Rooster premieres Sunday, March 8 at 10:00p.m. ET/PT on HBO. New episodes drop weekly.

Rooster is Steve Carrell at the top of his game. It’s also Danielle Deadwyler at the top of her game. Phil Dunster, Charly Clive, Annie Mumolo, Lauren Tsai, and John C. McGinley too. The new series from Scrubs and Ted Lasso co-creator Bill Lawrence and his producing partner Matt Tarses (Sports Night, The Goldbergs, Scrubs) is a delightful comedy about coming home, even if “home” is an unfamiliar place.

The HBO series (the first s 6 of 10 total episodes were available for review) stars Carrell as Greg Russo, a famous author known for his breezy “beach reads,” and whose fictional protagonist is nicknamed the titular Rooster. Greg pays a visit to the college campus where his daughter Katie (Clive – The Lazarus Project, All My Friends Hate Me) teaches and hijinks ensue. Katie is going through a personal crisis – her husband Archie (Dunster, in a delightful smarmy twist on his Ted Lasso character Jamie Tartt) left her for a younger grad student – and is hanging on by a razor’s edge. In a moment of midadventure, Katie accidentally burns down Achie’s house and Greg is more-or-less blackmailed by the school’s president into taking a teaching job in order to get Katie out of hot water.

Greg is immediately a stranger in a strange land; the students consider his novels little more than populist trash and he’s living in the shadow of his revered ex-wife (Connie Britton), who made a huge donation to the school. But soon, unsurprisingly, Greg finds his place. He uses the teaching job to reclaim his divorce and help Katie. But this isn’t an “Old School” situation. Rooster isn’t the story of an awkward man trying to reclaim his youth. It’s much more subtle, thoughtful, and brilliant than that.

As the inker on the legendary Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Klaus Janson's Bat-pedigree is guaranteed based on that series alone. But Janson has had a long, prolific career drawing the Caped Crusader and numerous other superheroes, and that work is being celebrated at a new exhibit at New York's Philippe Labaune Gallery.

IGN can exclusively reveal some of the original artwork on display at the new exhibit. Check out the slideshow gallery below to see pieces from The Dark Knight III: The Master Race, Batman: The Last Halloween, and more:

Janson's 50-year career started with a stint on Marvel's Black Panther series in 1974. Janson has worked as a solo artist and as an inker for a number of acclaimed pencillers like Frank Miller, John Romita Jr., John and Sal Buscema, Dick Giordano, Bill Sienkiewicz, Gil Kane, and Gene Colan. The exhibit brings together 100 pieces of original art from across Janson's career.

“Through this survey, Klaus Janson emerges as a singular figure whose adaptability, sensitivity, and understanding have permanently expanded what comics can achieve,” says Philippe Labaune. “His ability to work as a penciler, inker, colorist, writer, and teacher demonstrates the depth and range of his contributions to the medium and underscores why this exhibition is so significant. The exhibition celebrates a life in comics, offering a rare and considered perspective on the medium, and honoring an artist whose work has defined the visual and emotional language of American comics for generations.”

The Klaus Janson exhibit will run from Friday, March 6 through Saturday, April 11 at the Philippe Labaune Gallery, which is located at 534 West 24th Street in New York. There will be an opening reception on March 5 from 6pm to 9pm ET.

Previous artists featured at the Philippe Labaune Gallery have included Frank Cho, Paul Pope, and Will Eisner.

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Pokémon Pokopia is out today (hooray!), and if you somehow don't have enough to do in that game already, there's a limited-time event on the way later this month that will give you even more little tasks, items, and Pokémon pals, as it's bringing Hoppip, Skiploom, and Jumpluff to the game. It starts next week, but if you don't mind a little manipulation, you can just play it right now.

Per an official announcement, beginning March 9 at 1pm PT through March 24 at 12:59pm PT, you'll be able to encounter Hoppip in Pokémon Pokopia, as well as collect a new "cotton spore" material. Cotton spores can be exchanged for picnic-themed furniture items, which you can then use to build habitats that will attract Hoppip's evolutions, Skiploom and Jumpluff. The official announcement warns that you won't be able to encounter these Pokémon outside the event, so you'll want to make sure to play during these dates if you want them in your game.

