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Capcom’s 40th Anniversary Website Lets You Play Street Fighter II in Your Browser
If you were a devoted gamer in the ‘80s, somewhere burned in your brain is the Capcom splash screen, with its descending synth chime sound that welcomed you to classic games like Street Fighter II and Mega Man — games you can now play for free in your browser if you’re already looking for a…
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Mortal Kombat II Finds Its Johnny Cage in Karl Urban
The 2021 Mortal Kombat movie (which was much better than it had any right to be) ended with a tease and a promise: the film’s main character Cole (Lewis Tan) says he’s going off to Hollywood. “What’s in Hollywood?” he’s asked. “Not what… who,” he says, before the camera pans to a poster for a…
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Dead Space’s Remake Gives Extra Substance to the Scares
Visceral Games’ Dead Space felt like a shot in the arm for survival horror games when it was originally released in 2008. The franchise has always been fondly remembered, so when EA revealed that Motive was working on a remake of the first game, it felt exciting to hear after the series stumbled into retirement…
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Tim Miller Takes Over Reshoot Duties for Eli Roth’s Borderlands Movie
Back in 2020, Lionsgate announced its intentions to finally get a movie adaptation of Gearbox’s RPG-shooter franchise Borderlands off the ground. After a flurry of casting news that ranged from the strange to the surprisingly fitting, we’ve not heard a thing about it, even as some of its stars like Jamie Lee Curtis and Kevin…