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fromGameSpot
4 days ago

New The Lord Of The Rings Game Coming From Tomb Raider Studio - Report

Crystal Dynamics is developing a new The Lord of the Rings game, which would be its third game now in development, joining Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis and Tomb Raider: Catalyst.
Video games
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fromJezebel
1 week ago

The King of My Unrealized Mythical Erotica Dreams

Spring inspires imagination and exploration of fantasy erotica, highlighting the appeal of art that transcends traditional boundaries.
Video games
fromKotaku
4 days ago

Hope For A New Open World Lord Of The Rings RPG Is Surging

Warhorse Studios may be developing a Lord of the Rings game, but conflicting rumors and industry challenges create uncertainty.
#project-hail-mary
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fromVulture
1 week ago

Project Hail Mary Is a Star Wars Movie, Basically

Rocky, an alien in Project Hail Mary, is a compassionate, intelligent being with a unique appearance and a strong bond with Dr. Ryland Grace.
Television
fromInverse
2 weeks ago

Amazon's Most Underrated Fantasy Epic Is Getting A Surprising Second Life

Amazon Prime Video is expanding The Wheel of Time universe with new animated series, movies, and video games despite the show's cancellation after Season 3.
fromBoard Game Quest
2 weeks ago

Everbound Review

Everbound uses an 18-card construct to fill out the crew of a pirate ship. You start with your Captain and a twinkle in yer eye. And presumably a ship. Yarrrr. You'll take one of two actions per turn. Draw: Take a card from the Dock. Recruit: Play a card from your hand by paying its icon cost.
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fromKotaku
1 week ago

Expanse: Osiris Reborn Dev Defends Using Gen AI For The RPG

Owlcat Games confirmed generative AI will assist in development, but all final game content will be human-made.
#star-wars
fromInverse
1 week ago
Video games

26 Years Later, A New Star Wars RPG Is Blending The Best Of Both Eras

Star Wars: Zero Company combines XCOM's tactical gameplay with exploration mechanics from Jedi: Fallen Order, creating a unique RPG experience.
fromInverse
1 month ago
Film

The Biggest Star Wars Canon Twist Of The Decade Had A Surprising Tolkien Connection

The Acolyte reveals Darth Plagueis in a shadowy, Gollum-inspired cameo—an evocative High Republic-era introduction that rewards recognition without spoiling the mystery.
Video games
fromInverse
1 week ago

26 Years Later, A New Star Wars RPG Is Blending The Best Of Both Eras

Star Wars: Zero Company combines XCOM's tactical gameplay with exploration mechanics from Jedi: Fallen Order, creating a unique RPG experience.
Television
fromInverse
2 weeks ago

10 Years Ago, One Conflicted Sci-Fi Reboot Dropped A Wild Finale

The 2009-2011 V reboot served as a transitional bridge between eras of science fiction television, featuring Morena Baccarin's standout performance as the alien leader Anna.
History
fromMedievalists.net
3 weeks ago

10 Ways Video Games Have Rewritten the Middle Ages - Medievalists.net

Video games have become a primary way modern audiences encounter the Middle Ages, creating a distinctive form of medievalism shaped by gameplay mechanics that emphasizes warfare and reshapes historical reality.
fromDefector
3 weeks ago

Dan Simmons Is Dead So It's Time To Read 'Hyperion' | Defector

This is a shame, because his best work belongs with the greats of fantasy, horror, and sci-fi. Summer of Night is a tighter, more satisfying version of Stephen King's It. Carrion Comfort is a brick-sized epic about psychic vampires that reads as breezily as a trade paperback. The Terror, which inspired the well-regarded show, is for its first three-quarters a brilliant and non-supernatural speculative take on a real doomed Arctic expedition.
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fromInverse
1 month ago

A Star Wars Writer Is Writing A Game Of Thrones Movie - But There's A Catch

Game of Thrones franchise expands with multiple projects in development, including a theatrical film about Aegon's Conquest written by Beau Willimon, competing with another Aegon's Conquest project by Mattson Tomlin.
Django
fromInverse
1 month ago

One Canceled Star Wars Show Almost Solved A Big Jedi Mystery

The Acolyte showrunner confirmed Yoda would have helped cover up crimes in Season 2, revealing the Jedi master's capacity for moral compromise and explaining his willingness to bend ethics for the greater good.
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fromSlate Magazine
4 weeks ago

Something Strange Is Happening With Books. It Could Reshape Literary Culture.