What's more, you'll also need at least one rebuilt Pokémon Center in order to encounter Hoppip and friends. Rebuilding a Pokémon Center is an endeavor that can take a few hours of gameplay minimum, so you'll want to get a jump-luff on that to make sure you don't miss out.

But you don't have to wait until March 9 to get started. If you open up your Switch 2 system clock and set it to a date and time within the event range, and you already have the finished Pokémon Center, Hoppip will just be chilling in your game right next to it. I managed to get Hoppip to appear in my game, and it sent me out to the Dream Islands to collect Cotton Spores for furniture. Be mindful that doing this can potentially muck with things in other realtime games, like Disney Dreamlight Valley and Animal Crossing, so it may be best to set it back to normal once you're done and before opening any of those games.

In addition to the Hoppip event, those who purchased Pokopia early can get an in-game Ditto rug for free using the Mystery Gift function in the menu. The Ditto Rug is available until January 31 of next year so you're not likely to miss out even if you wait to buy the game. And, as a heads up, you can get the Ditto Rug in-game without using this function too. This just gives you a free one much earlier than you'd otherwise encounter it.

Pokopia is amazing, and I said as much in my 9/10 review: It's "an enjoyable building and town simulator that capitalizes on the charming personalities of its monsters in a way that appeals to both the creative and collector alike." Wondering which Pokémon you'll be able to live alongside? Check out our list of all the Pokémon in Pokopia, and take a look at our Things to Do First in Pokopia guide to make the most of your first few days. To help you get started, we've also got a list of 17 things that Pokopia doesn't tell you, plus How to Raise the Environment Level and How to Raise Pokémon Comfort Level.

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Nathan Fillion has hyped up Firefly fans with a number of social media posts that has some hoping for a series return over 20 years after it was canceled.

Fillion, who plays Captain Mal Reynolds in Firefly, has made several social media posts where he visits various cast members from the show while highlighting a mysterious “announcement.” He’s made videos with folks like Morena Baccarin, Gina Torres, Summer Glau, and Sean Maher, and in the clips, he tells his former costars that “it’s time.”

It seems as though Fillion is hinting at some kind of cast reunion, but in what form will that reunion take? That’s anyone’s guess right now. In the post where Fillion joins forces with Maher, the caption tells fans: “Some of you have guessed convention, podcast, or cross-over. You are wrong.” And that means some folks who assumed Fillion and his other former Firefly costar Alan Tudyck would be hosting a reunion (and maybe even a rewatch, too) on their podcast Once We Were Spacemen are probably ultimately incorrect.

When is this big announcement happening, you might be wondering? Well, in Fillion’s latest post — all of which have been made on his podcast account, fueling that speculation — he visits costar Jewel Staite and confirms that the surprise will be revealed on Sunday, March 15, though he doesn't clarify where or how the announcement will be made.

As far as what the announcement could actually be, fans have been musing about a potential 25th anniversary reunion special, one bigger than a podcast meetup, or even the highly anticipated and hoped-for revival series fans have waited patiently for.

"I swear by my pretty floral bonnet, if Nathan Fillion is leading us on with these hints I will curse his sudden but inevitable betrayal," said one fan on the Firefly subreddit, which as you can imagine is all sorts of busy right now.

That said, Baccarin, who played Inara Serra, previously opened up about how unlikely it was for a full-scale revival to happen. "There’s always talk. There’s always people asking about it. Part of me would be excited to revisit that world, and part of me is also a little bit like, I love it so much where it is, that I’m worried about reopening that door,” she explained on Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum back in July 2025. “That’s a lot of different careers and different people that you have to negotiate with and make work and all that … schedules and whatnot. Could there be a comic book or [another] thing–maybe?"

Firefly premiered on Fox in September 2002 and ran for just 11 of its 14 episodes before being cancelled. The series, created by Joss Whedon, followed the crew of the spaceship known as Serenity helmed by Fillion’s Mal Reynolds in the year 2517 and ended up becoming a cult classic once it made its way to DVD. We’ll see where this new announcement takes things for the fans.

Lex Briscuso is a film and television critic and a freelance entertainment writer for IGN. You can follow her on Twitter at @nikonamerica.

