Paramount has released new character images for the Halo TV series, which, after years of development and delays related to COVID, premieres next month.
The character posters show off Californication’s Natascha McElhone as Dr. Halsey, Fargo’s Bokeem Woodbine as Soren, and Reef Break’s Yerin Ha as Kwan. You can get a closer look at the character posters in the image gallery below.
A PC demo for the action-adventure game Eternal Strands is now available for a limited time. The demo covers the game’s “Part 1” and should take between 1-4 hours to complete. Any progress made in it will also carry over to the full game.
In the demo, players will be able to explore two areas of The Envclave and fight up to three types of Epics. Additionally, players have access to the crafting system, three weapon types, and a limited set of magic spells. The three base weapon types are sword & shield, bow & arrow, and two-hander.
While the demo and game aren’t yet Steam Deck verified, developer Yellow Brick Games said that they can be played on the handheld and it’s still working on getting the verification status. The demo will be removed at a later date, but more details will come in the next few days regarding exactly when.
The demo is only available on PC for Steam and Epic Games Store players, but the game will also be launching for PlayStation and X…
In a new interview, Anya Taylor-Joy spoke with MTV News about coming to love video games thanks to her role as Princess Peach in the upcoming Super Mario Bros. movie. The film is slated to hit theaters in April next year.
When asked whether she was into video games growing up, Taylor-Joy explained she wasn’t, “But once I booked the job and my friends were so excited [for it], we bought all of, you know, the Mario Kart world and we really went for it.” Taylor-Joy added, “My favorite way to play is at the arcade, though. I’ve now become, like, a hardcore adult arcade individual.”
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For many many years now, Call of Duty has been a license to print money for Activision Blizzard as each annual entry in the series has been a blockbuster success story. October’s release kept that tradition alive as analyst firm the NPD Group has reported that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II was last month’s best-selling title in the US in dollar sales, making the 2022 release the 15th consecutive year that a Call of Duty release has ranked as the best-selling game during its release month.
While exact details on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II’s performance on PC and Xbox haven’t been made public just yet, the NPD Group did confirm that the game took first place in the US Xbox charts for November. On PlayStation, Modern Warfare II broke a number of records on the Sony platform and was its biggest game of October as well. Eight of the top 20 best-selling games of October 2022 were new releases, including Gotham Knights, which took second place in US Xbox Series X|S an…
GameSpot can confirm the earlier report that District 9 director Neill Blomkamp will be adapting Sony’s Gran Turismo racing game series into a movie, due to arrive August 11, 2023. It was previously reported that this project might be a TV series, but that has turned out to not be the case.
The plot synopsis for the film reads, “Based on a true story, the film is the ultimate wish fulfillment tale of a teenage Gran Turismo player whose gaming skills won a series of Nissan competitions to become an actual professional race car driver.” While it might seem strange to adapt a video game and not use its plot, Gran Turismo doesn’t have a plot. It’s a racing game. At least the game is involved, though, unlike 2014’s Need for Speed.
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John Cena is set to star in a film featuring Looney Tunes characters adapting a 1990 New Yorker humor article titled “Coyote v. Acme.” Deadline was first to report about the upcoming project, which is expected to be a hybrid of animation and live-action.
In the original New Yorker piece, a lawyer representing Wile E. Coyote sues the Acme Company for “85 separate occasions…[in which] certain products did cause him bodily injury due to defects in manufacture or improper cautionary labelling… Mr. Coyote is self-employed and thus not eligible for Workmen’s Compensation.” Dave Green (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows) will direct a screenplay from Samy Butch (Crown Prince)–though IMDb lists James Gunn as co-writer–in what is sure to be a fun and tongue-in-cheek film. No production start date or other cast information has yet been announced. It’s unclear if Cena will be playing or voicing an animated character.
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J.J. Abrams is set to produce a new four-part documentary series about UFOs. The series is simply titled UFO and will be made for Showtime.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, UFO will be executive produced by Abrams and directed by Mark Monroe and Paul Crowder. Monroe previously co-wrote the Oscar-winning doping scandal exposé Icarus, while Crowder worked as an editor on acclaimed documentaries such as Dogtown and Z-Boys and Sound City.
The synopsis for UFO states that the show will explore “what clandestine influence the American government, lucrative private companies, and the military may have in shielding the truth behind extraterrestrial phenomena to further their own agendas” as well as examining “the history of the phenomenon through cultural and political touchpoints, including shocking testimony from eyewitnesses across the country.” The show doesn’t have a premiere date yet.
The announcement of the new series couldn’t be more timely. Members of the Hou…
