The year 2023 was a fairly huge one for Marvel and Star Wars shows on Disney+. Marvel brought us Loki season two, What If...?, and Secret Invasion. Star Wars gave us The Mandalorian season three and Ahsoka in live-action, as well as Bad Batch, Visions, and Young Jedi Adventures i … | Continue reading
If Doctor Who’s triumphant return in “The Star Beast” was a romp in Russell T. Davies’ hallmark style to prove that Doctor Who can really still feel like its recent past, then “Wild Blue Yonder” is a similarly triumphant attempt to prove that Doctor Who can still be weird, chilli … | Continue reading
The Hunger Games director chats with io9 about the upcoming video game movie. | Continue reading
The rumors are true: Netflix and Max are combining forces for a streaming bundle that costs just $10 a month. Of course, there are some strings attached; you must be a Verizon myPlan customer, and the deal includes the ad-supported versions of Netflix and Max.Read more... | Continue reading
When Bernard Cribbins passed away in July 2022, Doctor Who fans knew they’d get to see him one last time in the series, after set pictures revealing him shooting a scene with Catherine Tate and David Tennant emerged online. But while there were plans for more, what we saw when th … | Continue reading
Amazon, known for its speedy delivery to your doorstep, has faced delays in deploying its internet satellites into orbit, prompting the Jeff Bezos-led company to form an unexpected partnership with its rival SpaceX.Read more... | Continue reading
Grandpa rockers KISS finally hung up the makeup brushes this weekend on the last night of their “The End of the Road” farewell tour. The band promises this marks the end of its 50-year live career, but Gene Simmons found a way to squeeze the last few dollars out of his geriatric … | Continue reading
Sam Altman reportedly has no equity in OpenAI, a strange move for a tech founder, but new reporting from Wired this weekend shows the CEO would profit from an OpenAI deal to buy AI chips. OpenAI signed a previously unknown deal back in 2019 to spend $51 million on advanced chips … | Continue reading
Chris Hemsworth teases his villainous turn in Furiosa. The Last of Us season 2 sets a date to begin production. Netflix reveals its next Gundam project. Plus, what’s coming on Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, and more. To me, my spoilers!Read more... | Continue reading
Spotify staff could be listening to a funerary dirge in their own Spotify Wraps. The company announced it was making sweeping staff cuts across the board, reducing global headcount by around 17%. Merry Christmas.Read more... | Continue reading
Those of you on an Android device may be exhausted by the emotional turmoil brought on by messaging apps. I warn you: this next bit of news may be too much too soon. Strava, the fitness tracking app geared toward athletes and People Who Like Data, has announced that it’s launchin … | Continue reading
Every few months, a math problem goes viral on social media. Disappointingly often, it lacks mathematical meat. It seems over half of them boil down to the order of operations. Some tweet will get thousands of likes claiming that the Internet is divided over an arithmetic problem … | Continue reading
For centuries, astronomers were limited to ground-based observations of the planets, but now we use spacecraft to capture close-up views of our neighboring worlds. Excitingly, our views of solar system planets have been getting progressively better over the decades, as these imag … | Continue reading
With shifting release dates and mandated radio silence due to the Hollywood strikes, the buildup to Dune: Part Two has been nothing short of eventful. While there’s still a few more months before audiences can see it, Warner Bros. is getting the promo ball rolling again with foot … | Continue reading
Legendary’s Monsterverse has been steadily persisting since 2014 and saw its first big titanic crossover in the form of 2021's Godzilla vs. Kong. Instead of splitting the titular monsters back off again so they can do their own separate things for a bit, they’re reuniting once mo … | Continue reading
Yesterday, Prime Video gave viewers a first full look at its upcoming Fallout show. Based on the RPG franchise by Interplay and Bethesda, the series definitely looks like it belongs with the actual games, and that wasn’t just the mission statement—for all intents and purposes, th … | Continue reading
Whether they’re from the US-based Legendary Pictures or Japan’s Toho Studios, Godzilla movies come out with a reliable frequency. The newest Japan-made film starring the giant dinosaur is Godzilla Minus One, the country’s first live-action Godzilla flick since 2016's Shin Godzill … | Continue reading
The spinoff office's first order of business will be a live-action adaptation of Skybound's 2020 graphic novel Heart Attack. | Continue reading
The new, smaller version of the PlayStation 5 is the same console that came out three years ago, at least in most of the ways that matter. That’s for better or worse, though if you’re looking to pick up Sony’s premiere console, then at least you can feel better knowing it might a … | Continue reading
The first season of Halo’s TV adaptation was sometimes interesting, but also kind of a mess. With a new timeline to work with, the show took some sharp divergences, shall we say, and things ended in such a way you weren’t fully sure how we were going to make it to Halo: Combat Ev … | Continue reading
It feels like we’ve been hearing about Star Trek: Discovery’s fifth season—even before we knew it would be its final—for a very long time at this point. But at long last, with the arrival of yet another new clip, we now know when Michael Burnham and her friends will begin their l … | Continue reading
It’s been over a full year since the last season of The Boys, and while Gen V’s definitely kept the franchise going, it teed up some interesting developments for the mothership show’s return. While the next season is still a couple of months out, Prime Video’s released a first lo … | Continue reading
Despite initial skepticism, House of the Dragon proved itself to be a solid return to the world of Westeros and a good show in its own right. The Game of Thrones prequel had its second season already locked in almost immediately after premiering, and after being technically allow … | Continue reading
