AT&T is asking HBO to think about ways to produce more shows and increase engagement to compete with Netflix, Hulu, Amazon and other streaming services. AT&T announced its intention to acquire Time Warner, HBO’s parent company, in October 2016, but officially got approval for the merger in June 2018. Netflix subscribers watch 140 million hours of content a day. “I’ve said, ‘More is not better, only better is better,’ because that was the hand we had,” Pleper said to Stankey. “I want more hours o

Certain items from the game have disappeared entirely, and it looks as if at least one of them has found itself in our world. pic.twitter.com/oTMiGc0Wno — Sela Shiloni (@selashiloni) July 6, 2018There was also an unmarked police car and signs warning that they’re close to the “anomaly.”These signs posted around it. Didn’t see any tomato pic.twitter.com/pllSAhEckP — Sela Shiloni (@selashiloni) July 6, 2018The tweets went viral, and Shiloni of course thought this momentary fame would be a good way

WarioWare Gold for Nintendo 3DS marks the charming and strange WarioWare series’ return after a five-year hiatus. Wario says much more than “wah!” in WarioWare Gold, an off-putting aural experience we neither want nor deserve. The tweet above was culled from GameXplain’s footage of the WarioWare Gold demo, which you can watch in full below. The good news is that there’s a feature in WarioWare Gold that allows you to dub over the cutscenes yourself, according to the game’s digital manual. If Wari

Epic Games has released its first official tease of Fortnite Season 5 and confirmed a few things we already knew. In a tweet on Monday morning, the company stated that the newest Fortnite season was just three days away. While the July 12 release date was previously announced, it’s nice to have it confirmed since Epic can sometimes be a little late on their release — looking at you Playground Mode. While it’s difficult to say what this might mean for Fortnite Season 5, it does seem to be the fir

But, according to the team over at Naughty Dog, there’s one injury that he’s never had — a bullet wound. Yes, there’s a red indicator at times when Drake starts taking accurate fire, but it’s not a damage indicator. Sidenote I learned on joining the team: Drake doesn’t ever take bullet damage. https://t.co/byzVKYXVe7 — Jonathan Cooper (@GameAnim) July 8, 2018It’s astonishing that, given the thousands or rounds of ammunition sent his way over the course of four video games, he’s never been hit by

Monster Hunter: World is coming to Windows PC via Steam on Aug. 9, Capcom announced today. The PC version of the game was originally scheduled for release sometime this fall, meaning patient PC fans will get Monster Hunter a bit earlier than expected. Capcom said the PC version of Monster Hunter: World will get free updates and Collaboration Quests following the game’s release, but it’s not clear when or how those will roll out. Another Collaboration Quest tied to Final Fantasy 14 is planned for

Darksiders 3, the first game in the series since the closure and rebirth of THQ, is set to be released on Nov. 27. The game was revealed last year, and players were introduced to Fury, the sister of Darksiders’ protagonists War and Death. According to a report from IGN, Gunfire Games — the studio behind Darksiders 3 — also revealed a few special editions of the game. However, for serious Darksiders fans, there’s another option: the Apocalypse Edition will cost players a hefty $399.99. Darksiders

Each week, players would open their milestones tab and complete a list of activities before logging off for the week. With Destiny 2: Forsaken, Bungie aims to change that up a bit and return to the more replayable ways of Destiny. In Game Informer’s August cover story for Destiny 2: Forsaken, game directors Steve Cotton and Scott Taylor spoke a bit about returning to the hobby of Destiny. But for players who never want to stop playing Destiny 2, the game will now offer more frequent resets. Dest

When you get enough board game nerds together in the same room, they eventually begin trying to one-up each other. One that invariably gets mentioned is called Waldschattenspiel, a German board game played in the dark with a tea candle. Thanks to a new addition by Thinkfun Games called Shadows in the Forest, it’s back … and it’s a lot less flammable. The dwarves are replaced with creatures called Shadowlings, which are adorable given their vaguely Totoro-shaped bodies. I can’t remember the las

