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I Played It, Like, Twice...

A picture of many of the components for King of Tokyo: Duel, with cards featuring ice aliens, mecha kaiju breathing fire, a city of flashing lights, and dice and tokens

There Can Be Only Two: Fame and Destruction Come in Pairs in King of Tokyo: Duel

By Orrin Grey • February 14th, 2025

Where King of Tokyo is, in essence, a game of king of the hill, Duel is more like tug of war.

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Ronnie Spector

By Ed Coleman • February 3rd, 2025

Board game club experienced a mass hysteria over an album released nearly 45 years ago.

When the Sky Comes Looking for You

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • February 17th, 2025

Who needs the sky, anyway?

Always Autumn

A screenshot from Season shows Estelle standing in a field of purple flowers staring up at monolithic statue.

Estelle and Blue sit and watch the young go by; or, The Final Communion

By Autumn Wright • February 14th, 2025

There is a dam that will bury a religion. But now a girl is riding a bicycle over its crest, and she will write a poem about how the wind felt against her cheeks.

Brave New World, Side B

By Ed Coleman and Stu Horvath • February 14th, 2025

The brave new return to oldness continues!

Casting Deep Meteo

A woman in a flowing dress stands below a massive automata which kneels leaning back on its arms, giving the impression of exhaustion.

Confronting Angelic Horrors with Community and Eldritch Automata

By Levi Rubeck • February 13th, 2025

Death is constantly on call, and the best pilots know when to step away in order to manage their relationships, which are just as vital as any payload.

A crop of the cover of Who Killed Sarah Shaw with a dark orange sky and black trees behind a woman with a worried shadowed look on her face

The Rural Noir of Who Killed Sarah Shaw

By Elijah Beahm • February 12th, 2025

Who Killed Sarah Shaw is an uncompromising, deeply uncomfortable look at the darkness that can lurk behind rural life.

Totally Generic

Nightbitch

By Natasha Ochshorn • February 12th, 2025

The whole fantasy element could be excised neatly from the film without it feeling much different, which is a worrisomely blasé way to come out of a film where someone turns into a dog at night.