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Let's Movie: Five Nights at Freddy's

139 - Welcome, welcome! We're finishing off the horror season with a PG-13 money making video game franchise horror movie. That's right, we clicked subscribe to the Pcock and watched ourselves the Blumhouse film adaptation of Five Nights at Freddy's. It's horror for kids!

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Review: Venba

By Dustin Cabeal

"Venba" is perhaps one of the simplest games that I have ever played. Its controls and directions are so straightforward that anyone could pick up the controller and easily finish the short two-to-three-hour game. By no means is that a negative aspect of the game; there is an intentional reason for the straightforward controls and simplicity. That’s because it’s an equal part video game and interactive story. It’s just that both of those things are viewed as dirty words. “Interactive story” is not a game, some would say, while book enthusiasts would similarly say “Moving pictures” are not a book. I’m of the mindset that a good story is a good story, and I love to see new and interesting ways for stories to be told. At the end of the day, all forms of media are just stories being told, and the one that "Venba" is telling resonated with me long after I finished playing it.

I played it twice, and I won’t sugarcoat it; it was to unlock all the achievements. Frankly, it’s an easy 1,000 if you’re looking for them. But on that journey to complete it, I discovered that by selecting the opposite answers than I had picked the first time, I got a very different story. It was a better story than my first playthrough, which caught me off guard. I tend to pick the answers that align with my view of the world. So, to have these alternative answers presented and to answer "what if I had chosen differently," well, it was a marvelous discovery that made the replay feel fresh and different. Again, it was very unexpected and left me delighted.

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Let's Movie - Uncharted

Won't someone crack the code on video game movies and make them as unwatchable as the Marvel movies? Wait, did Uncharted just do that? Well when you have Spider-Man on retainer I guess it's not too hard to slam him into another franchise. Anyway, this movie is everything you'd want from a movie you'd never want to see twice.

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TEAM SONIC RACING Comic Book Drifts Into Your Local Comic Shop in October

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IDW Publishing and SEGA (R) of America are proud to announce the Team Sonic Racing comic book, a one-shot special arriving October 2018. Following hot on the heels of IDW’s fan-favorite Sonic The Hedgehog (TM) series, the events of the Team Sonic Racing comic will lead directly into the highly-anticipated video game that arrives this winter!

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Dark Horse and 343 Industries Deploy New Halo Mini-Series Starring Master Chief

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In a story based on Halo's most iconic hero, Dark Horse Comics and 343 Industries are proud to present a new three-issue miniseries Halo®:  Collateral Damage-A Master Chief Story. This miniseries takes place shortly after the events of the Halo: Fall of Reach comics. Alex Irvine (Halo: Rise of Atriox #4, Iron Man: The Rapture, Dark Sun) returns to the Halo universe to pen this new series and is joined by artist Dave Crosland, colorist Leonard O'Grady, letterer Simon Bowland, and cover artist Zak Hartong.

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McFarlane Toys Welcomes tinyBuild to the Neighborhood with New Hello Neighbor Construction Sets and Action Figures

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There’s no sneaking around the newly announced partnership between McFarlane Toys and tinyBuild, the agreement was brokered by Evolution USA, the global licensing agent for Hello Neighbor, to create action figures and construction sets of the hit video game “Hello Neighbor” that will be available at retailers this fall.

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