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It's no secret that most fast food "secret sauces" are a riff on Thousand Island dressing.

Director John Caird explains how he turned Hayao Miyazaki's masterpiece into a play, which can finally be seen in U.S. theaters this weekend.

Patrick Wilson and Halle Berry may be action movie stars, but the real hero of Moonfall, Roland Emmerich’s newest disaster movie, is played by Game

A new year means new things — so many new things, across comics, TV, books, games, and films — to look forward to. But even with so many things

Dungeons & Dragons. Then, he created the fantasy world of Oerth and its greatest city, Greyhawk. Then, he set his mind to writing a D&D novel set in Greyhawk — the tale of Gord, a young street urchin who rises from poverty and imprisonment to become one of the greatest thieves on the planet. And in writing Greyhawk: Saga of Old City, Gary Gygax created something quite dreadful. First things first: We need to separate Gygax the role-playing game pioneer and Gygax the novelist. One can be the...

Bear McCreary, composer for Battlestar Galactica, spoke exclusively to io9 about his new BSG live album, plus the soundtracks for all four seasons of the sci-fi series will be available on your favorite streaming music services for the first time.

First, Gary Gygax created Dungeons & Dragons. Then, he created the fantasy world of Oerth and its greatest city, Greyhawk. Then, he set his mind to writing a D&D novel set in Greyhawk. Gary Gygax created something quite dreadful.

Alas, this fake mailman has reached the end of his post-apocalyptic road. But for this final installment, it’s a Giant-Sized Edition of “Postal Apocalypse”—although you guys packed my mailbag so full that I still couldn’t answer all of them! (I tried. Seriously, guys, this is really long.) Enjoy, my brilliant, beautiful business envelopes.

Image: La Femme et Noir “Our brand La Femme really began focusing on what some would call novelty eyewear since our inception as a brand,” says Pitt, who is also La Femme et Noir’s CEO. “When we got the Alien license one of the first things I knew I wanted us to do was sunglasses that looked like the Xenomorph. I always thought that it was one of the best creatures ever created for film, and how amazing it would be to use the exoskeleton as a baseline for sunglasses design. We took ou...