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A screenshot of Yakuza 5 I think where Shun Akiyama is wearing a red suit and lighting a cigarette with money that is on fire

I Used to Love Yakuza’s Shun Akiyama, Until I Realized How Much He Hates Women

By Hiero de Lima • April 16th, 2025

One of the Yakuza’s most adored protagonists is also a constant mouthpiece for its most naked misogyny.

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The Animated Robots of 2024

By Van Dennis • April 1st, 2025

What’s suddenly relevant about cartoon robots right now?

Here's the Thing

Three Felynes from Monster Hunter World stand shoulder-to-shoulder, awaiting conversation with the player.

Why Monster Hunter World Pisses Me Off

By Rob Rich • April 18th, 2025

Rob’s been a fan of the Monster Hunter series for quite some time, but there’s something Monster Hunter World does that really pisses him off.

Forms in Light

Several stone ruins stand in a sun-drenched Hyrule Field in a screenshot from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

Living Legends Trapped in Time

By Justin Reeve • April 18th, 2025

In Tears of the Kingdom, the ruins of the Zonai are not just forgotten relics but active agents in the story of Hyrule.

Senjutsu, Side A

By Ed Coleman and Stu Horvath • April 18th, 2025

The final Iron Maiden album (so far)!

Dialogue

A crop of Jules Bastien-Lepage's Joan of Arc (1879), showing the young woman leaning wearily against a tree in a lush, overgrown garden.

A Dialogue with Grace Benfell

By Autumn Wright • April 17th, 2025

“I think people are very afraid – and I am very afraid, I’m not immune to this at all – of people laughing at their lives.”

Casting Deep Meteo

A screenshot from Eternal Strands shows a fighter preparing to take on a massive opponent wearing a flaming helmet.

The Savory Surprise of Eternal Strands

By Levi Rubeck • April 17th, 2025

One day it seemed to just descend, a videogame-ass videogame looking to do its thing and do it with style.

Totally Generic

Saruman evilly ponders his orb in this still from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings.

No One Has Actually Read Lord of the Rings

By Natasha Ochshorn • April 16th, 2025

It is really easy to lie about having read a book that many people are familiar with but many fewer accurately remember.

Area of Effect

A stock photo of an oil barrel painted a bright red.

Ka-Boom

By Jay Castello • April 15th, 2025

I truly, genuinely, do not think I have ever been as frustrated with a videogame in my life.

Rookie of the Year

Key art from Stardew Valley shows a valley of rolling green hills beneath turquoise skies filled with white, puffy clouds.

Stardew For Two

By Matt Marrone • April 15th, 2025

All three Marrone males have their own farms. Dad’s is a thriving, end-game affair. Jacob’s is, well, bounding with potential. Peter’s is a total mess.

I Played It, Like, Twice...

Crop of the box art for Dungeon Scrawlers Heroes of Undermountain with cute cartoon drawings of an orc, an elf, and a tiefling wielding markers

Draw!: Reaching the End of the Line in Dungeon Scrawlers

By Orrin Grey • April 14th, 2025

Dungeon Scrawlers has much more in common with the placemat at a fast food restaurant than with a game of Dungeons & Dragons.

What We’re Working On

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • April 14th, 2025

Plan? We don’t need a plan!

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