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The Artful Escape (Xbox One) – Review

Recently, I’ve been doing my annual rewatch of E3 because I am a self-destructive sociopath, and it is weird to look back at Microsoft’s 2017 show where The Artful Escape came to my attention. Personally, I thought I was tripping on LCD at…

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Please, Touch The Artwork (PC) – Review

Roger Ebert said in an editorial in 2010, talking about his previous opinion that games cannot be art: “Nevertheless, I remain convinced that in principle, video games cannot be art.” In principle, it is a stupid and narrow-minded observation by a man held in such…

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Doctor Who “Time Heist” – Review

You know what I miss, Hustle. We don’t get those types of shows anymore. Wikipedia says there were several series to the show but if we’re honest with ourselves, once Adrian Lester left it was never the same. Hustle was a great idea,…

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Expeditions: Rome Review (PC)

Expeditions: Rome is the newest entry into the Expeditions series that has been created by Logic Artists and THQ Nordic. While both of the last two games (Expeditions: Conquistador and Expeditions: Vikings) set a decent bar for this newest entry to beat,…

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Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem (PC) Review

When I checked out Serious Sam 4 in 2020, I was massively let down by awful optimization and trite gameplay. It was so bogged down that I gave it a four out of ten, and I haven’t thought of it since. When…

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Resurrection (Film) Review

Think it over. You’re just messing with the idea, playing out a timeline where you step away. The feeling pries at you, preys on you: “is this something I can be with?” If Titane of last year was a neon-colored nightmare, contorting…

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Gear.Club Unlimited 2 (Xbox One) – Review

Yesterday morning, I was playing a racing game that included an eliminator race. For the uninitiated, an eliminator race is where a clock ticks down like that of a Royal Rumble, and whoever is at the back of the pack is punted…

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Doctor Who “Listen” – Review

Listen, as I said last time, from here on out, I’ve mostly forgotten this series. Aside from Clara (a teacher) saying two orphans should kill some kids because they will be orphans otherwise, people genuinely like her and I don’t know why. Anyway,…

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Doctor Who “Robot of Sherwood” – Review

Generally, the twinge of pseudo-historical fiction from Mark Gatiss thus far I’ve enjoyed: The only one I bounced right off of was his first episode, “The Unquiet Dead.” So, we were going into “Robot of Sherwood” with four episodes to one in…

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The Tragedy of Macbeth (Film) Review

Fair warning: I maybe understood 25% of the words in this film. There is barely a phrase I could take away or decipher in full. It’s above me, or at least above my understanding of the English language. You may wonder then,…

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