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The medium of animation is extremely vast and versatile. Even if you narrow it down to just anime (animation produced in Japan), there are so many different genres and tones that making any sort of comprehensive list is a near-impossible task (but you better believe we’ve tried). Despite what some Academy members may think, anime…

DC Comics has made a science out of the 12-issue maxiseries. There’s something about a 12-issue series that you can’t get with a shorter book. It feels more weighty than the normal miniseries, giving creators the page real estate they need to tell a complete story. The best example of this is, as usual, Watchmen;…

TV

Spies, Pogues, Kooks, and an optimistic soccer coach are among the popular characters returning in must-see TV shows in August. They are joined by employees of an interplanetary delivery service, doppelgangers from an alternate reality, and five terrible people known as “the Gang.” From an Irish pub in Philadelphia to an island off the coast…

These are difficult times for the video game industry—and that’s putting it lightly. Normally, when faced with a rat king of existential threats involving tastes, economics, and generational turnover, I’d be the last person to subscribe to a simple solution. But in this one instance, I think I’ve found the silver bullet everyone’s been desperately…

Xbox experienced a strange outage earlier this week. Not only were the platform’s online services unavailable for almost an entire day, but even games on physical discs stopped working for some players. The company’s technology chief, Scott Van Vliet, explained that the outage was caused by problems at an external licensing service. And if your…