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D Comics (yes, sort of like DC Comics) is the working name for Disney and WEBTOON’s new comics app platform
WEBTOON job listings reveal a surprising name for Disney’s new comics platform.
Chris Arrant
The Wile E. Coyote AMA on Reddit turned out to be the most inspirational thing you'll read today
As we all fall in love with Coyote vs. Acme, the film's star takes to Reddit to deliver the the motivation we all needed
Trent Cannon
Magic: The Gathering is reinventing its Limited format with planeswalkers appearing in “almost” every game thanks to a secret new mechanic
A controversial new mechanic for MTG playtesters became one of the most celebrated, and its beginning in the Reality Fracture set.
Jules Chin Greene
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
Critical Role's Taliesin Jaffe has read your theories on how Campaign 4's Panto Masks works - but no one has guessed correctly yet
Heads up - we're getting into some spoiler territory not just regarding Jaffe's Bolaire Lathalia, but Critical Role's Campaign 4 in general
Grant DeArmitt
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
Latest
Joe Kelly has an ending planned for Amazing Spider-Man, but hopes it’s years away
Amazing Spider-Man’s current storylines are building toward one “wacky” ending, says Joe Kelly.
Don't read into the King Spawn movie title at Blumhouse, says Todd McFarlane - "Writers put titles on their scripts"
Yes, there is a comic called King Spawn. Yes, that is also the title of the upcoming Blumhouse-produced movie. No, that does not mean they are the same story
Gravitas turns stacking rocks into a ruthless tabletop battle of balance and betrayal [Sponsored]
Gravitas is part strategy game, part sculpture, and part glorious rockslide waiting to happen.
“I might have been ruined”: Saint Seiya creator alleges a $30 million betrayal from within
Saint Seiya creator Masami Kurumada says his own manager stole nearly $30 million and almost destroyed everything.
In Critical Role Campaign 4, Azune Nayar never corrects mispronunciations of his name. That's on purpose, says Luis Carazo
Is Luis Carazo's Critical Role character ah-ZOO-nay or aH-zoo-nay? Part of Azune Nayar's personality is revealed by the fact that we don't know
Shakespeare is not as good as Mobland, says Helen Mirren
Helen Mirren says that the writing in Mobland season 2 is better than Shakespeare, which is ridiculously high praise indeed.
How Alex Ross subverts the expectations you have for Marvel Dimensions using his iconic JLA: Secret Origins cover
Call this Marvel: Secret Origins... and then Alex Ross will surprise you.
25 years later, X-Men legend Chris Claremont still rejects Marvel's Wolverine origin story and sticks to his own headcanon for Logan
Chris Claremont has his own untold origin for Wolverine which he considers to be the hero's true backstory
Prime Video's Tomb Raider show broke UK laws during filming
The warning from the British Health and Safety organization doesn't appear to be connected to Sophie Turner's injury that paused production on Tomb Raider this year.
Star Wars really does have Werner Herzog to thank for Grogu's personality
When you watch The Mandalorian, just remember that they nearly made Grogu CGI before Werner Herzog called them "cowards."
MTG is retrying one of the most controversial elements of Time Spiral & Planar Chaos, but they learned one big lesson from that
Magic: The Gathering learned the hard way that you should never mess with the game's color pie
MTG's Jace “will literally build a new multiverse instead of going to therapy,” as evidenced in the upcoming Reality Fracture set
Planeswalker Jace Beleren has created an entirely new universe within Magic: The Gathering's Reality Fracture set
MarriageToxin director says sites like YouTube and TikTok primed audiences for the anime's unique tonal whiplash
With its unique mix of action, comedy, and romance, MarriageToxin could have been a pacing nightmare. Fortunately, we've all gotten used to that sort of thing.
Critical Role's Taliesin Jaffe opens up about Campaign 4's Bolaire Lathalia and the Panto Masks: "Family in the sense that that is what we have been written to be"
In regards to his personhood, Critical Role's Jaffe compared his Campaign 4 character to the titular characters of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Riot’s Marc Merrill says the games industry isn’t collapsing. Players are correcting it
Players are rejecting the games industry’s live-service obsession, according to Riot Games co-founder Marc Merrill, telling companies, “We don’t want this stuff”
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”
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"
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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
Gravitas turns stacking rocks into a ruthless tabletop battle of balance and betrayal [Sponsored]
Gravitas is part strategy game, part sculpture, and part glorious rockslide waiting to happen.
Ashley V. Robinson
Riot’s Marc Merrill says the games industry isn’t collapsing. Players are correcting it
Players are rejecting the games industry’s live-service obsession, according to Riot Games co-founder Marc Merrill, telling companies, “We don’t want this stuff”
Chris Arrant
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
PAX West
Gravitas turns stacking rocks into a ruthless tabletop battle of balance and betrayal [Sponsored]
Gravitas is part strategy game, part sculpture, and part glorious rockslide waiting to happen.
Ashley V. Robinson
Riot’s Marc Merrill says the games industry isn’t collapsing. Players are correcting it
Players are rejecting the games industry’s live-service obsession, according to Riot Games co-founder Marc Merrill, telling companies, “We don’t want this stuff”
Chris Arrant
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
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