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Superman’s Fortress of Solitude is a Silver Age man cave inspired by nature’s beauty

At one point, production designer Beth Mickle contemplated just building the Kryptonian stronghold out of ice.

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Superman’s Fortress of Solitude is a Silver Age man cave inspired by nature’s beauty

At one point, production designer Beth Mickle contemplated just building the Kryptonian stronghold out of ice.

Charles Pulliam-Moore

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Inside the struggle to create a cozy Lord of the Rings game

Tales of the Shire launches on July 29th, but the path to release was a bumpy one for Weta Workshop’s Game Studio.

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‘The story of killing Nazis is evergreen’ declares Amazon’s new Wolfenstein TV series.

A Wolfenstein show is in development, reports Variety, and sounds like it could be based on MachineGames’ fantastic games that actually told stories rather than starting from scratch. Both MachineGames’ studio director Jerk Gustafsson and the showrunners of Fallout (which got the games right) Lisa Joy and Jonah Nolan are attached. Showrunner here is Patrick Somerville; the show’s not official yet.

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The first gaming handheld with AMD’s powerful Strix Halo.

GPD, the company behind the most potent tiny laptops, is now teasing the most potent handheld. The GPD Win 5 will somehow fit a AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 — also see Framework Desktop and Asus’ ROG Flow Z13 gaming tablet — into a chassis that’s like a large PlayStation Vita with hidden keyboard.

The Phawx has shown that Strix Halo can already beat today’s handhelds on efficiency, and destroy them plugged into the wall.

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She’s the new Avatar, and you gotta deal with it.

At this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, Nickelodeon revealed some new art featuring Pavi, the young Earthbender at the center of the new Avatar: Seven Havens animated series due out in 2027.

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A Sundance standout is coming to Netflix.

Train Dreams, which was one of my favorite films at the festival this year, is streaming on November 21st, and will also be coming to select theaters this fall. It’s an understated and heartbreaking movie about coping with loss and change, telling a story that spans a single lifetime and is buoyed by some incredible performances from Joel Edgerton and Felicity Jones. You can get a feel for it in the new trailer below.

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Jeff Bezos is thinking about acquiring CNBC, the New York Post reports.

Bezos has “signaled interest to business associates” in buying the network, according to The Post’s story.

However, the article also says that “sources close to Comcast told The Post that Bezos has not approached the cable giant headed by CEO Brian Roberts.” So I guess we’ll see what actually happens.

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I tested the Star Wars droid that carries things for you.

Oh, I had such high hopes for the Piaggio G1T4-M1N1 (“Gita Mini”). An officially licensed Star Wars bot that follows you around, dodging pedestrians while carrying 20 pounds of cargo and playing The Imperial March on its party speaker? Heck yes. But a single walk to the park showed me that this $2,875 bot doesn’t have enough smarts. (I couldn’t fit all its fails into one video!)

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Mo’ money no problems?

Good Fortune seems familiar on the surface — Keanu Reeves is an angel who tries to show the destitute Aziz Ansari that money isn’t everything — but the formulaic plan also appears to backfire when it turns out money does fix a lot of problems. You can check out the new trailer here, while the movie hits theaters on October 17th.

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Welcome to the club.

Dungeons & Dragons and Netflix have teamed up on a new Stranger Things-themed board game bundle called Stranger Things: Welcome to the Hellfire Club. It will be released on October 7th and you can preorder it now.

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Apple is teasing something about its show from Breaking Bad’s creator.

I’m very confused by this tweet, but maybe it means Apple is close to sharing more about the upcoming show from Vince Gilligan. Apple has also posted a YouTube video that’s counting down to 3PM ET on Friday.

Update: Apple posted a countdown video.

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Borderlands 4 hits Switch 2 on October 3rd.

That’s a little less than a month after the game’s September 12th launch on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X / S.

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Soak up the sunflora this September.

Pokémon Concierge, the adorable stop motion Netflix series, launches its second season very soon. The show, about hospitality worker at a resort exclusively for ‘mon and their humans, returns with new episodes September 4th. The announcement came during today’s Pokémon Direct and included a brand new trailer featuring all the new poké-friends you’ll make.

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DJ Pika on the wheels of steel.

The next Pokémon Presents kicks off at 9AM ET, where’s we’ll likely learn more about Pokémon Legends: Z-A. In the meantime, you can watch DJ Pikachu spinning for a bunch of other Pikachus.

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Getting copied is devastating — but not necessarily illegal. Who owns what in an era of unprecedented mass consumption?

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Nintendo adds new 8-bit bops.

Switch Online subscribers can now access more than 200 new tracks from NES and Famicom games via the Nintendo Music app, including Mario Bros., Duck Hunt, Wrecking Crew, and a handful of Donkey Kong titles. That gives you some retro tunes to listen to while playing Donkey Kong Bananza.

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Can South Park save Paramount Plus?

With a $1.5 billion five-year deal to lock the irreverent show down and take it away from HBO Max, the streaming service clearly thinks so.

Paramonut Plus is steadily gaining subscribers, but lags behind rivals when it comes to the most popular content, and securing South Park might just help. And hey, if it distracts from stories about its troubled Skydance merger and payouts to Trump, that can’t hurt either, right?

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The trailer for the third Avatar movie will be available exclusively in theaters.

Well, at least “this weekend,” according to a post on X. You can see the trailer before showings of The Fantastic Four: First Steps.

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You wouldn’t 3D print a Labubu.

Or would you? The weird little toys are a nightmare to buy so we took matters into our own hands.

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Futurama season 13 is dropping all at once this September.

While Hulu took its time releasing the last two seasons of Futurama, the streamer announced today that every episode of season 13 will debut simultaneously on September 15th.

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Predator: Badlands’ new trailer puts Yautja on the menu.

We knew Predator: Badlands was going to tell the story of an outcast Yautja forced to prove its worth by surviving on a planet full of monsters. But the movie’s latest trailer reveals that the Predator’s human-seeming companion Thia (Elle Fanning) is actually a Weyland-Yutani android, and the pair are going to find themselves fighting what appears to be... alien dinosaurs.

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Ted Lasso steps back on to the pitch.

Apple announced that production is officially underway for the previously-revealed season 4 of Ted Lasso. There’s even a photo to prove it. More interesting, though, is the news that a bunch of the cast are joining Jason Sudeikis in returning to the show, including Hannah Waddingham, Juno Temple, Brett Goldstein, Brendan Hunt. and Jeremy Swift.

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