Marvel’s 85th anniversary video is an emotional ride and offers (brief) first looks at Thunderbolts* and Daredevil: Born Again

Deadpool & Wolverine has been the box office hit that Disney and Marvel Studios were looking for, but most fans still aren’t convinced we’re back. Sure, other recent movies and shows were pretty good, but since around 2022, we’ve been stuck in a mostly mid-to-bad zone that lacks the spark of the Infinity Saga days. Well, this 85th anniversary video really tries to sell the idea things will get better soon.Released alongside a meaty Entertainment Weekly article, the 2:40 video celebrates Marvel as a whole and its history, yet it clearly focuses on the company’s movie and TV side, which is rather wild when you think about it. People just don’t read as many comic books anymore, I guess.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings…

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UPDATE: Genshin Impact on Xbox will not require a Game Pass subscription to play Co-Op Mode, HoYoverse confirms

UPDATE (04/09/24, 4:00 PM BST): HoYoverse has provided VG247 with the following statement: “Genshin Impact is a free-to-play game. You do not need to purchase Game Pass Ultimate or Core to play the game in Co-Op Mode. Players with a Game Pass Ultimate subscription can receive in-game bundles upon the game’s launch and after subsequent version updates, as well as play Genshin Impact on Xbox Cloud Gaming.”Original story follows below.One of the big reveals that ended up arriving during Gamescom 2024 was the announcement that Genshin Impact’s set to arrive on Xbox this November, four years after it originally came out in 2020. However, a detail on the game’s Xbox Store page seems to suggest that despite it being free-to-play, you’ll need to invest in a Game Pass subscription in order to acces…

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The Office follow-up series has cast its next batch of fresh talent you'll inevitably end up cringing at

The sort-of sequel, sort-of soft reboot of The Office has just added its next round of cast members.Some kind of follow-up to the much beloved series The Office has been in the works for some time now, but it wasn’t until May of this year where the series was finally ordered by Peacock. And now, as reported by the Palisadian-Post, the next three cast members have been confirmed for the new series thanks to a visit the trio made to the long-running paper. The three actors in question are apparently Chelsea Frei (Poker Face), Melvin Gregg (American Vandal), and Ramona Young (Santa Clarita Diet), all of which seem pretty suitable for a mockumentary series like The Office.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings The new series, currently believed to be called …

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Starfield's Shattered Space DLC gets fresh deep-dive from Bethesda, with a bunch of story details about missing serpent dudes and "the vortex incident"

If you’re looking forward to digging into Starfield’s Shattered Space expansion when it arrives later this month, you’re in luck, as Bethesda’s just put out a fresh deep-dive video that sees some of the DLC’s developers talk you through what you’ll be in for when you head off to discover what on Earth’s up with House Va-ruun.While we’ve already gotten a fair amount of details and teases about how the studio’s gone about the DLC on a practical level and what it’ll be like thematically, this is the first time Bethesda’s really gone into depth in terms of setting up how your character gets dragged into its story, and exactly what they’ll be getting up to.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings In this fresh deep-dive video, various Starfield developers inclu…

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Arcane season 2 finally has a release date, or more specifically, it has three

After a long wait, Arcane season 2 is almost here, and Netflix finally confirmed when you’ll be able to watch the final season.This week was Netflix Geeked Week, and the streamer had plenty of announcements, including the fact that a new Cyberpunk animated series is on the way, and the equally long-awaited Devil May Cry anime has a release window too. But League of Legends fans will be most interested in the new trailer for season 2 (which is also the last season) of the animated series Arcane. The whole thing essentially feels like an appropriately edgy music video from the 2000s, which feels perfect for the kind of emotions Vi will be going through following the end of the first season. Alongside this new trailer, which you can check out below (an epilepsy warning there for that one, tho…

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EA Sports FC 25's first title update is now live, and it should prevent your game getting unstable after you lose on pens

EA Sports FC 25 is now out in the world and doing a thing even though it doesn’t fully release until September 27, with folks already taking in the various additions and tweaks it makes to the established formula of person kick ball in net. In fact, the game’s first title update just dropped today, September 25.Yep, pause the soundtrack a minute and come here, this update isn’t that chunky, but it’s still got a few changes that should hopefully help get rid of issues folks have reported early doors, paving the way for future updates to offer more in the way of big tweaks.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings As you can read in the notes for FC 25 title update numero uno, which is now available to download on PlayStation and Xbox consoles, plus PC, there…

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American Horror Story creator's next series reunites him with Evan Peters for an adaptation of a comic where you can become physically perfect through, uh, getting an STD

Ryan Murphy, creator of shows like American Horror Story and Glee, is back with a new show, this time one with an… interesting premise.If there’s one thing you can count on when it comes to Ryan Murphy, it’s that you can always expect a show that people will talk about from him, even if maybe it’s not for the right reasons. Most recently the television maker has been working on season two of the Netflix series, The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story. But just yesterday, FX ordered a new show from Murphy, this time one based on the 2016 graphic novel, The Beauty, a comic where you can achieve physical perfection by contracting a sexually transmitted disease. I haven’t read the comic, so I can’t speak to its quality, but that certainly is a story right there.To see this content please enabl…

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Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred misses its launch window after Blizzard bungles release build, requiring everyone to download a big new update

Launching an online game is hard, this much is true. Though it may have been a while since we’ve last witnessed one of those all-time launch disasters, Diablo 4 seemingly wanted to remind everyone that we’ve been having it too good recently.Somehow, the launch of the game’s first expansion, Vessel of Hatred, went down significantly worse than the main game’s. Players spent hours unable to play, as they waited for updates from Blizzard.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings Vessel of Hatred was supposed to launch at 4pm PT (Blizzard HQ time), but right before it went live, Blizzard announced that it’s pushing back the launch. The developer didn’t offer a timeline, saying that while it still expects the expansion to laun…

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Here's an ambitious new Witcher 3 mod that takes Geralt back to Cintra, and I'm literally begging its creator not to swap its silent movie vibes for dodgy AI slop

The Witcher 3’s REDkit modding tools continue to be a blessing, whether you’re after cut content, autumnal vibes or the chance to sail a big ship. Now, someone’s offering Geralt a chance to head off on an entirely fresh adventure to a land loreheads’ll defintely be familiar with – Cintra.Yep, as a sumbmission for the same CD Projekt competition as the quest mod we reported on a week or so ago – the one which took Geralt on a trip to a mysterious island via hot air balloon – another modder’s decided to work on a project that sounds like it’ll be a goldmine for long-time Witcher fans.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings This latest mod is Gerwant30’s ‘Tales of The Witcher’, which is currently available in a work-in-progress form that looks like it’ll all…

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Polygon’s favorite Dungeons & Dragons accessories

VariousThere are so many ways to be a Dungeons & Dragons fan these days. The tabletop RPG mainstay has been synonymous with pen-and-paper adventuring for 50 years now, and 2024 marks a major reworking of its core rulebooks to make the game more approachable. Anyone who’s played even just a couple of sessions knows how easy it can be to covet a friend’s set of custom dice, appreciate the care a Dungeon Master has taken in setting the right ambience for a crafted campaign, or even obsess over their choice of pen and notebook — after all, it’s what you’ll be spending a large chunk of time staring into as you ponder your character’s next heroic action.But what’s amazing is that you can be a huge D&D fan without ever touching a character sheet. D&D and the Forgotten R…

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