Nearly 15 years after first acquiring the rights to the elusive Miracleman/Marvelman franchise, Marvel Comics is finally poised to continue one of the great, unfinished superhero sagas.

Beginning in October 2022, Marvel will kick off a new limited series called Miracleman by Gaiman & Buckingham: The Silver Age. This series will collect the entire storyline from writer Neil Gaiman (The Sandman) and artist Mark Buckingham (Fables), only two issues of which were ever completed and released before original publisher Eclipse fell into bankruptcy in 1994.

"We're back! And after thirty years away it is both thrilling and terrifying,” Buckingham said in Marvel's press release. “Neil and I have had these stories in our heads since 1989 so it is amazing to finally be on the verge of sharing them with our readers.

Buckingham continued, "I have pushed myself to my limit to craft something special for these issues. Cinematic in approach, clean and elegant, drawing on the best of my own style but also paying homage to the exceptional talents of all who came before us, whose unique visions have shaped this ground-breaking series over forty years, and the 1950's Marvelman foundations on which it was built.”

Marvel will also release a standalone issue called Miracleman #0, featuring several new, short stories from creators like Jason Aaron, Mike Carey, Ty Templeton and Ryan Stegman. Issue #0 will also feature a new Silver Age prelude story from Gaiman and Buckingham.

Miracleman is a dark, mature readers-focused reboot of creator Mick Anglo's 1950's-era Marvelman comics. The series was originally spearheaded by a young Alan Moore, who wrote the first 16 issues before Gaiman and Buckingham took over with Miracleman #17. The new creative team completed the first of three planned story arcs, called "The Golden Age," with "The Silver Age" and "The Dark Age" stuck in limbo ever since Eclipse's bankruptcy.

Following a prolonged legal battle, Marvel finally purchased the Marvelman franchise in 2009, promising both reprints of existing material and brand new stories. However, there's been very little new Marvelman content in the years since. Marvel has mainly focused on reprinting the early Silver Age Marvelman stories and Moore's work, while occasionally teasing the prospect of Marvelman joining the Marvel Universe.

Marvel did eventually release Miracleman by Gaiman and Buckingham: The Golden Age, and got as far as soliciting Miracleman by Gaiman and Buckingham: The Silver Age back in 2016. However, the series was quietly canceled, and Buckingham later revealed he's been redrawing his earlier work in addition to the issues that were never completed in the '90s.

Do you think 2022 will be the year Miracleman fans finally get to read the story they've been waiting decades to see? Let us know in the comments. And be sure to check out IGN's review of Miracleman #1 and read up on the Marvel Comics mysteries that took years to be resolved.

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Many of the best board games are geared towards smaller groups of players. So what's one to do when you have a party or other gathering of fun-loving people in higher numbers? Thankfully, board game and card game makers have not left these scenarios in the cold. If you know where to look, you can find some awesome tabletop experiences that cleanly and elegantly scale up to 10 or even more players, giving everyone something to do.

If you’re seeking a good game to break out at your next party, these are the best board games for parties and large groups.

Wits and Wagers

• Players: 3-7 (standard), 4-18 (party), 3-10 (family)
• Playtime: 25 minutes

Do you enjoy trivia games, but aren’t very good at them? If you answered yes, then Wits and Wagers is the game for you. It’s a trivia game, but instead of using your own answer, you bet on who got the right answer. So if a football question comes up and you have no idea how many Super Bowl rings Peyton Manning has, you can bet on your friend who is a huge football nerd. If they get the question right you earn a point. It’s that simple. Because you don’t need to be versed in every topic under the sun, Wits and Wagers is the most accessible trivia game around. There are three versions of the game, with the party and family games having easier questions than the standard version. The party game, as the name suggests, also accommodates more players. You’ll have no reason to go back to Trivial Pursuit after picking up Wits and Wagers.

