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02 Oct

How The Walking Dead: World Beyond Expands the Zombie Universe with Its Unique Teen Characters

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After its premiere was delayed by several months due to COVID-19, the two-season The Walking Dead spinoff series The Walking Dead: World Beyond finally makes its debut this week. The story expands the TWD universe in a unique way, taking place 10 years after the zombie outbreak and focusing on a predominantly teenage cast of characters. Unlike the battered groups of survivors from The Walking Dead and Fear the Walking Dead, these teens have been sheltered from walkers (or “empties,” as they’re called on this show) within the walls of a university in Omaha, Nebraska, a thriving colony that has…

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01 Oct

World of Warcraft: Shadowlands Release Date Delayed Until “Later This Year”

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Blizzard has confirmed that they have decided to delay the release of World of Warcraft‘s Shadowlands expansion. “I wanted to let you know that we’re delaying the release of Shadowlands to later this year—and while we’re still in the process of determining the right new date to launch, we felt it was important to let you know about this change in plans as soon as we could,” says John Hight, Executive Producer of World of Warcraft, via a recent blog post. “This was an incredibly difficult decision for the team, as we’re as eager to get the expansion into your…

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25 Sep

Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous – The Origins of Bumpy Revealed

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The Ankylosaurus is filmmaker Colin Trevorrow’s favorite dinosaur. In retrospect that shouldn’t be a surprise considering the armored herbivore makes a major appearance in Jurassic World, both that creature and Trevorrow’s first Jurassic Park movie. But Trevorrow made his adoration for Ankylosaurus clear during a discussion about the new Netflix animated series, Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, earlier this week. Which, as it just so happens, features a baby Ankylosaurus that the kids in the show affectionately name Bumpy. “We thought it’d be cool [for] a character like Ben to have this sort of bond and epiphany,” Kreamer told us about…

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24 Sep

Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous Season 2 and Crossover Teased by Producers

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This article contains spoilers for the Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous ending. Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous has yet to be officially renewed for a second season. Yet if you’ve finished all eight episodes of the new animated series on Netflix, you know that the series practically demands one: While counselors Roxie and Dave (Jameela Jamil and Glen Powell) managed to get off the island during the evacuation that followed in the wake of the Indominus Rex’s rampage—much to their reluctance—all six of their young campers got left behind. Abandoned on the island. Worse still, they’re separated, with most believing Ben Pincus…

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24 Sep

Alejandro Jodorowsky Tells Us How to Heal the World With a Placebo

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Alejandro Jodorowsky sees filmmaking as an art, not a business. He expands on this in the very title of his latest film: Psychomagic, A Healing Art. The film is a personal documentation of Jodorowsky’s theory of trauma therapy, called Psychomagic, in action. We can trust Jodorowsky when he calls action, though beware when he calls cut as his wife, artist Pascale Montandon, who has been his cinematographer on all his films, may keep the cameras rolling. Performance art is an effective placebo to confront psychic suffering and film does it in real time, breaking the wall between reality and performance.…

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23 Sep

Jurassic World: Dominion Director Says Fans ‘Underestimate’ Size of Original Cast’s Roles

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One of the most exciting things for fans of the original Jurassic Park is that the film’s three leads, Sam Neill, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum, will all be reprising their roles in Jurassic World: Dominion. As the third and final (at least according to marketing) Jurassic World film, the picture is intended to be a finale for both the current Jurassic World trilogy of films that began with the Colin Trevorrow-directed blockbuster in 2015, and the original Jurassic Park movies, including Steven Spielberg’s 1993 classic. Yet there has been some small skepticism in certain quarters, where it’s being snarked…

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21 Sep

Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous Reveals That Friendship is When Trust Defeats Loneliness

