Family Guy Season 17 Premiere: "Married... With Cancer" Review

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When a show has been on the air as long as Family Guy, any attempt to shake up the usual formula is generally a risk worth taking. South Park has changed things up by pursing a more continuity-driven approach in recent years. Family Guy has never been that ambitious, but occasionally fans are treated to a multi-episode storyline where the events of one episode actually carry over to the next. Kicking off Season 17 with another two-parter is a nice way to welcome the series back. That said, "Married... With Cancer" left me questioning why this storyline actually needs a second chapter in the end.

Brian is probably the most frustrating character on the series. In some ways, he's the most complex member of the Griffin family, with more emotional foibles and generally giving the writers more room in which to play around. But Brian also tends to be the most obnoxious of Family Guy's main cast. So much of the show's Brian-related humor centers around his performative wokeness and his desperation for other to recognize how progressive and open-minded he is.

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Fear the Walking Dead: Season 4 Finale Review

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Fear the Walking Dead's Season 4 finale had one job, basically. Regardless of who lived or died, of who survived to see the adventures ahead (spoiler: it was freakin' everyone), none of these folks could ever step foot in Alexandria.

I know, I know. That's crazy, right? This whole half season's been solely about Morgan collecting his new compadres (even meeting some new ones) and taking them all to his friend Rick. To house them in a safe environment. To show them the king he's always talking about. The king who - er - used to have a tiger. It's been his directive from the get-go.

Now all of that had to unravel in 50 minutes. Or 80 minutes including commercials. Or really, the final five minutes because that's how quickly the show had Morgan ditch his entire plan. Because The Walking Dead's about to hit us with an eighteen month time jump. Yup, just as Fear caught up to Walking Dead, the original show's like "Smell ya later!" and is skipping ahead a year and a half.

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The Simpsons Season 30 Premiere: "Bart's Not Dead" Review

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September 30 seems like an appropriate day for The Simpsons to kick off its 30th season. That's another huge milestone for the series in 2018, after it already broke Gunsmoke's record as the longest-running primetime scripted series in history. Not that the series went out of tis way to mark the occasion (aside from a quick nod during the intro). That's probably for the best. Last season kicked off with the gimmicky, medieval-themed "The Serfsons," an episode that failed to give the show much early momentum. "Bart's Not Dead" sticks to treading more traditional ground, and in the process becomes one of the series' better season premieres in recent memory.

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SCUF Vantage Wireless PS4 Controller Review

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SCUF’s Vantage Wireless PS4 Controller is possibly the closest thing the PlayStation has to the Xbox One’s Elite Controller. It’s a well-made, comfortable controller that delivers some handy customization options you don’t get from the standard DualShock 4. It has mad e me at least feel like I’m performing a little better. But as much as it does right, it misses the mark just as often, and at $200 it’s too expensive for that, especially for more casual players.

The Vantage is roughly as comfortable to hold as a standard DualShock 4, though definitely a little larger, thanks to the sturdier, textured grip. and feels familiar aside from the very obvious change of the offset analog sticks that resemble the Xbox One’s configuration. Obviously symmetrical versus offset can be quite the personal preference — I’ve grown fond of the DualShock setup having used it so frequently over the years. But playing offset on a PS4 feels good in my hands, especially when combined with analog stick height and contour customization options that let you tune it to your liking for fast-paced genres like first-person shooters.

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Acer Predator Aethon 500 Gaming Keyboard Review

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Acer has been shipping its own keyboards with its Predator desktops for a while now, but has never offered them for sale to the public before. That's going to change with the new Aethon 500 (See it on Amazon). It’s a full-size gaming keyboard positioned at the very top echelon of the mechanical keyboard market. It features dedicated macro keys, per-key RBG backlighting, clicky Kalih Blue switches, and a snazzy magnetic wrist wrest. As you can see, this keyboard is full-loaded, and priced accordingly at $180. I took it for a spin to see if its lofty price is justified.

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The Old Man & the Gun Review

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Just like Robert Redford's own eternally dazzling smile, David Lowery's The Old Man & the Gun is welcoming, approachable, relaxed, and affable. Although ostensibly structured as crime thriller – it is based on the life of real-life bank robber and multiple prison escapee Forrest Tucker – The Old Man & the Gun moves gently and calmly, eager to stay at the pace of a gentle stroll. It is a film that invites one to sit in its living room, offers a cup of tea, and proceeds to spin yarns of the good old days while you listen raptly to its deceptively inconsequential anecdotes.

Forrest Tucker, for the uninitiated, was one of the most prolific career criminals of the 20th century. He reportedly escaped from 18 prisons, and made 12 additional attempts. His approach to robbing banks was a friendly one: He would enter a bank, wait for just the right moment, then show a gun to a teller or a manager, demanding cash. He wouldn't threaten, badger, or cuss. He would converse, defer, ask nicely, and compliment. And he always left with a smile on his face. He was a bank robber by the very nature of his bemused politeness. It's been said that his victims would speak kindly of him after the fact.

