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The new teaser trailer for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker features quite the surprise: as the trailer comes to a close, the screen cuts to black and our ears are filled with the cackling of Emperor Palpatine. It’s a laugh cold enough to send shivers down your spine and a character inclusion crazy enough to make your head spin. He met his electrifying end in Return of the Jedi, after all. IGN talked to director and co-writer JJ Abrams at Star Wars Celebration Chicago about how the iconic villain came to be a part of the film, and his answer included a meeting with the Maker himself, George Lucas.

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The end of the Skywalker saga doesn’t mean the end of the Star Wars franchise by any stretch. That’s the takeaway from a new interview with Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy. Kennedy told The Hollywood Reporter that she’s working with directors David Benioff, D.B. Weiss and Rian Johnson to plot out an entirely new saga that will unfold over the next decade.

“This

is the culmination of the Skywalker Saga; it’s by no means the culmination of Star Wars,” said Kennedy. “I’m sitting down now with Dan Weiss and David Benioff… and Rian Johnson. We’re all sitting down to talk about, where do we go next? We’ve all had conversations about what the possibilities might be, but now we’re locking it down.”

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Facebook accidentally added some “easter egg” labels on tens of thousands of Oculus Touch controllers, including such phrases as “Big Brother is Watching” and “This Space For Rent.”

Nate Mitchell, co-founder of Oculus and head of VR product at Facebook, took to Twitter to explain this issue and said that while he does “appreciate easter eggs, these were inappropriate and should have been removed.”

These labels made it onto the internal hardware of the Oculus Touch VR controllers, with final production hardware saying “This Space For Rent” and “The Masons Were Here.” Some dev kits were sent out, which were non-consumer units, and included the phrases “Big Brother is Watching” and “Hi iFixit! We See You!”

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Janina Gavankar, who voiced Tatai in The Frozen Wilds DLC, may have spilled the beans on a potential sequel to Horizon Zero Dawn.

Via a Reddit post from user ninjyte, Gavankar, who portrayed Iden Versio in Star Wars Battlefront II, was speaking with fans at Star Wars Celebration Chicago when she made the potential slip. A fan thanked Gavankar for introducing her to Horizon Zero Dawn, to which Gavankar replied “Just wait until you see the sequel, you’re gonna die. I know some secrets, you’re gonna die.”

Though her character Tatai was only present in the game’s DLC, she did have an open narrative thread where she was headed to Sundom to learn how to harvest machines. Because of this continuation, Tatai could return in a sequel, meaning Gavankar may have some knowledge of its development. IGN has reached out to PlayStation for comment.

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While Blizzard has had some controversial news as of late, it says it doesn’t allow any negative feedback to influence any facet of the stories it tells through its games.

As reported by VG247, Blizzard’s Director of story and franchise development George Krstic spoke at Reboot Develop and discussed how Blizzard’s “story rooms are dojos. They’re sacred places.”

“Specifically with World of Warcraft, our creative director Alex

said a wonderful thing,” Krstic said. “He said our story rooms are dojos. They’re sacred places. And we try to tell a story as best we can and to make our players as happy as we can. But we try not to let the negativity enter the dojo,”

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