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Gaming has changed far beyond the games themselves. Players no longer log in only to complete missions, climb rankings, or test new mechanics. They also join conversations, exchange ideas, create content, and shape discussions that reach far outside a single title. Community activity now affects how people discover games, learn new skills, organize events, and…

Who are the names running the business behind the business?Illustration by THR India Updated on: 13 Jul 2026, 8:45 am

The cyberpunk genre owes a huge debt to Masamune Shirow’s “Ghost in the Shell,” the essential manga from 1989 that inspired Rupert Sanders’ controversial Scarlett Johansson-starrer. Sanders’ 2017 film is just one adaptation in a longstanding sci-fi franchise, as a brand-new anime tackling Shirow’s source material recently dropped its first episode on Prime Video. This highly…

With its sheer ubiquity in American pop culture, it’s easy to take for granted how recently it was that anime was exported to the States. There are early examples as far back as the 1960s and 70s: Astro Boy is widely considered to be the first example of an anime finding immense success being syndicated…

I don’t know how closely you follow the world of video games, but that corner of the entertainment industry is drowning right now. From rising RAM costs due to AI oversaturation to trend-chasing and audiences who don’t know how good they have it, the beloved hobby is a dumpster fire of miscalculations and discontent. Gaming…