Update: 2/25/26, 2:15 p.m. ET: An Xbox spokesperson pointed Kotaku to a post from the official Xbox account on Twitter. The company says the issue is “resolved now” and apologized for the spam. No ...

Facebook announced new AI-powered features on Tuesday designed to let users express themselves in more playful ways across the platform. The updates include animated profile pictures, photo-restyling ...

Walt Disney Animation Studios has been partying a lot since “Zootopia 2” opened in November. Artists and executives celebrated with Champagne toasts when their sequel crossed $1 billion at the global ...

Zootopia 2 is now the highest grossing MPA title with $1.703 billion at the global box office, surpassing Disney‘s Inside Out 2 ($1.69B). Overall, the Jared Bush and Byron Howard directed animated ...

Animated sequels dominated the global box office in 2025, proving that audiences around the world still crave big stories from beloved animated franchises. These follow-ups brought back familiar ...

China’s theatrical market posted an impressive comeback in 2025, with animation fueling the territory’s cinematic resurgence. Total box-office revenue rose roughly 22% year over year to approximately ...

Google is testing prefilling the search bar in a new Chrome tab, with teasers to encourage you to search deeper with AI Mode. Google is putting in the search box, "Research a topic," "Write something ...

The end-of-year box office gives us our last look at where theatrical animation sits heading into 2026. From a record-breaking faith-based debut to a billion-dollar Disney sequel to an underwater __ ...

Disney's Zootopia 2 is an unprecedented smash hit. The animated sequel earned $556.4 million in its opening weekend: the biggest debut ever for an animated movie, and the fourth-biggest opening of all ...

The biggest movie of the year isn’t about superheroes. It isn’t ripped from a video game or a live-action remake of an animated children’s classic. It’s a sequel based on intellectual property that’s ...

For decades, Pixar could hardly miss with its original animated films. But since the pandemic, Pixar and other animation studios have struggled to break through at the box office with the same kinds ...