Sharon Ross 
Monsters at Work, Pixar’s Monsters Inc. TV spinoff announced in April 2019, is finally arriving to Disney Plus in 2021 after originally targeting a 2020 release date. The announcement of a July premiere arrived on Tuesday with a short trailer for the series. The series sees both John Goodman and Billy Crystal return to the … Read more
One of the best third-party camera apps for iOS, Halide, is coming to the iPad, its developer Lux announced today. The iPhone app has a reputation for the amount of control it gives you over your photographs, and this functionality has been carried over to the iPad along with a redesigned interface that’s optimized for … Read more
No Man’s Sky players will soon be able to explore the vast reaches of outer space at a smooth frame rate all the way up to 4K resolution, as support for Nvidia’s Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) technology is coming to the game this month, Nvidia and developer Hello Games announced on Tuesday. DLSS is … Read more
After taking a year off, Google is back with its I/O developer conference for 2021. Like most tech events over the past year, this is not an in-person event and will be streamed over the internet instead. Unlike most tech events over the past year, this keynote will actually be live, not prerecorded. What will … Read more
Call of Duty’s midseason update is all about action movies and the heroes that make them great. In the first trailer for the Call of Duty: Warzone and Black Ops Cold War ’80s Action Movie update, we got our first glimpse of John McClane and John Rambo in action. The trailer itself is styled like … Read more
One night in January, I was scrolling through TikTok with the bottomless human need for content when a video urged my glassy eyes awake. It was a TikTok for hypercasual phone game High Heels! made from an original video by TikTok user Isaiah Baca. He proclaimed that he had “found a game for baddies.” A … Read more
Resident Evil Village is a thrill ride of a game, taking players through a series of rich environments and battles with distinct, memorable bosses. There’s a lot of detail to pick apart and examine in the game, but I’m stuck on one question: Why does Karl Heisenberg, a Lord of a highly cursed Romanian village, … Read more
The Shrek franchise dared to do what many animated films would not, from a female lead that was unconventionally pretty to the boatload of cynical and adult pop culture references. But right now I want to talk about one of Shrek’s most groundbreaking offerings to the world of all-ages animation: the fact that Donkey and … Read more
Since Google I/O was canceled completely last year due to COVID-19, this year’s festivities — which will be available online to anyone who wants to watch — are sure to be, well, festive. Today’s two-hour event will introduce what is expected to be a full treasure chest of new hardware and software. Of course, nothing’s … Read more
As I said in my anthropological study of the Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl premiere, red carpet photos offer us a unique glimpse into pop culture’s past. A random Hollywood event has the capacity to collect the Actually Famous, the Potentially Famous, and the Momentarily Famous. Also the styles on display … Read more