Entertainment

Yesterday, a global outage on the Google Cloud platform knocked out Google Home, Spotify, Snapchat, and even some Cloudflare features, and today the company released a mini incident report as it continues to investigate.

A Minecraft Movie will start streaming on Max on June 20th, according to Warner Bros. Discovery. The movie was a huge hit in theaters.

Director Eliza McNitt’s new short film produced by Darren Aronofsky’s Primordial Soup and Google DeepMind, uses generative AI to tell the story of a woman going through a difficult birth. The project’s meant to be a testament to the potential of AI video generation models, but...well, you can see the results for yourself. We’ll have more to say on this soon.

If you’ve been waiting for Warner Bros. Japan’s follow-up to Batman Ninja, some good news: (HBO) Max announced today that Batman Ninja vs. Yakuza League is set to make its streaming debut this summer on July 3rd.

I’m dead excited to see Laika’s spooky 2012 stop-motion movie return to theaters for a one-week limited run, starting on October 25th in the US and October 23rd for other global screens. The re-run also includes the premiere of “ParaNorman: The Thrifting,” a new CG short film starring Finn Wolfhard and Anna Kendrick, who reprises her role as Norman’s sister, Courtney.

Nintendo has just pushed the big Splatoon 3 update for the Switch 2. The company also noted that it has also made some improvements / changes to how the game runs on the original Switch in order to “reduce differences in game operation speed as much as possible” when compared with the new console.

In an email to an ad buyer seen by Adweek, Amazon said it has “gradually increased” its ad load to four to six minutes per hour — double the two to three-and-a-half breaks it touted when rolling out ads in January 2024.

Teardowns have confirmed that the Switch 2’s Joy-Cons are using the same joystick technology as the originals, which could potentially lead to issues with drift over time. GuliKit, the company that released Hall effect upgrade kits for the original Joy-Cons two years ago, said on X that it’s already “working hard on the magnetic joystick replacement.” But it hasn’t confirmed if the replacements will use Hall effect technology, or the newer TMR joystick tech.

As of 3 PM PT today, SAG-AFTRA will officially suspend the strike against the signatory companies of the interactive media agreement. With this suspension, the nearly year-long voice performer strike against video game companies including Take-Two Interactive, Activision Publishing and more will be tentatively over.

Apple CEO Tim Cook got to appear in a shiny Variety profile about F1 and Apple’s entertainment efforts. Poor Craig.

It sure looks like Hank Hill is coming to Fortnite. If ever there was a time to add a new king of the hill mode, this is it.

The distribution rights to Warner Bros. Japan’s animated adaptation of All You Need Is Kill — Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s 2004 sci-fi novel that inspired Edge of Tomorrow — have been acquired acquired by Gkids. The company plans to put the film in theaters “soon.”

Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier is back with another post-mortem on the hows and whys a big, blockbuster title failed. This time, to my great and everlasting sadness, it’s the story of Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Its failure can be summed up simply.