Mark Hamill unleashes a fiendish cackle that simultaneously sounds like skin ripped from flesh and fingernails dragged across corrugated iron. If the bowels of hell have a soundtrack, this is it. But the actor’s descent into madness is only momentary and, for anyone who’s played the Batman Arkham games, it …
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Theories are like opinions, and opinions are like… well. What I mean is that everyone has one, and they’re all over the Internet. What fan theory do you love? What “mind-blowing” theories have ever actually blown your mind? We’ve rounded up the ones that’ll completely change how you see a …
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A legacy of virtuous missions 2017 marks the 30th anniversary of the Metal Gear series; a sprawling web of military operations, government conspiracies, bipedal nuclear battlemechs, and tactical espionage action. From its humble beginnings on the now-ancient Japanese MSX2 computer following a young, lone-wolf US soldier Solid Snake as he …
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Alternate histories are some of the best stories in fiction. Starting in the real world and then spinning off at one key event, they’re a perfect blend of believable, real-world storytelling and bizarre, terrifying “could that really happen?” wonder. And games have used them on a whole bunch of occasions, …
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The good guys don’t always win. Although video games often represent an idealised version of life, where good triumphs over evil and everyone ends up happy, there are several notable examples where the bad guys definitely ‘win’. I’m not talking about possible scenarios where the baddos come out on top–these …
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Elder Gods. The Great Old Ones. Those things Metallica sang about a couple times. Yes, H.P. Lovecraft’s (opens in new tab) unique brand of horror has delighted fans for years–oh, did I say delighted? I meant tormented beyond comprehension. See, Lovecraft created an entire mythology (known as the Cthulhu mythos …
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After three years of teases and trailers, one of the first major Xbox One games ever revealed is finished. Remedy, the studio behind Max Payne and Alan Wake, has turned in yet another fascinatingly idiosyncratic spin on storytelling and shooters. How does this bizarre blending of time-manipulation, video game gunplay, …
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Senran Kagura is an unlikely series. What looks on the surface like the most lascivious sort of anime game hides an involved story beneath its pervy veneer. A fair description: it’s about breasts, ninjas, interpersonal relationships, gender dysmorphia, gender identity, and friendship. Seriously. It’s that dynamic that’s earned the series …
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25 years after Street Fighter 2 changed video games forever, the world warriors have returned on PlayStation 4 and PC in Street Fighter. Throughout the decades, the spinoffs, the tournaments, and bizarre subtitles, there’s been one constant throughout: Ryu. Vote for Street Fighter 5 in the Best Multiplayer Game, Competitive …
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Gravity Rush is precisely the sort of game that develops a rabid cult following, the sort of game that launches a few dozen Tumblrs and disappears into obscurity because it’s trapped on a failed platform. Sony has freed Gravity Rush from its PS Vita chains and given it new, gorgeous …
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