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10. Shadows Over Camelot Shadows Over Camelotis a semi-cooperative game where players are working together toward shared victory, but one player could possibly be a traitor. Every turn requires you to make both heroic and evil actions, so it’s far from easy to spot who the traitor might be—if there is one. What makesShadows Over Camelotsimilar toBetrayal at House on the Hill?The traitor mechanic is where these games overlap, except there’s far more dread and uncertainty inShadows Over Camelotbecause traitors are never guaranteed....

10. Deck Box Dungeons Deck Box Dungeonsis a lightweight dungeon crawler that packs in a lot of fun by relinquishing most of the game logic to a mobile app. Not only does it tell you how to set up the game (with numerous scenarios), it’ll tell you what’s in each room as you explore, and it’ll throw surprises at you while you’re exploring the dungeon. The character and equipment cards combine in different ways, allowing you to customize your character anew every time you play....

What Are Body Horror Movies? Body horror moviesfocus on depicting the physical body as ruined, contaminated, deformed, or infected. There’s a fascination with showing the breakdown of the body, its transformation into something else—somethingother, somethinginhuman. To be clear, not every film that features themes of bodily violence counts as a body horror movie. The genre specifically emphasizes the human body as emblematic of something greater. Often, there are allegories at work and there are deeper meanings beneath the surface vileness....

10. Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web When you dive into computer history, you could start at the very beginning—or you could start with the World Wide Web, which is arguably the greatest eventual result of the computer. InWeaving the Web, creator of the internet Tim Berners-Lee tells the entire story of how the Web started, how it evolved for the future, and how it can be best used to maximum potential....

10. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World The Silk Road, which spanned from the Balkans all the way to East Asia, is one of the best-known trading routes in world history. By connecting the known world together, it influenced the spread of culture from one end to the other—and the effects are still felt today. Peter Frankopan’s book dissects the influence that the Silk Road had on the world’s nations and civilizations....