I highly recommend reading that report if you haven’t already as it sheds some light on Sony’s long-term plans and has already triggered a heated debate over the changing nature of the Triple-A video game industry. For now, though, let’s focus on that rumored remake of The Last of Us and try to answer the question “Why would Naughty Dog be interested in remaking that game?” As that report reveals, the most likely answer to that question is “money,” but what’s really interesting is that the report seems to strongly suggest that the project is being referred to as a remake rather than a remaster....

As WoW Classic players everywhere prepare to land at Northrend and experience Wrath of the Lich King once more, Classic players old and new already find themselves wondering how long it will take them to reach level 80 and begin experiencing WoTLK‘s end game as quickly as possible. Truth be told, the answer to that question is pretty complicated. WoW Classic‘s brief history has taught us that leveling expectations for “old-school” WoW content have changed a lot over the years....

WWE 2K22 is not only significantly more stable than recent WWE games, but it features one of the largest rosters we’ve seen in a wrestling game in quite some time. 2K22 features many legends, such as Hulk Hogan, The Undertaker, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, and John Cena, but it also includes many bizarre characters that make even the strangest fan creations seem normal. All told, the game sports well over 150 wrestlers, not counting upcoming DLC fighters such as Machine Gun Kelly and Logan Paul (yes, seriously)....

Professor Charles Xavier’s jerkdom transcends all media he has made an appearance in; it’s that powerful. He is an omega level clown, which is probably why he treats his X-Men like circus acts. You have to wow those humans in hopes of getting them to treat you like your mutant life matters, at least according to Xavier’s teachings. Now that X-Men: The Animated Series is available to stream on Disney+, here is a list of episodes filled with all of the Professor’s best-worst moments and how he is more of a danger to the X-Men than anyone else....

What’s supposedly last known about Yasuke, the documented 16th-century Black samurai of Japan, is that he was brought back into the hands of his former Jesuit owners after his samurai employment was cut short. From there, the African-originated warrior, who remarkably rose to impressive status under the warlord Oda Nobunaga despite his being a foreigner, appears to vanish from history. Both historical and legendary, Yasuke had nary a chance to grace onscreen media, although he allegedly inspired the protagonist of the densely shaded neo-noir Afro Samurai manga-based anime....

Young Justice: Phantoms is back from break, with a batch of episodes focusing on Atlantis. While we got a taste of Atlantean history in the last arc (where we dove into Dr. Fate’s backstory and saw the birth of magic on Earth, as Zatanna and her team battled the new Lord of Chaos, Child and the Flaw), these episodes give us a heavy dose of Atlantis’ present. Along with Posiedonis, Xebel, Crastinus, Xeris, Lemuria, Neptunos, Nanauve and Shayeris....

Young Justice Season 4 Episode 10 The more I sit with “Ydaer Teg,” this week’s episode of Young Justice: Phantoms, the less I like it. It’s not the same unhappiness that I’ve had with the rest of this season, though that’s definitely there: I still hate the motion comic, and I’m still pretty mad that the show chose to tell the story of Starro the Conqueror’s invasion of ancient Babylon and murder of Nabu in still frames they nudge across the camera to simulate movement....

Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean at the End of the Lane is a fantasy novel about a child that comes into contact with a mysterious and dangerous other world, and what happens when something from that world makes it back and infects his own life. It has a lot in common with another of Gaiman’s books, Coraline. But while Coraline is a children’s story, where if you are clever and brave you can beat the monster and save the day, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is childhood seen through an adult lens....

Operating on the philosophy that a horror film with a micro-budget will almost always turn a profit, Blum frequently allows directors broad freedom to make what they want within the genre, and in the process has kept multiplexes perpetually spooky. In 2009 Blumhouse helped reinvent the found footage horror aesthetic, and in the 2010s, the modern phenomenon of talent-focused horror gems began with Blumhouse’s gambles. Working with filmmakers like James Wan, Scott Derrickson, Ethan Hawke, and Jordan Peele, Blumhouse Productions’ title card is now a promise of something different, if still eminently commercial and entertaining....

Regardless of your favorite Castlevania, I think we can all agree that the series has given us some of the coolest enemies around. From new takes on horror icons like Dracula and Frankenstein’s monster, to more original creations like skull towers and flea men, the Castlevania series is filled with monsters and bosses that brilliantly pay homage to this series’ genre roots while establishing a legacy of their own even if they already enjoy one elsewhere....

