I tried the famous cake that Tom Cruise sends to his Hollywood friends every Christmas. Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty Images I tried the famous "Tom Cruise Cake," which the actor sends to a...
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...
It's harder than ever for a new video game to crack the top of the most-played list. According to the Circana Player Engagement Tracker and video game market analyst Mat Piscatella, in 2025, the top f...
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...
We finally have a release date for Poppy Playtime: Chapter 5 â February 18, 2026. We've got a subtitle too, making the full, official name of the latest instalment: Poppy Playtime: Chapter 5 â Broken ...
đ Key Facts â No Other Choice releases in theaters on Christmas Day with a wide release in January. â The film stars Lee Byung-hun as M...
đ Key Facts â Directed by Christopher Nolan as an epic biopic â Stars Cillian Murphy in the lead role â Multi a...
Taylor Swift onstage at the Eras Tour. Shirlaine Forrest/TAS24/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management Taylor Swift's single "The Fate of Ophelia" debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The...
There is a mysterious countdown timer on Amazonâs official website for its Fallout TV series that is set to unlock when the Season 2 finale comes out â but fans think it might also signal the shadowdr...
Babylon 5 fans are hoping Netflixâs big-money acquisition of Warner Bros. means the chances of a continuation of the much-loved sci-fi series will improve. But creator J. Michael Straczynski has calme...
đ Key Facts â Paramount amended its WBD bid with a guarantee of Larry Ellison backing. â The bid was not increased on Monday. ...
Reed Duchscher, CEO and founder of Night. JASSIEUO (Jasmine Durhal). Reed Duchscher, MrBeast's former manager, says we won't see another MrBeast-scale creator soon. As social algorithms focus on indiv...
Theyâll launch through Nintendoâs stores in New York and San Francisco. | Image: Nintendo After exclusively launching in Japan last August , Nintendo has announced its My Mario product line will be av...
The Nintendo Power Glove was not good. It's important that you know that. The Power Glove was ambitious, impressive, even important - one of the very first mainstream devices that let you control a ga...
Gaten Matarazzo as Dustin Henderson in "Stranger Things" season five. Courtesy of Netflix The "Stranger Things" series finale premiered on Netflix and in theaters on December 31, 2025....
It's been about 30 years since the Tamagotchi became the must-have toy for children around the globe. Now, 3 decades on, the humble tamagotchi is inspiring a new generation of electronic pets. France ...
Last year, IO Interactive revealed that musician and singer Lenny Kravitz would be making his video game debut in 007: First Light â not as the singer of a film-like Bond Theme, but as an actual chara...
Bruce Springsteen, Beyoncé, and Taylor Swift are all billionaires. Al Pereira/WireImage; Edward Berthelot/Andreas Rentz/Getty Images Beyoncé's net worth has officially reached $1 billion, according to...
Minecraft-style sandbox game Hytale looks set to be a significant hit even at the early access stage. Hot on the heels of predicting over 1 million players for tomorrowâs launch , its developer has sa...
Marvel and DC have a lot riding on 2026. After a year that ranged from decent to disastrous, itâs tough to argue that âfatigueâ isnât a factor, but true believers are holding firm that next year will ...