Koury Angelo/Bravo; Roy Rochlin/Getty Images; Swig Drinks; Alyssa Powell/BI In 2025, Mormonism was at the center of mainstream popular culture. Reality shows, along with brands like Swig and Crumbl, h...
📋 Key Facts ✓ The post is titled More Games Like This, Please ✓ It highlights Mafia: The Old Country as not being an open-world AAA RPG...
Timothée Chalamet in "Marty Supreme." A24 Timothée Chalamet encounters many familiar faces in "Marty Supreme." Along with Kevin O'Leary and Gwyneth Paltrow, internet celebrities and NB...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Christmas music is utterly inescapable during the holiday season. ✓ Popular songs from Mariah Carey and Wham! can become ...
2025 was a big year for gaming, and that includes gaming hardware. Nintendo launched its Switch 2 console in June, and since then, numerous Switch 2 titles and noteworthy updates for original Switch g...
Hi, I'm the author of The Program audio series, a fairly successful fiction podcast that launched on HackerNews in 2018. Seven years later, this little sci-fi anthology is still ongoing, having releas...
Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed franchise has covered a lot of ground in its 18 years. The Assassin-Templar conflict has taken players across five continents, from Ancient Greece to Victorian London, spann...
Kristin Patrick. Marc Jacobs This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Kristin Patrick, the CMO at Marc Jacobs, about her daily routine in New York City. It's been edited for length and cl...
Video game console sales cap out each generation at around 250 million, so how will the console manufacturers break through that barrier? By learning a crucial lesson from the videotape format war, on...
📋 Key Facts ✓ James Ransone died by hanging on Friday at age 46. ✓ He played Chester 'Ziggy' Sobotka in 12 episodes of 'The...
Unlike the day after Thanksgiving, when people are rushing online and to the stores to look for deals, the day after Christmas is usually a time to recover from the festivities and check your budget t...
It's no secret that Dragon Quest is one of the most important RPG series of all time. Inspired by Wizardry, the Enix-published Famicom game has inspired thousands of famous RPGs. The genre simply woul...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Lewis Horwitz died on December 19 at age 90. ✓ He began his career as a bank teller in Los Angeles in the 1960s. ...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Vince Zampella died at age 55 in a single-car crash on Angeles Crest Highway in Altadena. ✓ The crash occurred around 12:...
Gen Zers started going to the movies more this year. koldo studio/Getty Images Gen Z movie theater attendance jumped 25% in 2025; I was one of those Gen Zers at the movies. AMC A-List and similar prog...
A screening for leading short-drama app ReelShort's 'Wings of Fire.' Tiffany Rose/Getty Images for ReelShort Soapy micro dramas gained popularity in the US but face a reckoning in 2026. Big questions ...
The Xenomorph from the Alien film franchise is one of the coolest, most nefarious movie monsters ever hatched, with its acid blood, mouths-within-mouths, and diabolical claws. It pretty much single-ha...
Netflix has had an interesting year. Its ad tier, introduced last year, has grown significantly, and its live TV initiative has expanded to include not only weird one-offs like hot-dog-eating grudge m...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Donkey Kong 64 marks 26 years, considered the top banana of Rare 3D platforming ✓ Hades on Switch discounted 70% to A$11....
📋 Key Facts ✓ Only 13 albums have spent 10 or more weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 since 2000. ✓ Taylor Swift has four such albums,...