Avatar: Fire and Ash has officially crossed $1 billion, making James Cameron the first director in history to have four consecutive billion dollar hits

January 5, 2026 / admin / retro news

It’s only one of three movies that managed to reach the box office milestone in 2025

2019

There’s no Stranger Things season 5 finale post-credits scene, but there is an easily missed hidden Easter egg with an emotional link to the first episode of the Netflix show

January 5, 2026 / admin / retro news

The Stranger Things finale features an easily missed callback to episode 1 of the whole show

2019

The Duffer brothers say they know what really happened to Eleven after the Stranger Things season 5 finale, but fans are not convinced

January 5, 2026 / admin / retro news

Fans are divided on whether Eleven is dead or alive

2019

James Gunn says Superman was the “hardest” movie he’s ever made: “I was reorienting something everyone already thinks they understand”

January 5, 2026 / admin / retro news

He also said it was more “comic book-driven” than any of his other superhero movies

2019

Legendary Dark Souls player completes the entire trilogy without getting hit while using a saxophone as a controller, and now I feel even more inadequate

January 5, 2026 / admin / retro news

Another run I’ve never completed is the next dooting challenge on the roster

2019

Metaphor: ReFantazio helped JRPG veterans behind Persona “go back to our basics,” and the experience “will really help us for future titles and projects we have coming up”

January 5, 2026 / admin / retro news

“It really was the first time in a while that our team built from the ground up”

2019

15 years later, after 700 hours of grinding and “at least” 100,000 deaths, speedrunner finally beats all of Super Meat Boy without dying, earning a “congrats” from co-creator Edmund McMillen

January 4, 2026 / admin / retro news

“I know I had to get at least like 100k deaths to be able to beat it with 0”

2019

Donkey Kong Bananza is a Switch 2 delight, but I wish I’d known these things when I got started

January 4, 2026 / admin / retro news

Donkey Kong Bananza is arguably 2025’s best Switch 2 game, but I kept getting distracted by all the punching

2019

An MMO player spent 3 years building a legendary treasure collection just to burn through it all in one glorious binge: “When I click ‘Time Played’ the game just tells me to touch grass”

January 4, 2026 / admin / retro news

These treasure chests aren’t gonna open themselves

2019

Mike Flanagan wants to get to work on his Dark Tower series to ensure the movie isn’t “the final word”

January 4, 2026 / admin / retro news

“We’ve got a lot of scripts done for it. It’s the first priority.”

2019