Codenames

• Players: 2-8
• Playtime: 15 minutes

In this approximation of a spy thriller, players are split into two teams, with one player on each team assuming the role of “spymaster.” It’s the spymaster’s job to make their team name the codewords that will earn them points. In any given game, there are 25 available codewords arranged into a five-by five grid, and the spymaster must, without actually speaking the words, use a code phrase to describe what words belong their team. For example, if three of the words are “fence,” “tree” and “door,” the spymaster might say “wood, three” to indicate that three of the words might have to do with wood. Codenames depends heavily on the spymaster to think quickly, and poorly thought-out clues can lead to some hilarious arguments. If you tire of seeing the same codewords after a handful of plays, Codenames has seen severalexpansions and reimaginings since its 2015 release, which can add a great deal of replay value.

Time’s Up – Title Recall

• Players: 3+
• Playtime: 60 minutes

Like all the best party games, Times Up builds a neat twist into a very simple premise, in this case by combining the best bits of pop culture quizzes and charades. You start with a pool of 40 cards showing the titles of famous films, TV shows and songs which are used over three rounds of clues and guessing. In the first round, you can say anything other than the title on the card. In the second, your clue has to be one word. And in the third, it has to be a non-verbal pantomime. This escalating series of restrictions keeps delivering the most hilarious associations that only work because players have an idea of what’s already in the pool after the first round. A fascinating combination of trivia and free-association wordplay, and all fun, all the way.

Snake Oil

• Players: 3-10
• Playtime: 30 minutes

Cards Against Humanity has come to dominate store shelves and nearly every online party game recommendation list, but for my money Snake Oil is an infinitely better option. It sticks to a similar formula as CAH, but injects a healthy dose of player creativity. On the active player’s turn, they randomly draw a “customer” card. The other players then take turns pitching a product to that active player by combining two object cards from their hand. For example, if the active player draws the cheerleader card, other players must combine two cards in order to make an item that might appeal to a cheerleader. The sales pitches are the meat of the game, and it’s an absolute blast to watch your friends scramble to sell a “meat bicycle” or a “puppet helmet” to a caveman. In a perfect world, Snake Oil would replace Cards Against Humanity on every game shelf.

The Resistance: Avalon

• Players: 5 – 10
• Playtime: 30 minutes

The original The Resistance was a sci-fi bluffing game in which a pool of players had to discover and out rogue agents. The Resistance: Avalon shifts the action to King Arthur’s court and ups the ante with some new roles and rules to enjoy. Everyone gets a secret role and then loyal knights have to try and complete five quests while keeping Merlin alive. The Merlin player knows who is loyal and who is not, but can’t reveal this without also revealing who they are and painting a target on their back. There are various other named roles with special powers like Percival and Mordred, creating an incredible, escalating soup of paranoia in which players have to stew for twenty or so minutes. After which it’s almost irresistible to deal some new roles and do it all again.

Sushi Go Party!

• Players: 2-8
• Playtime: 20 minutes

Sushi Go! Is a simple, compact card drafting game released in 2013 that sold a huge number of copies. Because of its success, Gamewright was able to expand on the formula with Sushi Go Party!, a larger and more varied version of Sushi Go! The gameplay remains largely the same, with players choosing a card from their hand, playing it, and passing the rest to the player next to them. Party! includes several types of cards not in the standard version that mix up your strategy in different ways, and the variable setup means that every game will play out differently. As far as simple and quick party games go, it would be a mistake not to take a look at this one.

Bang! The Dice Game

• Players: 3-8
• Playtime: 15 minutes

The original Bang! was long considered a party game go-to, but one of the major complaints was its length–it was too long for what it was. The dice game version fixes this in a big way, and is now the best version of Bang! you can play. Players are dealt secret roles, with the sheriff revealing themself at the start of the game. Everyone is also dealt a random character card that gives them a unique power. A turn consists of a player rolling five dice Yhatzee-style, then applying the effects to the table, but because nobody is sure of the others’ role, figuring out who to deal damage to and who to heal takes on the form of a logic puzzle. There are different victory conditions depending on your role: the sheriff wins if all the outlaws are defeated, the outlaws win if the sheriff is defeated, and so on. Because of Bang! The Dice Game’s easy ruleset and quick playtime, it’s a great game to play while waiting for the rest of the party to show up.

