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Archives for August 2026

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Who needs IMAX when you have iMacs?
Andrew Webster
Andrew Webster
Amazon might have its new Kratos.

Deadline reports that Dave Bautista is in talks to take over the role, which has been vacant ever since original star Ryan Hurst was seriously injured on set. There’s no official word on casting from Amazon just yet.

Kallie Plagge
Kallie Plagge
Pokopia’s biggest issue is about to be fixed.

Storing your many items in Pokopia is a huge chore, even if you like organizing. But the free update on August 5th will introduce a new shared storage item — anything stored inside will be accessible from other iterations of that item. That means a lot less running around trying to remember where you put all your copper.

Microsoft is bringing Xbox 360 games to PCMicrosoft is bringing Xbox 360 games to PC
Jay Peters and Tom Warren
Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Amazon’s developing a Warhammer 40,000 animated series produced by Henry Cavill.

According to Variety, the series will be a spin-off of Amazon’s 2024 Secret Level anthology series, which includes a Warhammer episode. It’s in development alongside the live-action Warhammer project Cavill’s also working on, and reportedly features the Deathwatch, “an elite group of Space Marines that specialize in hunting down alien threats.”

Andrew Webster
Andrew Webster
Some fortunate news.

Nintendo’s next big Switch 2 exclusive — Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave — is also the subject of the company’s next Direct showcase. It streams August 4th at 10AM ET and will last around 20 minutes, according to Nintendo. The game, meanwhile, is launching on September 17th.

Thomas Ricker
Thomas Ricker
Spider-Man has blockbuster opening.

Tom Holland’s fourth stint as the web-slinging superhero brought in $927m ⁠in worldwide ticket sales, with $355m earned in North America alone. That makes it the second most lucrative opening weekend of all time both domestically and globally, behind only 2019’s Avengers: Endgame at $1.22b.

Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
Tom Holland teases that he knows when Miles Morales is joining the MCU.

In an interview with 1Live, Holland wasted no time trying to send Marvel fans into a tizzy. When asked what his first question would be if he were in the interviewer’s chair, he responded, “When will we get Miles Morales? Would be the question I would ask, because I know the answer.”

Fender’s CEO seems to think your bandmates are just analog AI

Bud Cole also compared learning cover songs to AI training data in a controversial interview.

Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
See how some of the most iconic album covers in rap history were designed.

Design firm Pen & Pixel was behind more than 20,000 album covers between the early ‘90s and 2000s. They were the go-to for Cash Money and No Limit, creating the gaudy diamond-encrusted covers for Master P’s “MP da Last Don” and Juvenile’s “400 Degreez.”

Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
This robot plays pretty acoustic guitar melodies.

Music-playing robots are nothing new. It’s been 13 years since Compressorhead went viral, after all. But this DIY project from Reddit user MegCell is still pretty impressive. The melody isn’t hard-coded, either. Instead, the robot can read MusicXML files, meaning, theoretically, it can play almost any song you want.

Angela Nissel faces down grief with a laugh

The author’s latest book, Good Grief, Pass the Bread, Mom Is Dead, finds humor in difficult times.

Terrence O'Brien