ArchiveMay 14, 2025The latest Superman trailer has me hoping James Gunn and Nicolas Hoult are finally ushering in Lex Luthor's mad scientist eraDC Studios' new Superman trailer confirms that Rick Flag Snr. might be the most important man in the new DCUNYCC 2025 Tickets onsale dates are here - as well as an exclusive pre-sale to get all the best badges!Lois Lane gets to the heart of Superman in the new trailer for James Gunn's DC reboot - but don't worry: there's Krypto, tooAndor showrunner never planned on answering one of the Star Wars series' first questions, he reveals: "I didn’t really didn’t want to fill that in"For Your Consideration: Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Halloween and Scream perfected the horror sequel years before Final Destination: BloodlinesDoes Krysten Ritter's Daredevil: Born Again return herald a new Jessica Jones show?The Grand Theft Auto 6 release date has the entire gaming industry scrambling to react, with some weighing up delays of their ownHow Dead by Daylights can create their own version of the game with Choose Your Own ChapterWhat makes Mafia: The Old Country the "best looking Mafia" game yet? The seamless transitions between cutscene and gameplay, say the devsOne of my favorite bits of Final Fantasy is the tiered magic system - and Wizards of the Coast figured out a novel way to do it in Magic: The GatheringKrysten Ritter re-signs with Marvel Studios for more beginning with Daredevil: Born Again season 2 with "much more in store for Jessica Jones"May 13, 2025Playing Star Wars' Anakin Skywalker was a dream gig for Ryan Phillippe - but he told he was too old, especially for Natalie PortmanThe Final Fantasy 10 laughing scene meme has turned into a cardboard classic with Magic: The Gathering crossoverA romantasy book con descended into Fyre Festival-like chaos so bad the organizer says it's refunding "every attendee, author, and vendor"How Andor introduced a new kind of Star Wars heroAnd Just Like That... season 3 release date: The latest Sex and the City revival series returns to HBOThe Chi season 7 release date: Showtime brings us back to the South Side of Chicago again in May 2025, with a potential season 8 on the wayLove, Death + Robots season 4 release date: Volume 4 of the sci fi anthology series comes to Netflix this MayEx-Daredevil showrunner partners with Michael B. Jordan for even more boxing than his Marvel Studios show in first Creed spinoffSpider-Noir first look serves up Sin City vibes that the Nicolas Cage show has always deservedAnother One Piece actor - this time Joe Manganiello - has confirmed that season 3 is happening before Netflix has mentioned itEC Comics returns to cosmic horror with anthology series Cruel Universe 2, launching this summer from Oni PressEvery new Marvel Snap card and location being added during the May 2025 X-Men seasonMay 12, 2025The first Stranger Things game has been stripped from Steam, and now users are saying its basically unplayableThe Magic: The Gathering - Final Fantasy set has been in development for 4 years - and MTG's creators enjoyed FF XVI like fans to get a genuine feel for itExperience Critical Role's Age of Umbra actual play earlier than expected with special Session Zero coming May 22The Alexandria RPG Library at PAX East connected me to the tabletop games of yoreWhy HBO series The Last of Us season 2 expands on Dina's game backstory, according to Dina herself, Isabela MercedDead by Daylight's Five Nights at Freddy's map changes the killer queue foreverWednesday season 2 might not have been the reason Jenna Ortega didn't do Scream VII, but it was the reason she didn't do You season 5Driving century-old cars, talking to local historians, learning Sicilian swears - How Mafia: The Old Country's devs brought the game back in timeHANK: Drowning on Dry Land is Batman: The Animated Series, if Batman could manipulate time and was always drunkLegendary filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola's massive flop Megalopolis is the new Apocalypse Now... says Francis Ford Coppola himselfShadow Labyrinth star Swordsman No. 8 almost had a Pac-Man head, reveals Bandai Namco producer28 Years Later: That eerie poem from the trailer was used simulate stress in military trainingWicked comes to NBC with a live musical spectacular starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande ahead of Wicked: For Good flying into theatersClassic Civil War novel The Red Badge of Courage is coming to comics, and Popverse has an exclusive previewSteven Spielberg was an arcade game shark in the '80s, as Gremlins star Zach Galligan will attest after a brutal game of Pole PositionCatch up on all of Popverse's PAX East 2025 coverage!Carnies on Consoles: A shocking personal realization from PAX East 2025 concerning the connection between spectacles from ye olden days and nowDC Studios head James Gunn is "pre-writing" his next movie now that Superman is almost finished (and almost in theaters)Fresh from The Last of Us and Star Wars, Pedro Pascal publishes poetry ahead of stepping into the MCUPopverse Picks: The best Stephen King movie & TV (and more) adaptations, from one King fan to anotherTom Cruise's Final Reckoning - How the Mission: Impossible movies embrace time but reject agingMay 11, 2025Get ready, player one: PAX East 2026 dates are hereUpend your ideas of what a "cozy game" is with this political indie game about post-colonial Southeast AsiaPrepare for a new kind of Chocobo Racing that even Post Malone might play, as the Golden Chocobo will be the ultra-rare card in the upcoming Magic: The Gathering - Final Fantasy setHere's what you need to know about Mafia: The Old Country's new feature: Knife combatThere are still two iconic movie killers the Dead by Daylight director still wants to see in the game - here's who they areAffinity for complexity: A Wizards of the Coast