Games
Sources: Polygon, Kotaku
Blizzard and Netflix Officially Reveal Diablo Animated Series in the Works
Blizzard Entertainment is finally expanding the "entertainment" half of its name. On Saturday, at BlizzCon 2026's opening ceremony, Blizzard president Johanna Faries announced that it's teaming up with Netflix to bring the world of Diablo to streaming. A new animated series set…
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Blizzard's MOBA Is Making An Unexpected Comeback
At BlizzCon 2026, Blizzard Entertainment announced a new hero for Heroes of the Storm: Xal’atath. He’s coming to the game later this month, and could signal a larger return of support for the game.
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Heroes Of The Storm Is Getting A Surprise New Hero Later This Month
From the void to the storm
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A Remake Of A Visual Novel For The PSP Has The Most Ridiculous Recommended PC Specs
What in the world is going on with Danganronpa 2×2 on Steam?
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Studio Behind Critically-Acclaimed PSVR Game Shuts Down After 12 Years
Moss was one of the first standout games for PlayStation's virtual reality headset
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Players Can’t Believe No Man’s Sky Is Finally Letting Them Build In Space
In space, no one can hear you scream (about the ever increasing cost of home ownership)
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SCP Foundation Pushes Back On Backrooms Studio’s New V/H/S: SCP Movie: ‘A24 Does Not And Cannot Have Any Exclusive Rights’ [Update: A24 Says V/H/S: SCP ‘Meant As A Tribute To The Community’]
The SCP Foundation stated that A24 has 'not consulted or contacted' it about the planned V/H/S: SCP film, and asserts that anyone 'could upload a copy to YouTube' for free
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YouTuber Gets Tackled On Stage At Roblox Conference Wearing T-Shirt That Says ‘Kids Deserve Better’
Emathiio was escorted out of the event after the stunt
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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is Actually A Horror Game
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is a fairy tale, more so even than most other Zelda games. Recognizing this is key to understanding (if not necessarily liking) the visual approach Nintendo has taken for the remake of the 1998 classic, as I wrote when discussing its…
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Wallace & Gromit's Overlooked Spinoff Is Officially Switching Genres With Its Next Movie
Beloved British stop-motion studio Aardman is best known as the home of Wallace and Gromit, but if you've been sleeping on the equally delightful Shaun the Sheep, you're sorely missing out. The ovine protagonist, voiced by Justin Fletcher, first appeared in the 1995 Wallace &…
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Paramount's Near-Perfect 3-Part Sci-Fi Series Officially Finds a New Streaming Home
The secret to Star Trek’s longevity isn't that it has stayed the same for 60 years. In fact, it’s quite the opposite. Every era has reimagined Gene Roddenberry's universe for a new audience, from The Next Generation to the Kelvin Timeline to today's wave of streaming series.…
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Netflix’s 'Kpop Demon Hunters' Replacement Reimagines a Classic Disney Princess
Alyce Tzue always loved fairy tales, but growing up as the only Asian kid in a homogeneous community in New Jersey, she worried she would never find her happily ever after. Instead of seeing herself in Cinderella, Tzue wondered why her stepsisters didn’t get their own magic. Now…
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10 NES Games That Are Still Worth Playing From Start to Finish
On October 18, 1985, the Nintendo Entertainment System launched in North America with a limited selection of games like Super Mario Bros. and Excitebike. Within a few years, it had a library of hundreds of titles, proving that rumors of the video game industry’s death throughout…
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Stephen King's Next Book is the Long-Awaited Conclusion To A 42-Year-Old Trilogy
There aren't many parts of Stephen King's bibliography that you can realistically call "obscure." As one of the most famous novelists on Earth, and perhaps the single most famous living horror novelist, even King's lesser-known works are usually best-sellers.
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34 Years Later, the Best 'Calvin and Hobbes’ Quote About the Meaning of Life Is Still Second to None
While I’m sure I read it earlier, it wasn’t until I was an adult that I learned to appreciate the open-ended beauty of the last Calvin and Hobbescomic, which features the titular duo sledding off into a snowy white wilderness, suggesting that, even though the strip has ended,…
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62 Years Later, Clint Eastwood's Genre-Redefining Western Is Officially Free on Streaming
As the glory days of classic Westerns began to fade in the 1960s, so did some of the romance associated with it, bringing about the more complex, morally ambiguous “Revisionist Westerns.” One of the most important films from the early days of the Revisionist Western is 1964’s A…
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Fallout 5 and Classic Fallout Remasters Coming from Bethesda and Obsidian
Xbox wants more Fallout, and after a yearslong drought of new games, Bethesda Softworks is making it happen. Bethesda plans to release remasters of both Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas for modern platforms, the company said in July in a massive roadmap of the developer's future.
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