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Superman, Wonder Woman, and The Flash stand on the bridge of the Watchtower, with outer space behind them, in Justice League Unlimited.
DC Comics legend Mark Waid is making an official Justice League game

The heroic TTRPG begins crowdfunding in July

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Lego's underselling how cool its new Pokémon sets are

The toys can battle, heal, and level up. Here's how it works.

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A group of armored Uruk Hai looks ominous in art from The Lord of the Rings Ascensions Uruk Hai
Magic: The Gathering isn’t the only deckbuilding game launching a Lord of the Rings set

A former Magic pro talks about his spin on Tolkien’s series

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Hershel in Zero Parades, pointing a gun at an opponent
Zero Parades: For Dead Spies fixes my biggest issue with Disco Elysium

Part of your world

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Tracer in the Overwatch reveal cinematic
The oral history of Overwatch

The rise, fall, and redemption of Blizzard's hero shooter

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Kate Siegel looks to the left while sitting on a fence in Midnight Mass. An American Flag appears behind her.
Netflix's 7-part vampire thriller is a chilling masterpiece you'll finish in one weekend

Years later, Mike Flanagan's magnum opus still holds up

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The Music Hall in Mina the Hollower.
Talk to everyone in Mina the Hollower, even the scary-ass clown

Witness the horrors of Klumpy the Clown

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Opening Pokémon packs has replaced smoking cigarettes for a weary generation

Why spend money on a cocktail or a pack of cigarettes when you have a chance to find a shiny Pikachu?

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The main character of Toem 2 standing near a bridge watching a cute snake in the river
Toem 2 seems like the best working holiday ever

Turns out even plumbing can be cozy

The left half of the image shows James Bond (Daniel Craig) in No Time To Die while the right half of the image shows James Bond (Patrick Gibson) in 007 First Light.
All Bond characters in 007 First Light compared to the films

How similar are they?

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Widow's Bay's latest episode might secretly be the best horror movie of the summer

Polygon spoke to showrunner Katie Dippold and the cast to unpack how they pulled off the Apple TV show's delightful new two-parter

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A character rides an eagle in Cube World, the controversial Steam voxel game.
15 years later, the Steam dev behind a failed Minecraft killer refuses to give up

The internet hyped Cube World to be the ultimate game, but it's never moved past alpha

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James Bond walks through Q's lab in 007 First Light.
007 First Light has the weirdest cameo I've ever seen in a video game

Content creators get the spotlight in Bond's latest adventure

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A farmer holds a shovel in Grave Seasons
The secret horror of Stardew Valley comes to life in the summer's scariest farming sim

Grave Seasons captures the terror of small-town living

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New Spider-Man book reveals a new look at a key Spidey ally

Dr. Strange fans rejoice

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Cover art for D&D’s Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus. Archdevil Zariel reaches for her sword—a reminder of her angelic origins—as her evil henchman Haruman follows her into damnation.
Baldur’s Gate 3 almost derailed D&D’s infamous trip to Hell

A forced tie-in with Baldur's Gate 3 made working on Descent into Avernus even more hellish

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My D&D player’s cursed weapon keeps ruining combat encounters in the best way

My D&D player had a chaotic idea for a weapon feature, and as the Dungeon Master, I let him run with it

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A game about breaking everything is all the rage this summer

Virtue and a Sledgehammer understands the cleansing power of 'breaking stuff'

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It’s time to appreciate The Boys for what it really is: a fantastic comic book

Amazon's show failed to capture the strongest qualities of the original comics series

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A NoA unit in Subnautica 2
Subnautica 2 is the timeliest game of 2026

Tech is a tool made for someone else's purpose

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