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The second season of “Dark Matter” has been a huge step-up from the first, expanding upon its ideas as it delves deeper into its alternate realities. However, the end is in sight, with only a small handful of episodes left to air at the time we’re writing this, meaning you’re now likely looking for the…

All the usual pundits are pulling their hair out over a recent blockbuster Fortune story from this week detailing what the next-gen Xbox console will supposedly cost. That rumored price point doesn’t matter nearly as much as the other big news: the company’s first self-made Xbox handheld sounds like the gaming device we really need…

Dark Matter season one had a clear narrative throughline. Main character Jason Dessen (Joel Edgerton) was kidnapped by a Jason from another world who’d invented a way to hop between dimensions. While the duplicitous Jason 2 settled into Jason 1’s life, Jason 1 managed to escape Jason 2’s world and set out on a quantum-powered…

The moment one mentions a narrative-driven game, one question springs to the mind of any interested player: Do my choices matter? Video games of all genres are filled with illusory choices meant to make the player feel like they’re impacting the world, even when major moments and mechanics are scripted, and that’s often not a…