Richard Rosales

Netflix is facing renewed criticism after expanding its licensing agreement for the Russian animated series Masha and the Bear, giving the popular preschool show a significantly wider international audience.

An Illinois man has filed a federal lawsuit against DraftKings, alleging the online sportsbook's platform fueled his gambling addiction, leading him to lose more than $2 million, drain his wedding savings, lose his job, and experience a mental health crisis.

Spike Chunsoft has officially delayed Danganronpa 2×2, pushing the game's release from its planned 2026 launch window to early 2027. The announcement was made during Anime Expo 2026, marking the first major update on the title since it was revealed during a Nintendo Direct in September 2025.

A school is the ideal setting for anime. Every day might present a new friendship, a hard test, a humiliating experience, or a blossoming romance. A simple walk home may become a significant event when the characters appear lifelike.

A forgotten storage unit in Waukesha doesn't sound like the start of a treasure hunt. Dust, cardboard, a padlock nobody's touched in years. But that's exactly where nearly 100 Nintendo Entertainment System cartridges turned up this year, including a version of Super Mario Bros. That collectors had never catalogued before.

Switch 2 sales just dropped and tariffs are pushing prices up. Here's what it actually means for your gaming budget this year, and where the money goes.

Learn how to draw manga using 4 exact proportion rules. You get verifiable 2026 industry standards for body ratios, facial spacing, and eye placement.

Nintendo just told investors something that should sound familiar to anyone who has watched Netflix earnings calls over the last five years. Hardware growth is slowing. Software and IP revenue are picking up the slack, and increasingly, they're doing it outside Japan and the US.

Jinwoo doesn't grind for stat points. He grinds for a 0.7% pull rate on a five-star hunter, and so does everyone else playing Solo Leveling: Arise right now. Netmarble's mobile adaptation of Chugong's manhwa has turned Arise Overdrive into one of the more scrutinized gacha economies in the genre this year, especially after the studio quietly stripped some of its original microtransaction structure following backlash documented by

Some casting news lands quietly. This one didn't. The moment Amazon confirmed Dave Bautista as Kratos in its live-action God of War series, timelines lit up with side-by-side comparisons, physique breakdowns, and a fair amount of disbelief that this was actually happening after years of stalled rumors.