Studio Orange, the accomplished animation studio that’s responsible for BEASTARS and Land of the Lustrous, have passionately reinvented Trigun for modern audiences with Trigun Stampede. Studio Orange’s signature CG style beautifully translates this franchise’s hyperbolized hijinks and Vash the Stampede has never looked better. Trigun Stampede is a reboot of Madhouse’s anime that’s faithful to its source material where it counts, but the studio has also effectively expanded upon Nightow’s world to give the Humanoid Typhoon an even more exciting canvas to create chaos....

But even so, there is something familiar about Daemon Targaryen. The mirthless laughter. The smile that only reaches just below the eyes. The way he seems mildly amused at being threatened, and enjoys nothing more than a really good nemesis. Viewers who have seen Smith as Doctor Who’s Eleventh Doctor will recognize a lot of the old notes. This isn’t the first time he’s done this. We won’t speculate as to whether Jared Leto slept upside down, drank only human blood or tried to navigate by echolocation to prepare for his role in Morbius, but throughout the film he’s consistently outperformed by Matt Smith phoning in a ‘What if the Doctor was a bit of a dickhead?...

Truth be told, I understand that disappointment. Yes, we’re just talking about remasters of old Zelda games, but Wind Waker and Twilight Princess are special entries in the series for reasons that go beyond their quality. They were great games that were also a little divisive at the time of their releases. Both are generally well-received now (Wind Waker’s turnaround has been especially impressive), but I suppose there is a feeling that well-done remasters of those games would really help secure their legacy....

Mind you, that isn’t to say that the N64 controller was necessarily bad. There are certainly some who will make that argument, but others consider it to be one of their favorite video game controllers ever. Whichever side you fall on, though, you’ll probably agree that the N64 controller was simply bizarre from a design perspective. There wasn’t really a controller like it before 1996, and there really hasn’t been a controller like it since....

And the paperback edition of ‘Salem’s Lot came out right around this time; it became King’s second bestseller in a row and cemented his status as a superstar horror writer. The book, at its core, also posed a simple yet alluring question: What if vampires invaded a small town in rural Maine in the 20th century? As basic as that sounds, it was also somewhat groundbreaking. With the exception of a few other titles, primarily Richard Matheson’s masterpiece I Am Legend, vampires were still very much part of an older, creakier tradition in supernatural literature and film, consigned largely to cobwebby castles and distant European hamlets....

Players will also be able to pay for the Xbox Series S in 24 monthly installments through an Xbox All Access subscription, which will also grant you access to 24 months of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate (now including EA Play) for $24.99 a month. So, what makes the Xbox Series S cheaper than its more expensive sibling? We broke down the big differences here. But he most obvious reasons why the S is more affordable are the fact that it doesn’t have a disc drive, meaning you’ll have to buy all of your consoles digitally, and that it won’t have native 4K resolution like the Xbox Series X, which will actually be 8K-ready out of the box....

Giving Xbox fans and retailers advance warning that pre-orders would open on Tuesday at 11 am ET didn’t seem to alleviate the issues that plagued Sony last week when it announced pre-orders with only a day’s warning. Stores just can’t seem to keep up with the demand for these consoles, which have been reported to be in short supply due to manufacturing and shipping delays caused by the Covid-19 pandemic....

While the differences between the Xbox Series X and Xbox One X might be obvious to you, fellow gaming enthusiast, it’s also true that the names can be a little confusing for those who aren’t in the know. Even Microsoft’s own marketing team has made a mistake in at least one occasion, according to The Verge senior editor Tom Warren: I wouldn’t necessarily call a boost in Xbox One X sales a “setback” for Microsoft (although it’ll be interesting to see how many of those orders get canceled or returned in the coming days), but it is just one of the many issues that arose when Xbox Series X pre-orders opened yesterday....

Young Justice Season 3 Episode 2 While the first episode of Outsiders was dark table-setting, the second episode is mostly just a blast. And not just because of that UN scene. Let’s get that out of the way first, though. And see if we can do it without squealing. We at the Den are shameless Christopher Priest fans. In addition to Deathstroke, he had the best run of Black Panther of all time, and in it was maybe my favorite single comic scene ever: T’Challa, Namor, Magneto and Doctor Doom all yelling at each other about realpolitik outside the UN....

