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It's been a long time since I was a teenager, so my memory might be a little fuzzy when I think back to those years, but it's fair to say that it was an odd time in my life. Teenagers physically have the capabilities of adults, all the bodily functions have relatively reached adulthood, but [...]

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Spoiler Warning: The following contains spoilers about the plot, events, and the ending of Firewatch. Big ones. Firewatch can never be the experience I wanted it to be, and to be blunt, it left a Firewatch shaped hole in my Firewatch shaped heart. Ever since it came to my attention, it was the game I [...]

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If This Is the X-MEN: APOCALYPSE, Then Does That Mean the End Is Near?

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My depression comes in cycles. There'll be a few weeks of a heightened emotional state, and then anywhere from a week to over a month of a deep low, intertwined and partitioned by varying quantities of indifference. The other day, I was in the middle of one of those lows. I'm still in it now, [...]

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While "Casting the Runes" may be too short for a theatrical release, that still leaves a television adaptation open.

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Adaptations of games are an iffy prospect. There have been major failures along the way, from Super Mario Bros through Dungeons & Dragons to Battleship. Yet, studios keep trying, because the recognition factor of the names involved should pull in an audience, as seen with the announcement of the Tetris movie. With D&D, Battleship, and [...]

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(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com, www.SeventhSanctum.com, and Steve's Tumblr) I'm hyped for No Man's Sky, the space exploration game that uses math to give us a procedural universe - since it's all constructed from equations, the game has quintillions ...

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People have long complained about video game sequel-itis. This year alone we've got X-COM 2, Uncharted 4, Gears of War 4, Mirror's Edge Catalyst, and Persona 5. But while video games love to tack on numbers to their titles, it's rare that we see the true continuation of a story. That's what is so impressive [...]

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The main problem the Jem and the Holograms movie has is not being the cartoon.

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(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com and Steve's Tumblr) So where are we with the Sailor Moon Book? Editing the hell out of it. So right now, Bonnie and I are in the final editing run before it goes to editor. ...

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These aren't your baseball playing Twilight vamps, these are eldritch beings stuck in their own worst patterns for centuries, torturing each other to epic degrees.

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We've worked our way through the Pritchard men and their estrangements, now it's time to cope with Jimmy's daughter Helen.