No Man’s Sky will be added to Xbox Game Pass and Windows PC store in June, and the next State of Play stream features The Last of Us Part 2.
Mister Sinister Was Supposed to Be in This X-Men Movie
Iconic Marvel villain Mister Sinister narrowly missed his chance to appear in Fox’s X-Men movie franchise. According to Dark Phoenix writer/director Simon Kinberg, the plan was for Sinister to appear in the now canceled Gambit movie starring Channing Tatum.
Kinberg confirmed those story plans while taking part in IGN’s Watch From Home Theater for X-Men: Days of Future Past. 2016’s X-Men: Apocalypse was indeed meant to set the stage for a Mister Sinister-driven X-Men movie. Just maybe not the one fans would have guessed.
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“We had a tease of it at the end of Apocalypse. The Essex Corp is something that you see in a tag at the end of Apocalypse,” said Kinberg. “We had talked about doing something with him, and I won’t get into the specifics of it since it’s no longer a 20th Century Fox property and now it’s part of the MCU. I have no idea what the plan is. But Mister Sinister was going to be part of the Gambit movie starring Channing Tatum.”
This seems to discredit another popular online rumor suggesting Sinister would have a cameo in New Mutants (with actors like Jon Hamm and Daniel Craig rumored for the role), setting him up as a major villain in that particular spinoff series.
A Gambit movie has been in various stages of development ever since the character’s live-action debut in 2009’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Channing Tatum came aboard to star in and produce the Gambit movie in 2014. Sadly, despite appearing at Comic-Con in 2015 alongside Stan Lee and the rest of the X-Men movie-verse cast, Tatum’s dream of playing the Ragin’ Cajun never materialized. The film cycled through several directors, including Rupert Wyatt (Rise of the Planet of the Apes), Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity), and Gore Verbinski (the original Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy). But ultimately, Gambit was one of many planned X-Men movies canceled after Disney’s acquisition of 21st Century Fox.
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As Kinberg alludes, there’s no telling what Marvel Studios’ plans for the X-Men franchise are right now. It’s always possible the Gambit movie will survive the transition to Disney (as Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool 3 seems to have done) and we may still see Tatum given the chance to play Gambit at long last. But for now, fans may need to wait a very long time to see Gambit finally battle Mister Sinister on the big screen.
Check back soon for even more juicy tidbits revealed during the Days of Future Past WFH Theater stream.
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Twitter tags Trump tweet with fact-checking warning
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Samurai Shodown NeoGeo Collection Will Contain A Never Before Released Neo Geo Game
A new trailer for Samurai Shodown NeoGeo Collection has been released, and it reveals that the new compilation will contain a game never released before. One of the seven games included in the upcoming Switch, PS4, and PC collection is Samurai Shodown V Perfect–an updated version of the final Neo Geo entry with new content.
The game, which was meant to be the final release for the Neo Geo, was cancelled despite being completed–and now fans of the series will be able to play it for the first time. You can see it in action below.
Seven games in total will be included as part of the compilation:
- Samurai Shodown (1993)
- Samurai Shodown II
- Samurai Shodown III
- Samurai Shodown IV: Amakusa’s Revenge
- Samurai Shodown V
- Samurai Shodown V Special
- Samurai Shodown V Perfect
Each game has been updated for online play, complete with rollback netcode for a smooth experience. You’ll be able to choose between ranked and casual matches. A new museum mode contains concept art, design documents, and video interviews with the game’s developers, and a music player will let you listen to over 200 tracks from the series.
Bill & Ted Face The Music Will Feature First New Mastodon Music In Years
The new Bill & Ted movie, Face the Music, will feature the first new original music from the rock band Mastodon in years. Mastodon guitarist Bill Kelliher said on the RRGB podcast that the group wrote an original song for the movie’s soundtrack.
“We got asked a couple months ago to be a part of the new Bill & Ted movie, to put a song in there. So we wrote a song to be in that movie which we’re kind of wrapping now,” he said (via MetalSucks.net).
That’s all Kelliher had to say about the song for Bill & Ted 3. Whatever the case, it’ll be the first new Mastodon music in some time, as the band’s latest full album was 2017’s Emperor of Sand. The group covered “Stairway to Heaven” in 2019 as a tribute to their longtime manager, Nick John, who died in 2018.
