A new announcement reveals that the Gears of War: E-Day multiplayer reveal will be held on July 30, 2026. The next installment in the fan-favorite series from Coalition is scheduled for release on October 6, 2026. The developers have confirmed that the game will feature four-player co-op. They…
If you're on the hunt for more good bargains now that we're past big sale events like Prime Day, Best Buy has launched its Black Friday in July Sale. This runs until the end of the day on Sunday, July 26, and is full of some excellent tech offers to dig into. In particular, for those of you who are…
Skip to main content ❚ We may earn commission from links on this page. Our editorial is always independent (learn more). If you're getting ready to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Halo, you might have heard about the Halo: Campaign Evolved multiplayer situation. You would think that it would be…
Pre-orders start today Zelda's first 40th anniversary action figures revealed, starting with one of the series' best games Last week, Hasbro and Nintendo announced a collaboration for a new line of six-inch action figures based on The Legend of Zelda characters. On Wednesday, they revealed the…
Xbox’s new CEO has been shaking things up since she stepped into her role earlier this year. From bringing back Xbox exclusives to a fresh emphasis on big franchises, the gaming company already looks quite different under Sharma. Now, Xbox is rolling out another new initiative, one that emphasizes…
Metaphor And Persona Artist Promises Not To Use Generative AI In His Next Game Persona and Metaphor: ReFantazio artist Kazuma Kaneko is pretty legendary in the art scene, having most recently worked with Atlus on the demon design in the aforementioned Metaphor. He left Atlus a while ago to work on…
Wanna play? After a brief tease, Hasbro has now fully revealed its new line of Legend of Zelda: Heroes of Hyrule toys (thanks, IGN). They're pretty much exactly what we were expecting, too. Three figures make up the first batch of toys, and these include Link, Zelda, and Ganondorf. What's perhaps…
Dungeons & Dragons has no shortage of fantastical and folkloric creatures. Some are more popular than others, such as D&D’ demogorgons and mind flayers (made popular with wider audiences due to Stranger Things, no doubt), and some are far cuter than they are scary, such as hollyphants and tressyms.…
Fuzion Frenzy, Blinx, and other select games are now available on PC Very good news for those eager to replay Blinx: The Time Sweeper in 2026: Microsoft just announced it will support backward compatibility for select original Xbox games on Windows PC. It is launching today in early release…
Godzilla has had some wild crossovers in recent years, from fighting DC Comics' Justice League to unleashing his full terror on the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. Now, the King of the Monsters is entering another unexpected battle, one that will see him collide with one of the most influential…
Andy Behbakht has worked as an entertainment journalist since 2010, covering all the latest in Hollywood on both the big and small screens, from staying on top of the biggest breaking news, analyzing movies and television shows in Hollywood, to in-depth interviews with actors and storytellers.…
Physical Media Is Dying, And PlayStation Doesn't Care That You're Upset About It It has been a couple of weeks now since Sony announced it would abandon physical media starting in January 2028, a window that likely aligns with the launch of PS6 as well as confirmation it will be a digital-only and…
GameStop’s Pokemon TCG Power Packs Are “Plain, Unlicensed Gambling”, Says Professor Since 2020, Sam has written over 2,500 articles and specializes in telling the stories of the people behind the games. He’s interviewed the biggest game directors, some of the industry’s top talents, told the…
Wetting the appetite Waterparks have always felt like quite a strange concept to me in that the UK is small enough that you can just take a quick train ride and be at a beach within an hour or so, give or take. We do have them here, I've just had no reason to go one, and also the idea of having to…
There are a handful of things everyone associates with Spider-Man: He lives a double life as the dorky Peter Parker and the friendly neighborhood superhero; he is perpetually broke, he’s a certified genius, he has a disastrous romantic life, and of course, he’s been saddled with “great…
Whether flowing, static, colorful, or dark, capes on the backs of various superheroes are a surefire sign of a blockbuster movie, or, failing actual box office performance, an aspiring blockbuster. No matter how you slice it, once a character puts on a cape, one of two things happens: You’re…
When you think of Spider-Man, which actor comes to mind? For many, the answer is Tobey Maguire, the first actor to play the role on the silver screen. For the young folks today, it’s Tom Holland, who met his now-wife on the set of Spider-Man: Homecoming almost 10 years ago. And for that slice of…
It’s a fun question to get right at bar trivia night: The first blockbuster was the 1975 Steven Spielberg horror flick Jaws, because that’s the first time people were lined up around the block to see a film over and over again. Not to mention, as the first movie to pass the $100 million mark, the…
Fifty years into the blockbuster era, it’s easy to forget that the American film industry wasn’t always focused on making genre movies that cost hundreds of millions of dollars and vacuum up A-list actors. That’s not to say that there weren’t movies that dominated the cultural conversation — Disney…
Few performers working today feel simultaneously so visible and anonymous as Rebecca Romijn. A generation of X-Men fans rightly recognize her as an icon for her portrayal of the shape-shifting mutant Mystique in Fox’s X-Men movies. But as Romijn reveals to Inverse years after the fact, few fans…
Splatoon's story is so much weirder than you think If you’ve only ever interacted with Splatoon from a casual distance, it may seem like there’s not much story to Nintendo’s multiplayer series. You’re a kid-squid who shoots ink guns. What more is there to know? Anyone who has followed the series…
Star Trek Beyond, the last (and best) Star Trek movie produced by J.J. Abrams, premiered 10 years ago, and the remarkable cast led by Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto has been wasted ever since. Directed by Justin Lin and written by Simon Pegg and Doug Jung, Star Trek Beyond premiered on July 22,…
HBO Max's Stuart Fails to Save the Universe marries sci-fi concepts with The Big Bang Theory's brand of comedy, but the bold risk barely pays off. Chuck Lorre has re-teamed with Bill Prady, and together, they brought in Zak Penn for the latest installment of the famed franchise. Seven years after…
Bleach has enjoyed a run not many shonen anime get to have. It's been around since 2004 in TV form, and now it's back with Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War, which is wrapping up the age-old manga. Later this month we'll move on to the last segment of the sequel series. Beyond the anime, the…