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Elijah Beahm
Elijah Beahm
Elijah’s your Guy Friday for all things strange and awesome in gaming. You can catch his latest discoveries on Twitter @UnabridgedGamer, Boss Level Gamer, Unwinnable, and his YouTube channel The Unabridged Gamer.
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why tie-in fiction is important - comics books novels TV shows cartoons video game series - Star Wars Batman: The Animated Series TAS Halo Alien major IP
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How Tie-Ins Make Fiction Better

By Elijah BeahmApril 23, 2022
People Can Fly Outriders height of consumption high fun no substance, garners media attention regardless
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Outriders Is the Height of Consumption

By Elijah BeahmApril 14, 2022
2008 movie Star Wars: The Clone Wars Dave Filoni George Lucas destroyed Expanded Universe EU continuity canon lore with changes, inferior to Genndy Tartakovsky cartoon
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A Tale of Two Clone Wars: The Ravaging of EU Canon

By Elijah BeahmApril 9, 2022
Dead Space 2 Visceral Games evolves traditional horror and fear with fluid action gameplay and emotional dread with Nicole
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Dead Space 2 Understands There’s More to Horror Than the Bogeyman

By Elijah BeahmMarch 31, 2022
John Allison comics Giant Days shared universe Bobbinsverse more cohesive than MCU
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We Need More Shared Universes Like Giant Days

By Elijah BeahmMarch 26, 2022
Nier: Automata from PlatinumGames is louder, more melodramatic, less subtle than Yoko Taro Nier
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How Nier: Automata Pulls Players into Yoko Taro’s Weirdness

By Elijah BeahmMarch 17, 2022
Marvel Comics monster hunter Elsa Bloodstone should be in MCU Blade movie due to her versatility
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Elsa Bloodstone Is the Hilarious Badass the MCU Desperately Needs

By Elijah BeahmMarch 12, 2022
modern Star Wars TV movies games media still does not live up to KOTOR 2 Knights of the Old Republic II The Sith Lords at Obsidian Entertainment
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Modern Star Wars Still Hasn’t Done Better Than KOTOR 2

By Elijah BeahmMarch 3, 2022
Martha Is Dead Review in 3 Minutes LKA Wired Productions
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Martha Is Dead Review in 3 Minutes – The Wrong Kind of Horror

By Elijah BeahmFebruary 28, 2022
remembering Tom Veitch, author of Star Wars: Dark Empire Tales of the Jedi who originally resurrected Emperor Palpatine
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Remembering Tom Veitch, the Original Writer to Resurrect Palpatine in Dark Empire

By Elijah BeahmFebruary 26, 2022
Biomutant is an unfocused failure that tries to be every genre at Experiment 101, an evolutionary dead end.
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Biomutant Is an Evolutionary Dead End

By Elijah BeahmFebruary 17, 2022
The Sims lore 2 3 4 Bustin Out Bella Goth
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Trying to Decipher the Freakishly Deep Lore of The Sims

By Elijah BeahmFebruary 12, 2022

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