Famed toy chain Toys “R” Us, which also sold video games and video game consoles, has announced that it plans to open up 120 new stores in the United States this holiday season. The company previously had more than 1,000 locations across the United States and then it filed for bankruptcy in 2017. Toys “R”
Next year’s big Fable revival is being handled by Playground Games, the Xbox-owned studio behind the Forza Horizon series, taking over from Lionhead Studios. The developer just launched Forza Horizon 6 to near universal acclaim this year, but now it’s set to release Fable on February 23, 2027, and everyone’s eager to see what a
Hasbro announced exclusive pre-orders for Target’s Fall Geek-Out featuring the G.I. JOE CLASSIFIED SERIES #223, NINJA FORCE SNAKE EYES & KIM “JINX” ARASHIKAGE set, and MARVEL LEGENDS SERIES CYPHER and MARVEL LEGENDS SERIES SPIDER-MAN, SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME action figures from Disney Consumer Products. Pre-orders go live tomorrow, September 18 at 9AM ET! See below for official images in preparation for pre-order kick off. G.I.
Starz canceled Power Book 5: Influence, which led many to wonder what happened to the planned Rashad Tate spinoff. Created by Courtney A. Kemp, in collaboration with Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Power is a six-season crime drama that became one of cable’s most-watched shows. Power positioned itself as a critical and commercial success. The show
The Devil’s Bath, from filmmakers Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala, was one of my favorite horror movies of 2024. Historical horror is more austere and oppressive than most, though in service to its profoundly affecting metaphor, The Devil’s Bath earned its unflinching depiction of patriarchal violence and unrelenting cruelty. The Ones Who Grieve (Les Âmes
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Tune-Yards is embarking on a U.S. tour titled The Ones That Love You. Starting November 5 in Chicago, the Oakland band will make stops in Cleveland, Boston, Cincinnati, and more. The pop duo Rituals of Mine will open each date. Scroll down for the full schedule. This spring, Tune-Yards wrote and released the score for
IRVINE, Calif. and TORINO, Italy – Sept. 17, 2026 – Terran Orbital, a Lockheed Martin company and a global leader in satellite-based solutions primarily serving the aerospace and defense industries, today announced the promotion of Margherita Cardi to Vice President of European Operations & Head of Strategic Programs. In her expanded role, Cardi will serve
Physint, an upcoming game from Kojima Productions, just found its star. The game is set to be a spiritual successor to Metal Gear Solid, a game series Hideo Kojima famously led for many years before parting ways with Konami, which holds the rights to the IP to this day. In 2015, Kojima founded Kojima Productions
While the world knew when the trailer dropped for A24‘s Telluride surprise Elizabeth Holmes documentary, You Can See Everything that the Lance Oppenheim and Nathan Fielder directed title was coming out in October, it was out in the ether, unconfirmed that the pic’s release date is Oct. 16. A24 hadn’t even put down a date
Freeform released a new trailer for Coven Academy on Thursday, two weeks out from the series premiere. It lands on Freeform on October 1 at 8 p.m. ET/PT, and the complete season arrives the next day on Disney+, Hulu and Freeform On Demand. The pitch is a boarding school for witches in New Orleans, which
How Electronic Bandits Invented Religion By Howard Bloom Workers for the big four artificial intelligence companies are warning us that within four years, artificial intelligences could kill off every human on the planet. And that our window of opportunity to stop this apocalypse is short. Says, Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old pretraining researcher at Anthropic, one
How Electronic Bandits Invented Religion By Howard Bloom Workers for the big four artificial intelligence companies are warning us that within four years, artificial intelligences could kill off every human on the planet. And that our window of opportunity to stop this apocalypse is short. Says, Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old pretraining researcher at Anthropic, one
Billy Joel’s publicist has confirmed that the singer is still alive, following a Google glitch that claimed the 77-year-old had passed away on Thursday. The search engine included an information box on the ‘Piano Man’ legend, which stated his date of death as yesterday (September 17). This sparked a flurry of concern online, with Joel’s
Our beautiful big round ball of a planet is not, in fact, a perfect sphere. As it spins about on its axis, whirling around the Sun, rotation causes it to bulge at the equator and flatten at the poles. This deformation is subtle – looking at a picture of Earth from space, it’s not even
