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Cillian Murphy has received his first Academy Award nomination for his role as the titular nuclear physicist in Oppenheimer. So, with his first star-studded Oscars ceremony on the horizon, Murphy was asked if he gets starstruck – and he had a totally understandable response.

The Finals developer Embark Studios has released update 1.5.5, which makes a number of significant balance changes.

Princess Peach’s long-time voice actor has confirmed that she’ll be reprising the role for the upcoming Princess Peach Showtime game.

Voice actor Josh Keaton, who plays Robin in Batman: Arkham Origins, claims a Batman game he was working on was cancelled because of leaks, but another source suggests otherwise.

For years now, pundits have been declaring that movie stardom is dead. Everyone from Jennifer Aniston to The New York Times seems to have agreed that we simply don’t make ’em like we used to.

WB Games Montréal’s Damian Wayne Batman game was canceled following a series of leaks that revealed much about the unannounced project, a voice actor who worked on it has said.

2024 might be the Academy Awards’ biggest year in ages. The Oscar nominations, set for announcement on Tuesday, Jan. 23, are primed to honor highly regarded films from around the world, performances that premiered in theaters and on streaming, and a few of the biggest movies of the year — including the Barbenheimer double feature of Oppenheimerand Barbie. It’s been a slow crawl back from the hazy pandemic era where movies that kinda sorta came out in time won Best Picture, but here we are, with a set of nomations that stands to be both predictable and electrifying.

The Umbrella Academy meets Gekkoukan High. With Persona 3 Reload launching next week, Atlus West’s YouTube released an out-of-the-blue live-action commercial with Aidan Gallagher.

Sometimes, expansive universes and vast worlds collide; in this case, X-Men and Konami’s Metal Gear Solid Series collide to reveal an intriguing connection that few are aware of. Legendary voice actor and scriptwriter David Hayter is the bridge connecting these two worlds. 

The Dial of Destiny was one of 2023’s biggest flops but, as many soon-to-be-dead Nazis have discovered, just because you knock Indiana Jones down doesn’t mean he’s out of the count. Wolfenstein developer MachineGames has now unveiled Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, which allow players to don that fedora and crack that whip.

Mortal Kombat 2 has finished filming and some of the sequel’s Kombatants have marked the occasion by getting together for a wrap party.

It starts as a flash — the briefest glimpse of something horrific, something freezing to the point of black. We get more: a head, a limb, a grimace. It starts to come into focus, around the scene, through bits of dialogue: These men froze to death in clearly agonizing terror, their bodies suspended mid-writhing as well as in the ground. Frostbite abounds; some even clawed their eyes out. Once they finally excavate the bodies, it will be as a singular, frozen mass, transported on a tongue of ice to the local rink so they can slowly defrost. It is Lovecraftian and spectacular. It is exactly what True Detective: Night Country production designer Daniel Taylor hoped it would be like.

Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth is locking its New Game Plus mode behind more expensive editions. 

A pair of scientists at Google DeepMind, the Alphabet Inc. artificial intelligence division, have been talking with investors about forming an AI startup in Paris, according to people familiar with the conversations. 

It's been almost two years since Master Chief got some, and nothing has been the same since. We live in a world where Mr. Halo himself has got laid, a very different characterisation than we get in the games. It made headlines, it shocked the world. Now, it turns out that we weren't the only ones who felt that it was a little ridiculous.

Master Chief actor Pablo Schreiber has doubled down on one of the Halo TV show's most controversial decisions – and yes, it does involve his helmet.

Nope, Harrison Ford is sadly not voicing the titular tomb raider in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. 

After a brief stint in cinemas, new Netflix movie The Kitchen is now available to stream. The film marks Daniel Kaluuya's directorial debut, with the actor co-directing with filmmaker and architect Kibwe Tavares. 

The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered is a strange blend. On one hand, it’s a good excuse to revisit Digital Trends’ 2020 Game of the Year selection. On the other, it’s a bizarre package filled with tone-deaf bonus modes that water down the base game’s own message on cyclical violence. Considering that it’s not as much of a “remaster” as its title implies, I wouldn’t blame most players for skipping it.

