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Scout Comics has announced its slate of NYCC collectibles and signing schedule. The rising comics publisher has big plans for the convention, including a number of ashcan previews, including signed copies of Eternus, a new comics series by Venom 2 director Andy Serkis and Andrew Levitas. Also available are ashcan previews by She Bites by Heather Hale, Totality by Brendan Deneen and Mauricio Melo, The Bones of the God by Deneen and Melo, and Trim Season by Execution Posse Entertainment....

Heritage Auctions has seemingly set another record for itself with its auction of a sealed copy of Super Mario 64 for the Nintendo 64 today, which ultimately went for the whopping amount of $1,560,000. The video game, which was graded as a 9.8 A++ on the Wata grading scale, is just the latest video game auction to hit huge numbers over the last year. For reference, a sealed copy of Super Mario Bros....

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 teasers and clips have been plentiful in the leadup to the movie’s April release, and now, we’ve gotten yet another poster for the movie. While some of the others we’ve seen in the past have featured the characters in a piecemeal fashion by giving one poster to one character each, this one unites pretty much every main character under one banner. The official social accounts for the Sonic the Hedgehog 2 movie also announced alongside this poster reveal that a giveaway for tickets that’ll allow several Sonic fans to see the new movie ahead of its April 8th release date....

One Netflix series is on track to beat The Queen’s Gambit as the most-watched limited series on the platform. No, it’s not Squid Game. Maid is a series that stars Margaret Qualley and Andie McDowell. The drama has captivated 67 million households as told by Netflix. October saw the show get off the ground and it doesn’t show any signs of slowing down. Sex/Life and Stranger Things had similar performances according to estimates and those two have serious fanbases that viewers know about....

Come this fall, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim will turn 11 years old. Despite releasing all the way back in 2011, two console generations ago, it’s still played by many. There are a few things that contribute to this. For one, it’s still the latest mainline installment in the series. It’s either play The Elder Scrolls Online, Skyrim, or go even further back into the series’ history to play games like Oblivion or Morrowind....

Wendy’s will be giving out free food to customers all throughout the month of September. In honor of NFL Football season kicking off (pun intended), Wendy’s has created a promotion geared toward helping football fans eat well during their weekly game viewings. Every weekend during September 2021, consumers can use Wendy’s app to get free orders of either Spicy or Crispy chicken nuggets, or a free breakfast sandwich (choices including the Sausage, Egg & Cheese sandwich; Bacon, Egg & Cheese sandwich; or Honey Butter Chicken Biscuit)....

The brand split between Monday Night Raw and Friday Night SmackDown was re-established back in 2016, setting a clear dividing line between the rosters of the Red and Blue Brand. Over the years, WWE has flirted with weakening or effectively killing the split, whether it be the Wild Card Rule and the Brand-to-Brand invitational. But lately, WWE has seemingly ignored it entirely, allowing wrestlers to cross brands to challenge for championships or continue storylines (See Sami Zayn’s involvement in a six-man tag match to open this week’s Raw)....

RKBro has defeated AJ Styles and Omos to become the new Raw Tag Team Champions! There were quite a few questions leading into the SummerSlam pay-per-view event this year because not only is it a much bigger venue and crowd than fans saw at WrestleMania 37, but many of the matches feel bigger as well. But while there were many questions and variables going into the matchers, there was one in particular that pretty much seemed to have a definite result as RKBro has been building up to a huge new win following weeks of back and forth between Matt Riddle and Randy Orton....

American Horror Story: Double Feature is in full swing with the first part of the the two-part tenth season, “Red Tide”, delivering a vampire story to fans of the long-running horror anthology series. The season’s first three episodes established that there’s a dark secret in Provincetown as various residents take a mysterious black pill that gives them creativity, but turns them to bloodsuckers in the process - or worse if you happen to not have any talent....

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla developer Ubisoft has revealed what new additions will be coming to the game in its next major update. This update in question, which is version 1.3.1, is slated to begin rolling out tomorrow and will seemingly contain a bit more new content than we have become accustomed to with updates in the past. We can’t give everything away just yet, but the upcoming game update may or may not include:...

