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If you miss PlayStation-era Resident Evil and Silent Hill, this is for you.
Gamma’s developer has been making emulators for iPhones since the App Store’s beginning.
A trailer for season 4 of the streaming whodunit has the crew of would-be detectives venturing to Hollywood, which is a big change of pace. You can check it out on Hulu starting on August 27th.
Our guide to the most interesting games, movies, and TV shows of the year.
While we still don’t know a lot about the upcoming Disney Plus reboot of Daredevil, we do at least have a release window: Marvel says the show will start streaming in March 2025.
RetroArch, a long-running (and very good) emulator frontend, is waiting for Apple to green-light it for the App Store, according to one of its developers. PPSSPP, a well-known PSP emulator, is also in the approval queue, its developer told The Verge via email.
And that’s not all! Another multi-system emulator (Nintendo 3DS, DS, GBA) called Folium is also awaiting approval. There are yet others — see this list on Reddit.
Love Me, co-writer / directors Sam and Andy Zuchero’s new feature about a satellite and an ocean buoy falling in love after humanity’s fall, was one of the most fascinating films playing at this year’s Sundance film festival. And Deadline reports that it’s finally making its way to theaters some time early next year.
Like Game of Thrones, House of the Dragon has alluded to how the great oncoming winter is the actually the biggest threat the people of Westeros will face.
But the prequel series’ latest season two trailer is firmly focused on the past at a time when all the matters is the war within the fractured Targaryen family.
The long-time Smash Bros. director-turned-YouTuber offers up some helpful video game storage tips in his latest video, which is perfect for those of us embracing the various worlds of physical media.
While Amazon has renewed Mr. & Mrs. Smith for a second season, the streamer has yet to announce whether co-stars Donald Glover and Maya Erskine will return to reprise their roles as John and Jane.
Sauron (Charlie Vickers) was careful about keeping his true identity secret all throughout the first season of Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. But the dark lord’s powers are on full display in the series’ new season two teaser, and it seems like he’ll be laying waste to Middle-earth when we see him next. Show’s back on August 29th.
People sure seem to like Amazon’s adaptation of The Boys, and Amazon likes it when folks are watching its shows, which makes the news that the gritty superhero show has been renewed for a fifth season anything but a surprise.
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It’s no secret that the PS5 has entered the “latter stage of its life cycle” with Sony resetting sales expectations in February. Today’s earnings report shows it just missing that revised 21M target by selling 20.8 million consoles for the fiscal year.
We’ll see if the rumored PS5 Pro helps change the trajectory before the year is done.
The iconic Lofi Girl is now in Fortnite — or, at least, her room is. A new Fortnite map lets you run around the bedroom as if you were in Honey I Shrunk the Kids, collecting music notes and sneaking a look at what’s under the bed. It’s unsurprisingly pretty chill, except for some of the platforming sequences.
Ubisoft has announced that the project formerly titled Assassin’s Creed Red now has an official name: Assassin’s Creed Shadows. But wait, there’s more. In addition to announcing the name change, Ubisoft has also announced that it’ll be sharing the game’s first official reveal trailer this week, Wednesday May 15th at 12 PM ET.
A Peridot, that is. Pokémon Go maker Niantic is attempting to expand its virtual pet game with a new mixed reality spinoff for the Meta Quest 3. If you own the headset you can check it out right now.
After last week’s stealth drop of Hades II in early access, the developers at Evil Empire prudently decided to push back the release of their own game The Rogue Prince of Persia. Instead of launching in early access this week, the Prince of Persia-themed roguelike will now launch in early access on Steam May 27th.
If you combined Squid Game with Survivor and set it in a South Korean high school, you’d get something that looks a lot like Pyramid Game. The series follows a group of students contending with “a ranking system that chooses class outcasts via secret vote.” As if being a teenager wasn’t bad enough. It starts streaming on Paramount Plus on May 30th.
YouTuber pannenkoek2012 explains, in great detail, why a door in the “Cool, Cool Mountain” can’t be opened (there’s an invisible wall) and how someone figured out how to open it anyway.
Corman died at his home on May 9th, reports Variety. From the 1950s on, he produced (and sometimes directed) a long string of influential indie movies like Little Shop of Horrors (1960), Death Race 2000 (1975), and Piranha (1978).
He’s also been credited for launching or revitalizing several Holywood careers, including those of directors Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorcese, and actors Dennis Hopper, Vincent Price, and Sandra Bullock.
Plus, in this week’s Installer: an unusual new game you have to try, a smart home hub, a streaming box, and a new Twitter doc.
Get a load of the transparent shells on the upcoming RG35XXSP! It’s still not listed for sale on Anbernic’s site, sadly, but that could change pretty soon.
Remember when Sony walked back its retroactive requirement link a PSN account to Helldivers 2 PC? That same day, Ghost of Tsushima dev Sucker Punch assured fans its upcoming PC port wouldn’t require PSN for singleplayer.
But now, Ghost has been abruptly delisted from non-PSN countries on Steam. We’ve emailed Sony and Valve... what gives?
Polygon reports that Small Radios Big Televisions and others will get their indie games transferred back to them too — though other devs are still waiting to hear back, and WBD has yet to comment.