More and more Middle Eastern women thrive as comedians. Could their success on stage, in the film industry, at comedy festivals and on social media foster empowerment for the next generation of girls?...
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Last year, I had the great pleasure of attending the Games Industry Conference (GIC) in Poznań, Wielkopolska, where I sat in on a number of talks about game development and craft. In one of those talk...
One of the lingering questions Stranger Things fans having coming out of the Season 5 finale relates to the series’ famous monsters, the demogorgons. Or, perhaps put more accurately, the lack of them....
If you think it's okay to share spoilers of a 26-year-old game, you may want to think again after Square Enix made it clear that anyone willfully spoiling Dragon Quest VII Reimagined may be "temporari...
Wrestling superstar CM Punk has compared the online anger at the ending of Stranger Things to the backlash to John Cena's final WWE match, saying both fandoms sometimes display “a slight mental illnes...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Alicia Silverstone plays Kate, an environmentalist promoting composting, secondhand shopping, and recycled ornaments. ✓ K...
AI isn't new to Hollywood - but this was the year when it really made its presence felt. For years now, the entertainment industry has used different kinds of generative AI products for a variety of p...
2025 was bursting with really cool new game releases : Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Hollow Knight: Silksong, Death Stranding 2, Ghost of Yōtei, Blue Prince, Donkey Kong Bananza, I could go on. And yet...
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"People We Meet on Vacation" is becoming a Netflix film. Netflix The film adaptation of "People We Meet on Vacation" by Emily Henry hits Netflix on January 9. Henry's novels are romant...
Netshort's micro dramas revolve around soapy themes. NetShort TikTok is jumping into buzzy micro dramas and has introduced a section featuring them in its app. Short-drama apps typically use a freemiu...
Wonder Studios' London team. Wonder Studios AI had a turning point in Hollywood in 2025 with Disney striking an OpenAI deal. Elsewhere, startups are raising money to tackle every stage in the producti...
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...
Critical Role's chief creative officer, Matthew Mercer. Valerie Terranova/Getty Images for Prime Video Matt Mercer gave up the seat of game master for Critical Role's Campaign Four this year. That cam...
In this new era of console… inclusivity ? driven by Sony and mostly Microsoft bringing their exclusives to other platforms, it's getting harder to highlight games that make a singular console shine. I...
Celebrities over 50 share some common habits that help keep them healthy. Monty Brinton/CBS via Getty Images; Taylor Hill/FilmMagic; Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images Celebrities over 50 are often aske...
Shadowheart contemplates a powerful artifact in Baldur’s Gate 3 Following some controversy, the developers at Baldur's Gate 3 creator Larian Studios have further clarified their use of generative AI. ...
This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers , a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Every year, TV makers flock to CES...