#Lets Play Serious Sam HD

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Midnight Gaming: Serious Squidding

So last night I played some Serious Sam past midnight, checked socials later to find... Nintendo takes down Splatoon 3 video for mentioning sex.

So during a time when Half-life and Halo have led fps games away from one-liner spouting, 90s fps games to ones that focused on a narrative, Serious Sam was a series that stood in defiance of the changing tides with hordes of screaming headless mobs running towards you the player.

The hordes arent really an exaggeration as for the time, croteams first game featuring the tshirt wearing warrior, The First Encounter, was notable in pc gaming for having tons of enemies swarming you on screen, across various arenas and an array of explosions.

My first entry though was infact The Next Encounter on the gamecube before I eventually grabbed the HD remasters as well as 2 and bfe on steam. Beaten First Encounter on normal difficulty and sometimes play the other games from time to time. 2 was the one that repelled me the most due to how cartoony it looked. It was presented like a saturday morning cartoon with corny jokes and all whiched clashed with the bloody carnage. It just didnt mesh well and neither did Before First Encounter and that was for opposite reasons.

BFE from what I heard from rumours was originally meant to be just another military shooter that croteam was working on before it got canned and they repurposed a lot of the enviroment assets for a Serious Sam game instead. Its just a rumor but it does explain why it was all in modern Egypt. But yeah that game felt a bit too grounded at times with the story and graphics being a bit drab. Also it has glory kills? You could melee some enemies with a prompt and just kill them outright, without the need to use your guns, just press the melee when your close enough and you'll blink towards an enemy, kill them outright and move on. Also BFE seems badly optimised for Switch since i've seen a lot of graphics pop in whenever I turn around a corner.

So early parts of First and Second encounter? Fine enough, you go through arenas, face several enemies, you run backwards at times, its serious sam... maybe I dont like Serious sam that much? I like it enough and there are times when it becomes tense and yet.. I often just lose interest nowadays. Could be that I often play on Normal since to me it feels.... fair. You want to play Serious Sam in a way that makes you dread every healing item and ammo pickyp you come across? Play them on Serious difficulty, the highest difficulty thats unlocked from the start, and you will definatly develop some new phobias. I tried playing on Serious for TFE and, there is, never a time where you can reliably let your guard down. Every corner, every hallway, EVERY ITEM, there will be a chance of enemies being spawned. Sometimes right in your face. Go watch a playthrough on Serious difficulty or play it yourself and you'll understand why.

Actually, the games story at first was going back in time in order to find and stop Mental right? Thats what the early games before BFE were about, travelling through the timelock to try and stop an alien overlord who is trying to destroy humanity right? Right? Because I dont think time travel is really utilised much as a narrative device in this series. All the time periods you could potentially visit and fight enemies in. The first encounter only had Egypt. The second encounter had some time periods to go through. The next encounter also had that but that wasnt really made by croteam. 2 didnt had time travel instead going by multiple worlds and BFE onwards was just in modern times on earth. Seems like only croteam only did 2 games that barely scratched the surface on time travel and then just dropped it. Isnt that strange.

Just to wrap this segment up, I will say one more thing. I also went and played the two serious sam ports on steam, Classics Revolution and Serious Sam Fusion... beta.

CR seemed to be focused on the classic versions of TFE and TSE while Fusion is based on the HD remasters and BFE, both of course have workshop support. And you know what, its nice to play Serious Sam with mods, playing through a remastered version of TFE's maps with Overwatch weapons was neat.

So moving on to news, Nintendo. That company has garnered a mixed opinion nowadays. On one hand making great games and on the other hand striking down any form of appreciation shown by their fans. This however does come off as a bit silly though in my opinion, A video by Splatoon youtuber Liora Channel was struck down for "Sexual Content"? So Liora did a video called Splatoon Girls which focused on women who played Splatoon and talked about themselves and their personal lives. Some of these women have admitted they dated some high-profile splatoon players and engaged in casual initimacy. Nintendo didnt like that so they struck the video down.

Now, I'm aware the series is rated around 3+, its very much marketed towards kids but, to be honest I dont think the playerbase is mostly just kids. I guess it was more around late teens to early 20's maybe and with the lobbies allowing for miiverse style picture posts allowing anyone to post any drawn image, I wouldnt think the fanbase is that prudish. Then again I dont play Splatoon so I could be very wrong and Nintendo could be right but if this video that Liora made was to interact with women splatoon players and they admit to having initimate relations, is it really right to strike it down because it clashes with intended marketing. I dont know but i'll leave you the article from gonintendo.com and you can decide for yourself.

Thank you all reading, feel free to leave some feedback and game suggestions. Anons are currently on.

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We're almost to the top 10 with numbers 20-11 today! It's been fun getting these screenshots.

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20. Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Okay, we all know the jokes about how Todd keeps releasing Skyrim, but there's a good reason. Skyrim is a fantastic game that is a refinement of what makes the Elder Scrolls a fun game. The dragon shouts are also an interesting addition, that let you do all sorts of things.

19. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy

The Ace Attorney games are great and they all started with this trilogy. The writing is clever, the puzzles are mind-challenging, the interrogations are well thought out, and it's fun to just get into. This game has heart, and fantastic music, and it's quite a ride.

18. Burnout Paradise

Burnout Paradise is a great racer with a killer soundtrack, with multiple modes to play through, such as Stunt Run, Marked Man, Road Rage, and just normal races. The multiplayer is fantastic as well as it has modes such as Cops & Robbers. They really nailed it with this one.

17. Papers, Please

Everyone's favorite dystopian document thriller, Papers, Please takes the mundane task of stamping people's passports and makes it a engaging game with interesting, sympathetic characters, and a story that can go multiple ways. Cobrastan is not a real country.

16. Battle Chess

Chess is boring, right? Not with Battle Chess, what with its multiple animations of the “pieces” attacking each other. It's a surprisingly well-balanced chess game that can be hard to master, but when you do, it's just so satisfying.

15. Celeste

A neat little puzzle-platformer that's all about facing your fears. The story is great, and the gameplay is really good. To say anything else would probably be spoilers, so I'm not going to go any deeper, because this is one you should experience yourself.

14. Sam & Max Hit The Road

The Freelance Police's first video game outing is one of the best adventure games of all time and highly enjoyable just for the jokes. The story is fantastic and the mini-games are varied. A great time to be had for sure.

13. Serious Sam First Encounter/Second Encounter

Oh, yeah, the original pair of Serious Sam games are great, technically two parts of the same game as you can play First Encounter HD in Second Encounter HD, as well as being able to play both in Classics Revolution, and just a fantastic shooter for fans of the shooter genre. If you've never played the Serious Sam games, start here.

12. Mass Effect: Legendary Edition

I love the Mass Effect series, so of course I had to put it on my Top 100. The carefully crafted (for the most part) story is fantastic, and it encourages you to play your way, either as a Paragon or a Renegade. (I'm usually Paragon myself.) The characters are great, the missions entertaining, just all in all a great series.

11. Quake

I cannot stress how important Quake is for gaming. A lot of 3D engines may still have some code left over from Quake. Deathmatch was codified by this game. Without Quake, there's no Half-Life, no Team Fortress, no Counter-Strike. It may be all brown (and blue), but it wouldn't feel like Quake if it wasn't run down.

TOP TEN TOMORROW!!! :D

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SPN 1x06 “Skin”

Okay, I’m gonna try to type while I watch this time instead of forgetting this blog exists until the episode is almost over.

You can tell the footage for the previously on segment was saved on a VHS copy instead of the original film that the show was shot with because even in the HD iTunes version I have it looks low quality as fuck. And jumpy in the way that brings me back to my teens watching the WB all the damn time.

I love this song. WTF is this song. Shazam says “Good Deal” by Mommy and Daddy. I… have no comment, except that it sounds like everything I was listening to in college at the time this shit was airing.

Aaaaand not!Dean turns around to face the SWAT team after obviously torturing some woman. THAT is a cold open.

I wanna know what that car is in the background. It’s pretty. Maybe a convertible Impala? They have similar grills. This is not at all important.

Also, I love that with these higher definition versions of the episodes you can see that Sam’s email is lawboy and whatever dot com and that people in the fandom have started calling him Law Boy. It’s hilarious.

DEAN: Well, what exactly do you tell ‘em? You know, about where you’ve been, what you’ve been doin’?

SAM: I tell ‘em I’m on a road trip with my big brother. I tell ‘em I needed some time off after Jess.

DEAN: Oh, so you lie to ‘em.

SAM: No. I just don’t tell ‘em….everything.

DEAN: Yeah, that’s called lying. I mean, hey, man, I get it, tellin’ the truth is far worse.

SAM: So, what am I supposed to do, just cut everybody out of my life? (DEAN shrugs.) You’re serious?

DEAN: Look, it sucks, but in a job like this, you can’t get close to people, period.

Aaaaand now I have Dean and Cassie feelings again and we haven’t even gotten to her episode yet.

SAM: No, man, I know Zack. He’s no killer.

DEAN: Well, maybe you know Zack as well as he knows you.

Aaaaaand now I have Dean and Lee feelings and we’re nowhere near Lee’s episode in season 15.

YOU JUST BLEW THROUGH A STOP SIGN DEAN WTF.

Little Becky. Oi with the reusing of names.

Of course Sam made friends with a bunch of rich kids while he was at college in a desperate attempt to try to be normal.

SAM: You know, maybe we could see the crime scene. Zack’s house.

DEAN: We could.

REBECCA: Why? I mean, what could you do?

SAM: Well, me, not much. But Dean’s a cop. (DEAN laughs.)

DEAN: Detective, actually.

I love that Dean was like “how dare you call me that.”

Okay, after a bit of research, I totally want to take a day trip to Bisbee, Arizona, but it’s already in the 90s here in the desert and it’s not even May so that trip is going to have to wait until… winter or something. There is no way in hell I’m going deeper into the desert when the weather gets hotter.

It’s a historic mining town tourist trap looking place now which is exactly the kind of shit I love.

SAM: Bec, look, I know Zack didn’t do this. Now, we have to find a way to prove that he’s innocent.

I mean, not technically, technically you would 1) NOT FUCK WITH A MURDER INVESTIGATION YOU’RE NOT LEGALLY INVOLVED IN BECAUSE ANYTHING YOU FIND WOULD BE INADMISSABLE IN COURT 2) find evidence to provide a reasonable doubt for the jury that he did commit the crime. You know, like a lawyer would need to do, Law Boy.

DEAN: I just don’t think this is our kind of problem.

When I made my husband watch this show with me (he’s seen it all at least once now over the years) this is the recurring thing that drove him crazy.

You guys can’t even go in through the back door? Or shut the front door behind you? Really?

REBECCA: (tearfully) Well, there’s no sign of a break-in. They say that Emily let her attacker in.

Yeah, that doesn’t even really mean that she knew her attacker. Just that it was someone she let her guard down around or got in some other way. See: The Son of Sam and Nightstalker, etc.

Love the pinup magnet on the fridge. I’d throw shade at that, but I have a pinup magnet on my fridge too so… pot kettle and all that.

Okay, both people in the next couple are gorgeous.

And oh wow those special effects changing eyes… wow.

This poor couple. I feel so bad for them in this episode.

How… how are the police gonna explain the way he was able to beat himself over the head with a bat??? I…

I love that 5:30 in the morning on TV is clearly like… 10 AM.

