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So, Is Robert Downey Jr. In Fantastic Four: First Steps As Doctor Doom?

Fantastic Four: First Steps is finally in theaters, bringing the First Family to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Now, all roads lead to Avengers: Doomsday, the next big crossover event in Marvel’s uneven but never-ending comic book movie saga. Iron Man actor Robert Downey Jr. is returning to the series to play Doctor…

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Every MCU Movie, Ranked From Worst To Best (Now With Fantastic Four: First Steps)

The Marvel Cinematic Universe is now 17 years old and boasts a catalog of 37 movies and counting. With Captain America: Brave New World and Thunderbolts* wrapping up Phase Five in the ongoing superhero saga before Fantastic Four: First Steps finally kicking off Phase Six, we thought we’d take a look back at all the…

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Wuchange: Fallen Feathers Rushes Out Emergency Patch Amid Review-Bombing On Steam

Wuchange: Fallen Feathers is getting slammed on Steam over what many users claim is terrible PC performance for those playing on anything but the most upgraded rigs. A fresh day-two update has now been rushed out to try and solve the worst issues players are experiencing, and even the publisher has responded to the…

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Dying Light: The Beast Slips To September 19, Despite Glowing Previews

Techland’s Dying Light: The Beast was set to release mid next month, August 11. However, in a press release published today, the developer has announced an eleventh hour delay to the zombie-fighting parkour game, moving the release date to September 19. It is “to allow for extra polishing,” including improving the UI,…

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War of the Worlds Via Found Footage Looks Like A Good Time

H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds is a well that so many creatives have drawn from. From the infamous nation-terrifying Orson Welles radio play of 1938, through Steven Spielberg’s 2005 movie, via 1996's Independence Day, and now to a brand new movie starring Eva Lonoria and Ice Cube, it’s never not being reimagined.…

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Here’s Our First Look At The New Avatar Sequel Series Set After Korra

It’s been over a decade since The Legend of Korra concluded in 2014, and 20 years since the original Avatar: The Last Airbender. After years of waiting, a new series set in the Avatar universe called Seven Havens is finally on its way, and we got our first fleeting look at the show’s new heroes at San Diego Comic Con.

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Clair Obscur Devs Visit Final Fantasy Offices For An 'Exchange Of Ideas'

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is one of the biggest surprise gaming hits of 2025 and a traditional turn-based role-playing game that reminded many fans of the golden-era of PlayStation 1 JRPGs they still pine for. Some have even gone so far as to argue that the next Final Fantasy game should be more like Clair Obscur.…

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I Really Hope Battlefield 6 Isn't Flooded With Dumb Crossover Skins

Earlier today, after months of teases, leaks, and rumors, EA and Battlefield Studios finally unveiled the first official trailer for Battlefield 6. And what we’ve seen so far seems great. I just hope that EA avoids following Call of Duty, Rainbow Six Siege, Destiny 2, and countless other games that have chased Fortnite…

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Vtuber CEO Admits To Spending Charity Money As Agency Implodes

Earlier this week, popular Vtuber Ironmouse accused talent agency VShojo of failing to pay out money she was owed, including over $500,000 for charity as part of a record-breaking Twitch subathon last fall. Now VShojo has revealed it’s shutting down after failing to raise more investment funds and the CEO has even…

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The Internet Reacts To Hulk Hogan's Death

Earlier today, as reported by TMZ, Terry Gene Bollea, aka the famous WWE wrestler Hulk Hogan, died in his home due to cardiac arrest. The wrestler had reportedly been on his deathbed for weeks. He was 71 years old. As you might expect, someone as famous and controversial as Hogan dying so suddenly has led to a lot of…

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Pedro Pascal Plays Himself In Marvel Rivals, And It Could Have Gone Worse

Fantastic Four: First Steps is landing in theaters tonight, and that means that the actors playing the First Family are in full promo mode for the film. Most content creators are trying to get viral soundbites in their interviews, but streamer and YouTuber Loserfruit had a much better idea and asked Pedro Pascal,…

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The 15th Air Bud Film Is Coming, And There's Nothing You Can Do To Stop It

The seal is broken. The curse has returned. The suffering begins soon. That’s right, folks, we are getting a new Air Bud film in 2026. This will be the 15th entry in the franchise. And there’s nothing you can do to stop it.

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Say Your Prayers, Take Your Vitamins: WrestleMania Star Hulk Hogan Dead At 71

Terry Gene Bollea, better known to the world as the mustard mustached pro wrestler Hulk Hogan, died in his home of cardiac arrest at the age of 71, TMZ reports.

