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When news broke yesterday that Amazon MGM Studios was moving ahead with its long-dormant Mass Effect TV series, I had one wistful thought: Wow. I...
The Dragon Age franchise is not known for staying exactly the same from game to game. Whether it’s changes in scope, in setting, in who your player...
Dragon Age: The Veilguard has a lot of rewards for fans of Dragon Age: Inquisition who’ve stuck out the decade-long wait between the two games....
Among all the news from New York Comic Con this weekend, there was one item to make any comics fan gasp. DC Comics chief creative officer Jim Lee...
The first episode of the Dandadan anime adapts a scene that nearly put me off the manga entirely. In it, a teenage girl is abducted by alien perverts...
There are any number of reasons to be watching Agatha All Along . Maybe you’re here for Kathryn Hahn Hahn-ing around, or to see Aubrey Plaza goth...
Three episodes into its second season, and The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power feels more comfortable just being fucking weird than in all of...
Nostalgia isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. This month’s Batman: The Caped Crusader was billed as the grownup version of beloved and...
There is a real community theater, backyard cinema earnestness to Cyan’s Myst games, beginning from Myst, in which founding developer brothers Rand...
They called the movie Deadpool & Wolverine , but maybe the title should have been Deadpool & Wolverine & Everybody Else, given how many character and...
In 2023, Marvel Studios took a year off from the hype house that geeks built, San Diego Comic-Con. So did basically everybody else: Between the...
There’s something a little off-putting about the title of Kite Man: Hell Yeah! , Max’s new animated series spinning off Harley Quinn . That...
Every superhero comic book character, even the most obscure, is somebody’s favorite. There are no boring or bad characters, just ones who haven’t...
In the post-Marvel Cinematic Universe era, it’s hard to find a savvy pop culture maven who can’t define “continuity,” whether they’re...
George Miller’s Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga complements and enhances the impact of his 2015 blockbuster Mad Max: Fury Road in a lot of ways, but...
Roll the phrase around your tongue with me: Starmetal sword. Starmetal sword. The lost secret to Damascus steel could totally have been meteorites!...
I have a Dungeons & Dragons curse. You won’t find it in the Player’s Handbook or on any list of spells, and yet it’s demonstrably real. Gather...
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace is returning to movie theaters on May 3 to celebrate its 25th anniversary. This essay was inspired by...
The current season of Game Changer, Dropout’s endlessly inventive improv/prank game show, delivered its first real banger of a game in last week’s...
M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender is infamous for the changes it made to the setting of Avatar: The Last Airbender — like saying...
Marvel Studios has finally announced the cast of The Fantastic Four , after what feels like months of anticipation (and almost five years after the...
It feels like prequel series are a dime a dozen these days, with barely a franchise that hasn’t dipped its hand into the origin story well. We know...
Avatar: The Last Airbender fans have every reason to be skeptical of Netflix’s new show. Even if they hadn’t been legendarily burned by a...
Echo , the latest chapter in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, is probably going to fly under a lot of people’s radar. The urgency of the...
It’s the final days of 2023, and voices everywhere are predicting the final days of the superhero movie. Even that bastion of the mainstream, the...
Why can’t The Walt Disney Company make the Muppets work? Like, really work? Why do we keep getting TV shows and specials that fail to find an...
Good people of the superhero comics community, I’ve kept quiet for 23-and-a-half months and I can remain silent no longer. It’s been almost two...
The Comixology app, the mobile incarnation of the digital comics platform owned by Amazon since 2014, has finally shuffled off this mortal coil. On...