Category: News/Editorials
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Sweet Baby Inc and the Culture War in Gaming
One would think that the Culture War is impacting only Hollywood, but unfortunately that isn’t the case. The gaming industry has been rocked recently due to agendas in recent games becoming public, and though there are many actors behind the scenes causing the pandemonium, one company in particular is getting all of the attention: Sweet…
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The Costs of the Successful Year in Gaming
The Game Awards have come and gone and we are days away from 2024; what a year it has been for video games. Baldur’s Gate 3 rightfully won the Game of the Year, its industry shaking mentality and breath of content won the hearts of all gamers as the game of the generation. The other…
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The State of Warner Brothers
As I’m sure you’re well aware by now, Hollywood has had a rough go of things these past few years. Covid radically altered the production schedules of most studios, and the SAG-AFTRA strike ground most film and television projects to a halt. While every studio has suffered to some extent as a result of these…
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Scooby-Doo and the A.I. Actors
If you’ve been on YouTube over the last week, there’s a chance you’ve come across this video. It’s a fan project wherein Mystery Inc. visits the world of Five Nights at Freddy’s and tangles with one of the killer animatronics the video game series is known for. This makes for an amusing little crossover, but…
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Skullgirls, Censored Encore
For those unaware, Skullgirls is a 2012 fighting game developed by Lab Zero. Initially created with the amusing goal of flipping the gender ratio of the traditional fighting game roster, it was a humble little title that released with a grand total of eight playable characters. Through the years, the game was screwed over on…
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Summer Showcases in a Nutshell 2023
The Summer Showcases have come and gone and with that we in the gaming community have seen what is in store for the back half of 2023 and beyond. But that isn’t to say that this year’s showcases were perfect. I am still disgruntled that all these companies still refuse to attend events like E3…
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Signs of Change in the Gaming Industry
On January 18, 2022, Microsoft announced that it planned on purchasing video game publisher and developer juggernaut, Activision-Blizzard. Activision-Blizzard is known for making franchises such as Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, Overwatch, and Diablo. The deal involved an all-cash buyout of Activision’s stock, totaling to around $68.7 billion. When this deal was first announced,…
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Dystopian Fiction and the Generational Gap
Spoiler Warning: This article indiscriminate spoilers for the following books/series: 1984, Brave New World, The Giver, The Hunger Games, Red Rising, Divergent, The Maze Runner Among the various subgenres of science fiction is dystopian fiction. This narrow field deals in stories specifically focused on futuristic, but still possible, settings where some form of authoritarian…
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Star Wars Under Disney: Missed Opportunities
When I was three years old, my father sat me down in the living room of our small multi-family home and inserted a VHS of a movie. He told me that I was now old enough to watch his favorite movie and that it would teach all I need to know about life. That movie…
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What is an Adaptation?
If a work is beloved enough, it will eventually be made into some sort of adaptation. This most commonly means that a movie or TV series based on a book, or more recently, based on a game, will be made. There’s also many instances where direction will be taken, such as a novelization of a…
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