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Video Game Masterpieces I Wish I Could Play Again For The First Time

Sometimes a second playthrough of a game can reveal new or unexpected details, or even new story beats and gameplay mechanics, that help differentiate it from your first time through the campaign. Lots of gamers like this, as it speaks to the idea of "value for money" that many of us lean on when deciding what games to...

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Legend has it that The 7th Guest's creators were 'fired' on the spot after pitching the game—it's 'hyperbole,' but not entirely untrue

Myst is the game best known for driving adoption of the CD-ROM drive, but as a Halloween-obsessed kid in the '90s, The 7th Guest was where it was at for me. The 1993 puzzle-adventure game was, like Myst, one of the first games that required a CD-ROM drive—but unlike Myst, sometimes your mouse cursor was a skull with bu...

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10 Most Overpowered Isekai Anime Characters, Ranked

When it comes to overpowered anime characters, the isekai genre boasts countless individuals, be it protagonists or villains, with incomprehensible powers that make them look like living and breathing cheat codes. It goes without saying that isekai anime is filled with overwhelmingly powerful characters, and even those...

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'It Would Be Difficult' CD Projekt Red Sets Expectations for Future Witcher Expansions

A new statement from CD Projekt Red's joint CEO indicates that expansions likely won't be on the table for the upcoming trilogy of The Witcher games. This may be disappointing to fans of The Witcher franchise, but the nature of the games' development makes the statement understandable.

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4 Best New Movies to Stream This Weekend

For any movie fan whose watchlist is starting to feel a little stale, this weekend's streaming lineup has plenty of fresh options worth checking out. From big-budget sci-fi adventures to tense horror thrillers and acclaimed international dramas, several of 2026's most talked-about movies have made the jump from theater...

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Chainsaw Man Part 2 is Officially Returning on June 4

Chainsaw Man Chapter 232 released on March 24, 2026, bringing Part 2 – and seemingly the entire manga – to an abrupt close. To call Chainsaw Man’s ending divisive would be the understatement of the century. Pochita resetting the timeline and giving Denji a second chance at life, only for him to end up back at Public Sa...

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Official New Witcher 3 Release Coming Next Year Will Be a Must-Play Before Witcher 4

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is getting a new expansion in 2027, and fans looking forward to the next numbered entry will definitely want to play "Songs of the Past," as it will apparently serve as something of a prologue to The Witcher 4. It's been more than 10 years since the release of The Witcher 3, but CD Projekt Red...

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An EVE newbie got an impossibly rare $7,000 ship out of a free loot box, leaving him set for life in the space MMO: 'Everyone gets this for free, right?'

At the end of 2025, a guy who had been playing notorious space MMO, spreadsheet-in-disguise, and corporate espionage sim EVE Online for just six months basically got a $7,000 ship out of nowhere⁠. After a brief, agonizing period in which he might have been lowballed or otherwise thwarted like a Coen Brothers character...

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The Witcher 3 sold another 5 million copies over the last year: 'This cements its place among the best-selling videogames in history'

Here's a nice little bit of trivia to carry you into your weekend: Amidst all the hullabaloo about the surprise Witcher 3 expansion Songs of the Past that was announced earlier this week, CD Projekt also revealed that Geralt's big(gest) adventure has now surpassed 65 million copies sold."The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, which...

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Rayman Origins: Enhanced Edition Leaks Online

Rayman Origins: Enhanced Edition has leaked online by way of the Xbox Store. The newly revealed remaster will bring players back to Rayman Origins, which originally released way back in 2011.

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Backrooms and Exit 8 make the perfect double feature for videogame-adjacent horror movies

One of my favorite genres of film isn't a real genre, though if it was it'd be called "survivalone." It's when one person winds up in a dangerous environment and pretty much spends the whole movie alone trying to escape it. In this genre there's very little talking or exposition, you only know as much as the main chara...

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11-Year-Old Pokémon Card Collector Isn’t A Fan: ‘I Just Flip Cards’

For some younger folks, Pokémon is known less as a multimedia franchise and more as a profit opportunity

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