2024, like every year since 2020, was a monumental year for tabletop role-playing games. While Wizards of the Coast put out the highly anticipated update to Dungeons & Dragons 5e — One D&D, D&D 5.5e, D&D 2024, pick your favorite nom de game — the ecosystem of TTRPGs has a budding crop of designers, and […]

Bluey’s ascension in the pop culture canon continues. Not only will the Australian animated series about cartoon dogs aimed at young kids be turned into a movie in 2027; this year, it will be bestowed with the ultimate franchise status symbol: Lego sets. Lego announced Thursday that six Bluey sets will be released in 2025. […]

Marvel Rivals has brought back the joys of Overwatch in its heyday: goofy hero interactions, legendary plays, and, of course, critical mistakes that cost the entire match. Overwatch’s infamous “C9” meme has made a comeback and one of the former esports players responsible for it wishes it didn’t. “MARVEL RIVALS’ BOOMING POPULARITY MEANS A TON […]

Cooking sims run the gamut of intensity, but if Diner Dash is at the sweating-bullets end of the spectrum, Galaxy Burger is at the other end. This space-themed burger flipping game, developed by Galactic Workshop, is dripping with the weird — astronaut cats, delivery bots, aliens, and elvish humans are your customers across the various […]

R.F. Kuang’s Nebula and Locus Award-winning fantasy novel Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence is widely adored. Polygon considered one of the best SFF novels of 2022. For instance, my colleague Sadie Gennis loved it enough to buy the hardcover version for herself and as gifts for two of her friends, even though she already […]