The Genshin Impact Version 1.5 update, “Beneath the Light of Jadite,” is set to release this week on April 28th and bring with it a bunch of new content – including new characters that have officially been announced like Eula and Yanfei. New updates also tend to mean new leaks when it comes to Genshin Impact, however, with the latest of these revealing a five-star Anemo-attuned sword user named Kiryu Kazuha....

After a bit of a wait, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is finally expected to begin production at the end of this year. There’s already been a lot of speculation about the threequel, which will likely mark James Gunn’s final movie within the franchise. Karen Gillan (Nebula) recently shared that the third installment of the Guardians trilogy is “so emotional” that when she read the script along with Pom Klementieff (Mantis), they were both in “floods of tears....

A limited variant cover of Image Comics’ The Secret History of the War On Weed has drawn widespread backlash due to its use of a Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT image. On April 20th, Image Comics announced that it was selling a limited cover version of The Secret History of the War On Weed, a one-shot comic by former Deadpool creative team Brian Posehn, Gerry Duggan & Scott Koblish about a true historical story from America’s so-called War on Drugs....

Kevin Smith is freaking out about WandaVision Episode 5 and that mind-blowing final cameo twist. (MAJOR SPOILERS FOLLOW!) Like every other Marvel Cinematic Universe fan right now, Smith marked out hard about seeing Fox’s X-Men movie star Evan Peters show up in WandaVision as an alternate version of Quicksilver/Pietro Maximoff. Posting on Twitter, Smith let his enthusiasm be felt: “When @wandavision drops, I blaze through it like it’s a infused pre-roll....

Stuntwoman Dayna Grant, who has worked on films and shows like Wonder Woman 1984, Mulan, Mad Max: Fury Road, Xena, and Ash Vs. Evil Dead, was recently injured on set, and now needs emergency brain surgery. Grant then created a givealittle crowdfunding page, revealing more details about the injury, which was diagnosed as an 8mm Aneurysm and an upper spinal injury (via The Wrap). Because of the red tape and delays that come with insurance and liability, she created a crowdfunding page to help with the cost, and Lucy Lawless jumped in to help her friend and co-worker....

MrBeast has made his wild Squid Game course and fans are amazed at the results. For the last few weeks, the YouTuber has made his intentions to make the Netflix hit into a reality known. People watching on social media got their taste this week and the responses are something to behold. Sets are looking massive and a bunch of the different games are represented here. It’s a wild time to be sure....

A new Genshin Impact report has disappointing news pertaining to a character and their future in the PC, PS4, PS5, and mobile game. This week, developer miHoYo released the new and huge 2.0 update, adding a ton of content to the game. Amidst this, players have been distracted with free codes. In fact, so many players have been distracted by the new content and the accompanying free codes that many have missed the latest reports and leaks, including one about Baal, and how the character will not be made playable with the game’s next update like some players are expecting....

Splatoon 3 won’t be releasing on Nintendo Switch for a few more months, but the game’s developers have given fans something to tide them over in the meantime. The franchise’s official Twitter account has pulled back the curtain on a new special weapon that will be available in the game: the Triple Inkstrike! Based on the Inkstrike from the original Splatoon game, the Triple Inkstrike launches three missiles into the air, then the player tosses three beacons, directing them where to strike on the map....

Star Trek: Picard has announced its Season 3 cast in a new video teaser that was released by Paramount+. The real headline here is that in Picard Season 3 Star Trek fans will get the long-awaited reunion of major cast members from the Star Trek: The Next Generation series. Patrick Stewart will be joined onscreen by Jonathan Frakes (Will Riker), LeVar Burton (Geordi La Forge) Brent Spiner (Data), Michael Dorn (Worf) Marina Sirtis (Deanna Troi), and Gates McFadden (Dr....

The Last of Us Part II got a performance patch recently for the PlayStation 5 to improve the framerate which will now be set at 60FPS on the newer console. However, players who downloaded that update and gave the game another shot likely also noticed something else that’d improved: The haptics from the DualSense controller. Kurt Margenau, the co-game director on The Last of Us Part II, confirmed on Twitter that this wasn’t just players’ minds playing tricks on them and that the haptics do indeed feel better in that game now....