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Avatar: The Last Airbender is full of heartfelt moments, from Aang reassuring a despondent Toph in the desert to Ursa’s parting words to Zuko before she disappears in the night. Uncle Iroh is at the center of many of the series’ most moving scenes. He begins as Zuko’s wise mentor and becomes much more, offering...

The global Japanese animation market reached a record 4.45 trillion yen, or about $28.2 billion, in 2025, according to preliminary data from the Association of Japanese Animations (AJA). The market grew 15.8% from the previous year. The total includes spending on films and series as well as related merchandise, music, and events. Fans outside Japan...

Here’s a quick roundup of our entertainment industry coverage from last week. Silver Pines review: Twin Peaks for gamers. There’s plenty of walking, monster fighting, and puzzle solving to do. The challenge is keeping your sanity along the way. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 anime review: It’s hard to follow a masterpiece. Studio TRIGGER takes us on...

Connor Storrie is in talks to play the main villain in Marvel’s Ghost Rider, which stars Ryan Gosling, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Storrie played a young inmate in Joker: Folie à Deux. The Hollywood Reporter did not specify which character he has been offered. Shawn Levy, director of Deadpool & Wolverine, will direct the...

Developer mamcjr has released BOTWRecompAndroid, an unofficial Android port of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild based on the Nintendo Switch version. The developer used work from LAS Recomp, a project to port the Link’s Awakening remake. The mobile version supports touch controls, external gamepads, and gyro aiming. Players can change the resolution...

Street Fighter earned about $3.2 million in the US and Canada during its third weekend, down 62.7% from the previous weekend. The film fell to fifth place as the number of theaters showing it dropped by 750 to 2,825. The adaptation has grossed $53 million domestically and $91.9 million worldwide, a disastrous result against its...

id Software co-studio head Marty Stratton says the developers are doing well and continue to work actively on new projects despite widespread layoffs in Microsoft’s gaming division. Stratton would probably be less upbeat if he had been laid off himself. Grok As part of an Xbox restructuring led by Asha Sharma, id Software lost around...

Independent studio SBSR has signed an agreement with publisher Spaghetti Cat to support and promote its story-driven rural driving simulator. SBSR calls the partnership a new stage in the project’s development. The partnership will also help the developers bring new ideas to life and expand the project’s features. SBSR initially envisioned a small project with...

Developer shirai91 has added support for Super Mario Odyssey, Metroid Dread, and Pokémon Legends: Arceus to nx2android, a fan-made tool for porting Nintendo Switch games to Android. The additions are part of update 0.2.0. According to shirai91, all three games ran at around 60 FPS during tests on a Lenovo Legion Y700 tablet with a...

Justin Timberlake at the 6th Annual Academy Museum Gala held at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on Oct. 17, 2026, in Los Angeles. Gilbert Flores/Variety Justin Timberlake has a four-part “tell-all” docuseries in the works at Apple TV, with Janet Jackson appearing as a guest, Variety reported Monday (Nov. 2). The series is reportedly expected...