Just before the end of summer, MrBeast (aka Jimmy Donaldson) will join an illustrious group that includes Oscar-winner Viola Davis, 10-time Grammy winner Dolly Parton, and former President Bill Clinton. Yes, Donaldson has co-written his first book with James Patterson, the workhorse thriller writer who, much like MrBeast, relies on an army of collaborators to help complete outlandish tasks and make tons of money in the process.

Fallout is getting some more star power ahead of season 3. Prime Video announced Thursday that Emily Mortimer (The Newsroom, Love and Amazing), Manny Jacinto (The Good Place, The Acolyte), and Thomasin McKenzie (Jojo Rabbit, Last Night in Soho) will be joining the cast.

Ahead of the season 3 premiere of Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon, HBO is offering a limited-time deal on HBO Max subscriptions. The deal requires a commitment, though; annual subscriptions to HBO Max are on sale through July, with savings up to $65 per year.

A girl sits in a chair inside a dark Victorian-esque room. A small table beside her holds only an old phone and enough space for the girl's notebook. She is alive, but also dead. A black cat tells her she must answer the phone when it rings and listen to what the people on the other side have to say. Released on Feb. 10 for Windows PC and later for Nintendo Switch and already receiving acclaim with sky-high scores like 89 on Metacritic and 92 on OpenCritic, Schrödinger's Call is the first game by the Japanese indie studio Acrobatic Chirimenjako. Through its tales about connection, it makes us wonder who we really are.

In most games where shooting is a core part of the gameplay experience, you’re often handed a gun and told to shoot first, worry about an alarmingly high body count later. Not so in 007 First Light. The game restricts Bond’s firearms usage to very specific scenarios when Bond is in mortal danger; a very dramatic “License to Kill” alert then appears on the top of your screen highlighted in red. It’s an interesting flip on what we’ve come to expect from a third-person shooter, though 007 First Light could have been even more restrictive with its approach to lethal violence.

A sequel to the live-action How the Grinch Stole Christmas is in development, with director Ron Howard and star Jim Carrey in talks to return, according to The Hollywood Reporter. This comes despite Carrey nearly quitting the first film amid panic attacks and even enlisting a "torture" expert to help him endure filming of the 2000 original.

Crime dramas are a dime a dozen these days and have been the bedrock of broadcast and streaming TV for years. From Law & Order and NCIS to The Wire and True Detective, mystery shows run the gamut from comfort food procedurals to ambitious prestige dramas. Yet while many are celebrated for their ingenious twists, dark iconography, and memorable detectives, the genre has become so crowded that genuinely distinctive entries are increasingly difficult to come by. For every breakout hit, there are dozens of mysteries built around interchangeable backlots and familiar storytelling beats.

Filling up your glass vials in The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales is the equivalent to sharpening your weapons and adjusting your gear. You can buy different potions to help in your adventure, just like the multiple weapons and accessories that allow you to have a proper response to the different challenges in the game.

Exactly six months from now, moviegoers will face the biggest theatrical showdown since 2023’s Barbenheimer. As of this writing, both Warner Bros.’ Dune: Part Three and Disney’s Avengers: Doomsday remain scheduled for December 18, 2026. That's surprising considering Hollywood studios typically do everything possible to avoid direct confrontations, especially when billions of dollars and two of the year's biggest blockbusters are involved. Yet here we are, half a year out, and neither side seems interested in backing down.

Treasure hunt is one of the seasonal activities you can enjoy in Forza Horizon 6. The idea is to search for a treasure chest somewhere on the map, and the only clue you have is a picture. You will have to put not only your memory but also your knowledge of the map into action to find the exact location and collect your prize.

Rockstar just revealed the box art for the long-awaited Grand Theft Auto 6 ahead of opening pre-orders next week. That got me thinking about the history of this franchise’s box art, which ranges from lazy logos to stylized collages of recognizable elements from the series.

It’s an undeniable truth that every millennial knows the Pokémon theme song “Gotta Catch ‘Em All” by heart, something that Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers demonstrated at last night’s Las Culturistas Culture Awards on Bravo.

Series 2, officially called "Horizon Decades," has arrived to the Festival Playlist and Forza Horizon 6. This seasonal event is divided into four seasons and it features different playlists of activities for a limited time. While each playlist lasts for seven days, the entire series runs for four weeks.