If Found Review – Call Me By My Name
A little empathy goes a long way. Especially when it comes to those we seek unconditional love and support from, it can mean the difference between spiralling into a black hole of depression and having the comfort to simply exist free of judgment. It’s one of the many themes If Found so vividly represents in sketchbook-style visual novel form. Through expressive minimalist illustrations, ethereal sound design, sharp writing, and thematic coherence, the chaos and serenity of young adulthood jumps out of its pages for a story that’s heartbreaking, heartwarming, and wholly affecting.
With a diary and eraser, we recollect and move past the memories of main character Kasio during a pivotal time in her life. It’s December 1993 in County Mayo of Ireland, and having come back to her small hometown of Achill from Dublin for the holidays, she’s kind of lost. With two higher-education degrees to her name and a lukewarm desire to pursue a Ph.D, she gets the “why don’t you get a decent job and start a decent life” spiel from her mom–a conversation that some of us are all too familiar with. But underlying in this early exchange is a hint that a source of pain comes from her own mom seeing right past who Kasio really is.
In real life, not everyone has a place to go, a network to build off and help spring you into adulthood, or even a loving home to fall back on–such is Kasio’s life. As you literally erase each scene on screen with your cursor to move through the day-by-day events, all of her introspections and interactions are laid bare. Erasure is a simple gameplay mechanic, making you peel layers upon layers of vivid memories, and one with powerful implications.
New Wasteland 3 Dev Diary Talks Plot, Villians, And God-President Reagan
Those who have been waiting for an update on Wasteland 3 will be glad to know that InXile Entertainment has released a new Dev Diary with details on the game’s world, characters, and more.
This is the second dev diary for Wasteland 3 after the first dropped on publisher Deep Silver’s official YouTube channel last week. While that particular video focused on character creation and combat in the tactical RPG, yesterday’s dev diary release has a bigger focus on the narrative.
InXile’s studio head, Brian Fargo, spoke briefly about Wasteland 3’s relationship with the previous titles in the series, describing the protagonists’ start in this third installment as involving working with “the new patriarch of Colorado who’s an authoritarian”.
Xbox Series X: Phil Spencer Says You Haven’t Understood The True Power Of Next-Gen Yet
Xbox boss Phil Spencer has acknowledged that it’s been challenging to demonstrate the true leap that the Xbox Series X will provide over the Xbox One. In Reggie’s new podcast, Spencer said one of the most defining characteristics of next-gen games is how they “feel” with faster and more stable frame rates.
It’s not possible to demonstrate this with videos, Spencer said. And with physical events canceled or postponed due to COVID-19, Microsoft is facing a new dilemma in trying to communicate the appeal of faster frame rates. This is a new challenge, Spencer said, because for previous console transitions throughout history, the power of new systems was immediately apparent with better graphics.
“One of the things I’ve talked about publicly … but it’s hard to come across, is the way it feels to play games on a box where frame rates are higher, frame rates are more stable,” Spencer said. “The fluidity of it, showing that in video form, is just impossible. How do you show how something feels?”
Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare And Warzone Are Having A Double XP Weekend To Farewell Season 3
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, and the free-to-play battle royale spin-off Call of Duty: Warzone, will be offering double XP over this coming weekend. This will also signify the end of Season 3, which will wrap up at the same time this bonus ends.
The Double XP weekend, announced in the latest Call of Duty briefing, will run from Friday, May 29 at 10AM PT until June 1 at 10 AM PT. You’ll also be earning Double Weapon XP and Double Battle Pass tier progression over this weekend.
This will give you a bit of a boost if you need to hit tier 100 in the Season 3 Battle Pass, which will unlock Alex’s Indomitable skin. It’s also a good reason to jump back in if you’ve been away from Modern Warfare for a while and check out the newly added maps.
Mortal Kombat 11 Aftermath – Every Friendship
Mortal Kombat 11 Aftermath has been released and Friendships, the nonviolent alternative to fatalities, have made a comeback. In this video, we take a look at every character’s Friendship.