My Nightingale companion is an unstoppable tree chopper and beast slayer

Lilo & Stitch will soon be surfing back onto our screens. A live-action remake of the 2002 Disney animated classic is in the works, and among the cast is Billy Magnussen as Pleakley, the neurotic, nervous alien who is sent to Earth to help capture escaped experiment Stitch. 

SNK’s is back after a long absence, with set to release next year. In addition to revealing the game and announcing its release window, SNK also previewed some of the new and returning characters.

Along with announcing a release window for Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves and showcasing the new combat system, SNK outlined several other roster members. Rock Howard and Terry Bogard have already been confirmed alongside Joe Hisashi and Andy Bogard. However, there’s a new fighter arriving with two veterans. Check it out below.

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Pokemon Scarlet and Violet’s lukewarm reception seems to have had an impact on Pokemon TCG sales, which have dropped since the latest Pokemon entries were released on the Nintendo Switch in 2022. Fans were less than thrilled with Game Freak’s latest monster-gathering JRPGs, as Pokemon Scarlet and Violet quickly became some of the lowest-rated mainline Pokemon entries despite their record-breaking launch. Players even started review-bombing Pokemon Scarlet and Violet for various reasons, including their many performance issues.

After it was announced that the first game would be remastered and rereleased, Capcom has revealed the PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, and PC release dates for both .

In the fall of 2023, a clip ripped from a video by Tom Simons and reposted on X (formerly Twitter) saw Irish YouTube entertainer Seán “Jacksepticeye” McLoughlin strapped to a lie detector test. His friends were grilling him about everything, like whether or not he still enjoyed his job as a YouTuber and how much money he had in the bank. Though sensitive, none of the questions fazed McLoughlin, a video star with millions of subscribers on YouTube. To truly rattle him, his friends had to pull out the big guns — questions that, if answered honestly, would make most squirm. Has YouTube gotten worse as a platform, they probed? Yes, McLoughlin answered, still not missing a beat. And he said Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson, YouTube’s biggest creator, was to blame.

Capcom has announced that its recently-revealed remaster of the original Monster Hunter Stories is coming to PC, PS4, and Nintendo Switch on June 14. The announcement was made with a new trailer, which provides details about the game’s story. Check it out below.

Nightingale was poised to become one of the more interesting and unique survival games released in 2024, but two weeks from launch, it's not doing great. User reviews on Steam are currently sitting at Mixed, and the game's player base has been slowly dwindling ever since launch, with a peak player count of a little over 10,000 compared to the game's all-time peak of just over 47,000 it racked up at launch a couple of weeks ago.

Watching Netflix’s cosmic philosophy movie Spaceman, the most obvious question is about the plot: Is that giant alien space spider real, or a hallucination? But the second most obvious question might be Why is Adam Sandler starring in this movie? Sandler has taken on a number of increasingly high-profile dramatic roles since he first surprised his fans and dodged his comedy-career typecasting with Paul Thomas Anderson’s Punch-Drunk Love back in 2002. But his roles have always been tinged with comedy, even if it’s dark, wry, or despairing comedy. Spaceman is something new: a grim story that doesn’t crack a smile as it sends Sandler into space as Czech astronaut Jakub, a man whose life, relationship, and maybe psyche are all disintegrating during a long solo journey.

Skill Fruits, found on peculiar trees scattered throughout the Palpagos Islands in , offer powerful skills you can teach your Pals. These fruits are not limited by their elemental type, meaning a fire Pal can learn a water skill and vice versa, allowing for diverse customization. While Pals naturally acquire Active Skills, these inherent abilities often fail to create the most effective Pal build.

Netflix’s new Adam Sandler movie is unique in the Sandman canon: Despite sending the comedic actor to space for an encounter with an oversized alien spider, most of the potentially corny laughs are swapped for melancholic tears. Like Solaris, The Fountain, and Ad Astra before it, director Johan Renck’s Spaceman is a meditative intragalactic drama orbiting around a heartfelt performance from Sandler. It’s not the first movie with the kind of visual effects that demand an actor’s unbridled imagination, but filming Spaceman was a test that took him outside his comfort zone.