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Want to get into this Star Wars thing, but don't know where to start? The Portalist has got your back.

The Walking Dead TV series has diverged from its source material in some major ways.

Assassin's Creed has a chance to finally prove that movies based on video games can be quality entertainment.

Like most of us humans, Scott Snyder and Jeff Lemire are pretty afraid of death.

Nothing can destroy the glory of our favorite films, and the chance to see some killer sequels and reboots is pretty tantalizing.

Rebecca Sugar’s gay sci-fi masterpiece has achieved what some thought was impossible: a show kids and their parents can enjoy together in harmony.

Explore maps for Minecraft that feature Middle Earth, Hogwarts, or galaxies far, far, away.

Sometimes, the option for escapism becomes a need: when my sister died, I needed it. Desperately.

Here are six of the best alien movies out there that take a fresh, intelligent look at what might happen when aliens finally visit our corner of the galaxy.

Don't sleep on these imaginative series.

These classic, standout games deserve recognition for helping the genre level up.

If Usagi has taught us anything, it's this: Being vulnerable is not a flaw.

Three cheers: They got it right!

We’re more than grateful that these villains are fictitious…

You’ll never need to race for a subway seat again.

Sure, he's invincible, but Superman deals with personal problems just like the rest of us.

I’ve got a few comics that I hope never make it to the big screen—for reasons you might not expect.

Now that Hello Games has opened the door, it’s up to other developers to fully realize the possibilities.

Twelve years later, Battlestar Galactica still feels novel—thanks in part to the series' scientific accuracy.

Science fiction and fantasy elements have been invading board games for almost as long as there have been board games at all, and it's not hard to see why.