Elijah Beahm
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This Secret Level In Jedi Knight Let You Hilariously Break Star Wars Canon
Defeat Darth Vader and Boba Fett, canon be damned, in Jedi Knight: Mysteries Of The Sith. → Read More
How Tie-Ins Make Fiction Better
Tie-in fiction lets a franchise explore places it otherwise couldn't do to financial or societal restraints, as seen in Star Wars & Halo. → Read More
Outriders Is the Height of Consumption
Outriders from People Can Fly is the height of consumption, an extremely fun and accessible game with almost no substance underlying it. → Read More
A Tale of Two Clone Wars: The Ravaging of EU Canon
The Genndy Tartakovsky Star Wars: Clone Wars cartoon was great, but 3D-animated The Clone Wars ravaged Expanded Universe (EU) lore and canon. → Read More
Dead Space 2 Understands There's More to Horror Than the Bogeyman
Dead Space 2 evolves beyond the traditional survival horror of the original with fluid action and complex emotional strife and dread. → Read More
We Need More Shared Universes Like Giant Days
The John Allison Bobbinsverse comics including Giant Days represent an effective shared universe and a counterpoint to Marvel's MCU. → Read More
How Nier: Automata Pulls Players into Yoko Taro's Weirdness
PlatinumGames introduces a totally different, more bombastic, almost desperate style to Yoko Taro concepts in Nier: Automata. → Read More
Elsa Bloodstone Is the Hilarious Badass the MCU Desperately Needs
Marvel Comics monster hunter Elsa Bloodstone should join the MCU Blade movie because she is a versatile and a hilarious ass-kicker. → Read More
Modern Star Wars Still Hasn't Done Better Than KOTOR 2
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords (KOTOR 2) still has not been matched in quality by any Disney movies, books, or TV. → Read More
Martha Is Dead Review in 3 Minutes
Martha Is Dead Review in 3 Minutes: LKA and Wired Productions have created an odd psychological thriller game with poor performance. → Read More
Remembering Tom Veitch, the Original Writer to Resurrect Palpatine in Dark Empire
Reflecting on the impact of Tom Veitch on Star Wars canon (including Disney) with Dark Empire, Tales of the Jedi, and reviving Palpatine. → Read More
Biomutant Is an Evolutionary Dead End
Biomutant from Experiment 101 tries to be every genre and style of video game at once, but the result is an evolutionary dead end. → Read More
Trying to Decipher the Freakishly Deep Lore of The Sims
From Bella Goth to aliens to the Grim Reaper, The Sims franchise has ridiculously deep lore spanning an entire multiverse of content. → Read More
Dying Light: The Following Ends the Dying Light Story for Good
Dying Light: The Following is the direct ending to the original game, despite Techland making a Dying Light 2, and it feels unnecessary. → Read More
Transformers: Prime Is How You Modernize a Classic
2010 series Transformers: Prime from Hasbro is how you modernize a classic series with nuanced, respectful, evolved character depictions. → Read More
Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem Review in 3 Minutes
Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem Review in 3 Minutes: Croteam and Timelock Studio have a 5-hour standalone expansion of uneven execution. → Read More
A Plague Tale: Innocence Can't Decide If It's Prestige or Horror
A Plague Tale: Innocence from Asobo Studio and Focus Entertainment tries to be both prestige and survival horror, and it doesn't work. → Read More
Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter Is the Schrodinger's Cat of Star Wars Tie-ins
Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter offered unusually long-lasting contributions to both Legends and Disney canon with Nym and Lok Revenants. → Read More
Is Aliens: Fireteam Elite a Dead Game Walking?
Second Look: Cold Iron Studios' Aliens: Fireteam Elite has received few updates and dwindling players, feeling like a dead live-service game. → Read More
Thunder Tier One Is the Thinking Player's Call of Duty
Thunder Tier One from Krafton is a brilliant cooperative and competitive squad shooter that invites experimentation in its military sim. → Read More