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Konami reiterates that its goal is to make a Silent Hill game every year, with "many different types of diverse experiences"
At PAX West 2026, Silent Hill producer Motoi Okamoto expressed his enthusiasm for giving fans more "diverse experiences" within the franchise
Jules Chin Greene
We're having a Labor Day sale on pre-signed celebrity items from Florida Supercon, and more... and Popverse members get first dibs!
Attention fans of: Marvel's Defenders, Amazing Digital Circus, Frieren: Journey's End, Chainsaw Man, and Disney's Beauty & The Beast.
Chris Arrant
Tom Hardy makes a surprise return as Bane... on his new rap album?
Tom Hardy might not have been born in the hip hop world, but Czarface Meets Frankie Pulitzer listeners will probably consider it his ally
Grant DeArmitt
DC Comics offered "a bunch" of Absolute projects and the Batman ongoing to Rick Remender
DC offered Rick Remender Batman, but there's one obscure superhero team he'd actually consider.
Chris Arrant
The strongest Marvel characters list: The most powerful characters in the Marvel Universe ranked
Who are the strongest and most powerful characters in the Marvel Universe? Here are the top ten, ranked from weakest to strongest.
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
Best gifts for Naruto fans in 2026: 6 picks we actually recommend [Pop Shop]
Best gifts for Naruto fans in 2026 (Editor's Picks)
Jules Chin Greene
Latest
The League of Legends MMO has a fitting nickname inside Riot Games: The Grail
After a decade in development, Riot still sees its League of Legends MMO as a “worthy quest”
Civilization VII hired historians to name its planets, but your dog or cat’s name works too
Civilization VII: Earthrise has historians with doctorates who are researching what various Earth civilizations would name the planets
Gandhi returns to the Civilization franchise in VII expansion with peace, diplomacy, and possibly a few nukes
Gandhi will debut in Civilization VII's upcoming "Arc of Tomorrow" spanning the 1950s to the 2050s
Critical Role's Taliesin Jaffe shares Bolaire Lathalia's thoughts on Campaign 4's Thjazi Fang: "A Righteous Monster"
There comes a point when "someone has something they believe in so passionately," said Critical Role's Jaffe, who plays Bolaire Lathalia in Campaign 4, "that it is inevitable that you are going to become a monster"
The Silent Hill team photographed and scanned thousands of images of Scottish towns to make the new game Townhall feel authentic
Silent Hill: Townfall is set on a small coastal Scottish town called St. Amelia
Dracula is a “romantic,” not the “embodiment of evil” he's made out to be for 3-time Dracula actor Graham McTavish
Graham McTavish has played Dracula on stage, on TV, and now in the game Castlevania: Belmont's Curse... and he thinks he is misunderstood.
Hamnet director Chloé Zhao wanted to be a manga artist, but ended up making Marvel's Eternals instead
Chloé Zhao said that she was never able to achieve her dream because she "wasn't very good at drawing"
Every MCU villain ranked: weakest to strongest
Who is the most powerful villain in the Marvel Cinematic Universe? We rank every major MCU bad guy, from Loki to Thanos
Ed Brubaker and Amazon sued for hostile work environment on set of Prime Video Criminal adaptation
Brubaker and Amazon are amongst defendants being sued for creating a hostile work environment by someone who worked on staff for the upcoming Criminal series
Marvel is releasing Amazing Spider-Man #1000 four days early for select stores participating in Local Comic Shop Day.
Marvel's hotly anticipated The Amazing Spider-Man #1000 drops September 30, but Marvel's sending out select variants early to celebrate Local Comic Shop Day
Marvel accidentally released Uncanny X-Men #35 two weeks early on digital, but just pulled it
Uncanny X-Men's own Gail Simone recently took to Facebook to explain a publishing error that had digital X-Readers seeing a comic weeks before it hit physical shelves
Here is where to watch all the big New York Comic Con 2026 panels
Watch all the big panels from NYCC 2026 for free with Popverse.
Chainsmoker Cat is the grossest, most honest portrayal of addiction in anime [Popverse Jump]
Netflix is delivering one of the most memorable anime in recent years and it is, arguably, about cat girls getting high.
Britpop nostalgia, DC Comics teenage superheroes, and 60 years of Star Trek beam into Popverse Playlist for September 5 - September 11, 2026
While Oasis cover the nostalgia beat, we get two different views of a better tomorrow in this week's Popverse Playlist. Long Live the... Star Trek...?
Critical Role's Luis Carazo wasn't finished with his Candela Obscura character, so some of him found his way into Campaign 4
Carazo, who portrayed Marion Collodi in Candela Obscura years before being cats in a Critical Role core campaign, says that his character is the culmination of years of exploration
Boom-Boom fills Cable’s enormous shoulder pads in Marvel’s Fugitive X-Force
Cable is missing, X-Force is wanted for crimes and is ostracized from mutantkind, and Boom-Boom is calling the shots.
