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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...

Taylor Swift Mert Alas & Marcus Piggot Taylor Swift released four new songs on Friday (Sept. 25) as part of a deluxe version of her 12th studio album, titled The Life of a Showgirl: Encore. The extended project adds “Patient Zero,” “Babylon,” “Pink Clouding” and “Cleveland!” to the original set, which spent 12 weeks at...

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...

Takafumi Noma, director of Unicorn Overlord, is leading IGNISPHERE, a new fantasy project announced by Monochrome and Good Smile Company. Its first game, the action RPG DAWNGAZER, is planned for Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5 and Steam in 2028. IGNISPHERE is both the name of the fantasy property and the studio developing it. Monochrome is...

Employees constantly think things cannot get any worse, but Microsoft’s top management never fails to surprise. In September, Xbox continued its previously announced large-scale business restructuring aimed at reducing the number of departments and redistributing responsibilities among the remaining studios. As part of the latest wave, 268 employees were laid off, and Rare and World’s...

If you are a completionist, reading every superhero comic released by a studio like DC or Marvel can be daunting. Reading guides exist and plenty of superheroes and villains populate the page, but deciding where to start still feels insurmountable. The best advice always remains to start somewhere, and that does not necessarily mean going...

Joe Jonas at Disney+’s “A Very Jonas Christmas Movie” World Premiere held at New York City Center on November 10, 2025 in New York, New York. Kristina Bumphrey/Variety Joe Jonas opened up about falling between two boats during a vacation in Portofino on the Sept. 23 episode of The Morgan Stewart Show. “It sounds like...

Dakota Johnson at The 2026 TIME100 Gala held at Jazz at Lincoln Center on April 23, 2026 in New York, New York. Kristina Bumphrey/WWD As Taylor Swift prepares to debut her new “Patient Zero” music video during the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday (Sept. 27), Dakota Johnson is discussing her collaboration with her...