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It’s no secret that a large number of Helldivers 2 players were unhappy with the game’s latest update. Fan-favorite weapons like the flamethrower were nerfed, among other unpopular changes. In response, players protested by allowing Helldiver 2’s world, Super Earth, to be nearly overrun by enemy forces. Now, the game’s developer, Arrowhead Game Studios, is sharing a message to Helldivers 2 fans with a roadmap to fix the title in 60 days.”We’ve spent the last week listening to feedback, reflecting about the path ahead for Helldivers 2 and how we want to continue developing the game,” said game director Mikael Eriksson on the Helldivers 2 Reddit page. “In short, we didn’t hit our target with the latest update. Some things we just didn’t get right–and other more fundamental inconsistencies i…

At D23 recently, Disney officially announced the title of the third Avatar movie–Avatar: Fire and Ash. But what is the significance of that title? Director James Cameron said in an interview that it took a while to find the right name for the film, and in the end, he hopes the title conveys that the film is focused on anger and violence, as well as the aftermath of that being grief and loss.”It took a long time to come up with a title that I felt resonated with what’s in the film,” Cameron told Entertainment Weekly. “I don’t think I could say too much about it until you actually see the film and you see what it means, but if you think of fire as hatred, anger, violence, that sort of thing, and ash is the aftermath. So what’s the aftermath? Grief, loss, right? And then what does that cause…

EA’s next big American football game, Madden NFL 25, releases on August 16. But fans can actually start playing much sooner, beginning this week. The early access start-date was announced as August 13, but, as was also the case with College Football 25 before it, you can actually begin playing earlier, starting today, August 12. Here’s everything you need to know about playing Madden NFL 25 early.

How to get early access

The Madden NFL 25 Deluxe ($100) and MVP ($150) editions unlock today, August 12. In addition to early access, the Deluxe edition includes in-game bonuses like 4600 Madden Points, the Christian McCaffrey elite player item, and XP boosts. The MVP edition includes all of that, plus a copy of College Football 25.

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This year marks the 70th anniversary of Creature from the Black Lagoon, a film that introduced one of the few Universal Monsters who hasn’t been endlessly remade. But the Gill-man may finally be getting a chance for a comeback, with reports that horror veteran James Wan is in negotiations to direct and produce a new Creature from the Black Lagoon remake.Via Deadline, Wan’s take on Creature from the Black Lagoon will be “a grounded modernized retelling that leans into visceral horror while paying respect to the original classic.” In the 1954 original, Ben Chapman and Ricou Browning played the Gill-man, a creature of unknown origin who ran afoul of an expedition in the Amazon. The creature also displayed a very obvious infatuation with a young woman named Kay Lawrence (Julia Adams), who did …

Alien: Romulus will contain a nod to the 2014 survival-horror game Alien: Isolation. Director Fede Alvarez said recently that the Creative Assembly game taught him a lot about horror, and he is honoring the game with a little Easter egg in Alien: Romulus.”The movie is set up in a way [that] every time something bad is about to happen, you will see a phone,” he said on the Inside Total Film podcast. “In the game, every time you knew there’s a phone you’d go, ‘Fuck, I’m about to go into some bad set-piece.’ It’s the same thing here. You’ll see they’re planted strategically throughout the film. When you see the phone, it’s like: Brace for impact.” Alvarez went on to say Alien: Isolation was an experience that “made me see that Alien could truly be terrifying and done well [today].””I…

Blumhouse’s trilogy of Halloween movies are getting bundled together into one deadly collection, and it’s now available to preorder at Walmart for $50. While a 4K collection already exists, this new edition does come in an exclusive steelbook case that captures the intensity of cinema’s most-dangerous sibling rivalry, and it’ll be released on October 8–the same day as the newly announced 16-bit Halloween game (and cuddly Michael Myers plush). The set features 4K Blu-ray and digital download copies of each movie.

Halloween Trilogy Walmart-Exclusive Steelbook (4K Blu-ray)

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This week, the Borderlands movie is out in theaters, and the reviews have not been kind. On top of everything else, the PG-13 film is up against Marvel’s R-rated juggernaut, Deadpool and Wolverine, which should sail to another win in its third weekend. But there’s a much darker version of Borderlands that we may never see, because this film was originally intended to be R-rated as well.Borderlands stunt coordinator Jimmy O’Dee told ScreenRant that the movie had a lot of gory violence, including decapitations and dismemberment, that didn’t make it into the final film.”We were shooting an R-rated movie when we did it,” recalled O’Dee. “So, we were blowing people’s heads off. And we were cutting feet off. We were doing all of that. But then, you know, a lot happens. We shot that nearly three …

Most people who buy Pez candy probably aren’t thinking about the flavor of the little brick tablets much at all (none taste very good). Pez is all about the iconic plastic dispensers featuring characters from popular media franchises. Pez Dispensers have become collectibles since first debuting in the US in the 1950s (the candy itself is nearly 100 years old). There aren’t very many Pez Dispensers themed around video game franchises, but if you’re an Animal Crossing fan, Amazon has a limited-time deal on a 12-pack featuring Tom Nook, K.K. Slider, and Isabelle Pez Dispensers. So if you need party favors for an Animal Crossing-themed birthday party, check out this Amazon deal before it’s gone.

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WandaVision was the first Marvel Studios series on Disney+ in 2021, but it’s taken the better part of three years to get back to Kathryn Hahn’s witch, Agatha Harkness, after she was left powerless in the finale. But in the new trailer for Agatha All Along, Agatha has a plan to reclaim everything she lost and more… if her new coven can help her reach the end of the Witches’ Road. It seems like there’s a high price for the power that Agatha wants, and she’s perfectly willing to let her so-called friends and allies in the coven pay it before she does. There’s no sign of Wanda Maximoff in this trailer, but it does appear that the show will offer an even deeper dive into the world of magic than we’ve seen before in the MCU. Doctor Strange notwithstanding, since the good doctor’s sorc…

Disney has provided an update on how its partnership with Epic Games to create games and experiences for Fortnite is coming along, and it’s still some time off. In a blog post, Disney said Fortnite’s all new “games and entertainment universe” themed around Disney is still “a few years away.”Disney also reiterated what it’s hoping to achieve with this partnership, which saw Disney invest a further $1.5 billion into Epic Games. Disney said fans can think of it like “a place where all your favorite Disney characters and worlds converge in one connected universe.” In this connected universe inside Fortnite, Disney fans can “watch, play, and even create [their] own adventures.”It sounds similar to Epic’s deal with Lego, which saw Lego invest significant capital into Epic Games to creat…