ConcernedApe, the solo indie developer behind the popular social sim Stardew Valley, announced the title of his next game today with a surprise gameplay trailer.

Titled ConcernedApe’s Haunted Chocolatier, the project is in development and “isn’t going to be ready for a while still.” The trailer, which can be seen above, shows pixel artwork across a fantastical life and social sim setting. ConcernedApe describes the game as “another ‘town game,’” although the game has more action RPG elements than Stardew Valley.

Haunted Chocolatier First Look

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The game’s official website includes more information on the upcoming game, its features, and what fans can expect when it releases in the future. “I intend for this game to be positive, uplifting and life-affirming,” ConcernedApe writes in a blog post. Noticeable differences already apparent include action RPG mechanics, the wintery setting, and, of course, the haunted chocolate ghosts. The developer shares that “the gameplay loop involves gathering ingredients, making chocolate, and running a chocolate shop.”

While it looks like it will still be a game for fans of the first game, this all sounds like more of a successor than a sequel. And that’s exciting, given what ConcernedApe did the last time he set out to make a wholly original game. Stardew Valley released in 2016 and was considered a game of the decade by the broad consensus that so many people were still playing it. And just last month, the game surpassed 15 million copies sold across all platforms.

That’s a lot of inherited farmland, and we’re excited to see where we’ll go next.

Let those hearts get to pounding anime fans because we just got more info on Love Is War season 3! It seems the new season, subtitled “-Ultra Romantic-,” is set to premiere in the Spring 2022 anime season.

Along with this news, we got a new trailer for the season! While a previous teaser trailer for season 3 had been released this special video shows off way more — an entire chunk of the first episode in fact! Of course, being in Japanese, only a certain number of fans will be able to keep up with the dialogue.

We also got a special look at a new visual for the incoming season which can be viewed below.

Love Is War Season 3 Visual

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For those who don’t know about Love Is War, the official synopsis for the series is as follows:

“Known for being both brilliant and powerful, Miyuki Shirogane and Kaguya Shinomiya lead the illustrious Shuchiin Academy as near equals. And everyone thinks they’d make a great couple.

Pride and arrogance are in ample supply, so the only logical move is to trick the other into instigating a date! Who will come out on top in this psychological war where the first move is the only one that matters?”

Love Is War season 3 is set to air exclusively on Funimation.

Just days ago, a crossover between Riverdale and the Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina was announced, specifically with Sabrina Spellman paying a special visit to Cheryl Blossom. 

Of course, fans were immediately excited to see the two shows finally coming together. Existing within the same realm, fans have long anticipated Kiernan Shipka’s Sabrina’s arrival in Riverdale and wondered what the circumstances surrounding her appearance would be.

The information shared with the announcement that Riverdale would be getting a spell-binding visitor was short and sweet. Blossom was said to be doing a spell and needing the help of a witch to ensure everything was going well.

Now that a trailer for Riverdale’s 5 episode special, Rivervale, has aired, we know that she shows up dressed to the 9’s and looking eager to see Blossom and the other Riverdale citizens.

The trailer sees a lot happening in the little town of Riverdale; from blooming relationships to secrets uncovered; there’s never any rest for the wicked when it comes to existing there. Oh, and as the devil himself appears to be introduced in the trailer — we’re sure the demons (both human and unhuman) are out for blood.

The five-episode special kicks off on November 16th; you can catch up with Riverdale now on Netflix while you wait.

Hooters is trending over a switch to their waitresses’ uniforms. The company, famous for either wings or breasts depending on who you ask, will now have a new dress code with shorts that waitresses say are a little too revealing. The restaurant began trending on Twitter as pictures of the shorts, alongside videos of angry waitresses, were shared all across the platform.

The outrage wasn’t just contained to Twitter either — TikTokers also got in on the action. One waitress in particular, Kristen Songer, is going viral because of her post discussing the new uniform.

The waitress shows a pair of the old shorts and the new ones side by side and the new shorts show a lot more backside and are much smaller. They look more like bikini bottoms.

The old shorts were orange and covered most of an employee’s rear, the new shorts essentially act like a thong and look like a V.

“There’s no longer anything covered by these shorts,” Songer said in the video. “This is why all the Hooters girls are upset, because this is not what I agreed to wear a year ago when I was hired.”

Hooters sent out a notice about the new shorts to all employees, according to The New York Post.

“Starting Oct. 4, all Hooters girls should wear the new shorts when working once they arrive to stores,” the policy said. “The old shorts should not be worn.”

The notice also said that employees who feel uncomfortable about the new uniforms are welcome to resign.

