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Hayden Panettiere Comes Out as Bisexual Six Days Before Her Memoir Drops
Hayden Panettiere announced she is bisexual today in an interview with Us Weekly. Her memoir, This Is Me: A Reckoning, drops May 12. Today is May 6. The announcement lands exactly six days before the book hits shelves.
Slay the Spire 2 Had the Biggest Indie Launch in Steam History, But Hired Anita Sarkeesian To Consult
On March 5, 2026, Mega Crit released Slay the Spire 2 into Early Access on Steam for $24.99. Within 24 hours it had 282,000 concurrent players. By March 8 that number hit 574,638 — the biggest launch of 2026 on Steam by a wide margin, placing the game in the all-time top 20 most-played titles in platform history. It outsold Resident Evil Requiem, Marath…
Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 Ends With a Bang Nobody Watched
Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 wrapped last night with its finale, “The Southern Cross,” and the creative team delivered the most overtly political season of any live-action Marvel project to date. The showrunners said so themselves before a single episode aired.
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Comedian Owen Benjamin Opens Up About His Cancelation And Talks His New Book
Owen Benjamin may be one of the funniest men alive. His comedy is so poignant that it seemed at one point nothing could stop his career trajectory. Some even allege that Dave Chappelle steals his jokes. However, like many who ran afoul of The Narrative, one day Benjamin was canceled and found his life forever changed.
Gina Carano On Kathleen Kennedy: “I Wish Her the Best.”
Gina Carano’s Hollywood Reporter interview dropped this week, and the most revealing thing in it was what she didn’t say. Asked about Kathleen Kennedy, the Lucasfilm president who presided over her firing in February 2021, Carano kept it short. “I wish her the best,” she said. She added that she hoped Kennedy would one day write a book or become the sub…
The Complete C.J. Cherryh Reading Guide: Where to Start and How to Navigate One of SF’s Biggest Universes
C.J. Cherryh wrote over 80 novels across four decades. She won the Hugo Award twice, for Downbelow Station and Cyteen. Her Alliance-Union future history alone spans 27 novels, seven shared-world anthologies, and a collected short fiction volume. If you’re standing at the edge of that and wondering where to jump in, this is your map.
GTA 6’s CEO Is “Terrified” and His Workers Are Pulling 3AM Shifts While Bankers Want to Charge You $80
Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick said this at the iicon conference in Las Vegas on April 28, when asked how the company will measure GTA 6’s success:
Nobody Is Watching the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy and Disney May Be Done Pretending Otherwise
Nielsen data released around Star Wars Day tells a story Disney has been avoiding for years. U.S. viewers watched 33 billion minutes of Star Wars content in 2025. The top three most-streamed titles were A New Hope, The Phantom Menace, and Rogue One. Not one sequel trilogy film cracked the top ten.
Marvel Is Relaunching Brand New Day and Hoping You Forgot How Much You Hated It
Marvel Comics is relaunching Brand New Day this month. Dan Slott returns to write it. The promotional copy calls the era “one of the most transformative times in Spider-Man comic book history” and “beloved by fans.” That is not how fans remember it.
The People Who Make Magic: The Gathering Are Unionizing, But Hasbro Said No.
A supermajority of Magic: The Gathering Arena developers announced their union last week, affiliated with the Communications Workers of America. They called themselves United Wizards of the Coast. They gave Hasbro until May 1st to voluntarily recognize it. Hasbro said nothing.