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Chucky isn’t just an evil doll, he’s a true Universal Monster
The long-running horror star has a new show, but exhibits all the traits of classic creatures
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All the scenes in Dune where people are secretly pooping
Everyone poops, even Muad’Dib
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Shaggy paved the hazy way for every slasher stoner
Scooby-Doo’s resident slacker ran so the Friday the 13th franchise could run faster
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Risk Legacy changed board games forever, now Hasbro is making its spiritual successor
Announcing Risk Shadow Forces
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Why Disney buried Runaway Brain, the monstrous Mickey short
The 1995 film was supposed to reinvigorate the Mouse, but now it’s kept under lock and key
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How Y: The Last Man’s creative team has subverted familiar trans stories
Actor Elliot Fletcher and showrunner Eliza Clark explain the ways the show’s second ‘last man’ breaks the mold
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One of tabletop gaming’s most prestigious awards has gone missing
A celebration of the ugly yellow hunk of plastic that was the Diana Jones Award
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Find dozens of Easter eggs in this Katamari artwork
A giant piece of art showcases multiple games from Keita Takahashi’s career
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The jeweler who forged the One Ring never got to see it
The late artist Jens Hansen, remembered by his children and LOTR crew
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Video game culture owes a lot to hidden object games
The history and evolution of the genre
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Three decades of Wario all started with a name
We look back at how Wario came about and evolved over the years
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Venom is a good couples therapist, according to Andy Serkis
There is no relationship like the one between a man and his symbiote
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The race to save Kirk and Spock’s fanfiction legacy
Inside Archive of Our Own’s latest rescue mission
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‘I wish there was a plan’: The oral history of DC Comics’ infamous New 52 reboot
What happened when DC Comics rebooted the universe
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How to decide if Apple’s chaotic drama The Morning Show is for you
Your guide to the latest messy show that lives for drama
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‘We’re going to hide it’: How Lilo & Stitch succeeded by staying off Disney’s radar
‘[Michael Eisner] couldn’t find an easy way to encapsulate the film in his head. But he really liked it.’
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Our most anticipated games coming this fall
We round up what we’ll all be playing over the rest of 2021
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Destiny 2: The Witch Queen’s Hive Guardians are like fighting a mirror, Bungie says
Hive Guardians are powerful new enemies in Destiny 2, and they’ll take some new strategies to kill
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Titans’ weird take on Bruce Wayne is season 3’s biggest swing
Game of Thrones’ Iain Glen has a particular, unusual take on Batman’s alter ego
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The Good Fight is the Star Trek of legal dramas
Big ideas, reckless abandon, and the perfect crew
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The end of the Evangelion experiment
Grappling with the arc of Shinji Ikari, and creator Hideaki Anno’s Rebuild journey
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A battle to preserve Hideaki Anno’s DAICON III ends with news of Gainax’s re-release plans
Saving a legendary anime short has been a journey
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Sony spent five years building a new PlayStation VR studio, then abruptly shut it down
Sony Manchester’s CSAR: Combat, Search, and Rescue was to be a VR helicopter action game harking back to the old days, but it never ended up materializing
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Eve Online’s yearlong war ends with an epic retreat
The Imperium still stands, and man are they pissed
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Star Wars: The Bad Batch was too much like The Clone Wars to be truly great
Got big hopes for next year’s batch, though
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The bizarre Minecraft meme Penis SMP has spawned a world of its own
Dream SMP is an epic tale that inspired an equally epic fan response
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The Great Ace Attorney’s voice actors share a lot with their characters
"To be able to understand [Susato] ... it is very helpful that I fully understand Japanese language and culture"
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How do you playtest a board game for 5-year-olds?
Inside the creative process at HABA, the German tabletop giant
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The world’s biggest tournament for the world’s longest board game
Space Cats Peace Turtle’s annual Twilight Imperium tournament ends next week
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Discotek’s quest to rescue classic anime
We talk with a publisher trying to elevate the art form of releasing anime on discs
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Descent: Legends of the Dark is the biggest, most ambitious board game of the year
Fantasy Flight Games comes out swinging with its answer to Gloomhaven
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The Marvel and DC games you never played, but should have
We round up the unsung heroes of superhero games’ awkward teenage years
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The story of Tuvix, the endlessly debatable Star Trek meme king
How an ethical debate and endless memes keep Star Trek’s most infamous one-shot character in the conversation