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The Punisher is widely considered to be the deadliest character in Marvel Comics. In his never-ending vengeance against the criminal underworld that murdered his family, the Punisher has slaughtered thousands of people. What makes this achievement especially impressive is that the Punisher, for the longest time, had no superpowers or high-tech gadgets to speak of.

Since The Evil Dead first premiered in 1981, it not only announced the presence of one of our wildest and most inventive filmmakers, but the start of a franchise that truly has never run out of steam. Even as the years between the movies got longer, with gaps of more than two decades at one time, the Evil Dead movies have always known when to rear their ugly head and give the people a fair share of scares and laughs.

It’s 2026, and we are still getting rumors about Half-Life 3. And according to this latest rumor, the long-awaited new Half-Life game from Valve is supposedly releasing soon. As you may know, previous rumors from last year — from more than one source — suggested Half-Life 3 would be a Steam Machine launch game. Obviously, this did not happen. And this is not the first time Half-Life 3 rumors haven’t come to fruition.

We all remember the first time we saw a lightsaber being activated in Star Wars: A New Hope. The movie was pretty interesting until then, but we knew we were in for something special when we realized there would be laser swords in it. Over the next few decades, manufacturers leveraged the lightsaber, making it one of the most sought-after toys on the market. We went from simple telescopic ones made of plastic to electric ones that incorporate lights and sound.

After the first two Toy Story movies put Pixar on the map in the late ’90s, the animation studio established itself as one of the industry’s powerhouses with a string of beloved films released throughout the 2000s. The first in this generational run was Monsters, Inc., which hit theaters in 2001. Like many Pixar movies in this era, it was a critically acclaimed box office hit, grossing $579.7 million worldwide and earning an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature.

What will Christopher Nolan do next? That’s the question that fans and industry analysts are all asking, now that Nolan’s new film, The Odyssey, is in theaters. With The Odyssey, Nolan has created a classic Hollywood sword-and-sandals blockbuster, adapting Homer’s epic poem of the same name. With that genre now under his belt, Nolan has practically done everything except horror and comedy.

Tom Clancy introduced Jack Ryan in 1984 with the novel The Hunt for Red October, and the character spent the next four decades building one of the strangest résumés in blockbuster fiction. Across Clancy’s Ryanverse novels, Ryan rises from a mid-level CIA analyst attached to submarine intelligence to the President of the United States. Hollywood’s adaptations have never tried to preserve that single continuous arc.

The exciting Summer 2026 anime season is finally here as the lineup brings back several fan-favorite series. No doubt it’s one of the most exciting anime seasons in a while one of the biggest anime seasons in a while, thanks to the return of Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War Part 4, Saga of Tanya the Evil Season 2, and several more popular series. One of the most anticipated sequels of the season is Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Season 3, which will premiere next month on Crunchyroll.

This is a big year for Marvel Comics and, in particular, for Spider-Man. In September, Amazing Spider-Man will hit a major milestone that not every superhero comic can say it reaches: a landmark issue #1000.

It’s been a tough week in gaming, as Xbox made massive cuts to its gaming division. Many beloved studios were impacted, including many that gamers assumed might be spared. In particular, DOOM fans were pretty concerned about the rumored size of layoffs at id Software. Now, the studio has released an official statement, and it sounds about as optimistic as it could be given the circumstances. On July 10th, the official @idSoftware account on X shared a message from the team.