NIPPON ICHI Software America has released Psikyo Shooting Stars Bravo, the second of two anthologies of classic shoot ‘em ups produced by Kyoto, Japan-based Psikyo, a videogame development company established in the early 1990s, and, not surprisingly, it winds up approximating the quality of its predecessor. As with Psikyo Shooting Stars Alpha, the collection is made up of six shooters that preserve the look and feel of their arcade source material. And, as with Psikyo Shooting Stars Alpha, it boasts of an overall gameplay experience that, with updated graphics and sounds, exceeds expectations.

This year, streaming service Netflix announced that it is going hard on Korean content as the popularity of such content is going global on the back of titles such as Kingdom, according to a Netflix executive. Now, the company has revealed its slate of Korean shows with genres spanning crime and sci-fi, alongside romance and drama.

THE Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP) has created a program to assist audio-visual workers displaced by the suspension of work due to COVID-19.

Here are activities to pass the time at home during the second week of quarantine:

YOU and I have been placed under house arrest by an invisible spectre: a virus.

WHEN the novel coronavirus started spreading across Asia in January, forcing the world’s largest work-from-home experiment, not many knew what to expect, least of all Bloomberg’s 400-plus journalists in the region. Six weeks later (and counting), only now are some starting to return to the office.

THE 16^th Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival scheduled for August has been postponed as the COVID-19 pandemic poses “safety and health hazards” to filmmakers trying to make their deadlines, the Cinemalaya Foundation Inc. said in a statement.

GMA Network announced that it has adjusted its programming starting March 21 due to the Luzon-wide enhanced community quarantine which was imposed because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

NEW YORK fashion designers are offering to produce masks and gowns to help fill the shortage of protective equipment needed to deal with the expanding coronavirus outbreak.

FOR years, TV executives have fretted there is too much TV. Now, with the coronavirus looming large, they are worried there might not be enough.

WITH major movie theater chains closed, Sony Corp. will release its Vin Diesel action film Bloodshot to at-home viewers this month, becoming the second studio to break with the decades-long practice of giving cinemas exclusive rights to new movies.

With everyone under enhanced community quarantine for the next four weeks due to the outbreak of COVID-19, here are a few activities to keep you entertained and productive in the comfort of your own homes.