Mina Murray leads an army of monsters against Dracula in a wild new graphic novella
Dracula meets his match in the manga-inspired horror comic Miss Mina and the Midnight Guardians.
One of VIZ Media's parent companies, Shogakukan, committed "human rights violation" by secretly rehiring sex offender, according to independent third-party investigator it hired
The publisher behind VIZ Media issued another formal apology and announced changes in policy following committee's report.
Spider-Man's radioactive spider origin is "a little dishonest" to Phillip Kennedy Johnson, so he's revising it with Midnight Spider-Man
Spider-Man's radioactive spider disappeared after one bite. Marvel's new horror universe is finally asking what happened to it.
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Chainsmoker Cat is the grossest, most honest portrayal of addiction in anime [Popverse Jump]
Netflix is delivering one of the most memorable anime in recent years and it is, arguably, about cat girls getting high.
Trent Cannon
Britpop nostalgia, DC Comics teenage superheroes, and 60 years of Star Trek beam into Popverse Playlist for September 5 - September 11, 2026
While Oasis cover the nostalgia beat, we get two different views of a better tomorrow in this week's Popverse Playlist. Long Live the... Star Trek...?
Graeme McMillan
Delicious in Dungeon is about the community that food helps build [Popverse Jump]
Nothing brings people together like a good meal, which is why Delicious in Dungeon works.
Trent Cannon
PAX West
The League of Legends MMO has a fitting nickname inside Riot Games: The Grail
After a decade in development, Riot still sees its League of Legends MMO as a “worthy quest”
Chris Arrant
Civilization VII hired historians to name its planets, but your dog or cat’s name works too
Civilization VII: Earthrise has historians with doctorates who are researching what various Earth civilizations would name the planets
Jules Chin Greene
Gandhi returns to the Civilization franchise in VII expansion with peace, diplomacy, and possibly a few nukes
Gandhi will debut in Civilization VII's upcoming "Arc of Tomorrow" spanning the 1950s to the 2050s
Jules Chin Greene
The Silent Hill team photographed and scanned thousands of images of Scottish towns to make the new game Townhall feel authentic
Silent Hill: Townfall is set on a small coastal Scottish town called St. Amelia
Jules Chin Greene
PAX West
The League of Legends MMO has a fitting nickname inside Riot Games: The Grail
After a decade in development, Riot still sees its League of Legends MMO as a “worthy quest”
Chris Arrant
Civilization VII hired historians to name its planets, but your dog or cat’s name works too
Civilization VII: Earthrise has historians with doctorates who are researching what various Earth civilizations would name the planets
Jules Chin Greene
Gandhi returns to the Civilization franchise in VII expansion with peace, diplomacy, and possibly a few nukes
Gandhi will debut in Civilization VII's upcoming "Arc of Tomorrow" spanning the 1950s to the 2050s
Jules Chin Greene
The Silent Hill team photographed and scanned thousands of images of Scottish towns to make the new game Townhall feel authentic
Silent Hill: Townfall is set on a small coastal Scottish town called St. Amelia
Jules Chin Greene
Rick Remender
DC offered Rick Remender Batman and the Absolute Universe, but he says he turned them down: "It feels like playing cover songs to me."
DC offered Rick Remender Batman, but there's one obscure superhero team he'd actually consider.
Chris Arrant
Uncanny X-Force's Deadpool was secretly a creator-owned character for writer Rick Remender, because he never read a Deadpool comic before
Rick Remender had never read a Deadpool comic before writing Uncanny X-Force
Jules Chin Greene
Marvel Comics have tried to get Rick Remender to come back to relaunch the X-Men twice, he says
Rick Remender walked away from Marvel's X-Men because he wanted to make comics "without anybody telling me" what he could do.
Chris Arrant
New Image imprint Giant Generator signs 12 Marvel and DC artists for future projects
Artists from titles like Black Panther, Punisher, Wonder Woman and more are signing on to a creator-controlled plan
Graeme McMillan
Dispatch
Critical Role's Laura Bailey & Travis Willingham both want the same thing from Dispatch 2: more Malevola Gibb
Bailey & Willingham - who voice Dispatch's Invisigal and Phenomaman, respectively - want to see more of the game's demonic ex-villain, voiced by Alanah Pierce
Grant DeArmitt
What the Critical Role Exandrian video game is taking from Dispatch, according to Travis Willingham
The hit game Dispatch was made with a lot of Critical Role support - and now the success of that game is informing Critical Role's first video game.
Grant DeArmitt
What your Dispatch ship choice says about you
This is a judgement free zone, friends, so let your Dispatch romance option of choice reveal a little more about you
Trent Cannon
Dispatch Switch censorship may be driven by Japan and AdHoc's resource limits — not Nintendo
A lack of nudity may be disappointing to some gamers, but there is more nuanced reasoning behind the Dispatch censorship than just "Nintendo bad."
Trent Cannon