The Arcana: Dark Tarot & Kings of Madness

In a grim week for the games industry where Microsoft laid off 1,600 people (with 1,600 further job cuts hanging over the heads of Xbox employees) one decision stood out as especially egregious. Id Software, developer of Doom and Quake, was forced to lay off 136 people – more than half of its workforce. Read more

Why are there so many dimensions in DC comics universe? How did they all get started? And how are they connected? Susana Polo, Polygon's Entertainment Editor and resident comic book expert, breaks in down for you in the premiere episode of her new show, Issue At Hand. Stay tuned for new episodes every other Thursday!

Game of Thrones: The Mad King is the new stage tie-in to George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire. The play has just opened at the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Stratford theatre in England, and it's chock-full of new GoT details!

Frictional's latest annual report spilled the beans, although it's not clear what the new version will entail.

Aspyr Media shadowdropped a new "Legacy Edition" of the 2011 The Lord of the Rings game, War in the North, earlier this week. It won't be the last The Lord of the Rings re-release from Aspyr, as the company has confirmed "even more classic releases" from The Lord of the Rings series are coming "in the future." That's all Aspyr had to say, so it's anyone's guess as to the other "classic" The Lord of the Rings games that could make a return. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_gZuaXTDEo War in the North's Legacy Edition was released under a licensing deal with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainmen