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A Race the Whole World Is Watching

Taiwo Aina for The New York Times The race to decide this year’s English soccer champion has captivated fans. But…

Arts

A Gun-Toting Crab Confronts a Fiendishly Tough Video Game Genre

With a rare suite of accessibility options for the Soulslike genre, Another Crab’s Treasure challenges the idea that difficulty is…

Politics

Why Indoor Soccer is the Beautiful Game at Its Best

In its flamboyance and entertainment factor, it embodies the spirit of street soccer, the real roots of the game.

Arts

A Video Game Made Out of Brick, Clay and Tenacity

The handcrafted Harold Halibut, about a hapless janitor stuck in an undersea city, was more than a decade in the…

World

Navigating a Virtual Australia in Postapocalyptic Ruins

The role-playing game Broken Roads takes its environment seriously. The Aussie slang, the reddish outback soil, even the ruffling of…

Arts

Welcome, Vault Dwellers: A Guide to the Fallout Universe

The war-scarred ghouls and bulky power armor seen in three decades of video games arrive in the new TV show…

World

The Bizarre Chinese Murder Plot Behind Netflix’s ‘3 Body Problem’

Lin Qi, a billionaire who helped produce the science-fiction hit, was poisoned to death by a disgruntled executive. His attacker…

Arts

Flau’Jae Johnson Won a Basketball Title, Then Teamed Up With Lil Wayne

The sophomore guard is prepping collaborations with hip-hop heavyweights like Lil Wayne and NLE Choppa as she helps L.S.U. defend…

Arts

A Game Designer’s Lifelong Pursuit of Action Nirvana

Hideaki Itsuno helped shape the fighting genre in the 1990s with Street Fighter. Now he’s applying similar ideas to the…

Arts

Hollywood Actors Are Leaping Into Video Games

Onscreen stars have increasingly been going virtual. Jodie Comer and David Harbour are making their video game debuts in a…

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