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Movies & TVStar Trek at 60: the future that aged better than its technologySixty years after its premiere, Star Trek remains relevant not because of the devices it predicted, but because it made curiosity, cooperation, and diplomacy feel adventurous.

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To keep exploring the final frontier 👇

Games & RPGDungeons & Dragons and Tolkien: relatives, not synonymsElves, dwarves, and journeys connect D&D to Tolkien—but wargames, pulp, dungeon exploration, and the freedom of the table transformed that inheritance.

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To bring that inheritance to your table 👇

Games & RPGCosmic horror in video games: when winning solves nothingSeven games in which maps, progression, repetition, and endings turn cosmic horror into an experience — and show why defeating the boss does not restore the world.

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To keep travelling through cosmic horror 👇

Games & RPGYour first tabletop RPG session: how to create an unforgettable nightA simple guide to setting expectations, preparing a short adventure, offering easy characters, and ending your first game with everyone eager to return.

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To build your first-table kit 👇

TriviaCosmic Horror Beyond Lovecraft: The Universe Has Other Ways to Frighten UsSeven gateways into cosmic horror across books, comics, film, and games — through scale, the unknowable, and the collapse of meaning.

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Two reads that speak directly to this vertigo 👇

Games & RPGQuake at 30: Shadow, Speed, and the Internet Inside the FPSIn 1996, Quake turned real-time 3D, deathmatch, mods, and sound into a language for the networked age. Thirty years later, we still live inside its ideas.

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To help rebuild the context of that turning point 👇

FictionCidade MaravilhosaIn a Copacabana where no one alive remembers what a subway was, a man walks down an alley with the last of the week's rations in his backpack — and a child looks at it. A dystopian short story about the price of one more day. "Cidade Maravilhosa" (Wonderful City) is Rio de Janeiro's anthem.

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This future where the city rots on top of its own past has illustrious relatives on the shelf — the BRAZILIAN dystopia that saw it all coming, and the people-grinding machine that invented the genre 👇

FictionAlistairIn a suburb of London, a middle-aged tortoise crosses the pavement at three metres an hour. Nobody is watching him — and that suits him. A tale about patience, humiliation, and the slowest weapon in the world.

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Enjoyed Alistair? He has two literary fathers. Patricia Highsmith invented the narrator who follows a methodical amoral man without ever judging him — and Orwell showed what happens when animals understand power 👇

Games & RPGNintendo 64 at 30: when 3D entered the living roomAnalog control, cameras, cartridges and four people on a couch: Nintendo 64 as a cultural shift rather than a list of classic games.

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Keep travelling through the history of home 3D 👇

80s/90s NostalgiaWorld Cup 2026: the ritual that becomes nerd memorySticker albums, games, radio, television and families together: why a World Cup is also technology, collecting and shared cultural memory.

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World Cup memory also lives on the shelf 👇

⚽ World Cup albums, books and collectibles

Movies & TVAliens at 40: when the future learned to rustForty years after Aliens, we revisit Alien’s industrial future: labor, worn metal, corporations and the fear of becoming disposable cargo.

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Keep exploring space horror 👇

FictionShadowOn the eleventh day crossing a steppe where the sun does not move and nothing casts a shadow, a traveler sees the only dark patch for leagues of plain — and walks toward it. A cosmic-horror tale about the price of shade.

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Loved this horror of a motionless sun and impossible ecology? It converses with two classics of the weird — the nature that returns its expeditions as shadows, and the light that came from space to corrupt 👇

Movies & TVStranger Things Turns 10: The Show That Opened the Upside Down — and Already Said Goodbye to ItOn July 15, 2016, four kids on bikes and a girl with a shaved head appeared out of nowhere and became a global phenomenon. A decade later — with the fifth season already wrapped at the end of 2025 — we revisit what Hawkins left behind for pop culture.

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Feeling the urge to revisit Hawkins? From the Funko to the D&D kit the show resurrected, the fandom is waiting 👇

Comics & CollectiblesRoad to the final: the 4 left standing in the first 48-team World CupFrance, Spain, England and the winner of Argentina vs. Switzerland fight for a spot in the July 19 final. The knockout map, where to watch and what is at stake down the stretch.

