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Return To Silent Hill Sets Franchise-Low US Opening Weekend

Return To Silent Hill Sets Franchise-Low US Opening Weekend https://ift.tt/sVXoDCc Return to Silent Hill hit the big screen on the weekend, but this adaptation of the beloved Silent Hill 2 video game isn't doing too well critically or commercially in the US. At the domestic box office, the film opened in seventh place and earned just $3.2 million, the lowest to date for the film franchise. In comparison, it's far below the $20.1 million US opening weekend of 2006's Silent Hill and the reviled Silent Hill: Revelation, which earned $8 million during its domestic opening. Opening on 2,000 screens across the US, reviews for Return to Silent Hill haven't been flattering. It currently has a Metascore of 33 on GameSpot's sister site Metacritic--based on 13 reviews--while the user score sits at a slightly higher 4.4. While some outlets consider it an average film at best, others say it doesn't do anything new or better than the original video game or its acclaimed rem...
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Let's Talk About The Starfield Discourse | Spot On

Let's Talk About The Starfield Discourse | Spot On https://ift.tt/SjCuW9w

Sigh. It’s been a long week on the internet.

The Starfield review embargo is up and discourse around it has been running wild--just look at the comments on our review. But in the midst of all this chatter, we can't help but think about how much it distracts us from us having meaningful conversations about games and truly enjoying them. Though someone else's opinion on a game can't take away any of the joy you experience while playing it, going into a game with anger, defensiveness, or cynicism can absolutely sour the time you spend with it.

This week on Spot On, Tam and Lucy discuss the damaging impact negative discourse can have and why focusing only on this negativity and feeding into the console wars can take away the excitement of new releases. The two also discuss Baldur’s Gate 3, and how, for a while, that game was swallowed by discourse, to the detriment of the discussion around it.

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