Author: James

“Wildwood,” Laika’s stop-motion animated fantasy based on the book series by Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis, opens in theaters this weekend. It’s a staggering technical achievement, with principal photography taking more than six years, utilizing dozens of puppets, including one character The General, a majestic golden eagle, that required 3,794 individually placed feathers. But sitting…

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Gaming laptops have always involved some compromise between performance and portability, but the Alienware 16 Area-51 Gaming Laptop doesn’t seem particularly interested in pretending otherwise. This flagship gaming system is designed to pack serious performance into something you can pick up and take with you, even if your shoulders might have something to say about…

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Housemarque and Nixxes developed Saros in close collaboration; one area was developing the set-piece bosses. Housemarque brought the creative vision, world, combat language, visual concepts, and signature bullet-hell DNA. Nixxes brought the bosses to life through encounter design, animation, environments, lighting, and technical implementation.

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