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How do you create an Indiana Jones game that can stand shoulder to shoulder with other genre masterpieces like Uncharted 2 while still bringing something new to the genre? Developer MachineGames came up with a brilliant solution. The team leaned hard into the lore and the films, capturing the essence of the famed archaeologist’s adventures.



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The year’s smartest game asks: Is civil democracy just a fantasy?

Is a civil, functioning democracy as much a fantasy as a world of magic, elves and fairies? This is the troubling question that drives this year’s smartest, most exciting video game, Metaphor: ReFantazio, from the developer Atlus and famed Persona director Katsura Hashino.

The cultural significance of the catchy ‘Moana 2’ song ‘Can I Get a Chee Hoo?’

The specific phrase — already exclaimed often by demigod Maui throughout the first film — is a fa’aumu or an expression of emotion in Samoan culture, and it holds great significance throughout Pacific Island communities at large. “It’s like your heart’s showing,” says Grant Muāgututi’a, a Samoan linguist and dialect coach who worked on the movie. “The most common contemporary use is to show support at a special occasion — a performance, a football game, a wedding or a funeral.”

‘The Day of the Jackal’ updated for TV

Lashana Lynch, Eddie Redmayne discuss their characters and their experience making the new series, based on Frederick Forsyth’s classic thriller novel, “The Day of the Jackal,” and a 1973 Fred Zinnemann film starring Edward Fox as the cravat-wearing killer hired to kill the French president.

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