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Nickelodeon released a SpongeBob and Star Trek Prodigy character mashup. The Internet reacted about as well as you would expect to such a bizarre pairing. Janeway, Dal, Gwynala, Rok-Tahk, Zero, and Chakotay are all mixed with SpongeBob, Patrick, Squidward, Mr. Krabs, and Gary. It’s some weird times, but surreal imagery does absolute numbers on the Internet. Especially imagery that might keep you up at night. Check out more of the wild mashup down below....

A thief stole a massive haul of Pokemon cards by tunneling through the wall of a game store. Last week, a game thief broke into Punch Out Gaming in Forest Lake, Minnesota and cleared out two storage rooms full of Pokemon card products valued at $250,000. While the store had a security system, the alarm wasn’t triggered as the thief didn’t enter in through a door or window. Much of the merchandise is new product, which is hard to replace due to high demand and a lack of stock from distributors....

For a limited time, Pokemon Center is offering a free Professor Willow card from the Pokemon Trading Card Game with qualifying purchases. The character should be familiar to Pokemon Go players, and fans of the mobile game can actually use the card to get Special Research in the mobile game! The Special Research will be available in Pokemon Go starting in July, but the offer is live on Pokemon Center right now, while supplies last....

Seinfeld is moving — not to Del Boca Vista, but to Netflix. All nine seasons and all 180 episodes of “this fall’s hottest new show” will be available for streaming starting October 1 on Netflix, two years after the streamer won the rights for $500 million in 2019. Yada, yada, yada, a trailer for the Emmy-winning series on Netflix (re)introduces four New York friends: the comedian (Jerry Seinfeld as Jerry Seinfeld), the coward (Jason Alexander as George Costanza), the cynic (Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Elaine Benes), and the wild card (Michael Richards as Kramer)....

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is finally here and it marks the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s first origin story in many years to feature an all-new cast of characters. While Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is similar to Black Panther in its approach to storytelling, even T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman) made his debut in Captain America: Civil War, and while Captain Marvel (Brie Larson) was introduced in her own solo film, the movie had the familiarity of strong Marvel presences such as Nick Fury (Samuel L....

The Mighty Thor: Out of Time has been stealth released ahead of Jane Foster’s arrival in Marvel’s Avengers on June 28. Marvel’s Avengers fans finally have a release date for The Mighty Thor, the game’s next character, and first since Spider-Man was added last fall. Of course, Spider-Man was only added to the PS4 and PS5 versions of the game, so for some, this will be the first new character since Black Panther was added....

Tonikawa: Over the Moon for You has announced Season 2 is currently in the works! The anime debut for Kenjiro Hata’s original manga series was one of the few anime premieres that held up the 2020 slate of releases during the COVID pandemic era, and fans had been wondering whether or not a second was on the way as a follow up had neither been announced following the end of the first season nor has there been any word on the new season until now....

The coronavirus pandemic might have resulted in some of the year’s biggest conventions being scrapped in 2020, but that isn’t stopping Topps from hosting WinterCon this weekend, delivering fans the latest news and updates about their various digital trader apps, while also hosting exciting panels and interviews with some of the biggest names in pop culture. From stars of The Mandalorian to WWE Superstars to Marvel artists, WinterCon brings the traditional convention experience to the comfort of your own home, while also offering exclusive insight into all of their apps....

WWE will hold its next episode of SmackDown on Christmas Eve, and thus they recently taped that episode ahead of time. Since there was an audience there, spoilers were bound to get out, and indeed they have, so if you want to go into SmackDown without knowing you might want to just head here to get the full lineup of next week’s big matches. If you want to know the results of SmackDown though (from Twitter user TheQumarZaman), you can just keep reading....

The developer of Abandoned has stated it’s not proud of the PS5 app that it released last summer. Abandoned has been one long rollercoaster of emotions since its announcement. When it was revealed, it was a seemingly normal indie horror game about someone stranded in the woods, but then things got weird. People started coming up with wild conspiracy theories suggesting Abandoned was actually a new secret game from Hideo Kojima, perhaps Konami recruited this developer to make a new Silent Hill, and so much more....

