It’s a beautiful day in Seattle and you’re a jerk cloud. No this isn’t the next Untitled Goose Game, but Rain On Your Parade – a new game from developer Unbound Creations – where you play as a cloud who just wants to ruin everyone’s day. But, if you like …
Read More »Jupiters Legacy timeline explained: unraveling the new superhero shows twin timelines
Warning: Major spoilers for the Jupiter’s Legacy comics and Netflix show ahead! Turn back now if you haven’t watched all 8 episodes on Netflix! Jupiter’s Legacy details the formation of superhero team the Union in flashbacks to the ’20s and ’30s – and whizzes back to the present to show us …
Read More »Returnal Ending Explained: How Housemarque’s devastating story hides in plain sight
Returnal’s ending isn’t easy to find. Once you hit the credits of the game for the first time, you might think that you’ve got to the end of the game’s story, but there’s plenty more to discover. After all, Returnal is a roguelike, and you explore the game by dying …
Read More »Zack Snyders Justice League: 21 Easter eggs you may have missed
Zack Snyder’s Justice League has finally arrived. As you might expect, a movie of this length is packed with Easter eggs and hidden details, and we’ve rounded up 21 of the biggest right here. For those unaware, the theatrical version of Justice League released back in 2017 was massively different …
Read More »Have you tried… taking over a post-apocalyptic world with plants in Cloud Gardens?
It all begins with a single seed and a dilapidated caravan that sticks upright out of a derelict patch of earth. A streetlight stands in the corner of a small section of concrete, and the only signs of life are two blackbirds that soar through the sky and occasionally land …
Read More »The Silence of the Lambs at 30: An unsettling horror thats still utterly terrifying
“Have the lambs stopped screaming, Clarice?” Hannibal Lecter (played exquisitely by Anthony Hopkins) asks Clarice Starling (the excellent Jodie Foster) during The Silence of the Lambs. There are few lines in cinema as iconic, and for good reason – it’s unsettling, creepy, and sticks with you long after the credits …
Read More »The Vision and Scarlet Witch: Extraordinary people and their attempts at ordinary living
Part of the success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is its core idea of spectacular superheroes doing ordinary things – from eating shwarmas to arguing over who can lift what. And that idea of extraordinary people doing ordinary things – or trying to, at least – is at the heart …
Read More »Have you tried… Grindstones mesmeric mix of violence and puzzles?
Fewer things have given me a greater sense of satisfaction over the best few weeks than returning to Grindstone. That can be primarily put down to the way that Jorj, the hulking hero of this puzzler-brawler, rhythmically dissects his way through the cutesy monsters that clutter his path to the …
Read More »Putting together the DC clues for Batgirl, Batgirls, and the full return of Oracle
Following a nine-year run between two volumes, DC’s Batgirl ongoing series came to an end in October with no announced plans for the character (or series) to return. Without a title of her own, what’s next for Batgirl? Well, just because Batgirl has lost her ongoing series, that doesn’t mean …
Read More »Have you tried… demolishing the block and getting paid for it in Teardown?
Teardown starts slow, with a few jobs that introduce you individually to the concepts of smashing and grabbing: making way for a shopping mall by knocking down an old eyesore that turns out to be a historical center (oops), and “sneaking” into a chemical plant to steal a bunch of …
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