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In Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, a group of teenagers from very different walks of life learn that they have to depend on one another in order to survive the ordeal of being abandoned on an island full of dinosaurs. As much as the series revolves around escaped dinosaurs, jump scares, and corporate conspiracy, at its core are six lonely teenagers who really just want to have someone to connect to. By the time the season has concluded, those teens have found that they can trust each other with their lives, if not with everything else. Darius The series opens with…

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21 Sep

The Walking Dead: World Beyond Introduces Its Young Characters

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Created in October of 2003 by Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead franchise is now old enough to drive and nearly old enough to vote. With that in mind, the latest TWD franchise is going to be injecting some fresh blood into the proceedings. Premiering on Oct. 4 after The Walking Dead season 10 finale, The Walking Dead: World Beyond will be a unique experiment for the long-running AMC monolith. For starters, World Beyond won’t be reaching anywhere near the flagship series’ staggering 11-season run. The network has already announced that World Beyond will be a limited engagement, receiving two seasons…

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21 Sep

The Walking Dead: World Beyond Review (Spoiler Free)

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This spoiler-free review is based on the first two episodes of The Walking Dead: World Beyond. One of the best things about The Walking Dead‘s expanding universe is that it gives the show’s more talented writers and more skilled producers an opportunity to put their own creative stamp on the show and its legacy. Angela Kang took the reigns of the main property and has improved The Walking Dead significantly under her reign; her pending spinoff with Carol and Daryl shows promise, simply because she’s proven herself as a showrunner and she’s taking over a show with two of the…

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19 Sep

Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous Ending Explained

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The following contains spoilers for Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous. Netflix and Dreamworks’ newest animated series, Jurassic: World Camp Cretaceous, takes the mythology of the Jurassic World franchise and focuses on a group of teen characters, surviving among the dinosaurs when the park’s safety features fail. Under the conceit that the park’s newest initiative is a camp for teens, a diverse group of young adults arrive to experience the wonder of living dinosaurs. But when, midway through the series, everything goes wrong, the kids are left on their own, forced to evade a carnotaurus and the incredibly dangerous Indominus rex.  Not…

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19 Sep

How Camp Cretaceous Connects to the Jurassic World Canon

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The following contains spoilers for Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous. At first glance, Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous doesn’t seem to fit in with the violent PG-13 dinosaur rampage thrillers we’ve come to expect from the Jurassic Park franchise. Its comical and lighthearted approach to storytelling and character development, not to mention the fact that it is (rather beautifully) animated, makes it seem as though this was meant to be a spinoff franchise similar to Lego Jurassic World. But as the story of six teenagers beta testing Jurassic World’s new adventure camp attraction unfolds, it becomes clear that Camp Cretaceous is not…

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16 Sep

Tennis World Tour 2 Roster Announced, Features Federer and Nadal

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Hitting like tennis icons Roger Federer or Rafael Nadal on a real court may be close to impossible. Tennis World Tour 2 will give fans the chance to at least hit like some of their favorite pros on the virtual court. The new game from NACON and Big Ant Studios will feature 38 professional players, including a few tennis legends.  The roster announcement came just a day after Domenic Thiem won a thrilling fifth-set tiebreak to capture his first U.S. Open title. The newly crowned Grand Slam winner is one of the playable pros in Tennis World Tour 2. On…

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14 Sep

Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7 Trailer Remembers a World Divided

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“The whole world is watching,” we hear chanted repeatedly in the first The Trial of the Chicago 7 trailer. After riots, which may have begun due to the excessive force by the police, overtook the 1968 Democratic National Convention, the federal government tried to charge a group of counterculture activists with conspiracy in one of the most infamous trials in American history. Written and directed by Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network, Molly’s Game), and featuring an all-star cast headlined by Sacha Baron Cohen, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Mark Rylance, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, the Netflix film merits global consideration. Subscribers will have…

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14 Sep

Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous Review (Spoiler-Free)

