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Photo: New Line In the early 2000s the Rush Hour films were Hollywood’s easiest shorthand for talking about race — not nuanced, but undeniably mainstream. Watching Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker riff on stereotypes while chasing bad guys was, for many viewers, the most direct way a big-studio comedy approached racial humor at the time....
YouTube’s 2025 Year‑End Trending Lists: Songs, Shorts, Creators and Cultural Moments That Defined the Year Forrest Frank, Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars — Photo: Dee Thornton; John Esparza YouTube has published its 2025 Year‑End Trending Lists, highlighting the creators, songs, podcasts and cultural moments that resonated most across the platform this year. Topping YouTube’s year‑end...
Image: Kadokawa Isekai remains one of anime’s most enduringly popular genres, built around characters abruptly transported into unfamiliar worlds where survival, adaptation, and the quest to return home drive the story. Kadokawa’s Yojo Senki: Saga of Tanya the Evil offers a strikingly original spin on that formula: a cynical salaryman is reborn in an alternate...
Rihanna and A$AP Rocky Share Proud Moments at the 2025 Gotham Awards December 1, 2025 — New York, NY Rihanna and A$AP Rocky at the 35th Annual Gotham Film Awards, Cipriani Wall Street — December 1, 2025. John Nacion Rihanna and A$AP Rocky enjoyed a rare night out together at the 2025 Gotham Awards on...
Route 66 Rework — A Guided Tour of Arizona and New Mexico Work on the Route 66 Rework for American Truck Simulator is progressing steadily. Today we’re sharing a wider look at the towns and cities that give this storied highway its unmistakable personality. Although many of these communities have appeared in ATS before, the...
Patch 1.5.2 Now Available for Kingdom Come: Deliverance II This hotfix brings a range of stability improvements and bug resolutions aimed at removing quest blockers, polishing audiovisual glitches, and addressing community-reported issues across the base game and DLCs. Key fixes and improvements Corrected interior audio so rain is no longer audible indoors. Fixed crashes that...
Image: Disney Viewers watching Zootopia 2 in Japan—or those streaming the Japanese dub—may notice a surprising cameo: famed game auteur Hideo Kojima provides the voice for Paul Moledebrandt, a curmudgeonly mole who leads the Zootopia Police Department’s IT unit. In the English-language release, the role is performed by Josh Gad, the American actor, comedian and...
Yacht Club Games hopes the project will move about 500,000 units. The Shovel Knight team at Yacht Club Games told Bloomberg that their next title, Mina the Hollower, could determine the studio’s future. The studio says selling roughly 500,000 copies would put them on solid ground. Around 200,000 would be an acceptable result. But if...
We’ve released the complimentary Content Update #4 for Farming Simulator 25 — including Patch 1.15. This update brings powerful new machinery from John Deere and Case IH to every player. Below you’ll find the highlights and full patch notes. Please note: the patch is being distributed platform-by-platform and may take some time to appear for...
Helldivers is making the leap from console to cinema, and Sony has enlisted Justin Lin to direct the adaptation. Lin — widely recognized for his work on multiple Fast & Furious installments — will shepherd the film for Sony Pictures in partnership with PlayStation Productions, with Lin’s Perfect Storm Entertainment on board as a producer....