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The home stretch is here and your sticker album is still unfinished? Keep the memory of the first 48-team World Cup 👇

Movies & TVDragon Ball Daima: Toriyama's Last Series — and It Turned Out GreatBefore he passed away, Akira Toriyama left one last series ready to go: Dragon Ball Daima. 20 episodes, a tiny Goku, a brand new world — the creator's final gift to the franchise he spent his life building.

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Want to revisit the universe Toriyama built? Manga, collectibles and franchise gear below 👇

TriviaEmbrace Your Geekness Day: The Day to Own Your Inner Nerd, Out LoudEvery July 13 there is a holiday to celebrate exactly what we do here all year long — loving sci-fi, fantasy, games, comics and anime without apologizing. A (good-humored) manifesto of geek pride.

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Time to flex the fandom. A little curated shelf to embrace your geekness in style — from the Funko to the arcade lamp 👇

Movies & TVMortal Kombat 2: Karl Urban Entered the Tournament — and Earthrealm Never Needed a B-Actor So BadlyKarl Urban plays Johnny Cage, a washed-up 90s action star drafted to save the world. Mortal Kombat 2 hit theaters in May 2026 with an 18+ rating and the film the franchise owed its fans.

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Ready to dive back into the Mortal Kombat mythology? Games, collectibles and more below 👇

FictionThe Eye of Namar-KethA medallion found among the belongings of a vanished professor reproduces a pre-human symbol: an eye ringed by concentric circles, crossed by a single vertical line. A cosmic-horror tale about doors that should never be opened — and about what watches from the other side.

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Enjoyed the cosmic dread of Namar-Keth? It drinks straight from the well of H.P. Lovecraft — the master of the horror of the unknown, of indifferent gods and truths the human mind was never meant to reach 👇

Games & RPGDonkey Kong Turns 45: The Arcade Ape That Invented MarioIn July 1981, an arcade game called Donkey Kong hit the machines — and introduced the world to a carpenter named "Jumpman" who would become Mario. 45 years later, the two of them hold up Nintendo's entire empire.

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45 years of Donkey Kong and the duo has never been more alive 🍌 You can bring both home 👇

Movies & TVSpider-Man: Brand New Day — Everything We Know Before the July 31 ReleaseTom Holland returns on 07/31/2026 in a Spider-Man that starts over from scratch: a Peter Parker no one remembers. Cast, what "Brand New Day" means in the comics, and why this is the most anticipated nerd blockbuster of the year.

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Getting hyped for the premiere? Spider-Man is one of the most collectible characters out there 🕷️

Movies & TVX-Men '97 Is Back — And It Brought Apocalypse: The Season 2 GuideThe show that proved nostalgia animation can be Marvel's best current product is back on Disney+. X-Men '97 season 2 cast the biggest mutant villain of them all — and draws straight from the Age of Apocalypse.

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Want to read the comic saga that inspires the season? The Age of Apocalypse omnibus 👇

📚 Age of Apocalypse — Omnibus (Amazon)

Movies & TVBlade Is Back — And It's Time to Remember Why He Saved Superhero Movies Before the MCU ExistedIn 1998, when "comic book movie" was still a punchline, a dhampir in a black coat changed Hollywood. The story of the hunter who opened the door to the Marvel Universe — now returning in the hands of Mahershala Ali.

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Want to meet the hunter in the original? Blade in the comics 🗡️

Movies & TVChristopher Nolan Is Adapting The Odyssey — And It Changes Everything We Know About EpicsThe director of Interstellar and Oppenheimer is bringing Homer's Odyssey to the screen. The text that invented the Hero's Journey, in the hands of the filmmaker who bends time better than anyone.

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Before Nolan's film, the original script is still the best. Homer's Odyssey — reading it first is a head start 👇

Movies & TVChristopher Nolan is adapting the Odyssey — and it changes everything we know about epicsThe director of Interstellar and Oppenheimer is bringing Homer's Odyssey to the screen. The text that invented the Hero's Journey, in the hands of the filmmaker who best knows how to bend time.

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Before Nolan's film, the original script is still the best one. Homer's Odyssey — reading it first is a head start 👇

Games & RPGPokémon GO Turns 10: How One Game Changed the Way We Exist in the WorldOn July 6, 2016, a game put the whole world out on the streets. Ten years later, Pokémon GO is still standing — and its biggest revolution was never technological. It was human.

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10 years of Pokémon GO and the game is still standing 🎮 Want to play without staring at your phone? The Pokémon GO Plus+ catches them automatically as you walk 👇