According to The Hollywood Reporter, Mary Parent and Roy Lee are set to produce the live-action adaptation of Minecraft, with Napoleon Dynamite director, Jared Hess, set to helm the movie. Warner Bros. has been eyeing the Minecraft IP for years, with names like Shawn Levy and Rob McElhenney previously attached to the ambitious endeavor. It’s unclear if the renewed interest is related to the recent WarnerMedia merger but it wouldn’t surprise us if the new management helped further things along....

Ubisoft’s creative director Julian Gerighty just posted a New Year’s greeting that teased a new game in the Star Wars universe. “Happy New Year to you all,” Gerighty tweeted. “2023 is going to be huge for us. Join the adventure.” — Julian Gerighty (@jgerighty) January 1, 2023 While the upcoming game doesn’t have a name yet, Massive Entertainment has previously revealed that the development for the upcoming open-world game has been steadily progressing....

If that sounds odd, this is because the highly anticipated massively multiplayer roleplaying game has suffered multiple delays, from its first announcement during TwitchCon on September 2016. But after the Closed Beta from July 20, 2021, it looks like the release has been finalized and is on target. Check out the details of New World below, including what players can do to get in the Open Beta. Road to Closed Beta In New World, players create characters experiencing this stage in their planet’s history....

If the recent rumors are to be believed, a Hogwarts Legacy trailer is going to arrive soon, perhaps just right before the year ends. When are we going to see more of Hogwarts Legacy? For most of the latter half of 2020 and early 2021, all everyone could talk about was Hogwarts Legacy - both good and bad. Earlier this year, we covered stuff on how Hogwarts Legacy can avoid repeating the mistakes of other similar AAA titles based on big movie franchises like Marvel’s Avengers....

Concept artist Andrew Kim recently released some of the commissioned Shang-Chi pieces he did for Marvel Studios, all of which are based on the Golden Daggers Club, a fight club and bar in Macau founded by Xialing, Shang-Chi’s younger sister. Technically, the setting already featured a cameo with Benedict Wong’s Wong and Tim Roth’s Abomination fighting against each other for money. But, as it turns out, Andrew Kim rendered a scene featuring a fight between Proxima Midnight and Deadpool....

— MyTimeToShineHello (@MyTimeToShineH) December 28, 2022 MyTimeToShineHello, a reliable Marvel insider, first broke the news of Affleck switching to the other side. Specifically, the source claims that Ben Affleck and Marvel Studios are talking about the possibility of the DCEU actor playing Dario Agger. If true, Affleck could return to Marvel Studios albeit in an antagonistic role. Marvel Studios has done an excellent job of bringing lesser-known heroes and villains from Marvel Comics into the spotlight, and Dario Agger could be the next one to become more mainstream....

Some of the powerful talents you can get if you complete her Constellations will increase your party’s movement speed and attack speed by 15%. Jean also lowers the enemy’s resistance by forty percent. To maximize Jean’s abilities, you can focus on increasing Jean’s ATK. Jean’s healing scale with her ATK so she can even be a one-person army if you build her right. This article will show you the best builds and team compositions most suitable for Jean....

In particular, Goodman revealed all the upcoming changes coming to Bastion and Sombra in Overwatch 2. According to Goodman, the studio focused on these two problematic heroes to make them easier to balance. For example, Goodman explained that the developers made Sombra more damage-focused. At the same time, Bastion was too reliant on staying stationary in turret mode so they found alternatives to make Bastion more functional without removing the essence of the hero....

What’s in the June 2021 Diablo 4 quarterly update? In the latest quarterly update for Diablo 4, the award-winning studio shared new information about the upcoming action RPG title. The game’s development team over at Blizzard mentioned using a physically-based rendering pipeline for Diablo 4. The team explained that doing so will allow Diablo 4 to generate light that reacts properly to materials in the game ,such as the character’s skin and flesh, as well as leather, and metal....

Blizzard recently announced that it will be shutting down its games in China after it was unable to strike a new deal with the current Chinese license holder, NetEase. The current license expires on January 23, 2023 after fourteen years of partnership between the two companies. With the expiration of its license, players from China will no longer have access to almost all of the Blizzard games available in the country....

