James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad is poised to give the much-maligned team of antiheroic baddies a second shot at life on both the big and small screens, as John Cena’s overzealous Peacemaker character is the center in a spinoff series set within the same universe. But a character like the Peacemaker would be nothing…
Source: io9 – The Suicide Squad Spinoff Series From James Gunn Is Growing
Batman: The Animated Series, and, hell, the entire DC Animated Universe of shows spearheaded by Bruce Timm and Paul Dini, are so beloved that in all my years doing Worst Episode Ever I never touched them. After all, I figured even the worst B: TAS episode would probably still be miles above most of the crap I usually…
Source: io9 – Even the Perfect Batman Cartoon Was Bullshit Once in a While
For the most part, George Lucas has stayed fairly quiet about his own future plans for Star Wars before selling off Lucasfilm and the franchise to Disney. We’ve had teases here and there, but in a new interview, Lucas lifted the lid even further on what could’ve been Star Wars VII through IX—and while there are some…
Source: io9 – George Lucas’ Plans for His Star Wars Sequels Were More Familiar Than You’d Think
For his new film Freaky, co-writer and director Christopher Landon knew only one person could play the lead role of a psycho killer who swaps bodies with a teenage girl. That person was Vince Vaughn.
Source: io9 – Freaky Star Vince Vaughn on How He Embodied Both a Teenage Girl and a Serial Killer
If the plot of Superintelligence was real, we’d all be dead. The new comedy stars Melissa McCarthy as a woman selected by an all-encompassing artificial intelligence (voiced by James Corden) to complete a single task: convince the AI humanity is worth saving. If she doesn’t, it’ll destroy the world.
Source: io9 – In Superintelligence, Melissa McCarthy Must Save the World From an AI James Corden
Lucasfilm’s bold new transmedia initiative, Star Wars: The High Republic, promises to give us a look back into the galaxy, far, far away at the peak of the Jedi Order’s luminescence. Champions of an expansionist Republic, masters of the Force, they are a vision for the galaxy. But how heavy does that image hang on its…
Source: io9 – How Marvel’s Star Wars: The High Republic Comic Will Show New Sides of the Jedi
The Expanse has gotten very, well, expansive over the years. After The Ring opened up countless new systems and planets to explore, it seemed like the universe was on the verge of getting too big for the Rocinante and its crew. But season five is looking to bring it back home.
Source: io9 – The Expanse Season 5 Is All About the ‘Sins of the Past’
Some video games are linear: You have a goal and you achieve it, ideally successfully. Others are a bit more open-ended, letting you explore gorgeous worlds and interact with fascinating people or characters. Sometimes, it’s even fun to try and hide from them.
Source: io9 – 7 Video Games Where You Can Play Hide-and-Seek
Like most major comic book conventions in North America, Emerald City Comic Con was cancelled this year in response to the still-ongoing covid-19 pandemic. Though the virus is still raging in the U.S., con producer ReedPop is confident that things will return to normal by next winter.
Source: io9 – Emerald City Comic Con and C2E2 Plan Winter 2021 Return
From the moment that you land on Spider-Man: Miles Morales’ start screen, the game immediately sets itself apart from Insomniac’s previous Spider-Man game, not just by putting Miles front and center, but by cluing you into the kind of music that the young hero’s got blasting in his headphones. You’d be forgiven for…
Source: io9 – Miles Morales’ Soundtrack Full of Bangers Is Now Streamable
In the coming months, five more states in the U.S. will legalize marijuana (with five legalizing recreational use). Additionally, if reports are to be believed, Henry Bonsu’s Lazor Wulf is slated to return to Adult Swim for its second season. These two things are wholly unrelated, but if you were a conspiracy…
Source: io9 – Now’s the Time to Get Into Lazor Wulf
In 2017, Cave of Monsters Games’ Henshin! brought the Spandex-clad, candy-coated world of Super Sentai (Power Rangers, for those less familiar with its tokusatsu roots) to tabletop roleplaying. Three years later and with a deluxe release of the original game having made waves on Kickstarter, now the team wants to do…
Source: io9 – How One Superhero RPG Wants to Bring Kamen Rider to the Tabletop
If the fate of humanity rested of the outcome of a sword fight, there aren’t many actors you’d believe to be up to the task. However, one of those actors is, undoubtedly, Nicolas Cage—and in his new movie Jiu Jitsu, he’ll get to do just that.
Source: io9 – Nicolas Cage Fights an Alien With a Samurai Sword in This Exclusive Jiu Jitsu Clip
Welcome back to Gaming Shelf, io9’s column all about board games and tabletop games. This time around, we’ve spotted a brand-new publishing company from the folks behind Critical Role, along with an exciting expansion for Warhammer: Age of Sigmar. Check it out!
Source: io9 – Dune Gets a New Miniatures Game and Critical Role Launches a Publishing Arm in Tabletop News
It’s just two weeks into the second season of The Mandalorian and we still have no idea exactly what’s happening. While some of the rumors have been true, many others have yet to materialize, leaving fans anxiously awaiting where this story is going to take us. The fact that Lucasfilm isn’t releasing any information…
Source: io9 – A New Mandalorian Spoiler May Have Galactic Implications
Though we may be living through a renaissance (and glut, if we’re being honest) of prestige television, both WandaVision showrunner Jac Schaeffer and Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige envisioned something a little more classic for the studio’s first live-action story set after the events of Avengers: Endgame.
Source: io9 – WandaVision Wants to Be a ‘Love Letter’ to the Golden Age of Television
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Things being the way they are, it didn’t seem likely that 2020 would follow in 2019’s footsteps in terms of ushering in new, fictional babies designed to capture the public’s heart. But then, Nintendo’s Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity demo came along and introduced a surprising bundle of joy into its already…
Source: io9 – I Would Die for Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity’s Baby Guardian
Isn’t it high time the fellas got their own Nancy Drew? Hulu’s The Hardy Boys has launched its first trailer for a new series about the famous junior detective brothers, one that feels ripped from the pages of Jughead’s shitty diary.
Source: io9 – Hulu’s Hardy Boys Trailer Tastes Like Diet Riverdale
