Month: November 2019

Ray tracing, haptic feedback, social strands, surprise mechanics, 8k resolution, “play as anyone”, adaptive triggers, games-as-service, advanced processing units… it never ends with the buzzwords, jfc.

Now, I know we’re supposed to be excited about all this new technology and all these new way to play games, and I’m as likely as the next guy to pre-order a PS5 and/or Xbox… Two? Good-looking games are better than the alternative, no one is arguing that.

Yeah, no thanks

AND YET! Is any of this crap going to make games more fun? Did playing Borderlands 2 in VR make it more enjoyable, or did it make you motion-sick? The Fornite Black Hole event was novel, sure, but Is Season 2 of Fortnite doing anything that “Season 1” wasn’t already doing? Did turning Fallout into a weird MMO social experiment make it more fun than a regular-ass Fallout game would have been?

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The record-smashing Avengers: Endgame not only capped of 10 years, and three Phases, of Marvel movies, but now Disney is submitting the cast for Oscar consideration.

The film’s lengthy final battle, featuring the Avengers vs. 2014 Thanos and his evil horde, has also become a topic of endless exploration. Like how co-writer Christopher Markus recently admitted to the plot hole involving Captain America using Thor’s hammer, Mjolnir.

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“What is the Matrix?”

Twenty years removed from erupting onto screens and carving its rightful place in cinematic history, this question at the heart of Lana and Lily Wachowski’s reality-bending trailblazer begs to be reappraised. Unlike Thomas “Neo” Anderson, dimly aware that something was wrong with his world but not quite sure what, we’re obviously familiar with the concepts and semiotics behind the Matrix by now. So here’s a better question:

What is the legacy of The Matrix?

After the rapturous acclaim of The Matrix followed by the far more muted reception towards both The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions, the reputation of this series overall may be as complicated and divisive as, well, the sequels themselves. However, fans have since become primed and ready for the recently announced fourth Matrix installment, which will see the return of Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, and others. Though long rumored, frustratingly little about this sequel has been revealed so far.

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When Disney+ launches on Tuesday, November 12, subscribers will gain access to the first episode of Star Wars: The Mandalorian. Following the premiere, the second episode will drop on November 15, and then afterwards on a weekly (Friday) basis until the finale airs on December 27.

Starring Pedro Pascal, Gina Carano, Carl Weathers, Ming-Na Wen, and Taika Waititi (voicing IG-11), The Mandalorian is set after the fall of the Empire and before the emergence of the First Order. Existing at the center of good and evil, the series follows a lone gunfighter in the outer reaches of the galaxy far from the authority of the New Republic.

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Reclaim your cargo and stand up to thieves as we show you how to take out MULE camps in Death Stranding.

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