“[We] hope this change would create excitement with all of our current Hooters Girls. We understand that this may be a change that may not suit your personal preference. We would ask that you try them out and, if after two weeks, you are still hesitant to wear the new shorts you may transfer to a non-image based position or resign your position as a Hooters Girl. If you choose to resign you will be eligible for rehire.”

Two Alabama Hooters waitresses named Easten Brewer and Katherine Nicole also made a video joking that the new shorts were “rated porn.”

Other waitresses have also expressed their discontent.

Others said they didn’t mind the new uniforms.

It remains to be seen if the attention will cause Hooters to rethink its position.

For those dying to once again see Bruce Willis star in a sci-fi action film ever since his legendary turn playing Korben Dallas in 1997’s The Fifth Element, look no further than the above trailer for the upcoming Apex.

In the film, Willis plays ex-cop Jim Malone, convicted of a murder in a burglary gone wrong, as an artificial intelligence voice tells us. He is then recruited to a deserted island to face off against five elite hunters, giving Malone a chance at winning back his freedom. But the squad trying to destroy Malone soon find that they are the ones being hunted by him.

The film co-stars Neal McDonough, Lochlyn Munro, Alexia Fast, Mega Peta Hill, and Hels Lennarson.

Though it does take place in the future and features hovering drones that can lift a shipping container, holograms, and the aforementioned A.I., it looks to be leaning more heavily into the action genre more so than sci-fi. In fact, the film is touted as being a remake of the 1994 flop Surviving the Game, which itself was loosely based on the 1924 short story The Most Dangerous Game, according to IMDB.

The movie is co-written and directed by Edward Drake, with Corey Large also credited as co-writer. The trio of Drake, Large, and Willis previously collaborated on the sci-fi film Cosmic Sin, which is available to view on Netflix now. In addition, the writing duo previously penned the sci-fi Willis-helmed film, 2020’s Breach, which was directed by John Suits.

Bruce Willis‘s Apex is set for release in theaters, digital and VOD on November 12th, 2021.

Attack On Titan fans only need to wait less than three months to see the premiere of the second part of the anime’s final season, as the above trailer officially confirms that date to be Jan. 9, 2022.

The second part of the final season will feature the return of director Yuichiro Hayashi, writer Hiroshi Seko, character designer Tomohiro Kishi, and music composers Hiroyuki Sawano and Kohta Yamamoto as well as the cast returning.

Prior to the upcoming second half of its final season, Japanese channel NHK will air six compilation specials that goes over the entire series up to now. All 75 episodes will be covered in the specials, which will begin airing on October 24th, 2021. A few original anime episodes will also air during the specials.

The first part of the anime’s ultimate season, appropriately dubbed Attack on Titan The Final Season, originally aired on NHK in December 2020. It’s also streaming with English subtitles on Crunchyroll and Funimation. In addition, Cartoon Network also began airing the anime on Jan. 9, 2021, with the English dub hitting Funimation streaming on Jan. 10, 2021.

The show originally began airing back in April 2013, with the second season picking up in April 2017. The third season was split up as well, with the first half premiering in 2018 and the second half airing in 2019.

The series is based on the manga of the same name by Hajime Isayama, which started in 2009. You can catch an English version of the final 34th volume of the Attack On Titan manga when it is published by Kodansha Comics on October 19th, 2021. You can also watch the first season of the show on Netflix.

You can’t escape Squid Game these days, whether it’s people talking about the show, news outlets analyzing the show, or people creating amazing parodies featuring unlikely pop culture characters (here’s a good one starring Toy Story toys).

The latest parody is surprisingly hilarious. It’s a mashup of Tobey Maguire in different Spider-Man scenes pasted into pivotal Squid Game. It shouldn’t work at all, but for some reason it really does.

The clip comes courtesy of Instagram handle tobeymmemes, an account with more than 45,000 followers.

In the clip, Maguire plays the deadly red light, green light game from the show, but he zaps the killer robot’s eyes with web fluid and coasts past the line. Then he laughs when the rest of the contestants are shot down.

It gets wackier from there. The clip shows some real comedic timing and it’s almost too fun to spoil what happens.

Maguire has been in the news quite a bit lately following news that he’s going to appear alongside Tom Holland and Andrew Garfield in the upcoming Spider-Man: No Way Home movie.

In the movie, Peter Parker’s identity as Spider-Man is revealed and he seeks out Dr. Strange to see if he can use his magical powers to reverse the identity revelation.

Strange messes up and inadvertently unleashes a slew of Spider-Man characters from the past, including those from the pre MCU days, when Maguire played the character.

That movie is slated for a December 17 release.

Even Fox Sports got in on the Squid Game parody parade. On Fox NFL Sunday, different franchises get ridiculed for their “disastrous” four-week starts.