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Simon Pegg has shared an update on how the Mission: Impossible 7 team is aiming to get back into production by September, several months after filming was halted due to coronavirus (COVID-19).

Speaking to Variety, Pegg, who plays tech expert Benji Dunn in the franchise, confirmed that a September restart is currently “the plan” for the Christopher McQuarrie-directed movie. “That will begin with the outdoor stuff,” he revealed. “That feels fairly doable, and obviously there will be precautions put in place.”

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Pegg noted that the large-scale shoot would likely present some challenges along the way, as he suggested that logistics would need to be figured out for shooting certain scenes, especially when the action moves indoors. He jokingly remarked that fight scenes would need to be shot “five feet apart.”

“People that are involved in any close proximity stuff, it will have to be determined that they’re safe to do that,” he explained to the outlet. “I don’t know what the testing situation is, how that works, or whether they’ll be able to be tested regularly.”

First assistant director Tommy Gormley further addressed the complexities of shooting the film’s “stunt scenes” and “crowd scenes” in a separate interview with BBC Radio 4’s Today show, though he also displayed confidence in the production picking up in September and running right the way through to April/May next year.

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“This is our challenge,” he said. “We are not a chamber piece movie. We do spectacle, and that is what people expect of us. If we have the protocols in place and we break down all the procedures very carefully… we will get it going again.

“We hope to visit all the countries we planned to and look to do a big chunk of it back in the UK on the backlot and in the studio,” he added. “So September through to end April/May is our targets. We are convinced we can do this.”

The cast and crew of Mission: Impossible 7 were apparently poised to shoot a major sequence in Italy when that country went into lockdown and production on the Tom Cruise-led film shut down indefinitely. This setback in the shooting schedule reportedly forced Nicholas Hoult to drop out of the production altogether.

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Amid these shifts and delays in production, Paramount Pictures pushed back the release of Mission: Impossible 7 from July 23, 2021, to November 19, 2021. Mission: Impossible 8, previously scheduled for wide release on August 5, 2022, has also now been pushed to November 4, 2022.

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Adele Ankers is a Freelance Entertainment Journalist. You can reach her on Twitter.

The Cyberpunk 2077 news broadcast, Night City Wire has been delayed to June 25.

Originally scheduled for June 11, developer CD Projekt Red explained that the move was due to the current protests and outcry following the death of George Floyd. “More important discussions are happening right now”, reads the statement, “and we want them to be heard. We wholeheartedly stand against racism, intolerance and violence. Black Lives Matter.”

We decided to move Night City Wire to Jun 25th. We still look forward to sharing new information about CP’77, but more important discussions are happening right now and we want them to be heard. We wholeheartedly stand against racism, intolerance and violence. Black Lives Matter.

— Cyberpunk 2077 (@CyberpunkGame) June 2, 2020

CD Projekt Red joins Sony’s PS5 event and IGN Expo in delaying events due to current circumstances.

Night City Wire is part of IGN’s Summer of Gaming.

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A set of palm-sized Game Gear Micro consoles have been revealed as part of SEGA’s 60th anniversary celebrations.

The Game Gear Micro is currently only available to preorder in Japan and will launch on October 6th. At time of writing, there has been no news of a Western release for the device.

The console has a one-inch screen, and will arrive in four colour schemes, each with a different set of four games preloaded (full list below).

「#ゲームギアミクロ」10月6日発売決定！

セガのカラー携帯ハードがミニを超えるミクロサイズに。
4色のカラーにそれぞれ異なる４タイトルを収録。
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— セガ公式アカウント (@SEGA_OFFICIAL) June 3, 2020

The fun-sized device will offer a headphone jack, charge via USB and use two AAA batteries for power. Sega is currently offering a promotion where, if you buy all four variants of the Game Gear Micro, you will receive a special Big Window accessory that magnifies the screen while you play. The console will retail in Japan for 4,980 yen, which roughly equates to £40 or $50.

You can check out the games preloaded on each colour of micro console below:

Black

• Sonic the Hedgehog
• Puyo Puyo 2
• Out Run
• Royal Stone

Blue

• Sonic & Tails
• Gunstar Heroes
• Sylvan Tale
• Baku Baku Animal

Yellow

• Shining Force 1
• Shining Force 2
• Shining Force Gaiden: Final Conflict
•  Nazo Puyo: Arle no Roux

Red

• Revelations: The Demon Slayer
• Megami Tensei Gaiden: Last Bible Special
• The G.G. Shinobi
• Columns

As for the rest of Sega’s 60th-anniversary celebrations, the company has launched an anniversary website which offers a timeline of its history in games. We reviewed the SEGA Genesis Mini last year, calling it “as close to perfect as any retro all-in-one mini console has come so far.”

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A few more free Pokemon are up for grabs for Sword and Shield. Players who transfer a monster from either title to Pokemon Home will be able to claim the three Galar starters: Grookey, Scorbunny, and Sobble. What makes these particular Pokemon special is that they each have their Hidden Abilities, which up until now have not been available in Sword and Shield.

Grookey’s Hidden Ability is Grassy Surge, which sets up Grassy Terrain as soon as the Pokemon enters the field. Scorbunny’s is Libero; this changes the Pokemon’s type to match whatever move it is using. Finally, Sobble’s Hidden Ability is Sniper, which increases the amount of damage critical hits inflict.

