Hollywood Screenwriters Reach Deal to End Five-Month Strike

Disney’s new animated/live-action hybrid short Once Upon a Studio is kind of like the final battle in Avengers: Endgame: packed with every single relevant character you could possibly think of. The short, meant to celebrate the 100-year anniversary of Walt Disney Animation Studios, features 543 characters from throughout the company’s history — including some that fans thought we might never see again, like Aladdin’s Genie, voiced by the late Robin Williams.

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The heavily criticised Nintendo Switch version of Mortal Kombat 1 has its first post-launch patch, which claims to address a number of issues with the game.

Days before Microsoft and Activision Blizzard are hoping to tie up its $68.7 billion merger, the Call of Duty publisher and Overwatch 2 developer brought all its employees together for an all-hands meeting… hosted by former late-night host James Corden, according to a report from Windows Central. Yes, the former The Late Late Show host known for terrorizing Los Angeles drivers with musical stunts appeared alongside Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick to bring employees up to speed on the state of the company.

is an upcoming post-apocalyptic action thriller film. A sequel to the 2007 release I Am Legend directed by Francis Lawrence, the film’s story will continue on from the alternate ending of the original film, in which Dr. Robert Neville, portrayed by Will Smith, survives at the end. If you are curious about the release date of I Am Legend 2, you have come to the right place.

The team over at Naughty Dog hasn’t revealed anything substantial in a good while. However, while the studio hasn’t unveiled anything recently, the multiplayer project was revealed in 2018. Naughty Dog has been working on a standalone multiplayer gameplay experience that is set within The Last of Us universe. Details had been slim, but the project has been in development ever since, and as far as we know officially, the development team is continuing to push through the game for an eventual release. However, one insider has come out to reveal the game was killed off.

Blumhouse's founder and CEO, Jason Blum, has revealed that the Five Nights at Freddy's movie has already made back its $25 million budget, despite not even being out for another few weeks.

is planning to raise the price of its ad-free service a few months after the SAG-AFTRA strike ends in Hollywood, according to a recent report from The Wall Street Journal.

I confess: I'm a Star Trek nerd — and commodities enthusiast, too. Thus, asteroid mining should be my personal heaven. On Sunday, I watched with the excitement of a five-year old how a NASA space probe brought back the largest-ever stash of asteroid rubble to Earth. But was this feat a step closer to commercial space mining? Not even close.

Billionaire Elon Musk in typical fashion took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to announce his intention to attend Teknofest in Turkey next year.

Exclusive new Spider-Man 2 suits will be revealed as part of Marvel LIVE! at New York Comic Con next month.

By Ash Parrish, a reporter who has covered the business, culture, and communities of video games for seven years. Previously, she worked at Kotaku.