For many fans, Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn was the best thing about 2017’s Suicide Squad, and she will return to the big screen in next year’s Birds of Prey. The movie has now wrapped production and a new behind-the-scenes image has been released.
The picture was posted to Instagram by Robbie’s production company, Lucky Chap Entertainment. It shows Robbie in costume as Harley, sitting in a chair. Most interestingly, it reveals the movie’s current logo, which features its long, full title: Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn. Of course, the logo could change between now and the movie’s release early next year, but it’s still cool to see it. Check it out below.
Birds of Prey also stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Huntress, Jurnee Smollett-Bell as Black Canary, Rosie Perez as Renee Montoya, Ella Jay Basco as Cassandra Cain, Ewan McGregor as Black Mask, and Chris Messina as Victor Zsasz. It’s directed by Cathy Yan, and releases on February 7, 2020.
The first teaser for the movie was released in January. In addition, attendees at the recent industry convention CinemaCon got to see more of the movie. Slashfilm described the footage shown as “bright, bold, and bursting with neon colors,” and it included a shot of Harley Quinn roller skating behind a moving vehicle.
As well as Birds of Prey, there is much anticipation of DC’s Joker, which releases in October. The movie stars Joaquin Phoenix in the lead role and also features Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz, and Marc Maron. Check out the recent first Joker trailer.
The Division 2 is top of the UK physical sales chart for the second week running. Ubisoft’s game was the best-selling physical title in the UK for the week ending April 13.
Immediately below the looter-shooter lies FIFA 19, which remains at No.2, according to sales monitor Chart-Track. That’s followed by Red Dead Redemption 2, which is up three places to No.3.
It’s been a relatively quiet week for new releases, with only one new game in the chart. That game is Dangerous Driving, which enters at No.34. The two new Nintendo Labo Toy-Con kits miss out on the top 40 altogether.
You can read the full top 10 sales chart for this week below, courtesy of UKIE and GfK Chart-Track. Note this table does not include digital sales data, and so should not be considered representative of all UK game sales.
If you’ve been running out of storage space on any of your consoles or other electronic devices, today’s flash deal will help end your struggles. Amazon US is running a one-day sale on SanDisk products, including memory cards, flash drives, hard drives, and SSDs. The sale ends after today, so browse the deals and pick up whatever you need ASAP.
Notable deals include the SanDisk Extreme microSD cards, which have data transfer speeds of up to 160 MB per second, a helpful feature if you’re working with high-res image and 4K UHD videos. The 64 GB, 128 GB, and even 400 GB Extreme cards are all marked down. On the other hand, if you haven’t upgraded your Nintendo Switch yet and are starting to feel the pain of its 32 GB internal storage limitations, SanDisk’s 256 GB Ultra microSD memory card is your best bet, and it’s only $31 right now.
There are quite a few external storage devices to pick from as well, including the 1 TB portable external SSD, which is drastically marked down to just $143 from $350. The WD 2 TB My Passport X for Xbox One hard drive is also discounted to $63 and provides a ton of extra, portable storage for Xbox One and Xbox 360 so you can keep all your games in one place. And if you need to pick up a reliable flash drive for storing photos, videos, and music, the SanDisk Cruzer 128 GB USB 2.0 flash drive is only $15 right now.
Of course J.J. Abrams is bringing back Emperor Palpatine in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.
Look, the decision to revive the character of the Emperor for The Rise of Skywalker may turn out to be the best idea ever. We can certainly expect it, at the very least, to not be the biggest surprise coming from the film, as Abrams is famous for his mystery box approach when selling his projects. It’s unlikely that Palpatine being teased at this point means we now know who the real villain of the film is, or that the Emperor is going to be the sole throwback to the Star Wars of yesteryear. You can almost bet on Anakin/Vader showing up in some capacity, in fact.
After all, this is the same guy who memeified Star Trek with his film Into Darkness, regurgitating the iconic Spock death scene from The Wrath of Khan while also remixing it so that it was Kirk who died this time. Also, it was Spock who got to yell the immortal “Khaaaaaaan” line in the Abrams version. Of course, that’s also the film where Abrams rebooted the classic villain Khan as well. Regurgitation is the right word in more than one way.
The first look at the premiere villain for Season 6 of The Flash has been revealed.
Behold Godspeed in all his white-and-gold glory, as well as some pages from the comics for comparison.
As you can probably tell, Godspeed is yet another speedster villain in the same vein as Zoom and the rest, but he’s a relatively recent addition to comics canon, having debuted in The Flash Rebirth run that kicked off in 2016. He was created by Joshua Williamson and Carmine Di Giandomenico.
Godspeed has all of the traditional speedster powers but with the added ability to steal the Speed Force from others. He can also divide the Speed Force within his body to create a temporary clone, allowing him to team up on enemies. The first story arc featuring Godspeed saw a “Speed Force storm” give dozens of new Central City citizens speedster powers, and then Godspeed hunted them down to steal their powers to become stronger.
