Miami Beach Has The Most Ridiculous Debate About GTA 6: ‘We’re Not Giving Away Pistols And Cocaine To People’
Local commissioners voted 4-3 to approve negotiating a marketing campaign after some bizarre grandstanding
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Gary Larson's 10 Best The Far Side Comics, Ranked
What, exactly, is the measure of greatness when it comes to comic strips? The daily newspaper comic is a very limiting art form, with only a few panels — and sometimes even just one panel — to express a joke or a sentiment. Because of its brevity, it's easy to trivialize the…
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33 Years Later, the Best Sci-Fi Show of the '90s Is Officially Streaming for Free
Created by Chris Carter, The X-Files is about a pair of FBI agents who investigate cases involving the paranormal — and Carter interpreted “paranormal” very broadly. The agents investigated everything from aliens to urban legends to ghosts to many other strange goings-on. The…
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Marvel’s Wolverine Has Already Been Consumed By A Debate About ‘Fart Gas’ And It’s Not Even Out Yet
The PS5 blockbuster has been criticized for being too inrails and afraid to trust players
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24 Years Later, the 220-Episode Action Classic That Defined a Generation Is Free to Stream on YouTube
Some anime feel less like TV shows than cultural events woven into the fabric of our childhoods. Dragon Ball Z introduced generations of viewers to the idea that a fight could somehow last 12 episodes and still leave you breathless. Cowboy Bebop proved that anime could blend…
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13 Years Later, Warframe is About to Be Bigger Than Ever
In late 2026, Warframe will take players to Tau, an entirely new solar system. But in what has become the norm for the long-running multiplayer game, creative director Rebecca Ford is looking backward and forward at the same time.
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David Harbour's Santa Goes Full Hunger Games in Violent Night 2 (Exclusive)
Hollywood has given us pretty much every possible version of a Santa Claus movie over the years. We've had good Santa, Bad Santa, Tim Allen Santa, and even evil robot Santa. But in 2022, Violent Night managed to put a fresh spin on the character by combining Santa Claus with the…
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Steel Ball Run Director Says JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Is About to Get Even Weirder
Steel Ball Run uses its 1890s setting to follow a grueling cross-continental horse race across North America with a $50 million grand prize attached to it. Paraplegic ex-jockey Johnny Joestar and the charismatic Gyro Zeppeli team up to win this multi-stage race, but the…
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The scariest survival thriller of 2026 was filmed on sacred land deep in the Amazon
"Look at the giant snake movies that have come before us," Nelson tells Polygon. "With the exception of Anaconda, they're kind of jokes." (To be honest, even Anaconda is kind of a joke, to the point that Jack Black and Paul Rudd turned the concept into a meta-comedy in 2025. And…
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Someone Recreated The Weirdest-Looking Moment From The Big GTA 6 Trailer In Real Life
Turns out Jason's odd backflip is possible, if you are a skilled athlete who loves flipping
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I Played A Game That Turns Tetris Into Doom, And It’s For Babies
A child could do it, if you gave them a gun
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What's Free on Steam This Weekend (Sept. 11-14)
Borderlands 4 is getting a major content drop this week, and Steam players have a convenient excuse to jump into the looter-shooter without paying a cent. The game is one of five PC titles available to play for free on Steam this weekend, giving PC players a pretty strong…
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Final Fantasy 7 Revelation Requires A Download Instead Of Shipping Complete On Multiple Discs To Avoid Compromising The ‘Fidelity’ And ‘Quality’
Director Naoki Hamaguchi defended the move amid the current uproar over physical games
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A Mystery Playtest Could Be For PlayStation’s Fairgames, Giving Us Our First New Look At The MIA Shooter In Over Three Years
We've not seen much about i>Fairgames since it was first revealed in 2023
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The New Apothecary Diaries Game Will Fill The Ace Attorney-Shaped Hole Left In My Heart
If Capcom won't release a new Ace Attorney game, Koei Tecmo has the next best thing
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Virtue and a Sledgehammer hits different. We asked a neuroscientist to explain why.
But today, I’m in a rage room on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, living out my Virtue and a Sledgehammer fantasy. The upcoming narrative adventure game follows Pratelle, a one-woman army who’s out to destroy what’s left of her hometown in rural Spain, armed only with what she…
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Minecraft Reaches Black Mirror Stage After Fly’s Brain Transplanted Into Game
Maybe you've already heard the news that, after a decade of research, scientists were able to map the entire brain of a fruit fly. Perhaps you've also seen the headlines that this fruit fly brain has since been "forced" to play video games like Doom. You may have even come…
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