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Week 2 of Dana White’s Contender Series takes place tonight (August 18) as 10 fighters meet at the UFC Apex to try and secure UFC contracts.

MEmu Play is still pulling in roughly 2,400 monthly US searches even after a decade on the market, and the reason is simple: it is one of the last free Android emulators built specifically around gaming rather than QA testing or app development. The latest build, MEmu 9.5.6.1, landed in mid-August 2026 as a 602…

NEWS MANGA WEEK – FALL 2026: FANTAGRAPHICS TO PUBLISH THIRD VOLUME OF MOTO HAGIO’S ‘THE POE CLAN’ Newer Stories Set During World War II Posted by Brigid Alverson on August 18, 2026 @ 4:47 pm CT

Asus and Microsoft sell two versions of the same handheld idea, and the price tag between them is bigger than most people expect. The ROG Xbox Ally starts at $599.99. The ROG Xbox Ally X costs $999.99. That’s a $400 gap for a device that looks nearly identical on a store shelf, runs the same…

Sega’s Dreamcast died a commercial death in 2001, but its emulation scene has never been busier. In the last seven months alone, three separate projects have shipped meaningful updates: Flycast hit version 2.6 in January 2026, redream pushed a fresh Android build (1.2.12) on August 9, 2026, and a scrappy Zig-language newcomer called Deecy kept…

NEWS MANGA WEEK – FALL 2026: ‘INITIAL D’ SPINOFF, ‘FRAGRANT FLOWER’ BOX SET, NEW MANGA BY CREATOR OF ‘AJIN,’ YOKAI PETS Kodansha Spring 2027 Manga Posted by Brigid Alverson on August 18, 2026 @ 12:25 pm CT

Ahead of music’s most iconic night, airing live Sept. 27 on CBS,MadonnaandTaylor Swiftare taking center stage as the leaders of this year’s nominees, which were announced Aug. 18.

An RTX 5090 build is the closest thing to a “no compromises” gaming PC you can order in August 2026. Nvidia’s flagship draws serious power, AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X3D pairs 3D V-Cache with full multi-threaded muscle, and neither part forgives sloppy assembly. Get the sequence wrong, and you will spend an evening chasing a boot…

This week’s Top Comics to Buy for August 19 was a fun list to put together, containing as it does two of my favorite new original idea comics in a while — Killer Influences and Dispatched. If that weren’t enough, it’s got a great recent superhero run, a story arc finale for one of my favorite indies ever, and…

Apple TV’s Fall 2026 lineup has been released, and the streamer that brought us Emmy Award-worthy hits like “Severance” and “Pluribus” is definitely not beating the allegations of being a prestige programming factory.