If everything goes as plans, the mass ban will mark the single biggest banning event on Reddit. The radical move has caught the attention of a few key figures, including Josh Brolin, the actor who played Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War, who recorded a special message for the subreddit. Infinity War co-director, Joe Russo, posted the message on the ban’s eve. After collecting all six Infinity Stones, Thanos snap his fingers and eliminates half of the universe’s total population. There still isn’

Bit Kid’s Chasm, a procedurally generated, Metroidvania-style adventure, is coming to PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and PC (Linux, Mac and Windows) on July 31, the developer announced today. Developer Bit Kid even went through a company name change during Chasm’s creation, changing from Discord Games. In Chasm, you play as a knight in the Guildean Kingdom who ventures into a monster-infested mining town to restore peace to the kingdom. The world of Chasm is composed of hand-designed rooms stit

Ant-Man and the Wasp is looking at an opening weekend in the $80 million range for North America beating expectations for the franchise and giving Disney another enviable moneymaker as the summer movie season chugs on. The $80 to $83 million projected isn’t a record-breaking number, but it is more than $20 million over what Ant-Man pulled in its 2015 debut weekend ($57.2 million). Despite being original Avengers (The Wasp named the team, in fact) and among Marvel Comics’ oldest superheroes, The

Variety is reporting that Keri Russell (The Americans) has talked with director J.J. Abrams and Lucasfilm about a role in Star Wars’ ninth episode, coming in 2019, and that the director and studio are keen to bring her aboard. The casting isn’t confirmed and Variety notes that Abrams has two other roles to fill, too. Abrams directed 2015’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens but Johnson’s The Last Jedi seemed to cut off some of the bigger concepts that Abrams introduced with The Force Awakens — Rey’s p

Warframe’s major announcements at TennoCon, the expo celebrating the game, didn’t stop with news that the game was coming to Nintendo Switch. Warframe will bring a new faction and lore to the game with the expansion Fortuna, taking place in an open world environment on Venus. Fortuna is the follow-on to the Plains of Eidolon update that came out in November 2017. The new faction is Solaris United, cyborgs who dwell “in the Blade Runner-esque Debt-Internment Colony, Fortuna,” Digital Extremes sai

For hardcore Destiny 2 players, the first few Moments of Triumph may already be completed. In terms of rewards, players will be able to earn some unique looking gear for participating in the Moments of Triumph. At 250 points, players will unlock access to a special item on Bungie’s online store: an exclusive Moments of Triumph t-shirt. Finally, players who earn all 400 points will be able to upgrade the look of their Moments of Triumph emblem. The Moments of Triumph have always been a way to say

Which brings us to a new sports anime, Hanebado!, now streaming on Crunchyroll. just as much as any of the spirited sports anime protagonists we know and love. is focused on Kitakomachi High School’s badminton team, which lacks both players and a significant team drive. depicts women as driven, despairing, and headstrong in the same fashion as many male sports anime protagonists. I’m thrilled to see women take the court in what’s shaping up to be one of the best anime of summer 2018.

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So it was really, really fun. I feel ownership over the first movie; I came into that movie really quickly, but I’ve come to other movies quickly, before. We started the movie with those guys, broke the story, then started evolving the story. Paul Rudd obviously was involved with them in writing and that felt like a nice natural progression from the first movie. Ant-Man and The Wasp is the first movie I’ve seen that represents the Mexican-American love for Morrissey on screen.

For one thing, after years of Adult Swim and Production I.G. ”We felt like [the competition] would be a good thing because that’s kind of how the original FLCL started,” DeMarco said. “Alternative definitely does try to do something different in terms of story than the original,” DeMarco said. Rather than examining “the beginnings of puberty” with middle school protagonists like FLCL and FLCL Progressive, DeMarco said that Alternative will center on high schoolers going through the “totally diff

Pokémon Go makers Niantic and Netflix will, this fall, launch an anime based on Ingress, the augmened reality game that inspired much of Pokémon Go’s original design. Ingress: The Animation will be produced by the animation studio Crafter, with Yuhei Sakuragi as director and Takeshi Honda as character designer, reports Variety. It will introduce Ingress Prime, a sequel to the 2014 game for iOS and Android. Ingress: The Animation will tell the story of two characters, Makoto and Sarah, who develo