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The Callisto Protocol showed some gameplay to the public for the first time at Gamescom this year, with about three minutes of footage highlighting a bit of combat, a bit of stealth, and a slip-n-slide finish that ends with a bit of a crunch. Behind closed doors at the show, however, we saw a much longer version - albeit with the same stomach-churning finale - and had time to speak with the game’s director and studio head Glen Schofield....

“There’s a new Christmas movie coming to Netflix,” we heard. “Mm, okay. Is it about a prince?” was our first question. “No, it’s about Santa. And Kurt Russell is Santa,” came the reply. Well, needless to say, we were immediately on board. We were going to watch this thing, no matter what. “Kurt Russell is Santa”…that’s all we needed to know. Chances are, if you also heard “Netflix”, “Santa” and “Kurt Russell” in the same sentence when the film was first announced a while back, you felt the same way....

The 3.0 update for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is now live and has brought new content to the game in the form of Joker from Persona 5, along with balance changes and tweaks to individual characters. One of the new additions to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is the return of the Stage Builder mode from previous games in the series. The Stage Builder mode is now more in-depth than ever in terms of features, but the most exciting aspect of its addition to the game is the ability to easily share stages online using the new Shared Content option....

With the critically acclaimed and cinematic videogame, The Last of Us, finally making the jump to live action storytelling courtesy of HBO. Many of the game’s fans worldwide have been wondering how many of The Last of Us television series‘ cast will be brand new actors in the roles, and how many will be actors reprising their roles from the original videogame? Who stars in the cast of The Last of Us series?...

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, one of the most celebrated of Zelda games, originally featured a theremin, rather than a conductor’s baton. The news comes from Did You Know Gaming?, a YouTube channel specialising in esoteric gaming knowledge. According to a translated issue of Nintendo Dream magazine, Eiji Aounuma, the lead producer of Zelda, originally wanted a theremin. He would have had players using each of the analogue sticks to move Link’s hands and manipulate the instrument....

The Righteous Gemstones should be right up the alley of fans of Eastbound and Down and Vice Principals, since it hails from the same collaborative team of Danny McBride, Jody Hill and David Gordon Green. Once again charted for HBO the gang have put together some real star power this time around (with all respect to Walton Goggins, who is a treasure). The series will arrive as a half-hour comedy about the Gemstone family, a clan of world-famous televangelists, who have a long history of what you would expect from a world-famous televangelist family: bombastic salvation techniques to go along with a heaping portion of greed....

Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s 1970 documentary film Let It Be was recorded in January 1969, while the band rehearsed songs for their twelfth and final studio album Let It Be. Originally planned as a television documentary to go along with a concert broadcast, the documentary saw The Beatles get back to their roots. Augmented by a keyboard player they’d known since their beginnings in Hamburg, the band performed as they had in the beginning, as a five-piece with loud guitars, steady thunderous drumming and unadorned voices through microphones covered in nylon stockings....

Team17 has dropped the launch trailer to mark today’s release of alchemy adventure The Serpent Rogue. Originally announced back in February, the game sees you playing a mysterious character known only as The Warden. On a quest to rid the world of a corruption called The Serpent Rogue, they’ll have to collect and research an array of ingredients. Doing so will allow them to brew potions and craft items that will help them progress through the world....

Ubisoft Blue Byte, known for its work on The Settlers and Anno, announced an indefinite delay for an upcoming reboot of the former series today. First unveiled in 2018, The Settlers originally planned to launch in late 2019 before Ubisoft delayed it to 2020. You can see the original Gamescom announcement below. The Settlers series was Blue Byte’s claim to fame before it took on Anno in 2009. The two franchises share a lot of DNA, functioning as city-building simulators with real-time elements....

This article comes from Den of Geek UK. Detective Frank Drebin’s outside his Los Angeles police precinct, squeezing off shots into the receding backside of his own car. How this came to happen almost defies description. Having driven his Ford Crown Victoria into a couple of bins outside the building, Drebin stumbles out, seemingly oblivious to the airbags going off inside. One airbag knocks the car into drive and off the vehicle goes, almost running Drebin over as it rumbles downhill....

