What’s inside this special edition? We bring you the inside scoop on what it takes to be a professional Magic: The Gathering or Pokemon player. Ever wonder what goes into making a cool and truly collectible chase card? You’ll want to see what’s cooking in our features on Outlander and The Umbrella Academy trading cards. We’ll also take you behind-the-scenes of Topps Project 2020, the hottest and most groundbreaking sports cards event to come along in years....

Despite being so influential for its combination of concepts that once defined a genre and an era in gaming, the original Resident Evil was hardly the product of a clear creative vision crafted by those who were confident that their work would change gaming forever. If anything, you start to realize that Resident Evil was, in many ways, a happy accident that’s success stunned even those who spent years working on it....

Rick and Morty Season 6 Episode 4 It’s becoming clear now that taking portal guns out of the equation for season six is a device the Rick and Morty writers are using to keep episodes grounded, both literally and narratively. Rick can still fly to anywhere in the galaxy or even jump to other dimensions if he puts the work in, but the blasé days of casually portaling out of danger or to use a toilet in an idyllic environment are over (at least for the time being)....

Riverdale Season 2 Episode 8 As it has been well established by this point, this is a show where the improbable has become ordinary, and the sensible rarely exists at all. Like it’s spiritual precursor Twin Peaks, Riverdale will do whatever the hell it wants, and viewers can either hop aboard like Betty on the back of uneasy rider Jughead’s motorcycle or tune out entirely. Obviously, we here at Den of Geek are all in, but that doesn’t mean to say that the journey is always going to be a comfortable one....

A young orphan woman with the power to summon the sun; her childhood best friend, a brave and tireless soldier willing to die for her; the all powerful ‘Darkling’ general who wants her to rule by his side – this is the love triangle at the centre of Netflix’s Shadow and Bone and it’s a suitably fizzy one. But while the central plot, the political machinations, magic and the introduction of ‘The Fold’ are all key parts of what makes this show – an adaptation of Leigh Bardugo’s books – a compelling watch, by the end it’s a pointy-faced gangster with a limp who steals the show....

Shameless Season 8 Episode 11 Early in tonight’s episode of Shameless, I began speculating how bizarre and arbitrary it can be what the Gallaghers take seriously and what they take not so seriously. For instance, sometimes major lifetime milestones or setbacks are treated with genuine awe or horror—say, Debbie choosing to have a baby versus the actual birth of Frannie, or Lip choosing to drop out of high school versus Lip subsequently being expelled from higher education....

Yet love or hate Marvel movies, right now the actual owners of cinemas around the world should be very grateful to the company, particularly with the studio’s latest film, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, which appears to be calming industry jitters about the viability of theatrical distribution this fall. The point of which was underscored again this weekend when Shang-Chi grossed another $35.8 million at the North American box office....

The Marvel Cinematic Universe giveth and the Marvel Cinematic Universe taketh away. The MCU proper’s first foray into scripted television resulted in the magical, near-perfect WandaVision, a thoughtful exploration of grief and trauma that finally elevated one of the franchise’s most oft-neglected characters. Its second is The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, a sadly ham-fisted origin story for Sam Wilson’s much-deserved turn as Captain America that stumbles over everything from its politics to the specifics of its basic character arcs....

Snowpiercer Season 2 Episode 5 The introduction of Icy Bob was a bit concerning. Snowpiercer is as much as hard sci-fi show as anything, with most of the luxury of First Class balanced out by the hard work of Second and Third Class passengers who keep the lights on and put food on the table. We have seen them composting, carefully guarding their vegetables, using everything possible, and wasting little or nothing as they try to keep everyone fed and watered....

I’m starting to think that one of the constants in this world is that Sons Of Anarchy will always deliver with its season finales. You might argue that last season’s Prison Break-esque gargantuan cliffhanger was a bit cack-handed, but aside from that ending, it was a fantastic episode. As a rule of thumb, things get resolved, major characters get killed off, and we get a small taste of what might be to come next season....

