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    'Fallout' Nails Video Game Adaptations by Making the Apocalypse Fun

    Westworld creator Jonathan Nolan’s new show keeps Fallout’s gallows humor. He also packed the first season...

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    An Interview With a Guy Who Got a Vasectomy During the East Coast Earthquake

    Where’s the last place you want to be during an earthquake? For Justin Allen, it was...

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    'The Matrix' Is Getting a Fifth Movie—Without a Wachowski Directing

    Drew Goddard, who has worked on everything from The Martian to The Good Place, will write...

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    The Best Queer Batman Parody You Almost Never Saw

    When Vera Drew set out to make The People’s Joker her goal was to tell a...

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    The Future of Video Games Is ... Reality TV?

    When you play The Crush House, it’s your job to capture the drama and please “the...

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    The 25 Best Shows on Apple TV+ Right Now

    From The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin to Constellation, here’s everything you need to be watching...

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    A 'House of the Dragon' Star Made a Video Game to Grieve His Father

    Abubakar Salim lost his father a decade ago. The actor and creative director embraced "gamifying" grief...

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    A Haunted Discord Server Is the Last Good Place Online

    In the indie game This Discord Has Ghosts In It, your mission is—prepare yourself!—to communicate.

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    The 16 Best Movies on Amazon Prime Right Now

    From Everybody's Talking About Jamie to Bottoms, these are the must-watch films on Amazon Prime Video.

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    Welcome (Back) to Beyoncé’s Internet

    The release of Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter exposes the tenor of online fandom today—and the fiction of...

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    Disney+ Has a New Look—Which Is No Look at All

    If you thought Disney’s app looked different this week, you’re right. Welcome to the dull days...

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    ‘Dune: Part Two’ Is a Religious Experience

    Denis Villeneuve's new Dune film has won over longtime fans of Frank Herbert's novel. Still, some...

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    Kate Middleton Conspiracists Are Recreating the Streisand Effect

    The altered photo of Kate Middleton and her family that went viral last week was supposed...

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    'Super Mario Bros. Wonder' Almost Had a Live-Action Mario

    If you’re having flashbacks to Bob Hoskins circa 1993, don’t worry. Super Mario Bros. Wonder’s live-action...

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    GameScent Wants You to Smell the Gunfire While You Play Video Games

    GameScent’s AI-powered console peripheral gives new meaning to gamer smells. It also may give you a...

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    The 27 Best Movies on Hulu This Week

    From Poor Things to All of Us Strangers, here’s everything you need to watch on Hulu...

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    Europe’s Biggest Salt Mine Is Now in 'Minecraft,' and It’s Helping Ukraine Rebuild

    The Soledar Salt Mine in eastern Ukraine shut down in early 2022 amidst the Russian invasion....

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    Netflix’s '3 Body Problem' Adapts the Unadaptable

    For their next trick, Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D. B. Weiss are tackling...

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    The Filmmaker Who Says AI Is Reparations

    Before he used AI tools to make his movies, Willonius Hatcher couldn’t get noticed. Now his...

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    The 35 Best Shows on Hulu Right Now

    From Shōgun to Feud: Capote vs. the Swans, here’s everything you should be watching on Hulu...

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    What Happens When a Guy and His AI Girlfriend Go to Therapy

    In Sierra Greer's new novel, Annie Bot, a man named Doug finds out what it means...

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    ‘Photographer’ Isn’t About Photography at All

    National Geographic’s new show, Photographer, doesn’t bother itself with analyzing images. It’s all about the drive...