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Video Game Review – What Happened

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Red Stewart reviews What Happened… Not since Life is Strange’s “Polarized” has a video game title been so astutely reflective of its experience as What Happened. Developed by Genius Slackers and published by KATNAPPE SP. Z O. O. and Sourena Game Studio, this is a game that literally begins with you flushing a toilet and […]

Nightmare-Inducing Video Game Villain Designs

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Red Stewart presents frightening character designs in video games… Fear comes in many forms, but visuals are the number one factor. Iconic horror villains are best remembered for their disgusting looks: Freddy’s burnt face in A Nightmare on Elm Street and Jason’s bloodstained mask in the Friday the 13th franchise stand out as some of the more potent […]

Ultra Violent Villain Deaths in Superhero Films That Will Make You Wince

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Red Stewart on the most brutal villain deaths in superhero movies… Superhero films may be geared towards younger audiences via the PG-13 rating, but that doesn’t necessarily limit them. Over the years, directors and artists have found ways of creating violent situations without there being a single drop of blood (okay… maybe just a little […]

The Saddest Plot Twists in Video Games

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Red Stewart presents the saddest plot twists in video games… What can we say? Sometimes video game storytelling is so powerful, it touches us for the worse. We get so invested in a character or events, that when an unfavorable outcome occurs, we can’t help but feel morose. With so many games being narrative driven, […]

Creepy Video Game Characters Who Will Send Chills Down Your Spine

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Red Stewart presents five video game characters who will make you shiver… Sometimes the best way to distinguish a character from their surrounding cast is to give them a colorful personality. Take this one way and they’re the comic relief. Take it the other way, though, and you now have a borderline-sociopath in your setting: […]

10 Amazing VHS Era Villain Actors

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Marvelous Videos presents ten amazing villain actors from the VHS era… One of the joys that zoomers will never understand is the VHS. Kids these days are so “spoiled” with DVDs and Blu-rays, and 4K resolution that they have missed out on an entire video storage format that dominated the world from the 70s till […]

The Biggest Baddest Best Boss Battles!

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Red Stewart presents 5 epic boss fights in video games… What is it about giant bosses that makes them so fun to fight? “The bigger they are, the harder they fall.” Well yes, but that doesn’t quite answer our question. Maybe it’s because of the whole ‘David vs. Goliath’ trope. The idea of you, a […]

5 Seriously Disappointing Boss Fights in Video Games

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Red Stewart presents a look at the most disappointing boss fights in video games… Boss fights don’t quite make or break a game, but they can definitely be a big plus. Fighting an enemy that requires smarter playing than usual can be a rewarding experience. And when a developer puts the time into it, these […]

8 Bad-Ass Arnold Schwarzenegger Movies Worth Another Look

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Marvelous Videos with eight entertaining Schwarzenegger movies that are worth another look… When you think of Arnold Schwarzenegger, what comes to mind? Chances are you, like 99 percent of the film-going populace, will give an answer including, but limited to: Terminator, Total Recall, Commando, Conan, and/or Predator. There’s nothing wrong with this. After all, it’s rare for an action […]

Long Live the King: Underrated Stephen King Adaptations Worth Your Screams | Marvelous Videos

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Marvelous Videos presents 10 underrated Stephen King adaptations…. It’s appropriate that author Stephen King has such a last name- he has been widely credited with both pioneering and expanding on the horror genre, significantly building on the contributions of such authors as Charles Brockden Brown and H.P. Lovecraft. King’s name is so iconic in the […]