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Production on has officially begun, with James Gunn taking to social media to celebrate with a new photo.

Some merchandise suggests that Ermac was originally meant to be a part of Mortal Kombat 1’s base roster instead of a post-launch DLC character. Originally created as a red-colored palette swap of famed ninjas Scorpion and Sub-Zero, Ermac has been a part of the Mortal Kombat mythos since Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, and it won’t be long before Mortal Kombat 1 players will be able to take control of this powerful undead warrior. Ermac is set to be introduced as the latest MK 1 DLC character on April 16 for Early Access players and April 23 for everyone else.

A24’s Civil War had a strong $25.7 million opening weekend, the best ever for an A24 picture, per Deadline. Those numbers topped the opening of political thrillers such as Zero Dark Thirty ($24.4M) and World Trade Center ($18.7M) and also marked a career-best for director Alex Garland.

MultiVersus has unveiled a new video that teases the release of new skins for Superman and four other characters. MultiVersus is returning this May, with Player First bringing back the platform fighter that puts iconic characters from Warner properties against each other. In preperation for its return, the devs have been working not only on new features, but also on new content to keep players engaged.

Few weeks of any year are bigger or more important for the business of movies than CinemaCon. The annual gathering gives studios, theater owners, and exhibition-minded tech companies a chance to show off the most exciting developments in the movie business. But while the innovations that debut at CinemaCon may have important implications for the theaters where viewers get their film fix, the biggest news out of the convention almost always comes from the stage presentations, where studios show off their biggest gambles.

Developer Player First Games has shared new details regarding MultiVersus' entirely rebuilt netcode that aims to create smoother and more consistent gameplay. Fighting game diehards will likely find many aspects of MultiVersus' new netcode to be familiar.

The Joker 2 trailer portrayed a fresh take on the relationship between Joaquin Phoenix's Arthur Fleck, aka Joker and Lady Gaga's Dr. Harleen Frances Quinzel aka Harley Quinn.

Baldur's Gate 3 continues to collect year-end honours as the expansive RPG from Larian Studios took home the top award at the 20th BAFTA Games Awards held in London late Thursday. The Dungeons & Dragons-style RPG was crowned as the Best Game, in addition to winning in four other categories on the night. Acclaimed survival-horror sequel Alan Wake 2, Nintendo platformer Super Mario Bros. Wonder and British indie Viewfinder won two BAFTAs each, while Cyberpunk 2077 continued its redemption story with a win in the Evolving Game category.

Developer Rocksteady Studios has recently rolled out a Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League update, bringing changes such as increased Battle Pass XP across various missions. This update also includes adjustments to Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League Support Squad Branch missions, alongside other fixes aimed at enhancing the player's experience.

The BAFTA Games Awards 2024 winners have been revealed, with this year's big victor — perhaps unsurprisingly — being Larian Studios' hugely acclaimed Baldur's Gate 3.

Mortal Kombat 1's upcoming playable DLC character, Ermac, has been given an airing in developer NetherRealm's latest gameplay trailer, ahead of his arrival later this month.

NetherRealm Studios has released a new trailer detailing the first look of the upcoming DLC fighter Ermac, who makes his return to the Mortal Kombat franchise.

The Mortal Kombat franchise has played host to all kinds of characters from various media as guest fighters, but fans shouldn't hold their breath for Ed Boon himself to ever be featured on the roster. Mortal Kombat's roster has evolved dramatically over the years. New fighters are added to the mix in nearly every release, older fighters get significant revamps, and guest fighters join the fray as well.

Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures have set Premium Digital Ownership and 4K UHD release dates for Denis Villeneuve’s .

Mortal Kombat 1 players with the Kombat Pack will be able to snag Ermac as the newest DLC character on April 16, while the powerful persona will be made available to everyone else on April 23.

Mortal Kombat 1 downloadable content character Ermac will launch on April 16 for Kombat Pack owners and April 23 for all users, publisher Warner Bros. Games and developer NetherRealm Studios announced.

Warner Bros. Games has announced a release date for Mortal Kombat 1’s Ermac DLC.

Netherrealm Studios finally releases the recently teased Ermac trailer for Mortal Kombat 1, showcasing the upcoming DLC character alongside the new Kameo fighter Mavado, as well as when players can add them to the roster. Following its launch last year, Netherrealm Studios continues to tweak and evolve the core Mortal Kombat 1 experience for fans both through updates as well as new character releases.

