Fallout 76 B.E.T.A. Impressions

After 20 hours spent in the West-Virginian wasteland of Fallout 76 via the now-concluded B.E.T.A. (playing on Xbox One X, if you’re curious), I’ve been left with an overarching sense of curiosity. Mainly, I’m curious why Fallout 76 exists.

That’s not meant to be a criticism. With so many elements working together and against one another, I wonder why this is the next Fallout game that we’re playing, as opposed to one that leans harder into the traditional story-driven single-player experience or a full-fledged multiplayer survival game set in the Fallout universe. As it stands now, Fallout 76 is neither of those things – it’s stuck in some strange Appalachian limbo between two points.

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First Deltarune Merchandise Revealed

The first chapter of Deltarune, the latest project from Undertale creator Toby Fox, has been released, and it is now getting some official merchandise to go along with it.

The products, which can be pre-ordered on Fangamer, include a poster, two T-shirts, a plushie and a pin set. The poster features characters from Deltarune like Ralsei, Jevil, Susie and more. One shirt includes an image of Rudebuster Susie, and the other has a group image on the front and Lancer riding a bike on the back. The plushie is of Ralsei, and the enamel pins come in a set of four, featuring the faces of Susie, Lancer, Ralsei and Kris.

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The Road to Overlord: When Horror Mixes with World War II Movies

It’s not exaggeration to say that World War II was a war of many horrors, but as the years have passed, storytellers have used the shocking, world-spanning conflict as the backdrop for many horror stories that go above and beyond the battlefield.

Julius Avery’s Overlord (read our review here), about a squad of American soldiers whose mission sends them straight to a Nazi mad scientist’s horrifying laboratory, is the latest and probably the most expensive World War II horror movie to date, but it’s by no means the first. There’s a long history of World War II horror movies, some of them brilliant, some of them schlocky. So buckle up, folks. These are the World War II horror movies you really need to see…

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DC’s Black Label Is Getting Much Bigger

DC’s new Black Label imprint is poised to get much bigger in the months ahead. In addition to original projects like Batman: Damned and Superman: Year One, DC will be reprinting no fewer than 23 classic graphic novels under the Black Label banner.

The Black Label line emphasizes stories geared towards older readers and with little or no ties to current DC Comics continuity. Accordingly, DC will be focusing on popular standalone graphic novels like Watchmen, All-Star Superman, The Dark Knight Returns and Kingdom Come.

Watchmen gets a new cover for its Black Label edition. Art by Dave Gibbons. (DC Entertainment) Watchmen gets a new cover for its Black Label edition. Art by Dave Gibbons. (DC Entertainment)

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Strategy Guide Publisher Prima Games Shutting Down

Longtime strategy guide maker Prima Games is shutting down next year, according to new reports.

Variety reports that a spokesperson for publisher DK said “I can confirm that the decision has been made to no longer commission new Prima Games strategy guides and the U.S.-based imprint will be discontinued in Spring 2019. We are in conversations with the Prima Games team and cannot comment on this further at this point.”

Prima’s three U.S. offices reportedly will be shut down one at a time starting with its Roseville, Calif. location by the middle of this month, according to EGM. The Indianapolis location will close its doors in March 2019 while it’s unknown when the New York City office will be closed.

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