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All Backrooms Easter Eggs and Web Series References, Explained

The Backrooms movie brings Kane Parsons' creepypasta vision to a wider audience and grew out of a 2022 web series set in the same universe. The film tells an original story but preserves nods to the series as Clark (Chiwetel Ejiofor), Mary (Renate Reinsve), Bobby (Finn Bennett) and Kat

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Tabletop Tavern mixes treants and ghostly cavalry in roguelike RTS demo

Tabletop Tavern is a roguelike real-time strategy with a demo available ahead of its release next week. Rather than defending cities on a world map, you move along a branching path of battles toward a final boss, building an army to take on the act’s concluding fight. The game’

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Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick added as playable wrestler in WWE 2K26

Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick is set for a busy year with the impending launch of GTA 6. He was quietly added to the WWE 2K26 roster in a free update earlier today and appears on the character select screen smiling with a 77 character rating. They licensed My Way – the

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From cooling fans to the best teabags: 12 things you loved in May

Our on-again, off-again relationship with summer finally went official in May, with temperatures soaring across much of the UK. Many of us sweltered in the heat, ordering fans to try to get a good night’s sleep during the unprecedented heatwave, and shade shelters to keep us out of the

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Serial Experiments Lain still feels like falling down an internet rabbit hole

Serial Experiments Lain is a 13-episode psychological anime that folds mystery, horror, and pre-2000s internet culture into a compact, bingeable whole. Its descent into an uncanny digital realm echoes Lewis Carroll’s rabbit hole, but the show’s tone is colder and far less whimsical. The story follows introverted fourteen-year-old

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Marvel's Wolverine will let players turn off blood and gore

Marvel's Wolverine developers say violence is an integral part of the game, except you will be able to turn it off anyway if you fancy. Game director Mike Daly explains: "From the inception of the project, we knew that the number one most important thing was to

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When audience members and fellow musicians step in to save a concert

In Sydney a 21-year-old university student, Sterling Nasa, stepped in when the band’s keyboardist fell ill during a live screening of La La Land with orchestra. Conductor Justin Hurwitz asked the audience if there was “a pianist in the house”; Nasa performed the entire second half, improvised a solo

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18 standout cosplayers at Switzerland’s Fantasy Basel

Cosplay—people dressing as characters from video games and cartoons—was on display at Fantasy Basel, the annual comic con in Switzerland. Photographers Mineralblu captured the looks in a new gallery from the event. The collection mixes familiar faces like Final Fantasy 7’s Cloud and Sephiroth and The Witcher’

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Javier Bardem Responds to 'F1' Sequel Rumors

While promoting his new TV series Cape Fear, Javier Bardem weighed in on speculation about returning for an F1 sequel. He joked, "Oh yeah. And not only that, I'm driving the car. But before that, I have to get my driving license, so it's gonna

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Which Force User Are You? The Force is not a binary

The Force is not a binary. It is a spectrum — from the serene halls of the Jedi Temple to the shadowed corridors of Sith space. Ten questions will reveal where you truly fall. What is the Force to you? When you feel strong emotions — anger, grief, love — what do you

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Keke Palmer Hopes Son Leo Will One Day Host Password

During a January 2025 appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers, Keke Palmer gushed about her 3-year-old son Leo, born in February 2023, saying he’s obsessed with cartoons and “loves to sing.” She even joked that he already has “absolutely perfect pitch.” Looking ahead, Palmer said she would love

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Andy Cohen holds hands with Kevin Sobieski in NYC

Andy Cohen was photographed holding hands with businessman Kevin Sobieski while heading to dinner at Via Carota in New York City during his 58th birthday celebration. Cohen wore a tan suit and a pink T-shirt; Sobieski chose a black suit and a gray button-up. It was unclear whether others joined

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They did motion capture on a cube

Sony revealed God of War: Laufey during last night’s State of Play, sending Faye into a divine afterlife that turns out to be mostly a place where you get punched. The reveal also introduced Phranque, a sentient cube who will accompany Faye on her journey. A Meet the Cast

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Netflix reveals Dealies, an animated workplace comedy from Green Street

