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Livestream all of Boston's PAX East 2025 free with Popverse
Watch the big panels from Magic: The Gathering, Larian Studios, and more with Popverse's PAX East 2025 livestream.
Chris Arrant
Halloween villain Michael Myers was the key to licensing Dead by Daylight's many killers, says the game's director
Dead by Daylight offers legions upon legions of franchise DLCs. But according to game director Mathieu Côté, that might not've been possible without the OG slasher from John Carpenter's 1978 horror classic
Grant DeArmitt
The MVP of PAX East 2025's Elden Ring Nightreign demo was a random fan pulled from the crowd
At PAX East, a fan named Sophie stepped up to the plate at the Elden Ring Nightreign demo and crushed it
Jules Chin Greene
Baldur's Gate 3 stars Jennifer English and Aliona Baranova go full-on squirrel with Popverse
In all seriousness... let's play the Squirrel Trivia game with part-time squirrel Aliona Baranova and Shadowheart's Jennifer English from Baldur's Gate 3.
Ashley V. Robinson
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For Your Consideration: Columbo, Quincy ME, and The Rockford Files walked so Rian Johnson's Poker Face could run
Natasha Lyonne's cult detective show is back on Peacock, and we're celebrating by revisiting some of the 1970s shows that inspired it: Quincy ME, The Rockford Files, and (of course) Columbo
Graeme McMillan
Lore Corner: The Last of Us season 2 has an A-ha moment: What 'Take On Me' means to the franchise
As we should expect by now, The Last of Us, season 2, episode 4 proved that it knows exactly which emotional moments to bring over directly from the games
Ashley V. Robinson
Latest
Dead by Daylight x Five Nights at Freddy's will be the first time fans can become Springtrap
A full decade after Springtrap debuted, Five Nights at Freddy's fans will at last be able to enter the suit. Or rather, as we learned at the Dead by Daylight panel at PAX East... suits
Gremlins star Zach Galligan reveals the intense studio demands that drove the Mogwai puppeteers insane
How studio interference and unreasonable demands drove the Gremlins puppeteers to nervous breakdowns
Peacemaker season 2's teaser offers up an unexpected DCU reveal (and a 1980s DC Comics flashback)
Expect some surprise Superman guest stars in the second season of Max's Peacemaker
Godzilla x Kong's new movie announcement is wondering why you haven't called lately, and wants to help you fix that
Have YOU seen a kaiju lately? Monarch operators are standing by, in a new promo for the next Godzilla x Kong movie
PAX East 2025’s Pokémon booth has made me realize how old I actually am
“PAX East 2025 reminded me that Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire came out in 2003!” “Alright, grandpa, pack it in.”
Death 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)
The release date for Death Stranding 2 has been locked in for a long time and is mostly due to other games Sony is releasing this year.
Five Nights at Freddy's Springtrap is Dead by Daylight's next franchise DLC killer, voiced by Matthew Lillard
Springtrap, AKA William Afton, AKA Matthew Lillard, AKA the big bad of Blumhouse's film sequel, will be playable on an all new Five Nights at Freddy's map
Dead by Daylight is adding Dragula hosts the Boulet Brothers as DLCs
The Boulet Brothers will be represented as wearable outfits for pre-existing Dead by Daylight killers The Huntress and The Artist
Dead by Daylight x The Witcher sees Doug Cockle return to the role of Geralt of Rivia
Behaviour Interactive has announced The Witcher Collection for Dead by Daylight, featuring outfits for franchise favorites such as Yennifer, Ciri, and of course, the White Wolf
Popverse Jump: Spy x Family is going to end with Loid realizing he loves being a dad or I'm going to riot
Twilight's journey in Spy x Family is inevitably heading toward him realizing that being a dad is important to him and I can't wait to see it happen.
The man who wrote Wesley Snipes' Blade trilogy wants to write the Mahershala Ali reboot for Marvel: "Give me a call."
The MCU's version of Blade has been in development so long that even the original trilogy's writer is wondering what is going on.
How to be a D&D Dungeon Master, according to Wizards of the Coast's game director James Wyatt and principal game designer James Wyatt
At MCM x EGX 2024, Wizards of the Coast held a TED Talk-level explanation of how to be a D&D DM - and we have it for you.
