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Hulu’s animated MODOK series looks like Robot Chicken meets Marvel

Hulu has released the first trailer for MODOK, its upcoming animated show that will see Patton Oswalt voice the titular Marvel villain in a more light-hearted, Robot Chicken-style take on the franchise’s usual portentous superhero dramas. The show also got a release date: it’ll debut on May 21st on the streaming service. MODOK (Mental Organism… Read more

Disney Plus

Our Verdict A well-stocked, easy-to-navigate catalogue of new and original content that Disney fans are bound to enjoy For Huge, intuitive catalogue 4K, HDR10 and Dolby Atmos/Vision Vast device support Against Poor 4K HDR discovery Once upon a time, a man called Walt Disney founded Walt Disney Studios with his brother and became one of… Read more

HGiG explained: what is HGiG? How do you get it? And should you use it?

Home Advice (Image credit: LG / Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Sony) While gaming formats such as 4K@120Hz, VRR and ALLM are now getting plenty of attention, one that you may not have heard of is HGiG. That might partly be because HGiG isn’t really a format (at least not yet), but rather a set of… Read more

Star Wars: The Bad Batch and Mighty Ducks get Disney Plus release dates

Disney Plus is getting a ton of new shows in the next few months, with Disney releasing the schedule of premiere dates for new original shows for March through July. Along with shows like The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, which has already been announced for March 19th, the new list also gives concrete release… Read more

Marvel’s Loki series will premiere on Disney Plus on June 11th

Loki, the Tom Hiddleston-starring series about Asgard’s god of mischief, will land on Disney Plus on June 11th, Marvel Studios announced today. The series was described by Marvel Studios as a “crime thriller” in December during Disney’s big streaming investor day. It follows Loki as he faces off against the Time Variance Authority, otherwise known… Read more

Disney Plus Star line-up now live! Here’s everything you can watch

Home News (Image credit: Disney Plus) Today’s a good day for Disney Plus subscribers, who now have access to hundreds more hours of Disney content than they did yesterday thanks to the launch of Disney Star. Over on the House of Mouse streaming service, next to the existing Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars and National… Read more

Today I learned how the Daft Punk robot helmets were created

As a visual artist who also makes beats in the anonymity of my bedroom, I’ve always wondered how Daft Punk managed to craft not only their music, but their visual presence. A masterpiece unto itself, the Daft Punk helmets transform two anonymous musicians into otherworldly beings. Arbiters of funk and electro. Ambassadors of sound. Gods… Read more

Street Fighter icons Chun-Li and Ryu are joining Fortnite

Famous video game fighter Chun-Li may not be in the new Mortal Kombat movie, but she and fellow Street Fighter icon Ryu will be playable characters in Fortnite soon. Both Chun-Li and Ryu will be available in Fortnite’s in-game shop on Saturday, February 20th at 7PM ET. Chun-Li and Ryu aren’t the first video game… Read more

Disney Plus went down for some subscribers right when WandaVision’s new episode hit

Some Disney Plus users trying to watch WandaVision the minute it landed were met with loading issues as outage problems affected the streaming platform. A number of accounts mostly located on the West Coast of the United States were affected by a surge in traffic on the platform that caused an outage of roughly 10… Read more

Like The Mandalorian, WandaVision will get its own documentary on Disney Plus

Following in the footsteps of The Mandalorian and Frozen 2, Disney is giving WandaVision a behind-the-scenes documentary that will air on Disney Plus on March 12th. Assembled: The Making of WandaVision is the first in a new series streaming on Disney Plus that will go “behind the scenes of the series and movies of the… Read more

New trailers: Old, Nomadland, The Vault, and more

Today’s big drop was the premiere trailer for Zack Snyder’s Justice League which, fortunately for weekend editors everywhere, came just after 10AM ET. It comes to HBO Max March 18th. Last weekend during the Super Bowl we got a new trailer for the upcoming Disney Plus series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, which premieres… Read more

In WandaVision’s new episode, somebody thinks of the children

WandaVision is moving closer to its endgame, as SWORD clashes with Wanda, Vision continues to question his reality, and the mystery of who is actually behind the Westview Hex grows. But as we get closer to getting those answers, WandaVision has also started to lay the groundwork in this week’s episode for whatever might come… Read more

Disney Plus reaches 95m subscribers ahead of schedule

Home News (Image credit: Disney) Disney Plus is growing quicker than expected. The streaming service has 94.9 million subscribers already, Disney announced during its Q1 2021 earnings call. When it launched in November 2019, the service aimed to reach 90 million subscribers within four years, but has already passed that goal after just over a… Read more

Tron invades Fortnite with Light Cycles and new skins

Today Epic revealed the latest crossover for its battle royale hit, which brings the retrofuturistic world of Tron into the game. There are ten different Tron-themed skins available in the in-game store right now, and each has a removable helmet. You can also get a Light Cycle glider and an Identity Disc pickaxe. It’s not… Read more

Disney Plus hits 94.9 million subscribers, beating its four-year goal in 14 months

Disney Plus reached a new high of 94.9 million subscribers around the world, the company announced in its Q1 2021 earnings report. Hulu now has 39.4 million subscribers, while ESPN Plus has 12.1 million subscribers. The strong numbers for Disney Plus show a noticeable jump from the 86 million subscribers Disney announced it had reached… Read more