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Easter 1944 - US and UK Bombers Were Murdering Their Serbian Christian Allies
This article from our archives was first published on RI in April 2019 The American and British air force bombed Belgrade and various Serbian towns on Sunday, April 16, 1944, during Christian Serb holiday of Easter. The bombing was performed in a fashion more savage than Hitler did it three years earlier on Sunday, April 6, 1941. There is no easy explanation and certainly, there is no excuse for this barbarity.
Avengers: No, Really - Now What??
A giant-size dive into the MAJOR SPOILERS of ‘Avengers: Endgame’ – and what they mean for the known future of The MCU.
Chocobo: Mascot, Friend, Sexy Showgirl
I’m not a monster. Of course I think the chocobo is adorable. As any warm-blooded human being who loves his family and puts his pants on one leg at a time, I too coo in delight when I fire up a Final Fantasy game and meet a tiny yellow bird chomping on greens.
Avengers: Now What?
The MCU Story to this point ends this week … sort of. What can the world look forward to afterwards?
When the Creator of Jet Set Radio Met the Creator of Symphony of the Night
I’ll cop to it: Revolve8 is precisely the sort of game I’m prone to ignoring entirely. Call it taste blindness; there are just certain types of game that I don’t actively scorn but that I literally have trouble noticing because of the venue where it’s played or the art style. This is not something I’m proud of.
What Would Indy Do?
Why do so many movies borrow Indiana Jones' best joke?
Viva La Duh-Vision!
Video games have always wanted to play with politics but not ‘be political’ – shockingly, it hasn’t worked.
The Dumbest Thing In Star Wars?
One of Star Wars’ silliest lore details came back to life in ‘Solo’ – Where did it come from, and does it prove that letting The Expanded Universe go was the right call?
Exalted's New Lunars Fight the Concept of Barbarians
With tabletop roleplaying games, new editions — new versions that reboot or refine the game’s system and setting — seem inevitable. Whether you’re an industry powerhouse like Dungeons & Dragons or an indie darling like Avery Alder’s Monsterhearts, you eventually reach the point where beginning again is your best move as a creator.
The Book of George
Why 'Rampage' was the first great video-game movie - and what every future attempt should learn from it.
Anthem - Escapist Magazine
This week Yahtzee reviews Anthem.
Critical Mix: 47
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Ghosted - Escapist Magazine
In which dumb Tweets about ‘Ghostbusters’ teach us a valuable lesson. Sort of. Or maybe not.
Horror Noire - Escapist Magazine
Horror Noire, a documentary produced for the horror-centric streaming service Shudder serves as a companion piece to Robin Means Coleman’s recent book Horror Noir: Blacks in American Horror Films from the 1980s to the Present.
An Active Vision
Organized labor works. Organized labor improves and saves lives. Organized labor is good for workers, good for consumers and - yes - it's good for companies. It's the right thing to do, and if gamers want a better games industry and better games, they need to support the laborers who make the games they love - and the organizing of their labor.
The Bigger Picture
Why we do what we do.
Dweeb Obscurities Pipe
YouTube’s stupidest gaming controversy finally comes to a head – or does it? And did it ever really mean anything?
A Message from Recon’s Victor Lucas
We never meant to offend anyone with our first taste of Recon. We knew our teaser clip was uncomfortable, but the subject matter itself is uncomfortable and I believed that Ellie Pyle’s struggle to express herself after the PR person she was working with encouraged her to be honest and open was a remarkable unfiltered look at how painful something like Riot’s abuse scandal is. It affects everyone. It is a more powerful clip because of that rawness and the effort to find the words.
Nonstop - Escapist Magazine
GameStop may be in real financial trouble. Every gamer should be worried about that.
Best Panther: Should Black Panther Win Best Picture?
Marvel’s ‘Black Panther’ is now the first superhero movie ever to be nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards. Does it have a real chance to win – and if it does, should it? If the Oscars are about celebrating not what Academy voters’ liked but what truly brings audiences together (and truly represents what the Hollywood film industry is best a producing); why should The Academy ignore the movies’ most popular genres…and the biggest, most diverse audiences?
Escapist Podcast Volume Two: Episode 001
Episode 1 – “There is no amount of cool werewolf transformations …” https://d1pij88h0gsf95.cloudfront.net/2019/01/27145711/ESC_V2_EP01_mixdown96.mp3 The Escapist Podcast returns! We’re excited to present a brand new podcast to accompany Escapist Magazine Volume Two.
Immersion Bender
Most gaming isn't immersive, and that's not a bad thing.
Bumbleboot - Escapist Magazine
Is Bumblebee a prequel, reboot or something else – and whatever it is what comes next for the Transformers movies?
Lady Blackbird, the Indie RPG That Won't End
Season three of Lady Blackbird kicked off on Saturday. The pre-holiday cliffhanger had seen Lady Blackbird and Captain Cyrus Vance captured as part of a daring mission to rescue kidnapped children before they’re fully indoctrinated into becoming perfect Imperial soldiers. Meanwhile their allies, the shapeshifting goblin Snargle and the mischievous mechanic Kale, were struggling with kids so brainwashed they didn’t think they needed rescuing.