Telestrations

• Players: 4 – 8
• Playtime: 30 – 60 minutes

This is a commercial version of a popular family of games that involve image-based Chinese whispers. You start with a card with a phrase on it and do a sketch to illustrate that phrase. You then pass that to the next player in line who guesses the phrase, writes it down and passes that on for the next player to draw. And so on, until the whole thing comes full circle and you marvel at the garbled nonsense that’s come back to you, and every step in between, complete with ridiculous drawings to delight and amuse. For real party animals, there’s a twelve player expansion pack available to make the chains of nonsense even longer.

Dixit Odyssey

• Players: 3-12
• Playtime: 30 minutes

In 2010, the original Dixit won the Spiel des Jahres, Germany’s coveted game of the year award. Since then, its unique approach to storytelling in games has been expanded on and reiterated nearly a dozen times. Despite all the new content in recent years, 2011’s Dixit Odyssey remains the best version of the game. The concept is simple: each turn one player is the storyteller, and uses a simple word or phrase to describe one of the cards in their hand. Then the other players choose a card from their own hand that they feel best fits the description the storyteller gave. The cards are shuffled and then revealed, and everyone attempts to choose which card was the storyteller’s, who gets points if people correctly guess their card. The rub is they get no points if nobody or everybody guesses their card, so it’s important to find a balance between vague and descriptive when describing the card. Dixit boasts surreal and beautiful artwork that makes the game a joy to experience and discuss, and the reliance on creativity will bring out the storyteller in even your most stubborn friends.

Wavelength

• Players: 2 – 12
• Playtime: 30 – 45 minutes

Wavelength brings a new dimension to guessing games by getting players talking about their opinions rather than their trivia knowledge. Each round posits a pair of extremes, such as “straight” and “curvy”. Players take turns giving clues to their teams, which involves spinning a dial in secret to get a point somewhere between these two limits and then trying to come up with a hint to guide them to the right point. So for those clues, if the dial is showing two-thirds toward “straight” a good clue might be “hand-drawn line”. Not only is this a fun, fresh challenge every time but it’s subjective enough to be a real talking point for your party. With cooperative and competitive modes, Wavelength is a great pick across all tastes and ages.

One Night Ultimate Werewolf

• Players: 4-10
• Playtime: 10 minutes

The One Night franchise has become nearly synonymous with the term “party game,” and for good reason. It’s simple to learn, encourages a lot of player interaction, and plays in about 10 minutes. At the start of the game, each player is dealt a secret role, and it’s the goal of group to weed out who the werewolves are, unless of course you are a werewolf yourself. Each role has a special ability that help offer clues, such as the seer who can look at some of the roles, or the troublemaker who can switch roles with someone else. Because there’s no 100 percent way to know who is telling the truth, the game depends on your ability to read your friends’ tells. Each game is a chaotic flurry of accusations that will have the table in lively conversation during and after the game. If you want a good idea of what One Night Ultimate Werewolf has to offer, check out this video of a sample game. There are also several different flavors available, from vampires to aliens, if werewolves aren’t your cup of tea. Fair warning if you choose to pick this one up: friendships may be destroyed.

When I Dream

• Players: 4-10
• Playtime: 20-40 minutes

Fall asleep and and heed the whims of the dream spirits in this team-based game of clues and storytelling. Every round, one player is appointed the “Dreamer,” and must wear a cloth mask over their eyes. Then, players take turns drawing a card from the dream deck and the “good spirits” attempt to describe the picture using only one word in an effort to get the Dreamer to guess it. The “bad spirits,” however, are able to throw off the Dreamer with inaccurate clues. There are also “tricksters” who can switch sides during a game. What makes When I Dream such a good party game is that it’s so easy to learn and a round is over quickly, giving players the chance to drop in or out whenever they want. This accessibility makes it one of the best options for larger gatherings.

