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As Black Friday and its dreaded twin, the Cybered Monday, approach, the world of gaming is preparing to unleash some of its most deadly and powerful deals ahead of the holiday season. Luckily, The A.V. Club is here to help curate your holiday gift-giving selections, from the inexpensive to the “You gotta really love somebody to buy them a pinball table, huh?” From books to music to holiday ornaments, there’s something here to cater to every flavor of gamer, injecting a bit of Yuletide class into…
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You could make a strong case that every Terminator project since, roughly, 2003, has been an attempt to fix the franchise—or at least to get it back on track, and return to the largely impossible highs of 1991 juggernaut T2: Judgment Day. Now, Netflix is getting ready to attempt to succeed where T3, Salvation, Genisys, Dark Fate, and, to a much less extent, The Sarah Connor Chronicles all faltered, announcing today that it’s bringing the series back as… an anime. That’s right: Terminator is goi…
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Taylor Swift has now officially beaten pretty much the only person on the planet giving her a real fight for pop music dominance at the moment: Herself. This is per Deadline, reporting on the first serious sales numbers for Swift’s latest release, the (Taylor’s Version) edition of her 2014 album 1989, the one that took her from “incredibly successful country music with a lot of crossover appeal” to “pretty much the queen of modern pop music.” But while the original version of 1989 was a big dea…
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Listen: Loki Laufeyson has come unstuck in time...again. Amazingly enough, it turns out that last week’s apparently apocalyptic installment of Loki did not result in the complete and total destruction of the multiverse–presumably because, if it did, Kevin Feige would start sending very pointed emails to not go around blowing up the fictional universe he’s spent the last decade-plus of his life creating. Instead, the results of the Temporal Loom detonating itself in “The Heart Of The TVA” are mu…
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When fantasists of the past used to spin dark fables about robots stealing our faces, it was usually in a fairly grisly and mechanical “Detach Flesh A from Skull B” sort of way. (Ah, simpler, better times.) Now, though, Hollywood actors have to worry about not just their skin and eyes and stuff being stolen by robots, but also their very likenesses, with Scarlett Johansson having just launched a lawsuit against an AI company for allegedly using her appearance to promote its services. This is pe…
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This story is part of our new Future of Gaming series, a three-site look at gaming’s most pioneering technologies, players, and makers. Science fiction has been poking and prodding at the future for as long as the genre has existed—with many of the early experiments in the form, dating back as early as the 1700s, arriving in the form of speculation about what horrors or wonders the future might bring. But for all that the works of Wells or Asimov devotedly sketched out the contours of futures…
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It’s got to be a little frustrating to be a major movie studio that also owns the Looney Tunes brand. You have to know, given the cultural ubiquity of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and the rest of the franchise’s iconic characters, that there’s gold in them thar box office hills (to paraphrase philosopher-poet Yosemite Sam). And yet—despite successful TV shows, home video projects, and god only knows how much merch and advertising revenue—the only time the franchise has ever produced any kinds of majo…
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Richard Moll has died. Possessed of both a massive frame and a powerful voice, Moll was best known for his work as bailiff Bull Shannon on Night Court, spending eight years in the cast of the NBC sitcom. (Before ending the series by being voluntarily abducted by aliens, as one does.) In addition to his physical performances, Moll was also a well-known voice actor. Among other credits, he was a key part of Batman: The Animated Series, playing the groundbreaking cartoon’s version of famed Batman v…
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One of the weird little upshots of the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike is that we’ve been hearing a lot more from producers, directors, and (now that the WGA has wrapped up its own labor actions) writers when it comes time to give projects a promotional push. Hence Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail taking pride of place at the red carpet for his new Mahershala Ali and Julia Roberts movie Leave The World Behind at AFI tonight, where he fielded questions about the Obamas, his old pal Rami Malek, and, most int…
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As a “fictional dramatization” of real-life events—a label that its home streamer hastily appended to the series the last time people got mad at it for its handling of the lives of the British royal family—Netflix’s The Crown has always been in a weird relationship with reality. That’s only gotten stranger, obviously, as the series’ timeline has caught up with the real world, to the point that it now features, in its bifurcated final season, characters who are actual living human beings who—to p…
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This story is part of our new Future of Gaming series, a three-site look at gaming’s most pioneering technologies, players, and makers. When looking forward at the future of gaming, it’s hard for the gaze not to drift, inevitably, to virtual reality. In some ways, VR has been the “future” of gaming for more than 40 years at this point, even as most of its forays into regular reality have found themselves tied rather anticlimactically to the past, buried in a landfill of TV glasses, Virtual Bo…
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