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Post Scriptum Early Access Review

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In most squad-based games, communication is king. In the current early access iteration of Post Scriptum, that’s taken to new heights: the need for constant coordination with your team is not only necessary for success, but easily the most enjoyable aspect of this World War 2 military simulation. This formula of squad-based team cohesion on steroids would make for a worthwhile shooter were it not for the frustrating maps, overly simplistic game mode, and a few baffling design decisions that get in the way of experiencing what Post Scriptum does well.

Post Scriptum is an unforgiving game where some players are inherently more powerful than others, and a single whizzing bullet can unceremoniously end an otherwise uneventful five-minute trek through its WW2-era Netherlands maps. This may sound difficult for difficulty’s sake but this opaque environment is ultimately what drives people to work together: there’s safety in numbers. If you’re gunned down while alone you have absolutely no recourse, but with a section of soldiers (a group of anywhere from four to nine) at your back you can be avenged and revived. And while this incentive also exists in Battlefield 1, the sheer amount of waiting and running required to get back into the action of Post Scriptum makes sticking with your squad feel even more essential. As someone who loves team play, this element was immediately gratifying, but as time pressed on getting back to this baseline of cooperation proved arduous.

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Overlord Review: Producer JJ Abrams' Great New Horror Film

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This is an advance review out of Fantastic Fest.

Remember when everyone was certain that Overlord was going to be set in the Cloverfield-universe (and started calling it Cloverlord)? Well, it's not but the film is finally here, and it is a lot of fun! Director Julius Avery has crafted an impressive film that is often more Saving Private Ryan than 28 Days Later.

Just like the first Predator, Overlord starts as a war drama, and then quickly switches gears and goes full monster film. We begin, much like Saving Private Ryan, with a scene of soldiers trying to invade France. It’s a nerve-wracking airdrop sequence that sets the tone for the rest of the film, where we get to know a group of American soldiers and listen to their banter, just before the plane gets shot down and we see the agonizing and harrowing reality of war. It’s a gorgeous and gritty scene, with rounds going off and planes exploding against the dark background of nighttime France, and Avery shoots the scene with the intensity of a veteran director (Overlord is only his second full-length feature).

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Bad Times at the El Royale Review

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Bad Times at the El Royale is a cleverly constructed crime yarn about a group of strangers faced with crossing the line between right and wrong. And there is a literal line running through the story’s seedy setting, a ghost town of a resort on the Nevada-California border that’s faded since its swingin’ Rat Pack-era heyday.

One character is merely staying there because it’s cheaper than staying in Reno proper, another is on the run, and two more are looking for something hidden on the hotel’s grounds. None of the guests know what really happens inside the El Royale and none of them are looking for absolution — that’s the goal of a different character — although events just might end up offering it to some of them. Choices define people, actions trigger consequences, and even a bad person might be capable of doing something good. But there can be a heavy price to pay for doing the right thing.

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Nintendo Switch Review - 2018

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A year and a half after its launch, the Nintendo Switch has almost entirely lived up to the initial promise it made. While I may not have brought it out at any rooftop parties, I have played major games like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Skyrim on the train, had spontaneous Mario Kart 8 sessions with friends, and have still been able to sit down on my couch and play all of those games and more on a big screen. And though daily use has forced a few design flaws into the light, the Switch has easily solidified itself as one of my favorite consoles.

The Switch’s biggest selling point truly does stand as its greatest strength: being able to effortlessly bring console-quality games anywhere you go. While it seemed like a lofty goal when the Switch was first announced, it’s one Nintendo has soundly delivered on in almost every way that counts. I love how easy it is to go from playing docked to undocked and back again, and I don’t really feel like I’ve paid for that ability with the quality of the games I’m playing.

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Samsung Q9FN QLED 4K HDR Television Review

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Samsung’s Q9FN QLED (See it on Amazon) is its top-of-the-line Smart TV offering. It’s available in both 75" and 65" sizes (I got the 65-inch model for testing) and comes with a bevy of features including voice control, ambient light detection, Anynet+ to link Samsung devices, built-in apps, and an auto-detecting Game Mode with FreeSync. The top-of-the-line billing also means top-of-the-line prices, as the 65" is around $3,000. That's a lot of money, so let’s dive in and see what that gets you, and if it’s worth it.

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DC's Doomsday Clock Picks Up the Pace

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While Doomsday Clock has so far proven itself to be an engrossing read and a worthy follow-up to Watchmen, it hasn't been delivering *everything* readers have been wanting out of this story. For a conflict that hinges so heavily on the confrontation between Superman and Doctor Manhattan, we've seen surprisingly little of either character in the first six issues. But as the series passes the halfway mark, that's finally beginning to change. Doctor Manhattan finally becomes a central player in the narrative in issue #7, offering new and compelling insight into how this godlike being reshaped the course of an entire universe.

