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It has some weird speed in its overall gameplay and cringy dialogue that detract from its scarier elements, but those elements are still fun, and with the improvements that address a sore spot in its strength, The Thing: Remastered makes an interesting outlier of the horror genre that much more valuable.","2025-02-08T09:17:37.699283-05:00",{"id":118,"logo":310,"name":311,"slug":312,"tags":213,"bluesky":26,"twitter":312,"youtube":313,"facebook":312,"mastodon":26,"muckrack":26,"claimed_at":26,"description":314,"website_url":315,"score_format":47,"average_score":191,"default_timezone":49,"last_review_date":26,"stats_updated_at":50,"headquarters_city":316,"news_editor_email":317,"platforms_covered":26,"claimed_by_user_id":26,"reviews_this_month":51,"active_authors_count":51,"headquarters_country":318,"reviews_editor_email":319,"editor_in_chief_email":320,"published_authors_count":51,"published_reviews_count":51},"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.criticdb.com\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Favatars\u002FOutlets\u002FShackNews-Logo.jpg","ShackNews","shacknews","Shacknewsgames","Gaming News on the Cutting Edge of Technology.","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.shacknews.com\u002F","Canton, OH","tj.denzer@shacknews.com","United States","bill.lavoy@shacknews.com","asif.khan@shacknews.com",{"id":322,"game_id":5,"outlet_id":323,"author":324,"original_score":117,"normalized_score":118,"review_url":332,"review_date":10,"summary":333,"created_at":334,"updated_at":334,"author_id":325,"last_edited_at":334,"outlet":335},38659,1,{"id":325,"bio":26,"name":326,"avg_score":327,"outlet_id":26,"created_at":328,"profile_id":329,"updated_at":330,"claim_token":26,"article_count":331,"claimed_by_user_id":329},11,"Austin Suther",79.43262411347517,"2024-10-07T11:28:22.188059-04:00","ebd20b79-91ac-419b-b4ea-c3b8f92afa95","2026-08-10T15:16:41.922432-04:00",141,"https:\u002F\u002Ftechraptor.net\u002Fgaming\u002Freviews\u002Fthing-remastered-review-macready-to-rumble","Ported by Nightdive, The Thing looks fantastic and has all the bells and whistles you'd want from a remaster. As a follow-up to the cult 1982 movie, the story didn't quite do it for me, and the gameplay, mostly with its AI companions, can be a bit annoying.","2025-01-16T11:05:05.703795-05:00",{"id":323,"logo":336,"name":337,"slug":338,"tags":262,"bluesky":339,"twitter":337,"youtube":340,"facebook":337,"mastodon":26,"muckrack":341,"claimed_at":26,"description":342,"website_url":343,"score_format":47,"average_score":105,"default_timezone":49,"last_review_date":344,"stats_updated_at":345,"headquarters_city":346,"news_editor_email":347,"platforms_covered":26,"claimed_by_user_id":348,"reviews_this_month":349,"active_authors_count":349,"headquarters_country":318,"reviews_editor_email":350,"editor_in_chief_email":351,"published_authors_count":352,"published_reviews_count":353},"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.criticdb.com\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Favatars\u002FOutlets\u002FTechRaptor%20Logo.png","TechRaptor","techraptor","techraptor.net","@techraptor","https:\u002F\u002Fmuckrack.com\u002Fmedia-outlet\u002Ftechraptor","TechRaptor is a gaming website that covers topics around video games and tabletop games for gamers.  Whether it is news, reviews, features, or guides – we're your source for high quality game coverage since 2013.","https:\u002F\u002Ftechraptor.net","2026-04-16","2026-04-21T12:25:16.686278","Indianapolis","jallen@techraptor.net","8df87287-e31d-40dd-bd62-4fe839efbe0e",5,"sam@techraptor.net","aotton@techraptor.net",144,1466,{"id":355,"game_id":5,"outlet_id":356,"author":357,"original_score":363,"normalized_score":26,"review_url":364,"review_date":10,"summary":365,"created_at":366,"updated_at":366,"author_id":358,"last_edited_at":366,"outlet":367},48528,64,{"id":358,"bio":26,"name":359,"avg_score":118,"outlet_id":26,"created_at":360,"profile_id":26,"updated_at":361,"claim_token":26,"article_count":362,"claimed_by_user_id":26},4145,"Nic Reuben","2025-01-21T06:26:44.007779-05:00","2025-10-09T07:37:01.427126-04:00",73,"unscored","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.rockpapershotgun.com\u002Fthe-thing-remastered-review","Nightdive have done a great job preserving and uplifting The Thing into a crisp and playable modern offering. 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