destiny
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Destiny’s Future Is Being Shaped by Its Past
This past weekend, I sat down to bring an end to a story I have been following for the best part of the last 10 years of my life: Bungie’s Destiny saga, told across two games, myriad expansions, seasons of living-game content, and many crushing highs and lows, came to what has long been shaped…
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Not Even James Mangold Noticed Indiana Jones 5’s Wild Disney Animation Deep Cut
So I’m watching Oliver and Company, the 1988 Disney animated film featuring the voices of Billy Joel and Bette Midler, and it hit me like a ton of bricks. As Oliver, Dodger, and the crew are being chased through New York City, they head into the subway and jump on the tracks. “This reminds me…
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Sony Goes Big on Epic Games With Whopping $1.35 Billion Investment
Epic Games recently announced an epic new wave of fundraising, notable both for the $US2 billion (around $3 billion) it’s pulled in and for an eye-raising firm present among the leading partners: Sony. The makers of PlayStation VR have invested a cool $US1 billion ($1.35 billion) in Epic to further “the development of new digital…
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X Deaths and X Lives of Wolverine Are Digging Into the Messy Aftermath of Inferno
The ending of Inferno — Jonathan Hickman’s farewell to direct writing involvement in the Krakoan age of X-Books — upended the secret status quo of the way the sovereign nation of Krakoa was governed by, well… making it not so secret. You might have thought the books might take a little break from all the…