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Photo: New Line In the early 2000s the Rush Hour films were Hollywood’s easiest shorthand for talking about race — not nuanced, but undeniably mainstream. Watching Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker riff on stereotypes while chasing bad guys was, for many viewers, the most direct way a big-studio comedy approached racial humor at the time....

YouTube’s 2025 Year‑End Trending Lists: Songs, Shorts, Creators and Cultural Moments That Defined the Year Forrest Frank, Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars — Photo: Dee Thornton; John Esparza YouTube has published its 2025 Year‑End Trending Lists, highlighting the creators, songs, podcasts and cultural moments that resonated most across the platform this year. Topping YouTube’s year‑end...

Image: Kadokawa Isekai remains one of anime’s most enduringly popular genres, built around characters abruptly transported into unfamiliar worlds where survival, adaptation, and the quest to return home drive the story. Kadokawa’s Yojo Senki: Saga of Tanya the Evil offers a strikingly original spin on that formula: a cynical salaryman is reborn in an alternate...

Rihanna and A$AP Rocky Share Proud Moments at the 2025 Gotham Awards December 1, 2025 — New York, NY Rihanna and A$AP Rocky at the 35th Annual Gotham Film Awards, Cipriani Wall Street — December 1, 2025. John Nacion Rihanna and A$AP Rocky enjoyed a rare night out together at the 2025 Gotham Awards on...

Patch 1.5.2 Now Available for Kingdom Come: Deliverance II This hotfix brings a range of stability improvements and bug resolutions aimed at removing quest blockers, polishing audiovisual glitches, and addressing community-reported issues across the base game and DLCs. Key fixes and improvements Corrected interior audio so rain is no longer audible indoors. Fixed crashes that...

Route 66 Rework — A Guided Tour of Arizona and New Mexico Work on the Route 66 Rework for American Truck Simulator is progressing steadily. Today we’re sharing a wider look at the towns and cities that give this storied highway its unmistakable personality. Although many of these communities have appeared in ATS before, the...

Image: Disney Viewers watching Zootopia 2 in Japan—or those streaming the Japanese dub—may notice a surprising cameo: famed game auteur Hideo Kojima provides the voice for Paul Moledebrandt, a curmudgeonly mole who leads the Zootopia Police Department’s IT unit. In the English-language release, the role is performed by Josh Gad, the American actor, comedian and...

Yacht Club Games hopes the project will move about 500,000 units. The Shovel Knight team at Yacht Club Games told Bloomberg that their next title, Mina the Hollower, could determine the studio’s future. The studio says selling roughly 500,000 copies would put them on solid ground. Around 200,000 would be an acceptable result. But if...

We’ve released the complimentary Content Update #4 for Farming Simulator 25 — including Patch 1.15. This update brings powerful new machinery from John Deere and Case IH to every player. Below you’ll find the highlights and full patch notes. Please note: the patch is being distributed platform-by-platform and may take some time to appear for...

Helldivers is making the leap from console to cinema, and Sony has enlisted Justin Lin to direct the adaptation. Lin — widely recognized for his work on multiple Fast & Furious installments — will shepherd the film for Sony Pictures in partnership with PlayStation Productions, with Lin’s Perfect Storm Entertainment on board as a producer....

Photo: 20th Century Fox Andy Weir, who began his career as a software engineer before turning to fiction, is known for grounding his novels in rigorous science. He served as the science consultant on Ridley Scott’s film adaptation of The Martian and took an even more hands-on role for the screen version of his 2021...

The company needed someone who spoke Japanese, understood hardware, and knew the industry — and Cerny turned out to be exactly that person. On a recent episode of the My Perfect Console podcast, host Simon Parkin conducted an extensive interview with Mark Cerny — the lead architect behind the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5. Cerny...

Pokémon Legends: Z-A — Mega Lucario Z and Mewtwo updates Pokémon Legends: Z-A may have arrived for Switch and Switch 2 in October, but Game Freak is still expanding the game. With the Mega Dimension DLC set to release on December 10, the studio has revealed Mega Lucario Z and pushed a new Mewtwo side...

Subscribers to Microsoft’s service will also gain access to several additional titles. Microsoft has released the list of games scheduled to arrive in the Xbox Game Pass library in the coming days. Monster Train 2 (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X|S) — December 3 (Game Pass Premium) Spray Paint Simulator (Cloud, PC, and consoles) —...

The initial phase of testing for new content is already underway. Battlefield Studios has officially confirmed the return of Battlefield Labs — a series of closed playtests intended to help polish upcoming updates for Battlefield 6. The first wave of tests kicked off on December 2 and is available on PC only. A limited group...

Image: Arrowhead Game Studios/Sony Interactive Entertainment Paul Verhoeven’s 1997 film adaptation of Robert A. Heinlein’s Starship Troopers skewered militaristic consumerism with satirical violence and propaganda-laden interludes. Arrowhead Game Studios’ third-person shooter Helldivers 2 echoed that same blend of bombast and biting humor through its cinematic set pieces and cooperative missions, where squads of soldiers descend...