Month: August 2026

I’ve always heard The Sinking City described as a respectable but flawed survival-horror experience (though practically a must-play if you love H.P. Lovecraft). I never played it, but that’s okay because The Sinking City 2 is a completely standalone story starring a different protagonist, making it a perfect entry point. I’m several hours into the
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GTA 6 currently feels like such a juggernaut that the entire industry is bracing for its impact, but the head of one of the world’s biggest gaming events says he’s not worried that Rockstar won’t be at his show. Speaking to GamesRadar+, Stefan Heikhaus, brand director at Gamescom, acknowledged that “games like GTA or other
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Anya Taylor-Joy’s work on the silver screen has become unavoidable. After her breakthrough role in M. Night Shyamalan’s Split, the actress is seemingly everywhere, from big blockbusters like Furiosa and Dune, to smaller cult favorites like The Menu and The Northman. Even though her movie star career is fairly young, Taylor-Joy has had the opportunity
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Found footage asks for one thing before it asks for anything else. Believe the camera was really there. Believe somebody was holding it, that the battery was a real concern, that nobody in the frame knew they were in a movie. Night Terror buys that belief honestly for long stretches, then spends it on things
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A new EP from Blackpink’s Jennie is on the way. The three-song Fallen Angel drops next Friday, August 28, via the K-pop idol’s own label, Odd Atelier, and Columbia. Below, check out the project’s cover art and a surreal teaser for the title track’s music video—also out on the 28th. Blackpink returned earlier this year
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Okay, let’s see what everybody is up to this weekend… Ollie Reynolds, Reviews Editor The Duskbloods! Need I say more? Okay, I will. I’m so excited to dive into this and see what it’s all about. I’m a big FromSoftware fan, and Hidetaka Miyazaki’s game in particular just have something to them; a sense of
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Released in 2004 for the Game Boy Advance, The Legend of Zelda: Minish Cap is considered an underrated gem when it comes to the Zelda franchise. Marking the twelfth entry in the Nintendo series, Minish Cap shed light on the history of the Four Sword and villain Vaati, but it was Link’s ability to shrink
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The Weeknd has completed a five-night sold-out run at Wembley Stadium, with his UK stint raising more than $350,000 (£260,000) for charity. The Canadian pop superstar played the final of his Wembley shows on Wednesday night (August 19), and the UK leg of the ‘After Hours Til Dawn’ tour also included two shows at Manchester’s Etihad Stadium in June. Between
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If scientists can develop networks based on quantum physics, the potential is huge. It could improve communication security, unite the capabilities of quantum computers, and help create next-generation research instruments. But a key challenge lies in a quantum phenomenon called entanglement: the way that two objects can be inextricably linked no matter the distance between
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GTA 6 developer Rockstar and publisher Take-Two Interactive aren’t having good weeks. With just weeks to go until the Netflix extended look really kicks off the marketing campaign in earnest, a massive GTA 6 leak surfaced online Tuesday afternoon and revealed the full Leonida map as well as what looked to be near-final gameplay. The
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FRIDAY AFTERNOON UPDATE: This weekend belongs to Sony, or at least the top two spots at the box office do, with Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man: Brand New Day‘s fourth frame of $35 million at 4,006 sites and Blumhouse/Atomic Monster/Stage 6’s Insidious: Out of the Further opening to $23M at 3,303 theaters. Both are coming in at
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Today’s Featured Book Deals $4.99 The Close-Up by Kennedy Ryan Get This Deal $1.99 The Four Queens of Crime by Rosanne Limoncelli Get This Deal $1.99 Next Time Will Be Our Turn by Jesse Q. Sutanto Get This Deal $4.99 Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow Get This Deal $2.99 Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King Get
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Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival will skip its 2027 edition to allow its grounds to recover from storm damage, including the flooding that curtailed this year’s event. The stalwart festival, held near Manchester, Tennessee, will return in 2028, organizers said in a statement on its website. Read it in full below. Safety precautions at this
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We’ve got an unusually crowded weekend for horror at the box office, with four genre movies either opening or expanding into theaters at the same time. Insidious: Out of the Further is obviously the big one, but Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma continues its fascinating expansion, while It Ends begins its platform rollout
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Psychedelics are becoming more clinically relevant, and a slew of recent research has explored the effects of psilocybin in ever-greater detail, revealing that it has the ability to imprint lasting, meaningful changes in brain activity.  Psilocybin, the psychoactive powerhouse in ‘magic mushrooms’, is thought to induce brain plasticity, reorganizing neural connections and signaling pathways to
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Crocs’ collaboration with Pokémon is evolving with the announcement of new designs based on three original generation pocket monsters. This includes a Pikachu pair featuring lightning bolts, Jigglypuff platform clogs with musical notes, and a ghostly Gengar design. The adult Pikachu and Gengar clogs are listed as $79.99 USD and the Jigglypuff platform clog will
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FromSoftware‘s Hidetaka Miyazaki has explained why The Duskbloods is a Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive. Speaking to IGN, Miyazaki explains, “In terms of the reason that we initially decided to go with Nintendo, we had had an opportunity to discuss the idea for the game with them and I think they seemed very excited and very
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Cosmic horror is my favorite genre of horror. There’s something magical about knowledge which cannot be understood by the mind of man, yet once witnessed drives you to complete, utter, inescapable madness. Some think that this word — madness — is the essence of cosmic horror, but that isn’t quite correct. Madness is just a
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Well, there we have it: the worst girl in America is, in fact, a Hole fan. During a recent appearance on triple J’s Like A Version, Slayyyter settled it with a rendition of the band’s “Violet” so formidable, Courtney Love encouraged her to “keep wiping the floors with us.” Check it out for yourself below.
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