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Fahrenheit 451’s Opening Line Still Ranks Among Sci-Fi’s Best 73 Years After Publication
Science fiction has never lacked great openings. William Gibson’s Neuromancer builds a cyberpunk world around the image of a sky “the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.” Ursula K. Le Guin needs only four words, “There was a wall,” to introduce one of the central ideas of The Dispossessed. Other authors take a...
Star Wars to Stage Its Own Animated Super Bowl Event With Original Cast Member Returning
Ever watched an NFL game and thought it needed lightsabers and Stormtroopers? Disney has news for you. On Tuesday, the company announced a Star Wars-themed, real-time animated telecast of Super Bowl LXI, set for February. The broadcast is called “Star Wars Funday Football.” According to a news release, it will turn the real players into...
Lily Allen Says Being a Tradwife “Appealed to Me in the Past”
Lily Allen at the 2025 CFDA Fashion Awards held at American Museum of Natural History on Nov. 3, 2025, in New York. Lexie Moreland/WWD Lily Allen says the “tradwife” lifestyle once appealed to her but no longer does. In an interview with The Times published Tuesday (Oct. 20), Allen looked back on her marriages to...
Critical Role’s The Mighty Nein Characters Team Up in New Sequel Excerpt
Fans of Critical Role and its diabolical adventuring party, The Mighty Nein, have plenty to enjoy right now. The animated series debuted in December 2025, and spin-off material has since expanded on the Campaign 2 cast. That includes novels like Critical Role: The Mighty Nein – Stories Untold and live-show one-shots like Projekt Funball. Another...
Ridley Scott’s The Dog Stars Sets Home Video Release Date
After a disappointing theatrical run, Ridley Scott’s latest movie, The Dog Stars, is headed to streaming. If you haven’t heard of it, you’re probably not alone, given how poorly it did at the box office. It’s a post-apocalyptic thriller based on Peter Heller’s book of the same name. The Dog Stars was a box-office bomb....
DreamWorks’ Forgotten Island Sets Digital Release for October 27
September brought plenty of movies worth watching, including Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother, Resident Evil and Primetime. The animated fantasy Forgotten Island mostly slipped past audiences. It made little splash at the box office despite positive reviews from critics and viewers. It currently holds a 94% on Rotten Tomatoes. Weak marketing or bad timing...
Marvel Gives X-Men Character Psylocke a New Name After 50 Years
Betsy Braddock has one of the most tangled histories of any X-Men character. She debuted in Captain Britain nearly 50 years ago, and in Marvel Comics lore that says a lot. Best known as Psylocke, one of two characters who use the name, Betsy has been shuffled around the Marvel universe and has traded names...
Black Ops and Black Ops 2 Developer Demands Activision Share Re-Release Revenue With Original Game Creators
“Wealth must be distributed retroactively too.” Gavin Goslin, a Treyarch veteran who worked as a level designer on Call of Duty: Black Ops and Black Ops 2, says the original development team deserves royalties from sales of the re-releases. In a LinkedIn post, Goslin noted that the re-releases are almost identical to the originals and...
Lucasfilm Games Shifts Star Wars Strategy Toward Smaller Projects and New Partners
As Star Wars approaches its 50th anniversary in 2027, the franchise’s reputation has swung up and down like a seesaw. It has landed a few wins, including Andor‘s Emmy success and the positive reception of Disney’s latest animated series, Maul: Shadow Lord. But the lows have been so deep that it’s hard to imagine expectations...
Mafia: The Old Country Joins PlayStation Plus Game Catalog
Mafia: The Old Country has joined the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog on PS5, just over a year after its release. The Catalog also received several other new titles. The Game Catalog is available to Extra and Premium subscribers. Premium is also known as Deluxe. Sony has not announced how long the Mafia prequel will stay...
Former Marathon Director Discusses Internal Disagreements at Bungie During Game’s Development
Ziegler left Bungie in July 2026, several months after Marathon’s release. Former Marathon game director Joe Ziegler said Bungie staff had serious disagreements about the direction of the shooter during development. According to him, one of his main tasks after joining the team was to build a shared vision for the game. In a new...
Where to Find the “Escape” Safe Code in Modern Warfare 4
The Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 “Escape” safe code is giving players trouble for two reasons. First, the code turns up well before the safe does, so it’s easy to assume you’ve overlooked something. Second, if you head off in another direction, you can miss the code altogether and then find the safe with...
Ed Sheeran Is the Target of a Side Joke in Martin Short’s Roast of Conan O’Brien
Ed Sheeran at Deadline Spotlight: Anatomy of a Song – “F1” held at The Motoring Club on Jan. 9, 2026, in Los Angeles. Earl Gibson III/Deadline Martin Short compared Conan O’Brien to Ed Sheeran while introducing his guest appearance on O’Brien’s podcast, Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend. The episode was posted Monday (Oct. 19). The...