To claim these starters, you’ll first need to transfer a Pokemon from Sword or Shield to Pokemon Home on Nintendo Switch. Once you’ve done that, log into the mobile version of Pokemon Home and do the following:

• Select the Menu button at the bottom of the screen
• Select Mystery Gift
• Select Gift Box
• Tap on each Pokemon in the Gift Box and select Receive

You don’t need to have a Pokemon Home subscription in order to take advantage of this offer, but some of the service’s features–such as the ability to trade Pokemon or view their base stats–are locked behind a premium plan, which costs $3 USD for one month, $5 USD for three months, and $16 USD for one year. You can learn more in our breakdown of Pokemon Home free and premium plan features.

These aren’t the only free Pokemon available right now. Sword and Shield players can also claim a free Galarian Ponyta with its Hidden Ability until June 4. The Pokemon Company will be giving away a few more free monsters in the lead up to Isle of Armor‘s launch, including a Galarian Corsola and Galarian Meowth.

As for Isle of Armor, we recently learned the DLC expansion will release on June 17. The Pokemon Company shared a load of other new details about it, including new story tidbits, additional tutor moves, and more.

We’re getting tantalizingly close to learning more about the PlayStation 5, and it seems like a safe bet current PS Plus subscription plans will carry over in the same way they carried over from PS3 to PS4. If you’re looking to save on PlayStation Plus or PS Now, Amazon is running deals on both, and you can save as much as 30%.

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Since they’re digital delivery, you don’t need to wait for the card to arrive in the mail: for most people, you can enter the code as soon as your purchase is complete. That means you can take advantage of the benefits, like playing the June 2020 PS Plus games CoD: WW2 and Star Wars Battlefront II for free as part of your sub.

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Wonder Woman 1984 director Patty Jenkins has revealed that she was once offered the chance to direct a Justice League movie, but she ultimately decided to turn the project down.

ComicBook.com reports that Jenkins made the admission in a recent interview, published by French magazine Premiere, as she elaborated on her reasons for passing up the opportunity to helm a superhero ensemble film.

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“I love comics, but I’ve come to superheroes through films,” she said. “There is in me this desire to emulate compared to the movies I saw as a child. A certain spirit that reigned in those times. Is that relevant when I shoot? I don’t know.

“The point is, unlike other directors, I don’t really care about shared universes, continuity, and that kind of detail. I’ve been contacted to make a Justice League movie in the past, and it doesn’t connect to me. Too many characters.”

It is unclear whether Jenkins was contacted over Zack Snyder’s Justice League reshoot, eventually completed by Joss Whedon, or whether she was offered a sequel movie, or an entirely different Justice League project altogether.

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Snyder was announced as the director of Justice League in 2014, but he had to step away from the film in its final stages due to a heartbreaking personal tragedy.

After years of campaigning for his version of the film to be released, the Man of Steel filmmaker recently confirmed that the Snyder Cut – or at least a Snyder Cut – would be coming to HBO Max in 2021, and it might take the form of a four-hour movie, or even a TV-like run of episodes.

For more on the Snyder Cut of Justice League, check out our deep dive into the legendary project’s history.

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Adele Ankers is a Freelance Entertainment Journalist. You can reach her on Twitter.

The Nintendo Switch is an incredible system. Not only can it play many modern games, but it can also play them portably. Whether you’ve been a launch-day owner, you’ve been one of the few lucky enough to get a Switch in recent months, or anything in between, you may be on the lookout for more great games to play.

Right now, Nintendo is hosting a sale on some great digital games on the eShop, so grab an eShop card and check out our list below to be playing something new in no time.

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Ten minutes of new footage from the cancelled first-person Avengers game has been uploaded to the internet, captured from an early build that was secured by a video game preservation community.

I can’t say this was something I expected to see this week, early and broken or not. #avengersassemble pic.twitter.com/IrjMEYJ3nT

— Andrew Borman (@Borman18) June 1, 2020

This version of the Avengers game was discovered on a hard drive by Obscure Gamers, and the footage uploaded by Andrew Borman, the digital games curator at the Museum of Play. In the tweet above you can see Captain America in action, hurling his shield at enemy Skrulls, and the full video on YouTube also demonstrates Iron Man, Thor, and Hulk in action, too.

The footage is clearly taken from an early build of the game, which features sparse, undetailed levels, placeholder collectables, and untextured enemy models. But despite the early nature of the assets, you can easily see the kind of first-person co-op brawling gameplay that the project was working towards.

This Avengers project was set to be a co-op game that would coincide with the release of the first Avengers movie, and was inspired by the Secret Invasion comic book story arc in which the Skrulls invade earth by shapeshifting into members of society and taking their place. In the menus we can spot several key Marvel locations as levels, including SHIELD’s headquarters, the Triskelion.

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The game, which was in development in 2011 at THQ Studio Australia and Blue Tongue Entertainment, was eventually cancelled after THQ suffered financial troubles and was eventually forced to close.

While this Avengers co-op game sadly never saw completion and release, Crystal Dynamics and Square Enix are currently working on a new, third-person Marvel’s Avengers co-op game, due to release this September. You’ll be able to see more from the game as part of IGN’s Summer of Gaming event, where more will be shown of the War Table feature.

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Matt Purslow is IGN’s UK News and Entertainment Writer. You can follow him on Twitter.