One of Doomsday Clock's strengths is the way in which this series so effortlessly replicates the look and tone of Watchmen despite not involving any of that book's creative team. Part of that boils down to the fact that Gary Frank and Dave Gibbons have such complementary art styles. They're both precise draftsmen who bring plenty of detail and nuance to every page. But it's also due to the way Frank and writer Geoff Johns emulate so many of Watchmen's storytelling devices. There's the ironic juxtaposition of narration and image, something that only works when writer and artist are working closely in sync.

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South Park: Season 22 Premiere Review

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South Park is unique among animated sitcoms in that its lightning-quick production process allows the show to spoof current events at a speed that just isn’t possible anywhere else. The downside to that approach is that the show is only on the air ten weeks out of the year, meaning there’s a lot of great comedic fodder that simply gets passed over. Just look at how much dumber the world has gotten in the ten months since Season 21 wrapped.

The tragedy with South Park’s Season 22 premiere is that it tackles one of those subjects that’s never not topical. Mass shootings are essentially a daily occurrence in the US nowadays, making this episode just as relevant if it debuted in January or April or any other time of year. Well, at least we have proof the show won’t suddenly start pulling its punches this year.

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What Did You Think of Tonight's AHS: Apocalypse?

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The review for tonight's American Horror Story is on its way. Let us know what you thought of "Forbidden Fruit."

Matt Fowler is a writer for IGN and a member of the Television Critics Association (TCA). Follow him on Twitter at @TheMattFowler and Facebook at Facebook.com/MattBFowler.

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Stranger Things Gets a Bland Comic Spinoff

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With Halloween approaching but the next season of Stranger Things not due out for the better part of a year still, desperate fans might be jonesing for a fix right about now. Dark Horse's tie-in comic is certainly better than nothing in that regard. It at least finds a logical point in the show's mythology from which to build. At the same time, the first chapter of this four-issue miniseries does little to suggest the comic will be a vital addition to the show's mythology.

The goal with this series is to explore the events of Season 1 from a different perspective. That season revolved heavily around the disappearance of young Will Byers but revealed little about the struggles Will actually faced while trapped in the Upside Down. That's where the comic comes in. Writer Jody Houser and artist Stefano Martino are tasked with exploring what it's like to spend a few weeks living in a demonic hellscape separated from everyone you hold dear.

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Amazing Spider-Man Takes a Fun Detour

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Having just wrapped up his first major Amazing Spider-Man storyline, writer Nick Spencer opts for a palate cleanser with this second, shorter arc. Issue #6 kicks off a goofy storyline that emphasizes the odd dynamic between Peter Parer and new roomie Fred Myers (aka - The Boomerang). The result is every bit the goofy interlude fans of Spencer's Superior Foes of Spider-Man would expect, even if the art serves as a step down from the previous arc.

Unfortunately, despite what the cover indicates, there isn't a great deal of emphasis on the Peter/Mary Jane romance in this issue. The focus is more on the growing friction between Peter and Fred and the former's struggle to expose the latter without outing himself as Spider-Man. It's a ore low-key conflict, but one that serves as a fun change of pace given the wacky spectacle of recent issues. The plot also takes some amusing turns along the way, resulting in Peter finding himself in the most unlikely place imaginable.

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The Bard's Tale 4: Barrows Deep Review

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If you entice me with deep, turn-based RPG combat, clever puzzles, and jaunty, Gaelic folk ballads, you can pretty easily have me eating out of the palm of your hand. The Bard’s Tale IV certainly did for the majority of the 50-ish hours I spent delving its dungeons and enjoying its quirky lore and charming voice acting. The fact that so much of it is so great made it all the more disappointing that it’s hobbled by technical problems too frequently to disregard them.

Set in a picturesque, storybook land that resembles a romanticized medieval Scotland - but with elves and goblins running around - the straightforward but rousing main quest tells a decent tale of ancient sorcerers, kingly bloodlines, and wicked gods. It can get a little hard to follow at times as it seems preoccupied with calling back to as many characters and events as possible of the first three Bard’s Tales, which came out in the ‘80s. But the small lore snippets discovered in books, notes, and NPC conversations help the setting come alive even if you have no idea who Tarjan the Mad God is.

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Night School Review

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Despite being a big fan of both Kevin Hart and Tiffany Haddish, I went into Night School with very low expectations. For whatever reason, it felt like the kind of movie that wastes its best jokes in the trailer, but thankfully that is not the case at all. While it did end up surpassing those expectations, Night School has enough humor and heart to warrant a passing grade, so to speak, but not by a whole lot.

One thing that confounded me about the trailers is, judging from the house we see Kevin Hart’s character, Teddy Walker, in, it seems like he’s doing damn good for himself. This begged the question of why would this guy who is living in a seemingly dope house, needs to get his G.E.D. in the first place? The actual answer to which is so convoluted that it barely requires mentioning, except to note that, after freaking out while taking a standardized test, Teddy vows he’ll make it without those stupid tests, claiming he’ll have a great car, great girl, and a great life without being a “sheep” like his classmates… and wouldn’t ya know it… he accomplishes all of that.

