Retold

Xbox Game Studios Microsoft and World’s Edge gave us our first glimpse of its upcoming remaster of real-time strategy game Age of Mythology: Retold during Friday’s New Year, New Age livestream. They also confirmed that it will launch on PC and Xbox later this year. Age of Mythology: Retold’s segment of the livestream began with Art Director Melinda Rose introducing the gameand  teasing that it will contain all-new 3D character models, animation, textures, and UI. Rose also highlighted the details of the character…

Xbox Game Studios is currently hosting a New Year, New Age live stream to celebrate everything Age of Empires and reveal updates about its future. However, it’s not all about Age of Empires. After being teased in 2022, Age of Mythology: Retold has been revealed. A definitive edition of the original classic RTS Age of Mythology, Retold will release on PC and Xbox Serise X|S later this year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj_I0fc3lrI A bit more mystical If you’ve never played the original Age of Mythology but are a…

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Judy Blume’s proto-YA classic from 1970 gets a screen adaptation; it is a sweet-natured, undemanding, oddly inconsequential movie about a lonely, smart 12-year-old anxious about the onset of puberty and adulthood. Blume herself gets a producer credit and a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it cameo. The movie is played as a 1970 historical piece rather than being updated to the modern world, which would of course require LGBTQ+ plot additions, though I suspect a completely original drama of this sort set in 1970 would not tacitly…

Recasting a fairytale is like shattering an old mirror. In hammering at the tale’s surface, in picking up the splinters and reconfiguring them, riveting new reflections of our own era appear. “You shift time and location,” author Helen Oyeyemi says of her reconfigured fairytales, “to see what holds true, and why or why not.” Contemporary retellings provide another deep pleasure, of revisiting one’s childhood mind, flickers of that brighter, less inhibited self before the dimming constraints of adulthood.My new novel, Take…

We have all had some wacky things happen to us. Some medical experiences are serious and dramatic while others are so wild, most wouldn’t believe it (Me? I’ve had run-ins with jellyfish and of course, pregnancy always triggers interesting things). Anyway, in Medical Tales Retold, some of the most unique medical situations are retold in comic form. The series is collected and illustrated by Nick Seluk (The Awkward Yeti) on Tapas. Seluk explains that these are true stories (although not always verified) “from the…

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Age of Mythology is finally getting its very own Definitive Edition with Age of Mythology Retold, Xbox has announced in today's 25th Anniversary broadcast. Released in 2002, Age of Mythology brought a fantastical take to the classic Age of Empires formula, with playable cultures based off Greek, Egyptian, and Norse mythology. Players could create mythical units by spending a new resource called 'favor,' which was earned by praying to or honoring a god of choice. New cultures Atlanteans and Chinese were…

Editor’s Note: Was Shakuni a villain or victim? In Shakuni: Master of the Game, author Ashutosh Nadkar poses this burning question to the readers. This re-telling of Mahabharata from the perspective of Shakuni delves into how the heir of Gandhara used the Padavas and the Kauravas as pawns in an intricate and clever power play that culminated in an epic battle of 18 days. The following is an excerpt from Ashutosh Nadkar’s book which has been published by Juggernaut. The next day I woke up late in the afternoon.…