Scrabble, Anonymous“I’m not bragging. I’m confessing to being addicted to an ostensible word game that occupies more space in my brain than I’d prefer.”
Stop trying to turn Dungeons & Dragons into a Marvel-esque cash cow – it won’t workThe words hit players of the world’s favourite tabletop role playing game like a magic missile straight to the heart.
The Creator Of ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Knows Exactly Where It All Went WrongWhen they were still in arts school in Seattle in the early 1990s, Jesper Myrfors and Sandra Everingham would sometimes look for inspiration by exploring Fort Worden, an abandoned 19th century military base at the entrance of the Puget Sound. To them, it felt like a dwarven ruin.
Indus, Garuda Saga, Detective Dotson, Kamla: How Devs Are Putting 'India' First In Their GamesGaming worlds are a fascinating place to get lost in.
From silent dialogues to vivid memories – here’s how the science of inner experience could transform gamingVideo games are big business. The value of the global market is pushing the US$200 billion mark (£158 billion): bigger than the music industry and Hollywood combined. But the gaming industry has also been facing challenges.
How Artificial Intelligence Is Making 2,000-Year-Old Scrolls Readable AgainWhen Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 C.E., it covered the ancient cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum under tons of ash.
The Counterintuitive Method for Perfect Poached EggsThere are many ways to cook eggs, and most are relatively simple.
Why the Right Dominates When It Comes to Legal “History”This is part of How Originalism Ate the Law, a Slate series about the legal theory that ruined everything.
Welcome to a new era of trans-authored cinemaQueer cinema has always been in a state of continual evolution, but the evolution of trans depiction has come slower, even during agreed-upon golden eras of queer cinema.
Scientists Discover a ‘Phonetic Alphabet’ Used by Sperm Whales, Moving One Step Closer to Decoding Their ChatterSperm whales are highly social creatures that roam the world’s oceans together, diving deep in search of giant squid, their favorite food.
John Milton’s handwritten notes make this 16th century history book a rare findJohn Milton is widely considered to be one of the greatest English poets who ever lived—just ask such luminaries as John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Samuel Jonson, and Voltaire, who once declared, "Milton remains the glory and the wonder of England.
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Kirsten Dunst spells out the meaning of Civil War in one wordless momentAlex Garland’s A24 movie Civil War has kicked off a vast, circular online debate over the way Garland frames his story, with minimal background detail about what led to the titular civil war or what the country’s various factions stand for.
New Volkswagen California camper will put an end to a VW van life eraThe Volkswagen California 6.1 was never the best-looking California in history, dragged down by its oversized double-stacked grille, but it did usher in its fair share of new innovations to the iconic nameplate.
Scientists Imaged and Mapped a Tiny Piece of Human Brain. Here’s What They FoundResearchers have made a digital map showing a tiny chunk of a human brain in unprecedented detail. Based on a brain tissue sample that had been surgically removed from a person, the map represents a cubic millimeter of brain—an area about half the size of a grain of rice.