Ryan Seacrest will be ringing in his 20th New Year as host of “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” Tuesday night, with Rita Ora returning as his co-host for the second year in a row for the ABC event. Over the past two decades, the “American Idol” and new “Wheel of Fortune” host has accumulated […]

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains major spoilers from “Squid Game” Season 2 finale, now streaming on Netflix. Game over — for now. “Squid Game” Season 2 concluded its seventh and final episode with the brutal murder of Gi-hun’s (Lee Jung-jae) best friend Jung-bae (Lee Seo-hwan) right before his eyes. Jung-bae is shot dead by Squid Game […]

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains major spoilers from the “Squid Game” Season 2 premiere, now streaming on Netflix. The second season of Netflix’s hit Korean drama “Squid Game” opens with a literal bang — quite a few of them, actually. But by far the most shocking is the one in the final few moments of […]

With 456 players involved at the titular deadly competition in “Squid Game,” viewers are sure to have a hard time keeping every character straight when they start binge-watching Season 2 at launch on Dec. 26. The good news is, not every one of those players is essential to the story of Gi-hun’s (Lee Jung-jae) return […]

“CoComelon” producer Moonbug Entertainment has struck a deal with early learning company Lingokids to launch games featuring characters from Moonbug’s popular live-action preschool brand “Blippi.” The “Blippi” franchise — which includes multiple shows across platforms — follows the titular character as he serves as preschool-aged kid’s “best friend” and “inspire them to learn through play […]

“Daughter of Ruins” author and longtime “Extra” senior supervising producer Yvette Manessis Corporon has been dreaming of her Greek-historical-and-mythology-laced novels being adapted for television since her debut title “When The Cypress Whispers” was released in 2014. Now, 10 years later, the author with Greek ancestry is more hopeful than ever for a chance to break […]

Writer and director Nahnatchka Khan, who is best known for sitcoms “Fresh Off the Boat,” “Don’t Trust the B—- In Apartment 23,” and NBC’s “Young Rock” with Dwayne Johnson, is celebrating the launch of her latest laugh, the Stephanie Hsu-led murder comedy “Laid” on Peacock, Thursday with the reveal of her next projects: two more […]

It starts in the gift shop. “Squid Game: The Experience,” an immersive entertainment installation that opened in October in a shuttered shopping mall near Madison Square Garden, brings its participants slowly into the dark, dystopian world of the South Korean drama series that exploded into a massive hit for Netflix in 2021. Players begin the […]

Max is jumping on the year-in-review bandwagon and releasing its own Spotify Wrapped-esque marketing campaign revealing subscribers’ personal viewing habits throughout the year. Launching Thursday, the “Max Rewind” offering will be pushed out across all adult profiles on the Warner Bros. Discovery-owned streamer through in-app notifications. Subscribers will then be able to access their personalized […]

Two Epic Games board directors have resigned from their positions amid an antitrust inquiry by the Justice Department. The board members had been appointed to the privately held company’s board by minority investor Tencent, which is the China-based owner of Epic competitor Riot Games. Epic Games, which also counts Disney among its investors, is the […]

The Game Awards hit record viewership with its 2024 show on Dec. 12, which drew an estimated 154 million global livestreams. That’s up 31% over the 2023 show at 118 million livestreams. Per the Game Awards, which marked its 10-year anniversary with the 2024 show, the 2024 viewership high was reached with streams across YouTube, […]

Roku has struck a deal with the X Games for its Roku Channel to become the U.S. streaming home of both the upcoming Winter 2025 competition in Aspen as well as an event set for next summer. The X Games competitions will stream on the Roku Sports Channel and Roku’s new X Games TV Fast […]

James Wan’s Atomic Monster production company has acquired the rights to develop Game Award-nominated indie title “Pacific Drive” into a TV series. Created by Cassandra Dracott from Ironwood Studios, “Pacific Drive” is a retropunk-style driving and survival game set to an experimental electronic music soundtrack that challenges players to escape a surreal and abandoned exclusion […]

Dunder Mifflin — the people person’s paper people — is sending its top employees into “Funko Fusion” as characters from NBC’s “The Office” join the action-adventure video game Friday. Developed by 10:10 Games, the game, which released in September, is filled with Funko Pop! figurine versions of iconic pop culture figures. The game is a […]

“Last of Us” studio Naughty Dog has revealed its next game set up for owner PlayStation: “Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet.” The trailer for the title was unveiled out of the 2024 Game Awards Thursday and positioned as the final big announcement of the night ahead of the award for Game of the Year. Naughty Dog […]

A sequel to the beloved game “Okami” is in the works at Capcom with original game director Hideki Kamiya. The untitled game is a followup to the 2006 action-adventure game developed by the now-closed Clover Studio and released for PlayStation 2. “Okami” is set in a fictional version of classical Japan and uses Japanese mythology and folklore […]

Netflix is going against its tradition of paywalling its steadily growing offering of mobile games by making its upcoming “Squid Game” battle royale title available for free to non-members for a “limited time” at launch. Debuting Dec. 17 ahead of the premiere of the second season of the hit South Korean-drama, “Squid Game: Unleashed” is […]

The trailer for “Borderlands 4” was revealed by Gearbox and 2K Games out of the Game Awards Thursday. Per 2K’s synopsis for “Borderlands 4”: “See if you have what it takes to go down in history as a legendary Vault Hunter as you search for secret alien treasure, blasting everything in sight.” No specific release […]

Game developer Hazelight Studios has revealed its next co-op title for publisher Electronic Arts (EA) following the smash-hit success of 2021’s “It Takes Two”: “Split Fiction,” an action-adventure title, split-screen game where players will jump between sci-fi and fantasy worlds. Per EA and Hazelight Studios, “In ‘Split Fiction,’ players will discover a variety of sci-fi […]