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643 The Avatar Game Is So Good, They Don’t Need to Make the Movies Anymore

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Boone Ashworth @ Wired · 12/19/2025 06:30 EDT

The Avatar Game Is So Good, They Don’t Need to Make the Movies Anymore

See the new movie Avatar: Fire and Ash if you’d like. But if you really want to experience the big blue world of Pandora, the video game is where it’s at.

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