Mortal Kombat 1 director Ed Boon recently teased a big reveal for later this week, namely a look at the upcoming DLC character Ermac. Mortal Kombat 1’s roster is already jam-packed with revamped versions of some of the franchise’s most noted fighters, and NetherRealm has been adding even more to its latest fighting title post-launch. So far, players have been able to step into the arena as returning Mortal Kombat 1 fighter Quan Chi alongside special guests like Peacemaker and Omni-Man from the hit Invincible animated series.

Helldivers 2 was the UK’s best-selling game for the second consecutive month in March.

Following its announcement at the 2021 Game Awards, Monolith's Wonder Woman game hasn't been shown in 850 days.

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is reportedly set to bring popular DC villain Deathstroke in its Season 4 update. If the leaks are true, the deadly assassin's arrival in Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League will mark his first appearance in the Arkhamverse since featuring in 2015's Batman Arkham Knight.

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League isn't one of the most popular titles out there at the moment, and the introduction of The Joker in Season 1 hasn't done much to fix that. There are a bunch of reasons for Suicide Squad's frosty reception, one of them being the treatment of iconic hero Batman, who most fans will know is bumped off by Harley Quinn.

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is currently embroiled in a hacker problem that has resulted in unreleased skins, seasons, and even playable characters leaking online.

Gameplay footage from Monolith Studios' cancelled Nolan-verse Batman game that was eventually turned into Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor has surfaced online.

Footage of Monolith Productions' title — codenamed — has surfaced online, showing gameplay of Christian Bale's take on the hero from Christopher Nolan's trilogy as he patrols an open-world Gotham. Unfortunately, the title was canceled, but Monolith did take elements from it to make the acclaimed.

Developer Rocksteady has announced a new limited-time DLC for Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League that is completely free to all players. The new springtime promotion debuted in Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League in an attempt to bring back players to the live-service game, offering them free content for the entire week.

Monolith's scrapped Batman game that eventually became the best Lord of the Rings game has resurfaced online, 10 years later. 

Rocksteady is running a spring-themed promotion for Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League that gives free outfits for logging on every day this week.

A string of videos have surfaced online that show glimpses of a canceled Batman game, which was later transformed into 2014's Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor. The available footage shows some combat gameplay as well as traversal mechanics that would have appeared in the scrapped Batman title.

Gameplay and images for the canceled ‘Nolanverse’ Batman game that was once in development at Monolith Productions have emerged online.

Monolith Productions, the team behind Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of War, had a Batman game in production that was ultimately canceled by publisher Warner Bros. Interactive.

Gameplay footage showing the Batman game that evolved into Shadow of Mordor has appeared online.

The Cabin in the Woods director and The Martian writer Drew Goddard is set to helm a new installment in The Matrix franchise.

Just over a couple of years after the release of the last film in the franchise, has been revealed to be in the works at Warner Bros.

It’s time to re-enter the Matrix, only this time with a new director. The Matrix is coming back for a fifth entry, directed and written by Drew Goddard, Warner Bros. announced on Wednesday.

James Gunn's Superman movie is rumored to feature a classic DC villain besides Nicholas Hoult's Lex Luthor. However, a new rumor claims Gunn is changing the iconic foe by combining two villains to create one.

Presumably, the remake of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic can’t hold up a newspaper with today’s date to prove that it is actually doing okay and hasn’t been quietly disposed of in a tax report somewhere, Warner Bros-style. As such, it falls to the head of current developers Saber Interactive to promise that the long-in-the-works Star Wars game is still “alive and well”.

If Warner Bros. Pictures had successfully intimidated trans filmmaker Vera Drew out of releasing her tiny pop-punk biopic The People’s Joker, it’s possible that it would have disappeared quietly: yet another small, personal indie film hunting for an audience in an oversaturated market. Instead, Vera’s hallucinogenic memoir — an energetic, rawly personal trans coming-out story built around crowdsourced digital animation — became international news.

A Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League veteran has figured out how to complete the Season 1 Battle Pass in just 17 hours, and involves a lot of killing bugs.

A new has been revealed, teasing the upcoming DC Studios sequel led by Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga.

While Xbox Game Pass is expanding with several new titles in April, the month is also a sad occasion for horror fans as several spooky games are set to leave the service. As Microsoft continues to support its subscription model with new additions every month, making room for some of the latest releases requires that older games be removed. It's all part of the Game Pass cycle but fortunately, enthusiasts for all things scary still have some time to check some of the best horror games ever made.

A Hogwarts Legacy player spots a bizarre visual glitch that turns parts of the castle purple. Many magical things can happen throughout the duration of a Hogwarts Legacy playthrough, but this alternate appearance of the castle is almost certainly unintentional.

