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When Aang first showed up in Avatar: The Last Airbender as a small bald boy who had spent a century trapped in ice, the show talked about the Avatar in fairly generic terms. Only the Avatar can wield all four elements. The Avatar must restore and maintain peace in the world. We accepted Aang’s duty,...

Taylor Swift performs during the Academy Museum 6th Annual Gala at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on October 17, 2026 in Los Angeles. Emma McIntyre/Oscars/Getty Images for Academy Museum Foundation Taylor Swift performed “The Fate of Ophelia” live for the first time at the 2026 Academy Museum Gala. The 36-year-old singer played the sixth annual...

What did Joe Manganiello reveal about Ben Affleck’s Batman film? Rumors about the plot of Ben Affleck’s scrapped Batman film have circulated for years. Now Joe Manganiello, who was cast as Deathstroke, has shared more details in his new memoir, Bloodlines. In the 2010s, Affleck was attached to direct a Batman film starring his version...

The newest Dungeons & Dragons release, Arcana Unleashed, delivers a wealth of options for players who would rather manage spell slots than swing a sword. With fresh subclasses, spells, magic items, and factions, even the most devoted spellcaster will find plenty to explore. One part of the book, however, has stirred up heated discussion within...

How Did Shrek 2 Remastered Leak? With Shrek 5 now less than a year from release, DreamWorks’ best-known ogre is heading back to video games. Shrek and his pals joined the roster of Brawlhalla earlier this year. Now a remaster of the beloved Shrek 2 tie-in game has surfaced, thanks to an early Xbox Store...

The director explained where the new adaptation will begin and why that matters. On The Process Unlocked podcast, Mike Flanagan described how he plans to bring Stephen King’s The Dark Tower to the screen. He intends to follow the order of the books and start with The Gunslinger, so viewers can get to know the...

Seth Rogen has offered high praise for the latest film from Curry Barker, the director behind the horror hit Obsession. According to the actor, Barker’s follow-up, Anything But Ghosts, is even stronger than its predecessor. Rogen shared his thoughts in a TIME feature spotlighting promising young talent. The horror comedy centers on a pair of...

I’ll admit I wasn’t excited about Dragon Ball Super: Beerus. When the remake of Dragon Ball Super was announced, I couldn’t see the point of revisiting a story already told in Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods and again in the original 2015 television run. Refreshed animation sounded nice. It didn’t seem like enough reason...

Many of the new mods turned out to be of very questionable quality. The Sims 2 life simulator has been supported with mods for many years. Recently, however, some enthusiasts have started using vibe coding (programming with the help of artificial intelligence) to create mods. Moderators in the The Sims 2 community decided to ban...

If one thing was missing from the classic Bill Murray movie Groundhog Day, it was gore. Phil Connors did kill himself a few times trying to escape his endless time loop, but those deaths were more funny than bloody. Maybe it just isn’t that kind of movie. Fortunately, Happy Death Day is. The 2017 slasher...

Under certain conditions, the Insomniac Games title can also be played on a Microsoft console. Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered is available not only on PlayStation but also on PC. That has let tech enthusiasts run the game on a competitor’s console. A developer who goes by @DaddyPrinceWorld recently described running Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered on the Xbox...

James McAvoy came close to playing a young Jean-Luc Picard in a standalone Star Trek series. On the Happy Sad Confused podcast, the actor revealed that he had pitched the franchise’s team an idea called Mutiny on the Stargazer. He said the creators liked the concept, but the project never reached production because of logistical...

Tymon Smektała, who worked on the Dying Light franchise for 13 years, has taken a new job as executive director of the publishing division at Broken Mirror Games, Bloober Team’s publishing label. He wants to work with talented developers who can bring new ideas. In his new role, Smektała intends to find promising horror developers...

PlayStation’s competitor appears set to keep discs. Blogger eXtas1s points to a new Xbox job listing as evidence. This summer, Sony angered many players by announcing it was dropping discs for PlayStation games. Some players are still upset. They continue to ask the company to bring discs back in comments under its posts and trailers....

FromSoftware’s history includes plenty of cold sweat. Today the studio is known for punishing action RPGs like Dark Souls and Elden Ring, but its roots lie in games that feel like fever dreams. The darker side shows up in Kuon, a survival horror game steeped in Japanese folklore, and in Shadow Tower, a claustrophobic dungeon...