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video games Microsoft still keeping the Halo video game franchise alive Jason Weisberger

politics Headliners bail on heavy metal festival because Kyle Rittenhouse Jennifer Sandlin

science fiction Jeff VanderMeer's "Absolution" is a dark mirror to the Southern Reach Trilogy Thom Dunn

israel Manufactured "Israeli-Palestinian" boy band is in really poor taste Thom Dunn

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