Okay, this is a really unrelated point, but the graffiti on the dumpster here reminds me of the Teen Wolf fandoms use of the name Void!Stiles when Stiles Stilinski was possessed by a Nogitsune… I just spent way too long digging through YouTube and my Tumblr tags from back when those episodes were airing looking for a few specific videos and couldn’t find them. The TL;DR reason I bring it up here is goofball, bi-coded main character guy getting possessed by an entity set on destroying the people he loves. SOUNDS LIKE THIS EPISODE AND A WHOLE LOT OF SPN RIGHT. I love that all these monster hunting shows call out to each other.

This scene haunts me years later and I don’t even WATCH Teen Wolf. I just watched the fandom on Tumblr collectively lose it’s shit then tripped down a Hale Pack fanfiction rabbit hole.

ANYWAY

Back to Supernatural, a show that also treated its fan base, cast, and characters like garbage! Huzzah!

DEAN: Well, there’s another way to go—down. (They look down and notice a manhole.)

I’m gonna be mature and ignore the double entendre there…

But I love that Dean thinks of the world in 3D. Which sounds like a dumb statement to make, but this is honestly a good example of that in action.

SAM: I bet this runs right by Zack’s house, too.

Really Sam, sewers run by houses? SO WEIRD. I WOULD HAVE NEVER GUESSED.

DEAN: You know, I just had a sick thought. When the shapeshifter changes shape—maybe it sheds.

SAM: That is sick. (DEAN puts the bloody pile back on the ground.)

Guys, there is a WHOLE ASS EAR in that pile of yuck you’re looking at. I think it’s pretty safe to assume the shapeshifter indeed sheds its skin like a snake. A much… gooier snake.

Sam’s friend is rightfully pissed at him for fucking with the crime scene.

This is before the pearl gripped guns?! Wow. I never noticed that before.

Also, this whole episode gives me feelings.

++++

Cool. Tumblr mobile ate a whole section of my notes on this when it crashed for NO APPARENT REASON. Love that.

It always boggles my mind that actors can trust the people they’re working with enough to let people “tie” ropes around their neck or put them in actually dangerous positions in a scene.

SHAPESHIFTER: He’s sure got issues with you. You got to go to college. He had to stay home. I mean, I had to stay home. With Dad. You don’t think I had dreams of my own? But Dad needed me. Where the hell were you?

SAM: Where is my brother? (The shapeshifter leans in close to SAM.)

SHAPESHIFTER: I am your brother. See, deep down, I’m just jealous. You got friends. You could have a life. Me? I know I’m a freak. And sooner or later, everybody’s gonna leave me. (He backs away.)

SAM: What are you talkin’ about?

SHAPESHIFTER: You left. Hell, I did everything Dad asked me to, and he ditched me, too. No explanation, nothin’, just poof. Left me with your sorry ass. But, still, this life? It’s not without its perks. (He laughs.) I meet the nicest people. Like little Becky. You know, Dean would bang her if he had the chance. Let’s see what happens. (He smiles and covers SAM with a sheet.)

This exchange is just… so much. So many feelings. And I will forever (unless we magically get a fix-it fic mini season someday…) be SO MAD that none of this got resolved in that pointless, trash heap of a finale.

REBECCA: Okay, so, this thing—it can make itself look like anybody?

SHAPESHIFTER: That’s right. (She chuckles.)

REBECCA: Well, what is it, like a genetic freak? (The shapeshifter laughs.)

SHAPESHIFTER: Maybe. Evolution is about mutation, right? So, maybe this thing was born human but was different. Hideous and hated. Until he learned to become someone else. (REBECCA looks around, uncomfortable. The shapeshifter’s eyes glint silver, and he smiles.)

It always amazes me how much of this show is a pile of accidental queer allegories parading around in an ill-fitting toxic masculinity suit.

Vulcan mind meld! I love nerd!Dean. Also, I’m rewatching Star Trek: TOS with my husband, because that is what my life amounts to these days, rewatching comfort TV and flailing over the bits I love.

This post does a better job than I can do of pairing up screen caps with the dialogue of this next scene. SIX EPISODES IN. They’re dumping all of this character depth SIX EPISODES IN. FUCK THIS SHOW FOR NOT EMBRACING ITSELF.

Okay, I love that he screams back in her face after he threw the phone. It’s not something to laugh at because the situation is horrifying, but I can’t help laughing at it every time.

AND THE WAY THEY CUT THESE SCENES. Going from him winding his hand back to backslap her directly to him dropping the chains on the table to show how hard he must have hit her without actually making the actors hit each other. Good job editing department!

I… don’t understand the shifter’s motivation for killing people. If he can take over people’s identities without killing them, why kill them? Is it just because he’s a homicidal, rapist piece of shit? Cause that’s all it seems like.

How did the SWAT team even know she was being attacked? Why can the snipers aim no better than Storm Troopers?

Ugh, these kind of transformation body horror scenes are exactly why werewolf stories have never really appealed to me much. Like, I could do without watching your ribs move and teeth fall out, dude.

BUT.

THIS FUCKING SCENE.

I looked up the song that’s playing over shapeshifter!Dean being caught by the SWAT team and then going through the grotesque transformation. (And as far as I know, the iTunes version has the original music from the episodes.)

It’s a song called “Mary” by The Death Riders

Who's your mother, who's your mother here boy // Who's your mother, whos your mommy dear // Who's your father, who's your father here boy // Who's your father, who's your daddy dear

Silently screaming // Where everyone knows // Daddy's always watchin' // Where everywhere - everywhere I go

I don't wanna be a freak show pretty boy anymore // I don't wanna be a full time slave // I don't wanna be your midnight cowboy anymore // I just want to be Mary

This is… a fascinating choice. Here are the rest of the lyrics. The song as a whole has a weird incesty kinda vibe to it? Kinda like when SPN tries to straight-wash itself and misses the mark wildly. (Like Dean’s male siren episode.)

The midnight cowboy line reminded me of 12x11 and the bull riding scene with “Broomstick Cowboy” by Bobby Goldsboro playing over it

Dream on, little Broomstick Cowboy, // Dream while you can; // Of big green frogs, // And puppy dogs, // And castles in the sand.

For, all too soon you'll awaken; // Your toys will all be gone. // Your broomstick horse will ride away, // To find another home. // And you'll have grown into a man, // With cowboys of your own. // And then you'll have to go to war, // To try and save your home.

And then you'll have to learn to hate; // You'll have to learn to kill. // It's always been that way, my son; // I guess it always will.

Because, you know, why not add tons of feelings into the lyrics, right?

Props to the people who can embrace their rewatches and reclamations of the show with ease. Because every episode seems to remind me of how hollow and tragic Dean’s ending was and I just… struggle all over again.

Anyway, back to the episode so I can move on with my day.

REPORTER: An anonymous tip led police to a home in the Central West End, where a S.W.A.T team discovered a local woman bound and gagged. Her attacker, a white male, approximately twenty-four to thirty years of age, was discovered hiding in her home. (A sketch of DEAN appears on the screen.)

DEAN: Man! That’s not even a good picture. (SAM looks around cautiously.)

SAM: It’s good enough. (He walks away.)

DEAN: Man! (He follows SAM.)

(CUT TO: Alley. DEAN and SAM are walking. DEAN steps into a puddle.)

DEAN: Ugh, come on.

I love that we get two tiny little back-to-back vanity moments for Dean here. One commenting on the sketch artist rendition of him being broadcasted on the news and the other tripping in the puddle. There is literally someone running around the city trying to kill people while wearing Dean’s face, but Dean is still concerned with how he looks appears to others. He’s still concerned with keeping up his own performance. The shifter left him with just a t-shirt, so he doesn’t even have his usual comfort layers on and at any moment someone could spot him and call the police or try to kill him for assaulting Sam’s friend. His life is wildly out of control in that moment and the only thing he can try to focus on is his appearance (something semi-controllable) and finding the shifter before any of that other shit can happen.

One day I want to put together a like top 10 episodes focusing on / explaining each TFW character from the series. Like the kind of list you could show someone who’s never seen the show, but has OPINIONS about the characters (or who hasn’t seen the whole show and seen the growth they went through… you know, like the people responsible for the travesty of 15x20). This episode would be on that list. I’m not sure how I could manage to make a list of only 10 episodes to understand Dean Winchester by, but eh.

SAM: What are you gonna do to me?

SHAPESHIFTER: Oh, I’m not gonna do anything. Dean will, though.

SAM: They’ll never catch him.

SHAPESHIFTER: Oh, doesn’t matter. Murder in the first of his own brother? He’ll be hunted the rest of his life. (He picks up a sharp knife and examines it.)

Speaking of season 15 in general, this right here. This was Chuck’s villain story arc thesis statement. AND THEY DROPPED THE GODDAMN BALL WITH IT. I think that’s the thing that honestly pisses me off the most these days (about 5 1/2 months from when the finale aired) is that they tried making the whole thing a tragedy but did such an awful job with it that it just ended up like a deflating condom balloon at a dive bar concert. Disappointing and gross. The finale for season 14 set them up SO FUCKING WELL and it just… didn’t get there.

Becky’s parents are gonna be pissed at how torn up their house is after all this shit…

And you’re not shooting him when you first see him strangling Sam because…?????

I like that he took the necklace back. Also, is this kinda Dean death number .5 of the show? Like it wasn’t him but it was also kinda him. Eh.

At least they left the windshield on Baby this time. Reflections are better than tearing her apart.

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Top Fps Games For Mac

Posted on the 04 September 2020 by Viney Dhiman @vineydhiman

The best 50 FPS (First Person Shooter) games for Mac OS daily generated by our specialised A.I. Comparing over 40 000 video games across all platforms. This list includes Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, Prey, Serious Sam 4 and 46 more for Mac OS. Looking for FPS games to download for free? Here are the top free FPS games for PC for 2020, including Devastator Arena, Cemetery Warrior 4, Dungeon Quest, and more. Download only unlimited full version fun games online and play offline on your Windows 7/10/8 desktop or laptop computer. Fast and secure game downloads.

When It comes about gaming, mac is not a very famous name among gamers, As Windows PCs are used to be way more efficient and powerful and suitable for the better gaming experience.

Even before Mac didn’t use to have many good games whereas for windows pc gamers every major publisher released the game for the windows operating system. Now, the Situation is not the same as before these days many good and popular games are available for mac users and many of them are free as well.

That’s why today we have compiled a list Best Mac Games for Mac users that are free as well.

1. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Counter-Strike is a very popular name among gamers, launched 20 years ago since it hit the market, it became a popular game name. Counter-Strike: GO is a free, first shooter team-based action game.

The game has two teams one is of terrorists and the other is of Counter-Terrorist; Terrorists have to go to the Counterterrorist area and blow it by planting a bomb there. Whereas Counter-terrorist has to stop and kill the terrorists and protect the area from planting the bomb.

You can play Counter-Strike solely with a Computer player, online on via LAN with Family and friends and You can play with online players as well as the game has more than 20 million monthly active users.

Availability: Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is compatible and available on Windows, Mac OS, Linux, Playstation 4, and XBOX One.

Minimum System Requirements

Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 2400 or better / NVidia 8600M or better

OS: Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) or later

Processor: Intel Core Duo Processor (2GHz or better)

Memory: 2 GB RAM

Storage: 15 GB available space

Download Counter-Strike: GO for Mac/ Price: Free

2. Fortnite

Fortnite is a massively popular Free to Play, Battle Royale game, a flying bus takes you in a flying bus to in the middle of a giant map with other 99 players, where you all have to compete with each other, to be last standing person to be a winner.

