Tom Cruise recently shared a 3-minute featurette for Top Gun: Maverick where he talks in detail about why it took so long for him to reprise his role as Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, which helped launch his career. In addition to explaining and justifying his return for the sequel, Cruise also pointed out how much work the producing team put in by collaborating with the United States Navy. Specifically, the actors that play the pilot trainees all had to go through intense military training so that they can get used to flying alongside real-life pilots....

The gameplay trailer is nine minutes long. It depicts different parts of Seoul with a soldier shooting his way through numerous enemy combatants. The game will require players to either work together or compete in its open-world environment that spans over 30 kilometers of land area. Project LLL is a massively multiplayer online shooter video game. It will be played in the third person and, according to the game’s project lead, Jaehyun Bae, falls under the science fiction category and can also be classified as a sub-genre of alternative fiction....

In total, more than an hour of Need for Speed Unbound gameplay videos can be found on the internet. It’s not one long video and is instead composed of a mix of seconds-long snippets and a couple of longer clips, with the longest lasting well over half an hour. According to eagle-eyed fans on ResetEra, the culprits behind the leaks are Twitch streamers, Chocolove 95 and gerrykurlsucks. Ultimately though, it’s unclear where this early footage of Need for Speed Unbound came from....

According to TVLine, Netflix’s new pricing strategy will raise its subscription price to $15.49 per month. This would make Netflix $0.49 more expensive compared to HBO Max, making the streaming platform the most expensive subscription in the United States. TVLine’s report adds that these changes are coming soon and that Netflix will notify subscribers at least 30 days before the implementation via email or through in-app notifications. Rising subscription costs are normal....

Will we ever see Ghost Story Games’ debut title? Bloomberg claims to have spoken to more than a dozen current and former Ghost Story Games employees. The gist of the report is that Levine’s new game isn’t progressing well; it doesn’t even have a name let alone a release date after suffering through several reboots over the years. In addition, the employees believe that the reason for the delay is the amount of autonomy Take-Two Interactive has provided to Levine since he restructured Irrational Games in 2014....

By July 2021, Death Stranding had sold 5 million copies across the PC and the PS4. You can expect this number to grow with the PS5-exclusive Death Stranding: Director’s Cut set to release on September 24, 2021. With that said, it appears that a Death Stranding sequel is already in the works, as per Norman Reedus. Is Death Stranding 2 already confirmed? At the moment, neither Hideo Kojima nor Sony has confirmed the Death Stranding sequel....

Several sources have reported that principal photography has wrapped up successfully, and much of the talent attached to the show is already working on other projects. Post-production is definitely going to be a lot of work, and thus the show has yet to receive a release date. Obi-Wan Kenobi will focus on McGregor’s character as he enters exile on Tatooine following the fall of the Jedi order in Revenge of the Sith....

But, as it turns out, J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek series will continue to live on with a fourth film slated to kick off production in late 2022. In a recent investor call, Paramount confirmed that J.J. Abrams is back at the helm as the producer with Matt Shakman directing. The studio is also talking to the original cast, including Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, John Cho, and Simon Pegg, to see if they would like to return....

Surely, the RICOCHET team of Call of Duty deserves credit, right? Kidding aside, there’s an odd bug affecting Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 players. u/Bender99342 reveals that Modern Warfare 2 has “banned” them from the single-player campaign and they get a “Connection Failed” error message while trying to access the game. The error is what players receive when they get “permanently banned” from Call of Duty. Naturally, the conclusion that most came up with is that this is a glitch....

Guerilla confirmed that the upcoming PSVR 2 game, Horizon Call of the Mountain, will be available day and date with the PSVR2. The first spin-off to the pair of Horizon games puts you in the shoes of a former Shadow Carja Warrior, Ryas, who’s looking to redeem himself. The early reviews of the game are positive so far, which is a good sign. Call of the Mountain is a PSVR 2 game through and through and should showcase the capabilities of the next-gen headset....

