This month, Shonen Jump magazine is launching three new manga series. One of them, HAL FORMULA by Kento Terasaka, will debut in the next issue. While Terasaka’s previous series was cut short in 2024, he’s getting another opportunity with this new release. Shueisha has offered a sneak peek at HAL FORMULA, which you can find below.
Pepose has launched a Kickstarter campaign for issue #3 of The O.Z., a 44-page comic. To celebrate, ComicBook is sharing an exclusive eleven-page preview of the issue, plus a beautiful pinup featuring Dorothy and the Scarecrow, illustrated by Skylar Patridge, known for their work on Action Comics.
Halo: Combat Evolved is launching on PlayStation consoles at the same time as it releases on Xbox and Steam, and we’ve now gotten our first look at how it runs on the PS5.
For a while now, people have been expecting a new Nintendo Direct presentation. However, the announcement of a new Treehouse: Live! stream came as a surprise. This has intensified speculation that Nintendo might reveal a complete remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for the next Nintendo console, possibly releasing around the holidays. Reports suggest this won’t be a simple updated version like The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD, but a full reimagining of the game.
The Scary Movie franchise is known for poking fun at popular culture, and the latest installment continues that tradition. Past films have parodied everything from The Matrix to Get Out, and this time, KPop Demon Hunters is in the crosshairs. The movie even includes a risqué parody of the Oscar-winning song “Golden.” While some fans are loving the joke, calling it a highlight of the film, others have found it cringeworthy.
A new TV show will reveal how the members of Mystery, Inc. first met. The story begins with Daphne Blake, Shaggy Rogers, Velma Dinkley, and Fred Jones spending a summer at Camp Ruby-Spears. They team up to solve a spooky murder that a Great Dane actually saw happen. Netflix shared a quick video introducing the adorable Great Dane—you can watch it below—showing the pup sniffing around the woods before Shaggy finds and picks him up. Get ready for some serious cuteness!
Okay, so Nintendo just announced a new Direct for tomorrow, June 9th! It’s starting at 10am Eastern / 7am Pacific. They haven’t said what they’re showing off yet, but it’s going to be about 50 minutes long. And that’s not all – right after the Direct, they’re doing a Treehouse: Live stream that’s almost two hours long! It sounds like they’ll be diving deeper into some of the games they reveal in the Direct, which is awesome.
It seems this change aims to distinguish the next game in the series from Senua, which appears to be a standalone title.
The Blood Message gameplay demo blends narrative scenes with actual gameplay. It opens with Pei Changguan and Arrtai exploring what looks like an abandoned shop. As they investigate, the game’s impressive graphics become clear, particularly noticeable when Pei Changguan examines an intricately detailed, embroidered cloth.
A photo is going around online that claims to show a Spider-Man action figure, specifically one modeled after Tobey Maguire, as part of a new Avengers toy line. Marvel toys have leaked big surprises before – like confirming the Hulk’s return in the recent Spider-Man line – so many fans immediately thought this meant Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man would be in the new Avengers movie. However, some fans noticed errors in the text on the toy packaging that look like the kind of mistakes made by AI image generators. Because AI often struggles with text, many believe the image isn’t a real photo of a toy, but rather a fake created using artificial intelligence.