In a first for the venerable trading card game, Magic: The Gathering publishers Wizards of the Coast are unbanning several cards that had been previously excluded from play. Both High Tide and Prophetic Prism are now legal in the Pauper format, but the change is being made only on a trial basis. No additional cards […]

Jagex, the developer of the long-lived massively multiplayer game RuneScape, has announced a new spinoff: RuneScape: Dragonwilds, an open-world survival and crafting game in the style of Valheim, Ark, and Minecraft. RuneScape: Dragonwilds will launch into early access on Steam in spring 2025. It’s set in the trad-fantasy world of the cult 2001 MMO, but […]

Writer Kij Johnson has always used animals to tell the stories of people. That’s how the writer and designer of Kobold Press’ upcoming tabletop role-playing game RiverBank put it to me in our recent email exchange. Like the novel it’s inspired by — The River Bank, Johnson’s 2017 sequel to Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in […]

Ketchup Entertainment, the production company that recently brought The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie to theaters, has acquired the rights to Coyote vs. Acme, and plans to bring the completed, canned live-action/animated hybrid comedy to theaters, the company announced Monday. In 2023, Warner Bros. Discovery determined that it would write Coyote […]

It was already announced that Black Mirror season 7 would be giving us a high-profile sequel to one of its biggest episodes, 2017’s Star Trek-inflected “USS Callister”. But the season 7 trailer — released by Netflix along with episode titles, cast info, and more on Monday — teased another sequel episode: a follow-up to the […]