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Fallout Day 2026 stretched across five full days, opening on Monday with a day devoted to the community. Bethesda Softworks filled the week with giveaways, creator spotlights, and game announcements. The message to fans was clear: plenty more is on the way in the days, weeks, and months ahead. The celebration of Bethesda’s beloved post-apocalyptic...
A new estimate puts the cost of the GTA 6 launch to the United Kingdom at £403 million (nearly $540 million) in lost output on release day. Earlier estimates suggested the launch could cost the US economy $1 billion. Uswitch, a company that compares prices across a range of products and services, surveyed 1,000 employed...
A developer using the handle codepdbh has released an unofficial Android port of Need for Speed: Underground 2, built from the original PC version of the cult racing game. Enthusiasts keep bringing popular games to mobile devices. The mobile version supports gamepads and touch controls. Players can change the position, size, and look of the...
Epic fantasy with plenty of politics and skulduggery is hard to beat, and George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones franchise is the standard. The TV adaptations include Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and House of the Dragon. All three have star-studded casts and detailed worldbuilding woven into the story. Few shows...
Some of the best comedy comes from incredibly dumb characters written by incredibly smart people. Homer Simpson has often been written by Harvard-educated writers on The Simpsons. Fry on Futurama fits the same mold. So do Michael Scott from The Office and basically every character on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. In comic strips, the...
The Warhammer: Necromunda team has shared its 2027 roadmap. Fans of the tabletop game can expect a large vehicle set, a return to Hive Secundus, a trip back to the smoldering districts of Cinderak and a new batch of mercenaries. The team also outlined its plans for the future. After careful consideration, the developers decided...
What was the last thing you did that took 16 years? Director Travis Knight has more persistence than most of us. Knight and his stop-motion animation studio Laika needed nearly two decades to finish Wildwood, their latest film. Even then, the studio behind Coraline wasn’t fully prepared for its most ambitious movie yet. Knight also...
Shigeru Miyamoto, the visionary behind Nintendo’s most celebrated franchises, including The Legend of Zelda and Super Mario, has received an honor from the Japanese government that is usually bestowed on artists, athletes, and Nobel laureates. Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology named him a 2026 recipient of the Order of Culture. The...
Here’s a frosty hot take: the Ice King is one of the greatest anti-heroes in TV history. He belongs alongside Walter White and Tony Soprano. Adventure Time‘s princess-obsessed villain, also known as Simon Petrikov, is voiced by Tom Kenny, the voice of SpongeBob SquarePants. He’s funnier than those other guys, and he’s also more tragic...
Variety reports that an awards campaign is being planned for Zendaya for her work in Dune: Part Three. Unlike the supporting-actress campaigns for the previous two films, she will this time be pushed in the Best Actress category. In the franchise, Zendaya plays Chani, a Fremen woman and the love interest of Paul Atreides (Timothée...
