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Detective Pikachu surpasses Warcraft as highest-grossing video game film of all time

By Nick Statt
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HBO dominated the 2019 Emmy nominations, thanks to Game of Thrones

By Julia Alexander

Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi will return for Thor 4

By Julia Alexander

15 new science fiction and fantasy books to check out in late July

By Andrew Liptak
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Gardening games are blossoming in turbulent times

By Lewis Gordon

Why digital cultivation is so enduring

Netflix removes 13 Reasons Why’s controversial suicide scene

By Julia Alexander
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Here’s every game coming to Ubisoft’s UPlay Plus, including Watch Dogs: Legion and every Assassin’s Creed

By Chaim Gartenberg
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Live-action mystery game Telling Lies needed a new way of filming conversations

By Andrew Webster
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Tetris Effect is coming to PC next week

By Sam Byford
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Blizzard explains how home and away games will work in the Overwatch League

By Andrew Webster
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Alienware co-founder leaves Dell to become AMD’s chief gaming architect

By Vlad Savov
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Hulu’s Handmaid’s Tale is a model of longform worldbuilding

By Liz Shannon Miller
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Author Myke Cole talks writing hard science fiction in his space-set Coast Guard novel Sixteenth Watch

By Chaim Gartenberg
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The streamer who built a giant Starbucks island in Minecraft to connect with fans

By Cian Maher
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Nintendo Switch consoles and Joy-Con controllers are discounted for Prime Day

By Cameron Faulkner

The killer-alligator movie Crawl is a solid antidote for a summer of big franchise blockbusters

By Jesse Hassenger
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9 new trailers you should watch this week

By Jacob Kastrenakes
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Star Wars: Alphabet Squadron is a thrilling examination of the cost of war

By Andrew Liptak

Lock S-Foils in attack position!

If you bought influencer bathwater, could you test it for DNA?

By Mary Beth Griggs

Nielsen confirms that Stranger Things 3 was a big hit for Netflix

By Andrew Liptak
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Mini revival of the TurboGrafx-16 comes out March 2020 with 50 games

By Nick Statt
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Netflix’s Mindhunter will return for a second season in August

By Dami Lee
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Fans of The Farewell should check out Awkwafina in the Netflix doc Bad Rap

By Noel Murray
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Acer Predator Triton 900 review: weird flex

By Cameron Faulkner
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There’s much more to Stranger Things’ Starcourt Mall than meets the eye

By Jon Porter
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ProZD makes nerd humor cool

By Bijan Stephen
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YouTube drafting ‘creator-on-creator harassment’ rules after Steven Crowder incident

By Julia Alexander

The first trailer for Netflix’s Another Life looks like Arrival meets Stargate SG-1

By Andrew Liptak
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Disney’s Star Wars theme park is getting its next big attraction this December

By Andrew Liptak
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Steam’s new Interactive Recommender is built for finding ‘hidden gems’

By Adi Robertson
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Congress is bad at Rocket League

By Makena Kelly

“Next time, we could do a first-person shooter.”

Disney’s live-action Lion King is pretty, but so unnecessary

By Kendra James
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A brief history of cutdown game consoles

By Sam Byford
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Nintendo’s Switch Lite doesn’t have to switch to be a success

By Chaim Gartenberg
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The Art of Self-Defense functions like a 20-year anniversary remake of Fight Club

By Jesse Hassenger
15 comments / new

Facebook reportedly signed a deal for Splinter Cell and Assassin’s Creed VR games

By Adi Robertson
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Amazon is developing a Lord of the Rings MMO

By Chaim Gartenberg
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Nintendo says the Switch Lite isn’t going to replace the 3DS

By Andrew Webster
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Nintendo Switch Lite is a smaller, cheaper Switch built exclusively for handheld play

By Andrew Webster
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