The developer of Marvel Rivals has addressed what it called the “disturbing trend” of "incentivized throwing,” where players are enticed by third-party bounties to deliberately sabotage matches.

Last month, Marvel Rivals players called on developer NetEase Games to take action after the emergence of an unofficial bounty website that triggered fears it could harm the community it was supposedly trying to protect.

Fans of the hero shooter sounded the alarm when third-party site Intlist.org went live on February 22. Established by Marvel Rivals content creator and X/Twitter user EchoRivals, Intlist’s goal was to give players an avenue to name those who intentionally sabotage or “throw” multiplayer matches and “put a price on their head.”

“Put a bounty on griefers & throwers,” the first, now-deleted post on its X account read, promising a system that offered an 80% payout for those who successfully throw matches in retaliation. “Someone queues in, throws it back, gets paid.”

One Reddit user calling attention to the issue said they’d seen an increase in sabotaged matches for every kind of player, warning that “now every game is people throwing each other’s games.” The Intlist account replied to the criticism, insisting: “Collateral damage is an unfortunate reality of war.”

Now, in an official statement published to the Marvel Rivals Discord, NetEase threatened players who engaged with external bounties with a permanent ban.

Here’s the statement in full:

We have recently identified a disturbing trend within our community: "incentivized throwing," where players are enticed by third-party bounties to deliberately sabotage matches. This behavior not only undermines the integrity of our game but also tarnishes the experience for honest players who are committed to fair competition.

In light of this, we want to make our position clear:

We maintain a strict zero-tolerance policy against any form of malicious disruption. To combat this issue, we are implementing a specialized investigation protocol focused on identifying and addressing negative gameplay linked to these external bounties. Accounts found to be violating our policies will face serious repercussions, including, but not limited to, permanent bans. We strongly advise players against jeopardizing their valuable accounts and hard-earned progress for the sake of temporary incentives.

Moreover, to reinforce the principles of fair competition, we have enhanced our regulations regarding negative gameplay. Accounts found to be engaging in disruptive behaviors, such as malicious idling (AFK) or intentionally throwing matches, will incur significant penalties following reporting and verification.

If you encounter players who are maliciously idling or intentionally throwing games, we encourage you to utilize the reporting feature immediately. Your reports are crucial and will be thoroughly investigated by our dedicated team.

Maintaining a positive gaming environment is a collective responsibility. Thank you for your continued support!

Intlist had already been pulled offline last month, promising “something big is coming.” At the time, EchoRivals claimed the site was locked down after they “detected unauthorized access to our database from a single bad actor.”

Today, March 5, EchoRivals posted in the Intlist Discord to say the website would remain offline “for the time being,” adding: “No ETA on when/if we will be back. This was my decision.”

Wesley is Director, News at IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.

Doomsday Diner is the restaurant sim that dares to take post-apocalyptic storytelling to a new height by focusing on an element we so often overlook, that of the humble hot dog. A new trailer and a playable demo drop today, ahead of a PC release on Steam later this year.

It has all the hallmarks of the classic diner sim, cooking, cleaning, upgrading your equipment piece by piece but with some added carnage as you do your best to defend your humble eatery from wasteland raiders. To keep things spicy, the controls are physics-based, which should make for some sausage slinging chaos when the pressure is on.

The maniacs behind the game are Space Rock Games, a studio in New Zealand that is also working on Criminals Within, an asymmetric co-op multiplayer action-adventure game with a fantasy flavor. Members of its team have worked on notable titles like Fable, Path of Exile, Chivalry 2, Alien vs Predator and Black And White 2.

Doomsday Diner joins the collection of increasingly unhinged sim games on Steam, which includes big names like House Flipper, Goat Simulator and Powerwash Simulator, but also hidden gems like Paver Simulator, TCG Card Shop Simulator, and Crime Scene Cleaner.

You can wishlist Doomsday Diner now.

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You play a handcrafted puppet in a papercraft world in Hidalgo, a newly announced cozy narrative adventure that's playable in co-op. It's based on the novel Don Quijote de La Mancha, and it's in development for PC.

