Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett has shared his thoughts on the current state of songwriting and pop music, calling it “crap”, amid controversy over him wearing a Taylor Swift T-shirt. READ MORE: Metallica live in Amsterdam: still the greatest heavy metal band around The musician faced backlash from Swifties earlier this month, when he donned a satirical
The Euclid space telescope has captured the largest and most detailed photo ever taken of our galaxy’s crowded heart, a dazzling image packed with 60 million stars, the European Space Agency said Wednesday. The new photo of the Milky Way’s bright centre will help in the search for planets beyond our Solar System, the agency
After coming together in PC Early Access for two years, survival action RPG Enshrouded has a 1.0 launch date. Look for the game to arrive on PlayStation 5 and PC on October 15. An Xbox Series X/S version of Enshrouded will arrive in Spring 2027. The voxel-based survival action game sees players working alone or with
I get it. Altaïr Ibn-La’Ahad’s adventure has a special place in our memory, but have you actually gone back and replayed the first Assassin’s Creed? The repetitive mission structure was already a major point of criticism back in 2007 even in GamesRadar+’s glowing Assassin’s Creed review. The parkour system – as novel as it was
Although you can levy all sorts of criticism towards Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, you can’t say that it isn’t a packed game. There’s so much to do in the gigantic world of Valhalla, and it’s one of the most expansive Assassin’s Creed games to date. It’s easy to see why so many people were lost in
A24 has officially unveiled the first-ever still from Robert Eggers’ upcoming medieval horror film Werwulf, with Esquire premiering the haunting image featuring Aaron Taylor-Johnson as the film’s mysterious titular creature. The image doesn’t give much away, but it immediately feels like pure Eggers. Dark, grimy, and soaked in the same atmospheric dread that made The
Philadelphia psych-folk duo and frontrunners for most “un-Googleable band name” @ (pronounced like “at”) have signed to 4AD for their sophomore album. Victoria Rose and Stone Filipczak will release Autosmile on October 16 via the storied British label. As a lead single, they’ve shared the LP’s title track alongside a stripped-down performance video. Watch it
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force is launching a new competition for mobile satellite-control antennas, formally restarting a program it canceled after abandoning a $1.7 billion contract with AeroVironment and shifting toward a more commercial procurement strategy. The Space Force’s Rapid Capabilities Office earlier this month issued a pre-solicitation under the Satellite Communication Augmentation Resource
Following the Nintendo Direct announcement earlier this month, here’s your reminder that Deltarune Chapter 5 is now officially available for Switch 1 & 2. This is a free update for existing owners. Unfortunately, there are some issues at launch, including one bug that can crash the game on consoles. Fortunately, there’s no need to worry
Toy Story 5 charted the best Tuesday of 2026 with $23.7 million, sending the Disney/Pixar movie across the $200M domestic mark in its fifth day of release. Post Covid, that’s the same time it took Inside Out 2 to reach that point, as well as Disney Animation’s Moana 2 (which was juiced by its Thanksgiving
On the Trail of UFOs: The Disclosure Era marks the return of filmmaker Seth Breedlove and the Small Town Monsters team to a subject they have explored for years. Serving as a continuation of the On the Trail of UFOs series that began in 2019, the new installment arrives during a period of renewed public interest in UAPs
Sam Smith has announced their fifth album ‘Hazel Eyes’ and shared its romantic new single ‘My Guy’ – check it out below. The singer-songwriter will release the new record and the follow-up to 2023’s ‘Gloria’ on August 21 via Capitol Records UK. It is available to pre-order now here. Fans have been given a taste of the record with ‘My Guy’, a warm
An entire ancient human species, Homo naledi, is known from specimens found at just one site in South Africa, back in 2013. At first, 15 individuals were found inside the Rising Star cave system. Now, archaeologists have specimens of at least 20 of these ancient humans, who lived between 236,000 and 335,000 years ago. A
Two Reading Rainbow icons show up for storytime at The Obama Presidential Center, authors choose the best queer books in America, this year’s Common Reads, and more. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. LeVar Burton, Mychal Threets, and Obama Walk Into
The final part of the Final Fantasy VII remake trilogy Final Fantasy VII Revelation is looking to be something special. Today, it has been revealed that characters who featured in the various Final Fantasy VII spin-offs such as the beloved Advent Children, Dirge of Cerberus, and Crisis Core will make an appearance in Revelation. Here’s what
