Battle of the Eras

Battlefield 6 has received a new map and it fixes one of the biggest issues with the game: a lack of airspace.

With projects like Donkey Kong 64 Recompiled, human programmers stake a claim on the art and science of retro game recompilation.

The Battle of the Gullet, which spans barely four pages in George R.R. Martin’s book Fire & Blood, is a 25-minute action sequence in the Season 3 premiere of House of the Dragon. The show made some major alterations, adding characters who didn’t participate in it and leaving out some who played a significant role. Let’s break down the key differences in how Fire & Blood and House of the Dragon’s “craziest episode of television ever made” depict the infamous and tragic Battle of the Gullet.

There's something that really stood out for me as someone in the UK who collected American comics at the end of the 1980s. It's that each new comic you got was a doorway to a world of absolute chaos and gimmickry. I'm not talking about the comic stories themselves, but about the American ads that were suddenly blaring out of the alternate spreads. Topps bubble gum cards. Garbage Pail whatevers. Endless enticements to buy Bayou Billy on the Nintendo Entertainment System. You'd be reading about Batman, knocking gloomily around some Gotham spire, and then you'd turn the page and, WHAMMO, somethin

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