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Forza Horizon 6 Quality and Performance modes on Xbox, explained

Forza Horizon 6, set in Japan, drops players into its biggest open-world playground yet, and Xbox Series X/S owners get two key graphics quality options right from the start: Quality and Performance modes. Basically, these settings let you pick between…

How X-Men: Outback Revives a Fan-Favorite ’80s Mutant Era

Chris Claremont wrote Uncanny X-Men for no fewer than 17 years. Claremont is still widely regarded as the most important and influential X-Men creator ever to work on the franchise. But which era of the series was his best? Which…

Why isn’t Goro in Mortal Kombat 2?

If there’s one thing Paul W.S. Anderson got right when he adapted the Mortal Kombat video game franchise into a blockbuster hit and made movie history, it’s that everyone loves Goro. The half-human, half-dragon Prince of the Shokan played a…

Zelda 2 Deserves Better

The 1987 sequel deserves better than a reputation as an impossibly difficult failure of a game

Saros Doesn’t Like Being a Roguelike, So Why Is It One?

“ARCADE IS DEAD,” developer Housemarque abruptly decreed in all caps on its blog shortly after Matterfall’s release in 2017. This candid manifesto explained how the team saw no future developing the arcadey games it had specialized in for over two…