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Pony Canyon, Inc., is here delivering the holiday cheer with a brand-new trailer drop for their upcoming anime, Me and the Alien Mumu. Inside the trailer, you can meet the ever-adventurous and ambitious Mumu and Decimaru and Sakurako and Akihiro tackling their daily lives on planet Earth. If you don’t immediately love Mumu by the

Absolute Wonder Woman Issue 3 is published by DC Comics. Written by Kelly Thompson, art by Hayden Sherman, colors by Jordie Bellaire and letters by Becca Carey. Wonder Woman tries to protect Gateway City from a terrifying monster, one that could consume her and everyone else. After two issues of fighting Harbingers, a bigger threat

Games are constantly at risk of being lost to time, gated behind old, hard-to-find hardware, and servers being shut down. Yet there’s a growing trend of developers creating remakes, remasters, and re-releases. They’re bringing games back to be playable on modern hardware, like Backyard Baseball ’98, or making them again from the ground up to

Created by A.C. Bradley, What If…? Season 3 has been off to a stellar beginning. This new entry to the MCU’s anthology series has focused on the characters introduced in the latest phase of the MCU and on putting together combinations that we may not have thought of yet. What If Season 3 Episode 3 pulls

The match between Blue Lock and the Japan U-20 National Team rages on, and things are heating up in the second half. Blue Lock Season 2 Episode 12, “Flowers,” continues the exciting matchup as the players learn more about themselves and the game of soccer. Blue Lock Season 2 has been about the battle over the

For this top TV shows of 2024 list, we asked our writers to select their favorite series from across genres, networks, and countries. From sci-fi to generational storytelling and animated epics, we’ve covered it all. We took a poll of the top TV shows for 2024 from our writers. Considering the series they listed and

Returning for its third season, Marvel’s What If…? is back to test fans’ creativity with new concepts, new characters, and inspirations from across pop culture. With Stephan Franck as showrunner, What If Season 3 Episode 1 reopens the MCU animated anthology series by asking, “What if…The Hulk Fought The Meh Adventures?” The first episode of

Animated films deserve love, too, so we decided to round up our favorite animated movies in 2024. For our Top Animated Movies of 2024, we looked across IP, genre, studio, and release methods. We do have some stipulations for making our list, though we thought it best to celebrate all animated films regardless of style

Netflix Original The Six Triple Eight is inspired by the first and only Women’s Army Corps unit of color to serve overseas in WWII. Given an extraordinary mission and united in their determination, these unsung heroes delivered hope and shattered barriers. The film is based on the article by Kevin M. Hymel, WWII History Magazine

Dragon Ball DAIMA Episode 11, “Legend,” from Toei Animation, sees Neva (Hiroshi Naka, Delicious in Dungeon) step out of the shadows to join Goku (Masako Nozawa) and his friends on their journey. Also, Arinsu (Yôko Hisaka) gives creating the next Majin Buu another try in hopes of defeating the Tamagami of Demon World One before our

I am not a Bob Dylan fan. Of course, I appreciate his music and know where the line “A complete unknown” comes from. But everything I know about the man is through osmosis. Despite my deep personal roots in folk music as a professional musician, I have never once considered Bob Dylan a folk musician

If you’ve been reading But Why Tho? for some time, then you know that our list of top movies of 2024 is rarely a standard affair. Our group looks at every genre, age, range, and international film across the calendar. With so many amazing films this year, narrowing it down has been hard. Still, our

The Game Awards are airing now from the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, with awards, world premiere new game announcements, and musical performances by The Game Awards Orchestra, conducted by Lorne Balfe. Some of the announcements made so far have been Witcher 4, Borderlands 4, a new Warframe game, and more! Winners for their respective categories are reflected

Players itching to get some new content for their copy of Planet Coaster 2 this holiday season, don’t worry! Starting today, Planet Coaster 2 players can update their game to benefit from a host of additions and enhancements as part of the game’s first major update since launching in November. These include highly requested changes

Titan Forge Games has released the eighth and 2024’s final patch for SMITE 2’s Closed Alpha before the free-to-play launch early next year. The update introduces three new Gods to the game and adds a special The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim Event to SMITE and SMITE 2. The three gods joining

Uncanny X-Men #7 is published by Marvel Comics. It is written by Gail Simone, with pencils by David Marquez and Edgar Salazar, inks by Victor Olazaba, colors by Matthew Wilson, and letters by Clayton Cowles. This issue is Part Two of the “Raid on Graymalkin” crossover. The Lousiana X-Men make their moves on the mutant

Nostalgia often drives projects in today’s gaming industry, but Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Rita’s Rewind doesn’t just ride the wave of fond memories—it reinvents and reimagines what a Power Rangers game can be. Developed by Digital Eclipse, Rita’s Rewind offers a retro-modern arcade experience that celebrates the franchise and creates opportunities for new memories. With

Red Barrels, the studio behind the immersive indie horror series Outlast, launched The Outlast Trials‘ latest Major Update, Project Breach, this morning. This update introduces the story of asylum escapee Amelia Collier (Caroline Dhavernas; Hannibal), a new Trial, a new environment, a new enemy, and a new player ability (The Jammer Rig). Set in 1959

Path of Exile 2 (POE2) has been a year-long adventure. Ahead of its Early Access launch, we had the chance to speak with developers at PAX East, go all in on couch-co-op at the console test event, and then, of course, cover its last preview event and review the title. The important thing about the

Our first images of RaMell Ross’s incendiary Nickel Boys are tender and sweet. Through the deftly utilized first-person point-of-view, we take in the world at large that seems so all-encompassing, so impossibly vast and new, to young eyes experiencing the beauties of life for the first time. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Nickel