Mysterium

• Players: 2-7
• Playtime: 45 minutes

Communing with the dead may not be the first choice of activity when hosting a bangin’ party, but Mysterium proves that it’s one of the best ways to keep guests entertained. As mediums and paranormal investigators, it’s your job to uncover a decades-old murder mystery in a haunted house. The spirit that inhabits the house gives clues to each player in the form of dreams, which help to inform the specific weapon, suspect, and room related to the mystery. Think Clue, but much more abstract. One player, as the ghost, gives each player a card that relates somehow to their specific clues. The ghost in unable to speak, though, so the players are left to interpret the vague illustrations. There’s a ton to love about Mysterium, from its incredible art to debating the meaning depicted on the cards. The back-and-forth between the ghost and other players that takes place at the end of every game is an absolute delight that very few games can match. Who knew a seance could be so lively?

Monikers

• Players: 4-20
• Playtime: 60 minutes

In Monikers–a brand new take on the old Charades-like game Celebrity–you’ll act out a variety of goofy characters like Count Chocula, Drunk Jeff Goldblum, a dead horse, and literally hundreds more. Rounds get progressively more limiting as the game goes on–for example, words and gestures are legal in round one, but you can only use one word in round two, and round three takes away your ability to speak altogether. Because you’ll be using the same cards in every round, you’ll wind up making clever in-jokes with your group as you start to repeat cards. The subject choices pay homage to not only celebrities, but to modern viral memes and videos like David After Dentist and Lady Gaga’s Meat Dress. Shut Up and Sit Down put it quite bluntly in its review: “It’s the most you’ll laugh playing a game.” Truly, Monikers is the be-all-end-all of party games.

Decrypto

• Players: 3-8
• Playtime: 15-45 minutes

In Decrypto, two teams attempt to work out a numeric code by interpreting clues given to them by an encryptor. At the start of a round, four words are randomly assigned to the numbers one through four, and the team’s chosen encryptor secretly draws a three-digit code. Their job is to make the rest of the team guess the code–in the proper order–by giving clues about the words associated with the numbers. It’s a bit like Codenames in that way, but the twist comes thanks to a clever “interception” mechanic that allows a team the opportunity to guess their opponents’ code. This means encryptors must be careful about giving out too much information about their code, making Decrypto a fascinating balancing act that does an admirable job of making players feel like actuals spies.

For more ideas, you can check out the complete other end of the spectrum to find the best solo board games. And if you and your gaming group fancy yourselves to be pretty darn smart, you can test that hypothesis with the best trivia board games.

Twitch user Ibai Llanos has broken the streaming platform's record for the most concurrent viewers.

Llanos, who streamed the official live coverage of an online content creator-based boxing event, blew past the previous record of 2.4 million concurrents and set the new milestone of 3.3 million.

Twitch celebrated the record in a tweet (below), congratulating Llanos for the Barcelona-based La Velada del Año II event, which translates to The Evening of the Year. The event included five boxing matches between YouTuber Spursito, streamer AriGameplays, singer David Bustamante, and seven other content creators.

HISTORIA

Congrats to @IbaiLlanos on setting a new Twitch record with a peak of over 3.3M concurrent views during today’s boxing and entertainment event, La Velada del Año II. pic.twitter.com/5WUKrz0FkF

— Twitch (@Twitch) June 25, 2022

Llanos commented on the stream's success in his own series of tweets, saying it wasn't just a win for himself but for the entire Spanish and Latin American community. "Thanks to all the creators and artists for coming and making history," he added.

The previous record of 2.4 million concurrent users was set by Fortnite streamer TheGrefg last year during his skin collaboration reveal with the popular Battle Royale. David “TheGrefg” Martinez took the record from Tyler Blevins, better known as Ninja, who logged 635,000 concurrent viewers in 2018.

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Spy x Family Season 1 is now streaming on Hulu and Crunchyroll.

After a memorable and action-packed premiere, the first season of Spy x Family went onto cement itself as one of the best new anime shows in years. It’s a comedy with all the elements of a winning family sitcom (but turned up to 11), with literal life or death situations, dazzling animation, and poignant commentary on family and class, all while introducing some of the best characters of the year, regardless of medium.

