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Resident Evil debuts at 97% on Rotten Tomatoes — and just reset the franchise ceiling

The Other Mommy teasers are selling a feeling, not a plot

Blizzard keeps answering the WoW 2 question by never building it

Angel’s Egg finally gets the 4K shelf moment it deserves

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A 1996 Resident Evil PS1 copy just sold for $93,940 — retro horror collecting has entered a different universe

An $8,500 Boba Fett figure proves the package can be rarer than the toy

Bill Skarsgård is leading Hideo Kojima’s Physint — and the casting tells us what kind of game Kojima wants this to be

Coherence is suddenly a streaming hit 13 years later — cult movies keep getting second lives

A Roblox survival hit is going to the movies — and the adaptation pipeline has quietly changed direction

GTA 6 gets vinyl, splatter variants and retail exclusives. The game itself gets no disc at all.

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Deep Field Ranger — loose figure

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