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For all the hype surrounding Star Wars: The Last Jedi in the past month, we still haven’t seen very much in the way of new looks for our favorite characters. Nearly every shot of the trailer and officially sanctioned image from Lucasfilm has shown heroes like Rey and Finn, and villains like Phasma and Kylo

At Toy Fair 2017, Mondo and USAopoly’s Project Raygun division announced an all-new board game set in the universe of John Carpenter’s classic horror film, The Thing. Back in February, we weren’t allowed to talk about what we’d seen. With the official reveal of The Thing: Infection at Outpost 31 yesterday, everybody now knows what

Just when you thought the Terminator franchise was dead, along comes a mobile game developer to prove you wrong. Hitting mobile platforms today is Terminator Genisys: Future War, a new clan-based multiplayer game from Plarium Games. Why the developer wanted to hitch its wagon to the least-successful sequel in the series is beyond us, but

For the past 30 years, Mega Man has been a staple of the video game community. In all that time, he’s only had a handful of appearances outside of a gaming console. Since the early ’90s, most fans of the Blue Bomber have had only his short-lived (and very bad) animated show and co-starring gig

You didn’t think Capcom would let a Comic-Con come and go without bringing some of that Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite flavor to the event, did you? During yesterday’s Marvel gaming panel, the publisher didn’t just show up to talk; it came to deliver some spectacular additions to the galaxy-spanning roster for its upcoming fighting game.

For the past few years ILMxLAB, Industrial Light and Magic’s Experience Lab, has been developing new ways to enjoy Star Wars using the latest virtual and augmented reality technologies. We've seen some samples of ILMxLAB’s projects in that time, but nothing beyond a very nice tech demo has been released to the public so far.

Last year, we first heard word a new video game set in the modern Planet of the Apes cinematic timeline would be coming out in conjunction with War for the Planet of the Apes. The movie’s release came and went, and there was nary a whisper about this video game. Today, Andy Serkis’ Imaginarium Studios finally

Earlier this summer, we got our first hands-on time with Star Wars Battlefront II, DICE’s follow-up to the pretty, yet unspectacular, rebooted Battlefront. The upcoming sequel is taking a lot of influence from DICE’s other shooter series Battlefield, which bodes well for multiplayer die-hards, but Battlefront II will be about more than just ground battles

In the weekly column Extra Credit, Charles Bramesco recommends supplemental viewing for moviegoers whose interests have been piqued by a given week’s big new release.This Friday, Ava DuVernay’s big-budget adaptation of the children’s book A Wrinkle in Time instantaneously dimension-hops into cineplexes. The bad news is that, per most of the reviews that have already run (including one at

For over two decades, Fallout has thrilled gamers around the world, but after nearly a decade of discussion, there's finally going to be a Fallout TV series. Deadline reports that Amazon Studios is teaming up with Bethesda to bring the role playing game series to TV, and there's some serious cred behind it.Jonathan Nolan and