The show follows the Forgers, your run-of-the-mill family with a spy dad, an assassin mom, and a mind-reading kid — only they have no idea about each other's secret lives, except for the child who can read their every thought. Spy x Family works as the kind of funny and heartwarming family sitcom that dominated ABC’s TGIF lineup in the '90s, and like every great sitcom, this works in no small part due to the characters.

We already met Anya in the premiere and I wrote at the time that she was a strong contender for best character of the season, which remains true. Anya is to Spy x Family what Baby Sinclair is to ‘90s comedy Dinosaurs – basically, the adorable child character that steals every scene they are in, who will inspire a ludicrous amount of merch. But unlike the baby dinosaur and many other kid characters, Anya never borders on annoying, and her hilarious reactions to the crazy things around her don't get old; instead they improve every scene.

Anya's telepathic power isn't just there for comedic purposes, but to act as a metaphor for how kids can be more receptive than adults give them credit for. It's a brilliant touch to make Anya the only person in Spy x Family to see through everyone's lies, as this is a show quite literally built on deceptions. Everyone has something to hide, everyone presents an image of themselves to the world that is meticulously crafted to avoid suspicion, and it is no coincidence that the show seems to be set in the '60s or '70s, the golden age of espionage, where lying was the order of the day. This makes the fact that Yor and Loid are completely oblivious to each other's secret lives despite the incredibly obvious clues understandable. It's not that Yor is too dumb to realize that the goons with machine guns trying to kill Loid are not his patients practicing some new therapy technique, it's that she is too focused on not letting her own secrets spill that she doesn't imagine that other people have equally big ones.

Speaking of Yor, she is another very strong contender for best character of the year: an awkward, quiet, clumsy, funny badass who jumps at the chance to protect her makeshift family from anything that would threaten it, often with deadly intent. And like any great sitcom, Spy x Family also offers some poignant commentary and even a couple of life lessons here and there, like its exploration of societal views and expectations towards women, especially single women. She might be capable of taking down a whole army by herself using nothing more than a hairpin, but Yor being an unmarried adult woman? Now that is a threat to the safety of the nation. Spy x Family manages to strike a great balance between commentary, drama, action, and slice-of-life comedy without undermining any of those respective elements in the process.

At its heart, this is an anime about family, and how the ideal family unit is an idea very much influenced by a specific view of class and privilege. Though not the sole focus of Spy x Family, it still manages to have a poignant message on how much harder it is to have to fight to achieve a certain status when you're not born into it. Even without the fate of the world at stake, the Forgers know their current position is very fragile, and they'll do anything to keep the illusion of their perfect family together.

As an adaptation, Spy x Family is spectacular. It takes a slower approach than most anime adaptations in terms of manga chapters per TV episode, taking its time to set things up and giving the show an almost slice-of-life tone and pace where the mundane takes a lot of importance. And yet it also manages to elaborate and expand on tiny details with incredible results, like a whole episode dedicated to the best dodgeball match since Hunter x Hunter, or a delightfully wholesome party for Anya at a castle. Spy x Family is just getting started, but its first season provided a weekly source of comfort and laughs that, like the best sitcoms, you could easily picture yourself watching every week for a decade. Move over, Tanners, Bankses, and Winslows: the Forgers have arrived and they are not going anywhere.

June is nearly over, which means we're barreling headfirst into the dog-days of summer. While much of the country is wringing out from a heat wave, there are some cool deals happening at the moment, which should help only if you're interested in the most painfully stretched of metaphors.

But in all seriousness, there are some great opportunities to grab some deals, especially that SSD deal for GameStop Pro members. The Nintendo eShop deal is also delivering up some surprises, so read on to see what today has to offer.

LG OLED C1 Deal

This remains one of the best 4KTVs out there, even with the newer version supplanting it. While the C2 has plenty to love, and improves on the C1 in a lot of different ways, it's not on sale for $1096 for the 55" model. In fact, all the sizes are on sale today, from the LG C1 48" for $769.99 to the most popular size of all, the 65" LG C1 OLED for $1596.99.