Netflix has announced Dealies, a new adult animated workplace comedy from Joe Bennet and Green Street Pictures centered on the staff of a big box superstore. The show’s logline reads: “A savant salesman. A gentle gladiator. A quiet virtuoso. A summoner of the divine. And the poor soul who

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Witch Hat Atelier Tops Crunchyroll with Clever Magic System

Witch Hat Atelier has quickly become the most popular series on streaming, claiming the top spot on Crunchyroll's weekly chart. The fantasy TV landscape had been in a strange rut after a late-2010s surge of high-profile adaptations, and the show’s arrival as part of Crunchyroll’s Spring

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Which Sci‑Fi World Would You Survive?

A Sci‑Fi Survival Quiz asks: Which Sci‑Fi world would you survive? It lays out five universes — The Matrix, Mad Max, Blade Runner, Dune, and Star Wars — and offers eight questions designed to match your instincts to a setting. Questions probe how you react when things go wrong, which

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Jennifer Aniston recalls Brad Pitt's 'Friends' cameo

Jennifer Aniston made a rare comment about her ex-husband Brad Pitt’s "Friends" cameo during a Variety "Actors on Actors" appearance with Lisa Kudrow. Kudrow said, "When Brad was on, that was hilarious," and Aniston replied, "I know. How funny." She then

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After 26 years, Josh Sawyer still wants a better armor system

Josh Sawyer, Obsidian's design director and an RPG developer since the early augs, has spent more than 25 years making games. A longtime Darklands enthusiast, he has cited that 1992 RPG as a major influence on his 2022 game Pentiment and has discussed it often on his reinvigorated

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From castles to wonderfully weird Portmeirion on Wales’s north-west coast

From the graveyard of St Michael’s in Ynys the view was striking: the Italianate oddity of Portmeirion across the estuary, the rippling peaks of Eryri (Snowdonia) beyond, and the tidal island of Ynys Gifftan sitting in the River Dwyryd. I’d come to explore this part of Gwynedd by

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Faye awakens in the Everywhen in God of War Laufey’s 20‑minute trailer

The new God of War spin-off opened with more than 20 minutes of footage showing Faye waking after her cremation into an unfamiliar realm. She recognizes her burned clothes and laments not saying goodbye to Kratos and Atreus, implying her death was sudden; Deborah Ann Woll reprises the role. Early

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Every Must-See Movie Streaming in June 2026

Summer brings a heavy slate of films to streaming, and this June the major services deliver an expansive mix for at-home viewing. Netflix, Prime Video, Peacock, Paramount+, HBO Max, Disney+ and Hulu all add notable titles throughout the month. The roundup pairs classic favorites with more recent hits: Peacock’s

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Which Sci-Fi World Would You Survive?

Sci‑Fi Survival Quiz — Which Sci‑Fi World Would You Survive? The Matrix · Mad Max · Blade Runner · Dune · Star Wars. Five universes. Five completely different ways the future went wrong — or sideways, or up in flames. Eight questions figure out which world fits your instincts. They ask how you react

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SNL UK’s Larry Dean: ‘That heckle was so harsh it left my heart pounding!’

Behind the scenes, SNL UK is genuinely a combination of mayhem and meticulous organisation. Making a show from scratch from Monday to Saturday is chaotic, but they’ve got the best of the best in the crew — the wardrobe people, the camera crew, the set designers — and, he says, there

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Ascension: Lord of the Rings kicks off crowdfunding in July

Justin Gary, a former Magic: The Gathering pro who created the deckbuilding game Ascension in 2011, is taking the game into Middle-earth. After 17 sets in Ascension’s original world of Vigil, Stoneblade Entertainment will launch a licensed Lord of the Rings set that will crowdfund on Gamefound starting in

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Apple TV's Remake of a Classic Martin Scorsese Thriller Releases This Week

For the first time since the 1970s — when Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore became the sitcom Alice — a Martin Scorsese film has been adapted for television. The new psychological thriller, drawing on Scorsese's 1991 movie, the novel The Executioners and the 1962 version, stars Javier Bardem