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What is Paralives? The creative life simulator game that could rival The Sims
The Guardian - Games July 3, 2026

What is Paralives? The creative life simulator game that could rival The Sims

With players leaving EA’s series once life there felt like a grind beset by ethical concerns, this quirky new sim promises a better life elsewhereFor 26 years, the life-sims genre has been dominated by one series: The Sims. Originally designed by Will Wright, creator of Sim City, EA’s virtual dollhouse series has grown into a $5bn [£3.8bn] empire with the constant release of new games, expansion packs, and collaborations cementing its place among the bestselling video game franchises of all time.…

Pierre Coffin reveals why he returned to direct Minions & Monsters after sitting out the last 2 movies
Polygon July 3, 2026

Pierre Coffin reveals why he returned to direct Minions & Monsters after sitting out the last 2 movies

Pierre Coffin has been with the Minions since the very beginning. Along with supplying the voices for every single Minion, he has directed or co-directed most of the films that feature them. With Chris Renaud (The Lorax, The Secret Life of Pets), Pierre Coffin co-directed the first two Despicable Me films. Then Coffin teamed with Kyle Balda (The Lorax, The Sheep Detectives) to direct the prequel Minions and Despicable Me 3.

Dwayne Johnson's Jumanji movies are better than Robin Williams' — and it's not even close
Polygon July 3, 2026

Dwayne Johnson's Jumanji movies are better than Robin Williams' — and it's not even close

Back in 2017, when Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle came out, I assumed it would be yet another pale imitation of a movie I loved from my youth. The idea of Jumanji being a video game instead of a board game just seemed wrong. How could a video game ever give off the ancient, haunted vibes the original board game had? Plus, I’m not really a huge fan of either Dwayne Johnson or Kevin Hart. They’re fine, but they’ve got nothing…

The Ninth Jedi trailer reveals a future for Star Wars beyond the Skywalker saga
Polygon July 2, 2026

The Ninth Jedi trailer reveals a future for Star Wars beyond the Skywalker saga

For five years, Star Wars: Visions has been home to some of the franchise’s boldest ideas, but few episodes have lingered in fans’ minds quite like volume 1 episode 5, “The Ninth Jedi." Kenji Kamiyama’s sweeping tale of a galaxy where lightsabers have become legend stood taller even than some of Lucasfilm's own projects. Now, The Ninth Jedi is back as an eight-episode series, premiering Aug. 5 on Hulu and Disney Plus. Fans got a sense of what to expect at…

Sony’s PlayStation disc factory is already being repurposed
The Verge July 2, 2026

Sony’s PlayStation disc factory is already being repurposed

The video game disc is dead, and Sony's been planning to kill it for some time, according to a report out of Austria. The man who leads Sony's discmaking operations, Sony DADC president Dietmar Tanzer, told ORF Salzberg that the company's Thalgau plant produces 600,000 discs every day, half of which are for PlayStation. But since it'll only be making 10 percent of that volume in 2028, it's planning to retrain all 300 employees to work on optical microlenses instead. Thalgau…

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