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Subaru Karasuma’s writing career – once so promising – has fizzled out. He can’t help but compare his lack of success with the dazzling career of best-selling novelist Geppo Yagira, the darling of female readers in 1920s Japan. But Geppo’s seductive veneer of success hides a dark and traumatic past and he’s still struggling to…

Sparring partners … James Spader (left) as Ultron and Paul Bettany as The Vision in VisionQuest. Photograph: Marvel. All Rights ReservedSparring partners … James Spader (left) as Ultron and Paul Bettany as The Vision in VisionQuest. Photograph: Marvel. All Rights Reserved Review

The Vision (Paul Bettany) is not as he should be, not since the Mind Stone — the Infinity Gem that served as his battery, his consciousness, his intellect — was ripped right out of his head by Thanos himself. That was way back in Avengers: Infinity War, a film that already felt light-years in the…

Without dating myself too accurately, I’ve been playing video games of all kinds for several decades, and in my younger days, I enjoyed anything and everything that used a flightstick (or flight stick, if you prefer). I’m talking about old-school games like much older versions of “Microsoft Flight Simulator,” but also titles like “Star Wars:…

An unnecessary, but largely effective, remake for one of the finest video games ever created.

When the Castlevania DLC for Dead Cells dropped in 2023, many wondered if developer Motion Twin could eventually be given free rein enough to develop a full, standalone Castlevania title. In a few short years, that dream became reality with the 2026 announcement of Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse, a stylized Metroidvania with a bloody red saturation…

After watching “VisionQuest,” the Marvel scriptwriter responsible for the quote “What is grief if not love persevering?” will feel like Robert Oppenheimer after inventing the atomic bomb. The second spin-off from the 2021 miniseries “WandaVision” amounts to eight episodes of relitigating this idea from the earlier show from every conceivable angle, from Paul Bettany’s newly…

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I’ll admit, the Gears of War franchise was never my jam, not because Xbox’s big, muscular, armoured-up guys fighting hordes of mutants isn’t appealing or lacks emotional weight, but because I grew up in a part of the world where the original Xbox and its successor, the 360, simply weren’t available.

Valor Mortis from developer One More Level is a bold departure for the studio and genre as a whole.