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Sports
A Race the Whole World Is Watching
Taiwo Aina for The New York Times The race to decide this year’s English soccer champion has captivated fans. But…
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Sports
A Race the Whole World Is Watching
Taiwo Aina for The New York Times The race to decide this year’s English soccer champion has captivated fans. But…
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Books
A Gun-Toting Crab Confronts a Fiendishly Tough Video Game Genre
With a rare suite of accessibility options for the Soulslike genre, Another Crab’s Treasure challenges the idea that difficulty is…
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Style
Why Indoor Soccer is the Beautiful Game at Its Best
In its flamboyance and entertainment factor, it embodies the spirit of street soccer, the real roots of the game.
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Books
A Video Game Made Out of Brick, Clay and Tenacity
The handcrafted Harold Halibut, about a hapless janitor stuck in an undersea city, was more than a decade in the…
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World
Navigating a Virtual Australia in Postapocalyptic Ruins
The role-playing game Broken Roads takes its environment seriously. The Aussie slang, the reddish outback soil, even the ruffling of…
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Books
Welcome, Vault Dwellers: A Guide to the Fallout Universe
The war-scarred ghouls and bulky power armor seen in three decades of video games arrive in the new TV show…
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World
The Bizarre Chinese Murder Plot Behind Netflix’s ‘3 Body Problem’
Lin Qi, a billionaire who helped produce the science-fiction hit, was poisoned to death by a disgruntled executive. His attacker…
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Books
Flau’Jae Johnson Won a Basketball Title, Then Teamed Up With Lil Wayne
The sophomore guard is prepping collaborations with hip-hop heavyweights like Lil Wayne and NLE Choppa as she helps L.S.U. defend…
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Books
A Game Designer’s Lifelong Pursuit of Action Nirvana
Hideaki Itsuno helped shape the fighting genre in the 1990s with Street Fighter. Now he’s applying similar ideas to the…