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TikTok’s ‘aura points’ system, explained

By Ana Diaz
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How the Descendants franchise became the biggest thing in Disney villainy

By Petrana Radulovic
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The Acolyte is hinging its whole story on vergences, of all things

By Austen Goslin
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Who are Star Wars’ Nightsisters?

By Joshua Rivera and Susana Polo
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House of the Dragon finally gives a tour of Harrenhal, Westeros’ most haunted castle

By Leon Miller
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What’s up with Beyond Good and Evil 2?

By Michael McWhertor
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The mischievous history of Elden Ring’s Patches, FromSoftware’s eternal scamp

By Michael McWhertor
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All the House of the Dragon houses and characters you need to know

By Sadie Gennis and Zosha Millman

All the dragons in House of the Dragon

By Austen Goslin

The House of the Dragon timeline so far

By Matt Patches and Zosha Millman

Foundry Virtual Tabletop takes the online play experience to the next level

By Petrana Radulovic
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The Acolyte’s High Republic gives Star Wars a totally new timeline to play with

By Austin Gorton
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WWE is rebooting – is it working?

By Dylan Roth
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Where do your Steam games go when you die?

By Nicole Carpenter
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Where does Furiosa fit into the Mad Max timeline? George Miller says it doesn’t matter

By Austen Goslin
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Can you pull Disney’s Excalibur sword? Probably not

By Nicole Carpenter
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Delicious in Dungeon was inspired by a video game you might not have heard of

By XTINA GG
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Comics creators can’t quit the Dead Boy Detectives, and the TV world has finally noticed

By Susana Polo
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Why Warhammer 40K fans were shocked by a recent Custodes codex reveal

By Cass Marshall
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Who is Miquella in Elden Ring anyway?

By Michael McWhertor
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Hollow Knight: Silksong has become a meme about waiting for games

By Ana Diaz
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Fallout’s Vaults have even crazier experiments in the games

By Cass Marshall
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Fallout’s glimpse of the Enclave is just the beginning

By Cass Marshall
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The Fallout TV show reminds us: Vault-Tec really is that bad

By Sarah Milner
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X-Men ’97 is winding up for one of the best stories about weathermancer Storm ever told

By Susana Polo
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Apple’s Constellation left us with more quantum entanglements than answers

By Caroline Cao
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The 3-body problem is real, and it’s really unsolvable

By Susana Polo
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The most disposable X-Men character is crucial to the X-Men cartoon

By Carli Velocci
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What you need to know about The Three-Body Problem before watching 3 Body Problem

By Joshua Rivera
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The book Poor Things is based on is even stranger than the film

By Oli Welsh
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Looking back at every Nintendo Switch controversy, doubt, and debate

Ahead of Switch 2, let’s look back on the Nintendo Switch

By Nicole Carpenter
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Cissnei from Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is actually a pretty big deal

By Ana Diaz
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The next level of puzzles.

Take a break from your day by playing a puzzle or two! We’ve got SpellTower, Typeshift, crosswords, and more.