Delicious in the dungeonOne of our favorite anime of the year so far, it’s based on an acclaimed 2014 manga by Ryōko Kui – but as the mangaka says, the concept’s origins go back even further. In Japanese language Interview with Famitsu Back in February, Kui explained the many video game inspirations behind the popular ...
Like so many other people did after I finished that Stand out series on Amazon Prime, I wanted to get back into a Fallout game. I lived in the Boston area – where Fallout 4 plays – in 2015 when this game was released, so I spent almost 70 hours there, but couldn’t resist the ...
TikTok creators can’t escape a maelstrom of policy and security concerns lately. On Wednesday, President Joe Biden signed a $95 billion national security package. Embedded in this was the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, which gives TikTok parent company ByteDance 270 days to sell the platform or cease operations in the United ...
No rest for the wicked is tedious by design. Healing items in action RPGs have a 10 second hold time after use, so you’ll die a lot. With each death, equipment loses durability and repair costs quickly add up. Bounty missions you take on to cover them pay shit, but that’s the job. Time and ...
Flexible plots This is how you build castle grounds, marketplaces and agricultural fields in your country Landlords City. It’s a fairly intuitive (and satisfying) process, aligning the edges of properties with streets to create organic shapes. However, sometimes it just doesn’t work. Our Manor Lords guide will help you understand some of the reasons why ...
Every popular work of mecha fiction, anime or not, isn’t just about cool robots. Whether it is the anti-war fundamentals Mobile Suit Gundam, Neon Genesis EvangelionWhether it’s an allegory for loving and being loved or a commentary on the way power is concentrated in the hands of a select few, the mecha genre is full ...
Loss is inevitable, and yet knowing it doesn’t make it any less difficult. It’s all but guaranteed that grief will touch your life – and touch my life. And that is certainly already the case. This certainty – that we are all touched by death – is one reason so much art is devoted to ...
A jury voted unanimously in favor of Take-Two Interactive Software on Friday, rejecting tattoo artist Jimmy Hayden’s claims that the video game maker violated copyrights when he recreated Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James in its NBA 2K series. After a week in an Ohio court, the jury concluded that Take-Two had an implied license ...
Last December Rebel Moon Part One: A Child of Fire was a paint-by-numbers space opera filled with Zack Snyder’s maximalist colors. Opened as “Seven samurai But make it Star Wars” (literally for Lucasfilm), the finished product was at best a violent B-movie mashup and at worst an expensive Asylum-style mockbuster. Not a great movie, but ...
Sega’s arcade hack-and-slash beat ’em up Golden axe is being adapted for television. In a somewhat unexpected twist, this TV series will be an animated comedy. Mike McMahan (Star Trek: Lower Decks, Sun opposites) and Joe Chandler (American father!) will co-write the first episode and executive produce the 10-part series, Comedy Central announced Wednesday. The ...