While Warzone has been struggling with other issues as well, the poor reception of Vanguard definitely contributed to this slump. As the battle royale game has been integrated with each mainline release since its own launch in 2019, Vanguard left its mark on the game most notably with the introduction of the Caldera map, moving the action to an island in the pacific theatre of World War II. Warzone’s Vanguard-fueled woes struck almost immediately, as the map was both delayed and poorly received when it finally launched....

The image started life this past weekend. A few hours later after it started circulating online, Activision Blizzard took action. The overhead map image is now difficult to find online. The original sources now read “media not displayed, this image has been removed in response to a report from the copyright holder.” Since Activision Blizzard insists on taking the images off the internet, we can assume they’re legit. We won’t re-upload the image here, but we can tell you that it says that the incoming map supports three game modes: Resurgence, Ground War, and DMZ....

Creed III is the first sports film shot with IMAX cameras. The film also marks the directorial debut of Jordan. The new trailer provides an insight into shooting the film in IMAX as well as a discussion on the character and growth of Adonis Donnie Creed. It opens with Jordan talking about experiencing Adonis’ travails and how he’s grown with the character. It then pans to Jordan talking about his directorial debut and what he and the crew aim to achieve with the film....

EA and DICE’s pair of Star Wars Battlefront games have a special place among Star Wars fans. This is especially after DICE pushed through with its commitment to provide several free in-game updates and remove microtransactions from Battlefront 2. Unfortunately, a third Battlefront game is never going to happen. According to a Venture Beat report, people privy to EA’s affairs claim that the publisher’s decision to assign all Star Wars games to Respawn is bad news for Battlefront fans....

Shinji Mikami is one of the foremost figures in the gaming industry. Mikami’s creations have spawned entire genres, which include Resident Evil, Dino Crisis, God Hand, Vanquish, and Okami. Most recently, Mikami founded Tango Gameworks to work on The Evil Within (2014) and The Evil Within 2 (2017), which are throwback titles to the early days of the Resident Evil franchise. But, after his work on Ghostwire: Tokyo, Mikami’s next project is unclear and that’s if there’s any but not for long....

According to the film and TV production tracking service ProductionList.com, the reboot of the iconic sci-fi franchise will commence filming on February 6 in Budapest, Hungary. The working title for the film is Alien: Romulus, which sounds a lot like a Star Trek film. The film, which is said to be “unconnected” to the previous films in the franchise, got the green light last March after Fede Alvarez pitched his own story....

This is exactly what happened when Dwayne Johnson made his feud with Vin Diesel public back in 2016, a move that he now claims he regrets, but not necessarily because of the backlash. Several Fast and Furious crew members thanked Johnson for standing up to Diesel The Fast & Furious franchise talks big about family, both in and out of the film universe. Many of the cast and crew members are close to each other....

According to a Bandai Namco earnings call, Elden Ring’s current sales numbers stand at 13.4 million units, making it the best-selling game by FromSoftware with room to spare. Before its release, FromSoftware’s top seller was 2016’s Dark Souls 3, which towered over the studio’s other brutally difficult games at 10 million combined units sold. It’s safe to say that Elden Ring has got that beat and it’s still not done....

Now that the Elden Ring Steam page has gone live, it’s safe to say that the game is going to be just as accessible as FromSoftware’s previous titles. What are the PC requirements to play Elden Ring on PC? Elden Ring is FromSoftware’s next potential franchise. The game has been hyped for as long as it has been in development. In addition to FromSoftware, Elden Ring also boasts some serious pedigree as its story was reportedly penned by none other than George R....

Outside of confirming the EA Play Live 2021 date, EA hasn’t formally announced what their plans are for the show. However, considering that most, if not all, the big games showcases for 2021 have been all-digital, it’s highly likely that EA Play Live 2021 will not deviate from Gamescom 2021 and E3 2021. EA Play Live 2021 Date Confirmed Similar to Sony, Electronic Arts has long parted ways with E3 and it seems like EA wants to continue this, at least, for 2021....