Rockstar Games' next Grand Theft Auto game has been a long time coming: Grand Theft Auto 5 is now more than a decade old, spanning three console generations and 230 million copies sold, in large part due to the popularity of Grand Theft Auto Online. After a long wait, Grand Theft Auto 6 is slated to finally arrive in November 2026.

Five years ago, Magic: The Gathering’s Modern Horizons 2 arrived and was instantly praised for its Draft environment, reprints, and variety of card treatments. It quickly earned a reputation as an instant classic and is still celebrated today, even in the shadow of Modern Horizons 3. But one card stuck out like a sore thumb, carrying a name that looked like a cat had walked across a designer’s keyboard.

The Evolving World Car Meet is a new location as part of the Horizon Decades Festival Playlist series in Forza Horizon 6.

Getting titanium ingots in Subnautica 2 is the first time the game expects you to set off without guidance to find an essential new crafting blueprint. It won't be the last. While it might seem like you're expected to find your way in the dark, the blueprint you need for the processor that turns titanium into ingots is closer than you might expect.

It’s been more than a decade since active production of the Naruto Collectible Card Game ended in 2013, but now the franchise is primed for a major TCG reinvention.

Steam Next Fest takes place three times a year, and it is a treasure trove of fantastic demos waiting to be discovered. It's the perfect event to find your next favorite game before it's even out, from some of the biggest upcoming AAA games to indie gems that would otherwise struggle to get a look in.

Michael Sarnoski never set out to make the anti-Logan, but that's exactly what happened.

As part of the summer season in the Horizon Decades Festival Playlist series in Forza Horizon 6, you'll need a bunch of cars from the 1980s to complete your challenges.

The Epic Games Store is offering two free PC games this week for Epic users. For a limited time, you can grab a must-play RPG and a unique first-person shooter for free.

There’s no rest for the wicked or for Pokémon trading card game players, apparently. The Pokémon Company just announced Mega Rayquaza-themed sets for both the physical TCG and the mobile game Pokémon TCG Pocket. The physical expansion, Mega Evolution—Delta Reigns, is coming out Nov. 8. Meanwhile, Pocket’s Ruler of the Skies pack is set for July.

According to Amazon Games GM Jeff Gattis, who spoke to Polygon shortly before Summer Game Fest, that confusion wasn't just a public perception problem. It was happening inside Amazon until very recently. It didn’t make much sense to the Xbox veteran.

Hoyoverse just wrapped up the Genshin Impact version "Luna 8" (aka 6.7) preview livestream, showing off all sorts of details about the upcoming patch. Most importantly, there were several codes that award Primogems and other rewards shown during the stream. Our Genshin Impact 6.7 livestream code list provides you with the three stream codes for rewards and explains how to redeem them.

While there’s no shortage of isekai anime, few continue to resonate with audiences quite like Re:Zero- Starting Life in Another World. To put it into numbers, the latest episode of the series just became one of the highest-rated episodes of all time on IMDB. It currently has a perfect 10/10 rating after 23K reviews. According to AniTV, it is the first episode of a show to achieve this in nine years, and the first isekai and light-novel-to-anime series to do so.

Rockstar revealed the GTA 6 box art ahead of the game's Nov. 19 release date, and while the reveal mainly served as a way to announce pre-orders start soon, I can't help but fixate on the box art. Or, more to the point, how oddly muted and lacking in personality it is.

Pokémon Pokopia's next event has been revealed, and it brings a beloved Mythical Pokémon to the game. On June 23, Jirachi arrives in the post-apocalyptic Kanto region.

Nintendo used its most recent Nintendo Direct to announce that a remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is headed to Switch 2 later this year, confirming weeks of fan speculation. Although the reveal addressed the broadest questions gamers had about what’s next for the Zelda franchise, it did surprisingly little to reassure members of the fractured fanbase that the new release has their particular interests in mind.

WIth the reveal of the official cover art for Grand Theft Auto 6, Rockstar Games has finally announced when it will open preorders for the game, which is due out this fall. Rockstar will open preorders for GTA 6 on Thursday, June 25, further evidence that the final Nov. 19 release date for the long-delayed game is all but set in stone now.

