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Geek Culture | Movies, TV, Comic Books & Video Games

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. […]

Gangsters: The Mafia Game That Should Be Remastered

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CryMor Gaming on Gangsters: Organized Crime… Ever since The Godfather came out, mafias and mafiosos have been embedded in western pop culture. The idea of a violent crime organization governed by structure and family is a dark polymorphization of American ideals with American reality, making it all the more appealing. So many video games have tried to […]

Killer Cult Movies That Are Super Entertaining!

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Marvelous Videos presents killer cult movies… Cults are one of those entities that people scoff off despite their inherently horrific nature. The idea that a single idea combined with a charismatic leader can lead to sapient human beings shedding their individuality and abandoning any pretext of morality is genuinely disturbing. We have seen the horrifying […]