BookTok readers increasingly prefer first-person narrative perspective in romance and fantasy novels, viewing third-person narration as unnecessarily complex and off-putting.
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fromJezebel
4 weeks ago

Sarah J. Maas Is My Fantasy Daddy

Sarah J. Maas is releasing two interconnected books in October 2026 and January 2027, designed to be read as one massive story, showcasing her commitment to her creative vision.
Video games
fromKotaku
3 weeks ago

I Fell In Love With Highguard And Now It's Gone Forever - Kotaku

Highguard, a multiplayer shooter that shut down after three months, provided deeply enjoyable late-night gaming experiences despite initial bland impressions and negative community reception.
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fromKotaku
3 weeks ago

Mythmatch Is An Anti-Capitalist RPG That Will Brighten Your Day

Mythmatch combines merger game mechanics with RPG elements in a premium, ad-free game featuring Greek mythology, anti-capitalism themes, and altruism without exploitative monetization practices.
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fromVulture
1 month ago

The Horny Girls Who Walked So Heated Rivalry Could Run

M/M slash fanfiction, often written by women and known as BL in Asia, evolved through fandoms like Star Trek, enabling mainstream successes like Heated Rivalry.
#dunk-and-egg
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Myth, monsters and making sense of a disenchanted world: why everyone is reading fantasy

Fantasy is a dominant, all-pervading cultural form offering diverse subgenres, serious artistic value, and lineages from varied creators and traditions.
Television
fromVulture
1 month ago

Dexter Sol Ansell Has His Own Ideas About Egg's Future

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms presents a lighter, character-focused Targaryen story emphasizing friendship and small-scale adventures over epic violence.
Television
fromBusiness Insider
1 month ago

The 'Knight of the Seven Kingdoms' finale just blew up Dunk and Egg's biggest secrets

The season finale implies Dunk may have lied about his knighthood, introducing new scenes that reshape his identity and future with Egg.
Video games
fromInverse
1 month ago

9 Years Later, A Cult Classic Sci-Fi Franchise Could Finally Get Another Great Game

Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes marks the franchise's return to gaming after nine years, positioning itself as a thoughtful continuation of the celebrated science fiction universe.
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fromThe Walrus
2 months ago

"I Know I'm Not Going to Win": Why People Set Out on Impossible Quests | The Walrus

Liz White relentlessly canvasses for the Animal Protection Party of Canada while openly acknowledging she will not win in an affluent Toronto riding.
fromInverse
2 months ago

Could 2026 Be The Best Year For RPGS Ever?

The last five years have seen a tremendous resurgence of role-playing games, from the turn-based masterpieces of Baldur's Gate 3 and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, to the action-packed Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth. And staggeringly, it looks like that trend is set to continue well into 2026. While there's undoubtedly a handful of games we don't know about, even what we do have looks like it's going to make this another banner year for RPGs.
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Board games
fromBoard Game Quest
2 months ago

Fantasy Realms: Greek Legends Review

Fantasy Realms: Greek Legends is a fast, tactical 2–6-player card game with new artwork, a larger deck, afterlife mechanic, and strategic hand-optimization in 10–20 minutes.
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Another World review kaleidoscopic afterlife fairytale with the dark fury of a Greek tragedy

Another World is a visually stunning, violent fairytale animation exploring human destructiveness and the beauty of the human heart.
#a-knight-of-the-seven-kingdoms
fromSFGATE
1 month ago
Television

HBO's 'Seven Kingdoms' spinoff does something 'Game of Thrones' would never

fromSFGATE
1 month ago
Television

HBO's 'Seven Kingdoms' spinoff does something 'Game of Thrones' would never

fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

Six Books for the Chronic Daydreamer

What is available is the daydream-a limitless realm of freedom. In this other world, one might be famous or rich, finally catch the attention of their beloved, or simply sit on a beach as a waiter brings them cocktails. They might fly or speak to animals, heroically save a child, tell off their boss with no consequences, win the Super Bowl at the whistle, or travel to another continent, planet, or time period. No one can stop them; no one can even object.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror review roundup

Two novels blend science-fiction or supernatural elements with intimate suspense: an alien-linked serial-killer investigation and a Cornish folk horror about ancient sea pacts and sisterhood.
fromGameSpot
2 months ago

Brandon Sanderson Teases Potential "AAA" Mistborn Video Game

I feel I'm finally getting established enough that we can make a Mistborn game happen. ... This is at Step One only, but it's an encouraging One.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror review roundup

Subsequently, runaway children turned the valley into a fortress, surviving on food they could catch or grow, with occasional forays into the towns below. Riley has heard the rumours, but it is only when she sees a green-clad boy or is it a girl? hovering outside her bedroom window offering directions on how to find Nowhere that she realises this might be her chance to escape and save her little brother from their sadistic guardian.
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fromEsquire
2 months ago

The Cosmere Series Is Heading to Apple TV. Is It the Next 'Game of Thrones'?