executive revealed how they gauge how complex (or how simple) to make a Magic: The Gathering set like Final FantasyPac-Man being rebooted into 'Dark Pac-Man' for Shadow Labyrinth was almost too dark for Bandai Namco, reveals producerThe Magic: The Gathering x Final Fantasy crossover set deserves Final Fantasy XVI’s creepy villain, Ultima, immortalized in card formThe future of World of Warcraft is in housing, as the game invites players to own "a little slice of Azeroth" May 10, 2025Magic: The Gathering's Final Fantasy set is more complex because Final Fantasy fans are already gamers, but is that what Final Fantasy fans want?Imagine a 200-hour crash course on Final Fantasy XIV in just one month - this Magic: The Gathering designer just did it for all right reasonsI don’t even play Magic: The Gathering, but I need all of the Sephiroth stuff from the Final Fantasy crossoverWorld of Warcraft's developers reveal the one secret that almost evaded gamers in the game's historyYoshitaka Amano returns to the Final Fantasy series to paint his favorite video game creation of all time for the upcoming Magic: The Gathering crossoverThe first Natural Six US live show at PAX East was like watching The Beatles debut on Ed Sullivan Fox goes all-in on animated comedies, renewing Krapopolis, Grimsburg, and Universal Basic Guys after giving four-year deals to The Simpsons, Bob's Burgers, Family Guy, and American DadHey, Lord of the Rings gamers - Tales of the Shire allows you to customize your own Hobbit feetDog Man heads up Children's Book Week 2025: "Reading is the greatest superpower of all"Nicolas Cage's Dead by Daylight character is the real thing, because "there's never been a Nicolas Cage soundalike," according to the Con Air, National Treasure and Face/Off starX-Men was "the most disappointing creative experience" Jonathan Hickman has ever had, the Marvel writer revealsI have finally met the PAX Pin Man here at PAX East (and his iconic 40 pound trenchcoat full of over 1000 pins)The hottest club at PAX East 2025 is practically silent (and that's a good thing)May 09, 2025No, Dead by Daylight's Witcher outfits won't let you access Geralt's mutant abilities... but there's a lore reason why (maybe)Suits LA, Night Court, and more cancelled as NBC clears its schedule ahead of announcing fall 2025 plansWorld of Warcraft's next remix will introduce a 'shattered timeline' where "everything went worse," tease developersTo go on ABC dating show The Bachelor, you have to pass an all-day psychological evaluation from a studio-appointed psychologist4,000 cans of Red Bull, live art & more: Inside the novel PAX East creator lounge for artists, streamers, and creatorsDead by Daylight game director praises Blumhouse's upcoming movie: "They absolutely get what we're trying to accomplish"Final Fantasy sets for Magic: The Gathering aren't out yet, but I already nabbed official MTG x FF items for Arena at PAX EastHow Donald Trump’s 2016 election victory changed the way Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale was created, according to Margaret AtwoodDead by Daylight x Five Nights at Freddy's will be the first time fans can become SpringtrapGremlins star Zach Galligan reveals the intense studio demands that drove the Mogwai puppeteers insane Peacemaker season 2's teaser offers up an unexpected DCU reveal (and a 1980s DC Comics flashback)Godzilla x Kong's new movie announcement is wondering why you haven't called lately, and wants to help you fix thatPAX East 2025’s Pokémon booth has made me realize how old I actually amDeath Stranding 2 director Hideo Kojima gives an update on the game's progress and reveals why it is coming out in June (it isn't because of GTA VI)Matthew Lillard returns to Five Nights at Freddy's Springtrap before FNAF 2 as a playable character in Dead by DaylightDead by Daylight is adding Dragula hosts the Boulet Brothers as DLCsDead by Daylight x The Witcher sees Doug Cockle return to the role of Geralt of RiviaThe Spy x Family ending is going to be Loid realizing he loves being a dad or I'm going to riot [Popverse Jump]The man who wrote Wesley Snipes' Blade trilogy wants to write the Mahershala Ali reboot for Marvel: "Give me a call."How to be a D&D Dungeon Master, according to Wizards of the Coast's game director James Wyatt and principal game designer James WyattDead by Daylight/Witcher collaboration screenshots leak online hours before 9th Anniversary PAX East 2025 panelElden Ring Nightreign might finally be the game that turns me into a loot goblinDonny Cates revealed as the original writer of Ultimate Spider-Man (and the entire Ultimate Marvel reboot), before Jonathan Hickman or Chip ZdarskyThere are TWO Teen Titans movies in development at DC Studios under James Gunn & Peter SafranMay 08, 2025Marvel Studios might have found its director for X-Men (and it's someone who's already done an acclaimed Marvel movie very, very recently)Mafia: The Old Country confirms FOUR returning characters will appear in new prequel (but they're not saying who)Even as Hollywood's book-to-screen pipeline intensifies, novelists feel like "the Amish" in Los Angeles, says Danzy SennaThe Lord of the Rings, the Evil Dead, and spooky romance - it's not cinema's finest crossover, but the 2026-2027 Warner Bros movie slateThe Last of Us star Bella Ramsey sees Ellie as who they are in their own head, despite Ellie's very different ability to express angerDeltarune Chapters 3 and 4 release date: When the next part of Toby Fox's Undertale story will land on Switch 2, PS4, PS5, and PCDonkey Kong Bananza release date: When the big ape smashes his way onto the Nintendo Switch 2 consoleMario Kart World release date: Nintendo is changing up the Mario Kart formula for the Switch 2's biggest launch titleNo, you're not imagining things: Gen Z is shaking up how reality shows like The Bachelor function within our world