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The Attlerock spins in space.

Outer Wilds redefines how to tell a story in a video game

Skyler Frey, Copy Editor February 11, 2025

Outer Wilds is a challenging game to discuss as it is best appreciated when the player knows nothing about the gameplay or story.  One of the things that sets Outer Wilds apart from other puzzle games...

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Album cover for "Close to the Edge" by Yes.

Yes’s “Close to the Edge” transcends music itself

Caleb Hurley, Staff January 30, 2025

Most albums are made to purely entertain a target audience. Even albums that take years to make, carefully and intricately made, every last second of its creator’s life being consumed by the exhaustion...

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The cover for Jump Out by OsamaSon.

OsamaSon’s evolution from Flex Musix to Jump Out

Parker Henegar, Copy Editor January 30, 2025

On Friday, January 24 2025 Osamason released his third studio album, JumpOut.  This album also had many problems with its rollout. Originally set to release in late 2024, it was delayed because the...

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Jace! posing for a photo. (Creative Commons)

The best of underground rap in 2024

Parker Henegar, Copy Editor January 17, 2025

2024 was a very busy year in the underground rap scene with many new artists showing up. This, along with the success of established artists and their departure from the underground into the mainstream.  With...

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Geordie Greep of Black Midi performing their song “Welcome To Hell”. (Creative commons)

A deep dive into the year’s most defining music and artists

Caleb Hurley, Staff January 17, 2025

The year is finally 2025 and with 2024 coming to an end, it is time to start talking about the year in review. This past year in music has been absolutely fantastic, with its fair share of classics and...

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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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