The Fortnite game has three different modes which are ‘Save the World’, ‘Battle Royale’ & ‘Fortnite Creative’. All three modes are interesting but I liked the Fornite Creative mode as it gives access to players to create their battle arenas and their world to play.

Availability: Fortnite is available for Mac, Windows, iPhone, Android, Xbox One and Playstation 4

Minimum System Requirement

Graphics: Intel Iris Pro 5200 or equivalent AMD GPU on Mac

Processor: Core i3-3225 3.3 GHz ( .recommended Core i5-7300U 3.5 GHz )

Memory: 4 GB RAM or More

OS: Mac OS Mojave 10.14.6 or Above

Kingdom Come: Deliverance Console Commands | PC Gamer. Note: Mac computers must be required to support Metal API if you are not sure if you machine support metal API or not you can check here, and Fortnite is no longer supporting Nvidia cards on Mac.

With minimum requirements, you can play Fortnite on the mac but of course not on the best graphic settings. To play Fortnite with minimum system requirements, you need to reduce the graphic settings and maybe need to disable background applications as well.

Download Fortnite for Mac / Price: Free

3. Team Fortress 2

The most Popular names among Action and First Person Shooter, free to play the game are Team Fortress 2. The game has cartoon-like visuals and players can join one of the team, Red or Blu, and select one of the characters out of 9 classes of character to battle.

The game has two different game modes as well; Capture the Flag & King of the Hill. Screen record on mac with audio quicktime. The game has got critical acclaim and recognization for its art direction, gameplay, humor, and use of the character in this multiplayer-only game.

Availability: Team Fortress 2 is available on Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4, Linux, Mac operating systems.

Minimum System Requirements

Graphics Card: AMD Radeon X1600 or better

CPU: Intel Pentium 4 1.70GHz ( At least 1.7GHz Processor Clock Speed)

Memory: 512 MB or More

File Size: At least 15 GB

OS: OS X Leopard 10.5.8 and above

Download Team Fortress 2 for Mac / Price: Free

4. Alien: Isolation – The Collection

Alien Isolation is a survival horror, stealth, and action game, Awarded for BAFTA Awards for Best Audio Achievements. Not just the Audio but Visually also this game is striking.

In the Game, you have to survive from aliens, and they are going to hunt you down by using their senses which gives you a dynamic experience of persistent fear. There are many things you can improvise to survive in the game such as hacking the systems, craft items to deal with the coming situation, and look for vital resources.

Availability: Available on Windows, Mac OS, Linux, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and Playstation 4.

Minimum System Requirements

Graphics: 1GB AMD 5750, 1GB Nvidia 650M, 1.5 GB Intel Iris Pro 5200

Processor: 2GHz Intel Core i5 or greater

Memory: Minimum 4 GB RAM

OS: Mac OS version 10.10.4 or above

Storage: 35 GB available space

Download Alien Isolation for Mac / Price: $39.99

5. Sniper Ops 3D

Sniper OPS is one of the best 3D shooting, free to play the game, Not any Shooting Game is FPS and war game that’s addictive as well. Sniper OPS has more than 200 levels to play, and the best part is being an offline game; so, you don’t require the internet to play this game.

You can choose weapons including sniper guns and rifles of your own choice, Complete the mission levels by hunting and killing terrorists. You need to help the Army and Police to clean their territory by killing enemies.

Availability: Available on Windows, Mac OS, Android & iPhone.

Minimum System Requirement

Graphics: AMD Radeon or NVIDIA GeForce (1 GB)

Processor: Intel CPU Core i3 @ 2.1 GHz

OS: Mac OS X 10.8.5 Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system

Memory: 4 GB RAM or more

Storage: 1 GB available space

Download Sniper OPS 3D / Price: Free

6. Paladins

Another game on our list is Paladins, a free to play, shooting game, instantly became popular as this game has a blend of the modern world with a magical element. The game has both kinds of weapons including advanced modern and supernatural weapons.

Paladins let users customize your characters in a variety of ways as it includes deck-building elements as well. Without a doubt, Paladins is an action-packed, best free shooter game for Mac that is extremely fun to play and addictive.

Availability: Available on PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows, Macintosh operating system.

Minimum System Requirements

Graphics: ATI or Nvidia graphics card with 512MB video ram Shader Model 3.0+ support.

Processor: Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz or Athlon X2 2.7 GHz

OS: OS X 10.10

Memory: 2 GB RAM

Storage: 10 GB available space

Sound Card: DirectX compatible sound card

7. Day Of Infamy

Day of Infamy is a strategic tactic team-based multiplayer, a first-person shooter video game. The game is featuring a very realstic combat of World War II across the battlefields of Western Europe.

You have to destroy enemies and their equipment, secure positions, assassinate enemy officers, and you need to move forward by working with your teammate. The game features grenade launchers, sling, cloth wraps, extended magazine, customize weapons with bayonets, also. If you are love to face challenges in a game, then it’s for you you would not be disappointed.

Availability: Available on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS.

Minimum System Requirements

Processor: Intel® Core i3 Processor (2GHz or better)

OS: Mac OS X 10.7 or higher

Memory: 4 GB RAM

Storage: 12 GB available space

Download Day of Infamy / Price: $14.99

8. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

Deus Ex is Cyberpunk augmented action, Role Playing Game ( RPG Game ), Game is moving in Futuristic Prague city where you are playing the role of Jensen.

In the Game, you can evolve and upgrade Jensen’s abilities by earning and gaining experience points. To gain Experience Points, you have to complete various missions and tasks; both critical-path tasks and involved side tasks.

Availability: Available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Classic Mac OS.

Minimum System Requirements

Graphics: 2GB AMD R9 M290 or better

Processor: 3.0GHz Intel Core i5 or more

OS: macOS 10.13.1 or above

Memory: 8 GB RAM

Storage: 67 GB available space

Download Deus Ex: Mankind Divided/ Price: $29.99

9. Overload

Overload is a First-person shooter 3D video game, features awesome graphics, intense action, and the ultimate effect of the zero-gravity shooter. The game has more than 12 + Challenge modes include countdown and infinite; Focus on survival or efficiency changes according to mode.

Overload can be played solely, and multiplayer (with LAN as well) and supports VR also. You’ll have to destroy robots, rescue the survivors, and reach to destination before the whole thing will blast off.

Availability: available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS.

Minimum System Requirements

Graphics: Shader model 3.0 support

Processor: SSE2 instruction set support

OS: Mac OS X 10.8+ or above

Memory: 4 GB RAM or more

Storage: 8 GB available space

Download Overload for Mac / Price: $29.99

10. Superhot

One of the Most addictive and coolest game is Superhot, an independent first-person (FPS) game. It is the most innovative and minimalistic game. as there is no health regeneration, story or ammo drops the only neck to neck gameplay.

Even in Superhot Time only moves when you do, which gives you time to create and implement your survival technique to live. You’ll see many times Bullet-time from matrix movie kind of animation with minimal graphic, but kudos for innovation and stylish yet minimal graphics which make it easier to play this game on any mac device.

Availability: Available on Mac, Oculus Quest, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch,

Minimum System Requirements

Graphics: Graphics card with 1024 MB RAM

Processor: Processor: Intel Core I5 or later

OS: OS X 10.9 or later

Memory: 8 GB RAM

Storage: 3 GB available space

Download Superhot for Mac / Price: $24.99

Bonus: PUBG

Player Unknowns Battle Ground aka PUBG is the most played game from the last few years. PUBG is a first-person shooter, a battleground action game, in which the last player standing wins by eliminating the other 99 players.

As in PUBG 100 online player participate to play a match, the game also allows you to play is solely, or make a team of 2 or 4 then last standing person or squad will be the winner. The game has a huge map, many kinds of weapons and grenades, vehicles such as cars and bikes also. The Player has to Find and equip weapons to kill other players to win.

Gamers have to search for the equipment and weapons and kill all other players last standing player will be the winner.

Availability: PUBG game is available on Windows, Android, iPhone, Playstation 4, Xbox One.

Note: PUBG is a massive hit game but they are still not officially launched for Linux and Mac OS, as the company claimed there are not enough players for these OS.

Minimum Requirement on Mac

A 64-bit processor and operating system

Processor: Intel Core i5-4430

Memory: 8 GB RAM

Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 2GB / AMD Radeon R7 370 2GB

DirectX: Version 11

Storage: 30 GB available space

To Play PUBG on Mac, You need to either install Windows on Mac using BootCamp or Wine; OR You can Install Android Emulator like Bluestack or any other alternative.

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All of the games, that we mentioned above in the post are the best games in the First-person Shooting genre, But I personally liked the two games the most i.e. Superhot and Alien Isolation.

Superhot we like for its simply innovative which they merged with stylish minimal characters and Alien Isolation for its Striking graphics and fearful storyline and experience.

Tell us what game you like the most and what else you were expecting to see on this list.

On a Windows PC or a computer, it is comparatively easy to install and play games you like. Mac computers are best in productivity and in the design but since a long time Mac users have compromised on gaming. Well there is some good news, now even Mac users can enjoy best gaming on their Mac. Now Mac users have a dedicated revolutionary gaming store that is Steam. So, without further delay let’s look at some of the best games on Steam.

10 Best Games on Mac Steam in 2019

1. Killing floor

If you love to play horror games then killing floor should be the first choice. The game is a survival horror FPS in which you need to cleanse hostile creatures in an English countryside with your team of six which must work cooperatively. Completion of each round gives you money to upgrade your weapons. The quality of the game is proven by it being one of the most loved game since 2009

2. Besiege

If you know what is art of destructions then another best Mac game on Steam is Besiege. There is a lot of building and destruction involved. It can be an hour’s task or can also be ended earlier. We love the game because there is no need to be stuck on it for days or months to solve the mysteries. You can create something which is magnificent or something that will be destroyed by just pressing space bar. You can get it for $6.99 which is definitely worth considering what the game has to offer.

3. League of legends

League of legends is one of the most popular game people play online. There are around 68 million players who play this game. If we talk about MOBA world then this game is the perfect entry. This game is one of the top 10 Mac games for free to play and there is nothing to lose. You can spend hours playing this game and enjoying the new battle grounds.

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4. Counter Strike: Global Offensive

When it comes to top steam games almost every gamer knows this game very well. Like it always happens in CS you have to join either terrorists or the counter terrorist team. You can choose from 5 different game modes and in all the modes you should defend yourself from getting killed, because in that case you need to wait until next round for re-spawn.

5. Team Fortress 2

The classic game Team Fortress doesn’t require an introduction. It is a team based game. Goofy and riddled it is a perfect pick for everyone. Despite the number of years that this game has been around for, it still has a growing fan base. In this game you will find different people with different weapons.

6. BioShock

BioShock is a FPS game and has been around from the last 10 years. It is compatible with multiple gaming platforms such as PlayStation Xbox. So, you may find large number of online partners. Graphics of the game are beautifully designed and give you a real feel of diving deep inside.

7. Tomb Raider

Every day you will find new steam games but who hasn’t heard of Tomb Raider? Lara croft, one of the biggest gaming icons made a comeback in 2013 with a new title Tomb Raider. For those who need introduction for this game, Lara Croft is an archaeologist who stumbles across many adventures. Like always this game is known for its beautiful design and you will love to uncover the adventure.

