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Will the New ‘Grand Theft Auto’ Be a Weapon in the Culture Wars?

October 16, 2026

Cut outs of Galaxy Brain host Charlie Warzel and journalist Chris Plante on a colorful background

A Novel That Turns the Tables on AI

October 13, 2026

anthropomorphized game pieces playing on a checkered board

The Right Way to Adapt a Video Game

September 25, 2026

Austin Abrams in a winter coat and hat with the director Zach Cregger on the "Resident Evil" set

Mario-a-Lago Kart, Anyone?

Emily Bressler and Kelley Greene

September 12, 2026

A gif shows the starting line of a racing video game and the lights blink red, then green, and the words "go" appear.

The Absolute Pleasure of Tim Curry

August 26, 2026

A black-and-white photo of Tim Curry

Why Kids Can’t Quit Roblox

July 29, 2026

A boy wearing headphones and playing video games, with slot-machine-style icons on either side of him

The Atlantic Introduces Whodunit Game: Lemony Snicket’s Suspicious Incident in Dubious Park

July 13, 2026

Lemony Snicket’s Suspicious Incident in Dubious Park

A Sad Kind of Convenience

July 6, 2026

a CD rendered in pixel art, disintegrating

The New Auteur of the Hallucinated Hellscape

May 27, 2026

Kane Parsons stands in a dark hallway

The Strange Origin of AI’s ‘Reasoning’ Abilities

April 14, 2026

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Atlantic Trivia for April 1, 2026: Computer Games

April 1, 2026

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A Boring Video Game I Can’t Put Down

March 31, 2026

An illustration of a man in a red shirt sitting at a counter in a video store

A Game Plan for the AI Boom

March 30, 2026

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A No-Name Director to Everyone but His 38 Million Fans

February 16, 2026

All End-of-the-World Menace, All the Time

July 25, 2025

A scene from Fantastic Four: The First Steps, in which Reed Richards demonstrates science for a crowd.

An AI That Couldn’t Care Less About Humans

July 5, 2025

The Amazonification of Everything, Now as a Video Game

June 23, 2025

Composite illustration of Death Stranding 2

When Mission: Impossible Had No Mission

May 31, 2025

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Time for Scary Movies to Make Us Laugh Again

May 22, 2025

A color film still from "Final Destination Bloodlines" where a man stands in a suburban street, while a big truck approaches behind him from the right.

The Last of Us Didn’t Soften the Blow

April 20, 2025

The Last of Us and the Power of Video Games

April 12, 2025

Collage with photos of "The Last of Us" cast

The Box-Office Smash That Left Me Cold

April 11, 2025

"A Minecraft Movie"

A New Kart-Racing Appliance

April 2, 2025

Illustration of a power plug with a Super Mario "M" super imposed

The Stranger Things Effect Comes for the Novel

January 30, 2025

A grainy moving image of a hand putting a VHS tape into an old VCR.

The Worst Page on the Internet

January 27, 2025

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What Went Wrong at Blizzard Entertainment

October 7, 2024

A Film That Could Fix Our Relationship With the Internet

September 9, 2024

A woman uses a magnifying glass to look at thumbnails from Seeking Mavis Beacon

The Atlantic Daily

Six Underrated Hobbies to Try Out

September 1, 2024

Multiple ceramic frog figurines on a table

The Wasteland Is Waiting for You

April 10, 2024

A woman explores the ruined world of “Fallout.”

Easy Mode Is Actually for Adults

Omar L. Gallaga

January 11, 2024

A video-game controller with wings

What Happens When Real People Play Squid Game?

November 23, 2023

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Gran Turismo Is Luxuriously Familiar

August 26, 2023

Two men on a race course in conversation, in "Gran Turismo"

The Atlantic Daily

The Best Background-Noise TV

July 2, 2023

'Ink Master' judges Ami James, Ryan Ashley, Joel Madden, and Nikko Hurtado during Season 14

‘Hell Welcomes All’

Spencer Kornhaber

July/August 2023 Issue

A graphic illustration of black, pixelated video-game characters on a red background.

The Wonder Reader

The Social Power of Board Games

April 22, 2023

The Throwback Hero That Video Games Needed

April 1, 2023

A close-up shot of the video-game character Leon Kennedy from the remake of "Resident Evil 4"