It’s safe to say the first season of video game adaptation Halo was divisive. Even then, one of its most talked-about moments lingers long in the memory: that of Master Chief (Pablo Schreiber) having sex with human-turned-Covenant agent Makee (Charlie Murphy).

It's official: we've finally gotten our first look at the upcoming Indiana Jones game from Wolfenstein developer MachineGames: it's called Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, and it's out later this year.

2015’s Until Dawn was an early stand-out PlayStation 4 exclusive. Developed by Supermassive Games, it effectively asked players to put their money where their mouth is when it comes to a horror movie. Everyone has yelled at characters not to run upstairs when pursued or split up to search for somebody, but Until Dawn let you make those calls.

Vince Staples is getting his own Netflix series. The rapper, and occasional actor, first tweeted about his show on Monday, but it wasn’t until Wednesday that we got our first look at it in Netflix’s new trailer and it already looks great. The series, called The Vince Staples Show, will premiere on Feb. 15.

Party on, dudes! Bill & Ted 4 is going to get a script, according to star Alex Winter. The actor plays Bill in all three movies, while Keanu Reeves co-stars as Ted. 

Invincible voice actor Fred Tatasciore has teased what's to come in Invisible season 2 part 2, and it seems like we're in for an even wilder ride with the next batch of episodes.

The Finals gets its big update 1.5 today, January 17, and it makes some significant changes.

Foamstars is the next big game coming from Square Enix, which recently announced the game will be launching on February 2 and will be available on PlayStation Plus on the day of release. Unfortunately, that's not everything that was revealed about Foamstars, as the title has come under fire after producer Kosuke Okatani admitted AI was used for some of the game's art.

Cody Christian, the actor behind Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's Cloud Strife, has addressed the fandom «shippers» saying he believes «overtly» sexualized relationships can «ruin» a story's development.

Ubisoft’s Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown launches next week, but players are likely to encounter an amusing bug as they make their way through the game, as reported by IGN. One of the game’s NPCs is voiced by a text-to-speech program, complete with the slightly robotic tones we’ve come to associate with these services.

Boy Swallows Universe, starring Vikings actor Travis Fimmel, is climbing up the Netflix charts.

Tatiana Maslany, the actor who played Jennifer Walters, aka She-Hulk, in She-Hulk: Attorney At Law, has dashed any hopes of a second season of Marvel’s divisive Disney Plus show.

The Hunger Games star Sam Claflin is not ruling out a potential return to the franchise. Speaking to Variety on the Emmys red carpet the star, who played Finnick in the original movies, spoke about his love for the world.

The actor who plays Cloud in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth has addressed the game's "shippers" and commented on the character's relationship with Aerith and Tifa.

Self Reliance, the lively, funny, weird new Hulu comedy movie produced by The Lonely Island and directed by New Girl and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verseco-star Jake Johnson, has a premise built for action. A schlubby guy named Tommy (played by Johnson) is so depressed and disengaged with his life that he agrees to be part of an underground streaming reality show where he tries to evade assassins for a month. If he wins, he gets $1 million. If he loses, he dies.

Grand Theft Auto 5 actor Ned Luke calls out an AI chatbot for using his voice without permission. The chatbot has since been deleted, with the service pulling it after Luke called the voice generator "garbage".

Grand Theft Auto voice actor Ned Luke, who played Michael De Santa in GTA 5, has called out a "f**king bulls**t" AI chatbot that used his voice.

The actor who played Michael in Grand Theft Auto 5 has called out a company that made an AI audio chatbot of his character.

Mortal Kombat 2 producer Todd Garner has shared an intriguing new tease ahead of the film’s sequel, and everyone is convinced they know who it is. As you can see from the picture below, it shows a gray hand wearing a black robe, and while there’s not a lot to go on, we’re pretty convinced that it is Quan Chi. 

The final movie of Sony's animated Spider-Verse trilogy, Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse is still majorly under wraps with no official plotline or cast list, so much so star Jake Johnson is uncertain whether or not his character Peter B. Parker will even appear in the third installment.

With the recent international success of live-action adaptations of manga and anime like One Piece and Yu Yu Hakusho, Netflix finally seems to have made solid forward progress on a process that it has spent a few years on. Though some major franchises remain in development (no real news on that My Hero Academia movie yet aside from “production might have started”) the streaming service has amassed quite a list to run through if you’re interested.

