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Aparna Ukil
The Shining is a horror film that was released on May 23, 1980, and as it turns 45 this year, here we talk how Jack feels a relatable character to the audience in 2025.
45 Years of Pac-Man: Gobbling Its Way from a Gaming Sensation to a Pop Culture Icon
Aryan Singh
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Pac-Man turns 45 this year, and despite its age, the game continues to be culturally relevant. In celebration of this incredible milestone, we look back on Pac-Man's history, and how a pizza slice inspired a pop culture icon.
ARC Raiders First Impressions: Solid Extraction Experience, Less Flashy Marketing
Ishan Adhikary
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Being a shooter fan for over a decade, I tried the ARC Raiders playtest for 24 hours, and here are my first impressions of the game. Trust me, it takes you into a different style of extraction shooter that you have never experienced before.
Ajith Kumar
Rematch, the new multiplayer football game from the studio that made Sifu, is slated to release in June this year. Ahead of the game's release, the studio has opened a play test and I fortunately participated in one to experience the game earlier. You can find my first impressions of the Rematch game here if you are wondering how good the new football game is.
This Upcoming Game Levels the Playing Field by Giving Everyone Wallhacks and Aimbots
Ishan Adhikary
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Tired of the online FPS world becoming a cheat fest? Introducing 'Cheaters Cheetah', where you can turn on wallhacks, aimbots, and more to compete against other cheaters. Play against legal cheaters or rage cheaters to win and use the Ban Hammer to ban the losers. It is a fun and exciting concept never explored before in online FPS.
It Ends with Us Review: A Stellar Tale of Love, Loss, and Liberation
Shashank Shakya
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Colleen Hoover's It Ends With Us is now live in its theatrical adaptation in cinemas near you and here is our review for the movie!
I Downloaded This Viral Steam Game and It Had Me Click a Banana All Day!?
Ishan Adhikary
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After getting stressed with multiple games in 2024 I was looking for games to just relax to. Banana on Steam is a free game that lets you just click on a virtual Banana with a counter. The more you click, the more the numbers go up. Banana helped me relax and just have fun without thinking much about things I need to do. But the game also offers skins where some rare skins sells upto $500 on the Steam Community Market. Interesting combination eh?
Maria and Angela’s Character Designs in Silent Hill 2 Remake Have Divided the Fanbase
Sampad Banerjee
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As Konami officially showcases the gameplay and brand-new look at the prominent supporting characters Maria and Angela in Silent Hill 2 Remake, fans are divided over the new designs. While a broader outcry is currently happening over Angela's new look, with some calling it ugly, others are upset about the Maria's clothing re-design for the remake. Keep reading to find out what I think about it here.
Curtain Call for Hollywood: Is the Era of Theater Experience Fading Away?
Shashank Shakya
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There was a time when going to the theater to watch a movie was something we did for fun. However, it seems that this dynamic is gradually closing in on its end with outrageous price tag on the overall experience and the introduction of OTT. There are more factors that lead towards this and in this article, read all about how it seems to be happening.
After waiting for what seemed like eternity, I finally entered a couple of matches in Ubisoft's latest arcade FPS XDefiant. The game is fun and fast-paced. Although not overwhelmingly unique, it offers impressive performance and great joyride. The kills feels valuable and you love to push and kill enemies more than any other game. Overall, it made me want to log in again after an extended first run.
The Monochromatic Reality of Colorful’s Laptop: Our Painful Experience With It
Sagnik Das Gupta
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On the outside, the Colorful Evol P15 series laptops looked incredibly promising. So and so that we even decided to purchase it. However, ever since the laptop has arrived, a plethora of problems have plagued us. From receiving a faulty unit that won't even turn on to even the replacement unit coming with its own set of issues, nothing has been looking good so far. It was about time that we talked about this.
Some movie franchises are running longer than they should. Franchises like Fast and Furious, Men in Black, Terminator should have ended long ago. Check out other franchises in this list that should just wrap up.
X-Men'97 has finally concluded its first season with the final and 10th episode streaming now. This series haas earned itself a 100% Rotten Tomatoes rating by Top Critics and has become the first show in the history of Marvel to achieve that. Now, the big question is, what factors or elements about this show made this possible? I have the answer to that in this article, so go through it and find out everything that got X-Men'97 this massive success.