Magic: The Gathering’s Star Trek Set Officially Introduces a New Way to Lose the Game
Most Magic: The Gathering games conclude when one player’s life total falls to zero, yet plenty of fans delight in building decks around stranger paths to victory. You might mill your opponent’s library, smother them in poison counters, or chase the alternate win conditions printed on cards like Simic Ascendancy or Doctor Doom, Unrivaled. Next...
Every Mission in the Modern Warfare 4 Campaign
As is typical for a Call of Duty release, the Modern Warfare 4 campaign mission list is relatively compact compared with most video games. These campaigns play out like a pulse-pounding summer blockbuster, delivering one unforgettable set piece after another. You might be fighting across the shoreline of a fictional South Korean city, pursuing a...
Microsoft Urges Owners of Unused Xbox Series X|S Consoles to Trade Them In Amid Rising Prices
Microsoft has started emailing owners of unused Xbox Series X|S consoles and recommending that they trade in their devices. A Series X could fetch $375. The company points users to trade-in programs and shares instructions on how to complete them. The Microsoft emails specifically mention the US retailer Best Buy, which offers a trade-in program...
Fahrenheit 451’s Opening Line Still Ranks Among Sci-Fi’s Best 73 Years After Publication
Science fiction has never lacked great openings. William Gibson’s Neuromancer builds a cyberpunk world around the image of a sky “the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.” Ursula K. Le Guin needs only four words, “There was a wall,” to introduce one of the central ideas of The Dispossessed. Other authors take a...
Star Wars to Stage Its Own Animated Super Bowl Event With Original Cast Member Returning
Ever watched an NFL game and thought it needed lightsabers and Stormtroopers? Disney has news for you. On Tuesday, the company announced a Star Wars-themed, real-time animated telecast of Super Bowl LXI, set for February. The broadcast is called “Star Wars Funday Football.” According to a news release, it will turn the real players into...
Lily Allen Says Being a Tradwife “Appealed to Me in the Past”
Lily Allen at the 2025 CFDA Fashion Awards held at American Museum of Natural History on Nov. 3, 2025, in New York. Lexie Moreland/WWD Lily Allen says the “tradwife” lifestyle once appealed to her but no longer does. In an interview with The Times published Tuesday (Oct. 20), Allen looked back on her marriages to...
Critical Role’s The Mighty Nein Characters Team Up in New Sequel Excerpt
Fans of Critical Role and its diabolical adventuring party, The Mighty Nein, have plenty to enjoy right now. The animated series debuted in December 2025, and spin-off material has since expanded on the Campaign 2 cast. That includes novels like Critical Role: The Mighty Nein – Stories Untold and live-show one-shots like Projekt Funball. Another...
Ridley Scott’s The Dog Stars Sets Home Video Release Date
After a disappointing theatrical run, Ridley Scott’s latest movie, The Dog Stars, is headed to streaming. If you haven’t heard of it, you’re probably not alone, given how poorly it did at the box office. It’s a post-apocalyptic thriller based on Peter Heller’s book of the same name. The Dog Stars was a box-office bomb....
DreamWorks’ Forgotten Island Sets Digital Release for October 27
September brought plenty of movies worth watching, including Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother, Resident Evil and Primetime. The animated fantasy Forgotten Island mostly slipped past audiences. It made little splash at the box office despite positive reviews from critics and viewers. It currently holds a 94% on Rotten Tomatoes. Weak marketing or bad timing...
Marvel Gives X-Men Character Psylocke a New Name After 50 Years
Betsy Braddock has one of the most tangled histories of any X-Men character. She debuted in Captain Britain nearly 50 years ago, and in Marvel Comics lore that says a lot. Best known as Psylocke, one of two characters who use the name, Betsy has been shuffled around the Marvel universe and has traded names...
Black Ops and Black Ops 2 Developer Demands Activision Share Re-Release Revenue With Original Game Creators
“Wealth must be distributed retroactively too.” Gavin Goslin, a Treyarch veteran who worked as a level designer on Call of Duty: Black Ops and Black Ops 2, says the original development team deserves royalties from sales of the re-releases. In a LinkedIn post, Goslin noted that the re-releases are almost identical to the originals and...
Lucasfilm Games Shifts Star Wars Strategy Toward Smaller Projects and New Partners
As Star Wars approaches its 50th anniversary in 2027, the franchise’s reputation has swung up and down like a seesaw. It has landed a few wins, including Andor‘s Emmy success and the positive reception of Disney’s latest animated series, Maul: Shadow Lord. But the lows have been so deep that it’s hard to imagine expectations...