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Nicolas Cage has certainly made a lot of interesting choices throughout his career, but even more so over the last decade. And, by the looks of it, that streak continues with his next movie. In Pig, which releases on July 16, he’s a truffle hunter (which is evidently a real job) on the hunt for his friend, an actual pig, after it’s kidnapped. How’s he supposed to find truffles to sell to high-end restaurants without his trusted sidekick?

The movie looks equal parts creepy and dramatic, as a bearded Cage is attacked in the woods and his pig is taken. As the search begins, he appears genuinely distraught without his companion as he makes his way into the city to find out who wronged him (and his pig).

The film also stars Alex Wolff, Adam Arkin, Gretchen Corbett, and a number of others. Michael Sarnoski serves as director of the film, making his feature debut.

Pig is scheduled to hit theaters on July 16. Later this year, Cage has another project releasing that’s highly anticipated. In The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, the actor plays a version of himself who is suffering through debt and a strained relationship with his daughter. He also gets wrapped up with the CIA and a Mexican drug cartel because, why not? A release date for The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent has not been announced.

When EA revealed Madden 22’s cover earlier today, fans were quick to take note that something was amiss. Despite being the MVP edition cover of the annual NFL sim, it was lacking the most recent MVP.

That would be quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who led the Green Bay Packers to a 13-3 record and another NFC Championship Game appearance (he lost, a fact that brings me great joy as a Minnesota Vikings fan). Right now Rodgers in the midst of a tit-for-tat feud with the Packers (again, great joy), but that hasn’t stopped some fans from wondering about the lack of the current MVP.

From earlier today, the new Madden football game cover is out, featuring two MVP quarterbacks!

Just not the most recent one.#Packers https://t.co/HdpSIiheQM

— JR Radcliffe (@JRRadcliffe) June 17, 2021

Instead, Madden 22’s “ultra-rare two-player cover” is set to feature Patrick Mahomes and Tom Brady — two quarterbacks who graced Madden’s cover just recently. Mahomes appeared in Madden 20, and Brady appeared in Madden 18.

Madden had a pretty rough 2020, but as the only NFL sim in town, appearing on the cover still carries with it a certain amount of prestige. If not Rodgers, then Madden 21 could have gone with any number of candidates, such as Aaron Donald or Derrick Henry, or rising stars like Justin Herbert. Instead, Madden 22 is rolling with familiar faces in this version, and people are already bored. Maybe EA should bring back fan voting so Peyton Hillis can be on the cover again.

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Either way, Madden 22 is on the way to the Xbox Series X, PS5, PS4, and Xbox One, and we have a preview up listing 10 major improvements. They include homefield advantage, the ability to hire offensive and defensive coordinators, and lots more.

Madden 22 releases August 20.

Welcome back to IGN Game Scoop!, the ONLY video game podcast! This week your Omega Cops — Daemon Hatfield, Justin Davis, Sam Claiborn, and Michael Swaim — are discussing all things E3 2021. Starfield, Halo Infinite, Breath of the Wild 2, Metroid Dread, Guardians of the Galaxy, and more. And, of course, they play Video Game 20 Questions.

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First, Destiny 2 players noted that Jotunn, a fusion rifle that looks like Mega Man’s Mega Buster arm cannon, looked a lot like a toaster. It fired powerful Solar blasts that instantly cooked people, so it was a fitting description. Next, Bungie teased the community that if it donated enough during a charity live stream, they would create a real Jotunn toaster. And now, that toaster is, in fact, an item you can have in your own personal home.

As noted in its This Week at Bungie blog post, the Jotunn toaster is now available on Bungie’s web store. It toasts the Destiny 2 tricorn logo into your bread so you can share your fandom via sandwiches, and bears a Black Armory logo on the side, just like Jotunn does in-game. It also sports a plastic sandwich case so you can transport your food along with you through space or wherever.

One notable thing is that while the toaster is themed after Jotunn’s art design, it’s not actually shaped like the notorious in-game toaster, seen below.

Bungie said that’s because a more Jotunn-like design drove up the price of the actual item. Apparently, the most efficient shape for a toaster to be is toaster-shaped.

The birth of this toaster dates back to a June 2020 Bungie livestream for Community Gaming Expo, in which the studio worked to raise money for St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. The stream raised more than $800,000 USD, but as it was happening, Bungie told fans that if the fundraiser managed to hit $777,777.77, (Bungie has an unexplained thing for 7s) they’d consider making the Jotunn toaster. Of course, the number was surpassed, and here we are.

