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Please don’t let the dogs with grappling hooks game die

It’s a fundamental principle of the universe that two things make every video game better: dogs and grappling hooks. Grapple Dogs: Cosmic Canines (released last week on Switch, Steam, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X) has both. Developed by Medallion Games, GD:CC is a delicious

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Polygon’s favorite Dungeons & Dragons accessories

There are so many ways to be a Dungeons & Dragons fan these days. The tabletop RPG mainstay has been synonymous with pen-and-paper adventuring for 50 years now, and 2024 marks a major reworking of its core rulebooks to make the game more approachable. Anyone who’s played even

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9 beginner’s tips before starting Frostpunk 2

Frostpunk 2 is a brutal city builder that will ask what kind of morally dubious decisions you’re willing to make to save humanity from freezing over. It’s a bummer of a game, and loves to kick you while you’re down. But after playing the first few chapters, we’ve learned some

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Rings of Power is wasting Middle-earth’s magic

Magic isn’t an easy thing to depict in fantasy television shows. There are plenty of reasons why the creators of Game of Thrones seemed so eager to shy away from that universe’s most fantastical elements in their adaptation. It breaks the sense of grounded realism that recent

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The best TV of 2024 so far

Nicole Kidman may be right about going to the movies — we do go to that place to laugh, to cry, to care, to see dazzling images on a huge silver screen. But, all but inevitably, eventually, we go home. And it’s there we also find a place where stories can feel like magic. In

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