Netflix’s Captain Laserhawk is a postmodern acid trip through Ubisoft history

TV Show ReviewsCaptain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix plays like a joyride through Ubisoft’s vast library of classic video game IP.

By Charles Pulliam-Moore, a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years.

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As tremendous, and critically well received, as both of Netflix’s Castlevania series have been, you might expect the streamer’s newest video game adaptation from executive producer Adi Shankar to take a similar approach to translating iconic pieces of IP across mediums. But rather than simply staying true to its source material, or thoughtfully updating characters

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