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06 Sep

How the Legends of Tomorrow Season 6 Finale Pulled off a Huge Avalance Moment

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The following contains Legends of Tomorrow spoilers Legends of Tomorrow Season 6 Episode 15 Legends of Tomorrow season 6 has certainly been a mixed bag. The overarching framework of displaced aliens spread through time never really clicked in the same way that many of the series’ other ridiculous setups did. (I mean, c’mon, they made magical creatures work last year, what the heck happened?)  The problems were multiple: Sara was separated from the group for half of the season, the show struggled to really integrate new character Spooner into the team until the season’s final pair of episodes, and entirely…

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02 Sep

How Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms Delivers a Real Mortal Kombat 2 Movie

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When Mortal Kombat II hit the arcades in 1993, it was a massive hit. It took the first game, improved the gameplay, and gave us more of the gore and dark humor we loved. Plus: more fighters, more ninjas, more Fatalities, more finishing moves, more secrets, and better visuals. It solidified the franchise’s hold on pop culture, and even convinced Nintendo that including a little blood and gore in a video game isn’t the worst thing in the world. Two other things that really helped kick things up a notch were the game’s atmosphere and story. The first Mortal Kombat…

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01 Sep

Apex Legends: Tap Strafing Removal Fuels Controller vs. Mouse/Keyboard Debate

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Apex Legends developer Respawn Entertainment has decided to remove the “tap-strafing” technique from the popular battle royale, and the decision has only fuelled an already heated debate between console and PC players regarding the benefits of controllers vs. mouse/keyboard. What is tap-strafing? Well, I recommend checking out a YouTube tutorial (such as this one) if you want a better idea of what the technique looks like and how to perform it, but it’s basically an advanced movement technique that allows (or allowed) Apex Legends players to change directions quickly in the air without losing forward momentum. It’s an incredibly complicated…

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30 Aug

Legends of Tomorrow Delivers the Ultimate John Constantine Story

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This article contains Legends of Tomorrow spoilers. Legends of Tomorrow Season 6 Episode 14 As a longtime comics reader, one of they rules that gets ingrained early is “Unless you see a body, they’re not dead.” Superheroes in comics have been dying and coming back since the dawn of superheroes, but when there’s a corpse seen on screen, it’s much harder to undo. So…uh…what about when someone goes from “breathing” to “truffle powder” on screen? He’s dead, right? There’s certainly time (one episode) and ample opportunity (maybe he’s a mushroom now? Nobody knows how mushrooms work) to undo the events…

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24 May

Legends of Tomorrow Tackles JFK and the Cuban Missile Crisis in Ridiculous Fashion

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This article contains Legends of Tomorrow spoilers. Legends of Tomorrow Season 6 Episode 4 “Bay of Squids” is a perfect illustration of the line DC’s Legends of Tomorrow walks with every episode. It is very, very stupid, but it’s not even the first time this month that a Legends episode was dumb, and last week was one of the best episodes of the show ever. But in order for it to get away with being this dumb, everything about it has to hit just right. Half of “Bay of Squids” does it perfectly. The other half is a Foo Fighters…

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17 May

Legends of Tomorrow: Zari Tarazi’s Journey to Find Her Best Self

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Legends of Tomorrow is hands down the weirdest, most bonkers show in The CW’s Arrowverse. It’s also one of the bravest, grounding its zaniest plotlines in rich character work and fearlessly trusting its audience to come along for the ride. Few superhero shows would have ever attempted the full-scale transformation that turned flannel-loving hacker Zari Tomaz into stylish social media maven Zari Tarazi, jettisoning a character that fans had known for years and replacing her with a version that was not just a stranger, but who initially seemed to be the antithesis of everything that had made the previous incarnation…

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10 May

Legends of Tomorrow and the History of Big Belly Burger

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This DC’s Legends of Tomorrow review contains spoilers. There’s a lot to like about “Meat: The Legends,” the second episode in Legends of Tomorrow’s sixth season. The problem is the good bits are generally disconnected from the main plot of the episode, and the rest of it just wasn’t very good. Our first episode to really jump into the season’s arc picks up right where the last one left off: with an alien floating through the timestream, getting smushed on the windshield of the Waverider. From there, the gang picks up a sign of trouble from October, 1955, where they…

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03 May

Legends of Tomorrow: Can Sara Lance Survive This Space Oddity?

