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To be, or not to be—that is a rhetorical question, and it gets at the challenges facing anyone who wishes to convert Shakespeare’s Hamlet into a videogame. Games are about the ways user choices can shape a narrative and Hamlet—well, let’s just say he prefers to keep his own counsel. Every level mus
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The Hitman movie feels like it was based on the back-cover description of one of the games.
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If you’ve never read Ernest Hemingway’s 1952 novel The Old Man and the Sea there is now an abridged version in which you arm wrestle a marlin. It’s a videogame with the superb title of The Old Man Club, which not only refers back to the novel’s title, but may also allude to a critique of those who h
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Header image: Poster for 1976 theatrical re-release of Moby Dick. /// After Captain Ahab’s whaling ship, the Pequod, has been destroyed by the white whale he’s been hunting across the globe in the final scenes of Herman Melville’s classic novel Moby Dick, he says the following: “Towards thee I roll
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1994 doomed videogame movies.
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The dreaded beating of that hideous heart.
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Telltale continues to play it safe, and punishing.
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Something strange happens when we can only explore Westeros as one family.
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Socrates, be damned.
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How Aaron Paul found his heart.