You can preorder the Jotunn toaster now on the Bungie store for $85–which seems pretty reasonable? I have no frame of reference on the cost of toasters. Buying it also gets you an in-game emblem called Burnt Edges, so you can show off your custom toast with an emblem themed on getting that bread. So that’s probably worth the money.

Werewolves Within producer and star, Sam Richardson, sits down with Kurt to discuss Ubisoft’s upcoming film, Werewolves Within. Werewolves Within is based on the VR game of the same name, and features a whodunnit comedic mystery… with WEREWOLVES.

By Dave Klein on June 17, 2021 at 12:48PM PDT

GameSpot’s Kurt Indovina sat down and chatted with Werewolves Within’s star and producer Sam Richardson about his dual role in front and behind the screen.

Werewolves Within is the film adaptation of the VR game, produced by Ubisoft’s Film & Television production company. Written by Mishna Wolff, the film was made in part with Ubisoft’s Women’s Film and Television Fellowship program, which offers opportunities to women writers to develop Ubisoft IPs into movies and shows.

Werewolves Within releases to theaters June 25, 2021, with a July 2, 2021 VOD release date.

During the E3 2021 Nintendo Direct presentation, the company released a roughly 90-second trailer for the sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, but it was more than enough to inspire all kinds of fan theories. One theory in particular stands out though, from Barrett Courtney of Kinda Funny, who thinks that the more rugged-looking Link in the trailer is in fact Ganondorf.

Courtney theorized that part of the game would be playing the fall of Ganondorf, which begins the cycle of a hero battling a corrupted Ganon that happens in every game. He thinks that the hero from 10,000 years ago that has been teased is Ganondorf and that the character with the corrupted arm in the trailer–whose face is not shown–isn’t Link but in fact Ganondorf.

“This game will be learning about the fall of Ganondorf the man and then saving him from the evil that has been ruling over him for generations. And in doing so, we’ll break the cycle started by Demise,” Courtney wrote.

He went on to say that he also has a theory on what the official title for the game might be, which Nintendo has kept secret because it might give away part of what the game is about. Courtney theorized it might be called “Demise of the Wild” which plays into the corruption caused by Demise and is a call back to Breath of the Wild, which seems very closely related to this game.

Calendar Man has been unveiled as one of the key villains in Batman: The Long Halloween, Part 1, the hotly anticipated animated adaptation of the acclaimed miniseries by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale.

Warner Bros. Entertainment recently released a new clip from the comic-based feature, spotlighting Calendar Man at the forefront of Batman and Police Captain James Gordon’s investigations. The duo visits the in-the-know villain, who is acutely aware of every date of the year, in his appropriately decorated cell at Arkham Asylum as part of their attempts to ascertain the identity of the Holiday Killer.

Based on the 13-issue comics story arc first published in 1996, The Long Halloween chronicles an early period in Batman’s crime-fighting career that sees him on the trail of the Holiday Killer, a serial murderer who claims a new victim on each major holiday. Batman’s mission to catch Holiday also sees him cross paths with supervillains such as Joker, Catwoman, Scarecrow, Calendar Man, and Solomon Grundy.

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The animated adaptation’s all-star voice cast features Jensen Ackles as Batman/Bruce Wayne, together with Billy Burke as James Gordon, David Dastmalchian as Calendar Man, Troy Baker as Joker, the late Naya Rivera as Catwoman/Selina Kyle, Josh Duhamel as Harvey Dent, Titus Welliver as Carmine Falcone, Amy Landecker as Barbara Gordon, Julie Nathanson as Gilda Dent, Jack Quaid as Alberto, Fred Tatasciore as Solomon Grundy, and Alastair Duncan as Alfred, amongst others.

Superman: Man of Tomorrow and Voltron: Legendary Defender veteran Chris Palmer directed Batman: The Long Halloween, Part One from a screenplay by his fellow Man of Tomorrow colleague Tim Sheridan, with producers Jim Krieg and Kimberly S. Moreau. Butch Lukic served as a supervising producer while Michael Uslan and Sam Register acted as executive producers on the feature-length animated movie, which is being distributed by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment on Digital and Blu-ray on June 22, 2021.

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Batman: The Long Halloween was announced last year as a part of a series of four DC Universe films coming in 2021, two of which encompass the two-part Long Halloween. The others were Batman: Soul of the Dragon, released at the start of the year, which we thought delivered “mostly satisfying” results, and Justice Society: World War II, released in April, which we called “an entertaining romp that ranks among DC’s best animated movies.”

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