Activision Blizzard Studios has laid off a number of employees from its esports division. According to Variety, the layoffs are a result of the coronavirus pandemic, which has made in-person events impossible over the last year. While Activision Blizzard’s esports events have continued in an online capacity, it will likely be some time before there can be a return to in-person competitions. The world has made great strides in vaccine production, but the video game industry has been cautious in regards to announcing any in-person events for the duration of 2021....

The band that plays music for Cyberpunk 2077’s Samurai had no idea that Keanu Reeves was involved. Refused are the faces behind the sound of Johnny Silverhand’s band in the wildly-discussed game. Inverse managed to sit down with the band to talk about bringing that dystopia sound to life. The most surprising nugget in the interview is the fact that they were unaware that the Matrix star was playing the character at all....

Loki is sneaking around at Avengers Campus and Disney brought out some new pictures of him. It only makes sense that Thor’s brother would be up and about at the theme park with all the other MCU characters. So, after you say hi to Sam Wilson near the front of the entrance, you can start looking around for the god of mischief in his new TVA windbreaker. (No word on if you can buy that just yet, but we’re going to assume that’s coming along shortly....

Loki star Sophia Di Martino is grateful to the designers at Marvel Studios for seriously taking into consideration her status as a new mother. In a recent social media post, Sophia Di Martino let Loki fans on a behind-the-scenes secret about her costume as Sylvie, the female variant Loki: it was made with a system of concealed zippers so that Martino was able to both breastfeed her baby or pump breastmilk in between takes while filming the show....

Police in Gavelston Texas actually had to take a man into custody as he strode along the beach in a Michael Myers mask. Galveston News reports that Mark Metzler, an attorney from the area, dressed up as the Halloween character. He walked in the sand with a bloody knife, and that sparked all the attention. After someone walked dialed 911, the police stepped in. Spokesperson Stacy Papillion said that the authorities received a call about a figure walking around with a weapon....

Dwayne Johnson was on hand to hype Team USA up at the beginning of The Olympics. Yes, the games are going on in Tokyo and a lot of people are tuning into the spectacle. With everything else going on in the world, The Great One stepped to the mic for NBC to deliver an “electrifying” tribute to the people representing the United States in athletic contests. Before the athletes even hit the arena, there was the live pre-recorded message from the former WWE Champion talking about the sacrifices these individuals had to make to get to this point....

Pokemon Unite will be released next week as a free download for the Nintendo Switch. Nintendo announced that its upcoming MOBA-style game Pokemon Unite will be released for the Nintendo Switch on July 21st. Pokemon Unite will be free to download for all players, although it does comes with in-game purchases that allow players to unlock Pokemon and outfits using paid in-game currency. Additionally, any player who downloads and logs into the game by August 31st will receive the Mythical Pokemon Zeraora for free....

Halloween celebrations might not be fully underway quite yet, as many horror fans are still enjoying the last few weeks of summer, but streaming service Shudder is making sure that subscribers have plenty of frightening titles to check out as temperatures start to drop, with the platform unveiling their slate of debuts for September. As is usually the case with the service, September will see the debut of original and exclusive films, new seasons of series, and an impressive catalog of beloved titles that you won’t find anywhere else....

AEW president Tony Khan was a recent guest on Barstool Sports’ My Mom’s Basement podcast, where he named off some of his personal choices for the Best of 2021. For Match of the Year, Khan went with the Britt Baker vs. Thunder Rosa Lights Out Match from St. Patrick’s Day Slam and the Steel Cage Match between The Young Bucks and Lucha Brothers at the All Out pay-per-view. Khan picked CM Punk’s AEW debut and Bryan Danielson & Adam Cole’s surprise arrivals at All Out for best moments, then for Breakout Performer of the Year he named AEW Women’s World Champion Dr....

Rockstar Games announced a new membership program for GTA Online called GTA+ this week. Through this subscription service, GTA Online players will earn themselves a number of different benefits including monthly payouts of GTA$, vehicle upgrades, exclusive discounts, and more. It’s going to cost $5.99 a month, Rockstar Games said, and will begin on March 29th with the first month of rewards already detailed. What’s more, it’s a feature that’ll be limited only to the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S platforms, so you’ll have to have one of the newer versions of the game if you want to subscribe and get these benefits....