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Reviews

The puzzle game Cocoon is impossibly good

A transformative new mind-bender from Limbo and Inside veterans

By Grayson Morley

Reviews

Ticket to Ride Legacy tosses American history in the trash, and it’s better for it

The classic family-friendly board game has been effectively converted into a fantasy game

By Charlie Hall

No One Will Save You unleashes a terrifying alien twist on the home invasion thriller

By Toussaint Egan September 21

Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty almost corrects the past

By Toussaint Egan September 20

Lies of P carves a singular space out of the Soulsborne genre

By Diego Nicolás Argüello September 13

When puzzle game Chants of Sennaar is on a roll, there’s nothing else like it

By Emily Price September 9

Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron is a gloriously demented farewell

By Cezary Jan Strusiewicz September 6

Even for Wes Anderson, Netflix’s Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar is a charming oddity

By Siddhant Adlakha September 3

D&D’s latest campaign book feels specially made for fans of Baldur’s Gate 3

By Charlie Hall August 31

The Ernest & Celestine sequel is, improbably, one of 2023’s best political movies

By Andy Crump August 30

Armored Core 6 brings mecha to the masses

By Michael McWhertor August 23

Metalocalypse’s finale movie is a climax worth the wait

By Toussaint Egan August 22

Baldur’s Gate 3 is a masterpiece built on a bad tabletop game

By Gita Jackson August 18

Watch Oldboy in theaters because it’s still terrific, not just because it’s influential

By Tasha Robinson August 17

Sky Team board game sticks the landing at this year’s Gen Con

By Charlie Theel August 8

Resident Evil meets the Muppets in this fantastic survival-horror game

By Toussaint Egan August 4

Heartstopper season 2’s gut punches push it way beyond romantic ‘fluff’

By Nicole Clark August 3

Cyberpunk Red: Combat Zone outdoes Necromunda with a badass boxed set

By Charlie Hall August 2

Venba expands the boundaries of the cooking game genre

By Nicole Carpenter July 31

In spacefaring management sim The Banished Vault, no one can hear me scream

By Alexis Ong July 25

Disney Lorcana’s greatest asset may be its most divisive quality

By Stan Golovchuk July 25

The Venture Bros. movie is a fitting finale for one of TV’s best animated comedies

By Toussaint Egan July 21

Oppenheimer is Christopher Nolan at his most complex, powerful, and human

By Oli Welsh July 19

Barbie World

The Barbie movie finds all the fun in laughing at the men’s rights movement

By Maddy Myers July 18

Viewfinder is puzzle game heaven

By Grayson Morley July 17

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

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

By Maddy Myers July 3

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

Battlebit Remastered is the second coming of Battlefield: Bad Company

By Patrick Gill June 28

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

By Diego Nicolás Argüello June 16

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

By Marc Normandin June 8

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