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Image: Studio Ghibli / GKids If you collect Studio Ghibli artbooks, here’s a welcome addition: PIE International’s new volume, Painting the Worlds of Studio Ghibli, is a lavish celebration of the studio’s background art and production painting. Clocking in at more than 550 pages, the book assembles 844 representative background paintings chosen from the thousands...
Fans are speculating about what Nintendo’s new post might mean. Nintendo unexpectedly released a four-minute animated short titled Close to You. The clip appeared on YouTube, in the Nintendo Today app, and across the company’s social channels. The story centers on an infant left alone in a nursery. When the mother steps out, the baby’s...
The new season of “Ahsoka” promises sweeping developments to the storyline and the return of pivotal characters from the saga. Actress Natasha Liu Bordizzo, who portrays Sabine Wren, confirmed that principal photography for the second season of the series for Disney Plus has wrapped. Shooting for the eight episodes spanned roughly five months. Bordizzo posted...
Donald Trump and Sean “Puffy” Combs at the grand opening of Justin’s Restaurant in New York City on September 30, 1997. Ron Galella Collection/Getty Images On Monday, Oct. 6, President Donald Trump confirmed that Sean “Diddy” Combs requested a presidential pardon. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump said Combs’ representatives reached out about...
Image: Penguin Random House After more than three decades chronicling the drow ranger Drizzt Do’Urden and his exploits across the Forgotten Realms, R.A. Salvatore has signaled plans to step back from the franchise to spend more time with family. That shift in priorities informs his newest novel, The Finest Edge of Twilight, published on Oct....
Players noticed that mentions of the shooter are being censored in the game’s chat. Reporters contacted Activision to ask why the term “Arc Raiders” was being filtered in Black Ops 7’s chat. It turned out there was no sinister conspiracy or studio rivalry behind the issue. Our text-moderation system flagged “Arc” as a variant of...
Farming Simulator 25 — Patch 1.13 Released for PC and Consoles Patch 1.13 for Farming Simulator 25 is rolling out now on PC and console platforms. The update contains a range of fixes and enhancements across the core game, the Mercedes‑Benz Trucks Pack, the Precision Farming expansion, and modding assets. See the full changelog below...
Analysts have calculated mobile game revenues for September 2025 and produced a ranking of the top-earning titles. The outlet Mobilegamer.biz released its list of the highest-grossing mobile games for September, based on data from the analytics platform Appmagic. The figures reflect only in-app purchase revenue and do not include advertising income, web-store transactions, Apple and...
Available on PC and consoles. The action RPG Blood of Mehran has launched on PCs and consoles, drawing its inspiration from the collection of tales known as One Thousand and One Nights. In Blood of Mehran you’ll traverse endless sandy dunes, bustling bazaars, and opulent palaces. Fight enemies up close, pick them off with your...
Новости Дочь Робина Уильямса попросила не «воскрешать» актёра при помощи ИИ Добавить в закладки Режиссёрка Зельда Уильямс («Лиза Франкенштейн»), дочь покойного актёра Робина Уильямса, обратилась к его поклонникам с просьбой. Зельда требует от фанатов перестать присылать ей видеоролики с «ожившим» отцом, сгенерированные искусственным интеллектом. «Перестаньте верить в то, что я хочу это видеть или что я...