Appropriately named developer Infinite Thread games promises first-person parallax puzzles, cozy boss battles, environmental puzzles, and a wholesome-themed story. When playing in co-op, one player controls Don Quijote, while the other controls Sancho. Check out the announcement trailer above and the first screenshots in the gallery below.

Hidalgo is due out later this year on PC. Wishlist it on Steam if you're interested.

Ryan McCaffrey is IGN's executive editor of previews and host of both IGN's weekly Xbox show, Podcast Unlocked, as well as our semi-retired interview show, IGN Unfiltered. He's a North Jersey guy, so it's "Taylor ham," not "pork roll." Debate it with him on Twitter at @DMC_Ryan.

Earlier in 2026, we got our first look at Saber Interactive’s currently Untitled John Wick Game at a Sony State of Play. But apart from an impressively cinematic trailer, very little is known about the upcoming project. Well, IGN recently spoke with Saber’s Chief Creative Officer, Tim Willits, and squeezed a few extra tiny details out.

A John Wick game seems like a no-brainer. In theory, it's gun-fu action, which is not overly dissimilar from Remedy’s Max Payne bullet-time combat or Sifu’s hand-to-hand melee combos — the former has already received a movie adaptation, with the latter in production at Netflix from, incidentally, John Wick’s Chad Stahelski. So, the Keanu Reeves-led movie series making its way into video games seems a natural reversal of the adaptation process.

It’s a sentiment shared by Willits. “The great thing about the Wick series is when you watch the movies, they're kind of like video games. You have a group of enemies, then you have some tough guys, and you have a boss fight, and then you have a group of enemies, tough guys, and a boss fight. So it's really exciting to bring that action to a video game. It's going to be like watching a movie. That's all I can say.”

While the structure of the game remains unknown, we can infer that this will perhaps be a level-based action game in the mold of classics like the aforementioned Max Payne, if the flow of grunts, brutes, and bosses that Willits mentioned is as suggested. What we do know, however, is when the game will be set, and, in turn, how its place on the John Wick timeline may impact its style of gameplay.

“So yes, it's before movie one,” Willits confirms. “And you can kind of infer that because [in the reveal trailer] he's getting measured for his suit, and he looks a little bit younger.”

Because this John Wick is a prequel, Saber’s intention is for fights to be a little bit more clumsy than what fans have seen on the big screen, and the combat is more instinctual. This would, in theory, give the game a nice sense of progression, as we presumably gain experience and unlock skills on our way to becoming the much-feared Baba Yaga figure inhabited by Keanu Reeves’ assassin in the first movie. It also, crucially, means he isn’t fuelled by the murder of his beloved dog, so, thankfully, we won’t have to go through that trauma all over again.

We’ll learn plenty more about the Untitled John Wick game as we creep closer to its release, but Willits is very excited about getting it in players’ hands, claiming it's “Saber's biggest announcement we've ever done.”

For a developer now highly adept in adapting existing IP into games, that’s no small claim, with the highly successful Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 and Evil Dead: The Game under the studio’s belt, as well as the upcoming John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando, Jurassic Park: Survival, and Hellraiser: Revival.

Simon Cardy is a Senior Editor at IGN who can mainly be found skulking around open world games, indulging in Korean cinema, or despairing at the state of Tottenham Hotspur and the New York Jets. Follow him on Bluesky at @cardy.bsky.social.

What next for Temuera Morrison and his iconic character Boba Fett in the ongoing Star Wars franchise? Not much, it sounds like. In a new interview, the actor said Boba is still “on the shelf” — despite his attempts to spark a return.

In August last year, Morrison called on Star Wars fans to inundate Lucasfilm with requests to see the actor reprise his role as the iconic bounty hunter, with The Book of Boba Fett Season 2 looking increasingly unlikely.

Morrison, alongside Daniel Logan, who played young Boba/Jango Fett’s clone son, told fans at the FanX's Tampa Bay Comic Convention that there’s nothing in the works in terms of a new appearance. He then used the opportunity to issue his plea: “I think we really have to treasure those moments now. All of you need to send a fax, or a letter, or an email, to those powers that be at Lucasfilm. I'm sure they'd love to hear from everyone. Please give Daniel Logan and Temuera Morrison another chance and put them somewhere.”

