Magic: The Gathering has been going hard on the brand crossovers through its “Universes Beyond” line this year with the likes of Doctor Whoand Lord of the Rings. Over the next few years, that expansion is set to continue, with more big-name franchises added to the line—namely video games.

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Kaiju No. 8's New Trailer Is a Gross, Monstrous Origin Story
Kaiju stories often live and die not just on the monster itself, but whoever’s fighting against (or with) it. Whether it’s the military, other monsters, or giant robots, part of the fun can be seeing what’s able to go blow-for-blow with a massive beast that shoots fire out of its eyes or some such.

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Johnny Knoxville Loved Collectibles | First Fandoms
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Card Heist Occurs at Gen Con 2023, Over $300K's Worth Stolen
Gen Con 2023 is in full swing, but the day before the festivities started, a heist occurred on the show floor.

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New Dungeons & Dragons Sourcebook Features AI Generated Art
One of the artists working on Dungeons & Dragons’ newest book—Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants!, has stated that they used AI to help generate “certain details or polish and editing” in a recent post on X, on the site formerly known as Twitter. Ilya Shkipin, who drew the art in question, has deleted his posts, but…
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Black Adam Didn't Get a Sequel Literally Because the Hierarchy of Power Changed
Warner Bros.’ plans for its DC movies have shifted enough times that even Mystique would tell the company to chill, and last year’s Black Adamonly served to further complicate things. Prior to release, its claim to fame was that Dwayne Johnson would finally play a comic book superhero (that he had an iron grip on for…
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The Government's Secret Footage of Nuclear Tests Is Still Eerie Decades Later
Christopher Nolan’s new movie Oppenheimer, eponymously named after the creator of the atomic bomb, has renewed public interest in America’s dark history with nuclear weapons. Nolan’s movie focuses primarily on the “Trinity” test—the first test of an nuclear bomb to occur in the U.S. But for years after Trinity, the…
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem's Director on Making 'a Monster Movie for Kids'
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is a delight for many reasons: the energetic teens who voice the Turtles, its fun embrace of ‘90s culture, its unique animation style, and the way it both honors and advances TMNT lore. But the movie’s more than just a light-hearted nostalgic trip.
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Twitch Star's NYC Event Devolves Into Chaos, Transforming Union Square Into Thunderdome
A social media influencer’s event spun wildly out of control in downtown Manhattan on Friday. For some reason, thousands of people who had turned out to Union Square park to to see Youtube star and Twitch streamer Kai Cenat began rioting, obstructing traffic, and antagonizing police. The unruly crowd eventually…
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Halloween News From Universal Studios Horror Nights, Disney Parks, and More!
There’s a lot of monsters ready to be let out of their crypts for Halloween haunt season.
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A New Witcher Novel Is on the Way
Need something Witcher to sink your teeth to now that Henry Cavill has bid his farewell to the Netflix show? Well, there’s good news: series author Andrzej Sapkowski has revealed he’s working on a new novel set in the world of his fantasy creation.
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ISS Experiment Hopes to Develop Air Conditioning for Future Habitats on Other Worlds
A group of engineers is testing an air conditioning system in space, seeing how two basic processes work in an environment with less gravity than Earth in order to design a system for future habitats on the Moon and Mars.
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Everyone's Favorite Knife-Wielding Robot Returns in Next Week's Futurama
Futurama’s new season continues its examination of 3023 by way of 2023 with next week’s “How the West Was 1010001,” which sees the gang heading to, ahem, Doge City to cash in on the bitcoin mining craze. Like most places they visit, they encounter absurdities, even more puns, and some very shady robot…
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Google Takes a Page Out of Twitter's Book: Invites Employees to Sleep 'On Campus' for a Fee
Google is trying to lure employees back to the office by offering a special for its on-campus hotel in Mountain View, California. The special will run through Sept. 30 and is serving as another attempt for Google to establish the new norm of a hybrid work-from-home schedule.
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Canada’s Wildfire Smoke Smashes Annual Pollution Record in Just Seven Months
Widespread wildfires across Canada have broken a carbon pollution record this year, a European climate monitoring agency said this week.
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Creating Dracula for The Last Voyage of the Demeter
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More Than a Meme: Artists See the GIF Format as a Beautiful Medium for Perpetual Art
There’s something about an elevator that touches on the very nature of the .GIF format. There’s a repetition to its design, a cyclical nature of destination and return, a permanent transience. It loops, constantly, permanently. What changes is the people who are there to inhabit it—or witness it.
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Google Needs Its Own Genius Bar, How About the Geek Squad?
Samsung isn’t the only phone maker expanding its quick-fix repair network. 9to5Google reports that Google will set up Pixel repair kiosks within select Best Buy locations to rival the Korean electronics giant’s new line of repair shops and Apple’s Genius Bar.

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Show Us Your Baldur's Gate 3 Characters
The time has come—after six years of waiting, and three of those spent in early access, Baldur’s Gate 3 has finally released on PC. If you’ve already started gathering your party and venturing forth, we want to see the characters you’ve come up with to venture into this latest D&D adventure.

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Los Angeles Has a Growing Typhus Problem, Thanks to the Fleas
A disease spread by fleas is becoming more common and deadlier in Los Angeles, California. In a new report this week, health officials say that recorded cases of flea-borne typhus have steadily risen in LA since 2010, with the highest tally seen last year. Additionally, three people are thought to have died from…
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Musical Episode Songs, Ranked
Strange New Worlds’ musical episode dropped this week, giving us a wonderful, all-singing all-dancing hour of Star Trek. But now that we’ve had a chance to give the Enterprise crew’s showtunes a few repeat listens, we’re ready to declare which hit the high notes and which should’ve been left on the cutting room floor.

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Lorcana Hopefuls Wait in Line for 14 Hours for Disney Magic
An older woman with steel gray hair, wearing a tiara and a stylish red dress-suit combo, sits at the front of the Lorcana line at Gen Con 2023, explaining to a group of four younger men what happened that morning. She has a diagram. This is Esther Emerald. That’s not her real name; that’s her character’s name for a …
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