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New York Comic Con is back for it’s 20th anniversary! And while it may not be as horror packed as last year’s haunted-themed festivities, the Coney Island-themed geekery is still delivering quite a few scares.

In the wake of Xbox gutting Halo Studios and moving the franchise under Activision, content creators as well as current and former Halo devs have started talking about the series publicly online. That’s led to some messy drama and accusations, including a claim that Halo Studios (formerly 343 Industries) put some content creators on a…

The excitement around Labubu has never depended on a long plot, even as POP MART has turned the character into a global collecting phenomenon. For many collectors, the appeal lives in the object itself: the surprise of opening a blind box, the urge to complete a set, the character design, and the feeling of belonging…