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Pathfinder’s new Beginner Box is designed for players with zero experience
The box is heavy, but the barrier to entry is paper-thin
John Constantine just snogged Satan in a pub bathroom
It’s “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus” for goths
The biggest board games and role-playing games of the winter
Altered Carbon has a new role-playing game, plus a new game about our National Park System
Disco Elysium: The Final Cut is the game the team had ‘dreamt of launching’
A fully voiced extended version is coming in March
In Nioh 2, you learn to believe in a better future — and fight for it
Team Ninja’s fantasy game just got remastered, and it still has an important lesson to share
The Games of Winter 2021
New and upcoming games to play while safe and warm indoors
Terraria canceled on Stadia after developer gets locked out of his Google accounts
After getting ‘nothing but the runaround,’ Andrew Spinks burns Google bridges
All the big video games coming out in winter 2021
With two months of winter left, here’s what we look forward to playing
A big Falcon and Winter Soldier trailer drops during the Super Bowl
The next Marvel series after WandaVision looks familiar
Raya and the Last Dragon squeezes in one last trailer before hitting Disney Plus
The Southeast Asian-inspired fantasy hits theaters — and Disney Plus — on March 5
Pokémon Go Roselia Community Day guide: start times and best movesets
Grab one of the strongest grass-types in the game
Don’t be skeptical of Wanda Maximoff’s classic American sitcom knowledge
Netflix’s Space Sweepers is a live-action riff on Cowboy Bebop
South Korea’s first space blockbuster is an action-packed, jazzy found-family story
Video of Super Nintendo World’s Mario Kart ride is like being there
Fling AR shells at a giant Bowser and other baddies for a good time
Bungie will fix Destiny 2’s worst Exotic, add back old Catalysts
Destiny 2’s new Season of the Chosen comes with some quality-of-life changes
New Humble Bundle features digital versions of some excellent board games
Ticket To Ride, of course, but also Pandemic and Terraforming Mars
Netflix’s vivid relationship drama Malcolm & Marie keeps subtweeting itself
It’s a meta-commentary on art, race, and passion that goes too far into its self-analysis
The Pacific Rim anime full trailer reveals lots of Jaeger and kaiju action
Two siblings find an abandoned Jaeger pilot in a desolate Australia
Prince of Persia: Sands of Time remake delayed indefinitely
Ubisoft’s remake of the 2003 game was due in March
Rust gets ‘softcore’ servers, so new players suffer less
Plus, order more stuff with a helpful delivery drone
James Sunderland isn’t Silent Hill 2’s antihero; he’s the villain
A new book excerpt digs into Sunderland’s motivations
Cyberpunk 2077 hotfix should reduce the risk of real-life malware attacks against PC players
CD Projekt Red continues its hotfixes with a tiny, tiny patch
Let’s talk about WandaVision’s big episode 5 reveal
A tiny moment radically changes the Cinematic Universe rules
Elite Dangerous players say they’re being scammed, trapped in space, and forced to work
Waylaid and forced into labor 800 light-years from home