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Aggretsuko Season 3 Review

Warning: The following review contains mild spoilers for Season 3 of Aggretsuko. Aggretsuko has been one of the most welcome surprises to Netflix in recent years. The makers of Hello Kitty have brought a hyper-relatable 9-5 workplace dramedy to our screens. The…

Xbox All Access Explained

We now know the Xbox Series S will run for $299. It’s likely that the Xbox Series X is at least $499. Xbox All Access makes it possible to have these expensive consoles for a low monthly price. If that all seems…

Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2 (Xbox One) – Review

Is it a bird, is it a man, is it a bird-man doing Christ Air? There are a million different ways I could have started this, and none of them would have suggested I’m new to the series. So, if you’re looking…

Windbound (Switch) Review

Survival games have always been hit or miss for me. Most survival games become vastly easier when you have people to play with. Some are even very difficult to play alone. However, Windbound is a Single-Player Survival/Exploration game that breaks these conventions.…

Marvel’s Avengers (PC) Review

Editor’s Note: The developers have released a patch for Marvel’s Avengers and are working to fix bugs and crashes. See the patch notes here. After a delay and quite a lot of hype, we can finally play Marvel’s Avengers. I love character-action titles,…

Xbox Series S Revealed With Price, No Date

Well, that was one eventful night of leaks, rumors, and an official reveal that came at midnight. Yet still we have no firm release date date. Last night as most website editors were going to bed, rumors and leaks begin to spill from…

Lovecraft Country Episode 3 Review: “Holy Ghost”

Warning: This article contains discussion of racism, violence, torture, death, murder, and spoilers for Lovecraft Country. This week’s Lovecraft Country picks up — thematically if not temporally — from where its predecessor left off. With a wound comes a fallout, with loss…

Tenet (Film) Review

A man catches a bullet in the palm of his hand from where it lay on the table. A scientist plays a recording of it for him, backwards and forwards. Backwards: he dropped it. Forwards: he caught it. This is Tenet’s approach…

Mask-Off and Hands-Off Racism in “Elite Squad”

Warning: This article contains discussion of anti-Black racism, violence, police brutality, and murder. Recently, Ubisoft — and its subsidiary studio Owlient — produced a mobile game adding to the publisher’s line of Tom Clancy-affiliated games, titled Tom Clancy’s Elite Squad. This new…

Vostok Inc. Added To Prime Gaming

Well, I was going to do another paragraph-long explanation of why Prime Gaming was a stupid decision, and how it has lost the interest of some who would normally participate. However, I should start out with a note that this week is…