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Anyone who missed out on the exclusive voice pack now has another opportunity. Nikita Buyanov recorded a bespoke voiceover for Escape from Tarkov. At first it dropped only rarely as a Twitch Drop; later there was a promotion that guaranteed a 100% drop rate. Recently the head of Battlestate Games returned to the topic and...
Mundfish is poised to release new content soon. The makers of Atomic Heart are continuing to tease the game’s fourth expansion. Its name remains under wraps, but the developers have revealed a few narrative details about the DLC: Hand in hand, amid the grinding of metal, the Nechayevs step into a final confrontation with KhRAZ,...
Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran onstage during Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour at Wembley Stadium, August 15, 2024. TAS2024/Getty Images Trending on Billboard Ed Sheeran, who famously keeps a low-tech life and doesn’t regularly use a phone, only learned about his longtime friend Taylor Swift’s engagement to Travis Kelce after her public Instagram announcement....
Image: Toho Animation/Crunchyroll For years the subtitles-versus-dubs argument divided anime fans, with purists insisting on subtitle fidelity while others embraced localized English performances. The streaming era, however, has helped dubs gain mainstream traction—platforms like Crunchyroll have made English-language tracks far more visible—even as licensing disputes continue to put some older titles out of reach. Debates...
Image: Castle Rock Entertainment Misery, Rob Reiner’s film adaptation of Stephen King’s novel, premiered on November 30, 1990. The movie pairs James Caan’s Paul Sheldon — a celebrated romance novelist — with Kathy Bates’s Annie Wilkes, an increasingly dangerous admirer. At its core, the film dissects how adulation can curdle into control and the very...
Hello, friends. The air is getting crisper and the holiday decorations are appearing earlier each year — and we’re all for it. It’s been a long, eventful year: Baldur’s Gate 3 added twelve new subclasses, implemented full cross‑play, and introduced a photo mode in what we’re calling the final patch. We also launched Larian: Channel...
Ready or Not 2 follows Grace and her sister Faith into a deadlier game. See the cast, 108-minute runtime and current Hulu and digital availability.
Image: Netflix The trailer for Stranger Things season 5 bristles with set pieces and jolting moments — yet several of those beats don’t appear in the first four episodes, which were released on November 26, 2025. In response, a fan on X stitched together a makeshift Volume 2 trailer from the unused trailer footage; after...
Hello everyone, On December 2, 2025 we’ll bring Battlefield Labs back online. Previous Labs phases gave us rapid, focused feedback on ideas before they arrived in the live game. Now we’re expanding that approach—refining how we test together as part of our commitment to deliver the most ambitious Battlefield live service in franchise history. Up...
Officials wanted a scare story for the public, but they couldn’t craft it from Hollywood or musicians. Rockstar Games co‑founder Dan Houser told Chris Evans on The Chris Evans Breakfast Show how the success of Grand Theft Auto III and the subsequent titles led to a campaign against the studio by U.S. authorities, who used...
