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Blame Modern TV For Star Wars: The Acolyte's Cancellation
20.8.2024
The Acolyte wasn’t perfect, but it did break new narrative ground in Star Wars, a franchise often haunted by Force ghosts and endlessly recurring characters. Led by Leslye Headland, the Disney+ series dared to reevaluate decades-old tropes, unpack the flaws of the Jedi Order, and play with...
Disney Cancels Star Wars: The Acolyte After Just One Season
20.8.2024
Star Wars: The Acolyte was a divisive, uneven, and daring stab at a different type of Jedi story. But decent reviews and an average viewership apparently wasn’t enough to convince Disney to invest in its future. The streaming platform is canceling Acolyte after just one season.Read more
The Acolyte Episode 8 Review: Torn Between Risk And Safety
22.7.2024
The Acolyte is done, and now we are left to ask: In the sea of content that we are flooded with, does the finale achieve something deeper than just continuing to sell us the Star Wars brand? Partially, yes. It gives us reveals that could have been delivered episodes earlier, action that would have...
Star Wars: The Acolyte Gives Reylo Fans The Romance They Always Wanted
19.7.2024
The Star Wars fandom is a fraught, fervent place. In the modern age, online communities rallying around franchises are often composed of numerous splinter groups, and Star Wars is no exception—it’s got far-right reactionaries, original trilogy boomers, millennial prequel loyalists, Gen Z animated...
Star Wars: The Acolyte Is Doing A Different Kind Of Fan-Service, And It Rocks
3.7.2024
The Acolyte, much like its main characters, resists definition and placement in Star Wars’ decades-long legacy, and that is its biggest strength. The Disney+ series ticks many boxes that the more traditional, masculine fans of the franchise have been begging for for years (High Republic lore, rare...
Elden Ring Helped Inspire The Acolyte's Hot Sith Baddie
2.7.2024
Have you also been gnawing on the bars of your enclosure since the most recent episode of The Acolyte? If so, it might surprise you to discover that part of the inspiration for the show’s great mystery is the game that everybody’s playing right now.Read more
The Acolyte Episode 5 Review: Stunning Battles, Shallow Characters
1.7.2024
After a slow episode 4, The Acolyte turns the volume all the way up on lightsaber battles with an episode that is worth every minute of screen time and then some. Featuring perhaps the best lightsaber choreography in Star Wars history, here the action takes priority over plot and character...
The Latest Acolyte Episode Is Star Wars At Its Most Sexy, Deadly
26.6.2024
Star Wars is a lot of things, but it is rarely sexy. A few things spring to mind: Anakin Skywalker’s bare chest after a nightmare, Padme’s midriff in the fighting pit, or a sidelong glance from Han Solo, but in recent history the franchise has been somewhat devoid of sex and death. Kylo Ren and...
The Acolyte Episode Two Review: Exploring The Gray Between Light And Dark
25.6.2024
Full disclosure: While I’m aware of The Acolyte’s interconnectivity to the Star Wars: High Republic comic books, I’ve only read a few issues and don’t follow the back and forth with the intensity of a “serious fan.” I’m watching the show on its own merits, and at least so far, am impressed by...
The Last Of Us' Pedro Pascal Is Reportedly Done With Season 2 Already
26.3.2024
Season 2 of HBO’s The Last of Us is currently filming in the Canadian province of British Columbia and Pedro Pascal, who plays post-apocalypse dad Joel Miller, has reportedly finished all of his parts just one month after filming began. If you’ve played Naughty Dog’s TLOU Part II, then you probably...
18 Things We Learned From The Acolyte Trailer
19.3.2024
The first trailer for Disney’s latest Star Wars show, The Acolyte, is here and it’s teasing a murder mystery and a whole lot more Jedi than we’ve seen in quite some time. Set in the final days of the High Republic era—a rare time of peace and prosperity in the Star Wars canon—The Acolyte follows...
New Star Wars Show The Acolyte Is Out Sooner Than You Thought
18.3.2024
It’s official. The next live-action Star Wars that’ll hit your eyeballs is The Acolyte, and it’s coming sooner than you may think. Disney just revealed a teaser poster for the show with an intriguing tagline, lightsaber, and the release date of June 4. Oh, and the trailer is coming Tuesday.Read more
The Last Of Us Show Casts Abby's Friends And Ellie's Targets
1.3.2024
HBO’s live-action The Last of Us show is shooting its second season now. Casting news for the its take on The Last of Us Part II has been gradually rolling out, with No One Can Save You’s Kaitlyn Dever joining the series as co-protagonist Abby, and Madame Web’s Isabela Merced and Beef’s Young...
11 Essential Tips For TLOU 2's Roguelike Mode, No Return
19.1.2024
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The Last Of Us Part II’s Roguelike Mode Is Resident Evil’s Mercenaries With Clickers
5.12.2023
The Last of Us Part II Remastered will add a fair bit of new features to Naughty Dog’s PlayStation 4 swan song when it comes to PlayStation 5. This includes cut levels, a guitar free-play mode, and commentary from the development team. But the big headliner of the re-release is a roguelike mode...
Manny Pacquiao Foundation to Use Shibarium For Fundraising and Operations
15.11.2023
Source: Pixabay Legendary boxer Manny Pacquiao’s philanthropic foundation is set to use the Shiba Inu ecosystem’s blockchain Shibarium for fundraising and operational activities. Shibarium developers told CoinDesk that the Manny Pacquiao Foundation, founded by eight-division World Boxing Champion...
Former Boxing Champ Manny Pacquiao’s Foundation Will Use Shibarium for Its Operations
15.11.2023
The charitable foundation established by the eight-time WBC champion will use the Shibarium blockchain to optimize fundraising, distribution, and other operations
Looks Like Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2’s Full Character Roster Has Leaked
2.8.2023
A new image of what appears to be the entire character roster for upcoming fighter Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 has seemingly leaked online, giving players a huge look at who else will be fighting alongside Garfield and SpongeBob SquarePants. Read more
I Regret To Inform You It Is Once Again Time To Get Sad About Titanfall 3
14.6.2023
The last time we wrote about Titanfall 3 on this website was April 2023, which really, isn’t that long ago. So it pains me to say that, only a few months later, it is again time to talk about Titanfall 3. Specifically, a designer’s recounting of how the game was actually months into development...
Team Fortress 2 Fans Inconsolable After PC Gaming Show Snub
14.6.2022
Some poor Team Fortress 2 players—beleaguered by bots, stomachs growling from the game’s lack of major updates—wrongly believed they would finally get a dose of good news after spotting the Engineer character in a promotional image for PC Gamer’s PC Gaming Show on June 12. They did not.Read more