Last Year: The Nightmare Review

The title of Last Year: The Nightmare may be short on inspiration, but its take on asymmetric survival horror multiplayer has plenty. Those who have played Friday the 13th or Dead by Daylight will be familiar with the premise of one powerful player hunting down several weak ones as they try to escape, but Last Year: The Nightmare introduces a couple new twists that make it among the best of this burgeoning sub-genre thus far. Whether you play as the killer or one of the hapless teenagers, its action is tense and strategic to the end. That said, with only three maps, no progression system, and intermittent glitches, it does have an air of early access to it at the start of its 90-day exclusive period on the Discord Store.

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Daily Deals: Memory Storage Sale, Pokemon: Let’s Go Eevee for $51

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NES Classic and SNES Classic in Stock

Both the NES Classic and SNES Classic won’t be around for too much longer. According to Nintendo, once the current systems are sold out, that’s it. Grab one now as both systems are currently out of production!

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How Game of Thrones’ Main Characters Changed Over the Seasons

The night is dark and full of terrors, and so is the wait until Game of Thrones’ eighth and final season premieres in April. To help tide you over, we decided to look back over the years and see just how much the main characters on the show have evolved, both physically (some of them have had pretty dramatic transformations!) and as people.

As the title suggests, spoilers lie ahead in the summaries of these characters’ journeys over the years, so if you want to avoid them, you can just click through the photo galleries to see how the characters’ looks have changed.

The photo galleries don’t include spoilers beyond showing you what the characters look like in a given season.

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What Rampage and Tomb Raider Understood That Other Game Movies Didn’t

It hardly needs reiterating that major studio feature films based on popular video games have been roundly rejected by audiences and critics pretty much since the mid-1990s. For the longest time, 1995’s Mortal Kombat and 2002’s Resident Evil were often held up as the exemplars of what the genre could provide, and any world wherein Mortal Kombat and Resident Evil are the best of anything is a sad one indeed.

Throughout the decades, video game fans have been disappointed again and again by flicks like Super Mario Bros. (a cult hit at best), Silent Hill, Silent Hill: Revelation, Street Fighter, Double Dragon, Doom, Max Payne, Prince of Persia, Warcraft, Assassin’s Creed, and a slew of features directed by notorious schlock auteur Uwe Boll. The best that can be said of any of these is that they’re “kinda good if they’re on cable and nothing else is on.” Not exactly a high standard.

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