FOLLOWING their plans to give larger breathing space between releases to avoid saturating the market, Marvel Studios’ upcoming fare has now been pushed back, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The WandaVision spin-off series for Disney+, Agatha: Cauldron of Chaos, has been delayed to early fall next year. It has also been renamed to Agatha: Darkhold … Read more
A LITTLE over two months after its PlayStation 5 exclusive June 22 release, a PC version of Final Fantasy XVI is currently in development. The announcement was made by producer Naoki Yoshida in a short video that was played during the Final Fantasy panel at PAX West on Sep 2. A PC version should not … Read more
THE identity of the father on Hulu’s How I Met Your Father will remain a mystery in perpetuity as the Disney-run streamer has dropped the series after only two seasons. How I Met Your Father, starring Hilary Duff, ended its second season in July. A spin-off of How I Met Your Mother, which ran on … Read more
THE rising cost of living has seemingly spread into gaming. On Aug 30, Sony announced its new lineup of PlayStation Plus monthly games for this month. The new offering consists of Saints Row, Black Desert: Traveler Edition and Generation Zero, and the games will be available for PlayStation Plus members from Sept 5 to Oct … Read more
HELD on Aug 26 and 27, the first Pearl Point Shopping Mall Scrabble Championship 2023 was organised by both the mall and the Malaysian Scrabble Association. Over two days, the championship saw 240 players from different countries compete in the National Youth Scrabble Championship for players under the age of 18 and the Open Division … Read more
BUNGIE will be taking Destiny 2 in a different direction next year. This comes after a barrage of consistent criticism from fans over the state of the game. Since its release in 2017, Destiny 2 has followed the same executive formula by releasing one huge expansion and then four individual seasons with the same tired … Read more
NEARING 20 years since it was first released, the Xbox 360 is an aged piece of hardware, which for many – particularly in the West – was the gateway console into gaming. This November will mark the Xbox 360’s 18th year of existence, and next year, the console will lose support from its company. On … Read more
DESPITE all the Pokemon news we got at last week’s Pokemon Presents live stream, it seems Game Freak and The Pokemon Company had even more news on Scarlet and Violet’s upcoming DLC. At the Pokemon World Championships on the second week of August, Game Freak and The Pokemon Company revealed new information on the upcoming … Read more
BASED on the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West from the 16th century, Black Myth: Wukong has resurfaced at Gamescom 2023. In its latest trailer, Wukong shows its titular hero, the Monkey King, Sun Wukong, travelling across several locations and fighting a variety of bosses, such as a humanoid tiger. Developed with Epic’s Unreal … Read more
ON Aug 7, actor Xolo Mariduena (first name pronounced “Sho-low”) will be making his superhero debut in Blue Beetle as Jaime Reyes, a teenager who gains superpowers when he merges with an alien tech called “Scarab”. Blue Beetle will not only be Mariduena’s debut as a DC Comics superhero, but will also be his big … Read more
ALMOST as though in solidarity with the ongoing major strikes by both the Writers Guild and Screen Actors Guild against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, visual effects (VFX) crews at Marvel have finally petitioned to demand union recognition from the studio. This comes after more than a year’s worth of horrible revelations … Read more
WEARY of being stuck in “The Upside Down”, David Harbour is looking towards greener pastures after Netflix’s Stranger Things eventually concludes. Due to the ongoing strikes in Hollywood, Harbour is currently waiting to shoot the fifth and final season of Stranger Things, but in an interview with Insider, it sounds like the actor is spiritually … Read more
AS a non-profit organisation associated with the union, but not part of it, the SAG-AFTRA Foundation functions by providing financial relief to the union’s 160,000-strong members. This is done through the foundation’s Emergency Financial Assistance Programme. SAG-AFTRA Foundation executive director Cyd Wilson explained that the foundation relies on donations and grants to provide services. In … Read more