It’s got a few key functions covered In the Star Trek universe, a tricorder is a handheld miracle capable of scanning and analyzing just...
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Legend of Vox Machina – D&D Campaign > Stream > Anime?
Roundabout way of getting a D&D story on-screen... During the mysterious early 2020s, a YouTube channel known as Critical Role hit critical...
Dispatch
Dispatch burst onto the scene with a novel premise in an oversaturated superhero market. You play as Robert, a.k.a. Mecha Man, a superhero who...
Electric Cars – Do Androids Dream of Electric Vehicles?
The roads are quietly evolving Year by year, electric vehicle adoption inches higher. Gasoline isn’t going to be around forever, and even while it...
House of the Dragon – Before The Mad King, a Bunch of Miffed Targaryens
A Game of Thrones prequel that remembers the formula When Game of Thrones debuted in April 2011, viewers were blown away. It promised a grim fairy...
Flamecraft – Cute Little Dragons Invade Your Tabletop
These dragons aren’t just adorable, they’re industrious In Flamecraft, you oversee a village where dragonish artisans pry their trades. It’s a...
Future tech sample platter (CES 2026)
Some of the future is on sale, but it’s expensive Every year, the future gets a little bit closer. Some of it arrives. A few bits and pieces fade...
Year 13 of My 5-10 Year Overnight Success Plan
Guess what time of year it is? It’s time for your favorite(?) tormentor of the English language to harass the number system for a while. Yeah, we’re...
Modern Christmas Mythos
Elves as special forces and low-orbit space sleighs? The year is 1823. James Monroe is president of the United States (of which there are presently...
Free Birds
The SciFi Thanksgiving Holiday Special You’ve Been Missing Every December, and even a little bit before, the world is awash in Yuletide cheer. Every...
The Halloween Tree
Two sci-fi giants, one spooky Halloween classic Well, it's that time of year again. Candy. Costumes. Holiday specials airing nonstop for a month....
Shardlight
Come for the mystery, stay for the atmosphere of this point-and-click dystopian adventure with serious vibes. 2016’s Shardlight is a...
Princess Bride
Low-Magic Fantasy? Inconceivable! How a classic tale dodges fantasy’s biggest trap. Magic system. Magic system. Magic system. Start a conversation...
AI-Assisted Archaeology
How to build a better archaeologist. AI needed a hobby, and this could be it. Between roughly fifteen hundred and twenty-two hundred years ago, in...
Dwarf Fortress UI
The Dwarfiest Dwarves Who Ever Dwarfed, Now Accessible to Non-Zealots Dwarf Fortress is the quintessential fortress management game. A two-person...
Frieren
Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, is a surprisingly succinct title that describes exactly what this anime is about. We meet the protagonist, Frieren,...
Delivery robots
Delivery food, minus some stranger’s car. Note: Don’t tip the robot. How would you feel if you order a burger and fries on Uber Eats and a little...
The War Within
One take that dwarves would rather leave, aka the less-than-proud origin of Dwarves Every well-developed fantasy setting has its share of lore....
Delicious in Dungeon
The cooking/dungeoncrawler mashup you didn’t know you needed. Iron Chef? More like Adamantine Chef! Anime has a reputation for magical girl...
Poll: Quintessential Fantasy Dwarves
When I first introduced my Dragonhammer Saga series to my Email Insiders, I posed this question about fantasy dwarves. What is a dwarf? We’re...
Free Guy
Free Guy = Free Will. Can you be more than you’re programmed to be? 2021’s Free Guy was a Ryan Reynolds action comedy about an NPC (non-player...
Fire of Eidolon
DIY dungeon crawler on the tabletop...D&D Lite in a tiny little box In Fire of Eidolon, you and up to 5 friends will explore a dungeon of little...
Interactive art exhibit
Step Into the World of Art - Literally A framed picture on a wall. A parade of tourists marches past with a glance. Some pretentious bohemian with a...
Rings of Power
When is history not history? Can you write a fictional history as objective truth? Amazon’s Rings of Power is a controversial adaptation of J.R.R....