The following contains spoilers for Highest 2 LowestHighest 2 Lowest’s final confrontation and musical coda both speak to the underlying themes of the Spike Lee film. A modern reimagining of the classic Japanese filmHigh and Low,Highest 2 Lowestfocuses on David King. A music mogul in the middle of a tricky business proposition, King’s plans are thrown into disarray when his son is seemingly kidnapped by a mysterious figure. The first half of the film is a tight character drama, while the second half shifts into a more action-driven storyline befitting King’s hunt for the kidnapper....

Sonic Superstars, the latest addition to the Sonic the Hedgehog game series, reintroduces the renowned Super Sonic ability. Like its predecessors, this game grants players the opportunity to unlock and utilize the immense power of Super Sonic, in addition to other super transformations for the playable characters. With this ability, Sonic gains exceptional speed and the capability to effortlessly defeat enemies by simply running through them. Here’s how to unlock Super Sonic inSonic Superstars....

Warning! This post contains SPOILERS for Superman. Supermanputs a drastically evil twist on Clark’s parents, but I’m convinced that theDCUplans to redeem them. James Gunn’s film is the powerful start to the rebooted DC Universe that the studio needed. With strong performances from the whole cast, the film is a fresh take on the classic hero while still paying tribute to someclassic plot points. The movie begins with Clark already well established on Earth as the hero Superman....

NetherRealm Studios turned a lot of heads last month when the studio revealed that theTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were joining Enchantress and The Atomin the third Fighter Pack for the DC Comics fighter,Injustice 2. While the Turtles aren’t expected until sometime in February, The Atom is being prepared to kick off the next wave of DLC this month when he releases on December 12th for Ultimate Edition and Fighter Pack 3 owners....

Few creative industries are as unforgiving as manga, so whenJujutsu Kaisencreator Gege Akutami came down with health issues toward the end of his acclaimed series' run, he relied onOne Piecemastermind Eiichiro Oda for support. Akutami made headlines recently when it was announced that he would be contributing artwork for the belovedOne Piecetrading card game. When asked about his participation in the unreasonably popular game, Akutami was quick to praise Oda....

Tarsier Studios, the developer behind the critically-acclaimedLittle Nightmaresseries, announced its new title during Gamecom 2024’s Opening Night Live,Reanimal. The title looks similar to theLittle Nightmaresgames but has a distinctly new and much more terrifying series of monsters to avoid. While we were only shown a brief glimpse ofReanimal, it was enough to demonstrate exactly what the gameplay looks and feels like. Players take on the role of two tiny characters a brother and sister duo, and find themselves lost in a world where creatures much bigger than them lurk....

A race across worlds, wars with dragons, and deep-space voyages barely scratch the surface of what’s to come forMagic: The Gatheringin 2025. Wizards of the Coast’s world-renowned trading card game is scheduled for six new set releases this year, three in-world and three Universes Beyond crossovers. The in-world sets areAetherdrift,Tarkir: Dragonstorm, andEdge of Eternities, while the Universes Beyond sets feature collaborations with Square Enix’sFinal Fantasyand Marvel’sSpider-Man. Check out the timeline below with each set’s official release date and some extra details....

Martin Scorsese won his only Best Director Oscar forThe Departed, but he hasn’t repeated the one thing that makes the gangster movie stand out from his filmography.The Departedalso won Best Picture and two other Oscars, making it one of Scorsese’s most successful movies during awards season. In many ways,The Departedshares common DNA with many ofMartin Scorsese’s best movies. It’s a stylish gangster movie with a streak of dark humor running throughout it, and an excellent ensemble cast....

Bad news for fans of both Japanese comics andMarvel’s Spider-Man. As they may have known, a manga adaptation of thewall-crawler’s popular PS4 gamehas been around since last year, but unfortunately, that’s no longer the case, because that adaptation has been cancelled. The manga in question,Marvel’s Spider-Man: Fake Red, was originally launched on the specialty app Manga Pocket to coincide with the Japanese release of the movieSpider-Man: Far From Home. A collaboration between Marvel and leading manga publisher Kodansha, it served as an official extension of Insomniac Games’ take on Spidey’s world, with a story supervised by Marvel itself....

Mortal Kombat 11is now available worldwide, offering up one of the franchise’smost impressive fighting game rosters ever. Yet as robust as the roster is, NetherRealm wasn’t able to make every possible character available at launch. SomeMortal Kombatfavorites, like Reptile and Sindel, are missing altogether. Others, including Cyrax, Sektor, and new character Kronika are already in the game but are unplayable. At least, they were unplayable up untilMortal Kombat 11modders got ahold of the game....

Summary Sometimes, it’s the imperfections that make something better than it would be otherwise. For movies, that’s often film grain at work, and Netflix just figured out how to make it even better for you. Film grain is one of those things that artists love, but compression algorithms have trouble with. It’s inherently random, which makes it difficult to squeeze down into a smaller file size without sacrificing a ton of quality or bloating the stream....

Warning: This post contains spoilers for Predator: Killer of Killers!Predator: Killer of Killersis the latest entry in the popular sci-fi franchise, and the new animated movie introduces a few new and important concepts to the lore, showing not only thatthousands of people have defeated Yautja before, but also giving a hint at what happened to them afterward. ThenewPredatorfilm’s endingis one of the most interesting in the series for what it suggests....

Ironfall: Invasion removed from eShop Ironfall: Invasionis a decent little shooter for Nintendo 3DS that you likely haven’t heard of; and now that you have, you may’t play it, as Nintendo has removed the game from its online store. IRONFALL Invasion is temporarily unavailable on Nintendo eShop. Apologies for the inconvenience. Stay tuned for more information. — Nintendo of Europe (@NintendoEurope)Jun 23, 2025 The move came mere days after coderJordan “Smealum” Rabetshowed the title being used to launch a homebrew app, something the 22-year-old also did last year with Ubisoft’sCubic Ninja....