8. Broken Age

Broken Age is an art style story book game which is really refreshing. All and all you can control two main characters, a girl and a boy who live abroad with computerized parents. The relationship between characters is something which you will have to solve by yourself.

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9. Final Soccer

Next pick is for sports lovers. If soccer is your favorite sport and you have VR compatible kit then you will find this game the best Mac game on Steam. Visuals of this game are awesome and you will find yourself lost in it. With your VR kit you need to stretch yourself but you will really enjoy playing it.

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10. Golfing Over It

For all the golf lovers this game will be a perfect pick. You might have played lots of games with the Normal golf set but this game is different. You need to bounce the golf ball over different shapes and creations. If you can do it perfectly you will level up. The game is lightweight and a perfect pick to refresh your mind.

So, these were 10 best Mac games on Steam. Apart from this you can choose from more than 6000 games on the store but if you are a beginner then first you should choose from top 10 Mac games for free. With this now Mac lovers will also have better gaming experience than ever before.

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Don’t freak out’.” When Kavita looked up from her phone, she saw that the friend she’d been talking to had also just learned the news after looking at her own phone. “All three of us found out at the exact same time,” she says. “Then, one by one, you could see how people’s faces changed as they found out what was going on.” site : https://hcde.instructure.com/courses/91105/pages/watch-the-trial-of-the-chicago-7-2020-online-free-hd The friend she had been waiting for had been warned to turn back. “She called me later and told me how, just when she stepped out into the street to leave her place, her neighbour had pushed her back into the door, saying there had been shooting in their street. 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Despite all the alerts on their phones, they decided to try to continue with their evening anyway. site : https://paiza.io/projects/nmLNNjEFuv75Egcw25fkLQ “We went to Pigalle (in northern Paris) to have a last drink, but bar after bar [was] closed. We probably tried five or six, and when we finally found one that was open, we were told we had to leave after just five minutes.” Site : https://onlinegdb.com/SkBmVRz5v https://onlinegdb.com/B1gKNCz5D He remembers how they walked into the street, and how an eerie atmosphere suddenly enveloped them. “The street was totally empty of people, and then we just started running.”

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The Ex In Eighties Part 1 (Clint Barton X Reader)

Summary: Your best friend’s ex shows up at the bar and decides it’s okay to check you out just a week after he and your best friend split up. Upon discovering you both enjoy 80s music, you have a brilliant plan that leads to a brand new adventure you would have never expected.

Key: (Y/N)-your name, (D/N)-dog’s name, (B/D)-breed of dog, (H/L)-hair length, (H/C)-hair color, (L/N)-last name

Today’s Playlist: Heartbreaker (Pat Benatar), (I Just) Died in Your Arms Tonight (Cutting Crew), Walkin’ On Sunshine (Katrina and the Waves), Renegade (Styx), And We Danced (The Hooters), Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go (Wham!), Carry On My Wayward Son (Kansas), Carry On My Wayward Son Lullaby Version

Cast: YOU! Clint Barton, Laura Barton (not Barton, in this universe), Natasha Romanoff, Nick Fury, Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, Sam Wilson, Scott Lang, T’Challa, Thor, Cassie Lang, Shuri, Sam’s parents, brief mentions of other SHIELD Agents including Phil Coulson and Maria Hill, General Ross, random doctor lady, brief mentions of Loki and Ultron, and others to come

Warnings: Language

Status: Parts 1-8 Complete and ready to post, Side One Shots TBD

    Getting with my best friend’s ex was completely against my morals, despite her very own encouragement to do so, and I sincerely questioned the decision. In fact, I despised the idea so much that I decided to screw with the guy’s head a little and, in turn, prove to my friend that she was completely wrong.

    Laura and I were having a regular girls’ night out in our favorite bar, relaxing and having a good time. At least we were, until Laura’s recently ex boyfriend waltzed in along with two or three of his friends.

    “(Y/N), please stop.” Laura sighed at my behavior.

    “Stop what?” I asked innocently, not moving my stare from my target.

    She rolled her eyes, “You’re glaring daggers.”

    “No, I’m not. I’m just glaring.” To be fair, Laura wasn’t completely off, though I would say I was glaring machine guns. If looks could kill, her ex would be a pile of ashes spread across the slick floor of the bar.

    “I told you, (Y/N), he was right in breaking things off,” Laura reasoned. “It just wasn’t meant to be.”

    “He still broke your heart.” I retorted. “I distinctly remember buying 3 tubs of sherbet in my fridge that mysteriously went missing one by one within two days.” Laura looked ready to argue again before I cut her off. “Oh my god.”

    “What?” Laura looked at her ex, who was now staring back at me, or more specifically, looking me up and down.

    “Is he seriously freaking-” Rage built up inside me. Laura had only been his ex for a week and a half and he was already checking me out.

    Laura smiled, “Go get ‘em, tiger.”

    “You can’t be serious!” I gaped at her.

    “Why not?” She smirked,” I don’t mind. Besides, you two would make a cute couple.”

    “As if.” I scoffed. From what I had heard of Laura’s ex, he was stubborn, hotheaded, full of himself, and a prick.

    “Oh, come on! At least consider it.” Laura begged, half jokingly.

    “Hah!” I fake laughed. “Name one thing we have in common.”

    Laura thought for a moment before snapping her fingers, “80’s music! You both absolutely love 80’s music!”

    It was true. I adored 80’s music. “80’s music, huh?” An evil grin appeared on my face as an idea formed in my head.

    I stood from my chair and sashayed toward the DJ, who was currently handling the karaoke. I was careful to sway my hips a little more than normal, knowing that he was still watching.

    I told the DJ what to play and nabbed a microphone before climbing the stage stairs and facing the crowd. Lucky for me, most of them weren’t paying attention.

    Having a career in theater, more specifically musical theater, I knew how to act and kept a cool, confident smile, even though I was slightly nervous on the inside. I glanced in his direction, but was careful not to make eye contact. At least, not yet.

    “Your love is like a tidal wave-” I belted the first few lines of Pat Benatar’s Heartbreaker and noticed many heads turn. I felt his gaze burning into my skin.

    I stood stone still for awhile as I sang before reaching my free arm up, pointing into the air and stepping backwards as the chorus began. “You’re a-”

    I looked directly at him, finally making eye contact. “Heartbreaker!” He raised an eyebrow curiously and I tried to my hardest not to spit in his face. “Dream maker! Love taker! Don’t you mess around with me!”

    “You’re a heartbreaker! Dream maker! Love taker! Don’t you mess around- NO NO NO!”

    I sang the rest of the song without giving him a second glance up until the quiet chorus, when I stared directly at him, hoping he would see the fire of fury in my eyes. “Heartbreaker… Dream maker.. Love Taker- Heartbreaker!”

    I took an opportunity in the form of the final guitar solo to whip my (H/L) (H/C) hair a couple times. It made me a little dizzy, but I was able to keep my composure. I finished the song and a roar came from the crowd. I smirked and stopped off the stage, starting toward Laura. He stopped me.

    He looked me up and down as I placed my hands on my hips. He was clearly trying to get an idea of the kind of girl I was.

    With my white tank top, short black leather jacket, ripped black jeans, and black heels, he obviously got my tough girl vibe. I never dressed to impress anyone but myself and often rejected (harshly) advice on my attire. I was also extremely keen on always keeping my hair down and was ticked easily when people brought it up.

    “Hey.” I said sassily, not liking his lingering stare.

    “Clint.” He introduced, meeting my eyes. “Clint Barton. But you already knew that.”

    So he had noticed Laura. “And?”

    “And what?”

    I rolled my eyes, “You clearly have more to say.”

    He raised an eyebrow again. “Why would you think that?”

    “Because you’re still here.”

    And there it began. He asked me out, but I refused and hoped I’d never see him again. The key word being hoped.

    We coincidentally- ‘coincidentally’- met each other regularly, though I suspect there was some foul play by Laura. Each time we met we had a sort of standoff with petty, snide comments and some discreet flirty ones. It continually happened like that until I met him at a cafe and someone intervened.

    We were having one of our standoffs when a friend of Clint’s, Natasha Romanoff, rubbing her temples in exasperation, sighed. “The sexual tension is unreal.”

    Clint and I immediately turned to her, gaping. “Excuse me?!”

    She rolled her eyes, “Look, you both clearly want this to happen, or at least want to try it out. It’s extremely obvious and painfully so.”

    Strangely enough, she was on point. I hd tried ever so hard to stop myself from thinking about Clint, but it was helpless. I oftentimes found myself waltzing about my apartment singing Walking on Sunshine.

    One thing led to another and Clint became my boyfriend. We bonded over 80’s music, animals, and travel. I talked to him about my job a ton ,but he kept his work life completely secret from me. I didn’t mind and gave him his space.

    We didn’t live together, but we found ourselves staying at my place a lot, since Clint’s work didn’t really let him have a permanent home, or so he said. When we stayed at my place, we did some interesting things and not the dirty kind.

    Our favorite thing to do was dance around the apartment singing mostly 80’s hits. My dog, a (T/D) named (D/N), even ran around our legs barking until we let him/her join by picking him/her up.

    I remember the first time we said ‘I love you’ like it was yesterday.

    Clint was leaving the apartment at 2 in the morning to go to work and I groaned, grabbing his arm. I didn’t want him to leave.

    He chuckled before kissing my cheek. “Don’t worry. I’ll be back, (Y/N). Can’t get rid of me that easily. Besides, I love you.”

    My eyes shot open, as did my mouth. He laughed as I turned to face him and buried my face in his chest.

    I, however, was still nervous about a long term relationship and didn’t repeat the words for weeks. Clint had just returned from a long mission and held me tight after a slow song had played on the speaker.

    I sighed comfortably, my eyes closed as we swayed back and forth. “I love you.”

    “I love you, to-” Clint froze and gaped.

    I looked up at him, giggling at his expression. The next song began to play and I laughed even harder at its ironic timing. Clint thought it was hilarious, too, and decided to play along.

    “Ah! I just died in your arms tonight!” Clint sang, flopping backwards onto the couch. “It must’ve been something you said. I just died in your arms tonight.”

    We laughed hysterically as (D/N) leaped onto the couch, licking Clint’s face.

    After calming down, I sat on the couch beside where Clint lay. “Must’ve been some kind of kiss.” I mumbled, before planting one on a content Clint.

    “Shouldn’t walk away, I shouldn’t walk away.” Clint changed the lyric as he held my forehead against his.

Note: This is only part 1, there are many other short parts to come! I started writing this a long time ago and got completely lost in it. Seriously, I fell in love with this idea. The parts are rather short, but super fluffy and fun. More side one shots and more parts are coming, at least I hope. <3

Also just a reminder that tomorrow and Tuesday are break days for @glitterhooves and I. ( @novakitty114 )

Requests are always open!

(Hey! Part 2 is right here!)