Patty Jenkins’ Rogue Squadronmovie has apparently taken a dive, but that hasn’t stopped filmmaker Michael Koepff from bringing Wingman: An X-Wing Storyto life. The action-packed film, screening free on YouTube, takes place entirely inside nimble starfighter cockpits. And for 50 solid minutes, it goes harder than any Star Wars fan film I’ve ever seen.

Leaked storyboards from Sonic 3 seem to indicate that Jim Carrey will be returning to his role as Doctor Eggman, something that initially seemed unlikely after he retired from acting in 2022.

If you know anything about Baldur's Gate 3, it's probably that it lets you do it with a bear. This is all thanks to the famous pre-launch stream, in which Larian showcased some of the romance scenes, including that one with Halsin. The audience was allowed to vote on how the player responded to the druid's advances, so of course, they elected to be one with nature.

Actor Troy Baker knew from the beginning that The Last of Us 2 was bound to be a highly controversial game.

A Baldur's Gate 3 writer has said it's important to put some of yourself into the characters you're writing, and that they most relate to Astarion when he's "being a giant dumbass."

Prominent voice actor Jennifer Hale has criticized the growing use of AI-manipulated voiceover. 

The combined power of Barbie and Oppenheimer renewed the movie industry with a kind of zeitgeisty excitement for big-screen entertainment that was so palpable it was… a little scary. “Barbenheimer” felt like a once-in-a-generation moment — so how would the movie studios keep delivering? In the wake of WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes that all but halted the momentum, as studio executives waffled over details and their own existential content crisis, the answer, it seems, comes from 2022 instead of 2023: Tom Cruise.

More than six years after the original Persona 5 arrived on U.S. store shelves, the RPG is still spitting out successors and spin-offs that capitalize on how beloved that title is to this day. The 2020 update, Persona 5 Royal, is the best-received successor, but both 2021 Musou hybrid Persona 5 Strikers and the recently released turn-based strategy RPG Persona 5 Tactica gave players plenty to love.

One developer behind a fabulous recent roguelike is planning to add voice acting post-launch, and he's strongly intent on doing it the old-fashioned way: with actual human voices.

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Another lead in The Last of Us Part II has been cast for its TV adaptation. The second season of HBO’s The Last of Us has found its Dina in Instant Family’s Isabela Merced.

Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown launches next week. While we really dug the game (you can check out our review for more on that), there's one odd detail that stuck out we can't help but give its own article: one of the game's minor NPCs will be voiced by a text-to-speech program at launch, seemingly because someone — probably Ubisoft — forgot to record and add a human being's voice for the role.

If you think there’s been plenty of news about Suicide Squad Kill The Justice League recently, you’re not wrong. The game is coming out on February 2nd, and a recent preview video highlighted the divisive nature that the game is building up before its release. In short, while the story and characters, along with the cutscenes that have been viewed, are seen as pretty solid, the gameplay and other elements like the “live service” model haven’t made gamers content. There’s plenty of uncertainty going into it all. But, like in all things, there is a small bit of light that everyone can agree is good.

Despite the MCU’s attempts at replicating the long-running stories of the comics, supervillains tend to not last very long. It’s a tradition in movies dating back to the ’90s era of Batman inevitably dropping the bad guy off a roof before the credits rolled, something not even Marvel’s interconnectedness can seem to fix. And even those in the MCU that do regularly reoccur, like Thanos and Loki, are either built up over time or flip-flop their allegiances.

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Auditions for Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, DC Studios' upcoming movie about Superman's Kryptonian cuz, are set to begin very soon – and there are three actors already being eyed for the lead role.

Alan Wake is coming to Dead By Daylight.

Hunger Games and Five Nights at Freddy’s star Josh Hutcherson has seen those “Whistle” edit videos people have been sharing online, featuring images of him edited over a cover of Flo Rida’s song “Whistle.” The Rickroll-like meme format went viral on platforms like TikTok in late November, and continues to inspire viral videos. Now, Hutcherson has responded: In an interview with Entertainment Tonight published on Tuesday, the actor said he’s seen the memes, and that while he doesn’t “get it,” he’s “here for it.”