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Life is Strange 2 - Episode 1 Review

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Life is Strange 2 features none of the characters or settings of its predecessor. Its new hero, a 17-year-old Mexican-American boy named Sean Diaz, does not have a decision-reversing time-travel ability like Max Caulfield. But the moment an acoustic guitar begins delicately strumming over the sun-kissed title screen, it is unmistakable what you are playing. This may be an unfamiliar story among fresh faces and unknown locales, but in every other way this is Life is Strange.

This four-hour episode — the first of five — introduces us to a bigger, more complex story than was told by either the original Life is Strange or its prequel Before the Storm. That coming-of-age story concerns the fraught relationship of a pair of high school girls against a backdrop of an impending natural disaster — but its action is confined to the classrooms and bedrooms of small-town Arcadia Bay, Oregon. Life is Strange 2 is in every way a more elaborate affair: its action sprawls out from Seattle to the woods of Oregon and still farther afield, giving it the feel of a road movie in game form. It aspires to realize nothing less than an unsparingly critical portrait of the United States in the era of Donald Trump.

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DC's Heroes in Crisis Is a Brutal Read

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Sometimes there's a huge difference between a story that's well-executed and a story that's actually enjoyable to read. Heroes in Crisis #1 illustrates that gulf about as well as any comic in recent memory. This is a series featuring some of the best creators currently working at DC telling a very intimate, emotionally charged tale of tragedy striking the superhero community. The first issue is also unpleasant and even somewhat off-putting in its impact on the DCU. But no doubt that was the intention. Given the subject matter and the real-world events fueling Heroes in Crisis, fun doesn't really enter into the equation.

Heroes in Crisis introduces Sanctuary, a refuge built by Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman to serve as a safe haven for heroes weighed down by the physical and psychological pressures of the job. Unfortunately, as the series opens, Sanctuary has been rocked by a mass murder, transforming a place of healing into one of bloodshed.

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Lethal Weapon: Season 3 Premiere Review

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Firstly, it's absolutely nuts, even though this TV series is a mix tape-style alt universe based on the movie franchise, that there's an iteration now of Lethal Weapon where Riggs dies. I mean, it's not totally out of line considering the original ending of Lethal Weapon 2 had him dying after being shot by "Diplomatic Immunity!" Arjen Rudd, but this time it all happens off-screen. Murtaugh gets the dire news relayed to him by a doctor in a dialogue free moment, that just involves a head shake. Crazy.

I'm not here to comment on the behind-the-scenes chaos that led to star Clayne Crawford's firing and, subsequently, Riggs' death (we assume Riggs would've just survived the shooting had Crawford returned) except to say that this created a massive hurdle for a show that's always existed on the bubble and is based on a very popular, established franchise that leans heavily on Riggs for action and drama (granted, the character's nesting doll of surprise skeletons from his past had dried up). This was a massive mountain to climb.

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The Gifted: Season 2 Premiere Review

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Even though events in The Gifted's Season 2 premiere more solidly defined the adversarial Inner Circle - a decades-after-the-fact offshoot of the Hellfire Club that...now only has four(ish) members thanks to Reeva Payge's (Empire's Grace Byers) culling in the first scene - the story remained hyper-personal and emotional.

Skipping ahead six months, and centering things around Polaris giving birth to her daughter, "eMergence" (we're capitalizing the "M" now...to spell out X-Men over four seasons?) was able to nicely focus in on the show's characters instead of setting up a big seasonal "bad guy" plot for our heroes to tackle. The heart of this chapter came down to Marcos wanting to be there for his baby's birth and Lorna wanting to protect her child, no matter what, if things went wrong with her super-powered, chaotic labor.

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FLCL: Alternative Episode 3 Review

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Spoilers for the episode follow.

The slow burn stylings of FLCL: Alternative continue with “Freestyle Collection.” Following the blueprint laid out by the previous episode, Freestyle Collection takes a closer look at Mossan through the lens of Kana’s constant struggle with her future prospects.

The episode kicks off when Kana, having not turned in her college planning sheet, inquires about what Mossan wrote down for hers. Mossan tells her friends about her dream of being a fashion designer and reveals she has made it through the first round of a fashion design contest. Unlike Hijiri’s fling from the last episode, which felt a little par for her character, Mossan’s reveal was actually a surprise to me and had me interested from the start. Mossan’s reveal also provided a great opportunity to add to Kana’s maturity crisis which has become one of the show’s main threads.

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My Hero Academia: Two Heroes Review

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My Hero Academia: Two Heroes will have a five-day theatrical run from September 25 – October 2, 2018.

Even as one of the best shonen anime in recent years, My Hero Academia’s movie still suffers from the same tropes and typical faults that plague most movies based on a popular show; just about everything that happens is inconsequential, flashbacks are used too frequently to fill in known backstory, and the new side characters see little development. Still, My Hero Academia: Two Heroes starts with an incredible burst of energy that, like All Might’s power, dwindles until the climax comes along.

