Nyla Gilbert

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Q&A with E.M. Wilson: A Chat With The Writer Behind Viral Book 'Situationship' | Den of Geek

During this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, Den of Geek co-hosted a writing event alongside original fiction platform Wattpad. Bestselling romance author E.M. Wilson, who got her start on Wattpad, sat down to talk about her unconventional path to finding her voice and reflecting on the way the platform changed the trajectory of her career. Known for her 2025 breakout novel Situationship and the publication of her most recent novel Breakup for Two, Wilson’s journey is only beginning, especially with...
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Grimm Stars Reunite for 15th Anniversary, Reveal Where the Movie Stands  | Den of Geek

Grimm’s future is still in limbo, but the cast’s joy keeps the fans looking forward.


NBC’s Grimm captivated the urban fantasy genre in 2011, riding a wave of supernatural storytelling inspired by shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Charmed. The show, along with peers like The Vampire Diaries and Teen Wolf, is part of defining a decade of series that ignited the romance fantasies of millennials and Gen Z. 


The show, which aired from 2011-2017, centered around Portland, Orego...
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Everything We Saw At San Diego Comic-Con 2026 | Den of Geek

“I think that there’s always a dream that the cast that you fall in love with, they’re all friends in real life, and I don’t think that’s always true. In our case it really is, and what you’re seeing on the screen is genuine love,” Ginutoli says. “And we wanna say, I would imagine we all do, thank you so sincerely to the fans.”


While fans can enjoy seeing their favorite castmembers back in the whimsical spotlight; there is an update on the Grimm movie in development at Peacock that was announ...
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Stepping Out of Sherlock's Shadow: Why Enola Holmes Works as a Detective Hero  | Den of Geek

Sherlock Holmes is a name that has dominated the mystery genre since the late 1880s, taking on many new incarnations and seeing many canon changes in the past 140 years. One notable recent change to the Sherlock universe has been the introduction of the rest of the Holmes family. American author Nancy Springer joined in on this Holmes expansion in 2006, with the creation of the book series The Enola Holmes Adventures.


Enola, the rambunctious younger sister of Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes, was...
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Netflix’s Unhinged Is an Immersive Home Invasion Nightmare  | Den of Geek

Ava must escape through her bathroom window to get out of her apartment. Next, the trailer shows flashes of Ava crawling through vents, walking into a room with computer monitors showing a live feed from security cameras of the building, and a confrontation between Ava and the killer. Ava must rely on Claire and the building superintendent, Ben (Troy Baker), to navigate the danger and get to the apartment lobby safely. 


While the story itself isn’t a new trope in the horror industry, the imme...
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Nyla Gilbert - Community Standards Editor │ Influential Women

02What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?I think to not be afraid. Journalism is actually very versatile, though we don't really consider it that way because most people's introduction to it is broadcast and being on TV. There's so many different facets, and we all do so many different things. There are so many different journals you would never expect to be considered credible journalism, but they have such a large impact. My journey with journalism is very much well-b...
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Voicemails for Isabelle is a Love Letter to Healing from Grief | Den of Geek

The voicemails set up who both Jill and Isabelle are without having to manufacture scenes of character development. The way they talk to each other through technology reveals a bond and a familial intimacy that encapsulates their relationship for all to see. It makes it even more profoundly melancholic when Isabelle can no longer leave new messages of her own. Despite this, Jill’s continuing to talk to her sister as if she never left, even though she acknowledges her death, is beautiful to see....
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Minecraft Is Becoming Entertainment's Most Unexpected Storytelling Tool  | Den of Geek

This former sandbox game is building the future of narrative storytelling one block at a time.


Do you think about me when you’re not playing? That’s a line spoken by eldritch terror AI character Verity in a two-part horror series by Minecraft content creator ThatMob. Verity, voiced by another Minecraft creator, JustWhispy, has taken the blocky sandbox game’s audience into increasing levels of fandom excitement. 






ThatMob, or Mob, plays as himself, as the AI helper he downl...
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Kenan and Kel Discuss Fizzy New Mobile Game and Expanding Their Brand  | Den of Geek

Iconic Good Burger comedy duo Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell have been captivating audiences since 1994 when they debuted as cast members on Nickelodeon sketch series All That. Now, after more than three decades of partnership, they are expanding the Kenan and Kel universe; introducing a mobile game, Orange Pop!, and working on their own remake of the classic “Abbott and Costello Meet Universal Monsters” movies. The venerable pop culture pair stopped by the Den of Geek studio in Manhattan to di...
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Documentary Stealing Magic Takes on Trickery Within the World of Illusions | Den of Geek

Magicians have been using the art of illusion to deceive the mind for centuries, yet it appears that even they can fall victim to trickery. In Fish Bowl Films and Magic Castle Entertainment Production’s documentary Stealing Magic, the audience will follow British illusionist Andi Gladwin as he launches a multi-year global investigation of an online piracy ring whose mark is any and everyone with a magic trick. 


Gladwin teams up with magicians from across the world to follow a trail of encrypt...
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Marvel’s Wolverine Delivers Gruesome Gameplay First Look | Den of Geek

Wolverine is back to give the world the blood-soaked rescue it desperately needs.


