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Cosplayers Arshie Nero and AleksMaks portrayed Rogue Trader Lorraine von Valancius and Ordo Xenos Inquisitor Heinrix van Calox, bringing the characters’ romantic relationship to life. The final expansion for the role-playing game Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader, “The Procession of the Damned,” is set to launch on December 8, 2026. In anticipation, the cosplay community has...
The Grand Theft Auto franchise is one of gaming’s biggest names, and Grand Theft Auto 6 is poised to become a landmark entertainment release when it arrives on Nov. 19. You might assume every game in the series is easy to find today. Unfortunately, that is not the case. Rockstar’s approach to its back catalogue...
A pack of wolves can wipe out your party just minutes after the tutorial in Baldur’s Gate. In Mass Effect 2, a companion you neglected may die for good during a mission you can’t replay. And a BioWare-made Sonic RPG for Nintendo DS ends with the heroes saving the universe—only to return home and discover...
Hogwarts Legacy, the Harry Potter prequel adventure, was 2022’s biggest new game release. It sold more than 22 million copies in the U.S. during its first year, surpassing that year’s Call of Duty release, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. Sales have since topped 40 million worldwide, making a sequel seem inevitable. Warner Bros. Discovery...
Twin Engine has announced an anime adaptation of Satoshi Mizukami’s manga Spirit Circle and released its first trailer. The series is the final directing project of Tatsuo Sato. Fourteen-year-old Futa Okeya can see ghosts. When Koko Ishigami joins his class, she notices a mark he hides under a bandage on his cheek and declares him...
For much of Star Trek’s history, Christopher Pike was little more than a footnote. He commanded the Enterprise before James T. Kirk, and was best known for appearing in a rejected television pilot. Anson Mount’s performance changed that. Jeffrey Hunter first played Pike in “The Cage,” filmed in 1964. After William Shatner’s Kirk took command,...
Post Malone has finally put his legendary Magic: The Gathering card to use. Three years after buying the one-of-a-kind The One Ring for $2 million, the musician removed it from its protective case and played it in an actual game. Malone brought the card to an episode of The Command Zone’s Game Knights, where he...
Indya Navarrette will play Rogue in the X-Men reboot, making her 21 years younger than the current Gambit. Caleb Williams, a journalist at Knight Edge Media, reported that Marvel Studios has been looking for a new actor to play Gambit since September. Other insiders have responded to his report. Cartier Films named 33-year-old Drew Starkey,...
Take-Two aims to create “the best entertainment on Earth,” and the Borderlands movie clearly didn’t make the cut. Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick acknowledged that the Borderlands adaptation fell short of the company’s expectations. In an interview with Business Insider, he was asked why the publisher isn’t rushing to bring its game franchises to the big...
Netflix has released the main trailer and a new poster for the dark anime Fool Night, based on Kasumi Yasuda’s manga. The trailer features the series’ opening theme, “Shake! spit out” by Tempalay, and ending theme, “iki” by Nowlu. Image source: Kasumi Yasuda/Shogakukan/“Fool Night” Production Committee The story takes place in the distant future, when...