My Hero Academia: Two Heroes takes place before the start of Season 3 during Deku's summer vacation, and to kick it off, All Might takes his protege to I-Island, a neat man-made island that serves as a massive Quirk research facility and support item development center. Since only invited guests are on the island, everyone is allowed to use their Quirk freely, which made for a bunch of interesting visuals and new heroe designs early on in the movie. Then things go awry a la Die Hard and The Raid (yes, you read that right) as the entire island is taken hostage by villains, leaving it up to the heroes in training to save the day.

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Alienware AW768 Keyboard Review

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Alienware is well known for its desktop and laptops, but it also make peripherals as well, complete with the company's unique aesthetic. The AW768 Pro Gaming Mechanical Keyboard (See it on Amazon) is Alienware’s flagship keyboard, and at $90, it occupies a midrange price point not shared by many competitors with similar features.

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FIFA 19 Switch Review

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While the FIFA series has done impressive things on PlayStation, Xbox, and PC, the Switch version is still lagging behind. Despite notable upgrades from the very disappointing FIFA 18, including a glossy, Champions League makeover, inclusion of the enjoyable new House Rules modes, and the ability to now play online with friends, FIFA 19 on Switch is still a frustrating and unrewarding experience, especially on the pitch.

FIFA 19’s moment-to-moment gameplay remains, disappointingly, largely unchanged from last year’s under-par outing. Still running on EA’s Ignite engine (last used on the PS4/Xbox/PC version for FIFA 16), it simply can’t compete with the fluidity of movement and authentically animated players the Frostbite-powered versions display. Additionally, the tempo of play is all over the place, with some players boasting ludicrous speed that makes them almost impossible to track as a defender, to others who give the feeling they’re wading through tar as they attempt to turn with the ball.

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Netflix's Hold the Dark Review

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This is an advance review from Fantastic Fest. Hold the Dark opens in theaters and streams on Netflix on Sept. 28.

Hold the Dark, Jeremy Saulnier’s first feature since Green Room, is about the complexity and randomness of human behavior compared to that of wild animals, yet no amount of unsettling violence, mythology or gorgeous set pieces can save this beautiful-looking but ultimately disappointing film.

Westworld’s Jeffrey Wright, TV’s most confused-looking actor, stars here as yet another character who has no idea what’s going on. Author Russell Core (Wright) is summoned to a remote Alaskan village by a desperate mother asking him to hunt down a wolf. Medora Slone (Riley Keough) is said grieving mother, whose husband Vernon (Alexander Skarsgård) is away in Iraq. Slone’s village has a history of children being snatched by wolves, making Core her only hope to track down the beast and kill it in revenge – despite Core being an advocate for wolf preservation.

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Forza Horizon 4 Review

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Forza Horizon 4 retains almost everything that made Forza Horizon 3 the best racer in its class and bakes it into a game that doesn’t ever want you to stop playing. The stunning visual quality and sound design, the massive array of automobiles, and the extensive and completely customisable career mode that have become hallmarks of the Horizon series are all here. What’s new is just how much more effectively Forza Horizon 4 encourages us to return thanks to its shifting seasons, regularly refreshed challenges, and steady stream of rewards.

Every real-time week the in-game season will change and bring a whole new look to the world, alongside a bunch of season-specific challenges. Every day there are still more new Forzathon challenges to complete, and every hour there is a live, online event to participate in alongside up to 11 other drivers who we work with cooperatively in order to chip away at a shared goal.

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NBC's Manifest: Series Premiere Review

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This is a spoiler-free review of the series premiere of NBC's Manifest.

NBC's new fall drama Manifest has been drawing comparisons to ABC's Lost ever since the concept was announced; the show revolves around a plane full of missing people, and recurring numbers of great significance, with its slow-burn mystery set to unfold over the course of multiple seasons (if it lasts that long - always a crapshoot in today's TV landscape).

Seemingly trying to combine the high-concept procedural elements of NBC's recent hits Blindspot and The Blacklist with the familial drama of This Is Us, Manifest feels similar to a lot of other shows without quite nailing its own identity, at least in the series premiere.

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Magnum P.I. Series Premiere Review

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The original long-running Magnum P.I. series, which ran from '80 to '88, is known for a handful of things. First and foremost, it transformed Tom Selleck into a bonafide TV star (which he was even able to parlay into a few headlining movie roles) and, aside from the unique Hawaiian backdrop, it was Selleck's charm that kept viewers coming back for weekly capers. Add to the mix John Hillerman's Higgins - Thomas Magnum's snooty, feisty foil - and the series was able to cruise comfortably as a breezy "case of the week" procedural for many years.

Decades later, CBS still builds shows using the same blueprint that TV adopted back in "the day." Drawing in an older demographic for its stable, stalwart lineup of "murder's the real star" crime shows, the network uses a time-honored regimented recipe for casual, lightly serialized (though mostly not) crook-buster shows, using tried and true tropes and cliches to present viewers with purposefully unchallenging storytelling.

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Attack on Titan Episode 47 Review

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Stepping off a bit of the intense action we’ve seen in the last few episodes, “Friends” puts on the brakes to develop one of its more mysterious characters in this season--Kenny Ackermann. It’s great to see a continued emphasis on character development, but this episode isn’t this season’s strongest example.

