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Can David Tennant’s return to Doctor Who usher in another golden age?
Russell T. Davies’ run on Doctor Who was the stuff of TV and internet legend
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Stardew Valley Expanded exceeded its creator’s wildest dreams
With over 1.8 million unique downloads, the mod has a thriving community of its own
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Video game company layoffs are creating an industry crisis
‘People were just an expense. They don’t necessarily care about the human impact’
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Warhammer Records: Brian May, bungled tours, and 40,000 hard rock anthems
After the release of 40K, Games Workshop set its sights on a new prize: the music industry
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Hellboy Web of Wyrd’s creators on working with Lance Reddick: ‘We were just in awe’
‘We’re really happy we got to have him as our Hellboy’
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Microsoft wants AI to solve problems devs say they don’t actually have
Some developers aren’t so sure about the technology
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A binder of vampire fanfic cast my mother’s struggle with AIDS in a new light
A family’s shared supernatural obsession takes on a new dimension after a life cut short
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Global weirding is coming for the bloodsuckers
Climate change is making real life a horror film for everyone, bloodsuckers included
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Blue Eye Samurai is ‘revenge’ for one of Hollywood’s most underappreciated action directors
Jane Wu’s career of designing fights and spectacle pays off in the Netflix adrenaline rush
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Matthew Perry wasn’t afraid to be flawed
His best-known role of Chandler on Friends laid the groundwork for Perry’s unique, awkward blend
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How Spider-Man 2’s star put Venom in Peter’s voice: ‘Once or twice I hurt myself’
Yuri Lowenthal talks vocal stress, AI, and the possible strike
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YouTube has AI creator tools, but creators are too busy battling AI to care
Artificial intelligence is making it easier for creators to recreate others’ content
When Evil Lurks’ director says his staggering horror movie is really about pesticide
Demián Rugna walks us through his inspirations and why he made a horror movie about bureaucracy
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The director of Blair Witch 2 explains where it all went wrong
Documentarian Joe Berlinger reflects on one of his darkest moments: trying to make a smart Blair Witch sequel
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Kick was the ghost that haunted TwitchCon
The spotlight was on Twitch this weekend. Mostly.
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How a Twitch streamer is transforming the Brazilian League of Legends scene
The creator of the biggest unofficial League of Legends tournament in Brazil is ready for more
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While D&D reckons with its racist past, this actual play is way ahead of the curve
Transplanar RPG ‘started with ideals of trans representation at the table’
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Twitch is the best way to watch sports, when you can actually watch sports on Twitch
In recent years, sports fans have flocked to a new type of coverage
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Our Flag Means Death’s Calypso party was designed for you to throw your own
Let loose and celebrate the most ostentatious fake holiday on the calendar
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Fame as we knew it has been obliterated
Streaming and social media have spread the wealth
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How Zelda speedrunning inspired cursed Zelda mods
For PointCrow, creative playthroughs and mods are another way to get into games
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Hollywood is going to come for D&D actual plays sooner or later — will they survive?
The mainstream success of actual plays is inevitable, and we might be getting a glimpse into the future
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10 horror directors reveal the scariest movies they ever saw
‘Only time in my movie-watching career that I bailed out. […] I was like, Oh fuck, and I just turned it off’
Rhys Darby and the Our Flag Means Death cast have a lot of paranormal opinions
A SAG-strike-friendly NYCC 2023 panel still got rowdy
Our Flag Means Death’s creator on his pirates’ romance: ‘They’re 14-year-olds, emotionally’
David Jenkins shares how the fandom shaped season 2 and why all fanfic is just fic
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The comics industry has left creators to drown, so some are building lifeboats
Cooperatives, basic income, and solidarity in the wake of #ComicsBrokeMe
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Invasion’s big season 2 alien needed to be both blobby and emotionally grounded
Simon Kinberg wanted the Entity to register as a ‘higher life form’ than the aliens we’ve seen so far
Prey upended expectations — now there are high ones for Prey 2
And director Dan Trachtenberg knows it
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Is The Exorcist really ‘the scariest horror movie ever made’?
A look back at The Exorcist’s 50-year legacy, impact, and reputation as the scariest horror movie of all time
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Wheel of Time’s showrunner wanted you to be ‘100% in love’ with those bad guys
Rafe Judkins talks season 3, the Forsaken, and the Seanchan in season 2’s finale