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Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter

Developer: Croteam Publisher: Devolver Digital Rrp: £10.99 (Steam) Released: 24th November 2009 Available on: Steam Played Using: Mouse and Keyboard Approximate game length: 8 hours You play as Sam 'Serious' Stone who has been sent back in time to.... lets be honest, no one is playing Serious Sam for the story because it's utter nonsense. It's a means to an end so that we the players get to kill lots of things with big guns in interesting environments. Now, before I go on to talk about the game I feel I need to give a little bit of a history lesson. In case you weren't aware this game is in fact a remake, built from the ground up using the latest (at the time) engine that Croteam had created. The original game was released in 2001 and was a bit of a surprise for most of game buying public, and this was mostly for two reasons. The first was that this game had lots and lots of enemies that would appear at once and that some of them would be huge! But in my opinion is was the second surprise that really reasonable for this game becoming so popular at the time. It was only £20, this was completely unheard of, a brand new game that looked this polished (for the time) and it was only £20? Of course it sold well.

So lets get back to the game itself rather than the situation surrounding it. This game is a basic FPS run and gun, sure it has some very simple puzzles but at its core this game is about running backwards and shooting all the enemies. Running backwards? That's right, this game loves to throw hordes and hordes of enemies at you and you'll find you'll need to run backwards while shooting the enemy just to survive. This game really is a product of its time though, and it shows especially when it comes to enemy placement. Why was there a guy standing in that corner, because the developers wanted you to get hit with a surprise shot, that’s why. There isn't a narrative reason. On top of that enemies often get teleported in just to really mess with your day.

Some of the levels this game has to offer though are massive, filled with secrets, goodies and lots of enemies that are eager to put all your blood on the outside.

Graphically speaking the game looks quite pretty (for 2009) although I did find that, at least on my system, sometimes a texture or two would flicker. All the same its still all quite impressive. It's actually quite interesting to think that the studio would later go on to produce The Talos Principle and in a strange way I can really see why. This games pretty good, but honestly I can't recommend it with that price tag, its just a little too steep especially when you consider you can get the most recent Doom (the 2016 one) game for only £4 more. If this appeals to you perhaps try;

Serious Sam 3 Shadow Warrior Painkiller

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Project Echo, Part 3: Chapter 19 (50 Days Before the Explosion)

Part 3 Summary: Seven years after the events of “Part 2”, Avengers Tower explodes, fulfilling Bucky’s vision. All evidence points to Avengers Shadow-Ops leader Inessa Ryker, who is forced to seek out Bucky in hiding. Together they must determine who the traitor is in their ranks and if their friends are still alive- all while trying to survive deadly ambushes orchestrated by Sam Wilson and his hand-picked army.

Chapter 19: 50 Days Before the Explosion

"Noelle, can you come with me for a moment, please?" Steve interrupted Amadeus and his team as they ran yet another round of simulations on the symbols from the Shadow King's blood magic. At this point it was pretty much only them looking. Everyone kept Niflheim and what happened there as an active case, but it was more likely the answers would be found off-realm. With Odin's well-known distaste for the Avengers it wasn't hard to imagine that an answer had already been found- he just wasn't telling. As worried as the leaders were, they had a world to protect, and it was well over a month later. They'd never had an attack this drawn out before.

Amadeus glanced up and fixed the Captain with his coldest glare- his own form of greeting Steve, Vision, and Clint ever since the Leader's Meeting where they'd voted to form a second Black Ops unit. He willfully ignored Natasha and Wanda, who abstained from voting- meaning they agreed with Steve but didn't want to hurt Inessa's feelings. His smiles he saved only for Tony, Thor, Banner, and Sam who'd all sided with Inessa against the idea.

The new Unit couldn't form without the unanimous consent of every Avengers leader (which Steve would never get because Inessa wouldn't budge in her position that it was useless), or an 89% majority of all Avengers. Basically the only way he was getting his new team was to convince every last one of them it was necessary, but if more than four Avengers couldn't be won over then once again he would fail. He'd been speaking with them one-by-one for days, trying to explain that yes, the timing sucked, but they needed to support the Shadow Unit. Let them focus on Inessa and the Shadow King while another Black Ops team protected the world. It divided the teams within each of the four units- and now Steve had the audacity to approach a member of Inessa's group directly.

"Go with him and you're dead to me," Marie glanced up from her computer across from Amadeus in the small root interface of JARVIS' mainframe- a glorified server room that felt more like a claustrophobic closet. She'd never seen him look so cold, or so dead serious. The more Steve pressed his case against Amadeus' friend and leader the less old loyalties mattered.

Steve rolled his eyes, "I've about had it with you Amadeus. Noelle- Captain's orders. Come on."

"Sorry," she shrugged to Amadeus and slid back from her computer. Marie was indifferent on the whole issue. She ignored Steve, Amadeus, and their little feud. She was too new to be loyal to a leader she'd frankly hardly seen and pretty much just followed her lieutenant's orders- right now that meant running down leads on blood magic… Even though in reality she was taking advantage of her secluded position and playing Oregon Trail. Amadeus had cholera, Inessa died from exposure, and Noelle was still going strong despite being 65.

"Hey Steve," Amadeus got his attention before he left with Noelle.

"Let me guess, you're going to tell me to shove something up my ass."

"Your head, yes."

"Good talk."

Amadeus sighed dramatically after he left, "Ah Marie, I wish you knew Noelle better before her tragic passing."

"Do I need to start wearing black?" she wasn't paying much attention, but she knew by now to pretend to humor the oddest Avenger.

"No, that's alright, she wouldn't want us to be in mourning forever."

"You leaving lilies in front of her door?"

"Naturally," he cracked his neck and went back to typing away, "by the way- I'm closer to 25 than 20 and you treat cholera with laudanum, not extra fluids."

"How-"

"JARVIS is a tattle-tail," a screen popped up on her game informing her 'Zombie Inessa' had joined the group. Marie was fairly positive that wasn't part of the original game, "Do a better job with her this time around."

"I will. I promise."

"Is this about the second Black Ops Unit?" Noelle had followed Steve up to his apartment where his lieutenant, Sharon, was waiting. The Tower was boiling with tension, mostly thanks to Steve and his decision to just about ignite a new civil war. Teams were fighting one another at the slightest provocation and Tony's Iron Legion could only do so much to keep the peace. Splitting the teams off back to their satellite facilities would be tantamount to declaring open conflict. Steve hiding out away from the others was probably the only move he had left to make.

"No, but it is about Inessa," Sharon invited Noelle to sit but she remained where she was, "Steve offered leadership to Amadeus because it is the least controversial choice. Promoting a lieutenant is easier for the public and the Avengers to swallow than promoting a general member. Ideally it would be you and Marie on the new team."

"You sent me to Inessa's team because you were worried about her and Amadeus and how they were handling Mallory Ivaneau's death and Eoin O'Meara's betrayal. I'm an Avenger first, Shadow Unit second. I will continue to do what I believe is best for the entire group, not just my team. I won't turn on my leader for power. It only fans the flames." She turned but Steve blocked her way quickly.

"I'm not offering you leadership, we're just saying you were the first choice."

"I'm ambitious, not petty," Noelle was one of the most logically-minded Avengers Steve had ever known- including Tony. He wasn't entirely sure she was human and not another strange AI like Vision. She could read people's intentions, and he only wanted her to know his for sure- in case that mechanical personality did see its pride as being wounded. Geoff swore she was different once you really got to know her. Evidently the four years he'd lived in the same building as Noelle (the first year of that with her on his team) wasn't long enough.

Steve shook his head, "Use your powers. What are my intentions?"

Noelle's face was unreadable, "You've got two things for me. A mission, and a secret."

"Two missions, both secret," Sharon corrected softly. When Noelle was one of them she was still learning the subtle shifts in her powers and needed to be guided when possible.

"No. One mission. One secret. You think they're linked Sharon, Steve isn't so sure."

He glanced to his lover and she nodded, "JARVIS, load Hydra security footage from Project Echo. One of the more mild bits, please." Noelle turned back to face Sharon and the television behind her.

She wasn't one of the Avengers stupid enough to look at the torture footage from Inessa's time with Hydra. The newer ones, ones who didn't know any better, dared each other to watch it. All they knew was that everyone was afraid of it. Few were warned of the brutality. Eventually, though, they all learned the story- well, at least what they thought was the story.

Grainy footage filled the screen of a blindingly bright torture room. The walls and floors were filled with lights- a true shadow-free zone. A plastic table sat in the center of the room and on it was a young Inessa, "Footage from July 27, 2009. Week 47 of Project Echo," a man with a shining metal arm was turning Inessa over, mindful of her feeble struggles to escape. Something was off with the girl's toes and every kick brought forth a squeal of pain, but she kept trying. Noelle knew what it was- they'd been severely broken once upon a time and healed wrong.

I was lucky, she remembered something Inessa had said once upon a time, the body I left was in a pretty shitty state- all busted and gnarled. The Avengers took it in, JARVIS and this surgeon put it back together, and by the time I got to it it was in incredible shape again.

The man's face was too pixelated to see clearly, Noelle couldn't even tell if he was phased by the 15 year-old's feeble cries. Another man was waiting by a metal cart, on top of which was the unmistakable outline of a whip. Noelle knew more about Hydra torture techniques than she'd admit even to Geoff, but between her experience raiding bases and the occasional glimpse of Inessa's bare back in the locker room showers, she could safely bet that whip was studded with metal barbs. A small bowl sat on the tray as well- salt. Once, when Amadeus brought up her past, Inessa had told him her torturer, Thomas Dennisson, liked to extend the pain as long as possible using salt or citrus juice. Whenever the doctors told him he had to give her more than a day to recover he'd have her heavily sedated so that she could never enjoy the respite. It was hard for Noelle to look at the screen, knowing just what all of this meant to Inessa, and especially knowing that this was only halfway through. That girl in the video wouldn't be free for a very long time yet…

"JARVIS, override Echo Alpha, remove the filter," Steve came up next to Noelle as the picture abruptly sharpened to something closer to HD, "The cameras Hydra installed in the halls were shit. Unfortunately for those of us who had to watch this back when Inessa first came to the Tower, Dennisson liked a much better picture. We added the filter later to protect new Avengers from the full horror, should they try to watch without knowing precisely what it is. We were also protecting him," he motioned to the man with the metal arm as he tore open the back of the white shirt Hydra prisoners still wore, "JARVIS, skip the gore, please."

The image jumped. Inessa's body was breathing heavy, but limp. Chunks of flesh torn off by the whip were sprinkled around the room. The metal man, the Winter Soldier who would one day be killed by Steve over the Potomac during the Hydra emergence, was leaning hard against the wall in the corner of the room over a small pool of vomit. Dennisson was now holding the whip in one hand and the empty bowl of salt in the other. He threw both on the table and whistled sharply, glaring at the Soldier.

Two scientists and two guards immediately wheeled a bizarre chair into the room. Noelle recognized it from an Avengers file she'd skimmed in the computer- a programming machine. Brutal and efficient, it zapped the subject with near-lethal amounts of electricity while a small screen over the eye played a "Compliance and Obedience" video. Brainwashing at its worst.

The Winter Soldier was moved into the chair. His metal arm held him to some hidden magnet and the panels descended. While he screamed, Dennisson smiled. It sent chills down Noelle's spine.

"Skip ahead, give us a freeze frame on his face."

The gaunt, dead-eyed man who emerged from the machine a few hours later looked oddly familiar. Big eyes, straight nose, strong jaw- a face more suited to a cocky smile than a stone-cold glare. If the footage wasn't black and white she might have had a harder time guessing, but it jogged something, "He's on the Wall of Remembrance. One of yours."

