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ready player one
Starting March 12, as a sponsored promotion for the Ready Player One movie, Roblox, a Minecraft-esque MMO that also allows players to create their own games, held their own Easter egg hunt of sorts. After a gruelling set of challenges, a player called R0cu was declared the winner of the…
Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Ready Player One, like the source material, is chock full of references to 80s music, movies, and video games. It also throws in a few Master Chiefs, Overwatch characters, and the Iron Giant for good measure. Usually these references are surface level and fleeting, but a…
Now that the first wave of Ready Player One reviews have confirmed what the earliest trailers for the film suggested – that it’s over-reliant on genre culture nostalgia because its story is sorely lacking – the newest trailer is trying something bold: Explaining the plot, instead.
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