This week, a giant screen in the lobby of Sony’s headquarters glowed with the image of J-pop rock icon LiSA to celebrate her first-ever tour stop in New York City. The mega-star beamed even brighter when we met in person days after the show. Over the past decade, LiSA has carved out a powerful legacy in Japan with her high-energy performances and unmistakable vocals. Internationally, she shot to fame producing...
Publisher Dark Horse is giving the deluxe treatment to Lone Wolf & Cub, the landmark manga series from writer Kazuo Koike and artist Goseki Kojima, with a series of re-releases slated to launch starting this year. The new oversized hardcover editions will feature the manga’s epic story in its original right-to-left reading format, with Japanese-language sound effects. Lone Wolf & Cub Deluxe Edition vol. 1 arrives in December 2025, and...
Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy is swinging back into theaters starting Sept. 26. Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man journey is hitting the big screen again as part of Fathom Entertainment’s Fathom Fan Favorites special event in collaboration with Sony Pictures. Spider-Man (2002) will hit theaters first, not only on Sept. 26, but also on Oct. 3. Spider-Man 2.1 extended cut will make its theatrical debut on Sept. 27 and Oct. 4, with the...
Nintendo has patched Mario Kart World with an apparently small change to the way courses are selected in online lobbies. But the change has infuriated players who were already frustrated with the style of racing in the first open-world Mario Kart game. In short: By changing the way the “random” option works when voting on the next course to play, Nintendo has made it impossible to guarantee that the next...
Greetings, scientists! July 22 fast approaches, a date which was forecast by our analysts and tested again and again deep in the labs of our facility! That’s right, we’ve been working on Abiotic Factor, a one-of-a kind co-op adventure. Go it alone or with up to 5 friends as enthusiastic eggheads trapped in a secret underground research and containment facility following an invasion by militant crusaders bent on bringing their...
Whenever I disappear back into the wood from whence I came, I'm always greeted by the glower of a Ring doorbell on the porch of my childhood home. Sure, it's pretty neat the app notifies us with snapshots of curious deer on the family's doorstep, but I can't quite banish the question of how easy these devices are to hack and who else might be watching. Anyway, now Amazon wants...
Strategy fans, fantasy fans, and frankly, art fans: I've got a game you should keep an eye on. Erulean Angel: Fantasy Commander is an upcoming grand strategy autobattler, and as you can get a glimpse of in the announcement trailer above, it's packed with turn-based combat, overflowing with handmade illustrations, and inspired by classics of the strategy genre."Explore the land of Erulea as you command multiple armies to face off...
The SteamOS version of the Lenovo Legion Go S with an AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme processor is, I'm happy to say, exactly what I've been waiting for from a handheld gaming PC. Well, almost exactly. It's about as ideal as I could hope for at this point in time without succumbing to wishful and perfectionist thinking.Lenovo gave me a teaser a couple of months ago with the Windows version of...
We're just a couple of weeks away from Marvel Rivals' Season 3, with new characters like Blade or Phoenix potentially set to join the roster. But before a new season begins there's the regularly scheduled patch notes which tee up everything for the next couple of months.Most Marvel Rivals patches are small, purpose-built updates deployed when and where they are needed. This patch is much of the same, but it...
Capturing gaming content has never been easier or more affordable than it is today. You can walk into an electronics store, pick up basically any capture card off the shelf, and walk away with a functioning solution. Better yet, do some research and get a great solution for an affordable price. AverMedia is one of the bigger players in the capture card space who are always angling towards more bang...