The squid kids will be back this summer. Nintendo announced this morning that Splatoon Raiders, a single-player spinoff of its competitive shooter series, will launch on the Nintendo Switch 2 on July 23rd. It’ll be the first new entry in the series since Splatoon 3 in 2022. In addition to the date, Nintendo also released […]
Jafaar Jackson and Antoine Fuqua’s musical biopic, Michael, explores the first part of Michael Jackson’s extraordinary but problematic life with a dazzling, poignant drama film.
Toy Story 5’s potential new foe Lilypad has been made into an educational toy by LeapFrog — here’s our first look at it.
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The first trailer for Practical Magic 2 is here — and if the lighting is anything to go by, things are feeling a lot less spooky.
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Prego spent decades perfecting the sauce that brings families to the table. Now it wants to record what happens when they get there — and that’s either really wholesome or a little bit weird, depending on how your family dinners usually go.
Though it’s very common for entertainment writers to describe some narrative elements of the films and shows that they’re covering, a Japanese court has determined that the practice can sometimes be tantamount to copyright infringement. Last Thursday, the Tokyo District Court ruled that 39-year-old Wataru Takeuchi was guilty of violating Japanese law that prohibits the […]
Deezer says it receives nearly 75,000 AI-generated song submissions to its music streaming platform each day, accounting for about 44 percent of all daily uploads, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. Despite the increase in “fraudulent” uploads, Deezer says the consumption of AI songs makes up around 1 to 3 percent of total streams, as the […]
Following last year’s AI-powered Darth Vader in Fortnite that swore in a re-creation of James Earl Jones’ voice, Epic Games is now letting Fortnite creators experiment with a new “conversations” tool to create AI-powered characters that players can talk and interact with. “Instead of authoring dialogue trees for characters in your islands, conversations transforms an […]
A24’s Elden Ring adaptation is now in production in the UK, directed by Alex Garland. George R.R. Martin co-wrote the game’s mythology and is now producing the live-action movie.
It’s going to be a little while before The Lands Between is realized in movie form. Bandai Namco just confirmed that the live-action Elden Ring movie, which was announced last year, is expected to hit theaters on March 3rd, 2028, with production kicking off this spring. Based on FromSoftware’s open-world fantasy RPG from 2022, Elden […]