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Simulant movie review & film summary (2023)

These big moments aren’t impressive enough to make “Simulant” more than the bargain bin sci-fi pastiche it obviously is. But there’s some appreciable consideration shown to the movie’s Simulants, or Replicant-like synthetic humans, which gives a slight edge to this otherwise unconvincing robo-noir ripoff. Shameless and sleepy from scene one, “Simulant” begins with an Isaac

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The Roundup: No Way Out movie review (2023)

In “The Roundup,” Ma Seok-do, Lee’s barrel-chested renegade cop, pummels his way through another pack of vicious baddies. A new sequel, “The Roundup: No Way Out,” delivers more episodic thrills, though, as in “The Roundup,” any scene without Lee feels like a waste of time. Both “The Roundup” movies are pretty generic, beyond an adequate

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Gaming

10 Things I Wish I Knew Before Playing

Street Fighter 6 has a lot of modes to check out and knobs to turn, to the point where it might seem overwhelming if you don’t know where to start. The sickest of fighting game sickos will likely head straight for the training room to discover the finer points of their preferred fighter and figure

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Duke Nukem Promo Caught Using AI Images, Publisher Apologises

What would otherwise have been a fairly minor announcement, the news that the first two Duke Nukem games were coming to an Evercade handheld, has blown up after the rapid discovery that the bundle’s promotion included a bunch of terrible machine-generated imagery. A Foe From The Next Team Ninja Game Is Giving Me Sekiro PTSD

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Waypoint Staff Launch New Website And Podcast, Called Remap

Image: Remap Back in April we brought you the very sad news that Waypoint, VICE’s video game website, was being shut down. Now, only a few weeks later, we get to bring you the excellent news that the site—and its podcast—will live on at a new home. We Need To Talk About This John-Wick-But-It’s-Cute-Girls Anime

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Nintendo Releasing Four Beautiful, Pastel Joy-Con Controllers

Image: Nintendo We’re long enough into the Nintendo Switch’s lifespan to have seen a lot of different colours for the console’s controllers, but these news ones just announced by the company may be the nicest yet. If you’re into soft pastels. Trek To Yomi Is The Best Time You’ll Never Want To Have Again And

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Diablo IV Players Getting Launch Errors, But Not If They Pay Up

Image: Blizzard Diablo IV is out, at least in Early Access, and while things seem to be going smoothly so far on PC—fingers crossed—loads of PS5 players have run into a wall and can’t access the game. This Mini Sega Arcade Cabinet Packed With Retro Games Would Make A Great Gift It’s not a traditional

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Diablo IV’s Shop Prices For Armor, Mounts And More Are Bonkers

Diablo IV’s microtransactions won’t affect gameplay but they will cost you a ton. Our first look at the dungeon-crawler’s cosmetic shop shows special mounts priced at as much as $15, while armor for classes like the Necromancer will run as high as $25. 8 Minutes Of Diablo IV’s Character Creator Some of these prices previously

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USAF’s Killer AI Drone Sounds Straight Out Of Horizon Zero Dawn

Something unexpected happened in a simulated test of an AI-powered military drone. The robot, tasked with taking out specific targets on approval of a human operator, decided to just take out the human so it could take out all the targets that the human might say no to. And somehow, this wild story that sounds

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A Review Of Every Publisher’s Desktop Launcher For PC Games

Over the last decade many of the biggest video game publishers (and some smaller ones too!) have decided that we can’t just launch our PC games straight from Steam or the desktop. Instead, we need to fire up their own desktop app first and then start our games. There are many reasons for this. For

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