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The Marvels
You don't need to have seen any of MCU Phase 4-6 to love Marvel's new release

Forget Marvel movies and enjoy Disney Plus' latest special for its standalone action

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Obsession
Obsession pulls off the impossible: an original take on the possession horror movie

Curry Barker's debut feature is a more secular menace for a less religious era

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Directive 8020 character stares while scared
An alien twist on Until Dawn can't transcend B-movie thrills

Directive 8020 brings the Dark Pictures Anthology back

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Scene from Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway: The Sorcery of Nymph Circe featuring the Hathaway Noa in his Gundam
The biggest anime movie event of the year is so much more than a sci-fi spectacle

There are no heroes left in Gundam Hathaway’s sequel

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A mid-sized city in Amberspire
I want to quit Amberspire, and that's why it's one of the best city-builders in years

Decline and fall

A character holds a record in Wax Heads.
If you love Mixtape, you need to try this week's other great music game

Wax Heads turns record store management into a chill puzzle game

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Astronaut Hugh and android Diana in a screenshot from Pragmata
The best games of 2026 (so far)

Approaching the halfway point, 2026 has been nonstop bangers

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Donatello of the Ninja Turtles wears a VR headset
The new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game is the best TMNT game in years

As Michelangelo once said, “God, I love being a Turtle!”

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Fireworks explode over a convertible in Mixtape.
This Mixtape review is a real mixtape

The teenage comedy has its fair share of killer and filler

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Mortal Kombat 2
Mortal Kombat 2 desperately seeks the approval of angry fans who hated the last movie

Ed Boon would like to apologize for that whole Cole Young thing

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Giant purple eyes float over a crude pixelated solitaire board
Steam's best solitaire games just pivoted from Jane Austen to cursed CD-ROM horror

And it still works

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Ethan Hunt talks on the phone
Mission: Impossible III introduced an unforgettable villain — and saved the franchise

This article will self-destruct in five seconds

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Midoriya and Uraraka in MHA final episode
My Hero Academia 'More' finale gives the series its second perfect ending

Episode 171 of the MHA anime ties up loose ends and shows us what happens to characters after their story ends

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Mark shielding himself with bloody arms in an image from Invincible VS
Invincible VS' ultraviolent fighting saves a bloodless story mode

Don't think — just punch

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Survivors of a plane crash, led by a pilot played by Aaron Eckhart, stand in the remnants of their downed plane, looking out at the unseen ocean, in a scene from the shark thriller Deep Water
Deep Water isn't a sequel or equal to the director's standout shark movie, Deep Blue Sea

Renny Harlin is back in shark-filled waters, but Deep Water doesn't run particularly deep

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ESA astronaut Ariane in a screenshot from the space adventure game Aphelion
Life Is Strange devs' new sci-fi game will warm your heart — then break it

Like Orpheus venturing to Hades, Ariane is on a journey to save her lost lover

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A Steam Controller sits on a white mousepad.
The Steam Controller is so close to being the perfect PC gamepad

Valve's second draft is a perfect match for Steam, but don't expect to use it elsewhere

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Devraj stands in front of a mult-armed being in Saros.
Saros sands down Returnal's challenging formula into a power fantasy

Housemarque's latest shooter tries to iterate on Returnal with mixed success

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Charlize Theron clings to Taron Egerton's back as they're both swept through rapids in 2026's Apex
Netflix's Apex really is a Predator movie with an all-human cast

Taron Egerton hunts Charlize Theron through an Australian forest in a grueling survival thriller that eventually goes full horror-movie

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A vampire holds a wine glass in Vampire Crawlers key art.
Of course the Vampire Survivors team turned a goof into a shockingly good card game

Vampire Crawlers sounds like a joke, but it's seriously fun

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