Some people just aren’t built to endure the kind of bleak, unrelenting tragedy that often exists at the bottom of a great story’s emotional arc. Rapper T-Pain may just have that affliction, having recently started Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 on his Nappy Boy Gaming YouTube channel and noped out after its notoriously sad opening sequence.
If you don’t know who Dungeon Crawler Carl is by now, then you may be living under a rock. An alien rock filled with death traps and Dungeon AI! Our beloved boxer short-wearing hero stole our hearts in Matt Dinniman’s amazing book series and is about to smash his way violently onto our TV screens
Michael Dougherty is bringing Sam back to his animated roots with new shorts, artwork, artist collaborations, and merchandise through Sam: The Soul of Halloween. And to celebrate, he sent me a box here at Dread Central HQ filled with Halloween goodies, including handcrafted certificates declaring both me and the site “Sam Approved.” Coming from the
Since 2006, the Center for Fiction has been highlighting the best debut novels of the year through its First Novel Prize. This year’s 180 eligible titles were published in the US between January 1st and December 31st, and were narrowed down to seven books by more than 500 writers, librarians, booksellers, and others. In early
Bristol’s Tara Clerkin Trio shared their new LP Somewhere Good in June. Next month, Tara Clerkin, Sunny Joe Paradisos, and Patrick Benjamin kick off their UK tour behind the album, and now they’ve lined up a run of North American shows as well. You can catch them across the U.S. and Canada throughout January and
Over the past decade, a network of usually pristine blue rivers and lakes that winds through Alaska’s breathtaking Brooks Range mountains has been starting to look a little… rusty. Scientists first noticed the unusual orange plumes flowing into the water back in 2018. They began to investigate, collecting water samples from various sites so remote
Last month, Xbox announced a new disc-to-digital program that allows players to use physical game discs to access their digital counterparts. After rolling out this program to Xbox Insiders, it is now live for all Xbox owners. Inserting an eligible Xbox Series X or Xbox One disc into a console will automatically grant players a
A federal judge has approved the Sept. 21 settlement between Paramount and a group of State Attorneys General that sued to block its merger with Warner Bros. Discovery, removing the last hurdle for the deal to close. “The Court finds the proposed consent decree represents a reasonable factual and legal resolution of the dispute,” wrote
Butter Butter Cookies have taken the Halloween vibe to another level on their social media pages. You would probably never think a cookie brand would make you ask yourself “WTF did I just watch?” But steady man, their ads will gas up your nightmares. The social shorts remind me of the video in “The Ring.”
The first wave of names for Slam Dunk Festival 2027 have been announced, with Bowling For Soup, Simple Plan and Killswitch Engage leading the way. The festival is set to return to Hatfield and Leeds in 2027. Events will kick off in the north first, landing at Leeds Temple Newsam on Saturday May 29, before
ROCKVILLE, Md. and MERRITT ISLAND, Fla. — September 30, 2026 — Quantum Space, LLC (the “Company” or “Quantum Space”), a company developing the next generation of advanced maneuverable spacecraft for national security and commercial missions, today announced that it has executed a new spacecraft processing work order with All Points Logistics, LLC (“All Points”) for
Image: Nintendo We were quietly hoping that Pokémon Pokopia would have something up its sleeve for Halloween, and what do you know, it does! The Pokémon Company has just announced its next in-game event, which will run from 17th October at 5am until 1st November at 4:59am (local time). This one is expectedly spooky, with
The small details have always been where Rockstar works the most magic, and GTA 6 will be no different. Besides anything else, the weather is going to be something to watch out for, since the whole system’s been overhauled from what we saw in Red Dead Redemption 2. In Game Informer, Owen Shepherd, the vice
The Marvel Cinematic Universe is showing no signs of slowing down, to the joy of fans who spent years watching the Marvel movies in order. The latest release is Spider-Man: Brand New Day, which broke records upon arriving in theaters. That movie featured plenty of familiar faces, including Jon Bernthal‘s Punisher, Mark Ruffalo‘s Hulk, and
Breaking: Zach Cregger‘s next movie, The Flood, just got even more exciting, as Variety reports that Jennifer Lawrence (pictured anove in Mother!) has joined the cast! Lawrence is a huge get for Cregger, following the massive success of his Resident Evil take. While not generally known for her work in the genre, Lawrence has starred
