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Leif Johnson

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Latest Articles

Save 40% On Severance Season 1 On Blu-Ray Ahead Of Season 2 Premiere

Season 2 of Apple TV's hit psychological thriller Severance is receiving high praise from critics ahead of its January 17 premiere. If you need to catch up or refresh your memory, Amazon has a great deal on the recently released Blu-ray of Severance Season 1. Normally $43, Severance Season 1 …
By Phil Hornshaw
• GameSpot

10 Years Later, Alien: Isolation Still Benefits From One Vital Design Decision

Even a decade after its release, Alien: Isolation remains a standout experience.It's a monumental example of adaptation in video games, thanks to the fact that developer Creative Assembly was packed with fans of Ridley Scott's 1979 film, Alien, and an incredibly tight, detailed focus on the fidelity of the movie's …
By Phil Hornshaw
• GameSpot

Square Enix's Xenogears Model Kit Is Over $50 Off At Amazon

Remember Xenogears? A turn-based RPG from the height of Squaresoft's dominance in the 1990s, it combined sci-fi and fantasy elements and a whole lot of mental illness troubles with giant mechs wailing on each other. It was pretty cool, and now you can bring a little part of that into …
By Phil Hornshaw
• GameSpot

The Dark Knight Trilogy 4K Blu-Ray Discounted To Best Price Yet For Black Friday

The Dark Knight Trilogy is on sale for super cheap in Amazon's Black Friday sale. You can snag the complete trilogy on 4K Blu-ray for only $30 (was $71). With this deal, you're getting Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, and The Dark Knight Rises on 4K for only $10 each. …
By Phil Hornshaw
• GameSpot

Avowed Is Full Of Discoveries And The Freedom To Find Them--Or Not

Much has been made about Avowed's approach to its setting, the Living Lands, and the fact that it is not an open-world game. Instead, Avowed's world is made up of "open zones"--large geographical areas that are interconnected with other large areas, much like a previous game from developer Obsidian, The …
By Phil Hornshaw
• GameSpot

Oppenheimer 4K Steelbook Preorders Restocked At Walmart, Releases Next Week

Director Christopher Nolan's 2024 Best Picture winner, Oppenheimer, has been available on 4K Blu-ray for almost a year--but if you missed out the steelbook case at Best Buy last year, you have another opportunity to get a similar one at Walmart. A new Oppenheimer 4K Steelbook Edition releases November 19 …
By Phil Hornshaw
• GameSpot

Preorder Horror Comic Harrow County And Extend Spooky Season

If you're feeling the post-Halloween blues and feel like keeping the spooky vibe alive a little longer, you might want to check out the Eisner Award-winning Southern gothic comic series, Harrow County, which is getting a new hardcover omnibus edition later this month. The Complete Harrow County launches November 26, …
By Phil Hornshaw
• GameSpot

Call Of Duty Black Ops 6 Campaign Safes Guide: Where To Find The Safe In Every Mission

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. As you play through the Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 campaign, you're going to want to grab all the cash you can to buy upgrades that can power up your character …
By Phil Hornshaw
• GameSpot

Build A Halloween Playlist Of Thriller Games With Two Fanatical Bundles

Spooky season is hitting its conclusion, which makes this a great time to take advantage of a couple of Fanatical bundles that offer a bunch of spooky games. The Prestige Build Your Own Bundle: Thriller Edition and Winter 2024 Build Your Own Supreme Collection bundles can provide you with horror, …
By Phil Hornshaw
• GameSpot

Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 Campaign Review

Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 remains my favorite of developer Treyarch's contributions to the long-running and sometimes formulaic shooter franchise, because it's the one that takes the most wild swings. It mixes traditional Call of Duty linear levels with a top-down, real-time-strategy-like experience that lets you move troops around …
By Phil Hornshaw
• GameSpot

