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The Frog Brothers’ street cred echoes way uptown as Netflix offers up its after-hours, after-school Halloween special treat: Vampires vs. The Bronx. Think of it as Get Out for tweens as the real bloodsuckers in this Bronx tale are the real estate developers looking to gentrify the Concourse. They even dress like landed gentry. “The Murnau guys are chewing up the neighborhood,” street proud Miguel (Jaden Michael) warns his crew. The Murnau real estate firm doesn’t even try to hide it, they have a Vlad the Impaler face on their logo....

Just like anything else, video game trends can shift from season to season and year to year. Looking back at the past 30 to 40 years of game development, we can see when and how some trends emerged because of improved graphics, technology, and storytelling—but also because games, like other media, reflect our culture’s thoughts, hopes, and anxieties. Starting with the eighties, here are some of the biggest video game trends based on top sellers and nostalgic favorites....

As the gaming medium continues to rise in popularity and become more than just a simple pastime for kids, it’s just a matter of time before its appropriation into non-gaming mediums reaches a level similar to that of the film industry. Need an example? In the not-so-distant future, phone users could find themselves interacting with a familiar artificial intelligence from the Halo universe whenever they talk to their device. After months of rumors that Microsoft would be bringing Cortana, the iconic A....

This article contains spoilers for WandaVision episodes one and two. Now that WandaVision is finally streaming on Disney+, Marvel fans have plenty of questions about what’s really going on in the MCU spinoff series, and we’re here to help! In the opening two episodes of WandaVision, Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) and her beloved Vision (Paul Bettany) settle down in the quaint town of Westview to start a new chapter of their lives amidst various amusing sitcom tropes....

Power fantasy and Warframe are practically synonymous with each other. Every Warframe, weapon, and ability in this game is built around making the player feel as powerful as possible. Nothing is a better example of this than the game’s wide range of melee weapons. From greatswords to whips, Warframe has hundreds of melee weapons that allow the player to carve a path through hundreds of enemies at dizzying speeds. With the changes to damage types and Melee 3....

According to the novel’s website, the story follows Ürbon, a raider that wields a legendary rune axe as he navigates the world of Faladon on a quest against darkness. Testimonials on the website praised The Titan Divide’s detailed world building, and “vibrant” cast of characters. As several fans have noted, Journeys Through Faladon: The Titan Divide is an impressive collaboration between many members of the Warhammer community. Although Faladon is its own realm with countless unique settings, the unity of the world and its riveting narrative, this book is sure to attract both Warhammer lovers and fans of fantasy RPGs....

Ever since Destiny 2’s official gameplay reveal, Bungie has talked a lot about Adventures. While much of the sequel’s story experience will be relegated to the campaign missions, which have CGI and in-game cinematics, the Adventures are meant to give players more to do while exploring the world. As part of a Destiny 2 preview event, Game Rant was able to experience some of the Adventures in the game in order to get a better understanding of how they work and what types of experience they offer....

Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi and his studio, Mistwalker, just launched a new, diorama-filled JRPG on April 2, Fantasian. The Apple Arcade exclusive puts a unique spin on traditional gaming environments with diorama worlds, and now you can watch a behind-the-scenes look at how one of those environments came together. Mistwalker’s latest game puts you in control of Leo, a young man lost in a strange world with only one memory....

Who watches the Watchmen? The Television Critics Association apparently (of which, full disclosure: this author is a member). Eerily prescient HBO miniseries Watchmen has won four 2020 TCA Awards, including Individual Achievement in Drama (for Regina King’s work), Outstanding New Program, Outstanding Achievement in Movie, Miniseries, or Special, and Program of the Year. This marks a clean sweep of the categories that Watchmen was nominated in and, due to the TCA Awards’ relatively short list of 13 categories, amounts to the show winning roughly 31% of all the awards....

Netflix has finally ended our tortuous wait, by renewing Wednesday for a season two. Read: Netflix tips and tricks: How to master your binge-watching experience Although the streaming giant has yet to announce a release date or casting information or even trailers with footage of the new season, here is everything we know so far – including where you’ll be able to stream it. Wednesday season 2: What to know Netflix’s Wednesday is a spin-off of The Addams Family franchise focused on the eldest Addams child, Wednesday....