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This Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous review contains no spoilers. My five year old nestled under one arm. My ten year old clutched the other. And I’ll admit, my hands were covering my face a couple of times. That, in a nutshell, was the family experience of watching the first season of Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous.  If you’re familiar with the legacy of Jurassic Park, you know the premise: there’s a theme park full of genetically engineered dinosaurs (where some catastrophe always happens). Based on the events of the first season, the series takes place concurrent to the events in Jurassic…

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10 Sep

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game – Complete Edition Release Date and Trailer

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Following weeks of speculation and years of anticipation, Ubisoft has confirmed that Scott Pilgrim vs. The World is returning to digital marketplaces as Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game – Complete Edition. Discussions regarding this possible release kicked into overdrive a few weeks ago when the Scott Pilgrim vs. the World movie celebrated its 10th anniversary. Comments made via various social media accounts led many to believe that Ubisoft may be working on some kind of sequel, remake, or re-release of the 2010 video game adaptation of the Edgar Wright film. As you can see, we ended up with…

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09 Sep

Zendaya Says Acting in Dune Was Like Being On Another World

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In the very first images that we see in the incredible new trailer for Dune, protagonist Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) has a vision in which he sees a young woman and hears her calling his name. That young woman is Chani, a member of the Fremen, the native people of the planet known as Arrakis. Although Paul doesn’t know who she is in his visions, they meet after his family arrives on Arrakis and she becomes his protector, his guide and ultimately his lover and wife. In Dune, Chani is played by Zendaya, the gifted young actress and singer known…

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03 Sep

Super Mario 3D World Coming to Nintendo Switch in 2021

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Super Mario 3D World is finally being ported to the Nintendo Switch alongside a mysterious expansion known as Bowser’s Fury. The collection is currently set to be released on February 12, 2021, but Nintendo notes that complications caused by the COVID-19 pandemic could force a delay of all their intended release dates. To get the technical stuff out of the way, it sounds like this remaster will include all of the usual stuff that we’ve come to expect from such ports. The visuals and audio will be slightly enhanced so take advantage of the Switch’s capabilities, but this is not…

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31 Aug

World of Warcraft: Shadowlands System Requirements Include an SSD

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Blizzard has revealed that World of Warcraft: Shadowlands minimum system requirements include an SSD. This information comes from the officially uploaded Shadowlands system requirements, which are fairly standard across the board except for that a “Solid State Drive (SSD)” with “100GB available space” is listed as both the minimum and recommended storage requirement. In case you’re wondering, the previous World of Warcraft expansion (Battle for Azeroth) only required an HDD. There are a couple of other interesting things about this information. The first is that Blizzard notes that the system requirements they outline are subject to change as they complete…

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27 Aug

World of Warcraft: Shadowlands Release Date Set for October

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During the Gamescom opening ceremony, Blizzard revealed that World of Warcraft: Shadowlands will be released in October. “World of Warcraft’s eighth expansion, Shadowlands has a launch date!” says Blizzard via a recent press release. “Dead or alive, all Horde and Alliance heroes will be journeying into the afterlife when Shadowlands launches globally on October 27th.” As previously revealed, Shadowlands will focus on what is essentially World of Warcraft‘s afterlife. There, players will need to choose between the Shadowlands’ ruling factions (known as Covenants) who will each offer unique abilities, benefits, and narrative paths. “In Shadowlands, players will explore one of…

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26 Aug

World of Warcraft Animated Series Shadowlands Afterlives to Debut at Gamescom

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Blizzard has announced that they’re working on a new project called Shadowlands Afterlives: an animated series based on the World of Warcraft universe and the game’s upcoming Shadowlands expansion. “Just as our choices determine who we are in life–they pave the paths we take in the afterlife,” reads a brief description of the series. “Prepare to delve into four realms of the Shadowlands–Bastion, Maldraxxus, Ardenweald, and Revendreth–and discover the journeys souls take once they cross the eternal veil.” Not much else is currently known about the animated series, but the first trailer for the show does reveal a few important…

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