'Final Fantasy' Creator Sakaguchi on Remakes, 'XV' and Square Enix

It has been 12 years since the father of Final Fantasy, Hironobu Sakaguchi, has had anything to do with the blockbuster role-playing game franchise he created in 1987. Despite over 100 million sales and numerous successful sequels – including series high point Final Fantasy VII in 1996 – he was eventually undone by his debut as a movie director. His disastrous

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Inside Nick Cave's Heartbreaking 'One More Time With Feeling' Doc

When filmmaker Andrew Dominik heard that the 15-year-old son of Nick Cave had fallen off a cliff and died, he immediately phoned the Bad Seeds singer. They had known each other for decades, and Cave had co-written the score for the director's 2007 movie The Assassination of

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Inside Geoff Keighley's Ever-Growing Game Awards: 'I Took a Lot of Arrows in My Back'

Anyone who's followed video games for a while has probably developed an opinion on Geoff Keighley. To most, he's simply the guy who used to host the Spike TV Video Game Awards, a show whose pandering, tone-deaf production alienated its audience as often as not. To others, he's the dude from that Doritos meme, the

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How 'Diablo' Defined the Hack-and-Slash Roleplaying Game

Until the 1990s, roleplaying games were often intimidating, aimed at an audience already familiar with Dungeons & Dragons and The Lord of the Rings. There was a lot of reading involved – games like 1988's Pool of Radiance were accompanied by a manual full of numbered paragraphs of text you'd be directed to read at various points to find out what was

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Watch Blake Griffin, Jimmy Butler in 'Space Jam'-Inspired Commercial

Does the world really need a Space Jam reboot LeBron James? Maybe. It can't hurt that the director tapped for the project, Justin Lin, is best known for his work on the Fast & Furious franchise, and James has

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My Trip to Standing Rock: Bravery, Beauty and Rubber Bullets

Last week, author, photographer and Lamb of God vocalist Randy Blythe visited the Standing Rock camp in Cannonball, North Dakota. Below is his account of what he witnessed, who he met and what he learned.

The late afternoon sun was sinking

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Watch Shailene Woodley's Standing Rock Plea to President Obama

Actress Shailene Woodley talked to Gasland director Josh Fox last weekend at the Standing Rock camp in North Dakota. She had the following message for President Obama regarding the Dakota Access Pipeline.

"I want Obama to take a stand. Here's the thing, Obama's administration has said that they're fearful that if they stop the Dakota Access

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