Angèle faces a tough decision on her new song “Love Triangle”: how to choose between SebastiAn and Caroline Polachek. The trio’s single, which premiered today on BBC Radio 1, finds Polachek wooing the Belgian star in her native French over a killer electro beat courtesy of the Ed Banger-affiliated producer. Listen—and choose your fighter—below. “Love
When Vesuvius erupted nearly 2,000 years ago, it devastated the nearby Roman city of Herculaneum with scorching gas, ash, and earthquakes that suffocated its streets, toppled masonry, and even turned one man’s brain to glass. Much of the city was destroyed, and its people were vaporized, yet its library full of arcane knowledge has been
Nintendo has released Version 1.2.0 of the Nintendo Switch 2 remake of Star Fox, adding the three new Battle Mode stages and split-screen multiplayer promised earlier this month in the latest Nintendo Direct. The update also adds a plethora of other gameplay adjustments and big fixes, and you can check out the full patch notes
Hasbro has fallen into an excellent groove of picking desirable figures for reissues lately, and that train keeps chugging along today with a quartet of MVP re-releases! Previously Hasbro Pulse VHS exclusives and now on Retro cards, Marvel Legends Mary Jane Aunt May Smythe and Carnage are now up for order! Individual Figure Links:Mary Jane
Before it was scrapped, Star Wars: Rogue Squadron nearly got the Disney+ treatment. First announced by Lucasfilm in December 2020, Rogue Squadron was originally slated to be the franchise’s first movie released after The Rise of Skywalker. It was scheduled to debut in theaters on December 22, 2023, with Wonder Woman‘s Patty Jenkins directing a
Curry Barker made Obsession for $750,000 and it became the biggest movie Focus Features has ever released. His follow-up now has a date. Anything But Ghosts opens in theaters May 7, 2027, with Focus holding it worldwide and Universal Pictures International taking it overseas. Barker writes and directs from a script he wrote with Cooper
Hernan Diaz’s extraordinary latest work, Ply, is set amid modernity’s wreckage, but it is not quite a postapocalyptic novel. There was no capital-C Calamity, just the inevitable entropy greed engenders. The antagonists are primarily executives, chief financial officers of utility companies with private armies (except the one who’s more of a tech giant a la
Overpass have teamed up with Nieve Ella for a new version of fan-favourite ‘Fall In Love’ – check it out below. The original track appeared on the Birmingham indie band’s debut album ‘Elsewhere, Always’, which was released in June and reached Number Five on the UK Albums Chart. For the new version, Ella has rewritten
The vast cosmos seems like a cold and lonely place. For all our scouring of the sky, we’re yet to find concrete signs of alien life outside of Earth – never mind outside the Solar System. And that’s before we even get to technology – telltale signs that an intelligent civilization has developed ways to
Naughty Dog celebrated The Last of Us series yesterday alongside fans as part of its usual September 28 “Outbreak Day.” That’s when studio head Neil Druckmann revealed that the team is working on two “projects” that will expand The Last of Us canon beyond Part I and Part II. It’s also where Druckmann shared the studio’s
You’ve heard it said before that GTA 6 is expected to be the largest entertainment launch of all time in terms of budget and sales, but it really is hard to oversell the unprecedented scale of Rockstar’s incoming juggernaut. Publisher Take-Two Interactive has likely spent an ungodly amount of money GTA 6, and if the
Curry Barker fever will continue into next summer as Focus Features and Blumhouse Atomic Monster are releasing the Obsession filmmaker’s next movie, Anything But Ghosts on May 7, 2027. That’s similar to the early May launch date of Obsession which bowed during the third weekend of May this year (May 15) and opened to $17.1M
Chloë Grace Moretz (Let Me In, Carrie) is heading into another nightmare, this time with Piggy director Carlota Pereda. Today we have a first look at Moretz in Found Alive, a survival thriller that will make its world premiere at Sitges on October 8, opening this year’s festival. The photo finds a visibly battered Moretz
Klein has shared a new suite of ambient music. The London composer and vocalist released My Own Fairytale today through her Parkwuud Entertainment label, and also dropped a music video for the LP’s ghostly track, “Man in the Mirror.” Watch that below. My Own Fairytale is described in a press statement as Klein’s “take on
You might not notice it gazing out from the shore, but water ages. As it gets older, it loses the oxygen dissolved in it, used up by marine life, bacteria, and chemical reactions – and without a trip to the surface and the open air, it can’t get that oxygen back. We know that warmer
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