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Among all of Junji Ito's vast body of horror manga work, Uzumaki manages to be the most unsettling. Many of his stories concern elements of building dread, encroaching madness, and beautifully off-putting body horror, but few combine all three to the same effect as Uzumaki, where the concept of a spiral pattern infects and mutates the inhabitants of a small town in myriad awful ways.Adult Swim's anime adaptation of Uzumaki focuses on that unsettling feeling in its premiere episode, which was pro...
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"Get away from her--you bitch," a character stutters in a relative monotone, turning an iconic moment from Aliens into a somewhat more halting, slightly funnier one in Alien: Romulus.What compelled director Fede Álvarez to include this moment in Romulus is anyone's guess. It's a line that makes no real sense in context, it's out of character for the person who says it, and there's no particular reason to use that particular word on this particular alien monster. In Aliens, when Sigourney Weaver'...
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Once Human offers a world full of strange creatures that's refreshingly unique in the survival MMO genre, but that world is populated by derivative gameplay and boring combat and never matches the potential of its premise.Why you can trust GamesRadar+
Our experts review games, movies and tech over countless hours, so you can choose the best for you. Find out more about our reviews policy.The most iconic image to come out of Once Human is a mutated, insectile city bus. Instead of wheels,...
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Destiny 2: The Final Shape Review - Becoming Legend
It's impossible to think about The Final Shape without the context of the last 10 years, the seven other Destiny 2 expansions, and the four original Destiny expansions--plus the vanilla campaigns that came with both games. This eighth Destiny 2 expansion is, to some degree, the culmination of the somewhat haphazard decade-long journey that the first game spawned, in which Bungie has continually tried experiment after experiment in gameplay, adjusted and recalibrated its storytelling, and worked
Destiny 2: The Final Shape Review-in-Progress
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XDefiant Review
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Capturing what makes the Fallout series endearing as a TV show is a tall order. So much of the experience relies on the sense of discovery that comes from wandering the Wasteland. You may enter a subway tunnel on a whim and encounter a city made up of people who think they're vampires, or meet a guy who is also a tree. Whether it's speaking with the leaders of factions about their values and deciding whether they're your values, or just sneaking around a supermarket overtaken by murderous robots
Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile Review
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Content warning: This review includes discussion of, and 3 Body Problem includes depictions of, self-harm.
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Following the build of tensi
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Rollerdrome is similar to Roll7's other titles in that
Rollerdrome is similar to Roll7's other titles in that
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Silent Hill 2 Remake Guide: How To Solve The X-Ray Puzzle In Brookhaven Prison
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Making your way through Silent Hill 2 Remake's Brookhaven Hospital requires solving lengthy puzzles to uncover the story of its strange, obsessive Director. To make your way all the way through the hospital, you'll need to solve the puzzle of the X-Ray Viewer on the third floor, which requires finding and arranging a group of radiographs in order to...
Making your way through Silent Hill 2 Remake's Brookhaven Hospital requires solving lengthy puzzles to uncover the story of its strange, obsessive Director. To make your way all the way through the hospital, you'll need to solve the puzzle of the X-Ray Viewer on the third floor, which requires finding and arranging a group of radiographs in order to...
Destiny 2 Episode: Revenant Season Pass Gear And Exotics
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The second of Destiny 2's new content episodes, Revenant, has arrived, bringing a whole new season pass and a bunch of new rewards spread out over its three Acts. With the replacement of the old seasonal model with the new episodic approach, Destiny 2 has also changed its paid battle passes, expanding to a total of 200 levels where once there were on...
The second of Destiny 2's new content episodes, Revenant, has arrived, bringing a whole new season pass and a bunch of new rewards spread out over its three Acts. With the replacement of the old seasonal model with the new episodic approach, Destiny 2 has also changed its paid battle passes, expanding to a total of 200 levels where once there were on...
10 Years Later, I Think I Finally Understand Alien: Isolation Hate--But It's Still A Masterpiece
Alien: Isolation celebrated its 10-year anniversary on October 6, 2024. Below, we reexamine how the despite its great ideas, the game may not have communicated its expectations clearly enough. This piece was written before the announcement of a sequel, with the original director returning.It's been a decade and I'm still mad about Alien: Isolation.I'm mad that one of the best horror games that exists, if not one of the finest video games ever, has been met with relative obscurity rather than acc...
Silent Hill 2 Remake - How to Unlock The Grand Market Keypad On Neely Street
Opening the keypad, which will let you into a grocery store called Grand Market, is optional, and it's easy to miss the information you need to figure out the code. But getting through that door can be very helpful, especially early in the game, because you'll find ammo and health items inside, which can give y...
