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This article contains spoilers for Station Eleven. “I’ve been adrift in the strangest galaxy for a long time. But I’m safe now. I found it again. My home.” – Dr. Eleven It’s not an original observation that many, if not most, good stories are about stories themselves. After all, they say “write about what you know” and what does a storyteller know if not the power of story? Even with that in mind, however, HBO Max’s Station Eleven is really about stories....

Survival games are inherently difficult by their very nature. But players looking for even more of a challenge can typically find it in the higher difficulty settings. In Subnautica, that would be the aptly named Hardcore Mode, where they have to contend with the threat of permadeath, among other things. The mode presents a more realistic take on open-world survival, adding an extra layer of immersion to the game. But despite what might look like an insurmountable challenge at first, the additional hurdles the mode presents can actually be managed by new and seasoned players alike, provided they keep the following tips handy....

Over the past few years, Telltale Games has gone from a hit-or-miss adventure game developer to a premiere player in the triple-A space. Their work on The Walking Dead not only re-established the company as a heavy weight, but also pushed them to the forefront when it came to most anticipated releases. And while The Walking Dead could have easily been a one-off fluke for Telltale, their work on The Wolf Among Us and Season 2 of TWD proved otherwise....

Tepig is rubbish. Sorry to any of the four Emboar stans out there, but your boy is competing with Blaziken and Infernape for best Fire/Fighting-type starter evolution, with “competing” being a very strong, overly sympathetic word. There are only three of them and I wouldn’t even give Emboar a bronze medal - not worth the ore or the metallurgist’s time. Anyway, as someone who’s only starting to get back into Pokemon Go after a hefty hiatus, I can’t believe the event that’s supposed to pull me back in is a bloody Tepig Community Day....

Recently, the gaming industry has made headlines by letting terminally ill gamers play their favorite game. Recent examples include a young man named Wes who was able to play Fallout 76 and another named Chris Taylor who played Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Unfortunately, Taylor succumbed to his cancer, but his legacy lives on, with stories such as his inspiring even more acts of kindness, including one involving Red Dead Redemption 2....

When the Nintendo Switch hit shelves in 2017, it was clear that the console was a return to form for Nintendo after the disappointing Wii U. The Nintendo Switch wasn’t just received well from a critical standpoint, but from a sales perspective too, as the Switch is currently the 12th highest-selling console ever. Despite this success, 2020 was always going to be a tough year for Nintendo due to the release of the Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5....

10 Aya Brea (Parasite Eve, 81) 9 Amanda Ripley (Alien: Isolation, 83) 8 Hana Tsu-Vachel (Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix 84) 7 Mio And Mayu Amakura (Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly Director’s Cut, 84) 6 Heather Mason (Silent Hill 3, 85) 5 Regina (Dino Crisis 2, 86) 4 Madison Paige (Heavy Rain, 87) 3 Alexandra Roivas (Eternal Darkness, 92) 2 Claire Redfield (Resident Evil 2 Remake, 93) 1 Ellie (The Last of Us Part II, 94)

Players who want a break from fast-paced action titles will appreciate the calm and tactical gameplay courtesy of Capcom’s Monster Hunter franchise. The game transforms players into monster hunters as they perform hunts for the nearby village. Unlike other games, Monster Hunter takes players on an endless cycle of honing their talents, hunting monsters, and collecting parts to make awesome weapons and armor. Monster Hunter World takes this experience online — letting players team up with friends against harder and more difficult monsters....

A lot of things can make a horror movie great, from an atmospheric score to a strong command of suspense, but the horror movies that transcend the horror label and feel like what Martin Scorsese would call “cinema” are the ones that use genre scares to convey some kind of social message. Many great filmmakers have used the horror genre as a vehicle to convey satirical commentary about the contemporary social climate....

The Game Awards went digital this year to accommodate the unrelenting pandemic. And while we can all agree that Sephiroth’s entry in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate was the show’s highlight, the premiere trailer for The Callisto Protocol was a close second. Geoff Keighley is the proud father of the PG-rated awards show, meaning that developer Striking Distance had to hold back The Callisto Protocol’s Red Band Cinematic trailer to release separately - which adds an additional 25 seconds....