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This Legends of Tomorrow review contains spoilers. Legends of Tomorrow Season 6 Episode 1 There’s a bit in the sixth season premiere of Legends of Tomorrow, “Ground Control to Sara Lance,” that made me furious. Gary, the comic relief sidekick who gets retconned this episode to have been an alien infiltrator, has explained his whole backstory to the abducted Sara Lance, who wakes up on an alien spaceship just in time to see it hyperdrive away from Earth from a rear window. Sara wants to get home, so she tells Gary, “Give me everything you know about this ship.” Gary’s…

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27 Apr

Pokemon Go Luminous Legends Event: How to Catch Goomy, Xerneas, and Every New Pokemon

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The Pokémon Go team has revealed the first details for the popular mobile game‘s next event: Luminous Legends. “A legend will soon illuminate our world: Xerneas, the Life Pokémon, will make its Pokémon GO debut during the Luminous Legends X event,” says the Pokémon Go team. “Some Dragon- and Fairy-type Pokémon originally discovered in the Kalos region will be coming along for the journey as well, such as Spritzee, Swirlix, and Goomy! A new item will also be coming to Pokémon GO—the Rainy Lure Module, which can be used to evolve Sliggoo (the Evolution of Goomy) into Goodra. You can…

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16 Apr

Legends of Tomorrow Season 6 Teases ’80s Vibe and Aliens

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DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, the stoner little brother of the CW DC television universe, is on its way back in May, and Den of Geek is psyched to give you an exclusive first look at the new poster. In keeping with the show’s themes, it’s a subdued period piece.  The poster features all the returning cast members – Caity Lotz as White Canary Sara Lance; her girlfriend, Ava Sharpe (Jes Macallan); Matt Ryan as the platonic ideal of John Constantine; Nick Zano as the heart and soul (and liver) of the Waverider, Shotgun Nate Heywood; Tala Ashe’s Zari Tarazi; and…

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19 Mar

Star Wars Toys Prove That the Legends Expanded Universe Isn’t Dead

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Disney’s 2012 acquisition of the Star Wars franchise obviously proved consequential, especially after it redefined the Skywalker Saga with a Sequel Trilogy, two standalone films, a successful live-action series, and an array of animated shows. Yet, one sore point (of many) for longtime fans has been the company’s erasure of decades’ worth of beloved Expanded Universe Star Wars novels, comic books, and video games, which were relegated to the non-canon label Legends. However, said erasure doesn’t mean the old canon is gone completely, as exemplified this week by Hasbro, which is dedicating a whole new wave of action figures to…

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26 Feb

Is Pokémon Legends: Arceus the Future of the Franchise?

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On a day designed to celebrate everything that the Pokémon series has given us in the franchise’s 25-year history, few people expected Nintendo to reveal something quite so bold as Pokémon Legends: Arceus. Billed as an open-world action-RPG, Arceus promises to take us back to the very early days of the Sinnoh region. According to a description shared by the game’s developers, Arceus will let us “catch wild pokémon” after studying their behaviors and waiting for the right moment. Furthermore, the game will let us “battle wild pokémon with our ally pokémon” as part of a new combat system that…

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23 Feb

15 Strangest Legend of Zelda Unsolved Mysteries and Urban Legends

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The Legend of Zelda‘s 35th anniversary didn’t get much of a celebration (or even an acknowledgment) from Nintendo, but that hasn’t stopped fans from thinking back on the incredible history of one of gaming’s greatest franchises. Take a long enough trip down memory lane, though, and you’ll find that the Zelda franchise is filled with uncharted detours into urban legends, conspiracy theories, and unsolved mysteries that prove even one of the most famous and discussed series in video game history can still leave us with questions. From dungeons with unfortunate designs to mysterious manors tucked away in snowy mountains, these…

