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How choosing ‘Girl’ in early RPGs inspired today’s game designers
From Pokémon Crystal to today, gender representation has come a long way
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Jason David Frank was a Power Rangers icon and a bona fide star
The late Power Rangers star was a superhero for a whole generation
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Destiny 2 is daunting to play alone, but content creators are here to help
Space feels lonely for a fireteam of one
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After 35 years painting minis, Chris Clayton wins it all at the UK Golden Demon 2022
How he built and painted the jaw-dropping miniature
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How The Menu connects to Succession and Game of Thrones
Director Mark Mylod, who worked on all three, lays out the links — and names his favorite character in each one
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Meet the Call of Duty boyfriends who play until their ‘hands fall off’
Polygon explores what it’s like to be a Call of Duty boyfriend
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Flesh and Blood, MTG’s upstart competitor, has found strength in community
James White, the Magic: The Gathering pro turned entrepreneur, on the new TCG taking the world by storm
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How Love Is Blind creates ‘television magic’ with pitch-perfect music choices
It’s not through locking musicians in a basement somewhere
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Tabletop, card game retailers join the game industry’s burgeoning union push
In Wisconsin and Washington, tabletop workers are unionizing
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Pentiment’s defining detail is its fonts
Words have a life of their own in Obsidian Entertainment’s new game
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The oral history of Andor’s prison, one of Star Wars’ most frightening creations
One way in, one way out
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Park Chan-wook explains Decision to Leave’s ‘sacred’ ending and strange, crucial details
What’s up with the pockets? The eyedrops? The language barrier? He put a lot of thought into all of it
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Chinese animation is a vibrant, distinctive industry — so why do so many people still call it ‘anime’?
Donghua has its own identity, and it’s one worth knowing
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Daniel Radcliffe kinda wants to just do comedy for the rest of his life
His new Weird Al movie everything he wanted to be doing when he was Harry Potter
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Black, queer, and trans Supermans? 30 years ago, Superman’s death predicted them all
The Death of Superman lives on in the modern DC Universe
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The ‘video game studio from hell’ is still battling the blaze
Workers at Dungeon Defenders developer Chromatic Games detail the studio’s culture over the past few years
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How Splatoon fans discovered the secret of ‘Fuck You’ Tuesday
Deciphering the game’s fictional language reveals Easter eggs and lore
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Welcome to Warhammer 40K’s anti-fascist future
Games Workshop has turned a corner after years of silence allowed hate to fester in its community
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How Bayonetta the witch cast a spell on LGBTQ+ fans
The action-game protagonist has become a queer icon
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Triangle of Sadness’ fascinating hero/villain Abigail has a crucial secret backstory
Actor Dolly De Leon walks us through her character’s past — and what it means for the movie’s enigmatic ending
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As Iranian youths protest, cafes filled with board games and D&D provide community
‘We find ways to adapt and find happiness in tyranny’
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Acronym casts a long shadow over cyberpunk fashion
The inspirations behind the techwear seen in games like Death Stranding often come from the same place
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Indie game designers were refashioning the Regency long before Bridgerton
We dig into the Regency-era romance games that diversified their leads
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How The Sims 4 designed for size-inclusive fashion
Dress-up games could learn a thing or two from EA’s approach
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Horse armor was mocked, but it launched a billion-dollar cosmetic industry
A lot can change in 15 years
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Yes, Werewolf by Night is MCU canon — weird, weird canon
‘We just don’t show you where, when, how.’
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Other Ever Afters makes fairy tales subversive, kinder, and a whole lot queerer
Mel Gillman explains how a hit online series became a book to rival Grimms’ fairy tales
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The Deer King director brought every lesson from Princess Mononoke to his epic fantasy
Masashi Ando, a student of Studio Ghibli, explains his vision for a new tale
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Elden Ring’s Malenia embodies FromSoftware’s problems with women
The game’s strongest boss betrays the developer’s biggest weakness
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Smile’s take on mental illness was designed to be messy and complicated
Writer-director Parker Finn loves provoking an audience, even in a sensitive story
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Looper’s experimental soundtrack slapped then, and slaps even harder now
Composer Nathan Johnson on how he and cousin Rian found the film’s unorthodox sound
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Star Trek has truly reinvented itself
The sci-fi franchise is all TV these days, and there’s something for (almost) everyone