Articles by Samantha Nelson
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games Fire and remember: 23 great unorthodox weapons in video games
By William Hughes, Sam Barsanti, Samantha Nelson, Alexander Chatziioannou, Grace Benfell August 8, 2022 | 8:00am
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books Humanity is doomed in Matt Bell’s unrelenting climate change novel, Appleseed
By Samantha Nelson July 14, 2021 | 3:00pm
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games The best games of 2021 so far
By William Hughes, Sam Barsanti, Samantha Nelson, Alexander Chatziioannou, A.A. Dowd, Liz Arcury July 10, 2021 | 3:00am
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film The 10 best DC animated films
By Samantha Nelson July 5, 2021 | 5:00am
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aux In The Anthropocene Reviewed, John Green appraises everything from plagues to Dr Pepper
By Samantha Nelson May 18, 2021 | 6:00pm
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aux Love and loss animate the cosmic tales of I’m Waiting For You
By Samantha Nelson April 5, 2021 | 1:00pm
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aux A young girl acquires deadly power in Nnedi Okorafor’s latest sci-fi journey
By Samantha Nelson January 18, 2021 | 2:00pm
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games The A.V. Club’s favorite games of 2020
By William Hughes, Alex McLevy, Randall Colburn, Sam Barsanti, Shannon Miller, Alexander Chatziioannou, Angelica Cataldo, A.A. Dowd, Samantha Nelson December 18, 2020 | 6:00am
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aux The A.V. Club’s 15 favorite books of 2020
By Laura Adamczyk, Danette Chavez, Alex McLevy, Randall Colburn, Rien Fertel, Samantha Nelson, Ashley Naftule, Bradley Babendir, Ines Bellina December 16, 2020 | 6:00am
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games 25 years ago, Catan became an American hit by beating Monopoly at its own cruel game
By Samantha Nelson December 4, 2020 | 6:00am
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aux It's hard to distinguish between Ready Player Two parodies and excerpts from the real book
By Samantha Nelson November 30, 2020 | 9:03pm
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aux Ready Player Two tries but fails to make up for the problems of the original
By Samantha Nelson November 30, 2020 | 7:45pm
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games The best games of 2020 so far
By William Hughes, Shannon Miller, Joey Clift, A.A. Dowd, Alexander Chatziioannou, Randall Colburn, Sam Barsanti, Samantha Nelson July 10, 2020 | 11:00am
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aux 7 books from the first half of 2020 that more people should read
By Laura Adamczyk, Taylor Moore, Rien Fertel, Samantha Nelson July 7, 2020 | 11:00am
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tv Killing above your weight class: 25 unexpected assassins
By Nick Wanserski, Scott Von Doviak, Drew Toal, Zack Handlen, Samantha Nelson, Rowan Kaiser, Matt Wayt, Randall Colburn, Sam Barsanti, William Hughes, Les Chappell, Dan Caffrey May 7, 2020 | 6:25pm
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aux A hopeful pandemic novel? The Down Days finds beauty in an apocalyptic world
By Samantha Nelson May 4, 2020 | 2:00pm
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games Let your inner bad guy out of the box with our guide to Disney’s Villainous board game
By Samantha Nelson April 24, 2020 | 5:00am
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games 5 board games to bring a little extra life to your Oscars party
By Samantha Nelson February 8, 2020 | 2:00pm
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aux The Vanished Birds’ bittersweet love stories span time and space
By Samantha Nelson January 14, 2020 | 9:30pm
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tv The Witcher’s comic relief is part of a long tradition of fantasy bards
By Samantha Nelson January 9, 2020 | 12:00pm
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games 5 new party games to liven up your holidays
By Samantha Nelson December 20, 2019 | 6:00am