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Movies

The Last of Us stole Netflix’s Bird Box Barcelona’s thunder

Their stories feel mighty similar, but one is much more satisfying

By Tasha Robinson

Reviews

Old-school XCOM-like Xenonauts 2 doesn’t pull any punches

A richer take on a twice-established formula

By Charlie Theel

Oxenfree 2 struggles to bottle lightning twice

By Nicole Carpenter July 12

If you have Netflix, try this open-world game immediately

By Chris Plante July 7

Tom Cruise wages an Infinity War on boring movies with the new Mission: Impossible

By Joshua Rivera July 5

Indiana Jones: Sands of Adventure turns Raiders of the Lost Ark into a raucous party game

By Charlie Hall July 5

This medieval murder mystery is worth it for the nuns’ chemistry

By Maddy Myers July 3

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny sacrifices its story to pile on the nostalgia

By Iana Murray July 1

Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective gives new life to a Nintendo DS cult classic

By Jay Castello July 1

AEW: Fight Forever recaptures the attitude of golden-age wrestling games

By Hector Diaz June 30

Management sim Dave the Diver shouldn’t work as well as it does

By Jeffrey Parkin June 29

The Witcher season 3 is totally fine if you pretend season 2 never happened

By Joshua Rivera June 29

Battlebit Remastered is the second coming of Battlefield: Bad Company

By Patrick Gill June 28

I’m A Virgo shatters superhero stories by showing where real power comes from

By Katie Rife June 27

Aliens: Dark Descent is the Prometheus of real-time strategy games

By Charlie Theel June 25

Netflix’s Skull Island captures the best part of Kong’s world

By Daniel Dockery June 24

Clone High season 2 turned into exactly the show it used to parody

By Cole Kronman June 23

Jennifer Lawrence has returned to remind us that she’s really damn funny

By Joshua Rivera June 23

Final Fantasy 16 is incredible when it doesn’t try to say anything meaningful

By Gita Jackson June 21

The Walking Dead: Dead City is best when it forgets it’s a Walking Dead show

By Daniel Dockery June 19

Amnesia: The Bunker marks an evolution for one of the best horror series

By Diego Nicolás Argüello June 16

Undaunted: Battle of Britain is a blast for airplane nerds and those who love them

By Charlie Hall June 13

Homebody is a time loop throwback to PlayStation horror games

By Cass Marshall June 10

Super Mega Baseball 4 is a towering monument to the joy of the sport

By Marc Normandin June 8

The Flash is a eulogy for every DC movie that never was

By Joshua Rivera June 6

Lacuna is the rare chill 2-player board game that requires almost no teaching at all

By Charlie Hall June 6

The Roundup: No Way Out is the latest showcase for the world’s hardest-hitting action star

By Pete Volk June 4

Warhammer 40K: Leviathan and 10th edition feel incredible, but lack the human touch

By Charlie Hall June 3

Ted Lasso turned a lovable soccer team into a bunch of boring therapists

By Zosha Millman May 31

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse goes bigger, bolder, and more ambitious

By Tasha Robinson, Joshua Rivera, and 4 more May 31

Diablo 4 activates and frustrates my lizard brain

By Alexis Ong May 30

The Boogeyman is a better Dark Tower movie than the Dark Tower movie

By Matt Patches May 30

Street Fighter 6 is the ultimate fighting game toolbox

By Axel Bosso May 30

British TV’s most badass cop is a pissed-off grandma

By Oli Welsh May 29