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If you have questions after watching Kane Parsons’ hit horror movie Backrooms, you will not find many answers in the more than 20 Backrooms videos he made for his YouTube channel. Parsons began making those videos in his mid-teens as early experiments with Blender effects and environmental sound design. They are exercises in mood and...

Twenty-six years after the strip ended, Peanuts often feels like it comes pre-digested. Even during its original run, much of the work got carefully filtered through layers of T-shirts, greeting cards, and inspirational wall posters. That reduced much of the material to the benign emptiness of a Precious Moments figurine. Reading the strip directly reveals...

Superhero television used to be much stranger. Before Marvel and DC and their cinematic universes streamlined the cape-and-cowl blueprint, television operated as an open landscape for superpower narratives rooted in human drama rather than traditional comic book lore. The 4400 treated sudden gifts as a sprawling science-fiction mystery, while Syfy’s Alphas reinterpreted abilities as complex...

Claude Opus 5.5 can independently create a game with modern indie graphics in Unreal Engine within 60 to 120 minutes, using just a single text prompt without any subsequent edits. AI capabilities for independently building games in Unreal Engine were recently tested again, and Claude Opus 5.5 outperformed GPT-6 Astra across every test in an...

Following closures, mergers, and layoffs, Xbox is left with 12 studios compared to 23 five years ago, with the company warning that the current restructuring is not yet complete. In recent months, PlayStation Studios has faced frequent criticism for closing internal teams, but Xbox has also significantly reduced its own structures over the past few...

The Legend of Khiimori has received a major Wildlife update featuring fishing, new animals, and a journal, alongside confirmed plans to release the game on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Switch 2. Released in March, the animal-powered cargo delivery game set in remote corners of Mongolia has received another major update. Wildlife introduces fishing as...

Recent layoffs and structural changes at Microsoft have drawn sharp reactions from analysts who believe Activision and Bethesda are gradually gaining more control over the former Xbox organization. NYU Stern professor Joost van Dreunen described the situation as “a slow reverse takeover,” noting that Activision and Bethesda are becoming key decision-making entities and taking control...

If 2026 has proven anything, horror filmmaking is firing on all cylinders. Earlier in the year, Curry Barker dissected modern intimacy through the nightmare lens of Obsession, while Damian McCarthy built a masterclass in spatial dread and folklore with Hokum. Continuing the threads of 28 Years Later, Nia DaCosta expanded Alex Garland’s post-apocalyptic mythos with...

Warner Bros. has officially scheduled the release of its upcoming animated feature, Dynamic Duo, for September 22, 2028. The film explores the origin story of Robin, Batman’s iconic sidekick. The lead role of Dick Grayson will be voiced by How to Train Your Dragon star Mason Thames, with Lee Pace and Steve Buscemi also joining...