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Ideas and Ingenuity: Behind Capcom's In-House RE ENGINE Tools For Dragon's Dogma 2 - Media and Entertainment Discover how Capcom used Autodesk technology to develop their latest open-world AAA title, Dragon's Dogma 2.

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Inside Xbox, a Game Studio Is Trying to Reinvent Itself Microsoft’s Obsidian Entertainment is searching for ways to make games more quickly and on smaller budgets.

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Should you keep your demo up post launch? howtomarketagame.com/2026/02/02/s...

Outlaw Country - The Atavist Magazine Klamath County, Oregon, is the perfect place to go if you don't want to be found—and the worst place to be if someone threatens your life.

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The Film Students Who Can No Longer Sit Through Films

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A Controversial Video-Game Designer Returns With a New Game and More Controversy The announcement of ‘Order of the Sinking Star’ was met with criticism over the political views of its creator Jonathan Blow

NEW: I spoke to Jonathan Blow about his ambitious new puzzle game and why it took ten years to make. Then, days after the announcement, three designers came out denouncing Blow for his views on Trump (pro), vaccines (anti), and more. Here's the whole messy story: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Director Gore Verbinski says Unreal Engine is 'the greatest slip backwards' for movie CGI Do visual effects look worse than they used to? The director of Pirates of the Caribbean says Unreal is the culprit.

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A Former French President’s Prison Pity Party Nicolas Sarkozy’s memoir is a masterpiece of unintentional comedy.

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy spent three months in prison, then wrote a memoir that is a “fitting coda to a political career whose hallmark—as Sarkozy concedes in the book—has been audacity rather than talent,” Robert F. Worth argues.

Agatha Christie, Still the Queen of Crime Fifty years after her death, the British novelist continues to define the genre.

"We can appreciate the paradox of Christie striking a trad-wife posture while married to a man thirteen years her junior whose career was vastly overshadowed by hers." ICYMI, @cathyyoung63.bsky.social on the then-great and still-great Agatha Christie: lnk.thebulwark.com/3NnBgDg

The crisis whisperer: how Adam Tooze makes sense of our bewildering age The long read: Whether it’s the financial crash, the climate emergency or the breakdown of the international order, historian Adam Tooze has become the go-to guide to the radical new world we’ve enter...

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The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)

"Ça suffit" : huit leçons politiques sur Patrick Sébastien On pourrait en rire — je crois qu'il faut le prendre au sérieux. Avec le lancement de son mouvement "Ça suffit", Patrick Sébastien est en train de mettre un pied en politique. Et si l’alliage de la co...

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TSPDT - 1,000 Greatest Films (Table) They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? is dedicated to the art of motion picture film-making and most specifically to that one particular individual calling the shots from behind the camera - the film direc...

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The wealth whisperers who save super-rich families from themselves
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Who Is Mubi For? The art-house movie streamer had a cultlike following. Then it started to expand.

Who Is Mubi For? The art-house movie streamer had a cultlike following. Then it started to expand. www.vulture.com/article/mubi...

A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet Trump has staged an unscheduled, midair rapid disassembly of the global system of trade. Ironically, it is this system that prevented all...

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Are You Enjoying Our Linguine? — The Dial How American tourists took over everything.

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Bilge Ebiri: “Why Terrence Malick Is the Most Influential Director” Bilge Ebiri explores filmmaker Terrence Malick’s vision of grace and his far-ranging influence on American cinema.

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Part 1: My Life Is a Lie How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America

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My Favorite Game Trailers of 2025 — Derek Lieu Creative - Game Trailer Editor Here are about 30 of my favorite game trailers from 2025. While there were far far more amazing game trailers this year, these ones stood out from the crowd for one reason or another. Whether it was a...

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From the books community on Reddit: ‘Suddenly, it was everywhere’: why some books become blockbusters overnight Explore this post and more from the books community

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Queenadilla on Instagram: "Listen to our new single “Slippin’” Fred Durst compels you #rock #limpbizkit #newmusic" Fred Durst, the face of Limp Bizkit, embarks on an epic adventure in his new music video for 'Slippin''. Join him as he explores the beautiful landscapes and finds his muse in the hills. This new sing...

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Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and u...

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In case you were wondering what it’s like to boot a free to play mobile game in 2025

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

How Epstein Channelled Race Science and ‘Climate Culling’ Into Silicon Valley’s AI Elite bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/h...

Landscape of fear: why we need the wolf The long read: The wolf is considered a threat to our way of farming, but our fear may be misplaced. Perhaps predators are needed to bring nature back into balance

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The Curious Notoriety of “Performative Reading” Is the term a new way of calling people pretentious, or does it reflect a deprioritization of the written word?

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The 50 best films of 2025 Our annual international critics’ poll of 2025's best movies shows cinema thriving in a year of troubles

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The Secrets of Suspense We love churning apprehension in fiction; we hate it in life. But understanding the most fundamental technique of storytelling can teach us something about being alive.

The Secrets of Suspense: We love churning apprehension in fiction; we hate it in life. But understanding the most fundamental technique of storytelling can teach us something about being alive www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...