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Alyce Tzue always loved fairy tales, but growing up as the only Asian kid in a homogeneous community in New Jersey, she worried she would never find her happily ever after. Instead of seeing herself in Cinderella, Tzue wondered why her stepsisters didn’t get their own magic. Now she’s teaming up with Raya and the...
War of the Worlds: Siberia has received its 14th developer diary, which focuses on historical firearm shooting, the combat system, and 19th-century costumes. Joined by actress Alexandra Milyoshina and gaming vlogger Alexey Lutsay, the War of the Worlds: Siberia team visited the Garrison-Film film studio to test weapons from the game and try on historical...
When the Nintendo Entertainment System debuted in North America on October 18, 1985, accompanied by a modest lineup featuring Super Mario Bros. and Excitebike, few could have predicted its monumental trajectory. Within a few short years, its catalog swelled to encompass hundreds of releases, definitively putting to rest any lingering doubts regarding the supposed collapse...
The developers of Fable plan to combine the simplicity of classic RPGs with a modern combat system that allows players to freely mix different fighting styles and customize their characters. Reviving the Albion universe after 16 years has proven to be a major challenge for Playground Games. Associate Game Director Will Kennedy explained in an...
Most of Stephen King‘s bibliography is far from obscure. As one of the most famous novelists on Earth and a defining voice in horror fiction, even his lesser-known works regularly become best-sellers. King has returned to his back catalog for a new release. Other Worlds Than These arrives on Oct. 6 as the second sequel...
Hideo Kojima’s studio has completely lost access to Sony technology, which could seriously impact the development of Physint. After Sony Interactive Entertainment declined to participate in the development of Physint, Kojima Productions may face another major problem because the studio likely can no longer use the Decima game engine, which was used to create both...
Actors like Walton Goggins fascinate audiences. There is something captivating about him that makes many wonder what makes him such an appealing actor. From playing Boyd Crowder on Justified to the villainous Sonny Burch in Ant-Man and the Wasp, he has a wide range of characters under his belt. Many of those characters do questionable...
As a lifelong reader of Calvin and Hobbes, Bill Watterson’s words and drawings often struck a deep chord. Reading about Calvin traipsing through the forest as a child prompted walks into the backyard woods to do the exact same thing. Appreciating the open-ended beauty of the final comic came later in life. That final strip...
Here is a brief digest of everything happening in the global entertainment industry over the past day. Sony has repeatedly stated that users own their digital games, and these exact statements are now set to be used against the company in court. Sony could find itself in a legal trap. David Jaffe called for the...
Early Western movies followed a simple formula. Good guys wore white hats, bad guys wore black hats, and the white hats always won. These films served as basic morality tales about right and wrong. Such traditional stories dominated early pre-World War II cinema and continued through the Golden Era of Westerns from 1940 to 1960....
