited theatrical release earlier this fall and (finally) on streaming last week. Like its troubled young characters, New Mutants bears the scars of its difficult past, and then gets saddled with the added burden of being neither…

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19 Nov

The Game Awards 2020: Biggest Snubs

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The Game Awards nominations have finally arrived, which means it’s officially time to start arguing about what the biggest video game award show of the year got right and wrong. Considering the many ways that the Covid-19 pandemic has affected the entire entertainment industry this year (including gaming), we’re a little surprised that this year’s nominees are as competitive as they are. While titles like Halo Infinite missed their 2020 release date and Cyberpunk 2077 will miss the award show’s Nov. 20 cutoff date for nominations, there were enough quality games released in 2020 to ensure that the Game Awards…

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29 Jun

Exploring the Biggest Missing Gap in the Star Trek Timeline

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Mild spoilers ahead for Picard Season 1 and Discovery Season 2. Right now, somewhere, several new Star Trek projects are being planned and fans can only guess as to what those things will be. Relatively speaking, shows centered around Spock’s human sister or an aging Jean-Luc Picard would have seemed pretty far-fetched if you asked a fan about those ideas in 2016. Similarly, the idea of recasting the Original Series actors for the 2009 Star Trek reboot would have sounded crazy to fans in 2003, when Enterprise was still on the air. New Star Trek projects are interesting because they’re…

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28 Apr

X-Men: Dark Phoenix Labeled Biggest Flop of 2019

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In a sad epitaph to what was once a groundbreaking franchise, the last film of 20th Century Fox’s X-Men movie saga suffered a final indignity: it’s been labeled the biggest flop of 2019. Indeed, internet industry trade site, Deadline, released its annual postmortem on the previous year’s box office this week. And at the top of its list of box office failures is Simon Kinberg’s Dark Phoenix. According to Deadline, Fox, and thereby their new owners at The Walt Disney Company, took a $133 million bath on what was intended to be a franchise course correction after the disappointing (but…

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07 May

The Biggest Little Farm

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The Biggest Little Farm follows two dreamers and their beloved dog when they make a choice that takes them out of their tiny L.A. apartment and into the countryside to build one of the most diverse farms of its kind in complete coexistence with nature. The film chronicles their near decade-long attempt to create the utopia they seek, planting 10,000 orchard trees, hundreds of crops, and bringing in animals of every kind? including an unforgettable pig named Emma and her best friend, Greasy the rooster. When the farm?s ecosystem finally begins to reawaken, their plan to create perfect harmony takes…

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