Enlarge / Why kill thousands of bad guys when you can explore the world of Assassin’s Creed: Origins as a combat-free museum? (credit: Ubisoft) Back in 2005, Penny Arcade identified two main types of gamers: those that “play games to enter a trance state and experience other lives,” and those who “play them to defeat […]
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Break Out: Ultima III and the familial origins of Origin Systems
GUEST: The following excerpt comes from Break Out: How the Apple II Launched the PC Gaming Revolution by David L. Craddock, available in hardcover from Schiffer Publishing. The book chronicles the making of over a dozen groundbreaking PC games, featuring interviews with their developers and details how they went on to influence the games of […]
‘Goodbye Christopher Robin’ Trailer: Learn the Origins of Winnie the Pooh
Following the end of World War I, the globe was in a state of recovery, looking for hope wherever they could find it. That’s where author A.A. Milne comes in as his creation of the honey-loving bear called Winnie the Pooh became a literary phenomenon and gave the world the pick-me-up it needed to endure. […]
How we got here: The origins of post-truth anti-environmentalism
This article is part of an ongoing series from the Post-Truth Initiative, a Strategic Research Excellence Initiative at the University of Sydney. The series examines today’s post-truth problem in public discourse: the thriving economy of lies, bullshit and propaganda that threatens rational discourse and policy. The project brings together scholars of media and communications, government […]
How Andy Serkis’ ‘Jungle Book: Origins’ Will Be Different From Jon Favreau’s ‘The Jungle Book’
Andy Serkis‘ Jungle Book: Origins was originally scheduled to come out in October of last year, but it’s been postponed multiple times and is now scheduled for a 2018 release date. The two-year delay does give Serkis’ film more space from Jon Favreau‘s smash hit reimagining of the famous title. As for how the two adaptations differ, Serkis believes […]
‘Professor Marston and the Wonder Women’ Trailer Reveals the Provocative Origins of ‘Wonder Woman’
Right now, Wonder Woman is a box office giant after the DC Comics superheroine finally got a big screen adventure all to herself. But back in the 1940s, Wonder Woman was nothing but an idea that was sparked inside the mind of Harvard psychologist Dr. William Moulton Marston. While many fans may know the origin story […]
Far Cry 5 and Assassin’s Creed Origins have major change waiting for fans on release date
While both games had their announcements before E3 2017, both still featured heavily for Ubisoft during the show. Assassin’s Creed Origins footage was squeezed into several different livestreamed conferences, while new footage from Far Cry 5 was also revealed. But one of the biggest changes to both games probably didn’t make it onto the big […]
Xbox Scorpio E3 live stream includes BioWare’s Anthem, Assassin's Creed Origins too?
There have already been substantial amounts of leaks to confirmed that Assassin’s Creed Origins will be the name of the latest instalment in the Ubisoft franchise. Not only that, but recent reports have indicated that the game will run at 4K resolution on the Xbox Scorpio. This doesn’t rule out something similar on the PS4 […]
‘Assassin’s Creed Origins’ could arrive on October 27th
Ubisoft is expected to launch a new Assassin’s Creed at E3 2017, but some Game Informer subscribers who got their next issue early might already have the details the developer plans to announce. Based on photographs of the magazine posted by HungryGhost57 on Reddit and Imgur, the new entry in the series entitled Assassin’s Creed […]
Superhero Bits: Rocket Raccoon Origins, Thor vs Wonder Woman, Flash Thompson & More
Will Flash Thompson still be Peter Parker‘s bully in Spider-Man: Homecoming? Should Wonder Woman be the leader of the DC Extended Universe? Will Scarecrow join the rogues gallery in the fourth season of Gotham? Does Chris Hemsworth think Wonder Woman cold beat up Thor? Want to know more about Rocket Raccoon‘s origins? All that and […]
