If you haven’t heard the news, GameStop is in trouble. It’s been in trouble for years thanks to declining retail sales. Recently the ...

When my friends first started getting into strategy gaming, one of our go-tos was Z-Man games’ Citadels. It’s an elegant game about amassing ...

This weekend Black Panther becomes the first superhero movie to compete for Best Picture at the Academy Awards ⁠— but should other heroes ...

This piece was originally sent to backers of Defense Grid: The Board Game’s Kickstarter. It has been copyedited for clarity. I have gotten ...

James Cameron picked up the rights to make a live-action movie based on Yukito Kishiro’s manga and anime classic Battle Angel Alita back ...

“If Lancelot killed one of Gawain’s brothers while rescuing Guinevere wouldn’t the furies haunt him?” my girlfriend’s youngest daughter asked as I finished ...

Organized labor works. Organized labor improves and saves lives. Organized labor is good for workers, good for consumers and – yes – it’s ...

The DC Extended Universe is an imitative, unoriginal endeavor that has failed not because it’s boring but because it hasn’t been able to ...

Last week I talked about the StarCraft II match between professional players and the AlphaStar AI, where the AI beat the humans 10-0. ...

Yesterday a group of five demigods threw a party. In many ways it was a typical bash, an old-fashioned neighborhood mixer, giving everyone ...

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