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O utside a botanical garden gift shop on the northern shore of the most remote place on earth, rests a reproduction of an ancient board game, chiseled into a block of black stone, its 88 rocks and coral bits resting in 88 divots as if waiting for you to play. …

Sept. 17 marked the series finale of The Summer I Turned Pretty, the hit YA adaptation that grew from a one-off Amazon Prime show to one of the defining romance series for ages 16 to 30. The story follows Isabel Belly Conklin (Lola Tung) and her love affair with the …

Ever wonder if a video game just downright hates you? Maybe that’s silly; it’s an experience, not a sentient thing. But Hollow Knight: Silksong will make you ask. The long-awaited sequel to Team Cherry’s modern Metroidvania classic, Hollow Knight (2017), Silksong dominated the conversation for years well before it was …

Dozens of Americans across a variety of professional fields have been fired or put on leave from their jobs after conservatives contacted their employers over social media comments they made about right-wing activist Charlie Kirk last week, following his assassination. Others have been punished for small acts of defiance — …

After Ariel Fulmer’s life collapsed, she hopped out of her husband’s car and walked around a New Jersey airport with no sense of direction. “The aftermath of that was messy,” Ariel tells Rolling Stone. “I was sitting in the airport waiting for a flight that was [almost] six hours later, …

It’s never easy to come second. For a long time post-1988, any action movie that took place in a single location was slapped with the descriptor of “Die Hard in a…” The same’s true for gaming. Every so often, a release comes along that’s so singular, it cements its own …

Three grieving parents delivered harrowing testimony before Congress on Tuesday, describing how their children had self-harmed — in two cases, taking their own lives — after sustained engagement with AI chatbots. Each accused the tech companies behind these products of prioritizing profit over the safety of young users, saying that …

For as long as video games have had stories, there have been creators working to make their narratives more cinematic. Early on, in works like Hideo Kojima’s Metal Gear (1987) and Snatcher (1988), that meant making action- or text-based experiences that rudimentarily emulated the visuals or plot devices of movies. …

Luigi Mangioneappeared today in New York state court in Manhattan as part of a pretrial court appearance for charges brought against him in the Dec. 4, 2024, murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Mangione, who has pleaded not guilty to all state and federal charges against him, had his …

Former Try Guys member Ned Fulmer is finally stepping back into the spotlight, three years after the viral extramarital cheating scandal that got him kicked out of YouTube group The Try Guys. Before September 2022, the Try Guys were known as a well-established viral content production company born from the …