— Bethesda Game Studios Shortly after Prime Video’s Fallout show launched to critical acclaim, Bethesda followed up with a well-timed next-gen update to Fallout 4. That’s great news for Fallout fans — unless they had wanted to play the game with all its new features. On Xbox, PlayStation, and PC alike, players are reporting issues with the Fallout 4 update, ranging from broken mods to bugs preventing the game from being played. While Bethesda says it’s aware and working on fixes, the Fallout 4 next-gen update seems, so far, as dysfunctional as the wasteland itself. Bethesda launched the new p ..read more

— New Line Cinema Some movies should feel as big as possible. That’s why Oppenheimer filled out Imax theaters months after release, why some fans are seeing Dune: Part Two dozens of times, and why old classics can find success with theatrical re-releases. But the latest re-release announcement is bigger than any we’ve seen before, and it provides the ultimate way to watch a beloved series. According to The Hollywood Reporter, The Lord of the Rings trilogy will return to theaters this June. The showings will be of the epic Extended Edition director’s cuts that were first released on home video ..read more

— BBC We all know that the Time Lords in Doctor Who only have 12 regenerations before they need to get another set of lives. But this piece of trivia wasn’t firmly established in the early run of the series at all, and only became a hard and fast rule in 1976 in the 4th Doctor adventure “The Deadly Assassin.” Hilariously, earlier in the same year, a different Doctor Who episode, “The Brain of Morbius,” established that the Doctor probably had several secret incarnations — at least eight anyway — prior to the 1st Doctor in 1963, William Hartnell. So which rule was true? Was the 1st Doctor real ..read more

Fallout is more or less synonymous with its many classic, crooning needle drops, but the score that supplements it is equally crucial. It’s these moody, synth-driven sounds that first clue us into the vice within the Brotherhood of Steel, and the same could be said for the unsettling yodel that plays whenever the Ghoul (Walton Goggins) appears. That’s all the work of Ramin Djawadi, the composer behind Fallout and many of the most iconic genre scores of the past decade. It was Djawadi who crafted the theme for HBO’s Game of Thrones; ditto for the cerebral sci-fi epic Westworld. The latter kick ..read more

— Netflix Dead Boy Detectives wasn’t meant to be a spinoff. The upcoming Netflix series, based on Neil Gaiman’s comics of the same name, began as a series ordered by Max. It contained all the hallmarks of a classic CW show — a strong episodic structure, DC Comics source material, and Arrowverse architect Greg Berlanti as an executive producer. But in early 2023, the series found a brand-new home at Netflix. Even though Dead Boy Detectives was a spinoff comic from the Sandman series, showrunner Steve Yockey made sure that the series didn’t tread on Netflix’s toes at first. “We wanted to make s ..read more

— Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images News Steam just closed a massive loophole that allowed players to refund games even after spending significant amounts of time on them. But in the process, the company also added a new storefront feature that might be confusing to some. If you’re wondering what the new “Advanced Access” label on Steam means, and why it’s being added now, here’s everything you need to know. PC players may already know Steam’s refund policy, which allows anyone to play a game for up to two hours and still get a full refund if they’re not feeling it. However, that timer only starte ..read more

— Marvel Studios From 2008 to 2019, Marvel Studios attempted to do something no film studio had ever done: tell an interconnected, years-spanning cinematic story unlike anything moviegoers had seen. The Marvel Cinematic Universe was born from that pursuit, and the franchise’s Infinity Saga frequently felt like the ideal cross between an ongoing television show and a splashy, action-packed comic book run. However, while building the MCU was no easy feat, the real question everyone had heading into 2019 was whether or not Marvel would be able to actually bring its Infinity Saga to a satisfying ..read more

— NASA, ESA, STScI An iridescent bubble in space? The clash of two titan jellyfish? The beautiful object featured in NASA’s newest image tests our handle on perspective. This isn’t the case of beauty being in the eye of the beholder. The Little Dumbbell Nebula image is, for good reason, what NASA selected to celebrate the 34th birthday of the Hubble Space Telescope. As with most things in the universe, however, this object is more than what it seems. The Little Dumbbell Nebula’s fabulous looks might distract from one obvious visual anomaly. The object, located 3,400 light-years away in the co ..read more

— Square Enix Nothing can prepare you for the moment in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth where the debaucherous Don Corneo and his henchmen break into a rap diss track ripped right out of the ‘90s. It’s a ludicrous high point in a game filled with absurd moments, perfectly capturing the kinetic spirit that permeates Rebirth. “This song is what hip-hop calls beef,” says Rebirth composer Mitsuto Suzuki. “Run-D.M.C., Ice-T, Art of Noise, and other old school influences I grew up listening to are all strongly present in this song." Rebirth is a massive game that tries, and mostly succeeds, to recreate one ..read more

— Paramount+ Today, everyone knows what a multiverse is. But back in 1967, parallel universe stories weren’t nearly as common as they are now, even within the sci-fi genre. A classic Star Trek episode, Jerome Bixby’s “Mirror, Mirror,” helped popularize the alternate universe trope, complete with meaner versions of yourself who may rock an evil little goatee like Mirror Spock. Star Trek’s Mirror Universe also gave us an alternate version of the USS Enterprise in the ISS Enterprise, a ship that served the Imperial Terran Empire, not the United Federation of Planets. Now, in the Discovery Season ..read more