The Xbox app now plays nice with handheld consoles thanks to a new “Compact mode.” Windows-based handheld console users no longer need to navigate through tiny text and jumbled sidebars on relatively small screens. But Microsoft, you know what would be even better? A full version … | Continue reading
Interplay’s (and later Bethesda’s) Fallout games have always held a special place in the hearts of players. Waits between mainline installments have only grown longer, and there may be plenty of other post-apocalyptic worlds, but folks love the RPG series for its immersive world … | Continue reading
It’s been a wild week in the world of sci-fi, fantasy, superheroes, and more genre fare. The return of Doctor Who for its 60th anniversary, burning Mandalorian questions, and our epic first looks at Fallout and Furiosa all made the list of our most read stories—but here’s a few m … | Continue reading
If you had an old burner Gmail account, this week was your last chance to log in before Google permanently nukes it. Meanwhile, recent Samsung leaks appear to confirm some Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra renders that had been floating around the internet. Gizmodo’s consumer tech team co … | Continue reading
You have to go back to the 1970s for the first generation of video game consoles, and many of them have been released since—consoles that have long since become outdated and obsolete. However, if you’re eager to relive the games and platforms of yesteryear (or try them out for th … | Continue reading
If you’re behind on what’s happening with the robot uprising, have no fear. Here’s a quick look at some of the weirdest and wildest artificial intelligence news from the past week. And be sure to check out our weekly newsletter on the biggest developments in AI.Read more... | Continue reading
If you told a person on the street in the 1970s that humans would have no base on the Moon by the year 2000, they’d probably laugh in your face. Well, it’s 2023 and we still lack even the barest of lunar infrastructure. But this week, Alenia Space and the Italian Space Agency ske … | Continue reading
In the aftermath of last week’s shocking OpenAI power struggle, there was one final revelation that acted as a kind of epilogue to the sprawling mess: a report from Reuters that revealed a supposedly startling breakthrough at the startup. That breakthrough allegedly happened via … | Continue reading
When Doctor Who returned to our screens this past weekend in “The Star Beast,” it brought with it all sorts of weird and occasionally fearsome threats, from the mischievous Meep to the insectoid Wrarth Warriors. But perhaps nothing could send you scurrying behind the sofa than on … | Continue reading
Joel Kinnaman chats with io9 about working on the new John Woo action flick. | Continue reading
When Baldur’s Gate 3 released this summer, its ending was one of the rare moments where praise for Larian’s take on the world of Dungeons & Dragons wasn’t united in effusive lauding. Abrupt, a little messy, and lacking in closure to characters players had just spent hundreds of h … | Continue reading
Audiences everywhere have spent nearly 50 years watching and adoring Harrison Ford, and a new documentary on Disney+ takes that wonderful experience and condenses it down to 90 minutes. It's called Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones & Harrison Ford. | Continue reading
OpenAI is delaying the launch of its GPT Store, a marketplace of customizable GPTs, until 2024, according to a memo seen by Axios. Sam Altman told an audience at DevDay that the GPT Store would launch in November.Read more... | Continue reading
The final month of 2023 is here, and with it, one more batch of Lego sets to tempt your wallet (or get stuck under the Christmas tree). From big hits in the Modular Buildings line to Shadow the Hedgehog’s Lego debut, there’s something for everyone, even if there’s not all that ma … | Continue reading
The biggest experimental nuclear fusion reactor in operation was inaugurated north of Tokyo today, as scientists continue to plug away at making nuclear fusion a viable source of the world’s energy.Read more... | Continue reading
Spidey swings off the page in this upcoming release, and he even comes with a camera for taking pictures... pictures of Spider-Man. | Continue reading
Godzilla Minus One stomps into U.S. theaters today, so director Takashi Yamazaki probably already has a lot on his plate right now. But goddammit, the man wants to do a Star Wars movie, and now I can think of nothing more perfect.Read more... | Continue reading
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An HP app that normally only comes pre-installed on the company’s own PCs is worming its way onto Windows 10 and Windows 11 computers through the Microsoft Store. Both Microsoft and HP have confirmed they’re working to resolve the issue, though in the meantime, you might want to … | Continue reading
With the recent news that Max and Netflix might soon offer subscription bundles for certain customers and the imminent combination of Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+ (which are all owned by the same parent company) into a single app, there’s another potential team-up on the horizon: App … | Continue reading
It seems like the new Action button on the iPhone 15 Pro and the iPhone 15 Pro Max might be making a turn for Apple’s next set of iPhones. Read more... | Continue reading
As the end of 2023 approaches, there’s still time to squeeze in more reading—which is where io9 comes in, sharing 21 new sci-fi, fantasy, and horror releases coming out in December, including several anthologies perfect for short-fiction fans.Read more... | Continue reading
Fresh footprints on the Moon aren’t likely to happen in 2025 as NASA hoped. A new report warns of significant delays to the Artemis 3 mission, the result of two key contractors—SpaceX and Axiom Space—not being able to deliver the goods on time. Read more... | Continue reading
Was your little one disappointed they couldn’t get their own bulletproof, $100,000, Cybertruck? Well, fear not. Tesla released the Cybertruck for Kids on Thursday, shortly after the release of its grown-up version. Your dystopian, conspiracy-spreading, Elon Musk-loving child will … | Continue reading
There is a lot going on in our latest look at Suicide Squad Isekai, the DC Comics anime that, well, is a Suicide Squad isekai—the popular portal fantasy subgenre about taking people out of their own time and place and dumping them in another world. But I am not going to scrub see … | Continue reading