As we complete each week, we like to look back to the previous seven days and reflect upon a few stories we didn’t cover. This week, we are discussing the PlayStation 4 exclusive What Remains of Edith Finch, the latest Halo 5 audio clip, and more character creation options for those who preorder Elder Scrolls Online. Here are the stories for this week’s Video Game Round-Up: Back in December, Sony announced their upcoming exclusive title What Remains of Edith Finch at Sony’s PlayStation Experience event....

The 2018 Broadway musical The Prom has always had a somewhat shaky premise, combining a quartet of narcissistic Broadway stars (Meryl Streep, James Corden, Nicole Kidman, and Andrew Rannells) looking for a way to be relevant again with a lesbian couple’s (Jo Ellen Pellman and Ariana DeBose) simple wish to attend their prom in Edgewater, Indiana. The two threads collide when the prom gets blown up into a civil rights issue....

The PlayStation 5 is now only a few weeks away from its official release, and with the console set to arrive soon, every detail imaginable is being released to the public. The newest PS5 info sees the machine being as heavy as it is big, with the console weighing twice as much as the PS4 Pro. Unsurprisingly, it seems like the much-discussed size of the PS5 has translated to the console’s heaviness as well....

Minor spoilers for Paper Mario: The Origami King ahead! There are some video games that try really hard to be terrifying, either through disturbing imagery or through cheap jump scares. The scariest games are the ones that surprise you, and 2020’s freakiest game might belong to Paper Mario: The Origami King, by virtue of a single level, called the Temple of Shrooms. One of the main goals in Paper Mario: The Origami King involves breaking the five streamers that have cut Princess Peach’s castle off from the rest of the Mushroom Kingdom....

2021 looks set to be yet another huge year for the streaming giant Netflix. The company recently unveiled its entire movie lineup for the next 12 months and also has a wide selection of new television shows scheduled to make their debuts over the same period. As great as this all is though, most subscribers will be more excited about the impending return of some of the platform’s biggest shows....

Based on the wildly popular series of video games and novels by Andrzej Sapkowski, drawing on Polish legends to form tales of the beast hunters known as witchers, The Witcher franchise has also found great success on Netflix. Following Geralt of Rivia, the series traces the journey of the legendary witcher as he rides throughout the Continent in search of monsters to slay, never knowing how his fate will be intertwined with that of the kingdom....

Apart from magical signs and swords, potions would be another ace in the hole for a witcher. They’re a lot more underrated compared to the more direct steel and silver or the more flashy signs but when used right, they can make Geralt an invincible killing machine. In fact, lots of Geralt builds rely on certain potions. At the same time, certain potions in the witcher’s arsenal can appear rather impractical....

With the likes of Final Fantasy VII, Skyrim, and Dark Souls amongst their ranks, RPGs as a genre are generally loved and praised by fans and critics alike. Whether they offer an open-world experience, elaborate character customization, or expansive lore, role-playing games have the potential to be truly immersive experiences. Of course, with so much content out there, there’s always more that can go wrong. From budget issues to unexpected bugs, any number of problems can leave players with a rather disappointing product....

Microsoft is ending the year with a media blitz. No sooner do we get their holiday commercial showcasing all the latest and greatest gadgets from the technology giant (and a couple of adorable doggoes, too) that we get a short film from actor, writer, and director Taika Waititi and starring streamer and influencer MoonLiteWolf. Waititi’s recent directing credits include Thor: Ragnarok, so he’s certainly qualified to take point on a somewhat more artistic endeavor than we’ve come to expect from Microsoft....

It’s been a bit of a rocky start for Torchlight III. After releasing on Steam Early Access on June 13, reviews have been decidedly mixed. Most fans are complaining that the game feels incomplete and that it plays like a free-to-play MMO that was turned into a proper Torchlight game at the last second. Which is, of course, exactly what happened. Torchlight III used to be called Torchlight Frontiers, but Echtra changed course late in development to be a more traditional ARPG....