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Destiny 2’s Season 23 started strong, featuring the new Warlord’s Ruin Dungeon and activities like The Coil. But beneath the surface, it’s possible Bungie and Destiny have received a blow that’s impossible to recover from. A new report from IGN’s Rebekah Valentine alleges that the situation only worsens for the remaining employees at Bungie. Morale and company culture seem like they’re taking a backseat, in order to avoid something as drastic as a complete Sony takeover. Following Bungie’s layoffs at the end of October,…

via Warner Bros. Ever since the opening scene of James Cameron’s classic original, fans had been desperate to see a full-scale war movie that captured the brutal battle between man and machine, but when they finally ended up getting it in Terminator Salvation, the results were as dry as the wastelands the conflict was fought on. While a $371 million take at the box office wasn’t bad, it wasn’t quite worth the $200 million investment, and neither was a Rotten Tomatoes score of only 33 percent. Even director McG…

I have not felt genuine devastation about a game in some time. Devastation at the state of this game, devastation that one of the best studios seemed forced to push out a product before it was ready, and devastation at having to continue playing. Arkane Austin’s co-op first-person vampire shooter Redfall drained any enjoyment, even from its early hours.Arkane is a studio renowned for innovative, clockwork-like designed games, promoting player intellect over destruction. Games like Dishonored and Prey see players in…

Not to state the obvious, but the only reason for watering down an R-rated franchise into bloodless PG-13 fun for all the family is to make as much money as possible, but things didn’t exactly go according to plan for the third installments in both The Expendables and Taken franchises. Coincidentally, both of them rank as the worst-reviewed of their respective trios by far, while Liam Neeson’s third outing as throat-puncher extraordinaire Bryan Mills ended up earning $50 million less at the box office than its immediate…

Sonic Frontiers broke me. This game frustrated me so thoroughly that when I, at last, put the controller down, I did not feel a sense of accomplishment but one of relief. I wanted to like this game. There were parts I did. But those good moments were overshadowed by an experience that is inconsistent, slow, and riddled with bugs that make you want to hurl your controller through the screen.Frontiers starts with Sonic, Tails, and Amy crash-landing on an island in search of missing Chaos Emeralds. To free them, Sonic must…