Joe Manganiello was supposed to make numerous appearances in the DCEU as Deathstroke, a noted villain, antihero, assassin, and all around badass. His appearance in the post-credits scene of the theatrical cut of Justice League was little more than a cameo, one which explicitly stated that Lex Luthor wanted Manganiello’s Slade Wilson to be the first of a team of villains that could match the Justice League. In other words, it was a setup for a Justice League 2 that would never arrive....

“This is the beginning of your new future,” Zappa assures an appreciative audience in the archival concert footage which sets the tone. Winter begins the film in the Czech Republic, where Frank was the label. The Czech police, when telling 1960s youth to turn down the rebellious aural insurgence of rock music, called it “Zappa music.” A generation later, the entire country came out to applaud the man who personified the freedom of expression of rock music....

As a visual medium, comics are perfect for horror. From the garish scares of the Golden Age, to the groundbreaking horror of the ’50s with EC Comics, to the gothic ’70s and the experimental ’80s, comic book horror has always had a rabid following and a place right alongside superheroes. Join us as we look at horrors past and relive some of the greatest terrors ever produced by some of the greatest and sickest imaginations in comics....

While there’s no shortage of movies and shows that offer such fixes, there’s always been something amazing about pairing a hit new movie with a game that lets you live out your favorite on-screen moments as closely as possible. Granted, there has been a sad shortage of truly exceptional martial arts video games over the years, but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t a few true classics and a few more hidden gems out there that you absolutely need to play....

And if they’re anything like E3s of the past, they’ll also feature games that will generate quite a bit of hype but will never see the light of day. Video games get canceled quietly all the time, but there’s nothing quite as strange as a game that makes a splash at the biggest show of the year and then vanishes without a trace. In celebration of E3 season, we’ve decided to look at some of the most infamous M....

Area 51 has an excuse for its reputation, being government controlled and heavily secure. The Hudson Valley wants to be Roswell East. Just north of New York City, they’ve logged more UFO complaints than any other area in the world, bugging MUFON, the world’s largest civilian UFO investigative organization, with 3,000 extraterrestrial encounter reports in the past 10 years alone. But the reports go back over 100 years, the two-hour special documentary points out....

Nerf, by the very nature of the safe spongy substance that shares its name, may be intrinsically defined as a manufacturer of necessarily-affordable kids’ toys, but its premium branding, Nerf LMTD, has been off in its own tangent conjuring collectible fodder for adult genre fans willing to shell out big bucks; a notion notably exemplified by The Mandalorian‘s famous forked Amban rifle. However, the fun won’t be restricted to Star Wars fans, since the company has just unveiled its take on Aliens’ M41-A Pulse Rifle, which spans 28 inches in length, loaded with an insane array of features....

Andor is racing toward its big season one finale. With only three episodes to go, Star Wars fans have been hard at work speculating how Cassian will finally escape the labor camp on Narkina 5, and how this experience will lead him to Mon Mothma and the Rebellion. These are questions that still need answering, but we already know a few things about Andor season 2 that points to Cassian joining the Rebellion sooner rather than later....

“There’s a few through-lines between the two characters—but not really,” Taylor-Joy says when we catch up with her ahead of Emma.’s release. “To go from Emma to singing as Sandy was a trip [and] I had to really think on my feet.” Indeed, there appears to be little overlap between Taylor-Joy’s mischievous and quick-witted heroine in Emma. and what we know about Sandy in Last Night. One is a humorous, cutting turn for the The Witch star that finally realizes on screen how Austen introduced the character: “Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich” (director Autumn de Wilde tellingly refers to her as an “anti-heroine”)....

Some reviews of Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz’s recut of the show’s fourth, Netflix-produced, season have already popped up (you all did not watch it that fast and I am calling your bluff). They all tell roughly the same tale: the fourth season was a disappointment and, while this recut fixes some problems, it’s still hardly a fun time. First off, I want to bitterly reject what I keep seeing, which is critics and fans casually pretending like they always thought Season 4 was not good because I was there, man, and it was a lot more like myself and a handful of other outliers arguing that this thing was a lemon from top to bottom only to be shouted down by everyone else telling us “it gets better” or “watch the whole thing and it’ll magically become funny at the end....

Attack on Titan Season 2 Episode 4 Today’s Attack on Titan episode is another reminder to me of how different Japanese anime is compared to Western television in that 1) a whole episode went by without a single member core main characters—Eren, Mikasa, Armin—making an appearance, and 2) all twenty-some minutes of it took place in one location, following one continuous over-arching storyline. Shifting the narrative away from your main characters to peripheral ones completely isn’t a bad thing....