It’s been nearly a year since Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order was announced at E3 2018, but new details were finally revealed during a panel at this year’s Star Wars Celebration in Chicago, where the first trailer was finally shown and a release date was confirmed: November 15, 2019. The game will release for PS4, Xbox One, and PC, with PC distribution limited to EA’s Origin store.
Jedi Fallen Order is being developed by Respawn, the team behind Titanfall and Apex Legends. The game is solely single-player and story-driven, with no microtransactions. The story takes place after Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith and follows a young Padawan named Cal Kestis (played by Gotham actor Cameron Monaghan) who is on the run from the Empire and its Inquisitors after Order 66 was issued, directing all Jedi to be hunted down and killed. Cal is working on completing his Jedi training while also dealing with the tragic events of his past. While no gameplay has been shown, we know the third-person action will include intense lightsaber battles, melee and Force abilities, platforming, and puzzle-solving.
More details will certainly be revealed as the release date draws closer, but in the meantime, you can catch up on all the confirmed details about Jedi Fallen Order with our guide. And if you’re interested in pre-ordering the game, you’ll find all the latest information about pre-order bonuses and the different editions below.
Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order pre-order bonuses
As of right now, details on Jedi Fallen Order’s official pre-order bonuses are vague, but we know that they’ll include cosmetic equipment for your lightsaber and droid companion. As usual, the PlayStation Store is also giving away a free Jedi Fallen Order PS4 theme with pre-order purchases.
Meanwhile, My Best Buy members will receive $10 reward credit if they pre-order the game from Best Buy.
Pre-order Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order standard edition
The standard edition will include just the base game and any pre-order bonuses. You can pre-order it at the following retailers:
PS4
Xbox One
PC
Pre-order Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order Deluxe edition
The Deluxe edition will include a director’s cut with behind-the-scene features and additional cosmetic equipment, plus any applicable pre-order bonuses. It’s only $10 more than the standard edition. You can pre-order it at the following retailers:
PS4
Xbox One
PC
Pre-order Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order Black Series Figure Bundle
GameStop is offering a bundle that includes the game for either PS4 or Xbox One and an exclusive, six-inch Star Wars: Black Series action figure. There aren’t many other details–and we’ll update this guide when more info is revealed–but it’s selling for $83.
Cersei’s pregnancy is one of the most unpredictable plotlines in the final season of Game of Thrones. Is the Lannister queen really pregnant? There’s plenty of evidence to go either way. But one theory has emerged as our favorite overall, and it involves a real pregnancy, a treacherous turn from Tyrion, and a bargain that Daenerys is not going to be happy about, should she ever find out about it.
First, let’s get this out of the way: It’s highly likely that Cersei is lying about her pregnancy. Besides her generally duplicitous nature and the fact that she manipulates everyone around her seemingly by default, there’s also the fact that Maggy the Frog, the woods witch Cersei visited as a kid, predicted that Cersei would have three kids (while King Robert would have 20). Every other part of her prophecy came true, so we have no reason to doubt that seemingly crucial detail.
One way this has been interpreted requires reading a little deeper into the source material than the show bothered with. In the books version of that flashback, which Cersei recalls during book 4 (A Feast for Crows), Maggy also tells the future queen that she’ll ultimately be killed by someone or something called the “valonqar”–which is High Valyrian for “little brother.” That fueled her mistrust of Tyrion, but it’s been speculated that the prophecy could also apply to Jaime, since although they are twins, he was technically born slightly after her, making Jaime also Cersei’s little brother.
On the other other hand, if this pregnancy is real, the hypothetical son growing inside of Cersei would be a little brother to her other children. And if she and the child both die during childbirth, the prophecy will be fulfilled.
Of course, Cersei probably isn’t planning for that particular eventuality. In fact, she may have made other plans with Tyrion–plans that haven’t been revealed yet. Here’s where the real speculation starts–Entertainment Tonight’s Leanne Aguilera actually came up with this theory in the middle of our live Game of Thrones recap show, Theories and Thrones, the morning after the Season 8 premiere aired (watch it below, and skip to around 8 minutes for the moment of inspiration).
Here goes: Tyrion and Cersei had quite a heated chat when they reunited in the Season 7 finale. The end result was that they apparently struck some kind of bargain, as Cersei promised to send her troops north to help in the war against the dead. (She was lying, but we’ll get to that.)
Perhaps crucially, we didn’t see the end of that conversation. What did Tyrion promise Cersei to get her to agree? As Sansa stated during the Season 8 premiere, she used to think Tyrion was one of the most clever people in the world, but he’s acting supremely stupid about this. Or maybe he has some reason for believing Cersei will keep her word, and maybe that reason involves her unborn child.