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05 Jan

Goldberg’s Return on Raw Highlights WWE’s Legends Problem

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After John Cena, WWE stopped producing stars. That hurts a star-driven business like pro wrestling. For the last 80 years, the industry was built around a top star. Lou Thesz carried the torch in the late-’40s and into the ’50s. Bruno Sammartino was a top-drawing star in the ’60s and well into the ’70s. The ’80s belonged to Hulk Hogan and Ric Flair, the ’90s were run by Steve Austin and the Rock. The ’00s were headlined by John Cena. But after Cena, WWE stopped producing stars. Wrestlers weren’t protected anymore and 50-50 booking has made the entire roster feel…

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12 Dec

How Star Wars: Rogue Squadron Could Reboot the Classic Legends Stories

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In the mid-1990s, the coolest, most hardcore Star Wars thing you could get into was the nitty-gritty world of Rogue Squadron. From the X-Wing novels by Michael A. Stackpole and Aaron Allston to the ongoing Rogue Squadron comics published by Dark Horse Comics to the iconic 1996 video game for the Nintendo 64, the Rogue Squadron storyline explored a corner of the Star Wars universe only teased in the Original Trilogy. Focusing on an elite squadron of Rebel (and later New Republic) starfighter pilots, the X-Wing and Rogue Squadron stories were not only like Top Gun in space but also…

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05 Dec

How The Mandalorian Could Reboot the Most Beloved Part of Star Wars Legends Canon

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This Star Wars: The Mandalorian article contains spoilers. An Imperial Grand Admiral sits in a darkened room surrounded by his art collection. He’s plotting a massive comeback. He’s planning to rebuild the Empire and make this whole New Republic thing look like a massive joke. He’s got blue skin. Did I mention he loves art? If you read Timothy Zahn’s groundbreaking 1991 Star Wars novel, Heir to the Empire, then you’re familiar with this description of Grand Admiral Thrawn. And now that Thrawn has been name-dropped on The Mandalorian, there’s every reason to believe that some version of his story…

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01 Oct

Apex Legends Cross-Play Beta Dates and Details Revealed

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The Apex Legends team has revealed the dates and details for the game’s upcoming cross-play beta period. “Since the launch of Apex Legends, cross-play has been one of the most requested features from our players who want the ability to play with their friends on other platforms,” reads a post on the Apex Legends blog. “During the cross-play beta, players will have full access to cross-play functionality while we collect data, test the feature at scale, and most importantly, listen to you, the fans, for feedback.” Starting on October 6, players will be able to start forming parties consisting of…

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24 Sep

New Retro Marvel Legends Figures From Hasbro Includes Spider-Man, Iron Man, Black Panther

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Hasbro’s long-running action figure line, Marvel Legends, is being expanded…with a nostalgic twist. Pop culture in the year 2020 is a peripheral cycle of reboots and remixes that serve to prove the cliché that everything old is new again true once more. Not that this is an unwelcome thing.  Even the most cursory of glances at the current news cycle makes nostalgia a cherished old friend right about now. So as someone whose current job description is perhaps best summed up as “professional dweller in the past,” I can tell you from firsthand experience that nostalgia is one of the…

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12 Sep

Legends of Tomorrow Season 6 Picks Up An Alien Expert

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Legends of Tomorrow ended season 5 with a little bit of space, and the promise of more space, and now the first big casting announcement of season 6 fulfills some of that promise. At the Legends of Tomorrow panel at DC FanDome day 2, Lisseth Chavez was announced as joining the crew of the Waverider in the upcoming season. Chavez will be playing Esperanza “Spooner” Cruz, a tech whiz with a history of alien abduction who “believes she has the ability to communicate telepathically with aliens.” That part is quoted because one gets the sense that this is an open…

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19 Aug

League of Legends 10.17 Patch Notes Feature Massive Qiyana Nerf

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The early patch notes for League of Legends‘ 10.17 update have arrived, and they are highlighted by a series of nerfs to popular Champions. Before we dive further into the patch notes, we should be clear that Riot has not released the full details of the latest updates. As such, the details of these changes are otherwise be joined by an additional series of changes. That said, it seems like the early information regarding this patch is accurate, especially since most of it comes from the team’s social media accounts. Let’s start with the reverts. Caitlyn and Hecarim (both of…

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