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I still remember where I was when I heard that Firaxis was making a Marvel game. While the game I dreamt of – XCOM with the Marvel license – ended up differing pretty substantially from what we ultimately got with Marvel’s Midnight Suns, I still thoroughly enjoyed the unique deckbuilding and social mechanics layered on…

In 1945, a struggling Universal Pictures sold a quarter of the studio to British industrialist J. Arthur Rank, hoping that what wound up being a four-way merger would change the company’s fortunes. The opposite occurred. New studio head William Goetz’s attempt to make more prestige films almost led to a declaration of bankruptcy. Typically, the…