GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. Marvel Comics has one of the best rosters of superheroes and supervillains, and you’re able to smash them against each other in Marvel Rivals now that the game is available to play on PC, PS5, and Xbox […]

The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap is celebrating its 20-year anniversary today, January 10, 2025. Below, we look back at how the team came up with a playful sense of scale as its central hook. The Legend of Zelda series is filled with dynamics that stretch and alter the world of Hyrule. Whether it […]

The Kremlin said on Friday that Russia remains open to a meeting between President Vladimir V. Putin and President-elect Donald J. Trump, but that any concrete steps to set up such talks could be made only once Mr. Trump is sworn into office on Jan. 20. Responding to comments made on Thursday by Mr. Trump, […]

In a striking sign of the Chinese economy’s stagnation, the central bank said on Friday that it had temporarily stopped buying government bonds. The central bank’s unexpected action is aimed at braking a recent shift by investors toward purchasing bonds while shunning riskier assets like stocks and real estate. That shift has driven China’s long-term […]

Jujutsu Kaisen has been a big hit since it was adapted for anime, and at long last, the complete second season of the popular show is headed to Blu-ray. Preorders are now open for Jujutsu Kaisen: Season Two. This will be released in several editions, starting with a standard $35.70 (was $40) Blu-ray that covers […]

The Israeli military said on Friday that Hamza Ziyadne, an Arab citizen of Israel held hostage in Gaza, had been killed in the Palestinian enclave, as efforts by mediators to broker a truce between Israel and Hamas to free hostages have seen little success. Over 15 months after the Hamas-led attack on Oct. 7, 2023 […]

He is an autocrat condemned inside and outside his country as having stolen the nation’s last election. Yet on Friday, Nicolás Maduro, the Venezuelan president who has overseen his country’s dramatic decline — including runaway inflation, blackouts, hunger, mass migration and the unraveling of the nation’s democracy — is set to be sworn in for […]

For decades, Hezbollah’s grip on Lebanon was iron tight. With its vast arsenal, the militant group was more powerful than the country’s national military. It controlled or held sway over Lebanon’s most important government agencies as well as critical infrastructure, like its border with Syria and commercial port. Almost no major political decisions could be […]

“Praise the lord for ‘Tammy Faye,’” Matt Wolf cheered in The New York Times when the Elton John musical opened in London in 2022. The show, Wolf added, “has a heart as big as the title character’s bouffant hairdo.” Two years later, reviewing the Broadway transfer, Elisabeth Vincentelli begged to differ. “Disjointed, strangely bland,” she […]

Shiu Ka-chun, a former social worker and pro-democracy lawmaker in Hong Kong who devoted his last years to helping protesters imprisoned after a crackdown on dissent, died Friday in Hong Kong. He was 55. His wife, Kelly Hui, said his death, in a hospital, was due to stomach cancer. As a social worker, civil rights […]