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The Lost Crusade: The Truth About Arnold Schwarzenegger and Paul Verhoeven’s Abandoned Epic

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Marvelous Videos explores the story behind the abandoned historical action epic Crusade… We have all heard or advocated for something that has ultimately never gotten produced. Zack Snyder’s Justice League aside, the reality is such cases of fan advocacy leading to actual development of a long-awaited project are few and far between. No matter how […]

Underrated Action Horror Movies That Are Absolutely Stunning!

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Marvelous Videos recommends 10 underrated entries in the action-horror genre… It’s very hard to combine action with horror. Horror is about scaring audiences with a threat while action is about taking down said threats- how can something be terrifying if it can ultimately be gunned down? This is the line that many writers and directors […]

Wrong Turn Franchise and Complete Timeline Explained

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Marvelous Videos presents a complete timetable of the Wrong Turn franchise… Sometimes simple concepts make for the most horrifying experiences. Take, for example, cannibals and inbreds and all those deep woods fears hinted at in Deliverance– what if someone innocent made some directional mistakes and wound up in territory occupied by these things? That was the […]

Drifting Joycons, Anti-Consumerism, and Shifty Storefronts: The Untold Problems of the Nintendo Switch

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MRIXRT on Nintendo Switch problems… Everyone loves Nintendo- we all have memories of growing up with one of their consoles, from the NES to the Wii, popping in a multiplayer title, and spending hours gaming with friends from across the neighborhood. Nintendo established itself as a family friendly company and we bought into it for […]

Startopia: A Kooky Simulator of the Industrial Cosmos

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MRIXRT presents a look at Startopia… During the 1990s, a genre of video games called simulation titles came to be beloved by the masses. They featured an interesting concept- whereas a conventional video game would be escapism, simulation titles would be based on realistic prospects like running a business. The SimCity franchise is the most […]

Fairytale and Folk Horror Movies That Are Superb!

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Marvelous Videos presents fairy tale and folk horror nightmares… Human imagination knows no bounds. Authors and storytellers from many generations have been able to conjure up some of the most visceral and creative images of all time. Locations are brought to vivid life thanks to attention to detail, fictional beings feel distinctly alive thanks to […]

Forgotten B-Movie Creature Features That You Must Watch!

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Marvelous Videos presents B-movie creature features… What can be said about movie monsters that has not already been said? Humans have had to fight and fear beasts going back to the Neolithic era, and that evolutionary conflict has been stabbed into our genetic core. We have this instinctual phobia of monsters and behemoths, which makes […]

A David Bowie-Composed Video Game?! A look at the forgotten Omikron: The Nomad Soul

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CryMor Gaming explores the David Bowie-composed video game Omikron: The Nomad Soul… David Cage is a name every gamer knows, and David Bowie is a name ever music lover knows, but how many members of those fanbases know about a project that the two worked on together? That was The Nomad Soul. Released as Omikron: […]

Personhood in Video Games? The Philosophy of NPCs

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CryMor Gaming presents a look at NPCs… Non-player characters, or NPCs, have been a staple of video games since arguably Computer Space, the very first video game ever created. You simply cannot have a world without some form of externally-controlled entities- it would make everything feel empty, isolated, and (from a design standpoint) downright lazy. […]