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If you know anything about the process of shooting an effects-heavy, big-budget movie like 2025’s live-action How to Train Your Dragon remake, you’d probably think the hardest part of the job would be the performance: trying to have convincing emotional relationships with characters that’ll be added digitally later. Or maybe it’d be all the stunts, which for HTTYD stars Mason Thames (who plays awkward teen Viking Hiccup) and Nico Parker...
“THAT person?!?!?” It’s natural for fans to have strong reactions to casting news when a beloved franchise scores a big-screen adaptation. People have cheered and booed in equal measure for the casting of Pedro Pascal as Joel in The Last of Us, or Robert Pattinson as Batman. Some performers have won stubborn fans over. When Heath Ledger was cast as The Joker, nobody wanted a “gay cowboy” in the role....
Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot has addressed the Stop Killing Games consumer rights campaign, stating that end-of-life support for old online games 'a far reaching issue' that the publisher is 'working on' but that 'nothing is eternal' when it comes to videogame services.Guillemot was asked about Stop Killing Games—which advocates for increased regulations to prevent game developers and publishers from shutting down games after official support for them ends—at Ubisoft's annual...
Deadline reported this week that Netflix is working on a live-action adaptation of the ’90s animated series Captain Planet and the Planeteers, a project which has been in development hell for nearly a decade. While that’s great news for ’90s animation fans, I’m hoping it paves the way for the revival of a different ’90s cartoon about fighting climate change and the excesses of capitalism. Unfortunately, I seem to be...
Upcoming fantasy action RPG Soulframe was slated to release later this year, but developer Digital Extremes is no longer certain whether Warframe's spell-slinging cousin will launch in 2025. Counterintuitively, though, you can play the game right now, with Digital Extremes opening up access to the pre-alpha (loftily dubbed "Preludes") until the end of this weekend.The situation was explained to Eurogamer by Soulframe's creative director, Geoff Crookes, and community manager Sarah...
After waking up early and standing in line with dozens of people to buy a Switch 2, the first game I downloaded and played wasn’t Mario Kart World. I didn’t bother with any other Nintendo games that got boosted for the new console, either. You see, rumors had been floating around that perhaps we’d finally get a glimpse at Hollow Knight: Silksong, the sequel to the 2017 indie Metroidvania where...
Cooperative climbing sensation Peak just dragged a new update to the false summit of its Steam beta branch, adding a couple of new items to the game and making some small but important quality of life changes. But we're going to hike past all of that for the moment, and make a beeline straight for the bugfixes, as the changelog includes an immediate contender for my favourite fix ever.The update's...
However distant the answer to today's Wordle may feel at the moment, now you're here, you're definitely going to win. Cut to the chase with a quick click or scroll straight to Sunday's solution if you feel like it, or hold out for a while instead, keeping the July 20 (1492) clue to one side if you need it. It's your Wordle, we're just happy to help.Only having a single...
On July 18, Microsoft suddenly ceased offering purchases and rentals for movies and TV shows on PC and Xbox. The change comes as a surprise to fans of the service, but users will still be able to access past purchases on Microsoft's Movies & TV app, at least for now.The change was revealed in updates on the Xbox and Windows FAQ pages for the Movies & TV app. The Windows...
The Elder Scrolls Legends was a mainstay of our list of the best card games that aren't Hearthstone, but sadly it wasn't the hit Bethesda wanted it to be. Development was halted in 2019, and in 2024 it was permanently shut down and rendered unplayable.But, like players of Warhammer Online and Star Wars Galaxies before them, players of The Elder Scrolls Legends have refused to let it lie easy in...