Dead by Daylight/Witcher collaboration screenshots leak online hours before 9th Anniversary PAX East 2025 panel
Is Dead by Daylight about to bring in Geralt of The Witcher? An early leak of promotional images seems to suggest so
Elden Ring Nightreign might finally be the game that turns me into a loot goblin
While watching a demo of Elden Ring Nightreign at PAX East 2025, I realized that in order to properly play the game, I’ll need to adapt my play style
Donny Cates revealed as the original writer of Ultimate Spider-Man (and the entire Ultimate Marvel reboot), before Jonathan Hickman or Chip Zdarsky
Call him the Maker - Venom's Donny Cates was in line to write Ultimate Spider-Man before Jonathan Hickman or Chip Zdarsky.
There are TWO Teen Titans movies in development at DC Studios under James Gunn & Peter Safran
James Gunn and Peter Safran are producing a live-action Teen Titans movie and an animated Teen Titans Go! film
Marvel Studios might have found its director for X-Men (and it's someone who's already done an acclaimed Marvel movie very, very recently)
According to a report, Thunderbolts* director Jake Schreier is in talks to direct Marvel's first X-Men movie
Mafia: The Old Country confirms FOUR returning characters will appear in new prequel (but they're not saying who)
Speaking at PAX East 2025, lead Mafia creatives Nick Baynes, Alex Cox, and Tomáš Hřebíček were forthcoming about who we'll see in the next installment - up to a very, very specific point
Even as Hollywood's book-to-screen pipeline intensifies, novelists feel like "the Amish" in Los Angeles, says Danzy Senna
At the LA Times's Festival of Books, Danzy Senna shared some amusing insights about working within Hollywood as both a screenwriter and a novelist
The Lord of the Rings, the Evil Dead, and spooky romance - it's not cinema's finest crossover, but the 2026-2027 Warner Bros movie slate
Three new movies have been added to Warner Bros calendar for the next two years
The Last of Us star Bella Ramsey sees Ellie as who they are in their own head, despite Ellie's very different ability to express anger
Ellie's anger is always bubbling up to the surface, especially in season two of The Last of Us, something that is a big contrast to Bella Ramsey.
Deltarune Chapters 3 and 4 release date: When the next part of Toby Fox's Undertale story will land on Switch 2, PS4, PS5, and PC
It's been nearly 4 years since Deltarune Chapter 2 was released, so fans are getting understandably anxious for the next part of the story.
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Popverse Jump: Spy x Family is going to end with Loid realizing he loves being a dad or I'm going to riot
Twilight's journey in Spy x Family is inevitably heading toward him realizing that being a dad is important to him and I can't wait to see it happen.
Trent Cannon
How to be a D&D Dungeon Master, according to Wizards of the Coast's game director James Wyatt and principal game designer James Wyatt
At MCM x EGX 2024, Wizards of the Coast held a TED Talk-level explanation of how to be a D&D DM - and we have it for you.
Chris Arrant
Watch the official Dragon Age panel talking Veilguard and more with BioWare lead producer Scylla Costa from London's MCM x EGX 2024
Return to Thedas with BioWare lead producer Scylla Costa as we share the Dragon Age panel filmed recently at London's MCM x EGX
Chris Arrant
PAX East 2025
Dead by Daylight x Five Nights at Freddy's will be the first time fans can become Springtrap
A full decade after Springtrap debuted, Five Nights at Freddy's fans will at last be able to enter the suit. Or rather, as we learned at the Dead by Daylight panel at PAX East... suits
Grant DeArmitt
PAX East 2025’s Pokémon booth has made me realize how old I actually am
“PAX East 2025 reminded me that Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire came out in 2003!” “Alright, grandpa, pack it in.”