At the end of Episode 46 we saw Kenny on his last leg of life. In a moment, he could turn that all around, but this week’s episode instead dives back into the past to explore his relationships with the Reiss’s, Levi, and his motivations. Namely, the way he views power.

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Netflix's Apostle Review

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This is an advance review out of Fantastic Fest. Apostle premieres exclusively on Netflix on October 12.

For his fifth full-length feature, Apostle, Gareth Evans has traded the pulse-pounding action thrills and exceptional martial arts acrobatics of The Raid for full blown folk horror with this grim, nasty and gnarly story about a religious cult in the early 20th century.

The story follows Thomas Richardson (Dan Stevens), an ex-priest and the long-lost son of a wealthy man who returns home to find that his sister was kidnapped by a cult and is being held for ransom on a remote island. Thomas takes it upon himself to infiltrate the cult and rescue her before the cult’s sinister plans can come to fruition.

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Acer Predator Galea 500 Gaming Headset Review

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Acer has expanded its Predator product line with the a new flagship headset named the Galea 500 (See it on Amazon). It's a premium wired USB headset made for PC gaming, and the most interesting feature is its inclusion of Acer's TrueHarmony 3D sound. The company claims it offers a more immersive experience than rival surround sound technologies, so I spent a considerable amount of time wearing these cans to find out what the headset is like for gaming, and if its 3D sound was really all that.

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The Walking Dead: The Final Season Episode 2 Review

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Halfway through the second episode of The Walking Dead’s final season, I found myself frustrated. I had been playing for about an hour but still struggled to care about any character other than Clementine or AJ, any actions I took, or any dialogue choice I was presented with. It all felt hollow and lifeless, a formulaic Mad Libs-esque construction in which story elements were strung together in a repetitive, predictable sequence. If anything can be said for Episode Two, it’s this: the seams of this series are showing, and they’re beginning to wear thin.

As in previous episodes and seasons of The Walking Dead, Clementine and her relationship with AJ continues to be the strongest and most compelling part of the story. After dealing with a particularly traumatic incident at the end of the previous episode, Clementine is left to put the pieces back together and teach AJ more difficult lessons about the subtleties and nuances of life from a time when manners and niceties were socially relevant.

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Julia Roberts' Homecoming Could Be Amazon's Best Show Yet

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This is an early review of Amazon's new scripted drama Homecoming out of the Toronto International Film Festival. The series premieres November 2 on Amazon Prime Video.

At first glance, Homecoming, Amazon Prime Video’s newest series based on a popular podcast of the same name (created by Eli Horowitz and Micah Bloomberg, who adapt their story for the screen here), may seem familiar to fans of Mr. Robot, which redefined the way one frames a scene for traditional television. Yet executive producer/director Sam Esmail not only knows how to make a mystery thriller look good, he knows exactly how to keep you on your toes and demanding more of the story.

Here, Esmail returns to confuse and intrigue audiences with another conspiracy thriller, this time leaning heavily into noir and Hitchcock to tell the story of Homecoming. We follow Heidi Bergman (Julia Roberts), a caseworker in a shady military reintegration facility that sells itself as a help center which prepares veterans for their return to civilian life. Bergman seems to be genuinely interested in helping her patients, instead of just using them as lab rats that can be mined for data on their trauma. She is especially interested in newcomer Walter Cruz (Stephan James), a soldier who’s on the verge of a breakdown as his compatriots’ paranoia starts getting to him, and the secrets of the eerie help center may threaten their very lives.

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Netflix's Maniac Review: How is the Bond 25 Director's Surreal Series?

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The Netflix limited series, Maniac, debuts Friday, September 21. This is a spoiler-free review for all 10 episodes.

Maniac, a 10-part event series starring Jonah Hill and Emma Stone - who reunite for the first time since Superbad provided both of them with breakout roles -  is a moderately-amusing, overly-trippy romp that's sure to garner even more attention now that director Cary Fukunaga, of True Detective: Season 1 fame, has been hired to helm Bond 25.

Hill and Stone, giving it their ambitious all, play lost, damaged souls wandering a satire-saturated "five minutes from now" future world. The results here are mixed, yes, though Maniac's cardinal sin is that it never touches down long enough to fully resonate emotionally the way it sets out to. It's unpredictable and full of loopy left turns, sure, but it's also often dull. Most definitely, it's another instance of a Netflix show blowing its horn for ten notes when five would have done nicely, but it's also because this specific type of oddball absurdist art doesn't benefit from the almighty binge.

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The Sisters Brothers Review

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A landscape of darkness, the distance muzzle flashes of a shootout. Violence, brutality. The Sisters Brothers opens like many westerns before it, but then it spirals into oddball directions as two lowly, dangerous, comic relief henchmen take center stage and throw the rest of the genre into sharp relief.

John C. Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix star as Eli and Charlie Sisters, two hired guns working for an unseen commodore, who sends them on a quest spanning the American west in 1851. Their boss wants them to track down a chemist, Hermann Kermit Warm (Riz Ahmed), who may have developed a chemical that could change the mining industry forever.

