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io9TelevisionThe Scorpion King Could Live Again, But Not With Dwayne Johnson
Angela Bassett will return for the next two Missions Impossible. Freakazoid is back…on Teen Titans Go!? HBO has canceled its Stephen King adaptation The Outsider, but there’s hope it might live. Plus, get a look at Pennyworth’s return, and there’s good news for The Umbrella Academy. Spoilers now! Mission: Impossible 7 & 8 In conversation … Continued
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io9Games7 Video Games Where You Can Play Hide-and-Seek
Some video games are linear: You have a goal and you achieve it, ideally successfully. Others are a bit more open-ended, letting you explore gorgeous worlds and interact with fascinating people or characters. Sometimes, it’s even fun to try and hide from them. One of my favorite things to do in open-world video games is … Continued
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io9Emerald City Comic Con and C2E2 Plan Winter 2021 Return
Like most major comic book conventions in North America, Emerald City Comic Con was cancelled this year in response to the still-ongoing covid-19 pandemic. Though the virus is still raging in the U.S., con producer ReedPop is confident that things will return to normal by next winter. With that in mind, the producer has announced … Continued
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io9GamesMiles Morales‘ Soundtrack Full of Bangers Is Now Streamable
From the moment that you land on Spider-Man: Miles Morales’ start screen, the game immediately sets itself apart from Insomniac’s previous Spider-Man game, not just by putting Miles front and center, but by cluing you into the kind of music that the young hero’s got blasting in his headphones. You’d be forgiven for sitting on … Continued
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io9TelevisionNow’s the Time to Get Into Lazor Wulf
In the coming months, five more states in the U.S. will legalize marijuana (with five legalizing recreational use). Additionally, if reports are to be believed, Henry Bonsu’s Lazor Wulf is slated to return to Adult Swim for its second season. These two things are wholly unrelated, but if you were a conspiracy theory-minded person like … Continued
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io9GamesHow One Superhero RPG Wants to Bring Kamen Rider to the Tabletop
In 2017, Cave of Monsters Games’ Henshin! brought the Spandex-clad, candy-coated world of Super Sentai (Power Rangers, for those less familiar with its tokusatsu roots) to tabletop roleplaying. Three years later and with a deluxe release of the original game having made waves on Kickstarter, now the team wants to do the same with another toku … Continued
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io9MoviesNicolas Cage Fights an Alien With a Samurai Sword in This Exclusive Jiu Jitsu Clip
If the fate of humanity rested of the outcome of a sword fight, there aren’t many actors you’d believe to be up to the task. However, one of those actors is, undoubtedly, Nicolas Cage—and in his new movie Jiu Jitsu, he’ll get to do just that. Oh, with the added detail that he’s fighting a … Continued
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io9GamesDune Gets a New Miniatures Game and Critical Role Launches a Publishing Arm in Tabletop News
Welcome back to Gaming Shelf, io9’s column all about board games and tabletop games. This time around, we’ve spotted a brand-new publishing company from the folks behind Critical Role, along with an exciting expansion for Warhammer: Age of Sigmar. Check it out! News and Releases Critical Role Launches a Game Publishing Company Critical Role has … Continued
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io9A New Mandalorian Spoiler May Have Galactic Implications
It’s just two weeks into the second season of The Mandalorian and we still have no idea exactly what’s happening. While some of the rumors have been true, many others have yet to materialize, leaving fans anxiously awaiting where this story is going to take us. The fact that Lucasfilm isn’t releasing any information on … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsWandaVision Wants to Be a ‘Love Letter’ to the Golden Age of Television
Though we may be living through a renaissance (and glut, if we’re being honest) of prestige television, both WandaVision showrunner Jac Schaeffer and Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige envisioned something a little more classic for one of the studio’s first live-action stories set after the events ofAvengers: Endgame. In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly … Continued
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io9TelevisionSomehow, There Will Be a Bloodshot 2
Andrew Koji talks about why he took on Storm Shadow for the Snake Eyes movie. A new book lets us get a close look at Black Widow’s Taskmaster. Production on The Witcher has been temporarily halted by covid-19. Victor Fresco hopes he can bring closure to The Santa Clarita Diet someday. Plus, what’s to come … Continued
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io9GamesI Would Die for Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity‘s Baby Guardian
Things being the way they are, it didn’t seem likely that 2020 would follow in 2019’s footsteps in terms of ushering in new, fictional babies designed to capture the public’s heart. But then, Nintendo’sHyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity demo came along and introduced a surprising bundle of joy into its already complicated story about a … Continued
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io9TrailersHulu’s Hardy Boys Trailer Tastes Like Diet Riverdale
Isn’t it high time the fellas got their own Nancy Drew? Hulu’s The Hardy Boys has launched its first trailer for a new series about the famous junior detective brothers, one that feels ripped from the pages of Jughead’s shitty diary. Hulu has released the first trailer for The Hardy Boys, a show I totally … Continued
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io9Toys & CollectiblesProve You’re Not a Replicant With This Rad Blade Runner Unicorn
When you think about Blade Runner, you think about the unicorn. Even though the film is filled with famous iconography—from spinners and skylines to Harrison Ford himself—somehow it’s that origami unicorn that stands out as the most important. Maybe it’s because while those other things set the mood, the unicorn, as a tease of Deckard’s … Continued
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io9MoviesA Third Quiet Place Movie Is on Track for 2022
With the delayed release of A Quiet Place Part II now set for early next year, Paramount is already working on expanding the franchise. It’s hired director Jeff Nichols to make a third film in the series, based on an idea by franchise co-creator, star, and director John Krasinski. Deadline broke the news of the project, … Continued
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io9This Is Not the Way, Baby Yoda
The second episode of The Mandalorian’s second season took its central bounty hunter and his infant space gremlin son from the deserts of Tatooine to a dangerous new locale as part of a mission to help save a family. But within its larger, horror-driven plot, “The Passenger” ended up drawing attention to something about Baby … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsDC Comics Has a New Editor in Chief: Marie Javins
It’s been a wild year for the comics industry, and perhaps few have had a wilder year than one of its biggest stalwarts, DC Comics. From battling fallout from the coronavirus pandemic to launching a major new distribution deal away from the industry’s most powerful distribution networks, to massive layoffs and restructuring, DC has been … Continued
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io9MoviesFreaky Is Fun, But Familiar
Body-swap horror comedy Freaky is the perfect distraction from the real-life horror show known as 2020. The film is clever, funny, gross, all the things you could want in a piece of entertainment: it’s also a tad disposable and obvious. Co-written and directed by Christopher Landon (Happy Death Day), Freaky stars Kathryn Newton (Supernatural) as … Continued
