10 new movies to watch this weekend on Peacock, HBO Max, and Hulu (July 31

It’s that time of the week again. If you’re not too busy scrambling for Spider-Man: Brand New Day tickets, there’s a lot of stuff you can watch from home, whether you’re renting or catching the latest streaming release. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is now available on Peacock. Based on the beloved video game franchise,…

Super Mario Sunshine Joins Nintendo Switch Online GameCube

Super Mario Sunshine is the next classic GameCube title joining Nintendo Switch Online’s classic game catalog. The 2002 platformer arrives on August 13. Super Mario Sunshine sees Mario and friends travel to the tropical Delfino Island, where an imposter known as Shadow Mario vandalizes the destination with graffiti and abducts Princess Peach. Mario teams up…

Hank Green Admits To Using AI After Fan Backlash Over Recent Video

Longtime YouTuber and science content creator Hank Green has announced that his main channel will likely be “paused” as he deals with his admitted overreliance on ChatGPT and other AI tools after some fans claimed a recent video included him reading AI-generated language. On July 29, a new episode of Ask Hank Anything was uploaded…

League of Legends Classic reminds us why we loved the old game and why we left it behind

Cecilia writes about gaming, esports, and entertainment, powered by curiosity, questionable League plays, and an ever-growing music backlog. Published: July 31, 2026 After playing League of Legends for more than a decade, I have experienced almost every version of the game. I remember just how long it took to find a match back then; I…

The Anime-Inspired Racer ‘Screamer’ Has Been Rated For Switch 2

Screamer, the arcade-style racing game set in an anime-inspired dystopian world, could be on its way to Switch 2 in the future. A rating has been spotted on the USK in Germany for a Nintendo version of the game. This “high-speed” game, which is filled with “merciless combat and a gripping storyline”, launched on other…

Pokemon Go August 2026 Events: Raid Bosses, Spotlight Hours, Pokemon Debuts, And More

August has arrived, marking the final month of Pokemon Go‘s Forever Forward season. The mobile game is closing the season out with a host of events and Pokemon debuts over the next few weeks, including the arrival of some big new monsters like Gigantamax Rillaboom and Mega Starmie. On top of that, players have a…

Popular 2024 PS5 RPG 60% Off on PS Store, Lowest Price

A fan favorite 2024 Square Enix PS5 action RPG is 60% off in a limited-time PS Store deal that will end in two weeks. A sequel to 2020’s Final Fantasy VII Remake, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is at its lowest price in the ongoing Summer Sale. Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is under $20 in limited-time…

Palworld 1.0 review: A solid creature collector with a mild identity crisis

As a child of the ’90s-era pocket monster craze, I had what I suspect historians will call Monster-Taming Madness. A not-so-terrible, but sort of annoying affliction that meant I always had a Tamagotchi in my pocket, a handful of Pokémon cards, and the entire Spice Girls discography on standby for summoning creatures from discs in…

The Video Games And More You Should Play This Weekend – July 31

If you are even casually familiar with anime broadly, then you know about isekai, which is a genre where a typically contemporary person gets transported to an alternate, typically magical world. The actual getting transported part doesn’t matter as the bulk of the story is about coming to terms with being in a fantasy setting…

Twitch Streamer Ludwig Appears As An NPC In A Chinese FMV Game

Streamer Ludwig Ahgren has abandoned his position as one of the top streamers on Twitch to don a blonde wig and take up his new calling as an NPC in the Chinese video game Road To Empress II. Earlier this week, the game announced that Ludwig would appear in the game posting pictures of him…