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Bungie on the present and future of Destiny’s Trials of Osiris

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Destiny 2 Trials Guardians run at the screen

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Trials of Osiris is officially back in Destiny 2; here’s how Bungie rebuilt it

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Ryan Gilliam

Fights in Tight Spaces reimagines the deck-building genre as a John Wick-style brawl

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A fighter rendered all in black kicks an enemy, rendered in red, across a bar.

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What if Keanu Reeves was in Slay The Spire?

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Charlie Hall

How big is the Xbox Series X?

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The second-heaviest console — at least right now

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Samit Sarkar

Trailer for Adventure Time creator’s latest is a delightfully weird romp through the multiverse

4 years 1 month ago

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clancy, a pink skinned spacecaster enthusiastically talking into a microphone

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The Midnight Gospel looks like it has the zany fun of Adventure Time but with more swearing and gore

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Petrana Radulovic

Superman accidentally proclaimed himself king of Earth

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Superman battles Mongol in Superman #21, DC Comics (2020).

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Look … it was taken out of context?

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Susana Polo

The new wave of pope entertainment changed how I see the Church

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Jude Law as the Pope in The New Pope stretches out on his back, dressed in white robes and vivid red loafers, and is borne aloft in a crucifixion position by dozens of followers dressed in all black.

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For a generation of non-practicing Catholics, shows like The New Pope are complicated

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Michael Frank

Breath of the Wild fans held $1K ‘feed all the dogs’ race

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A Twitch streamer feeds a dog in Breath of the Wild.

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A Twitch invitational with 20 contestants

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Patricia Hernandez

How America’s biggest theme parks are responding to coronavirus

4 years 1 month ago

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Busch Gardens roller coaster empty and slightly ominous

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Across the nation, theme parks are closing shop

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Petrana Radulovic

Microsoft details changes for Xbox Series X wireless controller

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Here’s what to expect from the next-gen controller

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Nicole Carpenter

Minecraft looks stunning on Xbox Series X

4 years 1 month ago

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Here’s what ray tracing can do

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Nicole Carpenter

Is Aaron Paul’s Westworld season 3 character living in a simulation?

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The Rico app looks just like Grand Theft Auto — so maybe it is

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Matt Patches

Xbox Series X tech demos show off fast load times, multi-game quick resume

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The next-gen Xbox will get you back into games much faster

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Michael McWhertor

Microsoft details full Xbox Series X specs

4 years 1 month ago

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New info ahead of holiday 2020 launch

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Nicole Carpenter

Westworld season 3 guide

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The trailers, theories, and key observations for HBO’s sci-fi series

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Westworld’s season 3 premiere seems to confirm the location of the Delos park

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Bernard points at a map to Westworld, a location south of the South China Sea

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This episode expands on one of season 2’s strangest Easter eggs

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Austen Goslin

What’s going on with Bernard and his button?

4 years 1 month ago

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Bald Bernard (and Arnold) in Westworld season 3

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Episode 1 reintroduces the most cryptic character

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Austen Goslin

7 hosts that could now be Charlotte Hale in Westworld season 3

4 years 1 month ago

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Charlotte Hale 2.0 on Westworld season 3

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Charlores is no more (maybe?), so who’s pulling Delos’ strings now?

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Austen Goslin

What we know about Incite, the new evil corporation of Westworld

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There’s a bigger threat than Delos

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Matt Patches

Classic stadiums with jokey billboards is Super Mega Baseball’s new style

4 years 1 month ago

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a shot of the player Hammer Longballo standing in the outfield during a cloudy game with hazy skies in Super Mega Baseball 3

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Arcade/sim hybrid sets expectations with a visual update

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Owen S. Good

Xbox Live is back online after an evening outage

4 years 1 month ago

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Xbox Live was down while people participating in a nation self-quarantine turned to online gaming

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Chris Plante

Hollywood’s weekend was the worst of its kind since 1995’s Outbreak. Really.

4 years 1 month ago

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Top 10 gross $50 million, with Onward taking $10 million of that

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Owen S. Good

Star Wars Battlefront 2’s fed-up droid becomes immortal death machine

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Iden Versio, in a tactical stormtrooper helmet, zaps a protocol droid in a hallway in Battlefront 2

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C-3 is PO’d

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Owen S. Good

Euro 2020 is still on in PES 2020, even if it isn’t in real life

4 years 1 month ago

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European national tournament could be called off this week

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Owen S. Good

Everything to know before watching the Westworld season 3 premiere

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Evan Rachel Wood looks into the distance in a promotional image from Westworld

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HBO’s sci-fi western returns on Sunday

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Emily Heller

The week’s best game trailers: Doom Eternal, a climbing puzzle, and a cat packing lunch

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A first-person view of a gun pointed at a pair of demons from Doom Eternal’s multiplayer mode

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Plus Terr— excuse me, TERROR LAB

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Owen S. Good

7 trailers that have us hyped this week: Black Widow, Netflix’s Tiger King, Soul, and more

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a man in a brightly patterned shirt hugging a tiger

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Lions, tigers, Paul Giamatti, oh my!

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Petrana Radulovic

A much needed recap of Westworld season 2 before the season 3 premiere

4 years 1 month ago

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Breaking down the key mysteries, deaths, and reincarnations to keep in mind (or in pearl?)

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Jeffrey Parkin

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker released early on digital platforms

4 years 1 month ago

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Stormtroopers in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker ride heavy speeders in a desert chase.

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More comfort food for the social-distanced and self-quarantined

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Owen S. Good

League of Legends, EA suspend all esports due to coronavirus

4 years 1 month ago

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Bloodhound exits a dropship over Kings Canyon in a screenshot from Apex Legends

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LCS Spring Finals will move from Frisco, Texas to Riot Games’ home studio

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Owen S. Good

The Clone Wars followed Star Wars’ streak of humanizing the clones

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Rex in The Clone Wars season 7 episode 4

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The EU, and eventually the canon, reshaped Attack of the Clones

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Andrew Liptak

The 10 most relaxing TV shows that aren’t The Office

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Ami eats a bowl of soup in Terrace House: Opening New Doors

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NBC sitcoms are just the tip of the sleep-inducing iceberg

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Emily Heller

Disney to drop Frozen 2 on Disney Plus this weekend, three months early

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Everyone’s inside, so Disney threw the world a bone

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Matt Patches

Netflix’s Lost Girls almost gets lost in literal darkness

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Amy Ryan in Lost Girls. | Photo: Jessica Kourkounis/Netflix

The narrative feature debut of documentarian Liz Garbus is based on a true story

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Karen Han

How to hit every Houston Astro in MLB The Show 20

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Dock Ellis pitching in the 1971 MLB All-Star Game

“I’m just going to mow the lineup down. Don’t even give me no signal. Just try to catch the ball. If you can’t catch it, forget it.” —Dock Ellis (above) to Pirates catcher Manny Sanguillen, May 1, 1974. | Photo: Diamond Images/Getty Images

It’s a deeply unsatisfying experience

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Owen S. Good