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Witcher Producer Says Fans Are Wrong, Writers Do Respect Books

Coming off the heels of The Witcher’s final season with Henry Cavill, an executive producer of the fantasy series came forward to address some fans’ accusations that the show’s writers don’t respect the books. The Witcher 3 Meets Tense Roguelike PvE Card-Battling In Rogue Mage Light spoiler warning for the start of The Witcher Season

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This Gundam Anime Is Gay, No Matter What Its Owners Say

The Witch From Mercury, the latest entry in the long-running Gundam franchise, not only features the series’ first lead female protagonist, but also proudly centers a queer romance. In Gundam’s 40+ year history, there has been plenty of gay subtext, queer secondary and tertiary characters, and fan shipping, but never anything as explicitly stated as

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Baldur’s Gate 3 Has Super Impressive Twitch Features

Baldur’s Gate III has a whole suite of useful Twitch integration features, and players are already enthusiastically taking notice after its August 3 release. Larian Studios’ eagerly anticipated entry in the BioWare-created Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game series seems to have thought of mostly everything a streamer could want built into a game. The Week

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Destiny 2 ‘Assault’ By Cheaters Is Ending, Bungie Lawsuit Says

Image: Bungie A new Destiny 2 cheat maker is ruining its competitive multiplayer, and Bungie is banking on its string of recent legal victories to crush it. The Sony-owned studio filed a lawsuit against the group behind the Ring-1 software as it claims the days of players “feeling free to engage in a wholesale assault”

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How To Fix Baldur’s Gate 3’s Nasty Save Data Bug

Baldur’s Gate III is taking over Steam right now, but one small save bug is stopping some players in their tracks and forcing them to lose valuable progress in their journeys. The Week In Games: What’s Releasing Beyond Baldur’s Gate 3 As first spotted by IGN, some players on the game’s Steam Discussion page and

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6 Cool Games You Should Play

Dugongue / Nintendo Play it on: Nintendo DS (but there are similar games on many platforms)Current goal: See if it can stump me In the final days of the Neo Geo Pocket Color’s brief, beautiful life I imported several of the final English-translated games from the UK, and among them was an unassuming cart called

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Baldur’s Gate 3 Shows RPG Romance Can Always Get Weirder

I’m about 20 hours into Baldur’s Gate 3, and I’ve picked the most basic-ass romance for a person attracted to men: Gale. He’s a human wizard who is sassy and kind of annoying but also sweet and tragic in a way that tickles the part of my brain that writes fanfiction. With Gale as my

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Shortcomings movie review & film summary (2023)

Ben is a failed film student who spends his days managing an arthouse movie theater and watching Criterion discs such as Ozu’s “Good Morning.” He can’t fathom a world where he isn’t the prime arbiter of taste. Much to his chagrin, however, Ben loves white women. His attraction is tested when he hires the oddball

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The Passenger movie review & film summary (2023)

Benson and Randy are incredibly striking contrasts as these nightmarish characters, intriguing conceits of this Blumhouse project not sticking to the rules in part because it’s going straight to the modern grindhouses of streaming anyway. Much of the movie relies on their odd pairing after such an abhorrent opening scene and in place of any greater

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One Of The Worst Consoles Ever Is Getting An Emulator

Some wonderful maniac is developing an emulator that will one day let people play Zeebo games. And…oh wait, you might be asking “What’s a Zeebo?” Fair question! Well, it’s a fairly obscure digital-only console released outside of the United States in 2009 in just two countries. And while it’s not a great console with a

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