Basketball great Kobe Bryant will be honoured at this year’s Oscars. The iconic sportsman, along with his daughter Gianna and seven others, died on Sunday in a fatal helicopter crash.  Bryant was an Oscar winner, having picked up the Best Animated Short Film statuette in 2018 for Dear Basketball – …

The upcoming Disney Plus (opens in new tab) show, Marvel’s WandaVision, already sounded wild – but Vision actor Paul Bettany has certainly confirmed as much. Speaking at Sundance Film Festival (via The Playlist), the actor called the series “f***ing bonkers”, adding: “I mean, it’s so out there, and nuts. Fans …

An artist and game designer imagined what it would look like if the worlds of Disney Plus (opens in new tab)‘ The Mandalorian (opens in new tab) and Metroid collided, and the result is pretty dang cool. Tiani Pixel shared two different pieces of pixel art on Twitter and it’s …

Update – January 28, 2:45pm EST: The Resident Evil 8 rumor blizzard continues to intensify but it looks like some things may be starting to fall in place. The original leaker who started speculation over the unannounced sequel last week has weighed back in on new rumors that pointed to …

Blizzard has detailed a new Overwatch (opens in new tab) patch currently live on the PTR that deals out substantial nerfs and buffs to a variety of heroes. Chiefly, McCree has been buffed from 200HP to 250HP, while Baptiste is getting his primary and secondary fires nerfed. Baptiste’s primary fire …

While the first Control DLC was announced shortly after the game came out last year, there’s still no sign of it in-game. It means that players who have reached the end of Jesse Faden’s journey in The Oldest House are still awaiting a reason to return to Control, but hopefully …

If you’re looking for a cheap gaming monitor deal this January, then this is for you – AMazon is selling the ASUS ROg Swift PG348Q for just $599.90 (opens in new tab). This is this excellent panel’s lowest ever price and it saves you an enormous $400 dollars of its …

You were probably too busy marvelling at Darth Maul and Ahsoka in the new Star Wars: Clone Wars season 7 trailer (opens in new tab) to notice a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it appearance from a character on the other big Star Wars animated series, Star Wars: Rebels. One of Rebels’ leads, Kanan Jarrus …

Niantic has revealed an impressive lineup of real-world events for Pokemon Go, Harry Potter: Wizards Unite (opens in new tab), and Ingress that will take place during the first half of 2020, and some new cities have been added to the schedule. This year, Liverpool, Philadelphia, and St. Louis join …

Rogue One writer Gary Whitta wants to make a movie based on Control (opens in new tab), and developer Remedy Entertainment is all in. Asked which game he thinks would make the best movie adaptation and whether he’d be willing to write the script, Whitta replied affirmatively, “Control.” A short …