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Elster stares into the distance.

Signalis is a Masterpiece of Survival Horror and Storytelling

Skyler Frey, Copy Editor October 1, 2024

Elster wakes up on a crashed ship. Emerging from cryostasis, she explores the interior. She looks over discarded papers, talking about some sort of Eusan Nation and a ship called the Penrose-512. She finds...

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Official poster made by ULTRAKILL’s parent company, New Blood Studios.

ULTRAKILL, and How a Shooter Can Encourage Creativity

Skyler Frey, Copy Editor May 1, 2024

Mankind is dead, blood is fuel, Hell is full. ULTRAKILL is a game that on the surface seems excessively violent and simple.    The player is a robot named V1, rampaging through Hell for blood,...

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Fallout show art (Source: Prime Video)

Review on Fallout TV

Nathan Mueller, Website Manager May 1, 2024

In 1997, Interplay Entertainment released Fallout, the first entry in one of the most popular video game franchises ever. Just a year later, they released Fallout 2, and after nine years of silence from...

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Meet the Plastics: Mean Girls Musical movie review

Kayla Lehn, Hilltopper Editor January 23, 2024

The Mean Girls musical movie was a great twist from the original Mean Girls movie, which was released in 2004.  The Broadway musical was initially released in 2017 and debuted on Broadway on April...

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Trolls Band Together Movie Poster

Let me take you to a better place: Trolls Band Together review

Treiston Collins, Editor-In-Chief January 9, 2024

Trolls Band Together is an unexpected masterpiece.  In the movie, Poppy discovers that Branch is part of a boyband known as “BroZone,” and he learns that one of his brothers, Floyd, had been kidnapped...

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The cover of Four for the Road by K. J. Reilly depicts Will, Henry, Sloane, and Asher standing on a stone wall.

Book Review: Four for the Road by K.J. Reilly

Aster Bredwell, Head Copy Editor/Website Manager December 1, 2023

I have been an avid reader for as long as I can remember. Whether it is poetry or prose, I can never resist a good book. I’ve enjoyed all kinds of books from The First to Die at the End by Adam Silvera...

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Senior Jonah Moore (Tommy Jackson) threatens Senior Treiston Collins (Abe Steinman).

Review: The Kentucky Cycle

Ava Muzumdar, Copy Editor November 6, 2023

Opening night for Highlands’ first play of the year, Kentucky Cycle was on Thursday night. The show began on November 2nd with a welcoming speech from Mr. Burgess, the director of the theater program....

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Starfield Review: Overhyped but Good

Nathan Mueller, Website Manager October 2, 2023

Xbox, Microsoft’s player in the console gaming space, has long been 3rd behind Sony and Nintendo. Their answer in 2023 was one of the most anticipated console-exclusive games ever made, Starfield. Developed...

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The opening scene in ‘The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom’  (Credit: Nintendo)

[Review] An Evolving World: ‘The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom’

Nathan Mueller, Website Manager May 26, 2023

The opening of ‘The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild’ is one of the most awe-inspiring scenes in video games, the camera panning to reveal the beautiful plains of Hyrule. In ‘The Legend of Zelda:...

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Jedi Survivor Box Art (Credit: EA)

[Review] The Next Chapter: A ‘Star Wars Jedi: Survivor’

Nathan Mueller, Website Manager May 25, 2023

The sequel to EA’s ‘Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order’ has been highly anticipated, with over 600,000 copies being sold (~$37 million dollars in profit) on opening weekend alone. ‘Star Wars Jedi: Survivor’...

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