When you think of acclaimed historical manga, titles like Takehiko Inoue’s Vagabond and Fuyumi Soryo’s Cesare come to mind. Some, like Vinland Saga and The Rose of Versailles, have already received breathtaking anime adaptations, allowing their intriguing perspectives on 11th-century Viking warfare and French Revolution-era France to enter the popular consciousness. The primary draw of historical manga lies in its blend of painstaking research and fantastical storytelling, where fact and fiction melt into a compelling snapshot of a moment in time, heightened in a way only the Japanese art form knows.

When you think of acclaimed historical manga, titles like Takehiko Inoue’s Vagabond and Fuyumi Soryo’s Cesare come to mind. Some, like Vinland Saga and The Rose of Versailles, have already received breathtaking anime adaptations, allowing their intriguing perspectives on 11th-century Viking warfare and French Revolution-era France to enter the popular consciousness. The primary draw of historical manga lies in its blend of painstaking research and fantastical storytelling, where fact and fiction melt into a compelling snapshot of a moment in time, heightened in a way only the Japanese art form knows.

An increasing number of creatives in the entertainment industry are starting to favor the use of Artificial Intelligence, making us wonder if it's only a matter of time before AI dominates an industry that once prided itself on human creativity. However, there are also creatives out there who are pushing back against the AI storm. Namely, the founders of Critical Role.

It's time, Hunter x Hunter fans: The manga will reprise serialization with a fresh batch of 10 chapters hitting Weekly Shonen Jump. Despite his physical issues, legendary creator Yoshihiro Togashi keeps working on his masterpiece. The story of the Succession Contest continues as many parties vie for power on the Black Whale during the voyage to the mysterious and deadly Dark Continent.

Collecting Shards of Life in The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales is as important as saving the world. These small red gem pieces can make you stronger, but only if you find enough of them.

The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales is Square Enix's and Tomoya Asano's latest HD-2D adventure game, and while it pulls inspiration from games like The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, it's definitely its own thing with its own quirks. If you like real-time combat, using various weapon types to create interesting fighting styles, and spelunking through dungeons, this is the game for you.

Accessories are an important part of your arsenal in The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales and some of them make you extremely powerful. Unlike weapons, which you need to fight monsters, accessories help you survive the game's different biomes. They can also affect key stats and mechanics in the game, which is great if you'd like to reduce friction while playing through the campaign.

In The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales, the world is filled with cats that you can collect to earn special rewards. While most of the enemies you fight are variations of real animals, cats are the only docile creatures in the game. However, this doesn't mean that all of them trust humans. Some let you approach them, but others will run away as soon as they spot you.

Focusing on acquiring stronger weapons in The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales is crucial to preparing for all the boss fights featured in the game. Elliot might be an adventurer, but in every new dungeon or biome, he'll have to take on a ton of different enemies. In this game, there are three ways to cause more damage to enemies: drinking an attack-boost potion, equipping powerful magicites, and having the highest-tier weapons you can find.

When Tite Kubo’s Bleach first arrived in the early 2000s, it anchored the shonen boom. As one-third of the legendary "Big Three" alongside Masashi Kishimoto’s Naruto and Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece, it helped define an era of supernatural action storytelling, even though Bleach had a slightly different tone than its peers. It was always less concerned with the linear, "train-to-get-stronger" hero's journey popularized by Dragon Ball Z, leaning instead into a moody, punk-rock aesthetic and focusing on the strange weight of duty that comes with death itself.

All the major consoles have undergone price hikes, but compared to PC gamers, console owners have been relatively sheltered from the rise in tech component costs. If you're a PlayStation 5 user who is looking to upgrade your console's memory storage, though, the artificial intelligence-driven component shortage is about to feel more real than ever.

As an anime fan with a wife who refuses to watch pretty much anything animated, I sometimes lament how seldom I’m able to share the hobby with her. So often, she’ll hear me watching something like Jujutsu Kaisen from the other room, but all she perceives is loud voices screaming in Japanese. There’s a sort of stigma attached to anime: that it's all just loud, flashy, and weird. While that’s true for a lot of series, anime is a sprawling art form that contains many genres within it.

Magic: The Gathering is going heroic (and villainous) next week with Marvel Super Heroes, and among the reprints in the set, there’s one that almost snuck past us.

A new Spider-Man: Brand New Day trailer dropped on Wednesday, showing off a new look at the Hulk and Tom Holland's maybe-Man-Spider transformation (but not the film's mysterious villain). PlayStation's YouTube channel also uploaded the trailer, and its version included some fun news for fans of the Marvel's Spider-Man games.