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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...

This Dungeon Crawl-Themed Book Series Is Like Reading A Video Game

This Dungeon Crawl-Themed Book Series Is Like Reading A Video Game https://ift.tt/uEvW0p2

If you've ever read a book and thought, "This would be a lot cooler if the main characters knew their stats and could see their health points," then you might want to check out the new print edition of the Dungeon Crawler Carl series, which is getting hardcover editions for the first time.

Written by Matt Dinniman, the popular book series belongs to a subgenre of fiction called "LitRPGs" that integrates video game tropes like stats, health bars, and inventory screens directly into the story. Rather than being a choose-your-own-adventure story or a tabletop RPG, LitRPG books are prose novels where the characters interact with the world in a game-like way--often because they are transported into an alternate video game reality or because outside forces morph the real world into a game-like setting. In Dungeon Crawler Carl, aliens have turned Earth into a 10-floor mega-dungeon, and each book in the series represents a different level of the dungeon with its own environmental identity, characters Carl meets, and objectives he completes in hopes of saving humanity.

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