The person behind this webcast? None other than J. Jonah Jameson — played by J.K. Simmons, the same actor who played Jameson in the three Spider-Man movies directed by Sam Raimi circa 2002-2007. Except for a change in hairstyle (meaning, none) and the famous Marvel newspaper The Daily Bugle becoming DailyBugle.net, this was essentially the same loud, brash, arrogant Jameson we knew from those movies, which starred Tobey Maguire as Spidey....

Star Trek Discovery Season 4 Episode 8 It’s been a month since Star Trek: Discovery has been on our screens, so you’d be forgiven for hoping that the series’ return from its midseason break might at last offer up some answers about the big Season 4 mystery surrounding the Dark Matter Anomaly and the mysterious Species 10-C that created it. Or at least move Season 4’s overall plot along a bit more deliberately than this particular hour manages to do....

Star Trek: Discovery Season 4 Episode 13 It’s been a long road. Because of a mid-season break, and a contemplative, slow-burn plot, Star Trek: Discovery season 4 probably seems a bit longer than it actually is. If any old school fans were worried Discovery couldn’t do a big-idea science fiction story without resorting to an action-adventure plot, the totality of season four proves those haters wrong. Fans will probably be split if this is the best season of Discovery, but, one thing’s for sure, from a tonal point of view, it was easily the most consistent....

Star Trek: Discovery is officially in its third season and, timeline-wise, it has been a ride. We’ve traveled to the Mirror Universe, we’ve traveled to the future, and we ended up in the 32nd century. If you’re a bit confused about when exactly Discovery takes place, here’s a breakdown of what we know so far and how it all changed in Season 3. Star Trek: Discovery Season 1 & 2 Timeline The first episode of Star Trek: Discovery takes place in 2255, a decade before the events of The Original Series....

Star Trek: Picard Season 2 Release Date Star Trek: Picard Season 2 is right around the corner, with its premiere episode slated to drop on Paramount+ on Thursday, March 3rd. The season will consist of 10 episodes, dropping weekly, so plan accordingly. Unless you have access to time travel, you can totally disregard this section. Star Trek: Picard Season 2 Trailer “Welcome to the road not taken,” an ever-dramatic Q tells Picard in the most recent trailer for the new season....

But as we learned at the Mando+ panel at Star Wars Celebration, Ahsoka won’t be the only fan-favorite animated character appearing in live-action on the new series. In fact, fans of the Rebels animated series should be very excited because several members of the Ghost crew are also coming back. The panel not only officially confirmed that Natasha Liu Bordizzo has been cast as artsy Mandalorian freedom fighter Sabine Wren but a trailer shown to attendees also confirmed that New Republic leader Hera Syndulla will make the jump to live-action, too....

In fact, Hayden Christensen is set to return as Darth Vader in the upcoming Obi-Wan Kenobi series on Disney+, which is set 10 years after Revenge of the Sith, to confront Obi-Wan, completely shattering what we thought we knew about each character’s history leading up to A New Hope. “This will be the rematch of the century,” Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy teased during a Disney Investors Day presentation in December....

In “Cornered,” the Bad Batch clones find a bounty hunter on their heels who is looking for Omega. Stuck on the planet Pantora looking for fuel, they’re getting hemmed in on all sides as the Empire continues to confirm its power over the systems formerly represented by the Republic. This episode features a wide variety of returning characters, most notably Fennec Shand from The Mandalorian making her animated debut, as well quite a few easter eggs....

Besides being the first animated series set during the Clone Wars, the 2003 microseries is best known for introducing fan-favorite characters such as Asajj Ventress, General Grievous, and Durge. Most importantly, in the first few years following the end of the Prequel Trilogy, Tartakovsky’s series was the definitive story of what happened during the Clone Wars. That’s until the arrival of The Clone Wars (differentiated by a “The” in the title)....

Whether it’s the adorable Baby Ahsoka or getting Liam Neeson back as Qui-Gon Jinn, Tales of the Jedi is a big win for this pseudo-prequel to The Clone Wars. And there’s one moment in particular that fans will be talking about long after they’ve finished these short films. The animated anthology brings back a forgotten prequels character…only to kill them off in brutal style. Get ready, #JusticeforYaddle is sure to start trending online....