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Baki-dou The Invincible Samurai part 2 review: The series’s most interesting character and the most disappointing fights
Polygon has reviewed Baki-Dou: The Invincible Samurai Part 2, Netflix’s latest animated adaptation of Keisuke Itagaki’s long-running Baki martial arts franchise. The review argues that while the instalment delivers arguably the strongest character in the entire series — a revived version of the 17th-century swordsman Musashi Miyamoto — it also serves up some of its…
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Enjoying the World Cup? This Anime Soccer Game Looks Like a PS5 Must Play
Push Square has highlighted Captain Tsubasa 2: World Fighters, an upcoming anime-styled football game from Bandai Namco, as a potential PlayStation 5 must-play for fans enjoying the ongoing World Cup. The game is a substantially expanded sequel to a fairly well-received PS4 title and is based on Yoichi Takahashi’s celebrated 1980s sports manga. Its over-the-top…
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day is getting re-released in theaters for its 35th anniversary
Terminator 2: Judgment Day is returning to cinemas later this year to mark its 35th anniversary, giving audiences a chance to see James Cameron’s Oscar-winning 1991 action film on the big screen once more. StudioCanal, Fathom Entertainment and Rialto Pictures are behind the re-release, which will roll out across the United States and internationally between…
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My first 40 days in Moonlight Peaks started off with juicy feuds, but its anemic character writing is starting to show through
A PC Gamer writer reports on their first 40 days playing Moonlight Peaks, a paranormal life-sim game. Their early impressions were positive, with the game’s dramatic rivalries and feuds providing genuine entertainment, but over time they found the underlying character writing to be thin and unconvincing, which is beginning to undermine the experience. The piece…
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Frosthaven game director explains the challenges of adapting the hit dungeon-crawler board game
Snapshot Games, the studio behind the digital adaptation of the acclaimed board game Frosthaven, has detailed the difficulties of translating Isaac Childres’ complex dungeon-crawler into a video game. Game director Hristo Petkov revealed his team spent three to six months learning the rules by playing full campaigns before development, consulting Childres directly. The adaptation entered…
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Round Up: Ridiculously Positive Dawnwalker Previews Claim It’s a Game of the Year Candidate
A fresh wave of hands-on previews for The Blood of Dawnwalker, the RPG led by former CD Projekt Red developers, has gone live and the reaction is overwhelmingly positive, with several outlets branding it a genuine Game of the Year candidate. This matters because expectations for the game, while cautiously high, had not necessarily anticipated…
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Meta launches Pocket, an app for making games with generative AI
Meta has released Pocket, a Google Play Store app that lets users create and share small interactive games and mini-programs using generative AI, simply by describing what they want in a prompt. The launch matters because it signals a strategic pivot at Meta towards AI-generated content and away from the traditional, human-made virtual reality games…
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Obsession star Inde Navarrette built her gaming PC just like you and me: By watching Henry Cavill do it first
US actress Inde Navarrette, a star of the Prime Video series Obsession, revealed that she assembled her own gaming PC after being inspired by fellow actor Henry Cavill, a well-known PC-building enthusiast. The story, reported by PC Gamer, highlights how a celebrity’s openly shared hobby encouraged another performer to try hands-on PC building rather than…
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The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles remains the series’ best game, five years later
Five years on from its 2021 worldwide release, Polygon has published an appreciation arguing that The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles is still the strongest entry in Capcom’s long-running courtroom series. The spin-off, which bundles the Japanese-only titles The Great Ace Attorney: Adventures (2015) and The Great Ace Attorney 2: Resolve (2017), follows Meiji-era Japanese student…