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This article contains SUPERMAN & LOIS episode 8 spoilers. Superman & Lois has done so many things right in its first season, using familiar comics characters to explore an uncharted onscreen corner of the Superman mythos, focusing on the struggles of small town businesses in an increasingly corporate America, and embracing bold and risky storytelling decisions like introducing hero John Henry Irons to the DC TV universe – just initially disguised as both a villain and a Luthor....

With the gorgeous looking Microsoft Flight Simulator touching down next week, Microsoft has shared a new trailer that goes through the entire history of the series. While it is mostly a short sizzle reel of clips from each iteration, it’s wild to look at the graphical leaps this series has taken. Starting in the early 80s, I have to wonder if gamers at the time realized what would be heading their ways in the future....

Movie or TV tie-in games don’t elicit much enthusiasm these days, but the developers at Telltale Games have shown a knack for adapting properties - from comics to other video game franchises. That meant when Game of Thrones was announced to bring the HBO series (based on author George R. R. Martin’s books) into the realm of video games, fans could hope that the studio had what it took to do Westeros - and its many characters - justice....

This past generation has been an amazing one. We finally got our hands on some proper VR tech, computer components got so good they made games look realer than ever, and some of the titles that came out are forever burned into our minds. Among those fantastic games, we encountered some remakes that quickly earned a spot on our favorite’s list. We have also seen some remasters whose graphics greatly benefitted from a PS4 or Xbox One treatment, though the games themselves remained relatively unchanged from their predecessors....

Just because a Pokemon hasn’t evolved yet doesn’t mean it’s entirely useless. Many unevolved Pokemon have fantastic stats that many people totally miss, looking instead to their evolutions who typically have better numbers. However, before you’re far enough into the game, you may not have access to the evolutionary stages past the base stage. So, here’s a list of Pokemon that haven’t evolved yet (but can!) that have very respectable special attack stats....

Wrestling video games often get praised for their diverse cast of characters and plentiful rosters, but it’s not always that way. Sometimes they get it really, really embarrassingly wrong, and in those instances, it’s important to call them out for what they are: awful. Whether it’s a low-level wrestler who should’ve never been even been considered for inclusion, or a wacky special character from outside of the wrestling sphere, there have been several cases of wrestling video games inserting playable characters into their titles that really shouldn’t have been there in the first place....

One is your friendly neighborhood wall-crawler, a kid from Queens trying to juggle his life and his duty to help others. The other is the grand protector of our dimension, fighting mystical threats from throughout the multiverse. They may not sound like they complement each other on paper but, believe it or not, Spider-Man and Doctor Strange work really well together. Spider-Man: One More Day (2007) After Aunt May is shot by someone trying to hurt Peter, he goes to Doctor Strange to ask him to make the world forget who he is....

In 1934, after the mind-bending quadruple-whammy of Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy, and The Invisible Man, Universal Pictures knew they were on to something with this “horror movies” business. Not only had horror movies proven to be terrifyingly profitable, the studio now had four new franchise operations up and running, which only meant more money down the line. The question was where to go next now that they’d already tapped Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, and H....

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Easter eggs found in The Division seem to suggest that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles weren’t able to survive the game’s pandemic, with the characters signature weapons being found hidden in the Big Apple. Despite rising to prominence in the 90’s, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles continue to persevere as pop culture icons. When the heroes in a half-shell aren’t tricking off half-pipes in Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 5 or gearing up for a beat-em-up from Bayonetta developer Platinum Games, they’re appearing in blockbuster movies and wildly popular cartoon series....

This article contains The Falcon and the Winter Soldier episode 5 spoilers, and possibly more for future episodes and the wider MCU. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier episode 5, “Truth,” is another somewhat transitional episode for the series. Big action at the beginning, some heartbreaking reveals in the middle, and then plenty of bonding and moving pieces around for the finale for the rest of the episode. Oh yeah, and one absolutely awesome use of The Meters’ “Hey Pocky A-Way....

