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As with From Software’sSoulsseries andBloodborne,Sekiro: Shadows Die Twiceis filled with mysteries to solve, many of which originate from the game’s unique NPCs. One of these NPCs is Kotaro, a crying monk found in the Senpou Temple area, and he may leave some players confused about exactly what to do when he asks that the Wolf spirit him away. How to Spirit Away the Crying Monk It is simple to spirit away Kotaro inSekiro, but it does require a certain Prosthetic Tool that comes by way of defeating a boss....

Warning! Spoilers ahead for Sullivan’s Cross season 3, episode 3. The first two seasons ofSullivan’s Crossingfocused on Maggie and Sully repairing their relationship, but season 3 focuses on a different parent-child relationship with a sensitivity and nuance not always depicted on television. The show is based onthe novels by Robyn Carr, author ofVirgin River, but each book follows a different character, while the TV show focuses primarily on Maggie, Sully, and Maggie’s love interest, Cal Jones....

Super Mario Odysseywill not have a game over state, Nintendo confirms. The company has been steadily revealing more and more information about the game ever since it showcased a newSuper Mario Odysseytrailerat E3 2017. On the officialSuper Mario OdysseyTwitter page, in Japanese, Nintendo confirmed how the game’s ‘fail’ states will work. When Mario comes into contact with an enemy and loses all of his health or when he falls into the abyss, players will not see a ‘game over’ screen....

TheDC Universejust gave us its own rendition of Rocket Raccoon’s MCU origins with one character whose story may be more messed up than the Guardians of the Galaxy hero’s own. Whilethe DCU timelineis still in its infancy, the releases we’ve gotten for the franchise so far have introduced a colossal range of characters. One such DCU character is especially notable for having a backstory that sees them be made sentient by a cruel creator who disregards their free will and considers them the prototype for their later, “better” work....

For $10 million, Isaiah Saxon creates a fantasy world more real and emotionally resonant than anything we’ve seen from the $300 million projects churned out every year.The Legend of Ochiis a fairytale, an adventure, and a love story between humans and the otherworldly idea of nature that’s strong in childhood and easily lost in adulthood.Legend of Ochiboasts a star-studded cast, with Willem Dafoe playing a bombastic father, Emily Watson a withholding mother, Finn Wolfhard an uncertain pseudo-son, andHelena Zengel anchoring the cast as Yuri, the young girl who feels more at home in the wildness of the woods....

Of all the kills in theScreamfranchise, it is one that most fans forget that proved to be the goriest. Starting with theoriginalScreamin 1996, the franchise subverted the tropes of slasher movies and changed the genre forever. Of course, it still delivers on horror expectations, like bloody kills. The Ghostface killersmay get creative at times, using anything from a garage door to a shotgun to take out their victims. While these masked killers have tallied some impressive kill counts intheScreammovies, the franchise isn’t really known for gore....

Warning! Spoilers for The Waterfront season 1 ahead! The whole ofThe Waterfrontseason 1 was working toward its Belle twist, and the delivery makes me so much more excited for season 2. This Netflix crime drama introduced the prominentBuckley family, who earned their wealth from the fishing industry and some less-than-honest work on the side. Harlan Buckley and his father, Beau, had used their fishery to traffic heroin back in the day....

What a good idea I’ve never really considered this until now, but wouldn’t it be nice if there were a way to tell a digital video game storefront to stop showing you stuff that you already own on another platform? Think of all the time you’d save! Think of all the new experiences you might encounter in their absence! As it turns out, Steam has that feature. It’s possible to mark games as “played on another platform....

Today’sConnectionspuzzle focuses on how its words are presented, rather than how those same phrases are defined. There were some tricks in this puzzle that threw me for a loop, making it one of the more unique collections of words than usual. Those who visualize words in these puzzles might have an easier time, but anyone who struggles might need some helpful hints to succeed. For any fans of theNYTVertexpuzzle game, today’sConnectionspuzzle will be somewhat familiar in how it asks you to visualize its phrases....

There have been attempts to turn Naughty Dog’sUnchartedfranchise into a live-action movie for about as long as the franchise has existed. Obviously these have yet to pan out,thanks to numerous delays, but the project’s producers remain hopeful that theUnchartedmovie will be released next year, and its star, Tom Holland, recently took the opportunity to not only express his excitement for it but discuss how the movie relates to the games as well....

About a month ago, Focus Home Interactive and Dontnod Entertainment began amaking-of seriesfor the forthcoming action role-playing game,Vampyr, with the companies offering fans a peek behind the curtain that afforded some insights into the title’s development process. Now, the publisher and developer have released the final episode of the mini web series that officially confirms the forthcoming game’s release date as July 08, 2025. As seen below in episode 4 of the Dontnod PresentsVampyrseries, the developer explains why video games are so much more unique when compared to other mediums used for storytelling, with the company detailing how it approaches narrative craft....

Blumhousehas become one of the strongest and most prolific studios in Hollywood, buttheir latest horror sequel, hoped to be a huge hit, disappointed at the box officewith a meager $17 million global opening. The sequel followed up on one of thebest Blumhouse movies, but made a number of striking changes, causing some confusion among horror fans. Blumhouse has done a great job with making films, but in some cases has struggled with franchises....

From our community blogs [Promoted from our blogs: Do you even science, bro?] Cordyceps is a fungal pathogen that attacks insects, using them as food to grow a fungal stalk and spread fungal spores across an area-thereby infecting more hosts. In its most dramatic-and perhaps most famous-form, it actually manipulates the behavior of an ant. Look at it: The ant will crawl up to a place high above the ground, where theCordycepsis happiest and has its best growing conditions, and slowly a fungal body emerges as the ant locks in place and dies....