Entertainment

It still doesn’t really feel like it has been long enough since Netflix’s Voltron: Legendary Defender series ended for Amazon to be producing its own live-action take on the 80s sci-fi franchise. But the Rawson Marshall Thurber-directed project has just added Henry Cavill to its cast, which makes it seem that much more likely we’ll be seeing it in theaters soon enough.

The free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) platform, with the very bad name “MyFree DirecTV,” will be available on November 15th. According to the platform’s website, it will feature shows like Duck Dynasty, Storage Wars, Ice Road Truckers, and more.

Correction: MyFree DirecTV is a FAST platform, not one channel.

Into every generation, a(t least one) fictional girl destined to save the world from demons is born, and the latest addition to the Buffy-inspired canon comes by way of Echo Wu’s Jentry Chau vs. The Underworld.

The show hits Netflix on December 5th.

The latest tactic in Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign feels directly inspired by TikTok’s Subway Surfers attention stimulation gimmick.

Tim Walz’s Arizona rally yesterday was broadcast on the campaign’s Twitch account in a split-screen view, with commentary and live World of Warcraft gameplay provided by streamer Preheat playing alongside it.

Applications for Nintendo’s mysterious online playtest filled up basically instantly. In our Slack, we were seeing that Nintendo reached its limit of 10,000 participants within a minute of opening at 11AM ET.

If you were trying to get in, hope you were one of the lucky ones!

Digital Eclipse’s next playable documentary covers 40 years of Tetris history. And while it sadly doesn’t include the influential Game Boy version, the collection does feature a new game called Tetris Time Warp that has players zipping around between different eras and styles of tetromino dropping.

The company just opened a museum, launched Echoes of Wisdom and an alarm clock, and a new Mario Party is out next week. So Nintendo wants to remind you it still has another release this holiday season: the next Mario & Luigi RPG in November. Here’s five minutes explaining what the brothers are up to this time.

The band says in a new lawsuit that after their music saw a surge in popularity, it still had “not been paid a single cent by UMG” until taking action against them. The complaint gives a glimpse into what it’s like for a band seeing a revival of its music — and the alleged challenge of capitalizing on that.

There was still time for HBO to make its Lanterns show all about Aaron Pierre’s John Stewart, but the network has just officially cast Kyle Chandler to co-star as Hal Jordan.

If you have FOMO about missing out on the very last XOXO festival, the official video recordings have begun rolling out one by one.

Here’s my own talk, mostly about the harassment campaign that upended my life. I previously wrote about the experience as part of The Verge’s The Year Twitter Died package.

Nintendo’s been dreaming of Alarmo for a decade — CEO Satoru Iwata revealed the idea in an investor briefing back in 2014! It’s possible the project went on pause between then and now, though. Today, Nintendo said that its development took place during the covid-19 pandemic.

Here’s our hands-on with the cute-as-a-button Alarmo.

Green Day’s Dookie is 30 years old — I’ll give my fellow millennials a moment to gather themselves — and to celebrate the band is releasing demastered tracks available on everything from a toothbrush to a Game Boy cartridge. Unfortunately they’re tough to buy (each track is only available via a drawing) but you can at least listen to them all right here.

The abrupt closure of Humble’s publishing division left a number of indie developers in a state of uncertainty. But now a new label headed by former Humble staff, called the Good Games Group, has formed, with the goal of “working with the amazing indie developers we collaborated with at Humble Games, while also allowing us to chart a new course for the future.”

Last month, I published a story about tennis embracing the electronic line calling system — and all of the data, sports betting, and financial implications that come with it. Wimbledon, the most prestigious of the Grand Slams, just announced it will get rid of human line judges at next year’s tournament. At this point, the ELC takeover is inevitable.

Matt Damon might be the film’s star, Deadline reports.

Nolan’s last film, Oppenheimer, won the Academy Award for Best Picture (and many other awards) earlier this year.

As Reddit, Push Square, and others are pointing out, the very good 2022 game is suddenly sporting a “PS5 Pro Enhanced” badge. Sony hasn’t yet confirmed a patch, nor do we have details on how the game might get enhanced.

Here’s our running list of PS5 Pro Enhanced games, and our hands-on with 11 of them.

Sam Hargrave, who directed Netflix’s Extraction movies, will be directing the Shinobi movie, Deadline reports. No word on when it will come out.

If you, like me, have never played a Shinobi game, here’s a playthrough of the 1987 arcade game you can watch. Apparently one of the boss fights is a helicopter? I hope that gets referenced in the film.