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If You Don’t Want To Play The Last Of Us, You Can Now Read It Instead

I don’t have any room to judge all the times Naughty Dog has found some way to repackage The Last of Us and its sequel because I keep buying every new box set the studio releases. However, the newest way the company has found to print money without making a new game isn’t a bad live-action adaptation, a questionable…

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AI Weapons Maker Teases $200 Retro Console That Will Play Your Old Copy Of Mario Kart 64

Anduril Industries cofounder Palmer Luckey has pulled back the curtain ever so slightly on his retro gaming company side project’s next console. We still don’t know what the M64 looks like, or what exactly it’s capable of, but a brief new teaser shows it running Mario Kart 64 on a CRT for the “early bird” price of…

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Battlefield 6's Reveal Trailer Looks A Lot Like Battlefield 3 And That's Fine With Me

Finally, after what feels like a lot of teasing, talking, and leaking, EA and Battlefield Studios released the first official trailer for Battlefield 6. This new trailer is focused on the upcoming military shooter’s single-player campaign and looks a lot like the grounded action seen in Battlefield 3. But hey, that’s…

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Everything You Need To Start VTubing Today

VTubers, short for “Virtual YouTubers,” are here to stay. Most newcomers are introduced to the field through popular streamers like ex-VShojo talent Ironmouse, who recently featured on bbno$’s 1-800. But the Twitch star is part of a far bigger industry that spans various countries, cultures, and languages. According…

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Five Nights At Freddy's 2 Movie Trailer Takes Us Back To The Original Location

2023's Five Nights at Freddy’s ended up being a big blockbuster hit for horror makers Blumhouse, so it wasn’t a surprise that the company fast-tracked a sequel. And now we have our first official trailer for Five Nights at Freddy’s 2, which features more lore from the original horror games and even more deadly…

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AI Accusations Plunge Street Fighter 6 Fan Art Contest Into Chaos

Street Fighter 6 is holding an art competition for fans, with the winners’ work set to be featured in the fighting game itself as New Challenger screens. These are art pieces that show up during online matches when you are challenged by another player, and feature some sick art of their chosen fighter. It’s a pretty…

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Wuchang: Fallen Feathers Is The 'Gooner Souls' Of The Summer

There’s more than a few echoes of Stellar Blade in Wuchang: Fallen Feathers, which invests as much into its main character’s wardrobe as the rest of the action-RPG experience. Bai Wuchang is a female pirate who can dodge, parry, and punish all manner of demonic foes from the underworld whether she’s wearing ancient…

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The Fantastic Four: First Steps: The Kotaku Review

The Fantastic Four: First Steps is obsessed with time. From the opening moments, which drops the audience in media res, brilliant scientist Reed Richards (Pedro Pascal) is scouring the cabinets of his 1960s-retro-future-inspired bathroom for iodine. The man known as Mister Fantastic calls out to his wife, Sue Storm…

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The 12 Best Games On The Nintendo Switch 2

The Switch 2 is in that awkward early phase where most of its best games are old. Nintendo has put out a couple of big exclusives, sure, but by and large, the draw of the system largely lies in the ability to play games on the go that used to demand you be tethered to a TV. So if you’re thinking of buying the thing in…

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The Lego Game Boy Looks Pretty Much Perfect

Nintendo appears to be having a great time of late, recreating its classic TV ads for new products. A few months back, Paul Rudd reprised his pre-fame role in a SNES commercial for the Switch 2, and now we have a modern reimagining of a 1989 Game Boy ad for the fantastic-looking Lego Game Boy that releases later this…

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Major Gaming Store Delists All NSFW Games Following Pressure From Anti-Porn Campaigners

Following on from Steam’s delisting of hundreds of extreme adult games, indie gaming site Itch.io has made the even more extreme move of (in some cases temporarily) removing all NSFW games from its store pages and search results. The action, made in response to pressure group Collective Shout, has led to even this…

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That Cool Survival Game That Mixes Minecraft And Half-Life Is Out Now On Game Pass

Abiotic Factor, a co-op survival game heavily inspired by the original Half-Life, has been around for over a year now in early access on Steam. But it has now received a massive 1.0 update, left early access, and made its way to consoles, too. And on top of all that, this very good survival game is now available on…

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Here's What May Power The Steam Deck's Successor, But Do We Need One?

This past February the Steam Deck celebrated its third birthday. And based on the rocky performance of some fairly recent AAA games on Valve’s popular handheld, Avowed and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth being two examples, it’s currently going through a bit of a terrible threes kinda situation. Naturally, poor performance…

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Final Fantasy XVI's Cid Says Wearing Galactus Suit Was Like Being An F1 Car

We still haven’t seen much of Galactus in any of the trailers for Fantastic Four: First Steps, but the movie is just a day away from premiering in theaters, so Marvel fans will finally see the planet-eating villain on the big screen very soon. Veteran actor Ralph Ineson, who garnered attention for his distinctive…

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Battlefield 6 Leak Claims It Will Launch In October With No Early Access

A new report claims that Electronic Arts’ upcoming massive military shooter, Battlefield 6, will launch in early October and that it will be available in two versions, but with no early access period for those who pre-order the pricier edition.

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Magic: The Gathering's Final Fantasy Set Earned $200 Million In A Single Day

We already knew that the Final Fantasy Universes Beyond expansion was the fastest-selling set in Magic: The Gathering’s history, but an absurd new stat puts what that actually means in perspective. Hasbro’s CEO recently revealed the massive crossover sporting Cloud, Sephiroth and other Square Enix icons earned $200…

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Game Studio Spends Millions Of Dollars To Buy A Popular Fortnite Map

Gaijin Entertainment, the studio behind the popular online game War Thunder, announced on Wednesday that it had spent millions of dollars acquiring the rights to the popular Fortnite user-created map The Pit.

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