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Rick and Morty Season 3, Episode 3: "Pickle Rick"

Warning: This review contains spoilers for this episode and previous episodes of Rick and Morty. This week’s cold open seems like a throwback to the earlier seasons of the show: Rick is calling Morty to participate in some wacky adventure that looks like it’ll take about 20 minutes to resolve.



Game of Thrones Season 7, Episode 4: "The Spoils of War"

Warning: This review contains spoilers for this episode and previous episodes of Game of Thrones. Coming from episode 3’s reunions, “The Spoils of War” continues with a few more meet-and-greets. Arya arrives in Winterfell, reuniting all the remaining true born Stark children for the first time since the first season.




Activision CEO says remasters, reboots possible in the future

Crash Bandicoot series, Crash Bandicoot N Sane Trilogy, had “surpassed our wildest expectations by a very large margin”. Topping the US and European PS4 download charts and receiving an 80 on Metacritic, all agree that the game has done exceedingly well for a PS1 remaster. Hirshberg did not just get on the call to brag about sales numbers though.