2021 marks the 10th anniversary of BioWare’s Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO, and the developer is marking the occasion with a big new expansion and more. The new expansion is called Legacy of the Sith, and it’s slated for release this holiday. The expansion marks the start of the …
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The long-rumored remaster of Diablo II was finally announced at this year’s BlizzConline in February. What makes this particular remaster more noteworthy than most other reworks is that Diablo II has had a significant impact on the evolution of the modern-day action-RPG, influencing other RPG franchises like Destiny and Borderlands. …
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EA has published the schedule for EA Play Live and its pre-event Showcase series, and Mass Effect and Dragon Age did not show up anywhere. BioWare subsequently made it official, telling fans there won’t be any news on Mass Effect or Dragon Age at the event this month. “We’re hard …
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Elizabeth Banks’ upcoming movie about a bear that ate a lot of cocaine has put together a very impressive cast. Deadline reports that movie studio Universal has hired Keri Russell, Ray Liotta, Alden Ehrenreich, O’Shea Jackson, and Jesse Tyler Ferguson to star in the movie, which is called Cocaine Bear. …
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E3 is over, but the summer’s big gaming shows are set to continue with EA Play Live later this month. The big show kicks off on July 22, but EA has a lot more in store than we previously knew about. The company has announced the EA Play Live Spotlight …
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Actor Billy Boyd, who played Pippin in The Lord of the Rings, has revealed that the series nearly had a nude scene involving Pippin, Merry, and Treebeard. Boyd said in an appearance on Stephen Colbert’s late night show that writer Philippa Boyens wrote a gag sequence for Merry and Pippin …
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The NCAA has approved legislation allowing college athletes to earn profits from their name, image, and likeness, according to an NPR report. Previously, college athletes had limited compensation packages for things like scholarships or other forms of educational payments. Under new laws, however, college athletes can now make money performing …
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Take-Two, the parent company of Rockstar Games and 2K Games, has acquired Dynamixyz, a “video-based facial animation services” company that worked on projects like Avengers: Endgame and Love, Death & Robots, as well as Take-Two’s own Red Dead Redemption II and NBA 2K21. Dynamixyz owns “leading-edge, proprietary motion capture, facial-analysis, …
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Following its acquisition of Returnal developer Housemarque earlier this week, PlayStation has now acquired Dutch studio Nixxes Software. The team previously made the Xbox 360 version of Rise of the Tomb Raider and contributed to Marvel’s Avengers. Avengers was Nixxes’ biggest game ever; it created content for the game alongside …
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Netflix is producing a sequel to the 2020 Charlize Theron movie The Old Guard, which is good news because the original film left off on an epic cliffhanger. Theron told Variety that a script is complete and shooting will begin in the first quarter of 2022. Little else is known, …
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