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Akane-banashi shouldn’t work as an anime but it’s still Spring’s best overlooked show

For hundreds of years, Japanese performers have practiced a comedic storytelling art known as rakugo (落語). Traditionally staged in intimate yose theaters, rakugo transforms verbal storytelling into a one-man performance where a single actor inhabits multiple characters through subtle gestures, vocal shifts, and timing alone. Performers, or rakugoka, remain seated in the seiza position for…

Pentagon Declassifies More UFO Sightings To A Skeptical Crowd

This week, the Pentagon declassified another large cache of official documents and videos regarding unidentified flying objects. Spanning back decades, these are reports of lights and crafts pulling off maneuvers that should be impossible. These anomalies include bizarre, geometrical formations or pulling off 90 degree turns mid-air. In a Truth Social post, President Donald Trump…

The Five Best Pinball Machines For Beginners

Pinball. The real game of kings. Truly timeless, their design sensibilities date back centuries. Modernized for game halls in the 1930s, these machines have had repeated boom periods. This includes the ‘90s, when they sold the most, and now, as ‘90s kids are get nostalgic and prop up barcades. They also build on each other’s…

Saros Doesn’t Like Being a Roguelike, So Why Is It One?

“ARCADE IS DEAD,” developer Housemarque abruptly decreed in all caps on its blog shortly after Matterfall’s release in 2017. This candid manifesto explained how the team saw no future developing the arcadey games it had specialized in for over two decades and was moving onto different genres. Returnal was the result of this shift in…

Nobody remembers legendary Marvel writer Chris Claremont’s totally unhinged 2001 X-Men comic

You could be forgiven for forgetting that X-Treme X-Men ever happened. After all, it was running concurrently with Grant Morrison’s New X-Men, which is widely regarded as one of the best X-Men comics of all time. X-Treme X-Men might not be the best, but it’s certainly one of the weirdest, and that has to count…

Psychonauts Maker Double Fine Forms Latest Union At Microsoft

Developers at the long-running game studio Double Fine, which was acquired by Microsoft back in 2018, are forming a union. The group, which is best known for Psychonauts and just recently released the pottery battle game Kiln on Game Pass, filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board on May 7 on behalf of…

Super Mario World, The Legend Of Zelda Director Takashi Tezuka Retiring From Nintendo

Takashi Tezuka, the storied director behind games like The Legend of Zelda and Super Mario World, is retiring from Nintendo, the company has revealed. In Nintendo’s latest fiscal report, there is a note titled “Announcement of Personnel Changes of Company Officers,” and within it, news that Tezuka, an executive officer at the company, is retiring…

Fan Updates Nirvanna The Band’s Wii Shop Song For Current Gen

Like most retro gaming fiends, Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol were eating well in the Wii era. Better known as Nirvanna the Band, the two uploaded comedy shorts online before landing a TV show and hit feature film. This included a musical tribute to all the games you could play on Nintendo’s Virtual Console. 15…

Dragon Quest’s creator accidentally revealed when we’ll learn more about Dragon Quest 12

Published May 9, 2026, 1:19 PM EDT We might learn more about Dragon Quest 12 before the end of the month Image: Square Enix Yuji Horii, the creator of Square Enix’s RPG franchise Dragon Quest, just accidentally revealed when fans will learn more about the next games in the series. On a now-delisted episode of the…

As Nintendo Switch 2 Nears 20 Million Units Sold, The Company Expects Sales To Decline Next Fiscal Year

Nintendo has released its latest financial report for Fiscal Year 2026, revealing that it has sold through nearly 20 million Switch 2 units. Despite what Nintendo calls a launch year where “sales reached a level we had not experienced with any of our previous hardware systems” (due to high interest in the Switch console), it…