"James Buchanan Barnes," Sharon nodded, "his picture is next to my Great Aunt Peggy's." Every Avenger facility had a wall of photographs of people near and dear to each Avenger. Some they'd lost, some they'd failed to save, the pictures were on the walls to remind them all what they fought for. Their family outside their team.

"And he didn't die in the Potomac like everyone thinks. The Winter Soldier went in, Bucky Barnes pulled me out."

"Amadeus was right?"

Steve glanced to Sharon, "Amadeus has been repeatedly warned to keep his mouth shut," he looked at Bucky's face a moment longer and sighed, sad, "He joined us on the condition we find Inessa. His programming was breaking, but she'd been locked in the Valley too long. She couldn't find purchase here, so she whispered in his mind until it about drove him insane…"

"We never lied," he continued, "the battles against the Shadow, the fight against Dennisson, Hydra, Sebastian Morris and his cabal- it's like those pictures in Inessa's living room. The first and fourth photographs- pull them out of the frames some time and you'll see they're just folded specially to hide him. He was an Avenger for about seven or eight months."

"Steve couldn't face his demons," Sharon took over, "but Bucky wanted to. After the battle with the cabal he went into hiding- maybe until he got things under control, maybe forever. He hasn't been seen since."

Noelle's power flared, "You want me to find him. He's the secret you think is a mission."

"Bucky had these visions, three of them," Steve explained, "in each one Avengers Tower was destroyed. In the last one he saw Sam attempting to carry out an execution order against Inessa for the deaths of myself, Tony, Banner, Thor, Clint, and Natasha- the original Avengers. Bucky's had a lot of experience as a ghost, but I need to talk to him. He sent himself away to find peace and flush out Hydra's Winter Soldier, but with the Shadow King's blood magic, Ingvir's death, the disappearances, and Inessa's new issues with her powers I'm worried. I need to know more about what he saw, if he's seen anything else, and if we're anywhere near the timeline in his visions."

"Why not ask Muhammad? He's the first person that comes to mind with the power to send something like that."

"He will probably send them, yes," Sharon corrected, "but if he'd seen something yet he would tell Thor. We can't ask him and risk an Ouroborous, even a small one."

"My mission is to monitor Inessa," Noelle predicted, "the second is to find Barnes again. Neither of you really think that will help."

Steve nodded, "We need to know if the blood magic is turning Inessa into the woman from Bucky's vision, and he's in the best position to make that call. We're not finding him to extend a membership offer, only to confirm or eliminate a theory."

Sharon stood up and came over to Noelle, "Inessa always has had a perfect distinction of James and the Winter Soldier. She supported his decision to leave. After Steve's breakdown," she spared a sympathetic glance to her lover, "she became downright protective of the man. Steve felt like he'd been forced into this life, James had been. To him his work with the Avengers was more like an extension of what he did for Hydra, just pointed at a different target. She made sure no one knows where he is so that he can be free of it all. She's doing her best to make that happen."

"He's had a lifetime of experience in hiding," Steve continued, "he didn't come to my funeral, he probably hid himself away somewhere so remote he doesn't even know Thanos existed. If anyone is going to find him, it has to be a Black Ops member, and of those we can only trust you to actually retrieve him. In the meantime, yes, we want you to watch Inessa. Look for any signs her judgement is impaired. It's nothing unconscionable, just be a vigilant friend."

Noelle considered it, "Watch her and find him, is that all?"

"We wouldn't ask you to do anything against either," Sharon assured her.

"I have a duty to keep the Avengers safe," Steve prompted, "I'll do what I can for Inessa, and I'll keep my friends safe from her. When Bucky told us about his visions I wasn't willing to listen. I'd just watched him squeeze the head off of an unarmed Dennisson and though it wasn't confirmed at the time I knew he'd killed Inessa's uncle. Someone, probably a future version of Muhammad, was trying to warn us against something. I need to know what Bucky knows, and this time I'm ready to pay attention."

"One condition."

"Name it."

Noelle sighed, "Make peace with Inessa. It isn't good for the Avengers as a whole, you two at one another's throats."

Steve shook his head, "I can't make that promise without knowing what's coming."

"At least stop talking about a second Black Ops unit."

He looked tired, but he shook her hand, "That's an easier promise to make."

"Nessa, I need to grab something from your apartment."

"JARVIS, let Noelle in. Lock up when she leaves." Inessa was still trapped in the hospital wing. Noelle felt a twinge of guilt, using Inessa's trust like this, but she had to know for sure what she was wading into. Pictures one and four…

Inessa's living room was a shrine to the past six years, but the earliest pictures were different. Avengers didn't typically think to chronicle their adventures or time together- especially not in those early days. Initially it was only the Leaders, all living separate lives unless something came up that drew them together. The only reason the Battle of the Shadows had been a group effort was because they happened to be in New York City together when Bucky was brought in. The only reason that happened was because of Thor's appointment to Asgardian Ambassador.

After Inessa returned to her body they all went to Clint's farm. Again, it wasn't meant as anything more than a team vacation after the stresses and strains of New York City (plus, no one was willing to leave Inessa behind, now that they knew there was someone in there). Then Ultron, and the satellite facilities began popping up. Then Thanos and the new Avengers who came in droves.

Picture one was, naturally, among those taken from security footage. It showed the Avengers together in the recovery room after Clint saw the Shadow for the first time. It was the brightest room in the old Tower, and they'd marked it as the best place to be. A surgeon friend of Tony's was visiting to check out Steve, Sam, and Natasha- freshly arrived from their trip to Kazakhstan where they retrieved the Project Echo folder. At least, that was the version she'd been told. The surgeon just happened to be there before Steve went exploring to verify Clint's story and was attacked. The why of his leaving was never particularly clear, but in the security picture Noelle had always thought Steve was looking at something off-frame, worried about some invisible matter.

She pulled that picture from the wall first and quickly removed the backing. Sure enough, the picture was folded over. Noelle pulled the image out and held it up to inspect. Bucky Barnes was lying unconscious on a hospital bed across from where the Avengers sat. His metal arm was gone and the shoulder on his left side was heavily bandaged. He was also in Steve's direct eye-line. Steve had survived his fight with the Shadow by holding onto one of Thor's healing stones- now Noelle wondered if he hadn't been retrieving it when Inessa had first attacked so that it might help his friend.

Picture four was the first of the group shots, this one from Clint's farm. It was the first non-paparazzi group picture of the Avengers Leaders ever taken (though it was minus Wanda and Vision, of course). They were sitting around the fire at Clint's farm- the original format of the Leader's Meeting apparently- fanned out so a group picture could be taken. Their faces were somewhat grim, Inessa had something metallic peeking out from the back of her neck (Noelle asked about it once and never received an explanation for what seemed to be some sort of machine), and Steve's nose had a definite snarl to it. Inessa explained to her it was only a few weeks before the attack by Morris' cabal. Tony had decided they needed a group picture the night before Inessa, Steve, and Sam returned to New York City for her to undergo treatment by undercover cabal member Doctor Madelyn Pryor.

This time Noelle had a good idea of where Bucky was hidden. She removed and unfolded that picture as well. Sure enough what Inessa claimed was the tip of an abandoned shoe next to Tony was attached to someone. Bucky. He was smiling a tense smile on the farthest side of the group as possible from Steve. This picture would help her more in her search- his hair was clean and pushed back, he was awake, alert, and well lit- considering the picture was taken by an Iron Man suit and it was nighttime. Inessa stood in the center of the group, seemingly unafraid of her torturer so close.

Inessa could have cut him from the pictures, easily, but she chose to hide him instead. Steve said she was protective of his freedom from the team- especially after what they went through with Steve in the civil war. She was willing to do whatever it took to keep him out of anyone's hands- Hydra or the Avengers. That might have been what she told herself, but Noelle didn't need her powers to see the intention behind keeping Bucky in the photographs, invisible but still a part of the memory- she couldn't give up hope that he might one day come back. She didn't cut the line or even hide it better- she made a small change that could easily be undone. If he walked through the doors that very day she'd probably come up and unfold the pictures herself. Doctor's orders or no.

"Find what you were looking for?" her voice came through the house speakers, "Amadeus just left to go buy lilies to put in front of your door. He's making the other Avengers sign a 'Sorry you died' card. I'm guessing Steve sent you up?"

"He had some questions about an old case of ours, thought it might tie into one of his."

"I see," Inessa had an odd way of sounding (and looking) like she knew exactly what was going on, "old files are in the middle of the book case in my library."

"Yeah, got it," Noelle quickly put the pictures back together and returned them to their proper places. She noticed a thin line in the paint- maybe nothing, maybe a security mark. Noelle lined both pictures up with the barely visible scratch and headed quickly for the back corner of Inessa's apartment. Most of the books in here were related in some way to her coursework or were simply books she liked to have around- encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases- she wasn't always a fan of going to the Avenger's library where noisy gatherings were held almost nightly. Besides- the Shadow Unit's case files were all there.

"Bottom left. Inactive cases," Inessa spoke softly, as if she wasn't sure she wanted Noelle to hear, "it's under 'Kochevnik'… The Russian word."

"Nessa-"

"Do me a favor?"

"Yeah," Noelle hung her head and took the file.

"Don't look too hard. No matter how Steve thinks this will end, if he hears something is wrong he'll come back. This life can suck you in and not let go. I chose it, we all chose it, but breaking away… It took a lot for him to leave the first time. Give me a chance to fix this before you pull him back in. Please."

Noelle didn't respond, but Inessa didn't expect her to. She had the file she needed, so she turned and left quickly. Once upon a time Inessa had brought a missing boy back to a village so remote it wasn't even on a map. When she came back to check on him the town was abuzz with the news that a favored monk, believed to be a messenger of god, had vanished in the night just after her last visit. Inessa was intrigued, bored really, so she asked around that village and a few others just as remote. There were four confirmed sightings of him, this wandering Westerner who took shelter in temples and performed little acts of kindness to as many residents as he could manage before moving on again. It was the last temple they'd visited- where they'd learned the man seemed to possess super-human strength and performed feats with only one arm it would take ten men with two to complete in the same amount of time- like chopping firewood for an entire village or hunting large game for starving residents- that killed the case. Inessa brought them back to the Tower, said the man clearly wasn't a threat and the reports of his super human strength were likely exaggerations. The man, no matter where he was, went by the same name- the Kochevnik. The Nomad.

Inessa had as good as confirmed her hunch that perhaps the mysterious man, the buried case Inessa refused to ever discuss again with any of them, might just also be Steve's missing friend.

Nadya stirred first, the others followed soon after. A soft breeze blew through the Valley, but it wasn't her. They'd been despondent since the sky opened and something nearly drew the lost realm back from whatever oblivion it was in to rejoin the Bifrost. Her power still filled the Valley and sparked across the now brilliant blue sky. Until it dissipated, until she opened a path for it to return to her, she would remain weak and lost.

So, if not her, what was knocking?

A crack of thunder sent shockwaves from the heart of the Valley and forced the pack to scatter. In their place appeared two people, or rather pieces of them. A couple of fingers and puddles that just smelled wrong. Part human, part poison and radiation.

Hours passed and more bodies flooded in in varying stages of completion. Around the thousandth time bodies that were at least whole on the outside (though black liquid on the inside) began to appear. The pack became agitated and frightened as the corpses continued to arrive, and Inessa's moods shifted back in Avengers Tower in response (though she had no idea why and attributed it to either kidney failure or PMS).

