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2 days ago | thepopverse.com | Leon Miller

When Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning hits screens imminently, it’ll mark 29 years since Tom Cruise first portrayed franchise protagonist Ethan Hunt. As you’d expect, this near-three-decade history is something The Final Reckoning (like its immediate predecessor, 2023’s Dead Reckoning) leans into, hard — well, kinda. Sure, Ethan Hunt’s past is one of the primary drivers of the seventh and eighth Mission: Impossible installments’ two-part story.

4 days ago | thepopverse.com | Chris Arrant

Wizards of the Coast wants to make the upcoming Magic: The Gathering - Final Fantasy crossover as genuine as possible - so two employees went hardcore for a monthHow many jobs do you know of where you can play video games for a living? There are a few, but not as many as we would like... but imagine a job where you had to do a crash course in a Final Fantasy game but do the opposite of a speedrun, and soak up every little detail? Meet Daniel Holt - who, yes, had that job.

4 days ago | thepopverse.com | Chris Arrant

Yoshitaka Amano returns to Final Fantasy to paint his favorite character - and this time he's drawing her more realistically than he did when he first created her. Yoshitaka Amano is one of the founding fathers of the Final Fantasy games franchise - his lithe, energetic, and stylish artwork is in many ways the fundamental artistic style of the game franchise as a whole, even more so than the evolving graphic complexities of the latest game systems.

4 days ago | thepopverse.com | Graeme McMillan

Fox’s dedication to animation continues to be unmatched in American television, with the network rolling our multiple renewals for three of its ongoing animated comedies — just weeks after multi-year deals being announced for even more animated shows. As per Deadline, Krapopolis, Universal Basic Guys, and Grimsburg have all received new season orders — although, due to the production status of these shows, these renewals actually go beyond the new fall season in a couple of cases.

4 days ago | thepopverse.com | Graeme McMillan

Dav Pilkey and Scholastic are donating up to 50,000 books to US locations as part of the November 2025 event to promote child literacyAt a time where it feels like freedom to read is under attack in America (A time when the Librarian of Congress just got fired by the President, for example, or more states are increasing their numbers of banned books, for example), it takes a superhero to stand up for child literacy. Thankfully, Dog Man is leading the charge for Children’s Book Week this November.