Small Screens: Games on TV

Have you seen Alicia Vikander as Lara Croft? It’s Zack Snyder/Sin City level of painful recreation from source material to film, and I couldn’t help but get excited seeing the still shots on Twitter. But as the hype slowly faded, the realization of the games industry’s unsatisfactory relationship with film came back to me. The…

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Justin’s E3 Pick — Assassin’s Creed: Origins (with special mentions)

I’ve been waiting. And waiting. I’ll admit, I got pretty used to having a new Assassin’s Creed game every year. It was nice. Sure, things were getting stale in some ways; they had all but dropped the future storyline on its head after AC3, but I still looked forward the getting my hands on a new AC game every October/November. When they took a year off, I was a bit disappointed, but I felt it was honestly in the best interest of the franchise.

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4 Great Dads in Gaming

Disclaimer: May contain minor spoilers for Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, Mass Effect: Andromeda, The Batman: Arkham franchise, and Fallout 4 It’s that special day of the year we all set apart to celebrate dads. Some of our favorite dads wear jean shorts and taught us how to swear, and some of our very favorite…

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