Treyarch Studios confirmed that players of the latest Call of Duty game will enjoy multiple competitive modes and ranked skill divisions as well as visible skill ratings and a top player leaderboard, among others, not too long from now. Treyarch promises to reveal more about Modern Warfare 2’s ranked play in a later update. Until then, Modern Warfare 2 players looking to scratch that competitive itch can play the CDL Moshpit playlist on November 16 when Season 1 launches alongside Warzone 2....

Join us as we celebrate the 35th anniversary of the Legend of Zelda franchise by ranking all the Legend of Zelda games from worst to best below. Tri-Force Heroes (2015) We stand by our decision that every Legend of Zelda game is memorable. It’s just that, well, Tri-Force Heroes is the least memorable of them all. This isn’t to say that it’s a bad game, as it tried to replicate Four Swords titles....

Following earlier rumblings of a new mode coming to Apex Legends, Respawn Entertainment has formally announced Arenas. Arenas will serve as the first permanent game mode introduced to Apex Legends that isn’t a battle royale. What Is Apex Legends Arenas? The brand new Arenas game mode takes everything that you love about Apex Legends and transforms it into a tactical shooter. And, no, it doesn’t completely feel like Titanfall either....

Kick that ball and compete with other players to get prize money to unlock chests and upgrade your stats. Whether you’re new to the game or a veteran, we have the best and up-to-date Goal Kick Simulator codes for you right here. What is Roblox Goal Kick Simulator? Goal Kick Simulator is a Roblox football game (or soccer, for those in the United States) where players create avatars to compete in matches and events....

In a recent interview on Collider, Lauren Schmidt Hissrich disclosed that splitting the third season into two is among the options available for the show, saying: VFX teams on most Hollywood shows have been under constant pressure, and showrunners have begun opting to split seasons into two parts; a perfect example of this is Stranger Things Season 4. To fill the long waiting periods in between seasons, studios have come up with spinoff shows that expand on the universe of the main show....

Because of J.K. Rowling’s views, even the series’ biggest stars, like Daniel Radcliffe, Ruper Grint, and Emma Watson, as well as Eddie Redmayne, have all spoken out against the author’s stance. Even the upcoming open-world Harry Potter RPG title, Hogwarts Legacy, wanted no part of the internet’s beef with J.K. Rowling, albeit it couldn’t avoid it since 57-year-old author created the source material. Now, Sebastian Croft is casting a protective charm over himself and is all but wishing he had a Time-Turner with him....

What does this mean and how does this affect both the lawsuit between Scarlett Johansson and parent company Disney and future Marvel Studios projects coming up? Read on to find out more. Shang-Chi opening weekend numbers Based on the information available from the box office tallies, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings made $71.4M for the 3-day opening and $83.5M over the 4-day timeframe. — Boxoffice Pro (@BoxOffice) September 5, 2021 That is certainly impressive, as these numbers also place the Marvel Cinematic Universe film entry as the highest overall Labor Day opening box office for a feature film....

Sony just confirmed that some of the best Kingdom Hearts games are coming to the second-most expensive PS Plus tier in a few days. Specifically, the Kingdom Hearts games in question are HD 1.5 + 2.5 ReMIX and Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue, both of which came out in 2017. In addition to this, the other Kingdom Hearts entries are 2019’s Kingdom Hearts 3 and 2020’s Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory....

To summarize, the first half of the policy isn’t exactly all that surprising. However, it’s the fifth through eighth points that are absolutely bonkers. According to James, his new employer has some similar policies when it comes to using company resources and ownership of patents, but it’s nowhere near as restrictive.

The official trailer for Across the Spider-Verse brings back Hailee Steinfeld’s Gwen Stacy, as she pulls Shameik Moore’s Miles Morales in for what’s shaping up to be a hell of a time. The first-half of the trailer takes on a lighter tone as the duo meets a laundry list of spider-people, including fan favorites like the Spider-Man from Insomniac Games’ PlayStation-exclusive title, Issa Rae’s Spider-Woman, and of course, Oscar Isaac’s Spider-Man 2099 as well as the more obscure ones like the Bombastic Bag-Man and more....