Apple TV acquired rights to Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere, with Sanderson writing and producing adaptations including Mistborn and The Stormlight Archive.
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fromInverse
1 month ago

Disney Is Really Trying To Make 'Eragon' Happen

Disney+ is developing a live-action Eragon series with Todd Harthan and Todd Helbing as co-showrunners, adapting Christopher Paolini's young adult fantasy.
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fromSlate Magazine
1 month ago

The Big Death in the New Game of Thrones Show Is an All-Timer From George R.R. Martin

Rafe's decision to ransom a mortally wounded man instead of mercy-killing him reveals survival-driven cruelty among Flea Bottom youth.
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fromDefector
2 months ago

'Hades II' Is At War With Itself | Defector

Transistor is a concise, emotionally driven sci-fi action-adventure that balances a tight six-to-eight-hour story, precise design, evocative art, and a strong soundtrack.
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fromGameSpot
1 month ago

Baldur's Gate 3 Publisher Says Morrowind Update Would Be Top Seller

Michael Douse endorses a modern remake of Morrowind with updated combat, asserting it would sell extremely well.
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fromSlate Magazine
1 month ago

The Unlikely Hit That's Popularizing a Whole New Type of Novel

Dungeon Crawler Carl is a bestselling LitRPG series blending RPG mechanics with post-apocalyptic adventure, inspiring fervent cosplay fans and a television adaptation.
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fromInverse
1 month ago

The Buzziest Fantasy Video Game Franchise Of The Decade Is Becoming A Bold TV Series

HBO is developing a Baldur's Gate 3 series led by Craig Mazin that continues the game's story and must adapt player-driven variability for TV.
#baldurs-gate-3
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fromArs Technica
2 months ago

TR-49 is interactive fiction for fans of deep research rabbit holes

Research notes in a cataloged database reveal interlinked authors, hidden computer commands, and an unfolding narrative converging on a metaphysical search and encroaching threat.
#video-games
fromInverse
2 months ago

Who Is Aegon? 'Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms' Shocking Twist, Explained

At long last, the secret behind Egg has been revealed. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is now half over, but now viewers have learned the squire's true identity, something readers of the original Tales of Dunk and Egg books have known from the start. But what does this new secret mean for the future of the show - and the future of Westeros itself? The answer is a lot more complicated than you may think.
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Television
fromEsquire
2 months ago

'A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms' Episode 3 Finally Reveals the Big Secret

Dunk's towering size and soft heart provide comic contrast as episode three deepens the rogues' gallery and centers on Dunk and Egg bonding during jousts.
fromGameSpot
2 months ago

The Stranger Things Finale's Climactic Battle Was Inspired By Baldur's Gate 3

According to Duffer, the show's entire cast of characters found "self-acceptance" through the story and ended up "absolutely primed" going into the final battle. "They're the ultimate team, and it's the party working all together to defeat this thing. And they each have their own individual skills, right?" Duffer said. "And that's where I go back to Dungeons & Dragons, and something like Baldur's Gate. Because that's how you take down these monsters that seem otherwise unstoppable."
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fromInverse
2 months ago

Who Is Dunk? Everything You Need To Know About Ser Duncan The Tall

We don't know much about Dunk's beginnings, but to be fair, he didn't know much either. He grew up an orphan in Flea Bottom, the slum near King's Landing. He had no idea who his parents were, but figured he was an orphan and probably a bastard. (Some fans suggest he could be related to Brienne of Tarth, since he was tall just like her, but that's still unconfirmed.) He made a life by scavenging all kinds of meat for establishments that made "bowls of brown," the go-to food of Flea Bottom.
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fromSlate Magazine
2 months ago

The New Game of Thrones Show Flashes Something ... Huge in Episode 2. It's Not Even the Most Impressive Part.

Jenny G. Zhang: After a series premiere that seemed to be received pretty well by viewers-although the diarrhea smash cut was certainly divisive-we open the second episode of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms with another jump scare: big dong alert, courtesy of Ser Arlan of Pennytree, who is truly packing the heat. (While he is probably not a Best or a Worst Person in Westeros this week, he certainly deserves some kind of title.)
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