Official Taiko no Tatsujin Controller for Switch + Game Deal

If you've been eyeing the Taiko no Tatsujin drum controller but shied away at the steep price, look again. Right now it's on sale for the lowest price ever. There's no official way to get the official drum kit in America, so these 3rd party vendors are the only way to get them short of eBay or buying them yourself in Japan and flying them over. Note that the game isn't included with the drum kit. But the Nintendo eShop sale happening right now has an incredible deal, marking down the base game to just $10 from its normal $49.99 price tag.

Samsung 980 Pro 1TB SSD (PS5 Compatible) for $134.99 at GameStop

If you're a GameStop Pro member, you can get this unbelievably tempting deal on a 1TB PS5 compatible SSD. In fact, this is one of the best PS5 SSDs going, and the opportunity to get it at this price should absolutely be on your to-do list. It's actually worth signing up for Pro, because even with the addition of the $14.99 membership fee, you still get a deal.

Google 6 Pixel Pro Unlocked for $779.99

Woot, one of my personal favorite online retailers, is offering brand-new, unlocked Google 6 Pixel Pro smartphones today for $779.99. The phone comes with 128GB of storage, a 120Hz display, and is 5G capable, of course. Want to stress again this is a new phone, not a used or a refurb, so this is a solid deal.

Samsung QLED Ultrawide Gaming Monitor Is $100 Off

If you need to immerse yourself in your gaming, but don't want to completely cut yourself off from the real world with a VR helmet, the excellent 49" Samsung CHG90 gaming monitor is marked down to $899 right now. This monstrous monitor has a native 144Hz refresh rate and a 1ms reponse time. Resolution is 3840×1080, which is a little bit of a bummer, but it also means just about any recent GPU should have no difficulty with it.

40% Off Elden Ring Official Strategy Guides Preorder

Out July 29

These guides have been two of the most popular items we've been posting as of late, and it's not even close. At full price, they were selling like hotcakes, but once the discount hit, they really took off in popularity. The first volume releases in just a month, and if you preorder it at the $29.99 price, you lock it in for the remainder of the preorder period. In other words, if the price goes back up, as long as you have your preorder in at the lower price, that's what you'll be charged. Score.

Gigabyte Gaming PC Deals at Best Buy

The crypto crash has been good to PC purchasing. OK, it might be just a coincedence but we all know it's not. The demand for high-end GPUs has slowed significantly thanks to the crypto-crash, and if you want to buy a 30-series GPU, or a computer containing one, now's a great time. Just look at the specs on that Aero. Man.

Marvel Classic Anthologies on Sale

These newly-released anthologies collect some of the best comics of all time into one beautiful hardcover edition. You can bring home Spider-Man, which collects Amazing Fantasy #15, The Amazing Spider-Man #1-4, #9, #10, #13, #14, #17-19, Strange Tales #97 and The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1. Captain America features Captain America Comics #1, excerpts from Tales of Suspense #59, #63-68, #75-81, #92-95, #110-113, and 'Captain America…Commie Smasher' from Captain America #78. The Black Panther anthology includes Fantastic Four #52-53 and Jungle Action #6-21.

I personally love these old comics. I've started buying the Marvel Masterworks books when I see them, which are similarly themed but lack that hardcover sheen. If you're a fan of Silver and Bronze-Age comics, or a Marvel fan at all, these should definitely be in your collection.

Alien: Fate of The Nostromo for 30% Off

If you're a board game fan, or an Alien fan, or some combination of both, than this awesome boardgame deal has your name written all over it. If your name is Ravensburger, it LITERALLY has your name written all over it, because that's who makes it. If you're not familiar with Ravensburger's board games, they have some of the biggest names around, like Disney's Villainous. They even make that strangely amazing Jaws game, too.

According to our review, Alien: Fate of the Nostromo is more for casual game nights than it is for hardcore boardgame veterans, but that's not a knock against it.

Nintendo eShop Sale

The big Nintendo sale I referenced earlier is in full effect right now, with retailers like Amazon matching most of the deals available at the eShop. It's a great time to get yourself loaded up on some new Switch games, but most of the deals aren't anything we haven't seen before. Still, Nintendo sale!

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