This also relates back to multiple scenes from Season 7 in which Tyrion awkwardly brought up the succession of Daenerys’s rule. Dany believes she can’t have kids, and Tyrion seems way too concerned about it, considering they haven’t even won the Iron Throne yet. But maybe those conversations, and the dark look he sent toward Jon and Dany as the lovers retreated into her cabin at the end of the Season 7 finale, were foreshadowing for an upcoming reveal: that Tyrion promised Cersei he’d persuade Dany to adopt Cersei’s child as her heir.
Think about it: If Cersei really does care about the child she’s allegedly carrying, she would want to concoct a contingency plan in case she loses the inevitable war with Dany/the Starks. Tyrion repeatedly emphasized his love for Tommen and Myrcella in that Season 7 scene, insisting that deep down Cersei knows he loved her children. And Tyrion also believes that Dany isn’t capable of producing an heir, which will create quite a mess should something happen to her.
This plot gives both characters what they want: Cersei knows that her child will be safe, because she does believe that Tyrion loved his niece and nephew (and she knows, at this point, that it was Olenna Tyrell who poisoned Joffrey, not Tyrion). And she places yet another Lannister on the throne, even should she lose the impending battles. At the same time, Tyrion clinches his sister’s help in the fight with the White Walkers (or so he thinks), finds a solution to the problem of Dany’s succession, and maybe even redeems himself as a kinslayer by saving the youngest Lannister’s life.
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Of course, this leaves the massive problem of convincing Dany, who isn’t known for being reasonable, to adopt her worst enemy’s son as her own heir. If this theory is true, that’s probably why Tyrion hasn’t brought it up yet–he needs to wait until Dany actually wins the war. If Cersei wins, it won’t matter, and if Dany triumphs–well, he can cross that bridge when he has to.
The fact that Cersei isn’t actually sticking to her side of the bargain won’t even matter, because of what we know about Tyrion: He really does love his family. Even despite Cersei’s betrayal, he would do his best to ensure his House’s survival, even if it means honoring a deal that his sister immediately broke. And if Cersei has finally realized that, it would actually be a huge moment in both characters’ long, tortured arcs.
To me, this all makes way too much sense. It would fulfill multiple characters’ arcs, while also just skirting by the prophecy about Cersei’s kids–especially if the Lannister queen also dies in childbirth. She’d be done in by the little brother, while the child himself would become Dany’s heir–and thus not really be Cersei’s at all, keeping her kid count at three. It would explain why Tyrion is so weirdly trusting of his treacherous sister lately, and it would be another interesting wrinkle in the question of the series’ aftermath. After all, the big battle with the White Walkers seems to be happening in Episode 3–after which there will still be three more episodes in which who-knows-what might happen.
What do you think of this theory? Is Cersei even pregnant in the first place? Why does Tyrion believe her? And how is he going to react to Jaime’s news that the Lannister queen is as terrible as ever? Let us know in the comments below.
Lithuanian streamer Karina “Karupups” Martsinkevich has been temporarily banned from Twitch following cosplaying as Apex Legend’s Lifeline and using blackface makeup.
As reported by Kotaku, Martsinkevich was streaming herself preparing her Lifeline cosplay in Twitch’s “Just Chatting” section when, after she dyed her hair and dressed to mimic the Apex Legends character, she applied a dark foundation to her face that caused Twitch to take the stream down even before she could finish her cosplay prep.
Martsinkevich took to YouTube to announce her 30-day suspension and explain that she was banned for “engaging in hateful conduct against a person or group of people.” However, she claims she “just wanted to be similar to Lifeline from Apex…it wasn’t meant to have
Nintendo and Camelot continue to roll out updates for Switch’s first Mario sports game, Mario Tennis Aces. The title’s 3.0 update is now live, and it’s a fairly significant one, introducing a new mode, kicking off a new Co-Op Challenge, and making another round of balance adjustments to a handful of characters.
First, Ring Shot has been added to the game’s main menu. The mode supports up to four players locally on one Switch console and comes in three varieties: Singles, Doubles, and Yoshi’s Ring Shot. The object of each is to rally the ball back and forth through rings that appear on the court, racking up as high of a score as you can within the time limit.
Yoshi’s Ring Shot also returns as the game’s latest online Co-Op Challenge. The event runs until June 1 and will give players the chance to unlock three more alternate Yoshi colors: pink, orange, and light blue. The rules are the same as standard Ring Shot, but this time, you’ll rack up more points if you shoot the ball through a ring that’s the same color as your Yoshi.
In addition to those modes, Camelot has added a new opening cinematic for Adventure Mode. If you’ve already have an Adventure save file in progress, you’ll be able to watch the movie from the Bonus option in the Adventure Mode menu. A new rank, Ace, has also been added to the online Tournament mode, and several characters have received small buffs. You can read the full patch notes here on Nintendo’s website.
Following the addition of Pauline last month, the newest character to join the Mario Tennis Aces roster is Magikoopa. Everyone who competes in one online Tournament match in April will unlock the character immediately, while all other players will get him after May 1. Another classic Mario villain, Dry Bones, will be added as a playable character next month.