Image: Damien McFerran / Nintendo Life We’re all aware of just how successful the Switch has been since its launch in 2017. The latest figures put it at a total of 156.59 million units sold worldwide, which means that had Sony not managed to find some extra PS2 sales down the back of the couch
You can imagine anything Pokemon-like will have a litany of unused designs for its monsters. It’s inherent to the concept, and Palworld is no exception, with an enormous amount of Pals that have been cast aside for various reasons. But by contrast, there was one that the devs knew was going to do well. Speaking
Target hasn’t been a favorite source of many collectors for exclusive Hasbro toys this year, as Target has cancelled a plethora of confirmed pre-orders and angered a lot of fans. But hopefully they’ve got all their ducks in a row now, because they have two sure-to-be-popular Marvel Legends pre-orders this week as part of their
In Warner Bros’s pantheon of iconic movies from recent years, Gal Gadot is Wonder Woman and Margot Robbie is Barbie. But, did you know that at some point Gadot was considered for both roles? Let’s break down the story, and how the actress just addressed the hot pink role that never was for her. Why
There is a new Saw game, Saw: Genesis, coming out soon. Developed by Bloober Team, which developed the Silent Hill 2 remake (check out our review of that here), the Blair Witch game (our review of that one here), and plenty of other solid horror offerings. And you know what that means? Time for another
Troye Sivan has dropped his new She’s the Best single, “Party.” Built around a prominent sample of Madonna’s Y2K single “Music,” the track comes with a risqué, baroque video directed by Gordon von Steiner. Sivan plays a Medieval knight in the clip, which also features a voiceover courtesy of Sir Ian McKellen. That’s right: Gandalf
PARIS — South Korean company Satrec Initiative is working with parent company Hanwha Systems to provide high-resolution Earth imagery for the synthetic-aperture-radar (SAR) constellation announced in July. Satrec Initiative, acquires 25-centimeter optical imagery with SpaceEye-T, launched in 2025. To complement Hanwha’s 64-satellite SAR constellation, designed to provide 30-minute revisit by 2031, Satrec Initiative plans to manufacture and
During the recent XBOX Livestream at Tokyo Game Show 2026, SEGA unveiled Japan as the second international location for the all-new, high-octane adventure Crazy Taxi: World Tour. The Japan map is the third of five maps offered in the game’s new single-player World Tour story campaign. In the Japan map, players can take in the
My Rating ⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 3 out of 5. “Night Of The Living Bones” Somewhere beneath the ruins of an ancient European castle, Doctor Adam Spektor and his secretary, Lakota Rainflower, descend into a forgotten world. The psychic impression which drew Spektor to the site grows stronger with every step. Strange inscriptions cover the crumbling walls,
Hasbro, a leading games, IP and toy company, is marking the third annual Transformers Day with a celebration of the stories, characters and fans that have shaped the franchise for decades. This year holds special significance as Hasbro and the global Transformers community remember Peter Cullen, whose performance as Optimus Prime inspired generations and became an essential
The legacy of Charles M. Schulz will long outlive the man himself, with his iconic Peanuts comic strip transforming the landscape of the medium. His depiction of a primary group of kids, their vulnerabilities, and various existential woes of daily life proved immensely successful, indicating a way forward for creators without the usual generic gags
$200,000 in cash. That is what the Ripcord Halloween Film Festival is putting in front of ten genre shorts this October, and $100,000 of it goes to a single filmmaker. Submissions close October 1. Ripcord is calling it the largest prize pool dedicated exclusively to independent genre short films, and we went looking for a
In B.K. Borison’s Grim Tidings, a grim reaper walks into a bar (I promise this isn’t the start of a bad joke) and finds herself going toe-to-toe with the skeptical guardian angel barkeep who refuses to believe she’s changed her soul-stealing ways. Darcy is sick and tired of being the harbinger of death. Frankly, it’s
Hayley Williams has shown her support for the artists who dropped out of Ed Sheeran‘s tour by including them in her pre-show playlist. Sheeran’s upcoming ‘Loop’ shows are currently lacking any opening acts after Macklemore was dropped from the tour over his impassioned “free Palestine” speech made while opening for Sheeran at New Jersey’s Gillette Stadium. The speech prompted calls for Macklemore’s
A German WW1 submarine known as SM UC-30 was returning home in April 1917 when it hit a British mine and sank. Twenty-seven men were lost in the wreck, along with the 18 mines and six torpedoes the submarine was loaded with. For decades, nobody knew where the boat ended up. Then, in 2016, Danish
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