Entertainment Archive

Amazon MGM Studios greenlit three shows as part of its GenAI Creators’ Fund, which gives producers access to the company’s AI filmmaking platform. The projects include Cupcake & Friends from BuzzFeed Studios; Love, Diana Music Hunters from former Nickelodeon exec Albie Hecht; and Punky Duck from animator Jorge R. Gutierrez.

Over the last few months, I’ve written stories with the headlines “Waiting to buy a game console will cost you,” “Everything about buying video games is getting more confusing and expensive,” and “The future of game consoles is looking bleak.” And the costs just keep going up: the Steam Deck is now $200 more expensive. Whew!

Its new Music v2 model can generate songs that can switch from opera to heavy metal mid-track, while handling faster rap delivery and non-musical sound effects, according to ElevenLabs. The new model is available today and is trained “only on licensed data and cleared for commercial use.”

Marvel’s animated throwback X-Men ’97 will be back very soon, streaming on Disney Plus on July 1st. We also got a new trailer to remind you just how dire things are currently for the mutant team.

The latest trainer for writer / director Jane Schoenbrun’s slasher thriller Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is as spellbinding at it is deeply, deeply messed up.

The redesign, which Roku first started testing last year, puts a new Quick Access section at the top of the page with shortcuts to your most-used apps, followed by a personalized Top Picks row with show and movie recommendations.

During a brief presentation, Square Enix showed a first look at the long-in-the-works RPG, but also revealed that they had to “restart” development, so it’s going to be even longer before launch. It currently doesn’t have a release date. But hey: a new DQ Monsters is on the way.

Tap the scissors icon, trim your clip, and then save it to your library, where it can be shared from a dedicated “Your Clips” collection that houses all of your saved clips.

The Vatican and Ferrari go way back, so a little cross promotion of the all-electric Luce is to be expected. But not even divine intervention will pacify Ferrari fans eager for a return of sharp, aggressive lines. Still, I think we can all agree that it looks better than the all-electric G-Class popemobile which also cost half a million dollars.

MLB The Show Mobile, a mobile version of Sony’s baseball franchise, has officially been released worldwide (except in Japan) on iOS and Android. In the game, you put make a team from player cards (“including current stars and all-time greats”) and then use that deck in solo and multiplayer modes.

Knicks fans are certainly an eccentric bunch. One of them felt the need to bust out his laptop to record himself celebrating outside Madison Square Gardens after the Knicks swept the Cleveland Cavaliers. Hope it wasn’t a work laptop!