This week’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power delves into the deepest of Tolkien lore and the far-flung dawn of sentient life on Middle-earth to touch on a question not even the professor ...

Season 2 of Amazon’s The Rings of Power sparked controversy and online debate after the series depicted a sympathetic orc family, a subject that The Lord of the Rings film trilogy largely avoided. In ...

Cameron has been holding a controller for about as long as he can remember, developing a special love for The Elder Scrolls and Halo at a young age. When he isn't playing virtual games, he can most ...

Orcs Must Die! has always been that nostalgic series lingering in the back of my mind, a blend of action and tower defense ...

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One of the biggest debates that soaked up social media during Season 2 of "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power" was the presence of an Orc family in Episode 3, "The Eagle and the Sceptre." In ...

Tristan is an aspiring video game designer with a special interest in open worlds and puzzle games. His reviews of video games and films have been published in Bates College's student newspaper.

Orcs Must Die 3 has emerged, grunting and jabbering, onto PC at long last. The light-hearted co-op game spent a year as a Google Stadia exclusive, but now that time is up and you can pulp all the ...

Google’s Stadia platform hasn’t had a huge number of exclusives to date, but nearly all of them have been timed exclusives. This past weekend, one of Stadia’s better exclusives, Orcs Must Die 3, ended ...

Beowulf, circa 1000 Grendel, the villain of this Old English epic, is described as being "orcnéas," which roughly translates into monster. It's derived from Orcus, another name for Pluto, the Greek ...

What do all the posts about Orc City mean, and what are they making fun of? Here’s the origin of the Orc meme, and why it went viral on social media. “Whenever someone glazes Hideo Kojima, remember he ...