Another awkward Pedro Pascal moment, this time with actress Sarah Paulson, is going viral for all the wrong reasons. And critics say the Hollywood machine is rushing to spin the narrative for Disney’s box office leading man hopeful before it spirals out of control.
Neil Druckmann, the co-creator of The Last of Us video game franchise and HBO series, has officially announced that he is stepping away from the show before production begins on Season 3. In a statement posted to the official Naughty Dog Instagram account, Druckmann confirmed he will no longer be creatively involved in the HBO adaptation, instead shifting his full attention to upcoming projects at the studio.
Just weeks before its grand reopening, EPCOT’s newly updated Test Track has already made headlines for all the wrong reasons. During a Cast Member preview on July 1st, a Test Track crash occurred when a ride vehicle slammed into a set of foam sliding doors that failed to open properly. Four guests were injured in the impact and received treatment on-site. Fortunately, none required hospitalization—but the timing couldn’t be worse for Disney as it gears up to relaunch the ride to the public later this month.
The President of Xbox recently posted an inspirational message about teamwork under pressure. But for many within Microsoft’s gaming division, the timing of that message couldn’t be more ironic. Sarah Bond’s statement—“The truest measure of any team is not the score but what they do when things are really, really hard”—came just two months before news broke of yet another devastating round of Xbox layoffs.
Halo Infinite is once again under fire—not for gameplay issues or content delays this time, but for what many see as another round of corporate virtue signaling. As the clock struck July 1st, the moment gay PRIDE month ended, the official Halo account took to X to announce a new in-game promotion in honor of Disability Pride Month.
The Stop Killing Games campaign is picking up serious momentum as two of the biggest voices in gaming—YouTube titan PewDiePie and former World of Warcraft team lead Mark Kern (aka Grummz)—publicly threw their support behind the growing global effort.
If you thought the first three episodes of Ironheart were bad, buckle up. Somehow, Marvel managed to dig even deeper into the well of awful. The final three episodes of Ironheart don’t just continue the disaster—they accelerate it, hurling the show off a cliff of lazy writing, nonsensical tech, virtue signaling, and a complete disregard for logic or consequence.
During the final weekend of PRIDE month, That Park Place was on the ground at Walt Disney World—and what we found might surprise those expecting the usual rainbow saturation.
Ruckus Games has become to latest developer to require players to select their pronouns.
The studio founded by veterans of Gearbox, Riot, and Bethesda, is facing early backlash as it ramps up public testing for its debut title. The Texas-based developer is currently accepting sign-ups for a limited-time early access playtest of its untitled co-op RPG shooter—but players quickly noticed something unusual about the sign-up form.
After weeks of the media insisting Ironheart was being unfairly “review bombed,” the numbers are now in — and they’re even worse than expected. According to Luminate’s official streaming ratings for June 20–26, the three-episode premiere of Ironheart failed to chart entirely. That’s right — Marvel’s newest Disney+ series didn’t even crack the top 10 for original streaming programs during its debut week.
Disney Pixar’s Elio was supposed to be the studio’s next original hit. Instead, it’s gone down as the worst box office opening in Pixar’s history. But while the numbers are bad, the story behind Elio’s implosion might be even worse.
After a flurry of early headlines accusing critics of “review bombing,” Ironheart has now entered a very different phase of audience reactions.