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I lived like Mario for a week
Running, jumping, kart racing, dining on mushrooms — the Mario lifestyle!
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Barbie and drag queens share the same dreams
And Barbie has inspired countless drag queens
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FF14 glamour hunters: the sneakerheads who kill God in the name of fashion
A report from the MMORPG’s most passionate scene
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They made Waluigi sexy, but their future is Mushroom Kingdom drama
Lovebunny and DinoGraveyard are carving out a TikTok alternative to the Mario movie through cosplay
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The untold history of Barbie Fashion Designer, the first mass-market ‘game for girls’
How Digital Domain and Mattel Media built Barbie’s wardrobe
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Flesh and Blood, MTG’s most dynamic competitor, brings back its first Living Legend
Prism’s return fulfills a promise made when the game launched in 2019
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A record-breaking Legend of Zelda speedrunner fell apart under online abuse, then reached for the crown again
The documentary follows streamer Narcissa Wright as she recovers from a breakdown and attempts a new record
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Andrew Koji on how Warrior (and hard work) saved his acting career
We talked to one of Hollywood’s brightest up-and-coming action stars and his biggest fans: the cast and crew of Warrior
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Diablo 4’s marketing campaign is somehow even more unhinged than mobile ads
Blizzard is committed to the demonic bit
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Six Days in Fallujah’s creators are ready to release and defend the controversial shooter
More than a decade after its reveal, Six Days is here
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How Extraction 2’s director shot a 21-minute action sequence — and was blown off a train
"It’s like a play. You are seeing this all take place in real time."
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Amouranth made a chatbot clone to outsource flirting — and protect herself
$25 and 25 minutes with our new girlfriend, AI Amouranth
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I just don’t know how to feel about dead Transformers
From Transformers: The Movie to Rise of the Beasts, movies keep killing off Autobots. Do they care? Should we?
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Walt Disney is the ultimate problematic fave
Disney made their founder into an icon, while critics made him into a Nazi — but the truth is more complex
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Into the Spider-Verse’s greatest legacy is giving American animators freedom to play
After decades of chasing realism and copying Disney and Pixar, they’ve finally been freed up to experiment with style
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The versatile Cypher System powers tabletop adventures across genres
From zombie horror RPG settings to Terry Pratchett-style fantasy and everything in between
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AI can’t replace humans yet — but if the WGA writers don’t win, it might not matter
The WGA strike is only the first battle in an oncoming labor war
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Magic: The Gathering’s new set is trying to capture the hope of The Lord of the Rings
Senior art director Ovidio Cartagena talks to us about the vision behind the set
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Walt Disney cheated his animators out of profits — and their strike changed the world
The Disney animators’ strike of 1941 was a game-changer for animation — and it paved the way for the WGA strike
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Meet the inventors making Hyrule’s most complicated contraptions
Welcome to Hyrule Engineering Club
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Disney’s Robin Hood is still a life-changing furry phenomenon
Here’s why it’s such a beloved standard, even with many more anthropomorphic animal movies out there
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The future of tabletop role-play is hope
Hopepunk can help us build a better world at the table
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Can AI actually write good fanfiction?
ChatGPT, Bing AI, and Google’s Bard all tended toward writing straight ships
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Dragonflight’s first big patch delves into World of Warcraft mysteries
It’s time to check out Deathwing’s old science projects
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Rocket Raccoon was never supposed to be a superhero
You either die a funny animal, or you live long enough to have a tragic backstory
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Unicorn: Warriors Eternal creators on the animated marvel 20 years in the making
Genndy Tartakovsky and Darrick Bachman talked to Polygon about the long road to getting their passion project out in the world
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Inside the Bourne Stuntacular, the theme park take on high-impact spycraft
How do you make the Bourne movies into great theater? Keep the screen.
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101 things that must be said about 101 Dalmatians
Walt Disney may have hated it, but like Cruella de Vil, he was wrong
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The Legend of Zelda is everywhere in modern music
Koji Kondo’s legendary compositions have never been bound by the video games
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15 years ago, the NSA spied on World of Warcraft — but did a leak change anything?
MMOs were fertile grounds for exploitation along both signals intelligence and human intelligence lines