Nadya alone had been part of the Shadow for the last eleven years, and they didn't have the same abilities or instincts as their Alpha, they were pure instinct. Near the end one of the new arrivals was still alive and, like their mistress, was wreathed in black mist and silver fog. Before Nadya could stop them they set upon the abomination and ripped it to shreds. It wouldn't have survived long anyways, but it was still a creature that should have been protected.

The Alpha had only one option. It was connected to Inessa in a way the others were not, and Nadya had always been able to draw on Inessa's power to open a door and find the girl. She took it as a duty to protect and aid her. From Inessa's own anger and uncertainty when she'd connected with Nadya's mind in the attack on New York the Alpha knew what had to be done, considering the uncertainty and suspicion of the human-cub's allies.

She borrowed that piece of Inessa's mind and, despite the pain it knew the action would cause, it used her to open a door into the Valley. The wolves atop the heap of corpses howled as the lightning high above followed Nadya to Inessa and brought their mistress to full power. Inessa shrieked- more from surprise- when an abrupt burst of pain wracked her body, followed by a sensation disturbingly like having an entire bathtub worth of ice water poured on top of you at once (she knew the feeling thanks to Amadeus and Clint several prank wars ago).

Nadya dove into the shadows of the exam room and came out on the other side of the floor in the equipment storage area. Acting off Inessa's own ever-present link she found the Helius beacons used by the Avengers and began to rip and tear at them one by one. Every Avenger was in the Tower, meaning every beacon was in one place and within minutes they were destroyed. The others wouldn't know now.

4,000 bodies in the Valley. The Avengers could never see, no one could know yet but the mistress. Though, thanks to Inessa, Nadya's instinct had been to preserve the creature that arrived last. The pack was right to destroy it. She had a sense of the others, thanks to the marks that each Avenger bore as a locating beacon. Some didn't trust the mistress' powers anymore, not like they used to.

What would they do if they found out someone, somewhere, was trying to create their own Shadow?

Chapter 20: Not Dead (Yet)

[thedeaditeslayer]

Exclusive Interview: Bruce Campbell…Italian Style!

ComingSoon.net/ShockTillYouDrop.com‘s Italian correspondent Roberto D’Onofrio caught up with Evil Dead legend and cult film here Bruce Campbell recently for a career spanning interview as only Roberto can conduct. Here it is in “print’ for the first time.

Surely an actor like Bruce Campbell doesn’t need any introduction, his name will always be linked with the character of Ash Williams from the Evil Dead saga. When in 1979, with his friends Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert, he raised 350.000 dollars to shoot the first chapter he couldn’t imagine it would soon become a cult hit, although at first just in England and Europe before the United States and that it would span two sequels, a remake and now a TV series.

Since then Bruce has gained respect from Hollywood, he appeared in television shows, directed seven films, written two books and voiced characters for Disney and other big Studios animated TV series. With his friends and partners even founded a production company, but he always kept his feet on the ground and stayed loyal to his fans, starring as himself in My Name Is Bruce (2007), a spoof of his B-movie career. He never loved  Hollywood too much and in fact he lives in a small town just outside of Medford, Oregon: “I’m not interested in making a $60 million studio films with a bunch of twenty four year olds telling me what to do”, he often says.

Here’s Bruce…

ComingSoon.net: What kind of advice would you give to a young filmmaker willing to shoot a good horror movie?

Bruce Campbell: I believe you should always have a good story, don’t be a lazy writer, write good dialogs, write a great story. If you can tell a good story it doesn’t matter what the genre is, Horror, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Comedy, you still have to tell a story, so that’s the number one thing. That’s what it’s all about, we are storytellers through visual images.

CS: How “Genre Movies”, Horror particularly, have changed with the success of television since you began working in entertainment?

Campbell: Well, TV used to be terrible, while now television is the place to be and it has provided a great place for actors to be. Ten years ago there were a lot of actors that you never would have seen on television, and I say to them: Why have you waited until now? I’ve done TV for twenty five years, there’s nothing wrong with it. Everything is changed regarding Horror, it’s not “evil” anymore, it’s not something to be ashamed anymore, Horror used to be very disrespected. An actor couldn’t have a serious career in Horror, we were very marginalized and now, because of The Walking Dead and other shows, Horror is today “mainstream”. If you have forty millions people watching a show, that’s not a cold show, that’s mainstream, so I’m glad for shows like The Walking Dead, they helped, they changed people perceptions, and Horror  movies, I think they  got us into  the same interesting  territory. If you take films like Paranormal Activity, then again, they’re trying something different, it’s not all about blood, it’s creepy images that suggest you that you have heard something, you have seen something, but you are not sure. I’m glad to see movies like that come out and explore different ways of scaring people.

CS: You started your career as Ash Williams, how is it changed your relation with the character after all these years?

Campbell:  Well, you become a better actor so you improve, because now you have better skills. For me, the first film was frankly about learning how to act. I can watch the first Evil Dead from about halfway on without cringing. When Army of Darkness came around, we decided to make a different type of movie altogether and made an action-adventure picture with the same imbecile. I’m very happy to come back to play Ash twenty five years after I played it, because I have twenty five years of more experience now, and I’m going to use that to make Ash a great character, that’s my goal now, let’s make him the best character I’ve ever played.

CS: You filmed “Evil Dead” with 350, 000 dollars, do you think today is still possible to raise money and make a good movie?

Campbell:  Sure, why not? In 1979 when we tried to raise money to make that film the economy in United States was shit, so nobody wanted to invest. There’s not good or bad time. We had to form a company with which we could approach investors and make contracts with them, so we had to be very business like. Everyone thinks that the first Evil Dead was amateur and done in college, it’s not true, we were amateurs in experience but it was all done very professionally, with lawyers and everything, so when we had success with it there was no confusion, we knew who owned what parts of the movie and where the money had to go. Anyway, things  were  not easy, nobody  knew Evil Dead back then, everything had to start from scratch. In the old days we had to go to a camera rental place and give them insurance, we needed to have it, and then you would rent it from them and it was very expensive and you had to get it back by a certain time otherwise they would charge you more. Same with every equipment, same with laboratory work. You had to develop your film and then you had to make it print and you had to get an editing machine and edit it, none of that was easy. In the old days it was a good way to get rid of all the lazy people, in the seventies if you were making movies and you were lazy you would never succeed. Now you can go to your local electronic store, buy an HD camera, you can use an editing software, you can use music software and FX to make all your titles and graphics for a very small amount of money. You can get yourself set for about five thousand dollars, with everything you need to make a movie. Then you go and make a movie and you put it on a pen drive and you can go to your local theatre now, because they all have digital projectors, and you give them this small thing, not that junk case of film, and they show it to the audience. So, filmmakers have no excuses now, there’s no excuses not to be able to make a low budget movie, and you can do it cheaper than 350.000 dollars. You don’t need laboratories, it’s all digital, you need a table to edit all, a tripod, you know, you don’t even need lights anymore, because cameras are so sensitive, and it’s HD, that’s a good enough quality for anything. It’s much easier to make movies now. The problem is always the same, you need an idea, if you don’t have an idea it doesn’t matter if you are Steven Spielberg.

CS: It looks as if there aren’t a lot of good ideas today…

Campbell: There are still good ideas and there were shitty ideas in the seventies. There are a lot of bad movies also in the seventies, eighties or nineties, every decade has shitty movies and every decade has classic movies.   

CS: Your name is forever closely linked with the Ash character, don’t you feel a bit stuck with it? Is it a gift or a curse?

Campbell: It doesn’t bother me either way, I know who I am and it doesn’t matter who people think I am, plus everybody only watch what they want to watch. I’ve done many other things that are not Ash, but I’ve been more stereotyped by the fans than by Hollywood, the industry would let me play all kind of roles, because they know I’m just an actor, and I am respected for that. Many fans think I’m just Ash, I’ve more trouble being seen as different from fans than my own industry, because that’s all they watch, the fantastical stuff. I’ve played Cow Boys, I was Ronald Reagan, I did a French movie, I’ve been in “Hercules” and “Xena” and in many other things, but fans like what they like, and that’s OK for me. I’m embracing Ash Vs. Evil Dead again otherwise fans will get mad at me. Sam Raimi made three “Spider Man” movies which made million of dollars, but everybody kept asking him: where is the next “Evil Dead”? I did a TV Show: Burn Notice, for seven years, but fans didn’t care, they kept asking about Evil Dead. So don’t fight City Hall, give the people what they want. I’m going to give you Ash so much that you won’t be able to breath.

CS: Actually I really loved “Burn Notice”, even if it’s not Horror, what do you remember about it?

Campbell: It was a fun show to work on because it was not a Police show, it was not a Doctor show and it was not a Lawyer show, as almost everything is about today, but it had life and death, there were things about right and wrong and justice. So, it was a very good experience because I was not the star of the show, I could add the salt and pepper, I was not the meal. It was a good position to be in, because I didn’t have to carry the show.

CS: What are the differences, for an actor like you, to be in a TV series or in a movie?

Campbell: TV Series are much quicker and faster, I like it, you do more in a day, you are more efficient. Movies can be slow and very boring, I like TV Series and I’m suited for it, I’m ready to go, when I show up on a film set I want to go.

CS: After “Bubba Ho-Tep” everybody’s been waiting for the announced sequel: “Bubba Nosferatu”, will it ever be made?

Campbell: When Joe Lansdale will come back to write the script, the chance are much better. He was the one who wrote a very original story, if you don’t get the guy who is a very good writer, there’s not much to talk about. That’s what I mind about and, do we need a sequel to anything? It’s a very precious little movie, what if we made it and no one liked it? Now all you would remember is the shitty one, not the good one. I’d rather like people just remember Bubba Ho-Tep in some special way in their mind, not some franchise with merchandising and the same crap. I think that’s what helped it to stand apart, not trying to be a franchise.

CS: What do you think of the huge use of digital special effects to create monsters in Horror movies today?

Campbell: Well, there’s a lot more digital today, but digital is not your story, digital should help you tell your story. I like the use of digital in a movie like Forest Gump, because they used digital to make you think that this actor had no legs, you don’t even see the digital and that’s the way it should be. Digital FX can follow a little feather and make it flow, and flow and land at the character feet, that’s what digital is very good for. What we do with CGI in a show  like  Ash vs. Evil Dead  is  that  we  want  to  have  the  blood to be “old school”, so we put some tubes and we pump it through your body, but some time you need to hide the tubes, and so you just digitally erase them. We try not to use digital blood, it’s too bad, it doesn’t look right, it doesn’t move right, it looks two dimensional, they haven’t figured it out yet. Digital is too easy to fall back on, it’s a tool, it’s a very good tool, but it’s just that, it’s not going to make a movie. In the Evil Dead remake they use it mainly to hide things and mechanisms, I think it is a clever way to use it, it’s only helping.

CS: You have made seven movies as a director, will you be back any sooner behind the camera?

Campbell: When things come about, they come about, they just happen. Projects are just happening, some take a long time to get the money while other are very quick and if you are working on television you disappear from other things. When I was doing Burn Notice in Florida, I disappeared for seven years, and that restricts you from doing other things, so I never know when I’ll be able to get to other projects, who knows? I’m prepping a lot of things, some as actor, some as a director. I have writers writing many things, I have ten scripts that are ready to go, when I have time, but I’m not going to have time until Ash Vs. Evil Dead is done.

