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02 Jun

World of Warcraft Burning Crusade Classic: How Long Does it Take to Reach Level 70?

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World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade Classic is finally here, which means that it’s time to use every guide, cheat, and skip you can find to reach level 70 as quickly as possible. Ok, there are still plenty of players who love to take their time on their journey to the level cap, but as WoW Classic showed, more people are interested in reaching the “endgame” as quickly as possible than ever before. Call it a symptom of dedicated gamers “figuring out” older WoW games and optimizing the best path through them, but it seems like more and more Classic…

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17 May

Mass Effect Legendary Mode vs. Classic Mode: Which Level Scaling Option Should You Choose?

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We’ve spoken before about the numerous changes that Mass Effect Legendary Edition makes to the original Mass Effect, but the one change that seems to be throwing most players for a loop is the ability swap set the game’s “Level Scaling” setting between Classic Mode and Legendary Mode in the options menu. The game’s menu tells you that “in classic mode, the original 1-60 level range will be used instead of the new 1-30 level range. XP and talent points progression remains the same, but the number of levels is doubled.” It’s understandable the developers wanted to keep that menu…

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27 Apr

Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song Was Revolutionary on Every Level

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Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, which turns 50 this month, is the opposite of the definition imposed on it. The 1971 film inspired the Blaxploitation genre, but Melvin Van Peebles exploited no one but himself. He got the money together, wrote the script and the music, selected the shots, aimed the camera, and starred in the film. He even did the stunts and post-production editing. Everything that came after was a reaction to his revolution. The father of Black cinema is one of the godfathers of independent filmmaking, and he turned everything upside down doing it. Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song defies…

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19 Mar

Line of Duty: Ranking Every Bent Copper By Level of Corruption, Mother of God!

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“When did we stop caring about honesty and integrity?” asks Supt. Ted Hastings in the Line of Duty series six trailer. His words could be this show’s battle cry. The first series of the BBC crime thriller was inspired by the 2005 fatal shooting of Jean-Charles de Menezes, an electrician mistaken for a terrorist by a Metropolitan Police surveillance team. In the four series since, it’s drawn on other real-life failures of the law – the framing of vulnerable people for serious crimes, child abusers being protected from investigation because of their status, officers leaking to the press and accepting…

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06 Mar

Boss Level Ending Explained

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This article contains spoilers for Boss Level. Boss Level stars Frank Grillo as Roy Pulver, a former Special Forces operative who has been waking up on the same day over and over again, only to get killed every time. He’s macheted, shot to pieces by a helicopter, killed in a fall, blown up by a rocket launcher, impaled through the chest, and dragged by a truck–you name a way to die, and Pulver has pretty much experienced it. One hundred and forty times. As the Joe Carnahan-directed film begins, Pulver has no idea why he’s been assassinated dozens of times,…

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05 Mar

Boss Level Pushes Action Movie Time Loops to Their Limits

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The new action sci-fi thriller Boss Level begins with former Special Forces agent Roy Pulver (Frank Grillo) and an unnamed woman waking up in Pulver’s bed, fully clothed, after what looks like a rough night. But things get rougher very quickly, as an assassin enters Pulver’s apartment and attempts to kill him. Pulver defeats him but ends up dying anyway–only to wake up the next morning and do the whole thing again, perhaps living a little longer and getting killed by someone else, but still dying. In a running voiceover, Pulver casually informs us that this is the 140th time…

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05 Mar

Boss Level is Groundhog Day with a Badass Thanks to Frank Grillo

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Despite its overtly referential title, Joe Carnahan’s unrelenting, made-for-Hulu murder-fest, Boss Level, actually isn’t as desperate to appeal to gamers as one might think. There are a handful of references to video games here and there, and the movie’s time-loop plot device does evoke the low-stakes, repetitive experience of playing games. But this is no Pixels—it’s a blistering action movie first, a middling sci-fi movie second, and, surprisingly, a delayed coming of age story in its fleeting moments of respite. Frank Grillo stars as Roy Pulver, an ex-special forces badass who for reasons unknown relives the same day repeatedly, ducking…

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04 Mar

Boss Level

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A retired special forces officer is trapped in a never ending time loop on the day of his death.Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Mar 05, 2021

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03 Jan

Cobra Kai: How the Show’s Martial Arts Level Up in Season 3

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This article contains Cobra Kai season 3 spoilers. Despite its iconic standing within the martial arts genre, the martial arts in The Karate Kid have never been outstanding. Sure, the crane kick is a classic, but from a technical standpoint, it’s not that impressive. Ralph Macchio had no martial arts training prior to undertaking the role of Daniel. In many ways, that’s part of the charm. Whether you know martial arts or not, Daniel’s wax on, wax off awkwardness makes Macchio’s portrayal more genuine.  Throughout the film franchise, it was Daniel’s adversaries who were the martial artists. William Zabka (Johnny…

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24 Nov

World of Warcraft Shadowlands: How Long Does it Take to Reach Level 60?

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Leveling a character in World of Warcraft just isn’t what it used to be. While it can easily take a new player over 100 hours to reach level 60 in World of Warcraft Classic, modern WoW expansions have reduced the average leveling time to less than 20 hours. What about Shadowlands, though? While much of the information we have regarding Shadowlands‘ leveling experience is based on the game’s beta (which means elements of the experience are subject to change), all signs point to Shadowlands offering the fastest path to the level cap yet. In fact, the leveling process should be…

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03 Sep

Marvel’s Avengers Max Power and Level Cap Will Keep You Grinding for Hours

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There’s a lot to do in Marvel’s Avengers, the new action-adventure game starring Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, who are on a mission to take down MODOK and his Advanced Idea Mechanics, an evil tech corporation hellbent on taking over the world. On top of a single-player campaign with 19 core story missions, there are also over 80 War Zone, Drop Zone, and Iconic multiplayer missions to choose from in the game. And if you want to hit each character’s max power and level cap, you’ll need to do quite a bit of this stuff. With max power set at 150 and…

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10 Dec

Jumanji: The Next Level

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In Jumanji: The Next Level, the gang is back but the game has changed. As they return to Jumanji to rescue one of their own, they discover that nothing is as they expect. The players will have to brave parts unknown and unexplored, from the arid deserts to the snowy mountains, in order to escape the world's most dangerous game.Rated: PG-13Release Date: Dec 13, 2019

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14 Mar

Level 16

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Sixteen-year-old Vivien (Katie Douglas) is trapped in The Vestalis Academy, a prison-like boarding school, keeping to herself and sticking her neck out for no one. Until she is reunited with Sophia -- the former friend who betrayed her. Together the girls embark on a dangerous search to uncover the horrifying truth behind their imprisonment. Soon running for their lives, the girls must save themselves or die trying.Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Mar 01, 2019

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