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While there had been talk about this series in the general MCU thread, it seemed fair for it to have its own thread - just as several other MCU series have dedicated threads of their own. That said, if there was a dedicated stand-alone thread for this series already which I failed to spot...

While this sob-board tends to get new threads started each year for Major League Baseball - see this thread for the 2024 season - I thought it might be an option to have a place where other non-MLB leagues and tournaments could be discussed, were anyone so interested. But before I go any...

The long-running Assassin's Creed game franchise is heading to Japan: (The audio track can be set to the Japanese dub in the above trailer, in case anyone wishes to hear it.) ----- Two of the game's developers talk here about their choice of playable characters: No gameplay trailer just...

The Gilded Age is a series on HBO (or on Crave in Canada), set during the, erm... Gilded Age: Season 2 started not so long ago, and at this time of typing is still being aired: It's from Julian Fellowes, who is perhaps most well known for being the creator of Downton Abbey. Although I...

A new iteration of the Steam Deck, with an OLED screen (and a few other things), is due out in the US and Canada next week: How much of an upgrade is it from the original model? No word yet on when it might start to show up in other territories, however.

In the wake of Nintendo and Illumination's great success with the Mario movie, Nintendo and Sony (yes, Sony!) are now working on a Legend of Zelda live-action motion picture. No word yet on which iteration of the Zelda franchise might be drawn from, though I might wonder if the success of...

Super Mario Bros. Wonder, the most recent 2D Mario game, was released last week on the Nintendo Switch: This video takes a closer look at what differentiates it from its predecessors: Has anyone here given it a try, or might do so at some later point?

The long-awaited sequel to 2017's The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Tears of the Kingdom is due out for the Nintendo Switch on the 12th of May 2023: There are a few new gameplay mechanics this time around: And a themed OLED model to match: So, is anyone here looking forward to...

As demonstrated in the 2023 World Baseball Classic, the standard of play in Nippon Professional Baseball is worthy of note: the victorious Samurai Japan had a healthy mix of NPB and MLB talent on the roster. But beyond this, the 2023 NPB season is the first in which Es Con Field, the new home...

Gunboats Attack, an expansion module for Amarillo Design Bureau's Federation Commander game system, was recently released in PDF form at Warehouse 23, DriveThruRPG, and Wargame Vault. In the Star Fleet Universe, gunboats, or fast patrol ships, are more akin to a miniature starship than they are...

Marvel's Midnight Suns is an XCOM-like tactics RPG, currently being developed by the producers of the XCOM franchise itself, Firaxis Games: This game is getting a number of tie-ins to other forms of media, to include an ongoing series of animated prequel shorts: So, is anyone here...

The Star Fleet Universe is both the collection of games published by Amarillo Design Bureau (to include the tactical starship combat games Star Fleet Battles and Federation Commander, the strategic-level war game Federation and Empire, and the Prime Directive pen-and-paper RPG) as well as the...

The Cuphead Show! is inspired by a notoriously difficult indie game from a few years back - which itself was inspired by the "rubber-hose" animation of the 1930s. The first batch of episodes were recently added to Netflix, with more reportedly on the way. Also, if some of the comments in the...

The Gilded Age is an HBO series (to be streamed on Crave in Canada) set during the so-named era of U.S. history. The series was created by Julian Fellowes, though it is (so far as I'm aware) not intended to be connected to Downton Abbey story-wise. Is anyone here going to be keeping an eye out...

Apologies if I should have posted this in a pre-existing thread, such as this one: but I've been thinking of late as to whether or not one of the current (or forthcoming) series might benefit from taking a second look at the Breen. In terms of who (or what) they are as a species, there is...

The VALORANT IP is set on a near-future Earth in the wake of the Terrigen MistFirst Light: a worldwide event which has led to the emergence of InhumansRadiants, as well as the emergence of S.H.I.E.L.D.the VALORANT Protocol in order to try and keep tabs on things. The game itself is a 5 vs 5...

Riot Forge is the label used by Riot Games for games produced by third-party game studios which are set in the League of Legends multiverse. Well, I say multiverse, though so far it appears that most of the announced Riot Forge games are set in the "core" Runeterra Prime universe. At the time...

As the above video suggests, SnowRunner involves driving a series of real-world trucks and other such vehicles across different parts of North America and Russia. The base game has three such regions to visit, with several others added in the year 1 and year 2 expansion passes. Has anyone here...

The first episode of E4's revival of GamesMaster, a UK-based video game-related series from the 1990s, has been made available on the E4 YouTube channel: This time around, the role of the Games Master is portrayed by Sir Trevor McDonald; whereas the original series had only one host at a...

Trese is a six-part animated series on Netflix, adapted from a series of graphic novels created, published, and set in the Philippines. The lead character, Alexandra Trese, is voiced by Shay Mitchell in the English dub and by Liza Soberano in the Tagalog version. (Although the lead character...