Get A Big Discount On Ash Vs. Evil Dead On Blu-Ray Just In Time For Halloween

Director Sam Raimi's Evil Dead films are the epitome of cult classics, and thanks to their mix of high camp, ridiculous gore, and some legitimate scares, but it's undoubtedly the pitch-perfect performance by star Bruce Campbell as series protagonist Ash Williams that secured the trilogy as celebrated part of horror …
By Phil Hornshaw
• GameSpot

Destiny 2's Festival Of The Lost Offers Superblack Shader And A New Way To Get Exotic Class Items

Destiny 2's next seasonal celebration, the Halloween-themed Festival of the Lost, will offer new ways to get some highly sought-after rewards. The annual event is bringing a means to get its best piece of armor, the ability-combining Exotic class item, that allows you to skip the (excellent, but potentially arduous) …
By Phil Hornshaw
• GameSpot

Silent Hill 2 Remake Secrets: 20 Easter Eggs You May Have Missed

Silent Hill 2 Remake faithfully includes a huge amount of material from the 2001 original, from dialogue to notes you can find scattered throughout the game, and also adds a whole lot of interesting additions. Some of those additions seem to suggest that the remake is more than a remake, …
By Phil Hornshaw
• GameSpot

Severance Is Finally Coming Outie On Blu-Ray, And You Can Save On Your Preorder Now

Severance Season 2 now officially has a release date and a trailer, which means Apple TV+ subscribers will have more of the series to enjoy come January. But even if you don't have Apple TV+, you can now see what all the fuss is about, thanks to the show's first …
By Phil Hornshaw
• GameSpot

Fallout PC And Console Games Are On Sale For Fallout Day

October 23 is Bethesda's Fallout Day--a yearly celebration of the game series marked by the day the bombs fell in the Fallout universe. In celebration, the Fallout games and DLC are on sale at multiple online retailers, making today the perfect time to fill out your collection with these beloved …
By Phil Hornshaw
• GameSpot

Alan Wake 2: Lake House DLC - All Computer Passwords For Hard Work Trophy/Achievement

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. As in Alan Wake 2 and Control, reading various files and bits of correspondence in Alan Wake 2's Lake House expansion is key to understanding the story and the mystery at the …
By Phil Hornshaw
• GameSpot

Humble's Atari Bundle Features All 10 Recharged Classics And Atari 50 Celebration For Only $20

Early Atari games helped define video games as we know them with classics like Centipede, Asteroids, and Missile Command. For the legendary company's 50th anniversary in 2022, it released Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration, a compilation of more than 100 classic titles, and updated Recharged versions of a bunch of …
By Phil Hornshaw
• GameSpot

Learn To Cook Like A Jedi, Superhero, Or Disney Princess With Humble's New Cookbook Bundle

Food is an enormous part of every culture, and part of making fictional worlds feel real comes through in their food. For fans, recreating foods based on their favorite fictional worlds can be a fun way to interact with those stories. That might explain why cookbooks based on movies, TV …
By Phil Hornshaw
• GameSpot

This Brotherhood Of The Wolf Collector's Edition 4K Blu-Ray Is A Howling Good Deal

Brotherhood of the Wolf is a 2001 werewolf movie set in the 18th-century French countryside, and it feels a bit like a movie take on some aspects of Bloodborne--it pairs some great practical monster effects with some swashbuckling action and even a little martial arts choreography. It's highly regarded in …
By Phil Hornshaw
• GameSpot

New Steam Deck Game Bundle Includes A Bunch Of Great Games For $3 Each

Valve's Steam Deck has done a lot to expand handheld gaming--you can enjoy a whole lot of different kinds of games on the Deck, including many that would previously have been impossible to play without a much bigger PC or gaming console. Fanatical's latest bundle, the Build Your Own Play …
By Phil Hornshaw
• GameSpot

All the Walmart Exclusive Steelbook Blu-Rays You Can Buy Now

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. With the ascendancy of streaming services seemingly on the wane thanks to tons of different channels, frustrating and ever-changing licensing deals, and the tendency of corporate masters to just delete shows and …
By Phil Hornshaw
• GameSpot