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Josh O’Connor, known for The Crown and Knives Out, has reportedly made the final shortlist to play the next James Bond, according to Deadline. He will join Jack Lowden (Slow Horses), Callum Turner (Only One Night) and one unnamed actor, whose identity remains under wraps, in the final round of screen tests next week. Sources...
Kratos was originally going to have a different name. The developer liked it, but it quickly became the target of jokes. David Jaffe, creator of the original God of War, continues to run his blog and talk with fans on social media. He recently shared a piece of trivia about the original name of the...
The thriller Verity, starring Anne Hathaway, will arrive on digital platforms abroad on October 27, according to WhenToStream. Adapted from the novel by Colleen Hoover (It Ends with Us), the film opened in theaters in early October. It has earned $146 million against a $40 million budget. The story follows Lowen (Dakota Johnson), a struggling...
Fans were already grieving BioWare’s closure. The leaked Mass Effect Universe trailer has only made it hurt more. The footage was brief and a bit corny, but it hinted that the stagnant franchise might be rediscovering its old spark. Every great Mass Effect game is built around its crew, a cast of companions you come...
Central Partnership has revealed who will bring Goodwin to life in the fantasy blockbuster The Wizard of the Emerald City: The Great and Terrible. The role will go to Yevgeny Mironov. I feel a real connection to this character, a gifted performer who knows how to find a way out of difficult situations and conjure...
The Steam page for DreamWorks Shrek 2 Remastered lists system requirements that make the remaster fairly demanding on PC. Players have questioned the specs. Development of the game was officially confirmed recently. Aspyr Media is the studio behind the project. The minimum requirements list the Radeon RX 7600, RX 6700 XT, GeForce RTX 4060, and...
Alternative versions of the GTA 6 Launch Trailer have started airing on American TV. In the spring, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick stated that the game’s advertising would appear on television, though on a much smaller scale than in previous years. Premiere The first airing took place on October 21, about a month before release, on...
If yesterday’s heartbreaking announcement slipped past you, EA cut 400 jobs this week, and that included the entire BioWare team. The developer responsible for Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, and other beloved RPGs has been closed, and its final project has been scrapped. That project was the fifth Mass...
Another Nintendo exclusive has fallen victim to vibe coding. A developer who goes by Nycolazs has released an unofficial Android port of the remake of The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening. The port is based on LAS Recomp, a fan project that previously brought the Nintendo Switch game to Windows, Linux and macOS. The mobile...
In the summer of 2025, Clayface was filming in Liverpool. Set photos hinted at a much more famous Batman villain. One showed a wall covered in graffiti, and one of the tags read “The Jokers.” Fans began to speculate about whether the Joker exists in the Gotham of the DC Universe. Culture Crave shared the...
