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30 Nov

Ready Player Two Ending Explained: How the Sequel Jumps the Shark

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This article contains MAJOR spoilers for Ready Player Two. You can read our spoiler-free review of the sequel here. At the end of Ernest Cline’s 2011 novel Ready Player One, Wade Watts a.k.a. Parzival inherits everything he set out to win in James Donovan Halliday’s Easter egg hunt: the OASIS creator’s massive fortune, as well as control over the digital world itself. So how could Cline, and Halliday, top that with Ready Player Two? By helping humanity level up. The sequel’s ending definitely goes in a very different direction than how Ready Player One ended, both relating to the book’s…
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26 Nov

Ready Player Two: The Sequel’s Best Easter Eggs & References

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This piece contains spoilers for Ready Player Two. When Ernest Cline published Ready Player One in 2011, its exhaustive array of Easter eggs were literally built into the worldbuilding—seemingly one pop culture name-drop per pixel that made up the digital OASIS, per the fierce 1980s nostalgia that creator James Donovan Halliday possessed for the most formative decade of his adolescence. And once the billionaire inventor revealed the Easter egg hunt for his fortune, it made perfect sense that the 2040s generation of gunters would immerse themselves in the same references, placing themselves into Halliday’s mindset to inherit his treasure. Almost…
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25 Nov

Ready Player Two Review: Ernest Cline’s Soulless Sequel Beats a Dead Horse

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It doesn’t take long for Ernest Cline’s Ready Player Two to reunite gunter-turned-billionaire Wade Owen Watts with a vintage video game that holds a clue to a virtual scavenger hunt that will forever change the future of the digital, escapist OASIS. But after winning this particular game, Parzival (Wade’s OASIS alter ego) finds that he automatically starts over. Because of an extra life, he is given the option of playing through the game again, even though there are no surprises, simply to rack up extra points and because he can. Reading Ready Player Two feels a lot like that. Ready…
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13 Oct

Baldur’s Gate 3 Character Creator Test Reveals Generic Player Creations

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In a post on the game’s Steam page, Baldur’s Gate 3 developer Larian Studios revealed that many players don’t seem to be taking full advantage of the game’s extensive character creation options. It seems that the team at Larian combed over the character creator analytics in order to create a new character based on the most popular selections for individual categories. This was what they ended up with when the process was finished: “Congratulations, you’ve basically made the default Vault Dweller,” Larian notes in regards to the results of this experiment. “What the hell guys. We gave you demon eyes,…
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02 Oct

How FIFA 21’s Top 1000 Player Ratings Change This Year’s Game

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With FIFA 21 set to make its debut next week, there’s much to unravel about the game before fans step onto the pitch. With traditional EA Sports norms being slightly altered because of the COVID-19 pandemic, some announcements and reveals have come with a little more flare than usual. For example, EA traditionally celebrates its Top 100 rated players in the upcoming installment by releasing the ratings of 20 players at a time, starting at #100 and working its way down. However, this year the publisher has decided to announce the Top 1,000 players all at once to give fans…
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26 Aug

Call of Duty Warzone Player Inventory Will Carry Over to Black Ops: Cold War

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Activision has confirmed that Warzone content and the items you’ve unlocked will still be available when Call of Duty Black Ops: Cold War is released in November. “Black Ops Cold War will also support and build on the hit, free-to-play experience Call of Duty: Warzone,” says Activision in a recent press release. “Black Ops Cold War includes shared progression features with Warzone, adding brand new inventory items that can be used in both Black Ops Cold War and Warzone. Warzone players will still have access to all of their Call of Duty: Modern Warfare content, including Operators and Weapon Blueprints…
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30 Jul

New NFL 2K Games Will Be Able to Use Official Player Names, Numbers, and Likenesses

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Football and sports game fans hoping for an alternative to yearly Madden NFL installments will get something along those lines with 2K Games’ upcoming NFL 2K titles. Under a new partnership deal with the NFL, the publisher will be able to use official names, numbers, images, and the likenesses of players in the league. This is a major shake-up to the status quo that’s been in place for football video games since Electronic Arts clinched the exclusive NFL licensing rights in 2004, virtually shutting out all other competition. We’ve already chronicled how Madden NFL became king of the gaming gridiron.…
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09 Jul

Ready Player One Sequel Coming in November

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In a world shaken by pandemic, with hundreds of thousands of dead from a preventable failure of governments around the globe, much of humankind is searching for glimmers of hope in the United States’ electoral politics. Any modicum of bad news – whether it is a bad poll result or vain, Dunning-Kruegered rappers launching attention grabs disguised as presidential campaigns – is enough to set an enormous chunk of humankind into hair-shedding jitters. Hope is about the only thing sustaining many of us through these dark days. You will find no hope here. Ernest Cline, nostalgia peddler and author of…
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10 Nov

Narcissister Organ Player

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One of the contemporary art world?s most acclaimed mixed-media & performance artists, the masked and merkin-clad Narcissister is the subject of this smart, sassy documentary that showcases her spectacle-rich approach to explorations of gender, racial identity, and sexuality. Directed by the enigmatic artist herself, the film deconstructs her celebrated stage shows which combine dance, elaborate costumes, pop music hits, unabashed eroticism and heavy doses of humor. From public outings with Marilyn Manson,to a stint on America's Got Talent - Narcissister is no stranger to the spotlight. This doc goes behind her iconic mask - revealing her experience growing up and…
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25 Mar

Ready Player One

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In 2045, the world is on the brink of chaos and collapse. But the people have found salvation in the OASIS, an expansive virtual reality universe created by the brilliant and eccentric James Halliday (Mark Rylance). When Halliday dies, he leaves his immense fortune to the first person to find a digital Easter egg he has hidden somewhere in the OASIS, sparking a contest that grips the entire world. When an unlikely young hero named Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) decides to join the contest, he is hurled into a breakneck, reality-bending treasure hunt through a fantastical universe of mystery, discovery…
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