This article contains spoilers for The Falcon and the Winter Soldier episode 1. The highly anticipated The Falcon and the Winter Soldier series finally premiered on Disney Plus on March 19. The MCU series is set to follow Sam Wilson/Falcon and Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier six months after the events of Avengers: Endgame, which ended with Captain America passing his shield onto Sam. Though they haven’t been shown together yet, the six-episode series is meant to show the two superheroes teaming up and it looks like the terrorist group the Flag-Smashers are being set up to cause their conflict....

This The Handmaid’s Tale review contains spoilers. “A messy bitch who takes the big swings but doesn’t think about the consequences.” You could do worse for a description of June Osborne. In ‘Nightshade’, Moira’s words proved right when June followed her instinct that a brothelful of sitting-duck Commanders was too good an opportunity to miss. One bottle of homemade poison and David Bowie’s Suffragette City later, and Gilead had suffered another blow....

After five years of failed attempts, Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment has finally managed to patent the Nemesis System. The patent gives WB the exclusive rights to “Nemesis characters, Nemesis forts, social vendettas and followers in computer games.” Should any other company want to make a game with a Nemesis System, it would have to license the technology from WB. This patent will without a doubt have a negative overall impact on gaming — not just on design innovation and player experience, but on WB’s own creative potential as well....

The Nintendo Wii turns 14 years old today, so let’s take a trip down memory lane. Going back to E3 2004, Satoru Iwata took the stage to announce the Nintendo DS. He also introduced Nintendo’s next home console, codenamed Revolution. He said something that would remain true to Nintendo’s console design philosophy, even today. “I suppose I could give you a list of our technical specs, I believe you’d like that, but I won’t for a simple reason....

This Star Trek: Discovery article contains spoilers for “Scavengers.” As Star Trek: Discovery continues to boldly go where no 23rd Century crew has gone before, the tapestry of the rest of the Trek franchise continues to get slightly redefined. In Discovery Season 3, Episode 6, “Scavengers,” a rogue mission from Burnham literally puts her and Georgiou in a scrapyard that contains a ton of old Star Trek Easter eggs, even if we only glimpse a few....

This Star Trek article contains minor spoilers for The Next Generation Season 2 and Lower Decks. If you’ve been watching Star Trek: Lower Decks, then you’ve probably noticed that Dr. T’Ana is clearly based on the notorious Dr. Pulaski from Star Trek: The Next Generation. It’s not that Gillian Vigman is trying to channel the performance of Diana Muldaur—because she’s clearly doing her own thing—so much as the entire vibe of Dr....

Last week saw the launch of an enormous resource for science fiction fans, the Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction by lexicographer Jesse Sheidlower. The site includes 1,800 entries going back to the dawn of the 20th century, the dictionary contains not only definitions but also earliest known uses, biographical information about the writers, and over 1,600 scans of the original pages where these words first appeared. It’s a fascinating time-suck of a website which brings some real revelations about the history of everyday science fiction phrases such as ray gun, transmat, flying saucer, and droid (not Star Wars as it happens)....

In a galaxy far far away… Cue opening credits and super-cool theme song… Cue lightsaber action and goosebumpy beat-music. Where’s my popcorn? We arrive at last to one of the more contemporary articles in The Gamer. The fact that a movie is great means it has touched millions of people on a deep level. Hardcore fans of the originals have often silently believed that there won’t ever be a better follow-up to the Star Wars film franchise after the titles that released in 1977/80/83....

Video games based on a certain galaxy far, far away were once all the rage, spanning multiple genres with deep RPGs such as Star Wars: Knight of the Old Republic and flight combat simulators like the Rogue Squadron series. Unfortunately, not long after Disney acquired the Star Wars brand and games based on the franchise were placed in the hands of EA, interactive entertainment based on this franchise slowed down exponentially....