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Rey and Kylo Ren were the perfect pairing for fanfiction writers. Their dynamic was full of angst, their personalities couldn’t be more different, and their romance was just ambiguous enough to spark imaginations. It’s no wonder that “Reylo” fanfiction quickly became one of the most popular pairings in the Star Wars fandom, and from there,…

Like movies, post-apocalyptic nightmares are a setting video games will never abandon. From the Fallout franchise to more recent examples like Hideo Kojima’s wildly inventive Death Stranding series, gamers are more than familiar with exploring ravaged worlds destroyed by nuclear weapons, zombies, or invisible beings from another dimension.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe has many great characters, but not all of them necessarily have a future within the franchise. Since the MCU first began in 2008 with the release of Iron Man, it has grown into one of the biggest and most successful franchises in cinematic history. Its many movies and TV shows have…

Microsoft could be making a major change to how it manages future Halo games. According to gaming insider NateTheHate, the iconic first-person-shooter franchise is reportedly being moved under Activision Blizzard as part of a wider Xbox reorganization.

In 1979, CBS tried to squeeze a couple of extra innings out of “The Bad News Bears,” a sports comedy movie that had already spawned two sequels. The TV show featured Corey Feldman in one of his first major roles, but the series struck out after two seasons. The original 1976 film starred Walter Matthau as a…

PlayStationpossesses some of gaming’s most legendary franchises, yet many of those beloved IPs have languished in neglect for years. Supposedly, the company is now actively exploring ways to breathe new life into its older properties, aiming to diversify its ecosystem and explore a variety of genres.

A beloved PlayStation FPS franchise from the PS2 era could finally be making its long-awaited comeback, with reports suggesting that a new entry may already be in production.

Nicolas Cage’s Spider-Noir was a shockingly well-received entry into the vast Spider-Man franchise—or the Spider-Verse, if you will—when it debuted on May 25. The Prime Video series’ overwhelmingly popular reception (with the show currently sitting at a 92% critic score and 90% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes) seemed to defy the odds in myriad ways,…

Naughty Dog co-president Neil Druckmann has provided a new update about the future of The Last of Us. Currently, Druckmann and those within Naughty Dog are hard at work on Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, which is planned to come to PS5 at some point in the future. Since the game’s announcement back in 2024, many…

Now that The Dog Stars is out of the way, having premiered to scathing reviews and a less-than-stellar reception, it seems that director Ridley Scott is setting his sights back on the Alien franchise—and he has some pretty big opinions on the franchise from Romulus onward and where it went wrong; in his mind, this…