Month: April 2026
U2 are back with their second EP of 2026, Easter Lily. The six-tracker follows last month’s Days of Ash (which was realeased on Ash Wednesday) and features a new collaboration with Brian Eno. Listen to the full EP below. Where Days of Ash consisted primarily of songs dedicated to activists who died, including Renée Good
Archaeologists have encountered a mysterious structure beneath the ruins of an ancient city while testing out some new scanning equipment in the northwest Nile Delta of Egypt. The ancient city has held many names in the nearly 6,000 years since it was established. Ancient Egyptians named it Per-Wadjet, as it was a site sacred to
It’s been quite a while since we’ve heard anything about Petit Planet, the upcoming game from Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail developer HoYoverse. By most accounts, Petit Planet is the studio’s take on Animal Crossing, though with a few interesting ideas of its own. The game’s most recent test took place all the way
Once you’ve gone through about a million (and counting) Slay the Spire 2 runs, successive bouts in the hit roguelike can get a little fuzzy. Developer Mega Crit is now trying to make each run stand out a tad more with a new Slay the Spire 2 patch that gives players a kind of pat
Warning! This article contains SPOILERS for Monarch: Legacy of Monsters season 2, episode 6.Monarch: Legacy of Monsters just keeps adding to the Monsterverse’s lore in exciting ways, and the Apple TV sci-fi series‘ latest episode does a great job of widening its scope with a shocking time travel twist. In last week’s episode of Monarch:
I’m not really a spring guy. March, April, and May are just layovers until the endless nights of summer. Spring has its fans, sure, but I’d much rather be basking in the infinite warmth and possibilities of a June beach day or July jaunt around the city. I live a very full life, and the
Courtney Love has claimed one of the most significant lyrics in the chorus of Nirvana‘s ‘Heart-Shaped Box’ is actually about Sonic Youth‘s Kim Gordon. Love joined Billy Corgan on his podcast The Magnificent Others for an in-depth interview lasting almost an hour and three quarters. During the episode, they discussed the ’90s indie scene’s often unwelcoming nature
The Earth and the Moon may look very different today, but they formed under similar conditions in space. In fact, a dominant hypothesis says that the early Earth was hit by a Mars-sized object, and it was this giant impact that spun off material to form the Moon. But unlike Earth, the Moon lacks plate
The character roster in Street Fighter 6 is about to get even bigger, with Capcom confirming Ingrid will be returning as a paid DLC character in “late Spring” 2026. Ingrid made her debut in the 2004/05 release Capcom Fighting Evolution, which was part of the Capcom Fighting Collection 2. She also joined Street Fighter Alpha
My Rating ⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 3 out of 5. “Doom Of The Humans” Thundarr the Barbarian has suffered greatly under the Council of Wizards. Surviving for years in the slave pits of Lord Sabain, the ghosts of those he had slaughtered in the arena haunt his thoughts. Is there any way to repent for those forced
There’s a universal language being spoken this week, and that’s Illumination/Nintendo/Universal’s Super Mario Galaxy Movie which is posted a full-day Wednesday global figure of $68.4M, $33.9M of that from 78 markets. That’s a bigger result worldwide than the first Super Mario Bros Movie which posted a first day (reported, not adjusted for inflation) of $66.4M
The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich Like A Far-flung Life, Pulitzer Prize-winner Louise Erdrich’s The Plague of Doves explores sprawling consequences that unfold from a single event: In this case, the 1911 massacre of a white family outside the town of Pluto, North Dakota, which spurs a mob of local white men to incorrectly
This morning, the words “you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love” appeared on a pink wall on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles. Turns out, that’s the title of Olivia Rodrigo’s new album. You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love is out June 12 via Geffen. For her follow-up to
AI chatbots can act as a “cognitive crutch” that reduces our ability to retain information, a new study suggests. The research was conducted by AI expert André Barcaui of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, who ran an experiment with 120 university students. Half were allowed to use ChatGPT to help them respond to
This week’s Nintendo Download includes the following content: Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch 2: South of Midnight Weaver’s Edition – Explore the mythos and encounter creatures of Southern folklore in a macabre and fantastical world with this spellbinding third person action-adventure game set in the American Deep South. When disaster strikes, Hazel is called to become a
Slay the Spire 2 feels a lot like the original hit roguelike deckbuilder, but among the new cards and classes, it did make an enormous change: multiplayer. And studio Mega Crit, as co-founder Casey Yano tells PC Gamer, is already feeling out some other new game modes that could be equally impactful. Right now, we
I’m always amazed by how talented the cast of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia is, and how they’ve slowly made their way across Hollywood as their hit comedy rolls on. Kate Olson has High Potential, Charlie Day has had some success in movies, and Rob McElhenney has a soccer team. Then there’s Glenn Howerton, who
Every town has its demons. That’s especially true for “Widow’s Bay“, Apple TVs upcoming genre-bending series from creator Katie Dippold and director Hiro Murai. Check out the new trailer below, teasing all sorts of coastal town mayhem. “Mayor Tom Loftis (Matthew Rhys) is desperate to revive his struggling community. There’s no wifi, spotty cellular reception,
It is understood that the BBC fired Scott Mills from Radio 2 after discovering that the alleged victim in a police investigation was under 16. The radio DJ had hosted Radio 2’s Breakfast Show since January 2025, and prior to that, he worked on BBC Radio 1 from 1998 onwards, as well as hosting that
Updated 9:45 p.m. Eastern with post-launch briefing details. KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — The first human mission beyond Earth orbit in more than 50 years is underway with an April 1 launch of four astronauts on a flight around the moon. The Space Launch System rocket lifted off from Launch Complex 39B here at 6:35
Happy April Fools’ Day! Exciting for some and stressful for others, today is one of the most fun (and treacherous) days to be on the internet, as people and companies on every social media site set out to bamboozle one another. Luckily for the video game community, most developers and publishers are aiming for silly
As an OG fan of the To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before universe, I’ve been excited for Netflix’s XO, Kitty season 3, but a dramatic semester at KISS left me feeling underwhelmed. XO, Kitty season 3, which dropped all 8 of its episodes on Thursday, April 2, sees a grown-up Katherine Song Covey (Anna
Converge are about to release their second album of 2026. Just months after the February release of Love Is Not Enough, their first non-collaborative album in eight years, the Boston metalcore band are getting ready to put out Hum of Hurt. Ahead of the record’s June 5 release, Converge have shared the title track, which
Every March Madness it happens. A player steps to the line, takes the shot and misses. And just like that, there goes your perfect bracket. These are elite players. The player has made that shot thousands of times before. So what went wrong this time? Research from my lab has found that the difference between
Warning: Contains (very minor) spoilers for the ending of Resident Evil Requiem. In an intersection of my particular interests that I most certainly didn’t have on my 2026 bingo card, fans of the Resident Evil franchise – and in particular its recently-released ninth main entry, Resident Evil Requiem – have suddenly become obsessed with a
Crimson Desert players are waiting anxiously to find out how Pearl Abyss will approach fun bugs. That is, glitches that happen to be fun. Blizzard has become infamous for patching out all sorts of Diablo 4 exploits to the chagrin of people using those exploits to deal bonkers numbers, but Pearl Abyss hasn’t really been
In advance of the Masters of the Universe feature film, today Mattel shared a huge slate of upcoming products across many different categories and companies. Movie costumes from Rubies, a collection at Zumiez, Geeki Tikis, glassware, prop relicas from Factory Entertainment and even cat treats from Tempations. For this post I’ll be focusing on the