Established streaming industry leaders like Netflix and Amazon are facing more competition than ever. Now legacy entertainment giants are in the game with their own subscription services, like Peacock, HBO Max, Paramount Plus, and the Disney Plus / Hulu / ESPN Plus bundle, while Apple TV Plus attacks around the edges. Meanwhile, the rise of ad-supported free platforms like Roku Channel and Pluto TV has attracted enough attention that Plex, YouTube, and Amazon’s Freevee are trying to get a chunk of the action too.
Disney Tron: Catalyst, a new title from Devolver Digital’s new Big Fan indie label, is an “all-new story-driven, isometric action adventure game.” The game is being developed by Bithell Games, the team behind the visual novel Tron: Identity.
Catalyst is set to launch in 2025 on Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation, and Xbox.
The best entertainment of 2024
Our guide to the most interesting games, movies, and TV shows of the year.
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.
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Apple’s Disclaimer uses sex and scandal to shape your perception of reality
Alfonso Cuarón’s Disclaimer is a gripping erotic thriller about the power stories have over us.
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.
Netflix’s Greek myth-inspired drama Kaos seemed like it had quite a bit (like Jeff Goldblum) going for it, but Variety reports that the show has been canceled after just one season.
Though Over the Garden Wall still remains criminally unavailable on Max where it belongs, a new two-minute-long stop-motion short from series creator Patrick McHale and Aardman is coming to Cartoon Network’s YouTube channel on November 3rd.
Epic and Disney want to make ‘what every Disney fan has ever wanted’
Even though the ‘persistent universe’ from the two companies will connect to Fortnite, you probably won’t be playing as Mickey Mouse with a gun.
Remember when Joe and Anthony Russo snatched up the rights to adapt Simon Stålenhag’s The Electric State?
Netflix does, and the streamer has just released a handful of new images from from the movie, which tells the story of “a young woman (played by Millie Bobby Brown) who embarks on a perilous journey across the robot-ravaged US, accompanied by a mysterious toy robot and a roguish smuggler (Chris Pratt).”
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Though everything about The Franchise’s big budget superhero movie production makes the fictional project seemed doomed to fail, its crew has no choice but to soldier forward in the show’s latest trailer.
Well, it will soon, at least. The latest teaser for Squid Game season 2 shows everyone’s favorite face slapper getting ready for a long day at work. The new season drops on Netflix on December 26th.
NBCU’s streaming chief isn’t worried about you canceling cable
Matt Strauss, head of Peacock and global streaming, has plans to keep you watching.
Amazon Prime has added every episode of The Legend of Vox Machina to YouTube, with all 24 episodes set to be removed again once season three launches on October 3rd.
That could bring some new fans to the series, and is a great way to speedrun the original 440+ hour Critical Role D&D campaign it's based on.
The AR and VR headsets you’ll actually wear
Plus, in this week’s Installer: Balatro comes to your phone, Zelda gets her own game, and a bunch of new movies and shows to watch this weekend.
The new trailer for Alfonso Cuarón’s upcoming series Disclaimer reveals a bit more of the secrets Catherine Ravenscroft (Cate Blanchett) desperately wants to keep hidden.
It seems like there’s a bit of infidelity in her past, which isn’t all that monstrous, but the idea being exposed is enough to send Catherine into a book-burning frenzy.
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Google TV Streamer review: smarter than your average set-top box
With more storage, a (slightly) faster processor, and some proper smart home chops, Google’s new take on the Chromecast is its best attempt at a streaming device yet.
A social network where everyone’s a bot
Plus, in this week’s Installer: A bunch of highly anticipated new TV, a worthy AirPods competitor, the new Snapchat, and much more.
If Seong Gi-hun / Player 456 (Lee Jung-jae) had just walked away with his winnings, his life might be peaceful, but in this teaser from Squid Game’s upcoming second season, there’s an entire army of Masked Men that seem hellbent on killing him.
While Netflix has yet to officially announce who will be voicing / portraying Tony Tony Chopper in the second season of its live-action One Piece adaptation, the (CGI) anthropomorphic reindeer makes a brief appearance in this new behind-the-scenes video.