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Caretakers, The arch. Perhaps you’ve strolled past it for 20 hours. Perhaps 50. Perhaps far longer. With Update 6, it finally powers up. It has a destination. It opens. PROJECT CROSSING is underway. The first working Transfer Gate links Lazarus Complex to North Bastion, a frozen mountain region where the main story carries on, the...
Since Wordle took the world by storm at the start of the decade, daily puzzle games have multiplied, and plenty of them are built around Pokémon. You can identify a Pokémon from its color scheme, solve Pokémon-flavored sudoku, or take on Red in a daily battle. Whatever kind of trainer you are, there’s a puzzle...
Horror books open the door to chilling worlds. Some stories take place in the distant future. Others turn everyday anxieties into something relatable. In classics like Dracula, literal monsters stand in for pestilence and xenophobia. In The Last House on Needless Street, the fear has no physical source, and trauma shapes an unreliable protagonist. The...
An email from Ayaneo has given handheld fans a rough timeline for Pocket Micro 2 shipments, an update on assembly of the next KONKR Pocket Advance batch, and a start date for KONKR Pocket Block shipments. Ayaneo sent the email to users. It covers shipping progress and shipment volumes for the KONKR Pocket Advance, KONKR...
Taika Waititi’s newest film, Klara and the Sun, opens on Friday. Its early reception is rough, with a 25% score on Rotten Tomatoes, so its time in the sun may be short. Another Waititi project may never see daylight at all: his long-gestating Star Wars film. Waititi recently gave Inverse an update and said the...
A store in Tirana, the capital of Albania, is displaying advertising for GTA 6, and it appears not to be sponsored by the developers. The glass storefront panel at the entrance features the cover art for Grand Theft Auto VI. The window displays the first Jason and Lucia artwork. The game is currently being heavily...
Obsession has finished its theatrical run. Anyone who wants to see the 2026 horror hit again, or for the first time, now has to turn to digital platforms. Director Curry Barker’s film arrives on Netflix in November, which should set off another round of discussion about it. Obsession opened in theaters on May 15, 2026....
For the past few years, Scooby-Doo media has drawn either cool indifference, as with Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?, or outright hostility, as with Velma. Fans of the lovable hound and Mystery Incorporated are probably hedging their bets on Netflix’s upcoming 2027 adaptation, Scooby-Doo: Origins, and hoping it brings something new and exciting to the franchise....
Cosplayer Lidia “Olidushka” Lepeshkina has taken on the role of Six from the horror game Little Nightmares. Six is a girl trying to survive in grim conditions aboard the underwater vessel known as the Maw, and she refuses to stay a helpless victim. The Little Nightmares series stands out among horror games and platformers for...
Piisu Inc. has released a free Fish Them All demo on Steam. The incremental fishing game is taking part in the October 19–26 Steam Next Fest. The demo covers approximately 30–40 minutes, according to the developer, with Windows and macOS versions and support for 14 languages. Fishing runs in the demo last 60 seconds: players...