Some developers would take the easy way out and make an enemy with a simple pattern that could be defeated in three hits. And that was fine. But other devs got really creative, crafting screen-filling monstrosities or multi-stage tests of endurance that required players to deploy every skill they’d learned throughout the game. In other words they made enemies truly deserving of the title “boss.” These are the 15 best Sega Genesis boss fights ever: Part of what makes this fight against the Ultimate Evil so special is everything that leads up to it....

Take the beguiling case of the 1883, the Western throwback prequel to Paramount Network’s megahit Yellowstone. Given that Yellowstone is one of the most-watched shows on television, one might assume that 1883 would be given a complementary time slot to its older sibling on the same network. Well not so fast, my friend! Paramount Network is owned by ViacomCBS and ViacomCBS has a freshly-branded streaming service it needs to drive viewers to....

You could go for one of the classics – Dracula or Frankenstein or something by Lovecraft or Poe – or you could go with the zeitgeist and pick up Stephen King’s Cell, or even The Shining, if you haven’t read it already. Any of those would be perfectly good choices. But let’s face it, if you were gonna read one of those, you wouldn’t need me to recommend them. Here, instead, is a list of 25 other horror novels guaranteed to give you nightmares…...

Prime Videos’ list of new releases for January 2023 is highlighted by Hunters season 2 on Jan. 13. The first season of Hunters was set in 1977 and followed young Jonah Heidelbaum’s (Logan Lerman) introduction to a world of Nazi-hunting. After a lengthy wait for season 2, the fresh (and final) batch of episodes will find Jonah and friends venturing to South American to take out none other than Adolf Hitler, himself....

Andor takes Star Wars in a completely new direction than we’ve ever seen before. Cassian’s origin story opens not with talk of Jedi and Sith, or a civil war between the Empire and the Rebellion, but with a common crook who’s down on his luck and desperate. The opening minutes that play like a neo-noir crime thriller straight out of Blade Runner soon give way to a very grounded story about the folks you don’t normally see in a Star Wars movie, including the blue collar workers who keep the wheels turning on the Empire’s corporate interests....

Stepping into the shoes of an overbearing, take no prisoners, big bad is a new venture for Howerton. It didn’t deter him one bit though, as we learned in our exclusive talk with the actor about the difference between living with a character for 15 years (Dennis of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia) to having to create a lifetime for one you only inhabit for a short shoot. What follows is our discussion with Glenn Howerton about bringing The Manager to life, and what it takes to create quality entertainment....

So far, we’ve only met JJ (short for John Jr.) in the present tense where he’s a baby. JJ is a living artifact of the Flashpoint storyline. In the original timeline, Diggle and Lyla (Audrey Marie Anderson) had a daughter they named Sara, after Sara Lance (Caity Lotz) who was – at the time – deceased. Barry Allen’s (Grant Gustin) time travel shenanigans on The Flash changed all that, leaving them with a son and no memory of the daughter they once had, something everyone has been surprisingly chill about....

The creator, lead writer, and star of FX’s Atlanta has been crafting stories for most of his adult life. After getting his start in comedy as part of the internet sketch group Derrick Comedy at NYU, Glover was hired by Tina Fey to join the writing staff of 30 Rock at age 23. The saga of his life since then is one of the most impressive pop culture runs of our era....

Attack on Titan Season 3 Episode 19 “Eren, when I get home I’ll show you what’s in the basement that I’ve been keeping secret all this time.” Series that revolve around one central mystery are a hell of a tightrope walk to properly maneuver. When they work, it’s unreal, but there’s so much, arguably too much, riding on what that big reveal will be. There are other situations like Lost (or even How I Met Your Mother), where the broad endgame of the series is known, but not the finer details along the way....

Attack on Titan Season 4 Episode 17 “We just have to keep moving forward, right Eren?” One of the first images from “Judgment,” the premiere entry from Attack on Titan: Final Season, Part 2, is a naked and bewildered Zeke who emerges from the husk of a Titan’s corpse, as if he’s been reborn anew. Attack on Titan has always been interested in how death is necessary for rebirth, but it’s become a suffocating mantra during the series’ final season....