It turns out that slightly irked Lucasfilm, who called Morrison up to reiterate Boba’s situation.

“I was only joking. I’m at a convention, and I say stupid things,” Morrison told Inverse. “Then I’ve got [Lucasfilm] ringing me: ‘Look, you’ve been put on the shelf, Boba Fett. We might open up the jar later.’”

Morrison originally played Jango Fett in Star Wars: Episode 2 – Attack of the Clones, but years later rejoined Star Wars as Jango's son and clone Boba Fett.

The last time we saw the 65-year-old New Zealander play Fett was at the end of The Book of Boba Fett, in February 2022. The Disney+ spin-off series proved divisive, with some Star Wars fans feeling it went too far in softening the iconic villain's character.

Morrison told Inverse that he had hoped to get multiple seasons out of Boba Fett. “It was a big deal for me,” he said. “When you do a series like Boba Fett and work with Ming-Na [Wen], I started to think, ‘Man, this is it. I’m away. Season 2, 3, 4.’ But at the end of it, we had a great time. I was honored to be brought back after all that time.”

Even with The Mandalorian and Grogu coming out in May, a Boba Fett return feels low down on Lucasfilm's priority list. Will there be a The Mandalorian Season 4? Lucasfilm has yet to say, but if it does happen, perhaps Boba Fett would pop up there. Otherwise, if Lucasfilm actually makes the Dave Filoni New Republic team-up movie it has announced, perhaps Boba will join forces with Mando and Ahsoka in an Avengers-style fight against Grand Admiral Thrawn.

However, outgoing Lucasfilm boss Kathleen Kennedy made no mention of the Mandalorian, Ahsoka, and Boba Fett crossover movie when revealing her exit in January, though it's likely her successor, Filoni himself, will be the one to give an update on this as its fate likely rests on the performance of The Mandalorian and Grogu this year.

In June last year, Morrison revealed he actually pitched Lucasfilm on Boba Fett appearing in Ahsoka Season 2 ("can I be Rex and take his helmet off, please?"), pointing out that he plays not just Boba Fett but all the clones based upon the character.

In 2024, speaking at the From Clone Troopers to Bounty Hunters panel at Fan Expo Chicago, Morrison cited The Book of Boba Fett's poor reception as the reason for the once beloved character not returning in Star Wars: The Mandalorian & Grogu. The show, which told the story of Boba Fett as he escaped from the Sarlacc Pit and acted as a miniature season of The Mandalorian, was among the worst received Star Wars shows. "This show's reception does seem to have impacted the future of the character in the franchise," Morrison said at the time.

Amid all this, only two Star Wars films are definitively confirmed to release: The Mandalorian and Grogu launches in theaters on May 22, and Ryan Gosling's Star Wars: Starfighter arrives on May 28, 2027.

Wesley is Director, News at IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.

We’re dumping the clutch on our March IGN First "cover story" effective immediately with Forza Horizon 6! As such, feel free to slide into the passenger seat and enjoy nine minutes of exclusive gameplay from the next instalment of Forza Horizon: the reigning heavyweight champ of open-world racing series.

This never-before-seen gameplay features a Saleen S7, an American turn-of-the-century cult supercar, being taken on a brisk journey through a portion of Forza Horizon 6’s Japan-based map. Moving from the south, you’ll be able to observe segments of rural, rolling countryside and a section of Tokyo itself before reaching the base of the mountains. We'll have much more exclusive coverage of Forza Horizon 6 all throughout March as part of IGN First!

Forza Horizon 6 takes the acclaimed driving delights of the series and finally sets them loose on the distinctive roads of Japan. With more cars than ever on day one, a progression system inspired by the original 2012 Forza Horizon, and long-awaited tweaks to customisation, Forza Horizon 6 appears it’ll be barrelling into our homes with its foot flat to the floor. After you’ve checked out the exclusive gameplay above, check out the first developer gameplay overview, as well as our initial interview with the Playground team following the game’s announcement.

Forza Horizon 6 is coming to Xbox Series X|S and PC via the Microsoft Store and Steam on May 19, 2026, though it will be available with Early Access for Premium Edition players starting four days earlier (on May 15). It’s also coming to PlayStation 5 later this year.

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