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In March 2023, the Naruto franchise announced a special anime project to celebrate its 20th anniversary. The plan featured four newly animated episodes produced with modern animation standards. Studio Pierrot also released a 10-minute trailer revisiting iconic scenes with updated visuals, giving audiences a look at the upgraded animation style. The four episodes were originally...
Marvel Studios is developing several new live-action series for Disney+, according to Puck journalist Julia Alexander, citing her industry sources. While specific details about the projects remain under wraps, Alexander reports that the first announcements could arrive soon. A likely venue for reveals is New York Comic Con on October 8. On that date, Marvel...
Steve Buscemi has been cast in the second season of the Apple TV+ sci-fi series Murderbot. He joins an ensemble cast that features Tramell Tillman, Michael Sheen, Wanda Sykes, and Nicholas Braun. The core cast from the debut season is also set to return, with Alexander Skarsgård reprising his role as the titular protagonist—a self-aware...
The latest installment in the Insidious saga, Insidious 6: They Are Here, has debuted with the most impressive critical reception for any sequel in the franchise to date on Rotten Tomatoes. The horror flick currently holds a 67% approval rating based on 36 reviews, trailing only the original 2010 film. Critics have particularly lauded the...
The hit crime drama Silver Spoon (Major), headlined by Pavel Priluchny, is officially returning for a sixth season. In the upcoming chapter, Igor Sokolovsky finds himself entangled in a chilling investigation involving the disappearances of several young women. His pursuit of the truth brings him face-to-face with Roman Zamyatin, the newly appointed chief of the...
Disney+ has released the first teaser for the second season of the anime series Disney Twisted-Wonderland: The Animation. The upcoming season is subtitled Episode of Savanaclaw and is scheduled to begin streaming in December 2026. The new storyline centers on the Savanaclaw dormitory, which is themed after The Lion King. Its residents draw inspiration from...
Focus Entertainment has released a PC graphics comparison video for Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy, showcasing visual differences across minimum, recommended, and maximum presets. The footage demonstrates how the game looks under various hardware configurations. The developers also noted that the PC edition includes manual graphics settings so players can adjust performance options for their...
Bethesda workers across nine cities in the United States and Canada have staged fresh protests against mass layoffs within Microsoft Gaming divisions. The demonstrations, organized under the banner “Save Our Devs,” were led by the One Bethesda Game Studio (OneBGS) union with backing from the Communications Workers of America (CWA). Rallies took place in Redmond,...
The acquisition of Electronic Arts by a consortium led by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) officially closed on August 4. The $55 billion transaction took EA private, with roughly $20 billion of the financing raised as debt. Alongside PIF, the consortium includes private equity firm Silver Lake and Jared Kushner’s investment firm Affinity Partners....
The final six months of development on the original Red Dead Redemption involved near-continuous crunch, according to former Rockstar Games designer Kris Roberts. Rockstar Games has faced accusations of severe employee overwork for years. Roberts, who worked on the multiplayer mode for the first Red Dead Redemption, described the last stretch of the project as...