Xbox Hikes Game Prices by up to 300%, and I’ve Never Felt More Excluded
Upanishad Sharma
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In another shocking move for selected countries, Xbox decided to covertly raise prices for a select few of its games. This includes the likes of Sea of Thieves, Gears 5, Halo Wars and many more. Gamers naturally are angry at the company and calling it out for being greedy. This is especially worse considering Xbox' shutdown of multiple Bethesda studios just a few days earlier.
No More Hi-Fi Rush: Microsoft Axing Tango Has Ruined My Xbox Wishlist
Ishan Adhikary
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Tango Gameworks has been one of the most creative game developers team with four great games on their portfolio in 14 years. The Evil Within series, Ghostwire: Tokyo, and Hi-Fi Rush are some of the studio's masterpieces. Xbox Studios vision to make sustainable Game Pass worthy titles could be one of the reason why Tango Gameworks was let go among the three other studios. Nonetheless, it is a sad sad news and one I didn't want to hear.
As game studios are slowly getting comfortable in remaking older titles for modern audiences, I believe it's the perfect time to bring some other stories in a fresh light. With that, I decided to sit down and select some games I eagerly want remakes of. This includes legacy titles like Resident Evil, and some cult-classics like The Suffering.
Manor Lords is the one strategy game I had been dreaming about for ages, with RTS combat combined with free-flowing city building. The game returns some of my favorite features from old strategy games, controlling armies in real time and engaging in battle, being able to build anything anywhere, and the ability to scout enemies. Add the hyper-realistic graphics and it ticks every box I have been looking for in a new age strategy game.
Anti-Social Social Media App ‘Palmsy’ Is a Big High-Five to Self-Validation
Sagnik Das Gupta
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Palmsy is a new app in the block that aims to be a social media detox app by 'forging' the experience. It does so by faking the likes you get on your posts on the platform. Super strange and unique, right? That's what got me too, and I just had to give it a try. I will say this, the app certainly has its own weird way to getting you to validate yourself.
Open-world games have been in the industry for over three decades now with the concept evolving ever since. From the modern open-world of GTA 3 to the current waves of Cyberpunk 2077, or The Witcher 3, it has been going through huge upgrades ever since beginning. Let us dive deep into the evolution of open-world games from the last 20 years and talk about what can come in future.
GTA 6 is coming in 2025 and it will not be available for PC. Fearing I would miss out, I decided to get a PS5. While I first thought about the PS5 Pro, my thoughts immediately changed knowing about its speculated specifications. Now that industry experts are also saying it will run GTA 6 just as the standard edition, I think PS5 at a discounted price will be more value for money.
As I continue playing Tekken 8 ranked matches and getting stressed about the overall game, I installed a mod called Tranquility. It hides the player sided ranks for yourself and your opponent. And, doing that has once again make me enjoy Tekken 8 ranked. There are a lot of reasons for that but the primary one for me is that it helps me enjoy ranked engagements without the added worries of competition.
Tron Ares Will Be a Soft Reboot of Tron Franchise Rather than a Sequel?
Shashank Shakya
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With the announcement of Tron: Ares, there are speculations that this movie is going to be a direct sequel of Tron: Legacy. However, there are certain aspects of the movie that make it seem like it is going to be a soft reboot of the Tron franchise. The costume design where the data disk is triangular, the concept of an AI program travelling to the human world, the absence of previously seen characters only make this assumption even stronger.
After a solid debut free trial run on Steam, the scarily fun Content Warning has a price. In terms of just the fun and horror element balance it is totally worth it. On top of that, the constant communication with players, new content, and mod availability makes this a fun experience. Content Warning is available on Steam for $7.99.
Dark Souls 2 Is a Flawed Masterpiece, And You Need to Stop Hating It
Sanmay Chakrabarti
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Dark Souls 2 is celebrating its 10th year anniversary, and even after all these years the game still gets quite some hate from the Dark Souls fan base. So, I decided to give the game a try and actually enjoyed it. Although I do understand why Dark Souls 2 gets the hate, and in many cases, the hate is well deserved, however it's been 10 long years from the game's release and I think everyone should finally stop hating it and appreciate the good parts of the game.