BY SARAH THWAITES@IGN Style and substance combine in HoYoverse’s urban gacha brawler. Playing with nostalgia-laden imagery from the early 2000s, Zenless Zone Zero sees developer HoYoverse pivot gracefully from the fantastical settings of Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail into an enticing urban dystopia. It’s a universe where you’ll duke it out in glitzy real-time…
By Joseph Campbell Thor’s tales about fighting giants in Norse mythology are known far and wide. His tussles with enemies like Hrungnir and the Midgard Serpent are key moments, demonstrating his divine strength and signifying the victory of order over chaos. Thor is admired for his bravery and power, serving as a guardian in the severe…
Taoism (also spelled Daoism) is a religion and a philosophy from ancient China that has influenced folk and national beliefs. Taoism has been connected to the philosopher Lao Tzu, who, around 500 B.C.E., wrote the main book of Taoism, the Tao Te Ching. Taoism holds that humans and animals should live in balance with the Tao…
By Patricia Hernandez Developer Supergiant Games has released its hotly anticipated sequel to 2020’s Hades in an early-access, unfinished state – but its powers are already godlike. Time comes for us all, and in Hades II, even the gods are not spared its wrath. This epic Greek-mythology-themed action game is…
By Jini Maxwell In 2020, Hades took the world of games by storm. The latest from Supergiant games, the narrative-driven, roguelike-inspired action RPG (try saying that ten times fast) drew praise on basically every front: Hades won awards across categories as diverse as direction, design, voice acting, artistic achievement, narrative, and LGBT representation. On…
The Old Man Under the Moon–“Yue Xia Lao Ren”(月下老人) is the alias name of the Chinese matchmaker god. During Tang Dynasty in China, there lived a young man named Wei Gu (韦固) who lost his parents at his early age. As a bankrupt nobleman, he had been trying to improve…
By Daniel McCoy Baldur was one of the most beloved of all the gods. The son of Odin, the chief of the gods, and the benevolent sorceress goddess Frigg, Baldur was a generous, joyful, and courageous character who gladdened the hearts of all who spent time with him. When, therefore, he began to…
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By Tina Pollock What came before we saw The Great Before in Soul? As fans of Pixar’s latest Academy Award-winning film know, The Great Before is where Joe is introduced to the mysterious counselors (also called the Jerries), our favorite accountant Terry, and of course all the new souls before they…
