Microsoft's annual Xbox Developer Direct event is taking place on January 22nd this year. The fourth Developer Direct will provide a closer look at two of Microsoft's biggest Xbox games this year, For...
CES serves a few different purposes - to give us the sense of what's to come during the year, to introduce strange devices , and for companies to show off the newest technology. While there wasn't as ...
Since almost day one, Spotify has offered the ability to creep on your friends' listening habits - but you could mostly only uncover those guilty pleasures on the desktop app. The company experimented...
Valve has announced the winners of the 2025 Steam Awards and, unsurprisingly, Hollow Knight: Silksong , took home the Game of the Year honors. It was also given the "Best Game You Suck At" award, whic...
The parking lot was packed. That's the first Strange Thing. A little background. Just about every mall is struggling now, but the Neshaminy Mall in Bensalem, Pennsylvania is more or less comatose. As ...
LG is adding a karaoke-focused party speaker to its lineup of Xboom devices, which is built in collaboration with Will.i.am. Announced this week, LG says the Stage 501 speaker comes with an "AI Karaok...
The Google Photos Memories feature will be exclusive to Samsung for six months. Google Photos will finally be available on TVs next year, starting with an upcoming integration for Samsung TVs. Samsung...
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...
Dragon Quest VII Reimagined is set to release February 3, 2026 if you buy the more expensive editions, or February 5 for the standard edition. It’s coming to PS5, Switch, Switch 2, Xbox Series X|S, an...
In recent years, Square Enix has made quite an effort to remaster or remake some of its most beloved games and bring them to modern platforms. We've seen the incredible Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remak...
Buddyo is a smart base designed to add AI to figurines like Funko Pops using NFC tags. AI toys, companions, and robots have been everywhere at CES this year , but among the horde of waddling plushies ...
Project Ava was software last year, and now it’s hardware this CES. Razer's Project Ava AI game coach from last year's CES is taking a new form for 2026: a tiny holographic anime girl in a capsule you...
Star Wars superfans are still trying to convince Disney to make canceled movie The Hunt For Ben Solo a reality — and they’re putting their money where their mouths are. Last year, a ‘Ben Solo Missing’...
In the early 1980s, filmmaking legends George Lucas and Steven Speilberg created Hollywood’s seminal action-adventure franchise starring Harrison Ford as a thrill-seeking archeologist and college prof...
The most expensive Pokémon card in the world has been put up for sale by Logan Paul, the wrestler and influencer who previously paid $5.3 million for it. Paul's mint condition, PSA 10-rated Pikachu Ar...
2025 has been one of the strongest years for anime in ages, building on what is clearly a new Golden Age in the Japanese animation industry. With widening viewership, more access to anime on streaming...
Season four of "Bridgerton" premieres in January. Liam Daniel/Netflix The first trailer for season four of "Bridgerton" dropped on Christmas. The next season will focus on Benedict Bri...
These next few months of winter are a great time to settle in with big games until spring arrives. Recently, Amazon's been offering some great discounts on a variety of options to help you stock up yo...
Primate arrives in theaters on Friday, January 9. Primate is an inarguably silly movie and yet it leans into that silliness in just the right way. Though it never actually turns into meta commentary o...
The Pokémon franchise has begun its 30th anniversary celebrations with the reveal of a special new logo, an animation featuring Fat Pikachu, and the promise of more to share in less than two months' t...