A magician performs a sword swallowing accident illusion with Dennis Roady.

Scott Saville's story from 2019 shared former equipment manager Ron "Roady" Plein didn't let heart surgery keep him from ...

Ronald “Roady” Plein, longtime equipment manager with the Cedar Rapids Kernels, died Saturday at 81 years old. For 40 years, ...

Scott Saville's story from 2019 shared former equipment manager Ron "Roady" Plein didn't let heart surgery keep him from ...

CEDAR RAPIDS - Here are updated boys basketball standings from schools in the Gazette area. They are through Wednesday. The ...

Variety is, as they say, the spice of life, and 2025 provided a fantastic array of different video games. We’ve survived and extracted from the robot-ruled battlefields of Arc Raiders, adventured ...

Editor’s note: Variety was part of the jury for The Game Awards 2025.

Jennifer Svedberg-Yen and Guillaume Broche of Sandfall Interactive on stage at The Game Awards 2025 (MICHAEL TRAN via Getty Images) This year at The Game Awards, if your game wasn’t melodramatic, ...

If you didn't stay up to watch The Game Awards 2025, here's the complete rundown of the hottest sci-fi and space games that appeared at the show. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Every year, more and more outlets are paying attention to The Game Awards, and for good reason. The organization launched in 2014 to honor the year’s best innovations in video games, and they cover a ...

The role-playing game won nine prizes, including game of the year. By Zachary Small A role-playing game featuring a mythical paintress, demonic mimes and an orchestral soundtrack earned the top prize ...