Elaborate robberies are a Hollywood staple, and the real-life theft at the Louvre has become a phenomenon. Why are we riveted by this particular type of crime? On October 19th, a group of masked men broke into the Louvre in broad daylight and made off with some of France's crown jewels. Suspects are now in custody, but the online fervor is still going strong. On this episode of Critics at Large, Vinson Cunningham, Naomi Fry, and Alexandra Schwartz discuss the sordid satisfaction of watching a heist play out, both onscreen and off.

We all have stuff that we've bought ourselves -- or asked others to buy for us -- that makes us happy, even if we suspect our friends may not understand why it's so great. It could be a $100-plus coffee cup that keeps your liquid at the exact right temperature. Or a video game that you've been playing for years. Or a hair styler that is way expensive but would make you look fabulous. We asked the staff of The Verge what some of their guilty pleasures are, and the braver among us volunteered some answers. I'm hesitant to call it a "guilty" pleasure because I have used this $550 (or more) GE Opal 2.0 ice machine every day for nearly a full year and not once have I felt guilt about spending such an obscene amount of cash on a kitchen gadget that does exactly one thing.

If you've played every board game and completed every jigsaw puzzle in your house, multiplayer video games might be another great option for some family fun. From Nintendo titles such as Mario Kart to Playstation 4 fan favourites like FIFA and Minecraft, we've rounded up 11 of the best family-friendly games to play local multiplayer with your kids. Some you can also play online co-op with your friends if you have the required online pass. The original game is back with more than 80 brand new mini-games to get the party started, including the all-new Joy-Con controller enabled mini-games. Test your skills as you take turns with up to four other players to race across the board to win the most Stars.

The Rams aren't the only Los Angeles team Stan Kroenke owns; he's also got the L.A. Gladiators, an eSports team in the Overwatch League. Other NFL owners are heavily invested, too, among them Jerry Jones of the Cowboys and Robert Kraft of the New England Patriots. JuJu Smith-Schuster, a former USC standout who is a Pro Bowl receiver for the Pittsburgh Steelers, has said he might play video games professionally once his football career is done.

In the heady days of youth, once your homework was finished and you'd done your chores, it felt as though you could sit and play video games without a care in the world. The older you are, of course, the further away from this halcyon innocence you get. First studying for exams, then work and eventually family conspire to turn snatched moments joyously wasted in a game into a sordid, slightly guilty pleasure. It's a sense of shame that gets worse the longer you spend, which makes vast, savagely addictive games such as Nioh (PS4) such a rich source of potential remorse. Taking its cues from Dark Souls and Bloodborne, Nioh is a game of fighting and exploring in which your ninja inches his way through labyrinthine networks of corridors, staircases and chambers populated by increasingly lethal men and beasts. Each battle rewards you with dropped pieces of equipment that you wear to improve your chances of survival, which is important in a game where even lowly enemies can kill you if you're not careful.