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Game Of Thrones House Targaryen Spin-Off Reportedly Close To Being Piloted

HBO is close to ordering a pilot for a Game of Thrones spin-off that would focus on House Targaryen. Deadline reports that it is a prequel series from A Song of Ice and Fire author George R. R. Martin, who also served as co-executive producer on the Game of Thrones series it inspired. Colony co-creator and executive producer Ryan Condal is also said to be involved as co-creator and writer.

Deadline reports that the spin-off will be set 300 years before the events of Game of Thrones and will chart the “beginning of the end for House Targaryen.” It is said to be based on Fire & Blood, which was written by Martin, and has been in the works since last fall.

This show is not believed to be one of the five Game of Thrones spin-offs planned by HBO, but began as an idea for that group. The Targaryan spin-off is “a brand new take on a world originally tackled by Bryan Cogman in one of the five GoT prequel scripts commissioned by HBO in 2017,” Deadline’s report reads.

HBO has not yet officially acknowledged or confirmed the report.

Currently, the only Game of Thrones spin-off that has been officially confirmed is what Martin called “The Long Night,” before backtracking on the name later. Naomi Watts has been cast in the show, which takes place thousands of years before Game of Thrones. Watts’ character is said to be “a charismatic socialite hiding a dark secret.”

Destiny 2 Content Calendar Includes New Dungeon, Exotic Quests

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There’s going to be plenty to do in the next few months of Destiny 2, if Bungie’s new content calendar for the upcoming season and expansion is any indication. We knew the Shadowkeep expansion would bring lots of changes and a few new activities, but Bungie’s latest details also include some Exotic weapons quests, and perhaps most interestingly, a new dungeon.

Thanks to the latest This Week at Bungie, we now have some idea of the new live content to expect with the release of the big new Shadowkeep expansion, as well as Destiny 2’s next season, the Season of the Undying. Bungie released a content calendar image that runs down everything that’s coming in October and November, and explains what you’ll get for free and what comes with a purchase of Shadowkeep.

Destiny 2 Shadowkeep and Season of the Undying content roadmap

The image also gives a few new details about what’s going on in the Season of the Undying, the first live-content season of Destiny 2’s Year Three. We had some idea of what that season was all about: it covers the Vex response to what the Hive are up to on the moon in Shadowkeep. According to the content calendar, the Vex will launch their own offensive on the moon starting on October 5, the same day the Vex-centric Garden of Salvation raid is released. Things on the Vex front pick up again in November, with an event called “Vex Offensive: Final Assault.”

It also appears that new Exotic weapon Divinity will be unlocked by an Exotic quest. That’s at odds with what players previously believed: it appeared up to now that Divinity would be the Exotic weapon hidden in the Garden of Salvation raid, similar to Tarrabah in Crown of Sorrows, One Thousand Voices in Last Wish, or Anarchy in Scourge of the Past.

Not all of the content on the calendar is free. Most of it requires the purchase of the $40 Shadowkeep expansion, which also includes the Season of the Undying content. Destiny 2 will also have three more seasons after that, which players can buy a la carte or as part of a new Season Pass.

Here’s everything on the content calendar and what you’ll have to buy to get it:

Free

Moon destinations
Seasonal Artifact
Finisher moves
Armor 2.0 system
Festering Core Strike
The Scarlet Keep Strike
Widow’s Court PvP Map (reprised from Destiny 1)
Twilight Cap PvP Map (reprised from Desitny 1)
Fragment PvP Map
Free Seasonal Rank rewards
Elimination Crucible mode
Iron Banner event (October 15)
Momentum Control PvP Mode (October 29)
Festival of the Lost seasonal event (October 29-November 19)

Shadowkeep

Garden of Salvation Raid (October 5)
Hero & Legend Nightmare Hunts (October 8)
Master Nightmare Hunts (October 15)
Dungeon Launch (October 29)
Divinity Exotic Quest (October 29)
First Raid Challenge (November 5)

Season of the Undying (Included with Shadowkeep)

Vex Offensive begins (October 5)
Leviathan’s Breath Exotic Quest (October 22)
Vex Offensive: Final Assault (November 19)

10 Things Borderlands 3 Doesn’t Tell You

Find out how to view challenges, get the right loot for your level, and much more with these essential tips.

Gears 5: Where to Find Every Relic Weapon

Here’s how to get all Relic Weapons in Gears 5.

Students Cosplay as Star Wars Characters, Memes for Hilarious High School ID Photos

Dressing up in costume used to just be for Halloween. Now, cosplay is becoming part of American culture, with fans dressing up for comic conventions like Comic-Con International, AnimeExpo, and E3. However, this trend doesn’t just extend to conventions, as even high schools are beginning to embrace the cosplay movement.

For instance, North Farmington High School in Farmington Hills, Mich. has started a fun tradition. Every year, for the last three years, they encourage students to dress up as their favorite actor, musician, or meme. The students pick their favorite outfits and dress up to get their student ID photos taken.

Borderlands 3’s Best Easter Eggs (That We’ve Found So Far)

The Borderlands franchise is well known to host a plethora of pop culture references as well as some nicely tucked away easter eggs. After many hours playing Borderlands 3, here are some of the coolest we’ve found along the way.

(If you don’t want some of these awesome moments spoiled for you, stop reading here, ya dingdong. I don’t want to read how this was spoiled for you in the comments because you were “forced” to read it.)

Click through the gallery above, or scroll down for the full list.

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Lucy in the Sky Review

This is an advance review out of the Toronto International Film Festival. Lucy in the Sky opens in the US on Oct. 4 and in the UK on Dec. 6.

“I am alone now. Truly alone, and absolutely isolated from any known life.” Those words were attributed to Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins – the one who didn’t walk on the moon – and are referenced during Lucy in the Sky, as a way of summing up the existential crisis being experienced by the film’s title character.

For this is the story of those remarkable folk who reach for the stars, orbit the planet, then return to earth with a thud; struggling to come to terms with a world that suddenly seems so small. Legion and Fargo showrunner Noah Hawley’s directorial debut – from a Brian C. Brown and Elliott DiGuiseppi script that he retooled – works when examining the psychological fallout from such a trip. However, when combined with a lurid tale ripped directly from the headlines – Lucy in the Sky is “inspired by real events” – the movie slips into melodrama.

Wheel of Time Cast Unite in First Group Photo

The cast of Amazon Prime’s Wheel of Time are together at last in a new photo posted by showrunner Rafe Judkins to his Instagram.

Though the cast members were all previously announced, this is the first group photo showing the actors who will be playing Moiraine (Rosamund Pike), Rand Al’Thor (Josha Stradowski), Perrin Aybara (Marcus Rutherford), Mat Cauthon (Barney Harris), Egwene Al’Vere (Madeleine Madden), Nynaeve (Zoë Robins) and al’Lan Mandragoran (Daniel Henney) all together.

Madden NFL 20 Repeats as August 2019’s Best-Selling Game

Madden NFL 20 is the best-selling game of August 2019, repeating its victory after being the top-selling game in July of this year, while also becoming the seventh yearly Madden entry in a row to top the charts in August.

As reported by the NPD Group, Madden is now the third-best-selling game of 2019, trailing behind Kingdom Hearts III and Mortal Kombat 11. Minecraft, interestingly, had its all-time high placement on the NPD best-sellers chart, coming in as the second-best-selling game for the month of August.

Our Madden NFL 20 review said this year’s entry had some of the best moment-to-moment gameplay in the series. However, our reviewer found other parts like the Franchise mode to be somewhat lacking.

The Goldfinch Review

Compelling adaptation of Donna Tartt’s bestseller, though one that might have been better served as a mini-series.