Heading back up to ground level as I leave the immaculate subway at Jujo Station in the south of Kyoto, I walk through this remarkably unremarkable suburb until I see the big white block that houses Nintendo’s contemporary headquarters. The gates to NCL are manned by two portly, middle-aged guards …
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It feels like Destiny 2 players randomly looked up from their Vaults this year and went, “Dang, the story’s gotten good, hasn’t it?” I certainly did. After struggling to meaningfully connect its expansions and seasons for several years, Destiny 2 has quietly (and sometimes loudly) become the best live service …
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Harley Quinn writer Stephanie Phillips has a PhD in rhetoric and composition, a master’s in English, was a competitive Muy Thai fighter, and loves comics. But for a long time she felt like she didn’t really ‘get’ Wonder Woman. Wonder Woman: Evolution #1 cover (Image credit: Mike Hawthorne (DC)) (opens …
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Todd McFarlane’s King Spawn #1 (opens in new tab) has generated retail pre-orders of 497,000 copies to comic book stores, according to Todd McFarlane Productions (TMP). King Spawn #1 Puppeteer Lee cover (Image credit: Todd McFarlane Productions / Image Comics) (opens in new tab) The issue, which goes on sale …
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With Psychonauts 2 ready to release, Double Fine is starting to think more carefully about what it will do next. The studio was acquired by Microsoft in 2019, pulling the previously independent outfit into the Xbox Game Studios framework. For the first time in Double Fine’s 20-year history, it is …
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Star Wars. The Avengers. Harry Potter. When we think of entertainment empires, an inexpensive, ultra-violent, sociopolitical satire from the late ’80s doesn’t immediately spring to mind. But, like its hero Alex Murphy, RoboCop has proved very hard to kill. Screenwriters Ed Neumeier and Michael Miner’s story of a cybernetic cop …
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Black Widow has arrived in cinema and on Disney Plus, and the real identity of Taskmaster has been revealed. We had been speculating long and hard over who would be behind the mask, but saying anything more would be a spoiler. So, before we dive into our chat with Black …
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Nintendo has always been a company that has set its own agenda, and that has rarely been more apparent than it was with the N64. Rather than following the likes of 3DO, Sega, and Sony into the CD-ROM market, it stuck doggedly to cartridges. Instead of simply evolving the SNES …
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Javier Pulido is redefining Valiant Entertainment’s Ninjak in the new series with co-creator Jeff Parker – but they’re not taking away or adding anything to sleuthy spy character. As the artist tells Newsarama, they’re “re-creating” the character in a way that anyone and everyone – Ninjak devotee or not – …
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Kiwis are hardly the first candidates that come to mind for a post office gig. The flightless birds have a wingspan of around one inch, useless for any sort of manual labour, and a brain the size of a walnut, which isn’t exactly ideal in the fast-paced, sensory overload of …
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