Arcade floors once filled with the clatter of joysticks as players guided a barbarian, a sorceress, and a dwarf across fantasy landscapes filled with beasts and bandits. SEGA’s 1989 side-scrolling fighter Golden Axe delivered pure power fantasy in short, intense bursts. Now those same characters are returning in a full animated series that puts their personalities under closer scrutiny while keeping the monster-smashing spirit intact.
Callum Turner appeared on a screen in Hall H this past weekend and handed San Diego the first real look at Neuromancer, Apple TV’s adaptation of William Gibson’s 1984 novel. He could not attend in person. His short video message introduced a dense, restless minute of footage that finally shows the world Gibson put on the page more than four decades ago.
Green light cuts through the Nebraska night as two men who should never share a car pull into a town that has already buried one body. Kyle Chandler’s Hal Jordan, the veteran who has seen entire systems burn out, flips a power ring across the front seat to Aaron Pierre’s John Stewart and jumps from the moving vehicle before the wheels leave the road. Stewart catches the car with a construct that looks half-formed and half-desperate. That single sequence from the new Lanterns trailer, shown first in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con, tells you everything about the series that arrives on HBO and HBO Max on August 16.
Prime Video spent the morning of Comic-Con’s Hall H panel confirming what fans have waited nearly a decade to hear. Blade Runner 2099 arrives November 25 with all eight episodes at once. The limited series picks up fifty years after the events of Blade Runner 2049 and drops viewers into a Los Angeles that has been rebuilt without human hands.
Fans of the 1990s X-Files sci-fi series now gain a fresh way to revisit its world through bricks. A designer from Brisbane named Brent Waller first shaped the concept years ago as a personal project. He started with Mulder’s office during a rewatch in 2014 and later expanded the idea to include more scenes from the show. The submission won a spot in LEGO’s 90s Nostalgia Challenge on the Ideas platform, leading to this official release.
Yufei Wu, also known as Flying Bug, dominated the America’s Got Talent stage from the start of season 21, which aired on June 2. At just 26 years old, he began with a solo dance to Lady Gaga’s Abracadabra, a high-energy song to dance to.
Stranger Things has been a cultural giant since 2016, mixing 80s vibes with supernatural scares and a cast that feels like family. With the fifth and final season on the horizon, Netflix’s latest teaser delivers a nostalgic punch and a chilling hint of what’s coming.
Ubisoft has just released a 1980s live action TV intro-inspired Assassin’s Creed Shadows promo video in celebration of the game’s launch today (March 20). This installment is set in feudal Japan during the late Sengoku period and introduces players to two protagonists: Naoe, a stealth-focused shinobi assassin, and Yasuke, a combat-oriented African samurai inspired by the historical figure of the same name.
A chocolate 3D printer can be used by just about anyone to create a sweet treat, but JUNY-WORKS shows that it takes real skill to create a miniature Voltron robot model. If you’re not familiar with the character, it’s from the animated television series ‘Lion Force Voltron’ that first aired back in 1984.
Now that you’ve seen Pooky Park, it’s time to check out this AI-generated ‘Family Matters’ intro by Rocky Bergen. This American TV sitcom aired from 1989 to 1997 and was actually a spinoff from the ABC show ‘Perfect Strangers’.