Why We Fight? - Escapist Magazine
Why are the people who play, write about and create games fighting with one another more than ever – and why is one other party always left out of the brawl?
Stand-Down - Escapist Magazine
Going for the easy laugh is harder than it looks.
The Terminator Will Always Be Back
The 1984 film The Terminator kicked off a franchise that stamped its booted footprint across the decades — and that’s been both a blessing and a curse. The Terminator is perfectly designed for media conquest, which has led to some beautiful spectacles of destruction, but also the construction of some unnecessary models lacking much purpose or soul. As every sci-fi fan knows, the Terminator is an unstoppable robot assassin.
Fighting Games Need to Evolve if They're Going to Survive
Street Fighter II wasn’t the first fighting game, but it’s remained the standard, setting up a formula where a collection of fighters with various backgrounds and abilities square off to become the best. Three decades later, developers are still struggling to evolve that model, and most misunderstand what modern audiences find meaningful about the genre. It’s time to stop playing safe.
Pandora's Lootbox - Escapist Magazine
Do gamers hate lootboxes enough to love government regulations?
2018 Gaming Gift Guide
"The OverThinker" talks last-minute holiday shopping for gamers.
The State of Escapist Magazine
Well, we did the thing. Websites come and go, so it’s probably less interesting or meaningful to many of you that Escapist Magazine Volume Two managed to arrive than it is to me and the dozens of humans who worked to make that happen. But I have to tell you: it’s a phenomenal feeling to be sitting here at my desk as editor-in-chief just over one year after I decided to try to bring this website back to life.
Absolute Unit - Escapist Magazine
Did a director really give away the big secret behind Marvel Studios' action scenes?
Once Upon a Deadpool
Well, this certainly presents a unique set of challenges to a critic, doesn’t it? Not that there’s anything particularly obtuse or difficult to wrap one’s mind around when it comes to the Deadpool franchise. 2016’s Deadpool established all the most bizarre things about the R-rated spin-off of the X-Men movies that exists in the same universe as those characters but is free to break the rules of continuity because it’s also a comedy making fun of those movies and the superhero genre in general.
Tude Raider - Escapist Magazine
"The OverThinker" wants to know what the new Tomb Raider games think they're about.
The Pros and Khans of Genetic Engineering
He Jiankui, a Chinese researcher, stunned the world when he announced that he had successfully edited the DNA of a viable human embryo and, in doing so, created the first gene-edited babies. Scientists all over the world lost their minds, and the news media followed suit. Then, Jiankui seemingly disappeared without a trace. It seems safe to say that we are not quite ready for this kind of experimentation.
Gwen Stacy: Marvel's Exquisite Corpse
Into The Spiderverse's fan-favorite breakout star is already getting a spinoff, but some fans are still not sold on this controversial reimagining of a beloved Marvel character.
The Girl in the Spider's Web
So here we have an attempt (unsuccessful, if the box office is to be any indication) by the rights holders of Steig Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo franchise to get in the reboot scene.
Persona Dancing: Endless Night Collection Game and Vinyl Giveaway
We come to you with offerings! Our friends at Sega Atlus have provided us with a beautiful gift to give to one lucky recipient — one copy of the Persona Dancing: Endless Night Collection ($99.99 USD) which includes Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight and Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight for PlayStation 4. The lucky winner will also receive a limited edition vinyl release of select remixes from both games. How do you enter to win?
Super Smash Mothers
"The OverThinker" talks bad games coverage (and worse games parenting).
Critical Mix: 23
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Excelsior - Escapist Magazine
Stan Lee is gone and Bill Maher is wrong about it.
Stan Lee’s Greatest Creation Was Himself
Whatever else movie audiences make of Disney and Marvel Studios’ Captain Marvel, it’s hard to imagine there will be a more predictable, potent, or sustained emotional reaction than the thunderous applause coming when it opens with the words: “In Memory of Stan Lee.” It will be a moment that fans the world over have known, to one degree or another, has been coming for awhile now.
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The Versatility of Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes is a television mainstay, with adaptations of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories dating back to the 1950s and at least one TV show starring the sleuth airing each decade since. Currently, there are two Holmes series available to American fans: CBS’s Elementary, which recently wrapped up its sixth season, and the HBO Asia and Hulu Japan co-production Miss Sherlock, whose eight-episode first series was released on HBO Go in September.
Review: Assassin's Creed Odyssey
Why do I play Assassin’s Creed? That’s the question I keep coming back to as I think about Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey, the 11th mainline release in the series since 2007. Assassin’s Creed is a franchise that’s experimented frequently, often veering away from previous entries in surprising and controversial ways.
Schlocktober: Troll
Schlocktober comes home to The Big Picture with a movie about small horrors that somehow isn't small enough.
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