CS: You were one of the first actor, besides Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, to mix Horror and Comedy, what do you like so much of that?

Campbell: I don’t like Horror that’s grim, the world is grim, we don’t need a show to tell that  to  the world, it  already  knows  it. Entertainment  it’s supposed to elevate the world, a lot of humor is needed along the way, because some people don’t like Horror, they stay for the humor or, if you like Horror, maybe you will enjoy a little comedy as well. It’s just a little more of a wink of the eye at it, like everything is OK, we are just pretending that this is real.

CS: What are your thoughts about the “Evil Dead” recent remake?

Campbell: Well, I produced it, so I thought it was good. That film made ninety four million dollars, so I don’t care what anybody says! Some people were disappointed because it was so serious, but there are people who never saw Evil Dead before, and they’ve seen that movie and they were terrified. It’s a scary, creepy, dark film, and that was what the director wanted, Fede Alvarez, we wanted to support him. Even the first Evil Dead was not meant to be funny, it just was because it was cheesy, a low budget production.

CS: Sam Raimi often says that his mission in life is to torture Bruce Campbell, why?

Campbell: When we were younger men Sam and I were performing at “Bar mitzvah”, he was the magician and I was his assistant. Sam was hitting me with a stake when we were performing and the kids thought that it was funny, so Sam was convinced that he needed to hurt me in order to entertain the audience. That was thirty seven years ago and he’s still doing it.

CS: The old Oldsmobile from the first “Evil Dead” movie has appeared in all Sam Raimi films, is it the same car? And how he keeps it in such a good condition?

Campbell: Yes, it’s the same car that has been used in every Sam movie he has ever made, included The quick and the dead, which is a western. They disassembled the top of it and made it look like a wagon, while they took parts of it and put  it up on a  wall. I guess  something  wonderful  happened  on  the back seats of that car. They even put it on a boat and shipped it to New Zealand, where we’re filming Ash Vs. Evil Dead. I will one day kill that car with my bare hands, because I don’t like the way in which he is obsessed with that car, it’s not natural.

CS: How did censorship changed since you first did a movie like “Evil Dead”? Today also television is more permissive in showing violence and blood…

Campbell: To give you a bit of history, the original Evil Dead was banned in six countries, only one month ago Germany removed the ban. For thirty seven years they had a ban against that movie. Now Horror has come out of the shadows, but it used to be pornography, we were very close to that in people perceptions. Today because of The Walking Dead and shows like that, Horror is just another genre now and it’s a very popular form of entertainment. We found a partner, “Starz”, that it will let us do what we need to do, but back then, with the first two “Evil Dead” films we had trouble with censorship, although we didn’t put any restrictions in what we wanted to show, and the fans loved that. This is the reason because we have been looking for a partner with which we could do that again, so essentially Ash Vs. Evil Dead has no censorship, it is an unrated television show, and we are very happy to present it that way, not because we feel we have to always be excessive, but it allows us to do it if we would like to, and sometimes we like to.

CS: There was a moment in which you decided you wanted to be an actor? And what advice would you give to a young actor?

Campbell: Yes, there was a moment, I was eight years old and my father was in a play, a local play, it was called “Brigadoon” and he was singing and dancing with women that were not my mother, which was strange to me but interesting, and I remember thinking that  it was  a  different part of my father that I never saw. So that seemed very appalling, and when I got older I joined that theater crew and did plays, and I was eventually directed by my father. If I have to give an advice to young actors, that would be: don’t listen to anyone about anything, if you want to be an actor, be an actor, but you cannot be lazy. If you are lazy you will be an unemployed actor, there are many opportunities out there now, there are thousands of channels now, when I grew up there were only three channels, therefore get up your lazy ass!

[kariyanine]

41st Game Finished of 2020 - Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter - Stadia (2009)

41st Game Finished of 2020 – Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter – Stadia (2009)

It’s funny, I’ve had Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter for a while on my Steam account but never felt the need to play it. Give it to me on a service where I play through my web browser and I’m like… sure, let’s go through the whole series.

Yes, my current and free enrollment in Stadia Pro influenced this decision. I wanted to put the platform through the flaming hoops. Let’s play as much and…

[mrmichaelchadler]

Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: April 11, 2019

10 NEW TO NETFLIX

"All the President's Men" "Bonnie and Clyde" "Deliverance" "The Fifth Element" "King Kong" "Monster House" "Observe and Report" "Pineapple Express" "Sherlock Holmes" "Snatch"

5 NEW TO BLU-RAY/DVD

"Bumblebee"

While I enjoyed the first "Transformers" film for what it was, the sequels that followed ranged from awful to something that could be used to torture me. I hated them all with varying degrees of vitriol. And yet somehow "Bumblebee" made me hate them more because it reminded me of what this series should have been all along: FUN. Discarding most of the nonsense mythology of the Bay sequels, Travis Knight has made a film that wears its '80s influence on its sleeve like a badge of honor. This is an old-fashioned Amblin film that never got made, or almost even a reboot of "The Iron Giant." The point is that it recalls movies with young heroes who become friends with something completely out of this world. It's not perfect, but Hailee Steinfeld's ability to do literally anything at such a young age continues to impress. She's legitimately great here, finding just the right emotional notes and selling her character in a ridiculous situation. I never thought I'd say this again, but I'll be there for the next Transformers movie as long as it's like "Bumblebee."

Buy it here    Special Features Sector 7 Archive Deleted and Extended Scenes Outtakes Bee Vision: The Transformers robots of Cybertron Bringing Bumblebee to the Big Screen

"The Man Who Killed Hitler and then the Bigfoot"

This column typically consists only of films that I can wholeheartedly recommend, but I'm closer to Glenn Kenny's opinion of this unusual flick than our own Nick Allen's out of last year's Fantasia Festival. However, it is such a curiosity that I wanted to include it. It's one of those odd movies about which I would personally be a "Rotten Tomato" but feel like maybe you should see and decide for yourself? The reason for that is that it's the definition of a "Your Mileage May Vary" piece of storytelling. If you buy into the remarkably somber and self-serious tone of a film about Sam Elliott's veteran who killed Hitler and now has to kill Bigfoot (no, the title is not a joke) then the movie is likely to work for you. It also feels like the summation of the last couple decades of Elliott's work, and he's always interesting. I just wish the movie didn't think that it needed to balance the inherent ridiculousness of its narrative with such a deadly serious tone. 

Buy it here 

Special Features Audio Commentary featuring writer-director Robert. D Krzykowski The Making of The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then The Big Foot Deleted Scenes  Joe Kraemer Interview  Elsie Hooper Short Film  Art Gallery

"The Mule"

Warner Brothers really hid Clint Eastwood's latest film from critics in ways that make no sense to me. Sure, Eastwood's conservative leanings and the film's racially-charged plot were bound to lead some critcisms, but the film works overall. In fact, the first hour is some of Clint's best filmmaking in years. It's tightly made, well-acted, and consistently interesting. No one can deny Clint's skill as a filmmaker and that craftsmanship carries the film, even as it gets a bit maudlin and manipulative in the second half. Overall, Eastwood doesn't seem to get the attention he deserves as a major American filmmaker. And he's one of the very few who's still able to produce quality work like this one even near the end of his career. 

Buy it here 

Special Features Nobody Runs Forever: The Making of The Mule Toby Keith "Don't Let the Old Man In" Music Video

"Night on Earth"/""Stranger Than Paradise" (Criterion)

Film Twitter has just about lost its mind over the news that Jim Jarmusch's "The Dead Don't Die" will open Cannes 2019. Almost as if they had insider information, Criterion released Blu-ray upgrades of two of his best films at practically the same time that announcement was being made. Of course, it's just a coincidence, just another example of how much this company feels like it's on top of what people are talking about in the world of film. (Speaking of that, go sign up for The Criterion Channel now. You won't regret it.) As for these upgrades, Jarmusch isn't exactly a director to use to show off your HD TV, but it's nice to have his films in the best possible quality nonetheless. If you haven't seen it, you really need to catch up with "Stranger," an early pioneer in DIY filmmaking that feels more influential with every generation of directors that sees it. 

Buy it here 

Special Features - "Night on Earth" High-definition digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Jim Jarmusch, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray Selected-scene commentary from 2007 featuring director of photography Frederick Elmes and location sound mixer Drew Kunin Q&A with Jarmusch from 2007, in which he responds to questions sent in by fans Belgian television interview with Jarmusch from 1992 PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by filmmakers, authors, and critics Thom Andersen, Paul Auster, Bernard Eisenschitz, Goffredo Fofi, and Peter von Bagh, and the lyrics to Tom Waits’s original songs from the film

Buy it here 

Special Features - "Stranger Than Paradise" High-definition digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Jim Jarmusch, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray Audio commentary from 1996 featuring Jarmusch and actor Richard Edson Permanent Vacation (1980), Jarmusch’s seventy-five-minute, color feature debut, presented in a high-definition digital restoration supervised by the director Kino ’84: Jim Jarmusch, a 1984 German television program ­featuring interviews with cast and crew members from Stranger Than Paradise and Permanent Vacation Some Days in January 1984, a behind-the-scenes Super 8 film by Tom Jarmusch U.S. and Japanese trailers PLUS: A booklet featuring Jarmusch’s 1984 “Some Notes on Stranger Than Paradise,” critics Geoff Andrew and J. Hoberman on Stranger Than Paradise, and author and critic Luc Sante on Permanent Vacation

"On the Basis of Sex"

It feels like someone dropped the ball with this sturdy period piece about the life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. It's the kind of movie that should have played TIFF and gotten some decent buzz on its way through awards season. (It's certainly better than a trio of biopics nominated for Best Picture that will remain unnamed.) But it didn't premiere until AFI and then was relatively quietly released in theaters without much fanfare. I have some issues with the bland first half of this movie that hits too many of the "then this happened" tropes of the biopic, but it gets interesting when it essentially becomes a courtroom drama in the second half, and Felicity Jones and Armie Hammer are solid throughout. It's a decent rental that feels like it would have been a major movie even just a few years ago or if it had been handled differently. 

Buy it here 

Special Features A Supreme Team: Making On the Basis of Sex – Pull back the curtain and see how this incredible team of collaborators brought this true story to the big screen. Legacy of Justice – A deeper look at how Ruth Bader Ginsburg pioneered gender equality in America and gained her seat on the Supreme Court. Martin and Ruth: A Loving Partnership – An intimate look at the symbiotic marriage between Martin and Ruth Ginsburg, and how it helped shape Ruth's perspective as a judge.

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[riodragon]

Rio and Lego Play Serious Sam HD TFE - Part 31

Rio and Lego Play Serious Sam HD TFE – Part 31

Let’s Play Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter with TheAlmightyLego!

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Rio and Lego Play Serious Sam HD TFE - Part 30

Rio and Lego Play Serious Sam HD TFE – Part 30

Let’s Play Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter with TheAlmightyLego!

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[riodragon]

Rio and Lego Play Serious Sam HD TFE - Part 29

Rio and Lego Play Serious Sam HD TFE – Part 29

Let’s Play Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter with TheAlmightyLego!

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[riodragon]

Rio and Lego Play Serious Sam HD TFE - Part 28

Rio and Lego Play Serious Sam HD TFE – Part 28

Let’s Play Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter with TheAlmightyLego!

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