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Ziegler left Bungie in July 2026, several months after Marathon’s release. Former Marathon game director Joe Ziegler said Bungie staff had serious disagreements about the direction of the shooter during development. According to him, one of his main tasks after joining the team was to build a shared vision for the game. In a new...

The Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 “Escape” safe code is giving players trouble for two reasons. First, the code turns up well before the safe does, so it’s easy to assume you’ve overlooked something. Second, if you head off in another direction, you can miss the code altogether and then find the safe with...

Ed Sheeran at Deadline Spotlight: Anatomy of a Song – “F1” held at The Motoring Club on Jan. 9, 2026, in Los Angeles. Earl Gibson III/Deadline Martin Short compared Conan O’Brien to Ed Sheeran while introducing his guest appearance on O’Brien’s podcast, Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend. The episode was posted Monday (Oct. 19). The...

Most Magic: The Gathering games conclude when one player’s life total falls to zero, yet plenty of fans delight in building decks around stranger paths to victory. You might mill your opponent’s library, smother them in poison counters, or chase the alternate win conditions printed on cards like Simic Ascendancy or Doctor Doom, Unrivaled. Next...

As is typical for a Call of Duty release, the Modern Warfare 4 campaign mission list is relatively compact compared with most video games. These campaigns play out like a pulse-pounding summer blockbuster, delivering one unforgettable set piece after another. You might be fighting across the shoreline of a fictional South Korean city, pursuing a...

Microsoft has started emailing owners of unused Xbox Series X|S consoles and recommending that they trade in their devices. A Series X could fetch $375. The company points users to trade-in programs and shares instructions on how to complete them. The Microsoft emails specifically mention the US retailer Best Buy, which offers a trade-in program...

Science fiction has never lacked great openings. William Gibson’s Neuromancer builds a cyberpunk world around the image of a sky “the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.” Ursula K. Le Guin needs only four words, “There was a wall,” to introduce one of the central ideas of The Dispossessed. Other authors take a...

Ever watched an NFL game and thought it needed lightsabers and Stormtroopers? Disney has news for you. On Tuesday, the company announced a Star Wars-themed, real-time animated telecast of Super Bowl LXI, set for February. The broadcast is called “Star Wars Funday Football.” According to a news release, it will turn the real players into...

Lily Allen at the 2025 CFDA Fashion Awards held at American Museum of Natural History on Nov. 3, 2025, in New York. Lexie Moreland/WWD Lily Allen says the “tradwife” lifestyle once appealed to her but no longer does. In an interview with The Times published Tuesday (Oct. 20), Allen looked back on her marriages to...

Fans of Critical Role and its diabolical adventuring party, The Mighty Nein, have plenty to enjoy right now. The animated series debuted in December 2025, and spin-off material has since expanded on the Campaign 2 cast. That includes novels like Critical Role: The Mighty Nein – Stories Untold and live-show one-shots like Projekt Funball. Another...