Month: October 2024

One of the most memorable moments from this year’s San Diego Comic-Con was the Hall H reveal that Robert Downey Jr. is coming back to the MCU as Doctor Doom alongside the Russo brothers in the next two Avengers movies. And at D23, it was also announced that Downey will be playing Tony Stark/Iron Man in an upcoming attraction at Disney California Adventure’s Avengers Campus. Now, Downey has revealed that it was his idea to play Stark again for the Disney parks, but it was Kevin Feige who approached him about playing Doom.Downey was a guest on the current episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, and he mentioned that he has maintained contact with Feige, Jon Favreau, and the Russo brothers since his departure from Marvel after 2019’s Avengers: Endgame. During one of his meetings with Feige, Downey and his wife, Susan Downey, were expecting to talk about the actor’s idea for playing Iron Man outside of the MCU in Disney theme park attractions. However, Feige wanted to talk about bringing him back into the MCU as Doom.”[Feige] said, ‘It just keeps occurring to me, if you were to come back…,’ and Susan was like, ‘Wait, wait. Come back as what?,'” recalled Downey. …

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is preparing to formally accept the Democratic party nomination for Vice President this week at the Democratic National Convention. And just before that happens, we may have learned more about his classic gaming habits.Following his selection as the running-mate for presumptive nominee Kamala Harris, a profile in the New York Times outed Walz as a Dreamcast fan. Players on the high school football team, where he coached, recalled him sharing stories that the kids found relatable, like when his wife took away his Dreamcast because he played it too much. Naturally this sparked speculation about what game had hooked him so deeply.IGN reports that it tracked down a series of subsequent owners of Walz’s Dreamcast, tracing it back to a man named Tom Johnson. Johnson worked as an intern for Walz’s congressional campaign, and one day Walz brought in a box of personal items he had planned to donate, but that the interns might like to use instead. Among them was a Dreamcast, which went mostly unused in the congressional office. Johnson ultimately took the Dreamcast with him to college and said that he recalls seeing a copy of Crazy Taxi already in the system when …

Borderlands 4 was revealed during Gamescom Opening Night Live and will be releasing in 2025 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. The announcement trailer doesn’t provide too many concrete details about the next entry in the series, but it does seem tied directly to the ending of Borderlands 3.The trailer shows a large flying phoenix symbol, which is the symbol of the Fire Hawk, who is Lilith from the previous entries in the series. This same symbol appears at the end of Borderlands 3 as well, linking the two games directly. The rest of the trailer showed what appeared to be a moon cracking and dropping meteors on a nearby planet, with the destruction seemingly caused by the phoenix symbol. One of those meteors drops a psycho mask, which a mysterious character with robot hands picks up. Spoilers for the end of Borderlands 3, which saw Lilith use her power as a Siren to stop Pandora’s moon from destroying the planet. Lilith succeeds, but she dies in the process. The moon cracking and dropping meteors on the planet in the Borderlands 4 trailer is seemingly from the same moment.The exact release date for Borderlands 4 wasn’t revealed, bu…

Rockstar Games’ new GTA+ subscription service offers a rotating library of games by the Grand Theft Auto developer, and Bully is next on tap. Rockstar announced back in April that Bully and LA Noire would be coming to GTA+ “later this year.” A recent post on the developer’s site announced that Bully will be available through GTA+ starting on August 20.A listing on the Taiwan Digital Game Rating Committee indicates that a version of the game called Bully (Canis Canem Edit) is coming soon to new platforms, including PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PS4, Xbox One, and PC (per Gematsu). An emulated version of the PS2 classic is available to buy on PS4, and previous re-release Bully: Scholarship Edition has been out on Steam for over a decade.GTA+ is a rotating library, but it’s unclear if this new Bully will replace any of the service’s existing offerings, which include LA Noire, Red Dead Redemption, GTA Trilogy, GTA: Liberty City Stories, and GTA: Chinatown Wars. GTA+ offers a variety of benefits in addition to these older Rockstar titles, including a monthly $500,000 deposit in GTA currency, multipliers on currency earned within GTA Online, a new vehicle workshop, and access to an app that make…

Randy Orton has been with the WWE for over 20 years now and is a celebrated performer within the company. He’s captured every major championship and headlined his share of marquee matches throughout his career and recently re-signed with WWE for another five years. He’s sprinkled in a few movies in his career, as wrestlers tend to do, and even auditioned for Deadpool 2.During his time talking with current WWE Champion Cody Rhodes on the recent episode of What Do You Want To Talk About?, Orton surprised Rhodes with a few facts about his career, but also how he wanted to lean more into Hollywood acting like John Cena and land auditions. One of the auditions Orton took was for the role of Cable in the Deadpool sequel. “So I do auditions here and there, and I remember I got an audition early on when I finally got some representation in that industry,” Orton explained. “I think Deadpool 2–“Rhodes cut him off. “Cable?””Cable,” Orton nodded. “I read for Cable, and in my head, boy, I was going to be Cable. I was going to be Cable. I was like, ‘this is it’. Nope. No callback, no nothing. Josh Brolin gets it because of course Josh Brolin gets it. Kills it. I don’t know what the f**…