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Solo board games are a salvation from an online world
The growing popularity of solo tabletop experiences shows fun doesn’t have to be shared
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Romance and fantasy spawned this year’s biggest breakout genre
Romantasy took TikTok and bestseller lists by storm
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Tears of the Kingdom’s inventiveness is baked into its sound design
It’s full of Easter eggs and new ideas
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Emma Stone gave Poor Things an unexpected happy ending, says director Yorgos Lanthimos
The director and screenwriter Tony McNamara on how Bella Baxter took over their movie
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Ranking the high and low notes of every Broadway musical adapted as a movie
The Color Purple, Cats, Les Misérables, Into the Woods, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and more
Zack Snyder lifted Rebel Moon’s griffin scene from his own unmade 300 sequel
Plus: why Jena Malone was his choice to play a half-spider mom
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There’s ‘an awful lot of Shakespeare’ in Baldur’s Gate 3’s Dark Urge
Neil Roberts, who also plays Tav 5, had to voice the entire game 3 times over
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Fortnite’s Marriott Bonvoy Land is a ghost town of video game sadness
It’s all rather strange and sad
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Star Wars: Unlimited pushes the limits of galactic warfare — and deck building
Write the stories of iconic Star Wars battles in Fantasy Flight’s latest TCG
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The Sacrifice Game’s director carefully avoided summoning any actual demons
‘I’m an atheist, but I don’t want to fuck with real demons’
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How The Day Before went from Steam darling to disaster
The zombie survival game is one of gaming’s biggest flameouts ever
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With Exodus, ex-BioWare devs aim to be ‘a titan’ in the RPG space again
Archetype sets its sights on Mass Effect, Interstellar, and a renewed role-playing craze
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Rick and Morty opened a portal to the multiverse and the rest of pop culture jumped through
Rick and Morty, 100 minus 90 years, forever and forever
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Baldur’s Gate 3 is even more chaotic with 16 people in your party
Party Limit Begone is exactly how it sounds
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How K-dramas came to and dominated America
The story of Korean dramas’ crossover moment, and the shows to watch that explain it all
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John Woo on returning to Hollywood at 77 and trying ‘to do it a bit different’
The director digs into his new dialogue-free movie Silent Night, and how his crew went rogue to add doves
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When the makers of Pokémon Go and Sleep No More tried to reinvent theater
Niantic and Punchdrunk spent years designing a gamified theatrical experience that never happened
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Saltburn is a ‘lick the rich, suck the rich’ movie, says Emerald Fennell
The writer-director talks ‘forbidden secretions,’ internet fame and fandom, and what we all want from celebrities
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Suitable Flesh’s director explains the ludicrous kill scene he sat on for a decade
‘This is the thing I love about fellow horror directors — we always have that perfect kill in our back pocket’
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Can David Tennant’s return to Doctor Who usher in another golden age?
Russell T. Davies’ run on Doctor Who was the stuff of TV and internet legend
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Stardew Valley Expanded exceeded its creator’s wildest dreams
With over 1.8 million unique downloads, the mod has a thriving community of its own
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Video game company layoffs are creating an industry crisis
‘People were just an expense. They don’t necessarily care about the human impact’
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Warhammer Records: Brian May, bungled tours, and 40,000 hard rock anthems
After the release of 40K, Games Workshop set its sights on a new prize: the music industry
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Hellboy Web of Wyrd’s creators on working with Lance Reddick: ‘We were just in awe’
‘We’re really happy we got to have him as our Hellboy’
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Microsoft wants AI to solve problems devs say they don’t actually have
Some developers aren’t so sure about the technology
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A binder of vampire fanfic cast my mother’s struggle with AIDS in a new light
A family’s shared supernatural obsession takes on a new dimension after a life cut short
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Global weirding is coming for the bloodsuckers
Climate change is making real life a horror film for everyone, bloodsuckers included
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Blue Eye Samurai is ‘revenge’ for one of Hollywood’s most underappreciated action directors
Jane Wu’s career of designing fights and spectacle pays off in the Netflix adrenaline rush
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Matthew Perry wasn’t afraid to be flawed
His best-known role of Chandler on Friends laid the groundwork for Perry’s unique, awkward blend
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How Spider-Man 2’s star put Venom in Peter’s voice: ‘Once or twice I hurt myself’
Yuri Lowenthal talks vocal stress, AI, and the possible strike
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YouTube has AI creator tools, but creators are too busy battling AI to care
Artificial intelligence is making it easier for creators to recreate others’ content
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