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The title screen for Saga of the Phoenix from the trailer with text of the title in red on black with a lightning bolt in the middle

Life in the Human World is Far from Perfect: Watching Saga of the Phoenix (1989) Without Knowing What’s Going On

By Orrin Grey • January 8th, 2026

The Hell Virgin is actually a pretty good-natured sort.

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A photograph of two Conan board game boxes, both featuring the shirtless warrior, but one he's facing an army of enemies and the other he stands over their corpses as the sun sets

The Age of High Adventure: Conan on the Tabletop

By Orrin Grey • July 14th, 2025

For a long time, Conan was probably the second most recognizable fantasy property around.

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A mashup of the boxes for Hybrid and Claustrophobia, with stylized typefaces, big guys with guns, blue and red and green all over the place

Versus Mode: Claustrophobia x Hybrid

By Orrin Grey • June 13th, 2025

So, which one’s the winner? I dunno, I haven’t actually played either of them!

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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.

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The box art for Tidal Blades Heroes of the Reef cropped in on the title though we can still see a rich blue sky, green specked islands and houses and trees, the back of a hero with a sword and an elder in a straw had speaking to the hero

Heroes of the Reef: The Art and World of Tidal Blades

By Orrin Grey • January 29th, 2025

To prove your mettle, you must compete in a tournament.

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A photo of a game of Warhammer Underworlds in action with a hex map, cards on a table, several six-sided dice, and many miniatures of various warriors, with bows, swords, and other weapons

Mad About Underworlds: In This Case, I Mean Mad as in Angry

By Orrin Grey • November 12th, 2024

The Warhammer: Underworlds warbands have a level of personality that larger armies simply can’t, with each individual model given a name, special rules, and some character that help it to pop.

Crop of the cover of the two-pack set of Clash of the Titans and Wrath of the Titans, with a sword weilding Kratos, a cyclops, and a pegasus riding Persues

No Gods, No Masters: When Titans Ruled Blu-ray

By Orrin Grey • September 20th, 2024

Clash of the Titans came out during the baffling moment when Sam Worthington was being cast as the lead in everything.

The Sorcerers’ Enclave

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • July 22nd, 2024

You know the Necromancer is always going to be trouble.

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A crop of the cover of the rulebook for Dreadfleet with a pirate with a mossy back and horned red pirate hat and golden chin

Blood and Plunder: Finding Lost Treasure (Though Maybe Not the Kind You Want) in Dreadfleet

By Orrin Grey • June 21st, 2024

Just as Dreadfleet is one of the last games released before Warhammer’s “Old World” became the “Mortal Realms” of Age of Sigmar, it is also one of the last gasps of an aesthetic style that had once defined the brand but was already on the way out.

A screenshot from Baldur's Gate 3's infamous bear sex scene, but it's just a picture of a bear with a sly desire in his eye and a wet nose

I Want to Make Love to a Bear: Sex, Society and Baldur’s Gate 3

By Adan Jerreat-Poole • May 29th, 2024

How might we reimagine our relationship to the environment – in our own context of climate change, deforestation, and mass extinctions – if we understood bear sex as a metaphor for falling in love with the natural world?

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