Silent Hill 2 Remake - Coin Puzzle Guide For Wood Side Apartments
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When you first arrive in Wood Side Apartments in Silent Hill 2, you'll find a strange cabinet with spaces to insert several round objects and a poem on top. This cabinet is the remake's version of a similar puzzle from the 2001 original, and you'll spend the next few hours of your time exploring the apartment building in order to solve it. To finally...
When you first arrive in Wood Side Apartments in Silent Hill 2, you'll find a strange cabinet with spaces to insert several round objects and a poem on top. This cabinet is the remake's version of a similar puzzle from the 2001 original, and you'll spend the next few hours of your time exploring the apartment building in order to solve it. To finally...
Silent Hill 2 Remake - Moth Puzzle Guide For Blue Creek Apartments
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Early in the Silent Hill 2 remake, protagonist James Sunderland makes his way to the Wood Side Apartments, and after searching almost every inch, leaps across a small gap into another building, the Blue Creek Apartments. It's here, in Silent Hill's strange and frightening Otherworld, that James faces even more puzzles blocking his progress. One of th...
Early in the Silent Hill 2 remake, protagonist James Sunderland makes his way to the Wood Side Apartments, and after searching almost every inch, leaps across a small gap into another building, the Blue Creek Apartments. It's here, in Silent Hill's strange and frightening Otherworld, that James faces even more puzzles blocking his progress. One of th...
Silent Hill 2 Remake Guides Hub
Though it's often pretty faithful to the 2001 original, Bloober Team's remake of Silent Hill 2 is also filled with differences. Chief among those are the puzzles. While this new version of the game often works to preserve the spirit of elements, like the famous gallows scene or the coins scattered through the Wood Side Apartments, the puzzles themselves have been altered so that you can't just remember old solutions to make your way through this new trip into the fog.In addition to a huge number...
Silent Hill 2 Remake - Trick Or Treat Elevator Quiz Answers
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Brookhaven Hospital in the Silent Hill 2 remake is a weird place, but no part of it is weirder than the unprompted, radio-style quiz show that plays late in the level. As protagonist James Sunderland rides an elevator, he's asked three questions about the history of Silent Hill. If you've been exploring the town thoroughly and paying close attention,...
Brookhaven Hospital in the Silent Hill 2 remake is a weird place, but no part of it is weirder than the unprompted, radio-style quiz show that plays late in the level. As protagonist James Sunderland rides an elevator, he's asked three questions about the history of Silent Hill. If you've been exploring the town thoroughly and paying close attention,...
Silent Hill 2 Remake - Weights Puzzle And Hanging Poems Guide
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Late in Silent Hill 2 Remake, James makes his way into one of the strangest and most intense locations in the game: Toluca Prison. The dark and frightening location in the original game includes the gallows, one of the game's most iconic puzzles, where players are tasked with identifying which of six criminals is innocent based on the descriptions of...
Late in Silent Hill 2 Remake, James makes his way into one of the strangest and most intense locations in the game: Toluca Prison. The dark and frightening location in the original game includes the gallows, one of the game's most iconic puzzles, where players are tasked with identifying which of six criminals is innocent based on the descriptions of...
Silent Hill 2 Remake - Apartment 206 Safe Code In The Blackout Room
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While the Silent Hill 2 Remake sticks close to the original's story and path through the game, it's filled with puzzles that are similar to what was in the 2001 game, but not quite the same. One of those is the lengthy search for three coins in Wood Side Apartments that are necessary to make your way through to the second apartment building, Blue Cre...
While the Silent Hill 2 Remake sticks close to the original's story and path through the game, it's filled with puzzles that are similar to what was in the 2001 game, but not quite the same. One of those is the lengthy search for three coins in Wood Side Apartments that are necessary to make your way through to the second apartment building, Blue Cre...
Silent Hill 2 Remake - Bug Room Door Code In Toluca Prison
Entering Toluca Prison is one of the more unsettling and strange moments of Silent Hill 2, and that disturbing vibe is amplified early on when you find yourself trapped in a room filled with bugs, with a keypad locking the door and barring your exit.The only way to escape this room is by punching in the right code on the door's keypad, but finding the code can be difficult--especially as the place periodically fills with bugs you'll need to smash if you want to keep them from attacking you. The...
How Long Is Silent Hill 2 Remake? - Playthrough Times For All Play Styles
Like the 2001 original, the Silent Hill 2 remake is a dense game with lots to find within it if you're willing to scour its foggy and dark corners. With a greater emphasis on combat and a few areas that feel larger and more involved, and with new puzzles that often require multiple steps to complete, though, it's going to be a while before you can escape that town. If you're wondering just how long it'll take, that depends greatly on how completionist you intend to be and whether you want to lea...
