It’s hard to imagine a world without Doom. In 1993, the game burst onto the scene with a chainsaw and a rocket launcher ...

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Mortal Kombat 11 marks 27 years of the series. An entire generation of gamers has grown to adulthood and had kids of their ...

“You know what the toughest part about being a gay black police office is? The discrimination. I believe that is what you call ...

How much does a story change as it wends through the centuries, long outliving its first tellers? Can its essence really remain the ...

This article contains spoilers for Avengers: Endgame. Iron Man shouldn’t have worked. The star actor was a scandal-ridden has been, the director was ...

I’m not a monster. Of course I think the chocobo is adorable. As any warm-blooded human being who loves his family and puts ...

Spider-Man 2 obliterated the secret identity. Once a comic book film staple, the conceptual importance of superhero alter egos has dwindled to near ...

Ned Stark: When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies, but the pack survives. Tywin Lannister: The lion ...

Across five weeks in 1919, the pulp magazine All-Story published an adventure novel by Johnston McCulley called The Curse of Capistrano and then ...

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“You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.” Harvey Dent, the hero district attorney destined ...