I’m a sucker for gods meddling in the lives of mere mortals. Star Trek: The Next Generation asks “what if god got bored?” and posits Q as the answer, while Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin asks “what if god was really shit at their job?” and serves up protagonist Sakuna …
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We’ve all been there in an RPG. The main quest is tantalisingly positioned on the pause menu, but you haven’t made any progress in hours. The world still needs to be saved, the princess is still in another castle… and you’re busy pottering about the game world, doing side missions, …
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The FIFA 21 release date for PS5 and Xbox Series X is finally here. Next-gen football – or futuristic soccer, for our Stateside readers – lands on 4 December. Recently released screens suggest it looks sensational, but what about how it feels? How it plays? Gameplay is paramount where sports …
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When Marvel announced that Jonathan Hickman would be returning to handle the X-Men, it was an intriguing proposition in and of itself, though amplified by the marketing presenting it as the next big evolution for mutants. One graphic suggested it was to be as monumental as Giant-Size X-Men #1 (opens …
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The World of Warcraft: Shadowlands expansion is just around the corner and there is every reason to be excited. Not only will we get a new dungeon, new customizations, and new gameplay options, but a brand-new story to underscore all of it. The Warcraft lore is one of the best …
Read More »Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 new RPG stylings add to a winning formula
Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 knows that it’s onto a good thing, because this sequel slowly, carefully piles on the foundations left by the 2017 original. Everything that was likeable about the original, from its breezy design to well-judged mashup modes, is back and pretty much left untouched, while the few …
Read More »Meet Kaare Andrews 10-minute teen superhero, E-Ratic
What if you could be a superhero (with superpowers and all), but could only do it for 10 minutes a day? Well, one superhero can – E-Ratic. Kaare Andrews, well known for his vibrant and raw work on Marvel’s Iron Fist, has created his own superhero – a fifteen-year-old hero …
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Donny Cates and Geoff Shaw get meta in Image Comics’ Crossover #1, a slick and provocative blockbuster that imagines a world-ending comic book event suddenly transplanted into our present-day with catastrophic consequences. Spoilers ahead for Crossover #1 From the first page’s dueling captions between Todd McFarlane and Fredric Wertham to …
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Following the success of 2019’s first series of Tales From the Dark Multiverse titles, the new DC franchise’s second wave kicks off in November by putting a dark twist on one of Batman’s most iconic storylines, ‘Hush.’ (Image credit: DC) (opens in new tab) In the story written by Phillip …
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As the nights draw in and Halloween comes around, many of us are thinking of ways to pay tribute to the spookier forces. What better way to spend the season than with the darkest people of all: the Addams Family? When cartoonist Charles Addams created the fictional family in 1938, …
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