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Turning popular video games into great board games is a lot harder than it sounds
Polygon spoke with several teams beating their heads against this particular wall
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Casey McQuiston is flattered when people compare Red, White & Royal Blue to fanfiction
With the Amazon movie adaptation now streaming, McQuiston reflects on their first novel
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Gal Gadot’s Heart of Stone team broke a lot of cameras to protect its 500-year-old locations
Stunt coordinator Jo McLaren says Netflix’s new Gal Gadot spy thriller was everything she looks for in a movie
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How Dan Harmon kept Rick & Morty’s cynicism out of Strange Planet
Webcomic creator Nathan W. Pyle breaks down some of the series’ important elements, and working with Harmon
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Paul Reubens and Pee-wee’s Playhouse made it okay for TV to be weird
The campy counterculture of the show is so much of what’s missing from today’s pop culture
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Oink Games’ colorful collection of small-box board games wows at this year’s Gen Con
The quirky Japanese publisher is known for its sharp design
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Star Trek’s first-ever musical episode divided the Strange New Worlds cast
To boldly go...
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For fans, dressing for the Barbie movie completes the Barbie fashion experience
It’s a Barbie World and we’re just living in it
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Anita Sarkeesian is shutting down Feminist Frequency after 15 years
‘We were talking about representation very early on in a mainstream way’
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Oppenheimer undoes decades of American denial about The Bomb
How Hollywood finally made The Bomb personal
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The Witcher season 3’s big twist was part Met Gala, part Red Wedding, and all details
The Thanedd battle has been a long time coming and was ‘every designer’s dream’
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The creators of Venture Bros. reflect on the end — the real one
Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer’s team-up resulted in one of the greatest animated comedies of the 2000s
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Anime helped make Teen Titans one of the 2000s’ most important shows
Teen Titans go anime
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Gloomhaven’s designers took board games by storm — now they’re coming for RPGs
Isaac Childres looks to combine RPG mechanics with flexible, character-driven stories
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I lived like Mario for a week
Running, jumping, kart racing, dining on mushrooms — the Mario lifestyle!
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Barbie and drag queens share the same dreams
And Barbie has inspired countless drag queens
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FF14 glamour hunters: the sneakerheads who kill God in the name of fashion
A report from the MMORPG’s most passionate scene
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They made Waluigi sexy, but their future is Mushroom Kingdom drama
Lovebunny and DinoGraveyard are carving out a TikTok alternative to the Mario movie through cosplay
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The untold history of Barbie Fashion Designer, the first mass-market ‘game for girls’
How Digital Domain and Mattel Media built Barbie’s wardrobe
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Flesh and Blood, MTG’s most dynamic competitor, brings back its first Living Legend
Prism’s return fulfills a promise made when the game launched in 2019
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A record-breaking Legend of Zelda speedrunner fell apart under online abuse, then reached for the crown again
The documentary follows streamer Narcissa Wright as she recovers from a breakdown and attempts a new record
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Andrew Koji on how Warrior (and hard work) saved his acting career
We talked to one of Hollywood’s brightest up-and-coming action stars and his biggest fans: the cast and crew of Warrior
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Diablo 4’s marketing campaign is somehow even more unhinged than mobile ads
Blizzard is committed to the demonic bit
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Six Days in Fallujah’s creators are ready to release and defend the controversial shooter
More than a decade after its reveal, Six Days is here
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How Extraction 2’s director shot a 21-minute action sequence — and was blown off a train
"It’s like a play. You are seeing this all take place in real time."
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Amouranth made a chatbot clone to outsource flirting — and protect herself
$25 and 25 minutes with our new girlfriend, AI Amouranth
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I just don’t know how to feel about dead Transformers
From Transformers: The Movie to Rise of the Beasts, movies keep killing off Autobots. Do they care? Should we?
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Walt Disney is the ultimate problematic fave
Disney made their founder into an icon, while critics made him into a Nazi — but the truth is more complex
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Into the Spider-Verse’s greatest legacy is giving American animators freedom to play
After decades of chasing realism and copying Disney and Pixar, they’ve finally been freed up to experiment with style
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The versatile Cypher System powers tabletop adventures across genres
From zombie horror RPG settings to Terry Pratchett-style fantasy and everything in between
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AI can’t replace humans yet — but if the WGA writers don’t win, it might not matter
The WGA strike is only the first battle in an oncoming labor war