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Shack Chat: What Valve franchise would you like to see come back?

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Time Stamp: March 28, 2020 1:06 AM - Modified On: March 28, 2020 - Published By:
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As a video game company, Valve means so much for the industry at large, particularly the PC gaming world. As the owners and operators of Steam, Valve is directly responsible for pulling PC gaming back from the brink of irrelevance in the mid-2000s and helping to foster the golden age of indie games. It can be easy to forget that they also occasionally make games. The world got a big reminder this week with the release of Half-Life: Alyx, the most-impressive VR game to date. Hot on the heels of

The Angry Birds Are Getting Their Own Netflix Animated Series

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Time Stamp: March 26, 2020 12:37 AM - Modified On: March 26, 2020 - Published By:
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The Angry Birds are coming back to TV screens, with a new Netflix series scheduled for 2021. Angry Birds: Summer Madness will debut on the streaming service, and is planned to consist of 40 episodes that will run for 11 minutes each.The show will feature all our the birds from the games, and will have a similar humor and tone to the Angry Birds movies. The Mighty Eagle will serve as camp counselor, and, as you'd expect, the pigs will pop up as antagonists.It will also feature some new characters

Horror Classic Re-Animator’s Director Stuart Gordon Dies

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Time Stamp: March 25, 2020 10:08 AM - Modified On: March 25, 2020 - Published By:
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Influential horror director Stuart Gordon has died, age 72. Gordon was one of the key American genre filmmakers of the 1980s--his debut movie Re-Animator is considered a horror classic, and he is also known for a variety of other HP Lovecraft adaptations, as well as co-creating the Disney hit Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.Gordon was born in Chicago, where he worked for more than a decade as a prominent theatre director. In 1985, he moved into movies, teaming up with producer Brian Yuzna to make a low-budget adaptation of HP

Doom Eternal Video Review

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Id Software's return to Doom in 2016 was a phenomenal update of the franchise's classic shooter formula. It was fast and intense, full of huge monsters and scorching metal tracks, modernizing the feel of the 1990s original while adding some new-school flourishes. Where Doom 2016 brought the original Doom into the present, Doom Eternal feels like a big step forward in making the franchise something new: It's a master class in demon dismemberment after the introductory course to ripping and tearing of four years ago. Like its predecessor, Doom Eternal

Netflix’s Kingdom Season 2 Review – A Zombie Show That’s Actually Worth Watching

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Time Stamp: March 24, 2020 5:51 PM - Modified On: March 24, 2020 - Published By:
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It feels like zombies have become scarier over time, especially since, through the decades, the idea of the undead rising to attack the living has evolved from people literally rising from the grave, to a highly contagious virus infecting people and turning them into mindless monsters. When it comes to TV, there's no better show that combines the gore and thrills of a zombie movie with the political plotting and intrigue of Game of Thrones than Netflix's Kingdom, which just returned with a second season.Picking up right where we left

Freedom Finger Review: An iron fist

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Time Stamp: March 24, 2020 4:00 PM - Modified On: March 24, 2020 - Published By:
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Freedom Finger is a side-scrolling shoot’em up from Wide Right Interactive. Set in space, players assume the role of Gamma Ray, a rookie space pilot on a mission to save their colleagues from terrorists. Under the command of Major Cigar - who is played excellently by Nolan North, Gamma Ray will have to master a number of battle tactics in order to finish the mission in one piece.  Helping hand Within the first few minutes, Freedom Finger completely sets the tone for the rest of the game. Major Cigar is

Cult RPG Dandy Dungeon Gets A Free Sequel Update And A Discount Soon

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Time Stamp: March 23, 2020 11:28 PM - Modified On: March 23, 2020 - Published By:
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Dandy Dungeon: Legend of Brave Yamada, a fascinating and strange RPG about a mid-30s programmer who hates his job and is trying to create his own game, is getting a sequel--sort of. An upcoming update on April 2 will transform the game into Dandy Dungeon II: The Phantom Bride, which will offer a new conclusion for the PC and Switch game.In Dandy Dungeon, players draw lines to move the protagonist, Yamada, through the dungeons of the game he's building himself. Yamada is in love with his neighbor, Maria, who he

The VR Games That Influenced Half-Life: Alyx’s Developers

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Time Stamp: March 23, 2020 4:55 PM - Modified On: March 23, 2020 - Published By:
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Half-Life: Alyx isn't the first full-length virtual reality game and it didn't invent many of the key VR-based mechanics at its core, but if our review of the game is anything to go off of, it's certainly one of the most refined examples. Valve has, after all, been at the forefront of VR, with its development of the HTC Vive and The Lab back in 2016. GameSpot had the chance to chat with Valve level designer Dario Casali and programmer Kerry Davis about Half-Life: Alyx and all things VR--including some

The Platform Review: Netflix’s Dystopian Sci-Fi Thriller Feels Very Real

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Time Stamp: March 20, 2020 5:01 PM - Modified On: March 20, 2020 - Published By:
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The Spanish dystopian sci-fi satire The Platform has been set for a Netflix release for a while. The streaming giant bought the distribution rights when the movie made its US premiere at Fantastic Fest in September 2019, and the plan was always to release it sometime in 2020. But at that stage no one could have predicted how horribly apt the release of a movie in which isolation and food shortage play a key part of the plot would be in March 2020.Like many of the best dystopian sci-fi movies--from

One Of The Best Switch Games Is Discounted On The Eshop

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Time Stamp: March 20, 2020 12:30 PM - Modified On: March 20, 2020 - Published By:
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Everyone needs fun distractions right about now, and what better way to occupy your mind than playing an engrossing puzzler? Nintendo Switch owners can grab a few stellar puzzle games right now for discounted prices. The standout game is Baba is You, one of the most inventive puzzle games in recent memory, which is on sale for $11.25 (was $15) until March 25.In Baba is You, players control the titular rabbit-like creature--who also happens to be you--across more than 200 top-down levels. Blocks are scattered about the screen representing objects