Mark Hamill took to Twitter to confirm a rumor that Star Wars creator George Lucas wanted the Looney Toons classic cartoon “Duck Dodgers in the 24th-and-a-half Century” to be shown before each and every screening of Star Wars in its first theatrical run. The only reason this didn’t happen, says Hamill, is because they were unable to get the rights.
“It would have been an icebreaker to let the audience know what was coming was less than dead serious,” said Hamill. Check out the full tweet below.
Epic is partnering with Kaws to create the Kawspeely outfit that’ll be available on July 2. Kaws is a New York-based artist who is known for his sculpture work on characters and themes. The new Fortnite skin will be another in-game variant of Peely, a well-beloved character.
The Kawspeely outfit will feature the following:
This is the second Kaws outfit, which previously came with other pieces like the Kaws Back Bling. Those pieces are returning but will now feature the option to change their colors such as the Grey Days style and Noir Nights, in addition to the original style.
The Kaws Skeleton Outfit will also return to the Fortnite item shop alongside Kawspeely. Kaws Skeleton comes in four colors which include:
Early in the Kingdom Hearts 2.5 storyline, Sora, an idealistic boy rocketing out of childhood and into adolescence, says goodbye to a group of potential new friends as he waits to board a train that will shoot him off to the stars and into a grand new adventure. And although he’s just met these ragtag teens who are dreading the end of their summer vacation and trying to score their next batch of sea salt ice cream, a single tear rolls down Sora’s cheek as he waves farewell.
The moment shouldn’t work. Its power rests on delving into the depths of a comically complex conspiracy tale involving metaphysical doppelgangers, simulated realities, and hyperbolic teen angst. But, the moment does work. In fact, the romantic, sincere innocence of Kingdom Hearts still carries an emotional punch, powerful on its own merits and just as affecting today as it was at its genesis.
Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 Remix is a relic of childhood and early teenage blossoming…
Diablo IV’s Season 3 will add a new endgame activity in the form of a weekly challenge dungeon called The Gauntlet, which will see players competing to earn the top spots on the game’s leaderboards for both fame and exclusive cosmetic rewards.
The mode sounds similar to Diablo III’s Challenge Rifts, although players participating in The Gauntlet in Diablo IV Season 3 will be bringing their own characters and builds into the dungeon this time around. Each week, all players will compete by running the same “fixed seed linear dungeon” to earn high scores, with speed and efficiency being of the essence. The Gauntlet is on a timer, and killing enemies and completing the dungeon quickly will earn players points that contribute to their score. To encourage efficiency, loot will only drop at the end of The Gauntlet and not from defeated enemies along the way.
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HBO’s The Last of Us is a bonafide hit right out of the gate and is praised for its acting, music, and action, and was HBO’s second most-watched debut since 2010–the first being 2022’s House of the Dragon. There are side-by-side comparisons of how the show was filmed and the footage from the game and it’s mostly spot-on.
Something that showrunner Craig Mazin wanted to include though was a cold opening that would act as foreshadowing of the events of the world to come and how fungi like cordyceps actually work in the real world. In the show, we see a talk show segment explaining the possibility of a worldwide pandemic and how a scientist, played by John Hannah (The Mummy), isn’t worried about bacteria, but actual fungi. The audience and the host laugh it off, but he goes into how cordyceps don’t kill but control their inhabitants. It’s an unlikely scenario since they only work in a host at a certain temp, but then there’s a moment of curious shock when the doctor proposes what…
For the past 15 years, League of Legends’ seasons have been just a part of the game’s ranked competitive play, with little impact on lore or events. From 2025, Riot will introduce a new seasonal model that’s closer to other live-service games, with each year split up into three seasons that will tell a story based on one of the game’s regions. The first, arriving in January, will be titled Welcome to Noxus.
The new seasons are a major overhaul for the long-running MOBA, with Welcome to Noxus launching as LoL: Season One. Each season will run for around eight patches, or 16 weeks, and most gameplay updates, modes, minigames, and champions will be connected to the season’s overarching narrative. Each season will feature two battle passes, which will function similarly to LoL’s current Event Pass, with both a paid and a free track. A number of extraneous rewards systems scattered across the game will be streamlined, with the free battle pass track collecting most rewards in one p…
Deck Nine, the studio behind Life is Strange, apparently had an issue with Nazi symbols and dog whistles mysteriously appearing in its work during development. In a new report by IGN, insiders spoke about toxic work culture and their concerns about someone trying to hide hate speech in their games.
Symbols included the number 88 (code for “Heil Hitler”), racist memes, the number 18 (code for “Adolf Hitler”), and the Hagal rune. Developers flagged the symbols for bosses to remove, but changes were not as swift as they hoped. In one instance, developers asked to remove an image of a particular racist meme, but it reportedly remained present, albeit displayed less prominently. While developers acknowledged that adding numbers could be a simple mistake, it was difficult to believe it was coincidental next to the other symbols.
After enough hate speech reports, CEO Mark Lyons finally addressed the issue in a message to employees on Slack. Deck Nine hired Investigations Law Gr…
