Nyla Gilbert

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Marvel’s Wolverine Delivers Gruesome Gameplay First Look | Den of Geek

Wolverine is back to give the world the blood-soaked rescue it desperately needs.


He is the best at what he does, and it isn’t very nice. Sony Interactive Entertainment is giving the X-Men’s most iconic, violent, and animalistic member his own game in what may be Insomniac Games’ most violent outing yet. Now, the 2026 PlayStation State of Play presentation has provided gamers with their first look at the highly-anticipated single-player action-adventure game, Marvel’s Wolverine....
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A Moriarty Series Could Change the Sherlock Franchise Forever  | Den of Geek

Professor Moriarty is back in a new endeavor that will see a new side to the criminal master manipulator.


The nemesis of Oxford Yard’s resident detective is getting his own series. James Moriarty will receive his own modern retelling at the behest of Fremantle, producers of Poor Things, and Archery Productions, who produced Operation Mincemeat. The series is set to be written by Chris Cornwell, known for the show A Discovery of Witches, and Oliver Lansley, Where’s Wanda?. 


Acco...
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007 First Light Is Already Dividing Gamers... And That’s OK  | Den of Geek

IO Interactive has rewound time to give fans the origins of the most iconic figure in espionage, James Bond. The Hitman studio’s new game 007 First Light depicts a young, reckless, and developing Bond during his time in the MI6’s training program as the former naval air crewman trains to confront a global conspiracy. The game explores how the spy became who he is, developed a moral code, and became the magnetic figure known as Agent 007. 


The game stars Irish actor Patrick Gibson (who previou...
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Directive 8020 Isn’t Living up to The Dark Picture Anthology’s Hype  | Den of Geek

The latest installment of the Dark Pictures Anthology lacks that heart-racing tempo that keeps players' fingers stuck to the controller.


Supermassive Games’ Dark Pictures Anthology series takes on heavy themes about the darker aspects of humanity, free will, and morality. Players learn to make decisions for survival on the fly and deal with the outcomes of those decisions, sometimes impacted by choices of characters centuries before them. 


The first game of the franchise, Man o...
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New Lifestyle Sim Paralives Is Answering Sims Fans' Prayers  | Den of Geek

Paralives has released the first look at its gameplay, providing a new world for life simulator players to exercise their god complexes on. The game, created by Paralives Studios, started as a solo passion project by creator Alex Massé. With the help of his team of 10, they are now set to launch one of 2026’s most anticipated life simulation games. 


The indie title’s early access gameplay looks promising for the launch, garnering excitement for a fresh take on the genre. 


The Sims players,...
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Devil May Cry Season 2 Review: DMC Takes Daddy Issues to Extreme Power Levels | Den of Geek

Dante and Virgil are still haunted by the legacy of Sparda, but they aren’t the only ones with troubling father figures.


Fan-favorite gunslinging “Jackpot-”saying half-demon mercenary Dante Sparda is back for season 2 of Netflix’s Devil May Cry, joined by his equally powerful, more stoic and demonically-leaning twin brother. Dante (Johnny Yong) returns to TV with a renewed purpose: to defeat the king of the demons, Mundus (Ray Chase), and get his brother, Vergil Sparda (Robbie Day...
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Alien: Isolation 2 Might Be Losing the Original Game’s Best Feature  | Den of Geek

The blaring sirens of a space station’s decontamination room are set to hit gaming consoles once again with the sequel to Creative Assembly’s survival horror game Alien: Isolation. 


In the teaser for the sequel, a 25-second clip titled A False Sense of Security, we are introduced to the familiar intense atmosphere of a deserted ship, only for the door to open to a desolate planet, then the image of a payphone reading “Emergency,” introducing the idea of a storyline taking place on the surface...
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Netflix’s East of Eden Trailer Gives One of Literature's Cruelest Women an Antihero Rewrite  | Den of Geek

Netflix has released the first teaser into its adaptation of East of Eden, which takes a new twist on the story’s most hated character.


John Steinbeck’s 1952 novel East of Eden is being adapted yet again to question if identity truly is based on what you choose. Now Netflix has released a trailer for the upcoming limited series starring Florence Pugh that makes clear it’s choosing a new narration of the original story. 


The novel follows the lives of the Trask and Hamilton fami...
Blog Posts •

WDTN-2 Directing Intern

“These communities that are losing local news coverage are losing something deeper. They’re losing a connection to American democracy. And those connections must be rebuilt. We need more of a bottom-up sense of what it means to produce news.” - Brian Stelter

WDTN-2 showed the importance and connection that local news stations provide to their communities. Showing the importance of being the information highway to underserved communities.
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We were students at the White House Correspondents Dinner Attack: This is our story.

