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Uwe Boll's Anti-Immigration Movie Is Getting A Video Game Tie-In
If you were thinking the story surrounding Uwe Boll's god-awful racist flick Citizen Vigilante couldn't get any stupider, then hold all these beers: There's a video game tie-in arriving on PlayStation next week! (Thanks IGN.) A new Uwe Boll movie…
The Best Books, Movies, Video Games, and Podcasts to Check Out After Watching 'Mad Men'
Mad Men is a show that transcends its logline. On its face, it sounds a bit dull and mildly ridiculous—a show about Madison Avenue ad men in the stodgy early 1960s?—but Matthew Weiner and his cast delivered one of the best TV shows…
If Netflix Is the Future of Video Games, We're All Cooked - Opinion
It's a grim day for gamers. After the long holiday weekend, the U.S. video game industry is back on the clock and reckoning with yet another round of devastating layoffs. On Monday, Microsoft announced it would eliminate 4,800 jobs, including…
5 Video Games That Need an Anime Adaptation
For years, there's been a misconception that video games cannot be properly adapted to movie or television form. Not only does this premise ignore that video games like Super Mario and Sonic the Hedgehog are now full-fledged blockbuster franchises…
10 Video Games That Are Pretty Much Perfect
Throughout history, there have been several video games so exceptional that they're worthy of being counted among the best of all time. But a video game masterpiece that's pretty much perfect? Now, that is a rarity you don't come across too often.
10 Fantasy Video Games That Are Perfect From Start to Finish
When playing a video game, there will always be some area, section, or general flaw in the title that just restricts it from becoming perfect. Such as the turret-shooting asteroid segment in Dead Space that took players out of the loop, or the…
The 10 Best Cozy Video Games of All Time, Ranked
Cozy gaming is a genre of video games that is all about stress relief. Often, there is no way to fail the game, and their sole purpose is to provide players with a soothing, calm environment to lower their heart rate, exercise their mind or their…
Why Is It So Hard To Make A Good 'Game Of Thrones' Video Game?
From the moment video games became more complex than Pong and Spacewar, they became a platform for high-concept genre fiction. Science fiction and fantasy have thrived in gaming because gaming's interactivity allows players to live vicariously as…
Prime Video's Tomb Raider Reboot Gets Glowing Endorsement From Video Game Star
The future looks bright on Prime Video. The search for a new 007 recently narrowed following an eye-watering $1 billion acquisition of James Bond, with hopes that news of a casting will arrive sooner rather than later. Helming the new era of Bond…
Why A Crash Won't 'Reset' The Games Industry
The video game industry won't be reset by a crash. (Photo by Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images) With all the terrible news of layoffs and that the games industry is in a dire state, some people online have said a crash is the only way to fix things. It…
These 10 Video Game Companies Have Left Players Feeling Skeptical After Years Of Disappointment
Unfortunately, if you love video games and want to experience the biggest titles, then you must deal with big corporations. It's unavoidable unless you stick with indie titles, but even then, big companies likely own the system you're playing those…
10 Video Games Where Sound Design Matters More Than Graphics For Gameplay Experience
Graphics get the marketing budget and the console-war bragging rights. Sound design gets a slider buried in the options menu, often ignored right up until you play something that would collapse without it. The games here aren't ugly; several of…
Massive new Ubisoft remake completely divides critics
Critics are unanimous: Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag, first released in 2013, is a great game, one of the very best in Ubisoft's massively popular series. And most of them are happy to have it back in a new remake, Assassin's Creed Black Flag…
Google's AI Spam Rules: What Marketers Need To Know
When Andrew Wheeler first got into the SEO business, he fought old-school keyword stuffing: Hiding keywords that are the same color as the website's background (invisible to the human eye, but enshrined in code), as well as in every unrelated code…
These 3 Niche ETFs Might Just Buck A Bear Trend
The broad stock market looks like a total minefield right now. Big indexes like the S&P 500 ($SPX) are sitting at historically expensive prices, and they are relying almost entirely on a few massive AI stocks to keep from falling. However, when the…
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