Asymmetric horror game Dead by Daylight has added Alan Wake, the protagonist of Remedy Entertainment’s series of the same name, to its roster.

Another actor has been cast for the next season of The Last of Us. HBO’s adaptation of the Naughty Dog series has found its Jesse in Beef’s Young Mazino.

Beef star Young Mazino is set to play Jesse in The Last of Us season 2.

There are quite a few fans out there who are eager to dive into the next season of The Last of Us. With Naughty Dog delivering such a compelling storyline with the game series, it was likely quite an easy adaptation to deliver on HBO. As a result, fans have taken up with the show without ever playing through the games. Fortunately, because of how popular it became initially, HBO was prompted to go through a renewal for a second season during the airing of the first season. Recently, we got word of who will step into Abby’s role. Now, we are learning who will step up to take on the role of Jesse. 

The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) has announced a «groundbreaking AI voice agreement» as per the union's website—and despite its claim that the agreement was «approved by affected members of the union’s voiceover performer community», a lot of industry vets feel like their voices weren't heard.

It looks like we will be seeing Henry Cavill back on our screens very soon as the release date for The Witcher actor’s upcoming movie The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare has been revealed, and it's just around the corner. 

In a follow-up statement to recent comments regarding uncomfortable behavior from Marvel's Spider-Man fans, Stephanie Tyler Jones, the capture model for Mary Jane Watson (MJ) in Insomniac's superhero series, affirms that she'll remain open to playing the role "as long as the game creators will have me."

The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), an American labor union which represents thousands of media professionals, has announced what it describes as a “groundbreaking AI voice agreement” with artificial intelligence voice technology company Replica Studios. 

The SAG-AFTRA has announced a new deal for AI voice acting, that seems to have hit a problem: its members didn’t know about it.

Abby Anderson is one of the most divisive and definitely interesting characters in the The Last Of Us mythos. Naughty Dog has seen it fit to make players both see her kill characters you love, and then make you play as her. And now, we know who will be playing her on-screen on HBO.

Last September, SAG-AFTRA union members voted yes to authorize a video game strike. Reasons why included a desire for better wages, increased safety precautions, and protections around exploitative uses of artificial intelligence. Now, just a few months later, SAG-AFTRA has signed an agreement with Replica Studios, an A.I. voice technology company, to allow game developers to use A.I. voices, as reported by Game Developer. 

The actor behind Final Fantasy 14's first story-centric female Hrothgar is such a big fan of the MMO, she was nearly a community representative.

Actor's union SAG-AFTRA has introduced a «groundbreaking» AI voice agreement to allow voice artists to «safely explore» opportunities for their digital voice replicas, sparking concern among a number of actors.

The Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) has signed a deal with Replica Studios that would let its membership create a digital replica of their voice.

Several video game performers have been left "disappointed" with US union SAG-AFTRA's new agreement with an AI voice technology company.

The Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG AFTRA) has announced a new deal which it claims will protect actors from unauthorized AI replications of their voices.

HBO has cast Kaitlyn Dever to take on the role of Abby for The Last of Us Season 2, as the story is set to continue. Kaitlyn will join prime pair Pedro Pascal as Joel and Bella Ramsey’s Ellie as they continue to navigate the world. Just as season one took story beats from the original The Last of Us, season two will likely take major story beats from The Last of Us Part Two.

Ubisoft and MiHoYo, the developers behind Assassin's Creed and Genshin Impact, are among the first studios to sign up for Nvidia Avatar Cloud Engine (ACE), a new AI-driven tech platform said to create more lifelike video game characters.

The voice actor who played Abby in The Last of Us 2 has responded to HBO's casting of the same character for the second season of the TV show, and she's just as excited as we all are.

HBO has cast Kaitlyn Dever to take on the role of Abby for The Last of Us Season 2, as the story is set to continue. Kaitlyn will join prime pair Pedro Pascal as Joel and Bella Ramsey’s Ellie as they continue to navigate the world. Just as season one took story beats from the original The Last of Us, season two will likely take major story beats from The Last of Us Part Two.

HBO's The Last of Us has finally unveiled its Abby and it's Kaitlyn Dever, the actor known for her roles in Booksmart, No One Will Save You, and that other Naughty Dog game you may have heard of, Uncharted 4.