Jules Chin Greene
Five Nights at Freddy's Springtrap is Dead by Daylight's next franchise DLC killer, voiced by Matthew Lillard
Springtrap, AKA William Afton, AKA Matthew Lillard, AKA the big bad of Blumhouse's film sequel, will be playable on an all new Five Nights at Freddy's map
Grant DeArmitt
Dead by Daylight is adding Dragula hosts the Boulet Brothers as DLCs
The Boulet Brothers will be represented as wearable outfits for pre-existing Dead by Daylight killers The Huntress and The Artist
Grant DeArmitt
The Sentry
What the asterisk in Thunderbolts* means, and where the name comes from (No, it's not the Red Hulk, or any other Marvel Studios connection)
Look, we love Harrison Ford just as much as everybody else, but it turns out that the Thunderbolts' name comes from a very different place (Sorry, Captain America: Brave New World)
Grant DeArmitt
Yes, Marvel spoiled a major Thunderbolts* moment in the Avengers: Doomsday cast announcement, but hoped no-one would notice
A widely-spread MCU fan-theory regarding who was (and wasn't) in the cast list of Avengers: Doomsday turned out to be 100% on the money
Grant DeArmitt
Thunderbolts* resurrects a longstanding Marvel Studios tradition (with a Sentry-inspired twist)
An MCU staple that was missing from Captain America: Brave New World returned for Thunderbolts*, but then it got weird... and dark
Grant DeArmitt
Marvel Studios' Thunderbolts* creator credits include special attention to two of the Sentry creators
Paul Jenkins and Jae Lee don't get 'thanked' in Marvel Studios' Thunderbolts* movie credits - they get top treatment, and Jenkins got a job out of it.
Chris Arrant
Magic: The Gathering
Magic: The Gathering looks set to escape a tariff price hike, says Wizards of the Coast parent company Hasbro
Compared to its competitors, Hasbro doesn't believe it will be impacted as much by the astronomical tariffs
Jules Chin Greene
Random House tried to buy Magic: The Gathering publisher Wizards of the Coast from Hasbro more than twenty years ago
Random House's Del Rey imprint considered making Magic: The Gathering books in the 1990s
Jules Chin Greene
The company behind Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons is dropping a major distributor after 25 years; here's what that means for you
Wizards of the Coast is separating from Alliance Game Distributors as of May 1, but thankfully there are plenty of other options for game stores to choose from
Graeme McMillan
A multi-million dollar fraud involving Magic: The Gathering & D&D just blew up the bankruptcy sale of former comics and gaming distribution giant Diamond, according to a new lawsuit
Alliance Entertainment, which almost made a winning bid for Diamond at a bankruptcy auction, claims the company misled it by hiding the fact that it was about to lose 25% of its business.
Graeme McMillan
Ben Affleck
Ben Affleck's biggest regret about his Batman was that what he and Zack Snyder planned was so dark even his son tuned out
The tone of Ben Affleck's appearances in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Justice League, and The Flash alienated a core part of superhero audiences, he feels
Jules Chin Greene
Zack Snyder's DC movies "skewed too old" to be successful, says Snyder's own Batman, Ben Affleck
"Even my own son at the time was too scared to watch the movie," Ben Affleck says of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. "When I saw that, I was like... 'we have a problem'."
Graeme McMillan
Batman: Watch every animated movie starring DC's greatest detective in release and chronological order
Batman has a storied history in animation, so let's dive on in with our watch order
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
Marvel's Daredevil actors, ranked from Charlie Cox to Ben Affleck and even Rex Smith!
From the most recent Daredevil Charlie Cox, to the most name-recognized Daredevil Ben Affleck, and the most forgettable Daredevil in Rex Smith, we are ranking Marvel's best live-action actors without fear
Chris Arrant
Marvel Cinematic Universe
Marvel Matters: What Thunderbolts* says about the MCU
How Marvel Studios' Beef-ed up the MCU Phase 5 with Thunderbolts* and what it means for the new Avengers movies to come.
Chris Arrant
Marvel Studios' Thunderbolts* movie puts the final nail in the coffin for the Joss Whedon-era superhero film
Thunderbolts* has freed the MCU from the prison of Joss Whedon-esque dialogue dating back to 2012's The Avengers
Jules Chin Greene
Marvel Matters: After Marvel Studios' Thunderbolts*, I see Robert Downey Jr.'s Doctor Doom assembling his own team with the Cabal
MCU fans have spent all this time speculating on the next Avengers, but we need to think about the villains creating their own Avengers.
Chris Arrant
Marvel Matters: The cursed chalice of Marvel Studios' success, and the broken cinematic universe dreams it gave Hollywood
The Icarus effect of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and how cost Warner Bros., Sony, Universal Pictures and more billions of dollars.
Chris Arrant