Silent Hill 2 Remake - All Weapons And How To Get Them
Getting to Apartment 217 will take a bit, though, as you need to explore most of the first and second floors of Wood Side. The main hallway of the second floor is closed off, but James will spot the key to open it through some bars during a cutscene. After Laura kicks it away, you can make your way around the f...
Silent Hill 2 Remake Endings: How To Unlock All Endings, Including New Ones
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In revisiting Silent Hill 2, developer Bloober Team has remained pretty faithful to the original game--most of the story and dialogue are unchanged, and while a l...
Documentary Shows Stalker 2 Is "An Element Of Resistance" Amid Russian Invasion Of Ukraine
When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, it threw the entire country into chaos. Missiles fell on Ukrainian cities and Russian soldiers pushed over its borders. For developers at Ukrainian developer GSC Game World, it was a harrowing time--they had to decide whether to flee the fighting and the country or stay behind to help and even to fight.Documentary War Game: The Making of Stalker 2 covers the development of Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl before and during the Russian invasion, brin...
Fantasian Neo Dimension Is Up For Preorder - The RPG Hits Consoles And PC In December
After its original release on mobile devices, Fantasian is finally coming to consoles and PC on December 5. Fantasian is developed by Mistwalker and written and produced by Hironobu Sakaguchi, who famously directed a bunch of the best Final Fantasy games, including the original Final Fantasy VII. It also sports music from Nobuo Uematsu, another alumnus of the best FF games. Up to now, though, you could only get Fantasian on iOS, macOS, and tvOS, but the turn-based RPG is finally coming to consol...
Destiny 2 Revenant Brings A New Onslaught Mode And A Big Focus On Stasis
One of Destiny 2's newest long-term activities, Onslaught, will see a new version, new maps, and a few updates when the game's next content episode, Revenant, launches on October 8.Bungie gave a look at the next major content drop coming to the game during a developer livestream, showing off gameplay of a new version of Onslaught called Onslaught: Salvation. It brings three new maps to the mode--including Widow's Court, a multiplayer map set on Earth--as well as new batches of enemies and new de...
New Destiny 2 Concept Art Sheds Just A Little Light On Upcoming Expansion
We still have very few concrete details about Destiny 2's next expansion, Codename: Apollo, but Bungie has provided some new, if vague, looks at what we can expect with concept art and a list of inspirations that include The Doors, Slaughterhouse Five, and Scavenger's Reign.Bungie talked a bit about Codename: Frontiers, the next phase of Destiny 2's content that'll kick off in Summer 2025, on a recent developer livestream that also covered Episode: Revenant, which starts on October 8. Narrative...
Destiny 2 Armor Gets An Overhaul With Set Bonuses And New Stats
Bungie is revamping Destiny 2's armor system in Codename: Frontiers, cutting the number of stats armor includes from six to three and allowing players to pump their character stats to as much as double their previous values.The developer ran down the upcoming changes, launching in Summer 2025 with Destiny 2's Codename: Apollo expansion, on its Episode: Revenant developer livestream and in a dedicated blog post. The main takeaway is that armor will be more specialized starting in Apollo; instead...
Starfield: Shattered Space - Save 30% On The DLC And Get Bonus In-Game Content
Bethesda's first new intellectual property in years, Starfield, is seeing its universe expand with Shattered Space. The DLC launched today, September 30, and adds a new planet and story campaign to the game. Instead of paying $30 for Shattered Space directly on Steam, you can save nearly 30% on your Steam key by opting for the Premium Edition Upgrade at Fanatical, which includes the expansion and several pieces of bonus content. Shattered Space builds on Starfield with a whole new story, center...
Pop Culture Crossovers Are Everywhere, But They're Costing Us The Weirder Games We Deserve
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Here's How To Get Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered For $20 If You're A New Player
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Get More Avatar: The Last Airbender With This Sequel Comics Omnibus Box Set
Avatar: The Last Airbender has a dedicated following of fans who got lost in its deep and affecting stories--so much so that the series saw a spiritual successor series in The Legend of Korra and got two live-action adaptations, including a well-liked live-action adaptation from Netflix. If you're looking for more Avatar, the story of Aang and his companions has been continued beyond the Nickelodeon show with an official comic series. The entire run will soon be collected into an omnibus box set...
Lego Batman Shadow Box Discontinued - Get The Elaborate, 4,000-Piece Batcave Before It's Gone
Tim Burton's take on Batman with his 1989 movie remains a singular view of the Caped Crusader that mixes gritty realism, goth spookiness, and an undercurrent of camp. All those elements are heightened in Batman Returns, Burton's 1992 sequel, and are captured in Lego's Batcave Shadow Box--an intricately designed model of Batman's inner sanctum from the film. Lego is "retiring" the set, which means it'll be discontinued from production, so if you're looking to nab it, now's the time. It's likely t...
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