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Patrick Kolan

Reporter · US

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Sep 10, 2026
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Sep 8, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 10, 2026 · Patrick Kolan

    In The Wandering Earth: The Last Full Moon, You Must Get Rid of The Moon (opens the original)

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    The Sun is going to consume the Earth. Before humanity can fly the planet away, it has to get rid of the Moon. Author Liu Cixin loves big existential catastrophes. The same fine fellow who casually bent the nature of reality in The Three-Body Problem also wrote a novella of roughly 23,000 Chinese characters that became The Wandering Earth. In turn, this became a 2019 film credited as the moment Chinese cinema proved it could do hard sci-fi at blockbuster scale. Beyond selling tickets, the film’s

  2. Article · Sep 9, 2026 · Patrick Kolan

    Hands on: Tianji: Shadow of the Ancients (opens the original)

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    If Square Enix's ongoing success is any measure, HD-2D-style games have found a sizable audience and pumped fresh blood into this nostalgic offshoot of the RPG genre. It's not just JRPGs getting in on the turn-based action, however. Taipei-based developer Justdan have announced their own lovingly crafted RPG, Tianji: Shadow of the Ancients: itself a tribute to RPGs of yesteryear, albeit with a distinctly mainland-Asian twist. Instead of magic, the reality-adjacent world of Tianji is set during t

  3. Article · Sep 8, 2026 · Patrick Kolan

    Exodus: Five Things You Need to Know (opens the original)

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    We’re rapidly approaching three years since the world got its first look at Exodus. A lot has happened in the world since 2023 - many games have come and gone in the span between. It would be fair to question if Exodus has kept pace with the movements of the market. Happily, all this time has gone to good use. Developer Archetype Entertainment, backed by legendary tabletop game publisher Wizards of the Coast, are now on the downhill run on this science fiction sprawler and it’s finally time to w

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