What ‘Hades’ Can Teach Us About Ancient Greek Masculinity
We can’t imagine that most, if any, men looked like kuoroi—Zag himself represents such an ideal. Kuoroi are more like
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The Bygone Glory of Blockbuster’s ‘Pokémon Snap’ Station
Courtesy of RealBreakingNate If you didn’t own Pokémon Snap, you could play a short demo of it on the Pokémon
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With ‘Discovery,’ ‘Star Trek’ Is Finally Moving Forward
In Season 3 of Star Trek: Discovery, Michael Burnham and the rest of the Discovery crew have been transported into
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Wikipedia Is Basically a Massive RPG
The first-ever edit to Wikipedia took place on January 15, 2001. Today, the online encyclopedia officially turns 20 years old,
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Why TikTok (and Everyone Else) Is Singing Sea Chanteys
The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes,
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How Old-School Text Adventures Inspired Our Virtual Spaces
Lilybet Skatilar is a level 9 human bard wearing a shimmering rainbow cloak, fur-lined snow boots, a stylish purple scarf,
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5 Next-Gen Console Games You Should Actually Care About
It’s not Halo 6, though. Developer 343 Industries ditched the numbering convention (due to Microsoft’s wishes) for the latest entry.
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Scientists Have Sequenced Dire Wolf DNA. Thanks, Science!
Dire wolves: first of their name, last of their kind. Yes, you read that correctly. According to new research published
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How a Decade-Old Game Helped Me Cope with Seasonal Depression
“This Vitamin D better work,” I thought bitterly to myself as I tilted a brown plastic supplement bottle into my
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Lucasfilm Games’ New Partnerships Mean the Galaxy’s the Limit
Today, Lucasfilm Games announced that it’s entering a partnership with Ubisoft to create an open-world Star Wars game. The title
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