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Reviews

Baldur’s Gate 3 is a masterpiece built on a bad tabletop game

In Larian’s RPG, a computer is your subpar Dungeon Master

By Gita Jackson

Movies

Watch Oldboy in theaters because it’s still terrific, not just because it’s influential

20 years later, it’s still one of the best action movies — and best action mysteries — of all time

By Tasha Robinson

Sky Team board game sticks the landing at this year’s Gen Con

By Charlie Theel August 8

Resident Evil meets the Muppets in this fantastic survival-horror game

By Toussaint Egan August 4

Heartstopper season 2’s gut punches push it way beyond romantic ‘fluff’

By Nicole Clark August 3

Cyberpunk Red: Combat Zone outdoes Necromunda with a badass boxed set

By Charlie Hall August 2

Venba expands the boundaries of the cooking game genre

By Nicole Carpenter July 31

In spacefaring management sim The Banished Vault, no one can hear me scream

By Alexis Ong July 25

Disney Lorcana’s greatest asset may be its most divisive quality

By Stan Golovchuk July 25

The Venture Bros. movie is a fitting finale for one of TV’s best animated comedies

By Toussaint Egan July 21

Oppenheimer is Christopher Nolan at his most complex, powerful, and human

By Oli Welsh July 19

Barbie World

The Barbie movie finds all the fun in laughing at the men’s rights movement

By Maddy Myers July 18

Hayao Miyazaki’s How Do You Live? is a gloriously demented farewell

By Cezary Jan Strusiewicz July 17

Viewfinder is puzzle game heaven

By Grayson Morley July 17

If you have Netflix, try this open-world game immediately

By Chris Plante July 7

Tom Cruise wages an Infinity War on boring movies with the new Mission: Impossible

By Joshua Rivera July 5

This medieval murder mystery is worth it for the nuns’ chemistry

By Maddy Myers July 3

Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective gives new life to a Nintendo DS cult classic

By Jay Castello July 1

AEW: Fight Forever recaptures the attitude of golden-age wrestling games

By Hector Diaz June 30

Management sim Dave the Diver shouldn’t work as well as it does

By Jeffrey Parkin June 29

Battlebit Remastered is the second coming of Battlefield: Bad Company

By Patrick Gill June 28

Amnesia: The Bunker marks an evolution for one of the best horror series

By Diego Nicolás Argüello June 16

Super Mega Baseball 4 is a towering monument to the joy of the sport

By Marc Normandin June 8

Lacuna is the rare chill 2-player board game that requires almost no teaching at all

By Charlie Hall June 6

The Roundup: No Way Out is the latest showcase for the world’s hardest-hitting action star

By Pete Volk June 4

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse goes bigger, bolder, and more ambitious

By Tasha Robinson, Joshua Rivera, and 4 more May 31

Street Fighter 6 is the ultimate fighting game toolbox

By Axel Bosso May 30

The System Shock remake does something remarkable

By Gita Jackson May 29

Humanity’s solutions are more triumphant than its puzzles

By Jacob Geller May 21

Votes for Women, one of the year’s best board games, belongs in a museum

By Charlie Hall May 17

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom changes the conversation

By Mike Mahardy May 11

Metal Gear Solid 5 mashes up with Spelunky for one of 2023’s most rewarding roguelikes

By Steven Nguyen Scaife April 30

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 says goodbye to a Marvel that may not exist anymore

By Joshua Rivera April 28

Rusted Moss is Hollow Knight with a bungee cord

By Russ Frushtick April 27

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