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Phantom Blade Zero maps Hong Kong cinema to PS5 combat and ships this October

S-Game's Phantom Blade Zero is built on a combat philosophy drawn from golden-age Hong Kong martial arts cinema — precise, punishing, and structurally different from the action games it superficially resembles. Thirty-plus weapons, a counter system that rewards reading over reacting, and an underground world of conspiracy. Arriving on PS5 and PC this October from a Chinese studio making its biggest bet yet.

Adrian Kessler

Movies

Touch of Evil Remains Hollywood’s Most Audacious and Uncompromising Noir

A still from Hideaki Anno's Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death and Rebirth, two figures beside a rust-red sea under an orange sky.

Evangelion Death and Rebirth reaches U.S. theaters as Anno’s unfinished bridge film

William Franklyn-Miller as a young George Washington rides through a misty forest in Jon Erwin's Young Washington.

Ben Kingsley and Andy Serkis anchor Young Washington, Jon Erwin’s war epic

Josh Brolin nearly quit ‘The Dog Stars’ as Ridley Scott’s no-rehearsal method rattled him

TV Shows

Isakapatnam on Prime Video: a 1990s port war, and a strongman undone by his own daughter

Isakapatnam is a seven-episode Telugu crime series set in a 1990s harbour town where one man controls the docks — until his own daughter sets out to take that control apart. Samuthirakani and Aishwarya Rajesh lead a period gangland saga arriving on Prime Video.

Key art from Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation, returning for its third season on Crunchyroll.

Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Returns for Season 3 on Crunchyroll

Human Vapor on Netflix: Yeon Sang-ho Rebuilds a Toho Killer No Camera Can Hold

Survival of the Thickest: Netflix Sends Mavis Out as Michelle Buteau Directs Her Own Finale

Super Subbu on Netflix sends a reluctant teacher to deliver the lesson his village forbids

Sports

Football supporters in red, white and blue celebrating in a packed stadium at night

World Cup 2026, Round of 32: England, Belgium and the United States Advance — but Only One of Them Controlled the Game

Three favourites went through and none of them lost, yet the manner split them apart. England laboured to shake off DR Congo, Belgium won a five-goal shootout with Senegal without ever protecting a lead, and only Mauricio Pochettino’s United States did what a favourite is supposed to do — control the game and never give it back.

Jubilant Mexican football supporters in green celebrating in a packed stadium, waving a green-white-red tricolour flag under floodlights.

Technology

Abstract optical disc geometry dissolving into luminous digital data streams — Sony PlayStation disc production ending

Sony ends PlayStation game discs in 2028 — buyers had already moved on

Abstract illustration of an AI model being redeployed worldwide

Claude Fable 5 is back online — Anthropic stopped the jailbreak, not the model

Analysis

Music

Science

A researcher adjusts a laboratory microscope in a medical research setting

Business

ServiceNow office building in Petah Tikva, Israel

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Music

‘Joshua Redman’ has the new single titled “Baltimore” from his upcoming debut album on ‘Blue Note Records’ – Give it a listen

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