Trigger warning: this article details experiences of gun violence and trauma. Please exercise caution if you believe the words below may be triggering or hard to read.
We, Ohio University students, members of The Post and White House Correspondents Scholars, are not only victims, but survivors of the most recent attempted assassination of President Donald Trump. 

April 25 will go down as one of the craziest days in our lives. In a place of celebration, where we w...
Chaos, charm return in ‘XO Kitty’ season 3 - The P •

Chaos, charm return in ‘XO Kitty’ season 3

Season three of the “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” spin-off, “XO Kitty,” was released on Netflix on April 2.
Viewers are once again reintroduced to the youngest of the Covey sisters, Katherine “Kitty” Song Covey, in season three of her hit Netflix series. 

In season one, Covey (Anna Cathcart) made her way to the Korean Independent School of Seoul, to trace her mom’s footsteps and meet her boyfriend, Daeheon “Dae” Kim (Choi Min-yeong). At the end of the seaso...
Break the Record: UNC Chapel Hill disgraces colleg •

Break the Record: UNC Chapel Hill disgraces collegiate journalism

On April 1, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s campus newspaper, The Daily Tar Heel, and its late-night show “Hill After Hours,” released a series of satirical yet offensive content for April Fool’s Day. 
The Daily Tar Heel released a series of articles with the intention to “highlight the medium of satire, one that is grounded in centuries of journalistic tradition of holding structures of power accountable,” Alli Pardue, Editor-in-Chief of the newspaper, wrote in the first of tw...
Blog Posts •

Scripps in NYC: Take a bite out of your Big Apple

"Writers are among the most sensitive, most intellectually anarchic, most representative, most probing of artists. The writer's ability to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and to mystify the familiar — all this is the test of her or his power." — Mouth Full of Blood

New York City is a place filled with confidence, creativity and courage. You can make your own way in the Big Apple; while it is a challenge, it is rewarding if you stick to it.
‘Forbidden Fruits’ gives viewers a rotten coven to •

‘Forbidden Fruits’ gives viewers a rotten coven to love

Director Meredith Alloway’s “Forbidden Fruits”cameout March 27. However, some were lucky enough to get a sneak peek at the scandalously mysterious fruit named Mall Mean Girls at this year's South by Southwest film and music festival. 
Here is what to expect from the campy, crazy and entertaining ride that is Alloway’s “Forbidden Fruits.” 

Starring in the movie are Lili Reinhart as Apple, Victoria Pedretti as Cherry, Alexandra Shipp as Fig, Lola Tung as Pumpkin an...
‘Ready or Not 2’ sends double-or-nothing, deadlie •

‘Ready or Not 2’ sends double-or-nothing, deadlier game to box offices

Spoilers ahead.
The sequel to directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett’s “Ready or Not” was released in theaters March 20. “Ready or Not 2: Here I Come,” starts directly where the first installment leaves us, final girl Grace MacCaullay (Samara Weaving) being rushed to the hospital. It is there that audiences learn she has a younger sister, Faith MacCaullay (Kathryn Newton), whom she had not seen for seven years. Grace MacCaullay survived and won the game in the first movie. In this one...
For The Record: Timothée Chalamet isn’t just offen •

For The Record: Timothée Chalamet isn’t just offensive, he’s uneducated

Dune actor Timothée Chalamet is under fire for comments about ballet and opera, made in a Feb. 24 video with Matthew McConaughey in the Variety & CNN Town Hall. 
“I don’t want to be working in opera and ballet, or things where it’s like ‘keep this thing alive,” Chalamet said. “Even though it’s like, no one cares about this thing.”

Chalamet’s comments about the industry aren’t just offensive. His commentary is disrespectful to those who sacrificed their minds and...
Entertainment Look-A-Head: ‘They Will Kill You,' n •

Entertainment Look-A-Head: ‘They Will Kill You,' new Fetty Wap album

Tuesday, March 24 
The Athens Cinema presents "Enter the Kingdom: The Shawshank Redemptionat 7 p.m. for fans of the Stephen King novella and novella adaptation. 

Admission is $8. 
The Athena Cinema is also hosting a National Evening of Science on Screen featuring a special screening of "Project Hail Marywith a talk by Ohio University professor Dr. Sarah Wyatt. 
Admission is free — tickets are required. 
Wednesday, March 25
The College of Arts and Sciences is host...
SXSW Music Showcase In Review: All-American Reject •

SXSW Music Showcase In Review: All-American Rejects, Don Toliver

South by Southwest days one and two included some of the best and brightest in the music industry. With many amazing prospects, some long-time stars and some currently rising to the icon status gave shows that proved music truly never dies. 
With electrifying performances, both the All-American Rejects and Don Toliver lit up Austin’s night life with extraordinary performances in preparation for both upcoming tours and new album releases. 

Here are some of the hig...
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