Skybound Games revealed Monday that Rex Splode has joined the roster for the upcoming 2D tag-fighting game Invincible VS. Rex Splode is a superpowered human with a cybernetic and chemically altered physiology that allows him to generate explosions, equipped with a prosthetic hand capable of firing projectiles. Splode makes good use of enhancements in the forthcoming brawler as his play style revolves around his exploding projectiles and mobility. The vigilante’s strong...
Production is officially underway on the HBO Original Harry Potter television series at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden in the U.K., and we’ve got our first look at Dominic McLaughlin as the titular wizard himself. The latest casting news also includes four newcomers to the show: Rory Wilmot as Neville Longbottom, Amos Kitson as Dudley Dursley, Louise Brealey (Sherlock, Back) as Madam Rolanda Hooch, and Anton Lesser (Andor, Game of Thrones)...
Donkey Kong is one of Nintendo’s most famous characters. The smash hit 1981 arcade game that made the company, kicked off Shigeru Miyamoto’s future of innovation, and introduced the world to Mario, bears Donkey Kong’s name. The big ape is as close to Nintendo’s historic creative heart as you can get if you’re not called Mario. But oddly enough, Nintendo very rarely makes Donkey Kong games itself. Donkey Kong Bananza,...
Microsoft may have announced the ROG Xbox Ally range as "an Xbox you can hold in your hands", but it looks like gamers may have to pay a tidy sum for the privilege. Spanish gaming website 3DJuegos spotted what look like leaked listings for both the ROG Xbox Ally and the ROG Xbox Ally X on the Asus store for €599 and €899 respectively.Translated directly into freedom dollars, that would...
Assassin's Creed is a game where, in the words of AC Odyssey's world director, Ban Hall, "verticality is really important." It's always been a game about seeing a giant cathedral or something, scrambling up to the top, and then admiring the view before swan-diving off. Even at more of a street level, you're still constantly gaining that little bit of height for sightlines and combat advantages. It is a game...
The Super Mario Bros. Movie from 2023 made over $1 billion at the box office, with Seth Rogen’s Donkey Kong as the breakout role, so of course Nintendo is making a spinoff movie — what’s surprising is it’ll be alongside Universal Pictures. As reported by Video Game Chronicle, a copyright was filed in May for an untitled Donkey Kong movie, highlighting Nintendo and Universal as co-producers. It’s the perfect time...
Maybe you recognize him as the double-crossing priest from Peaky Blinders. Or as the kind-hearted king whose skin fell off in House of the Dragon. Paddy Considine has long been one of the top “oh hey it’s that guy” actors of our time, but over the past few weeks, he’s kicked things up a notch with a remarkable string of bangers. It’s the Summer of Considine, everyone. It’s hit the...
James Gunn’s Superman kicks off a new era of DC movies, under the guardianship of Gunn and DC Studios co-chairman and CEO Peter Safran. It isn’t the first project of Gunn and Safran’s new DC media universe — that honor went to Creature Commandos — but it is a tone-setter and mission statement, with both a lighter overall tone than DC’s Zack Snyderverse, and a lighter hand on the controls. Gunn...
Superman is off to a great start at the box office. James Gunn kicked off his reboot of the DC Universe with the second best opening of his career, and the best ever for a solo Superman movie. According to Deadline, Superman made $123 million in the U.S. over its opening weekend, and a further $95 million internationally for a total worldwide box office of $217 million. That makes it...
Today's Wordle hint is right here if you need it, ready for use straight from the top but just as helpful further down the board if you like the idea of seeing how you get on first. Using our general tips to refresh your general tactical guessing can help a lot too. And the answer to the July 14 (1486) Wordle is on standby if those green letters refuse to...