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League's first season is live now, introducing the Joker as a playable character. Since being available to anyone with the base game, the season has resulted in a small increase in the playerbase, although nowhere near the figures it pulled in at launch.

Michael Keaton recently reflected on a funny interaction between him and Jack Nicholson while the former was training for his role in 1989’s .

Things have been quiet on the Suicide Squad front since the game was released in February. Publisher Warner Bros was disappointed by the game's poor sales but doubled down on making its live service dream a reality. A free DLC update is now available, adding The Crown Prince of Crime himself to the game.

Dragon's Dogma 2 is seemingly a superb game, when it's not buggy or surprising its players with microtransactions.

Joker’s debut might be the final straw for some players. A multiversal version of Batman's arch-nemesis was added to the looter-shooter title as part of its first season of post-launch content, alongside new levels, weapons, and more.

CD Projekt Red are continuing to bulk up the team developing The Witcher 4 - officially codenamed Polaris - with two-thirds of the studio now working on the follow-up to The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Meanwhile, the team working on Cyberpunk 2077 has shrunk to fewer than 20 people, less than half the number working on its upcoming sequel.

Godzilla x Kong has just rumbled into cinemas, with early reactions calling it an absurdly fun ride – but when will the monster mash hit streaming services? It’s a fair question. After all, the previous MonsterVerse entry, Godzilla vs. Kong, released in cinemas and on streaming simultaneously.

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League hasn't been enjoying much success since launch, with Warner Bors. having practically branded the game a failure and the majority of the game's fanbase having dropped off due to unpopular story choices and generally unsatisfying gameplay. Season 1 of the game's promised post-launch content was a chance to turn those fortunes around though, but Rocksteady has allowed that chance to slip through its fingers in pretty dramatic fashion.

Technically, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire is the fifth film in Legendary Pictures’ MonsterVerse, which expanded into television in 2023 with Apple TV Plus’ Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. While that doesn’t make this franchise as sprawling as, say, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it’s still a sizable enough body of work to fill a long weekend of watching for anyone who’s curious about what led up to The New Empire.

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Rooster Teeth is getting shut down by parent company Warner Bros. this year, but not before the studio sends off arguably its most beloved production, the Halo parody series Red vs. Blue, with one last movie.

Rooster Teeth may have been shuttered by Warner Bros. a few weeks ago, but that doesn’t mean that Red vs. Blue is going away. The Halo-based machinima web series that started 21 years ago is still getting its previously announced final season, despite its production company being shuttered. The trailer for the last season debuted on Thursday, revealing a release date of May 7.

I’m going to level with you: Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire might be the stupidest movie I’ve ever seen. Not the worst movie (that would be Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2), but very possibly the most absurd. I’m ashamed to tell my mother I saw it, for fear of a lecture about how she did not raise a dummy, and did not break her back putting me through school so I could sit through the giant-monkey-and-lizard movie, for money. But unfortunately for her (love you, Mom) she did put me through school to watch the giant-monkey-and-lizard movie, for money. So I did watch the stupid thing. And you know what? I’d do it again.

Video games get delisted often, mostly for banal reasons like an expired music licensing agreement or a publishing agreement running out. But the recent delisting of Adult Swim Games en masse feels a bit different.

NetherRealm has just released a new update for Mortal Kombat 1, adding the alternate timeline Kameo fighter Janet Cage alongside some quality-of-life improvements. The latest entry in the long-running Mortal Kombat series proved to be a major hit when it launched back in September, quickly becoming one of the highest-rated games of 2023. Mortal Kombat 1 serves as a solid jumping-on point for newcomers thanks to its rebooted plotline while keeping plenty of fun references for longtime fans.

DC Universe Online is still going, 13 years after it launched on PC and PlayStation 3. Now it finally has a native PlayStation 5 version, and its developer has outlined plans for a number of future updates.

Say “sul sul!” to your new most-anticipated movie, as beloved gaming franchise The Sims is set to make a cinematic expansion. The zany life simulation game will be adapted into a feature-length film, following suit with recent video game adaptations like Super Mario Bros., Sonic the Hedgehog, and television’s The Last of Us.

The free-to-play action MMO is now available natively on PlayStation 5. Developer Dimensional Ink Games also shared its roadmap for the rest of 2024, including the Xbox Series X/S release and the launch of episodes 47, 48, and 49.

The first trailer for has been released.

The first for the Michael Keaton and Jenna Ortega-led sequel has been released by Warner Bros. The film is set to hit theaters on Friday, September 6, 2024.