The Gears of War franchise is a meaty, dark, and some surreal journey. Tragedy constantly strikes the planet of Sera, which the franchise calls home, and millennia of war and billions of deaths have taken place before the title screen in the first entry. Even still, that’s only a prelude to the death and destruction that repeatedly wreaks havoc throughout the Gears of War series. Simply put, there are tragic and scary moments in the Gears of War games everywhere....

At E3 earlier this year, Ubisoft announced a new Tom Clancy game titled The Division 2, which is set to release in March of next year. After the reveal at E3, more and more details surrounding the highly anticipated game, including a beta, have been announced, and fans were able to start signing up for the beta soon after. During Ubisoft’s financial conference call hosted very recently, Chief Executive Officer, Yives Guillemot, talked about the performance of The Division 2‘s beta....

Ubisoft Massive releases the patch notes for the forthcoming Incursions update in The Division, revealing new gameplay features, changes, and bug fixes. Following yesterday’s weekly server maintenance for The Division, developers for the wildly popular third-person shooter have put out notes for Update 1.1, which is the title’s first major patch that’s set to include Incursions — that is, the game’s first version of a raid — Supply Drops for the Dark Zone, and much more on April 12, all of which is detailed in full on the next page....

Host and producer Geoff Keighley has been building up to The Game Awards 2020, the latest installment in an annual show he created to recognize talent in the video game industry. While many fans tune in to see which title will be crowned Game of the Year, developers have also made announcements in years’ past. It seems 2020’s show airing December 10 is no exception, with games like Fortnite already teasing reveals....

What happens if we cure death? What if we could bring someone back from the Great Beyond and into a world where the grass is a little less green? More than a science fiction concept, this idea set the standard as the first sci-fi tale ever published in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. And this lingering question has persisted up to Pet Sematary and through our latest Blumhouse Production: The Lazarus Effect. Named after that biblical fellow who proved to have merely one foot in the grave, this Lazarus pulls from all of the above material for an intended February fright....

Ready for your first Masters of the Universe: Revelation trailer? It just arrived yesterday as part of Netflix’s Geeked Week, a week-long string of announcements and trailers to showcase the latest and greatest in the streaming platform’s offerings. And besides the upcoming Witcher season, Masters of the Universe: Revelation might be one of the best things you can watch on Netflix. The show comes courtesy of Kevin Smith, who worked with Netflix to create a sequel to the original 1980s cartoon, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe....

One of the first big game releases of 2021 is Bloober Team’s horror game The Medium. The Medium is out now with mostly positive reviews, and with it available to play through Xbox Game Pass, those curious can give the game a shot without committing to paying for the full price. Fans of Bloober Team’s previous works will definitely want to try The Medium, as it turns out the game has an interesting connection to one of the studio’s earlier titles....

The following contains spoilers for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Episode 10 The season 1 finale of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is a love letter to the series that started it all, an at times shot-for-shot and line-by-line remake of the Star Trek: The Original Series episode “Balance of Terror,” which originally introduced the Romulans to the franchise. The hour gives us a glimpse at a potential alternate future in which Pike is not disfigured or paralyzed and retains command of the Enterprise, but it’s one that comes at a terrible cost....

Fans of Stardew Valley are finally getting one of the game’s most requested features: split-screen co-op. This comes after the addition of online multiplayer as recently as update 1.3, which while well-received, left enough fans craving Stardew Valley’s easy-going multiplayer gameplay independent of an internet connection. Releasing in 2016, Stardew Valley persists as the passion-project of Eric Barone, also known as ConcernedApe, having been developed independently by Barone alone for over four years....

Steam’s annual Autumn Sale is live, and there are some massive savings to be had. After a quick dive into this year’s featured deals, we’ve found juicy savings on several leading titles, from franchise wide sales like Far Cry, Batman, or The Sims, to huge bundle savings and even deals on this year’s top releases like Doom Eternal and Death Stranding. You won’t want to miss out on these savings!...