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Sonic 3 is a speedrun through the franchise scrapyard, yet it works

Though the three Sonic the Hedgehog movies have charms of their own, they’ve also clearly benefited from a confluence of lucky breaks in order to reach their rarefied beloved-franchise status. The generally poor track record of previous video game adaptations; the release of the first movie before COVID closed theaters and of the second one […]

This fan favorite class is getting D&D 2024’s first playtest

“It’s been a minute since we’ve done this,” says Todd Kenreck in Dungeons & Dragon’s latest YouTube video, “but we have a new Unearthed Arcana.” Sitting across from him is a smiling Jeremy Crawford, D&D’s lead rules designer, who says he is “so glad that the first Unearthed Arcana after the new Player’s Handbook and […]

How to get Mew in Pokémon TCG Pocket

There are a number of ways to get Mew in Pokémon TCG Pocket — you can get one type of Mew card from the Genetic Apex expansion, and five types in December 2024’s Mythical Island expansion. For the Genetic Apex version of Mew, you can’t simply pull the card from the expansion’s booster packs. Instead, […]

Fellow Helldivers 2 players, I think Super Earth might be fibbing about the Illuminate

It’s a tumultuous time to be a Helldiver. Not only are the cowardly Illuminate back after a century-long disappearance, but they’re kidnapping Super Earth citizens and turning them into horrifying monsters known as the Voteless. This doesn’t even begin to cover the schemes of the other two factions: the Automatons, who are creeping closer toward […]

The AAA24 membership is a great gift idea for movie lovers

If you know someone who unironically loves A24 as much as comedian Carmen Christopher ironically does, there’s a membership out there that’d make for an amazing gift. AAA24 is a $99 per year club that delivers perks upon perks. To name a few: they’ll get a ticket to every A24 movie on opening weekend at […]