He is the best at what he does, and it isn’t very nice. Sony Interactive Entertainment is giving the X-Men’s most iconic, violent, and animalistic member his own game in what may be Insomniac Games’ most violent outing yet. Now, the 2026 PlayStation State of Play presentation has provided gamers with their first look at the highly-anticipated single-player action-adventure game, Marvel’s Wolverine....
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A Moriarty Series Could Change the Sherlock Franchise Forever  | Den of Geek

Professor Moriarty is back in a new endeavor that will see a new side to the criminal master manipulator.


The nemesis of Oxford Yard’s resident detective is getting his own series. James Moriarty will receive his own modern retelling at the behest of Fremantle, producers of Poor Things, and Archery Productions, who produced Operation Mincemeat. The series is set to be written by Chris Cornwell, known for the show A Discovery of Witches, and Oliver Lansley, Where’s Wanda?. 


Acco...
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007 First Light Is Already Dividing Gamers... And That’s OK  | Den of Geek

IO Interactive has rewound time to give fans the origins of the most iconic figure in espionage, James Bond. The Hitman studio’s new game 007 First Light depicts a young, reckless, and developing Bond during his time in the MI6’s training program as the former naval air crewman trains to confront a global conspiracy. The game explores how the spy became who he is, developed a moral code, and became the magnetic figure known as Agent 007. 


The game stars Irish actor Patrick Gibson (who previou...
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Directive 8020 Isn’t Living up to The Dark Picture Anthology’s Hype  | Den of Geek

The latest installment of the Dark Pictures Anthology lacks that heart-racing tempo that keeps players' fingers stuck to the controller.


Supermassive Games’ Dark Pictures Anthology series takes on heavy themes about the darker aspects of humanity, free will, and morality. Players learn to make decisions for survival on the fly and deal with the outcomes of those decisions, sometimes impacted by choices of characters centuries before them. 


The first game of the franchise, Man o...
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New Lifestyle Sim Paralives Is Answering Sims Fans' Prayers  | Den of Geek

Paralives has released the first look at its gameplay, providing a new world for life simulator players to exercise their god complexes on. The game, created by Paralives Studios, started as a solo passion project by creator Alex Massé. With the help of his team of 10, they are now set to launch one of 2026’s most anticipated life simulation games. 


The indie title’s early access gameplay looks promising for the launch, garnering excitement for a fresh take on the genre. 


The Sims players,...
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Devil May Cry Season 2 Review: DMC Takes Daddy Issues to Extreme Power Levels | Den of Geek

Dante and Virgil are still haunted by the legacy of Sparda, but they aren’t the only ones with troubling father figures.


Fan-favorite gunslinging “Jackpot-”saying half-demon mercenary Dante Sparda is back for season 2 of Netflix’s Devil May Cry, joined by his equally powerful, more stoic and demonically-leaning twin brother. Dante (Johnny Yong) returns to TV with a renewed purpose: to defeat the king of the demons, Mundus (Ray Chase), and get his brother, Vergil Sparda (Robbie Day...
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Alien: Isolation 2 Might Be Losing the Original Game’s Best Feature  | Den of Geek

The blaring sirens of a space station’s decontamination room are set to hit gaming consoles once again with the sequel to Creative Assembly’s survival horror game Alien: Isolation. 


In the teaser for the sequel, a 25-second clip titled A False Sense of Security, we are introduced to the familiar intense atmosphere of a deserted ship, only for the door to open to a desolate planet, then the image of a payphone reading “Emergency,” introducing the idea of a storyline taking place on the surface...
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Netflix’s East of Eden Trailer Gives One of Literature's Cruelest Women an Antihero Rewrite  | Den of Geek

Netflix has released the first teaser into its adaptation of East of Eden, which takes a new twist on the story’s most hated character.


John Steinbeck’s 1952 novel East of Eden is being adapted yet again to question if identity truly is based on what you choose. Now Netflix has released a trailer for the upcoming limited series starring Florence Pugh that makes clear it’s choosing a new narration of the original story. 


The novel follows the lives of the Trask and Hamilton fami...
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WDTN-2 Directing Intern

“These communities that are losing local news coverage are losing something deeper. They’re losing a connection to American democracy. And those connections must be rebuilt. We need more of a bottom-up sense of what it means to produce news.” - Brian Stelter

WDTN-2 showed the importance and connection that local news stations provide to their communities. Showing the importance of being the information highway to underserved communities.
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We were students at the White House Correspondents Dinner Attack: This is our story.

Trigger warning: this article details experiences of gun violence and trauma. Please exercise caution if you believe the words below may be triggering or hard to read.
We, Ohio University students, members of The Post and White House Correspondents Scholars, are not only victims, but survivors of the most recent attempted assassination of President Donald Trump. 

April 25 will go down as one of the craziest days in our lives. In a place of celebration, where we w...
Chaos, charm return in ‘XO Kitty’ season 3 - The P •

Chaos, charm return in ‘XO Kitty’ season 3

Season three of the “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” spin-off, “XO Kitty,” was released on Netflix on April 2.
Viewers are once again reintroduced to the youngest of the Covey sisters, Katherine “Kitty” Song Covey, in season three of her hit Netflix series. 

In season one, Covey (Anna Cathcart) made her way to the Korean Independent School of Seoul, to trace her mom’s footsteps and meet her boyfriend, Daeheon “Dae” Kim (Choi Min-yeong). At the end of the seaso...
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