NBA 2K23 is less than 24 hours away from its worldwide launch. Ahead of its release, 2K23 has seen a massive addition to its large pool of professional personalities with the co-founder of Midnight Society and YouTube streamer, Dr Disrespect, set to join the basketball simulator. The news comes from industry insider, Jake Lucky, as well as Dr Disrespect himself. This isn’t the first time NBA 2K has seen the addition of celebrities and big names....

This article comes from Den of Geek UK. Ewan McGregor is a popular and Golden Globe-winning actor, and his great performances in films like Trainspotting, Moulin Rouge!, Fargo, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, and, of course, several Star Wars movies are well known. He’s recently won plaudits for his tortured turn in Stephen King adaptation Doctor Sleep, and is soon to be reprising his role as Jedi master Obi-Wan Kenobi in an upcoming Disney+ series....

AMC has greenlit a third Walking Dead series that is set to join its Walking Dead and Fear the Walking Dead brethren. The new series, which is called The Walking Dead: World Beyond, will have a 10-episode first season. The series was co-created by Walking Dead Gimple and longtime TWD writer Matt Negrete, who will also serve as showrunner. Jordan Vogt-Roberts (Kong: Skull Island) is directing the pilot. “Showing audiences an unseen pocket of The Walking Dead universe steeped in a new mythology is a very cool way to celebrate a ‘Decade of the Dead’ on TV and over fifteen years of Robert Kirkman’s brilliant comic,” Gimple said in the press release....

Skybound Games has exhumed a shambling new trailer for the third episode of The Walking Dead: The Final Season. The penultimate episode in Clementine’s final zombie-stomping saga ups the stakes considerably, as you’d expect. Interestingly, there’s a flashback teaser featuring a young Clem and original hero Lee, which seems to take place on the train journey just after you meet Chuck. The Walking Dead: The Final Season – Episode 3 : Broken Toys is launching on PlayStation 4, PC, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox One on January 15....

A post on the Nintendo Treehouse blog has outlined how the English lyrics for Super Mario Odyssey smash hit tune Jump Up, Super Star! were written. Y’know, this song. After the music was more or less down and the Japanese lyrics were written, Nintendo Treehouse’s Rob Tunstall began work on localising what composer Nobuyoshi Suzuki’s had done this past January. The direct translation of the Japanese lyrics contains some absolute delights like ‘The symbol of a voyage, let’s start to raise the sails,’ and ‘If we walk with our eyes to the sky once our tears have fallen....

Super Smash Bros Ultimate has revealed its final DLC fighter as the much requested Sora from Square Enix’s Kingdom Hearts series. Sora was revealed by the game’s director Masahiro Sakurai during today’s Final Battle broadcast. Sakurai revealed that Sora was actually one of the most requested fighters of all time for the series. The character topped a user poll for the most wanted character all the way back during the development of Super Smash Bros for Wii U and 3DS in 2014....

Dead or Alive developer Team Ninja is creating a new Dissidia Final Fantasy arcade game, Square Enix has announced. As reported by Dengeki Online (and translated by Siliconera), the 3v3 fighter is allegedly being developed “using the PlayStation 4’s core system of technology” and will arrive in Japanese arcades this autumn following a test period in select locations later this month. But while the arcade release is being built on PS4 tech, a console version has yet to be formally confirmed, with console development not expected to begin until at least a year after the game launches in arcades....

Worms creator Team17 has announced it’ll end its controversial MetaWorms NFT project just over a day after originally announcing it. The British publisher released a statement to press and its fans last night to declare the news. “Team17 is today announcing an end to the MetaWorms NFT project. We have listened to our teamsters, development partners, and our games’ communities, and the concerns they’ve expressed, and have therefore taken the decision to step back from the NFT space....

A Canadian teenager has racked up a bill of almost $8,000 on his parent’s credit card after accidentally making a series of in-game purchases in FIFA. The father of the 17-year old claims that his son didn’t realise “he was being charged for every transaction” on his Xbox until the bill for $7,625.88 (£3697) arrived two days before Christmas, with the amount leaving both him and his son shocked. “It floored me....

For many hardcore gamers, phone games will never compete with the likes of Call of Duty or Skyrim. Mobile platforms are almost always too weak to run AAA games, and carry a reputation as freemium time wasters. While there have been plenty of high quality mobile titles for people to explore over the years, including phone originals like AngryBirds and Candy Crush and ports of titles such as Hearthstone and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, there have been thousands of shoddy titles created to capitalize on the popularity and accessibility of the platform....