Today, Warner Bros. Games and Rocksteady have announced the updated Season 1 roadmap for Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League.

Rocksteady reveals the full Season 1 patch notes for Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, along with a look at all of the new weapons, maps, activities, and other content launching on March 28. It's been a fairly tough road for the game following it's launch in early February. Warner Bros has previously confirmed that Suicide Squad: KIll the Justice League has failed to live up to sales expectations, leaving most to wonder how and even if Rocksteady can turn the game around.

Rocksteady has explained how Joker, the first DLC character for Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, will work when it's made available with the launch of Season 1 on March 28.

The ambitious, yet flawed Alpha Protocol is available for purchase once again. The 2010 game, which was developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Sega, was removed from all platforms in 2019 because Sega’s music licensing rights had expired. The game is making a comeback as a DRM-free exclusive on GOG.com, available today for $19.99, with an additional 10% launch discount lasting through April 3.

Remember that Wonder Woman game that was revealed to be in development a long, long time ago?

A Joker 2 test screening allegedly occurred, and reactions from the preview suggest fans of the first film will be pleased with the sequel, which may have some familiar faces alongside Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga.

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Warner Bros. Games has been discussing its business strategy over the past several weeks, but it seems to be full of contradictions. Hogwarts Legacy, its AAA single-player Harry Potter game, was one of the top-selling games of 2023, but the company instead intends to focus on live-service and free-to-play games in the future, like its underperforming Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. WB Games is reviving a game it took offline last year before unpublishing a suite of games that have been playable for years. That’s not to forget that the game that’s being revived, Super Smash Bros.-like brawler MultiVersus, features characters from several of Warner Bros.’ botched properties, like the Space Jam reboot, Black Adam, and a whole slate of Looney Tunes in the aftermath of Coyote vs. Acme.

While cloud gaming is very much not at a point where I want it to be the main way I play games, if I ever will, I do appreciate having the convenience as an option. Being able to play a game away from my PC can be handy. So it's neat that GOG have announced they're teaming up with Amazon to make select GOG games playable through the Amazon Luna cloud gaming platform "soon". Sure, I might be tempted to take a nice stroll through Night City while slouching about with my laptop that absolutely cannot run Cyberpunk 2077.

Gotham Knights studio WB Games Montreal is supporting development on the forthcoming Wonder Woman game.

The studio behind Gotham Knights is seemingly supporting Monolith Productions on its upcoming Wonder Woman game. 

Monolith Productions' upcoming game has enlisted help from a studio well-versed in DC games. The title was revealed during The Game Awards 2021, but there have been very few details surrounding the title since other than its inclusion of Monolith's "" system from its acclaimed and titles, and the confirmation that it would be separate from the Arkhamverse.

WB Games Montreal, the studio behind Gotham Knights, could be assisting Monolith Productions with its upcoming WonderWomangame — at least according to a newly discovered job listing. WB Montreal is already well familiar with the DC Universe, having helped Rocksteady with Batman: Arkham City Armored Edition for the Wii U in 2012 before releasing Batman: Arkham Origins the following year. Its next gaming venture took it outside of the Arkhamverse with Gotham Knights, a spiritual successor that shifted the focus toward the other members of the Bat Family as they carried out the mission of defending Gotham City after Batman’s death.

This week the big question has been just what the hell Warner Bros. have managed to do with the Arkham/Batman franchise after the unsurprising failure of Suicide Squad to revive the series’ fortunes. For the record, Suicide Squad is well worth playing just to experience the storyline and the characters, but as a long-term live-service game it leaves a lot to be desired. It’s clear that live service is no longer the golden goose the industry thought it was, and with more games battling for our multiplayer hours, including a batch of thoroughly great free-to-play titles, the outlook has to change. Hopefully it’s in the player’s interests, rather than in the shareholders’.

A Hogwarts Legacy player recently shared footage of a unique building in Hogsmeade that has three different versions depending on which door players use to enter it. The main draw of Hogwarts Legacy may be the massive Hogwarts castle that players are free to explore, but the game's open world is much larger than just the famous wizarding school. Hogwarts Legacy lets players explore the surrounding grounds as well, which includes the village of Hogsmeade.

Mojang has announced a monthly subscription for Minecraft called Marketplace Pass, which gives payers access to «150+ different content packs» from the in-game Marketplace.

Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League is currently down to just $35.69 at Green Man Gaming (£30.59 in the UK), which is a significant 49% off from its MSRP of $69.99. The Deluxe Edition also dropped to $45.89 (was $89.99). Those are big savings and well worth considering if you want to experience the controversy of killing the Justice League yourself.