Ray Dalio

There is a lot of excitement about the live-action version, as people want to see what will happen and how the film will be brought to life. Seeing many dragons on the big screen in this format will generally bring a lot of attention to the franchise. Audiences will likely want to revisit the original animations before or after this release. However, viewing the original How to Train Your Dragon and its first sequel is set to become a lot harder from Netflix.

In the popular anime series “One Piece,” Devil Fruits play a significant role that fans have long been intrigued by. Introduced right from the start, these mystical fruits grant unique powers to anyone who eats them. However, their abilities are boundless, but there’s always a price to pay. The cost of consuming a Devil Fruit is losing the ability to swim.

While the prevailing consensus about the Street Fighter film franchise’s legacy is that the live-action movies didn’t work, the animated movies are a different story. Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie is probably the best version of this narrative ever to reach the screen. The Alpha movies aren’t as good, but they’re still a lot better than the live-action outings. Just about anyone would reasonably conclude that an animated adaptation would better fit the material, but the studio is committed to a live-action project for archaic reasons, so they’ll have to deal with a tougher challenge.

Even more so than Veilguard, Mass Effect 4 is a game at a crossroads. Though Mass Effect 3’s infamous ending remains hotly debated and maligned to this day, it is certainly final and definitive: it doesn’t leave much room for a continuation of the story. This open-and-shut nature was confirmed back in 2017 with Mass Effect: Andromeda, which takes place several centuries after ME3, in a different galaxy with an entirely new cast of characters. While it would appear that Mass Effect 4 will be returning to the Milky Way, and will almost certainly feature at least one character from the original trilogy, it may be in the series’ best interest to distance itself from the Shepard saga as much as possible, forging a new path.

In fact, Horikoshi has even dedicated entire story arcs to focusing on fleshing out some of the Pro-Heroes. So, needless to say, there have been plenty who have made their mark on the series and the fans. When matching them all up, though, here is how the Pro-Heroes of My Hero Academia rank in terms of how memorable, relevant, and interesting they are as characters.

Speaking of demons, this particular fantasy race has become a staple even outside of its own “fantasy” genre. From a King to a butler to a caretaker, it’s easy to find demon characters doing all sorts of things in various anime. For this article, we focus on one specific type of demons: the Demon Girls.

On Crunchyroll, Demon Slayer has firmly held the second position with over 500,000 ratings. However, it has finally been usurped by Solo Leveling. Much like Demon Slayer, Solo Leveling has been propelled to the heights of fame in just a few years. The first season of the anime laid a strong foundation, and the subsequent installment built on it.

Originally launched in 2003, Valve’s digital storefront was originally packaged as a way to easily update its games. At the time, the Steam client was supported primarily on Windows XP and older operating systems, including Windows 98. In the ensuing years, support for older Windows PCs running Windows 98 and XP ended. Since then, Steam has evolved into the leading launcher and storefront for PC gamers worldwide. Following the success of Valve’s Steam Deck, the SteamOS used by the popular tablet will make its way to other devices like the Lenovo Legion Go S starting in May 2025.

Even though the start of 2025 has brought some strong competition from the likes of Monster Hunter Wilds and Avowed, Valve’s hyper-competitive shooter has remained firmly in the top spot on Steam. On February 16, Counter-Strike 2 surpassed 1.7 million concurrent players, setting a new peak player count for the game. Now, just under a month later, it’s done it again.

Sony’s Columbia Pictures is taking Starship Troopers back to the drawing board. The 1997 original has become a cult classic in the years since its release and it did launch an admittedly lackluster multimedia franchise. An animated series, multiple direct-to-video sequels, and a host of video games have kept Starship Troopers in the background of public consciousness for years, but none of these projects have lived up to the hyper-violent and hyper-satirical film helmed by Paul Verhoeven. Weirdly enough, the Helldivers franchise of video games has done a better job of successfully mimicking Starship Troopers than it’s own products have. This time around, Sony and Columbia are changing things up instead of dipping into the same old well yet again.