Kynseed, the impossibly charming Stardew Valley-ish life sim from a team of former Fable developers, is coming to consoles on August 4. Indie developer PixelCount Studios, founded by two Lionhead veterans who worked on “every Fable game,” according to the studio’s website, announced on Steam that Kynseed will release on Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox
Every so often, a new horror movie comes along and turns the box office on its head. This year Obsession has become that movie everyone’s been talking about. What started as a low-budget swing by filmmaker Curry Barker has grown into one of the 2026 movie calendar’s wildest theatrical stories, the kind of breakout that
‘In Search of Darkness Part II’ One of the coolest moments in my life may be attending John Carpenter‘s Walk of Fame induction last year. The filmmaker behind movies like Halloween, The Thing and The Fog, his influence on myself and horror fans everywhere is as deep as the eyes of Michael Myers. He has
When Television’s Tom Verlaine died in 2023, he left behind a gargantuan legacy and, it turns out, a mammoth record collection. Discogs and the New York store Academy Records today announced that roughly 4,000 records from the Verlaine vinyl trove will soon be for sale. A batch will be made available online beginning June 26,
Life on Earth underwent a long evolutionary journey that eventually gave rise to us, the purportedly intelligent species that dominates the planet. But there was no grand plan or design, only happenstance, nature, and luck. Life on Earth suffered multiple extinctions, but got back up, dusted itself off, and continued its long march toward complexity.
Rockstar Games announced last week that Grand Theft Auto VI pre-orders will go live tomorrow, June 25. Today, the studio revealed the game’s much-speculated price as well as a second, more expensive edition. The standard version of Grand Theft Auto VI will cost $79.99. A more expensive Ultimate Edition will cost $99.99 and includes what
A major hero resurrection was just confirmed by Marvel, changing the game in a way that no-one saw coming. While superhero stories are infamous for bringing back dead characters at the drop of a hat, this return is a true shock that just took fans by surprise. In Marvel’s mainstream comics, the majority of heroes
A24 spent the last decade as the studio horror fans point to when someone insists the genre has nothing left to say. Hereditary, Midsommar, The Witch, Talk to Me, X, Pearl, Men, Saint Maud. That is a murderers’ row of strange, filmmaker-driven nightmares, and it is the reason the little A24 logo at the front
A BTS fan who rung the doorbell of the band’s Jungkook 133 times has been told they may face deportation after the incident. The Brazilian woman, who has not been identified, received a suspended prison term for repeatedly visiting Jungkook’s house despite warnings to stay away. The woman first started stalking Jungkook in December 2025
Workers sweated in choking heat and pupils stayed home on Tuesday as an early-summer heatwave smothered much of Europe, with France suffering its hottest day on record. Schools and tourist sites closed early, and railways canceled journeys as several countries issued red alerts for much of their territory in the record-breaking heat. “It’s getting a
Last month, Inti Creates announced it would be releasing Azure Striker Gunvolt Trilogy Enhanced – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition in 2026. The developer has now provided an update today confirming the three-in-one package will be launching on 22nd October 2026 for $49.99. Adding to this, it’s been confirmed existing Switch owners will be able to
They say if you want something you have to go out and get it, but apparently when it comes to co-creating one of the most successful RPG series of all time, that’s not always the case. In a new episode in a long-running series I call Tim Cain Talking About Stuff, the veteran RPG developer
Broadway ticket sales held steady last week as the newish season eases into the post-Tony summer weeks, with Chess posting strong figures during its final week and Celebrity Autobiography doing the opposite during its last bow. Chess, starring Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit and Nicholas Christopher had previously announced its early close (coinciding with Michele’s planned
Ack! Ack! Tim Burton‘s sci-fi comedy, Mars Attacks!, is one of those films that always amazes me it actually exists. An alien invasion film from weirdo genius Burton, featuring a mind-blowing cast, a spaceship full of oddball humor and some of the most psychotically sadistic outer space villains to ever appear on screen. Now, it’ll
Florist’s Emily Sprague has a new album on the way. Called Cyano, it includes “Double Moon,” which she released earlier this year, alongside 13 additional tracks. It’s due October 2 via Rvng Intl. Today, Sprague also shared a new song from the album, “Sing To,” as well as a video directed by their real-life partner
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