10 best donghua shows that rival Japan's biggest anime
…Like those Japanese series, The King's Avatar similarly drops you into a digital video game-focused narrative with RPG and multiplayer elements. Ye Xiu is a top-tier in the in…
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5 years later, Returnal still hasn’t been matched — and maybe never will be
…Five years later, I still find myself haunted by Returnal ’s punishing combat, but even more so by its chilling narrative. In Returnal , you play as Selene, a deep-space scout who…
This is the undersung legend who made Zelda weird
…But the full flowering of Tezuka's unassuming, quietly oddball personality in his art came with The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening on Game Boy in 1993. Tezuka led that project…
The best Dragon Ball movie for Piccolo stans is now streaming on Hulu
…Super Hero , the 2022 3D CG film (a first for the franchise) that gave Piccolo his flowers. Unlike pretty much every Dragon Ball story ever, Super Hero mostly sidelines the series’ two…
This psychedelic TTRPG turns your bookshelf into a DM tool
…If a player succeeds in an action, they gain “narrative control” of that scene and are allowed to describe it as they see fit. If they fail, the GM will introduce a…
Tom Hanks' critically reviled conspiracy thriller predicted an inescapable sci-fi trend
…Howard’s film uses the cyclical ebb and flow of this formula to balance out high-octane action and exposition dumps. Langdon’s location-hopping quest is also an excuse to bask…
Monte Cook says you'll never beat his newest megadungeon
…When — and if — the end comes, it’ll occur because it fits the narrative. Jewel in the Sky is meant to be explored, interpreted, and, in some cases, totally misunderstood. Cook is…
10 perfect manga you can read on Crunchyroll Manga
…The Netflix series was released almost a year ago, and it was celebrated as one of the most skin-crawling narratives in recent memory. As the title suggests, Indo Hikaru meets an…
The League of Legends TCG beats Magic: The Gathering in one major way
…The Gathering booster packs in my lifetime, and the process has its own sort of narrative flow: if it’s one of my first packs from a particular set, I’ll go…
It's not just Mixtape: 2026 is unexpectedly the year of the music game
…Arkham series’ free-flowing combat and drops it into a rhythm game. Your goal is to hunt down a gaggle of evil idols by beating up their minions to the beat of…