It’s a simple mission, on the surface. Another of the commodore’s agents, John Morris (Jake Gyllenhaal), has tracked the scientist down. All the Sisters Brothers need to do is catch up, torture the formula out of him, and go home. But if you want to make god laugh, as the old story goes, just make a plan; the Sisters Brothers wind up sidetracked by spiders, thunderstorms, bears, treachery, greed, and the ingrained dysfunctions in their own relationship.

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Alienware AW988 Wireless Gaming Headset Review

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Alienware is back in the headset game for the first time in nearly a decade. The last time we saw an Alienware headset, the Obama Administration was in its first year. Alienware appears to have used its time wisely in creating the Alienware Wireless Gaming Headset (model AW988) (See it at Dell). From build quality to sound quality, this wireless gaming headset hits the mark. It offers the sturdy yet sleek design that you expect from Alienware along with two-zone RGB lighting and lag-free 7.1 surround sound. I have a few nits to pick, however, and at $200 they are quite pricey, but then again, this is Alienware we're talking about so it's not a huge surprise.

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Star Control: Origins Review

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By introducing an entirely new and mysterious universe full of colorful, hilarious aliens and bringing back the intense arcadey space battles, Star Control: Origins gets about two thirds of the way toward recapturing the magic of Star Control 2, the revered 1992 adventure about forming an interstellar alliance against a greater threat. If it weren’t for the tedious chore of gathering resources from planets’ surfaces, it’d be a revival to celebrate.

As humanity takes its first step into the stars we find we’re not alone, and that many of our neighbors are delightfully stupid. There’s the pathetically needy Tywom banana slugs, the obsessively bureaucratic Measured, a sleazy race of con artists who’re basically Watto from Star Wars: The Phantom Menace with longer necks, and plenty more – each stranger and more surprising than the last. All the major aliens have a distinct style and personality that’s brought to life by diverse character models and fun voice acting.

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What Did Your Think of Tonight's American Horror Story?

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Matt Fowler is a writer for IGN and a member of the Television Critics Association (TCA). Follow him on Twitter at @TheMattFowler and Facebook at Facebook.com/MattBFowler.

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Art Is King in Batman: Damned

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DC has been going all-in when it comes to creating new comic book imprints to cater to readers of different tastes. DC Black Label may be the most enticing of these new imprints yet. The goal with Black Label is nothing less than to create a new wave of books in the vein of The Killing Joke and The Dark Knight Returns - adult-oriented, continuity-free stories that feature bold takes on familiar heroes. That's a high standard to meet, however, and it should come as no surprise that Batman: Damned doesn't immediately establish itself as the next Killing Joke.

Damned is the latest collaboration between writer Brian Azzarello and artist Lee Bermejo, who previously collaborated on villain-centric comics like Joker and Lex Luthor: Man of Steel. Those projects should give some idea of the tone of Damned. Together, the two creator paints a very bleak picture of life in Gotham City. In some ways, it's a much more grounded and realistic take on a decaying modern metropolis and the billionaire crazy enough to spend his nights dressing as a bat. There's a grimy quality to this Gotham and its denizens. Batman himself is decked out in rugged armor, not spandex. And hero and villain alike are mired in misery and suffering. This is about as dark and adults-only as Batman comics get (and not just because of the already infamous Bat-nudity).

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Wolverine's Return Finally Gets Interesting

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It's been almost exactly four years since Marvel published Death of Wolverine and took the mos popular X-Man there is off the board. Death of Wolverine itself was a solid sendoff to the character, one marked by terrific art, a novel approach to depicting Wolverine's senses and a poignant final scene. However, nothing that has followed has managed to live up to that standard. Neither the various Death of Wolverine tie-in books nor the weekly Wolverines series have done much but dilute the impact of that initial story. As for the recent Hunt for Wolverine crossover, that turned out to be a whole lot of fuss for very little payoff. The best that can be said for the entire Death and Resurrection of Wolverine meta-event is that it gave Laura Kinney and Old Man Logan a chance to shine in the absence of the original Wolverine.

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The House with a Clock in Its Walls Review

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The House with a Clock in Its Walls is possessed of a sprightly, featherweight tone that can only be described as Spielberg-extra-lite. It features familiar Amblin iconography like warm suburban photography (by Rogier Stoffers), a wide-eyed moppet protagonist, a lot of kid-friendly humor, and the type in-depth exploration of a secret world of magic that is so well-worn that it's lost all its tread.

The House with a Clock in Its Walls is missing a lot of vital charm and genuine wonderment that its genre so thirstily requires and is so rarely rewarded with. It's not until the film's final act – when puppet automatons spring to life, jack-o'-lanterns attack, and zombies begin stalking the halls – that it really begins to breathe and excite. Perhaps this approach should come as no surprise, as the film was directed by Eli Roth, the gore-hungry auteur behind The Green Inferno and the Hostel movies. Even when working on a PG-rated film for young audiences, Roth is more interested in the scary bits.

