Retro toys are a funny thing. When The Phantom Menace hit theaters, it did so alongside the firepower of a fully armed and operational action figure line that represented a huge generational leap from the Star Wars toys that changed the movie industry two decades prior. And yet now in the present, nearly 25 years…
Source: Gizmodo – The Phantom Menace Goes All the Way Retro In These New Star Wars Toys
On Tuesday, the Entertainment Software Association announced that E3, once the biggest video game showcase on the planet, is officially dead.
Source: Gizmodo – E3 Is Finally, Officially Dead
Update: Late Monday evening, Corrain confirmed that she’d been review bombing POC authors, attributing it to past struggles with mental health. As she explained on Twitter, she had a mental breakdown earlier this month, which resulted in her creating the Goodreads accounts to boost A Crown of Starlight’s rating and…
Source: Gizmodo – Author Loses Book Deal After Blaming Star Wars Fans for Bizarre Review-Bombing Scheme [Update]
Mark Wahlberg teases Uncharted 2’s future. Hear Robert Pattinson get his bird on in a new clip from The Boy and the Heron’s dub. Vincent D’Onofrio talks Daredevil: Born Again’s tone. Plus, another new look at Doctor Who’s Christmas special. Spoilers now!
Source: Gizmodo – Updates From Madame Web, the Future of Saw, and More
The HP Pavilion Plus 14 laptop packs a lot of value in its modest $899 price tag. You get an incredible display and pretty good performance on a lightweight body, which makes for a nice, portable system. It basically checks most of the boxes for anyone looking for a nice display, portability, and, of course, price.…
Source: Gizmodo – HP Pavilion Plus 2023 Review: An Impressive Budget Laptop With a Great Display
Just how fast do you need your home internet to be? More importantly, how much are you willing to fork over to Google each month to turn your home into a miniature data center? According to Google, the answer is an eye-gouging $250 a month plus fees for blistering 20-Gig speeds on a WiFi 7-enabled, plus-sized router.
Source: Gizmodo – Google’s Super-Fast Fiber Internet With WiFi 7 Is Also Super Expensive
Google lost its antitrust case against Epic Games on Monday night, where a San Francisco jury unanimously ruled the search giant maintains a monopoly with its Google Play app store.
Source: Gizmodo – Google’s App Store Is an Illegal Monopoly, Says Jury in Epic Trial
In a survey of more than 1,000 people, researchers found that people were more likely to be treated as pariahs in a variety of ways when their faces were digitally altered to have acne. The stigma associated with acne may be greater for people with severe symptoms and darker skin tones as well, the study found.
Source: Gizmodo – People With Acne Pay a Steep Social Price, Study Finds
Those of you on an Android device may be exhausted by the emotional turmoil brought on by messaging apps. I warn you: this next bit of news may be too much too soon. Strava, the fitness tracking app geared toward athletes and People Who Like Data, has announced that it’s launching messaging between its users on iOS…
Source: Gizmodo – Cheer On Your Run Buddies With Strava’s New Built-in Chat Feature
Every few months, a math problem goes viral on social media. Disappointingly often, it lacks mathematical meat. It seems over half of them boil down to the order of operations. Some tweet will get thousands of likes claiming that the Internet is divided over an arithmetic problem like: what does 6÷2(1+2) equal? It’s…
Source: Gizmodo – Gizmodo Monday Puzzle: Can You Solve This Viral Math Test Problem?
With shifting release dates and mandated radio silence due to the Hollywood strikes, the buildup to Dune: Part Two has been nothing short of eventful. While there’s still a few more months before audiences can see it, Warner Bros. is getting the promo ball rolling again with footage screened at CCXP to join the first…
Source: Gizmodo – Dune: Part Two Returns With a New Set of Character Posters in Tow
Legendary’s Monsterverse has been steadily persisting since 2014 and saw its first big titanic crossover in the form of 2021’s Godzilla vs. Kong. Instead of splitting the titular monsters back off again so they can do their own separate things for a bit, they’re reuniting once more—this time as allies rather than…
Source: Gizmodo – Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire’s First Trailer is a Monster Mash
Yesterday, Prime Video gave viewers a first full look at its upcoming Fallout show. Based on the RPG franchise by Interplay and Bethesda, the series definitely looks like it belongs with the actual games, and that wasn’t just the mission statement—for all intents and purposes, this is their idea of Fallout 5.
Source: Gizmodo – Fallout Show Creators Want It to Feel Like a Brand New Game
Whether they’re from the US-based Legendary Pictures or Japan’s Toho Studios, Godzilla movies come out with a reliable frequency. The newest Japan-made film starring the giant dinosaur is Godzilla Minus One, the country’s first live-action Godzilla flick since 2016’s Shin Godzilla and the fifth in the Reiwa era that…
Source: Gizmodo – Open Channel: Tell Us Your Favorite Godzilla Media
Skybound Entertainment is heading eastward to open up a new studio in Tokyo, Japan.
Source: Gizmodo – Skybound Grows Animation Slate with New Japan-Based Studio
The new, smaller version of the PlayStation 5 is the same console that came out three years ago, at least in most of the ways that matter. That’s for better or worse, though if you’re looking to pick up Sony’s premiere console, then at least you can feel better knowing it might actually fit in your TV cabinet.
Source: Gizmodo – The New Slim PlayStation 5 Is Thinner Where It Counts
The first season of Halo’s TV adaptation was sometimes interesting, but also kind of a mess. With a new timeline to work with, the show took some sharp divergences, shall we say, and things ended in such a way you weren’t fully sure how we were going to make it to Halo: Combat Evolved.
Source: Gizmodo – Halo Season 2 Teases a Major Franchise Fall
It feels like we’ve been hearing about Star Trek: Discovery’s fifth season—even before we knew it would be its final—for a very long time at this point. But at long last, with the arrival of yet another new clip, we now know when Michael Burnham and her friends will begin their last tour of active duty.
Source: Gizmodo – Star Trek: Discovery’s Final Season Goes Monster Hunting For a Premiere Date
It’s been over a full year since the last season of The Boys, and while Gen V’s definitely kept the franchise going, it teed up some interesting developments for the mothership show’s return. While the next season is still a couple of months out, Prime Video’s released a first look at what’s coming next for their…
Source: Gizmodo – The Boys Are Back in Town, and They’re Going to the Polls
Despite initial skepticism, House of the Dragon proved itself to be a solid return to the world of Westeros and a good show in its own right. The Game of Thrones prequel had its second season already locked in almost immediately after premiering, and after being technically allowed to film through the Hollywood strikes
Source: Gizmodo – House of the Dragon Comes Flying Back with a Vengeance