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RENTON, Wash. — Pete Carroll and his Seattle Seahawks know they still have a job to do. Beat the 49ers on Saturday. Then the Eagles next week. Win the NFC championship, then the Super Bowl. That was the expectation in the offseason, and nothing has changed in that regard.

Subscription services have changed the way that many of us pay for video games, putting thousands of games across almost every platform at the tip of our fingers. But there's only so much time in the day.

Over the years, King of Kong star Billy Mitchell has seen his world-record Donkey Kong scores stripped, partially reinstated, and endlessly litigated, both in actual court and the court of public opinion.

“I’ll go slow,” promises Channing Tatum. He looks down, his chiseled brow furrowed in concern. “How’s that?” he asks. “Too slow?” As an athlete and a dancer, Tatum is used to contorting his body into exotic positions, and it doesn’t take long for him to find his rhythm.

In October 2017, publisher Electronic Arts unceremoniously shut down its studio Visceral Games, best known for shooter series Dead Space. Visceral was part of a dwindling breed at EA, devoted to linear high-budget games instead of a profitable “live service” model.

One day in the claustrophobic summer of 2020, a mere 20 minutes after the servers for battle royale shooter Apex Legends went down, I spiraled into a full-blown panic attack. This should have been indicative of a problem, but at the time, it wasn’t. I had discovered the game that April.

In May 2008, the recently formed Marvel Studios released its first film—and changed the face of modern cinema.

Artificial intelligence has already beaten chess. Hell, the most sophisticated AI systems have a very good chance against top players in the incredibly complicated game of Go.

From the first moment Nintendo surprise-revealed the existence of Fire Emblem Engage, I was hooked.

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Bret Easton Ellis walked out of the elevator of the Loews Regency at 61st and Park Avenue on a Friday afternoon in late January wearing sneakers and a sweater. He smiled and apologized for switching the location of the interview from his suite, which he said was kind of a mess, to the lobby.

You know that feeling you get when you return home from what seemed like an impossible mission, and everyone runs out to greet you, screaming and cheering and exchanging high-fives? And you embrace your best friend, and you grin with joyful exhaustion, because truly no one thought you could succeed,

The Mavericks honored Dirk’s two decades in Dallas with a new bronze sculpture, but all the movement of today’s stars makes it tough to figure how many more busts will be built in the coming years Every statue of an athlete is a contradiction.

For many, the opening of The Last of Us was a landmark moment for games: a deeply human and emotional moment of grief and tragedy, all expressed in the short 15 minutes of the game’s tutorial. For others, myself included, it missed the mark entirely.

HBO’s new horror drama series The Last of Us is the best video game adaptation of all time. That shouldn’t be a surprise: Rarely, if ever, has this level of production value or amount of screen time been given to an adaptation of a game that can take between 15-20 hours to complete.