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FLCL: Alternative Episode 2 Review

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FLCL: Alternative’s second episode follows a similar blueprint to its premiere, but with much more heart and substance. This time around Kana and her friends’ dilemma feels like it carries actual weight, and the fight scene has some of that wild irreverent FLCL action Progressive and Alternative’s premiere mostly missed.

“Grown-Up Wannabe” focuses on Kana’s friend Hijiri, more specifically her scandalous relationship with a college-aged photographer named Toshio. Her classmates are shocked to learn about her older boyfriend, but she cooly shrugs off their concerns to cement her new “mature” personality. Although the theme of maturity does become a little heavy-handed (the word “adult” is used what feels like 100 times) it does give the episode a meaningful throughline. Hijiri’s relationship and Kana’s attempts to understand the complexities of adult life give this episode some emotional weight the premiere was lacking.

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Batman #55 Pushes the Series Further Into Darkness

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It's become abundantly clear that we've arrived at the stage of Tom King's Batman run where things will just keep getting worse for the Dark Knight month after month. We've already seen his fleeting chance at happiness with Catwoman crumble into dust and Batman almost condemn Mister Freeze to a wrongful death. You might think Nightwing's lingering presence in the series would bring a dose of light into Batman's murky world, but that's clearly not the case as King and Tony Daniel begin their next collaboration.

This new issue is very much about the clash between light and dark. On one hand, you have Nightwing enjoying a little one-sided banter with his old chum as he pulls out all the stops to lift Bruce out of his perpetual funk. On the other, the return of KGBeast brings with it a newfound foreboding quality to the book. This issue is very effective in its efforts to play these two parallel storylines against one another. Even as Nightwing's playful jousting recalls a more innocent time for the Bat-franchise, KGBeast's actions leave the reader questioning what new disaster is about to unfold in Gotham. King made his name at DC writing Grayson, and it's been a treat to see him reconnect with the character in classic Nightwing mode on this book.

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Advance Review of Netflix's Roma

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This is an advance review out of the Toronto International Film Festival. Roma will debut on Netflix later this year.

Roger Ebert once wrote that “movies are like a machine that generates empathy,” and nothing encapsulates that sentiment better than Roma. Gravity director Alfonso Cuarón has traded the epic vastness of space for an intimate story about his own childhood and the women who raised him. Whether you grew up in a similar situation, or just have a beating heart, Roma pulls all the right strings at the right moments to make you feel like you’ve known this family your whole life.

Cuarón says Roma is 90% based on his own childhood, and based on the level of detail and care, it shows. We follow a chapter in the life of Cleo (first-time actress and breakout star Yalitza Aparicio), a housekeeper in the titular middle-class neighborhood Roma, in Mexico City during the early ‘70s. She works for a family of three boys and a girl. Cleo is more than just a maid, more often than not acting as a surrogate mother to the children in the absence of their parents. She tucks the children in at night, helps them get dressed, and makes sure they get to school on time. She also has the patience of a saint, as when the parents are actually in the house, they are a constant reminder that Cleo is not really a part of their family. While they are kind to her, she is still only “the help”. While Latin-Americans will especially identify with the relationship between housekeepers and the families they work for, Cuarón makes sure that no matter your life experiences, you will still care for this family.

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Life Gets Even Worse for Batman

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As if being left at the altar by Catwoman wasn't bad enough, Batman has been dealt an even worse blow in the latest issue of his ongoing comic.

Warning: this article contains spoilers for Batman #55!

Dick Grayson has been hanging around Gotham City lately, recently filling in as Batman while Bruce Wayne dealt with jury duty. In this issue, Nightwing elected to stick around a while longer, hoping to help lift Batman out of his breakup funk.

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Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Founder's Edition Review

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Like clockwork, Nvidia has announced a new architecture for its GPUs, and it's debuting it in a range of Founder’s Edition graphics cards that feature an all-new design befitting a new direction for the company. While the RTX 2080 (LINK) could be considered the standard card in the 20XX-series lineup, the RTX 2080 Ti is the top dog in terms of raw performance (and its unusually high $1,200 price tag). All of the new GPUs from Nvidia feature specialized "Turing" hardware that will allow them to eventually offer features like real-time ray tracing and artificial intelligence-powered super sampling, so there's more to this GPU than just sheer horsepower. I've spent the past week putting it through its paces, so let's dive in.

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Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Founder's Edition Review

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Nvidia's all-new 20-series GPUs have finally arrived, with the company announcing three models so far: the RTX 2080, the beefier RTX 2080 Ti, and the more affordable RTX 2070 (which is coming further down the road). Today I'm looking at the RTX 2080 Founder's Edition, which is the successor to Nvidia’s popular GTX 1080 card. Built on Nvidia’s new Turing architecture, this graphics card promises increased performance over Pascal along with all-new hardware that enables real-time ray tracing and an all-new version of AI-assisted super sampling (in the future). I spent the last few days with this GPU putting it through its paces, and here's my full report, including benchmarks in a variety of today's popular PC games.

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