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Actress Zendaya is voicing Lola Bunny in the upcoming Space Jam: A New Legacy as part of the movie’s ambition to make the character more “fully realized.”

Director Malcolm D. Lee said that Lola was inappropriately depicted in the 1996 movie. She’s wearing a crop top and is overall “not politically correct,” he told Entertainment Weekly.

“This is a kids’ movie: why is she in a crop top? It just felt unnecessary, but at the same time there’s a long history of that in cartoons,” he said.

Lee said it was his goal to “reflect the authenticity of strong, capable female characters” in A New Legacy. Lola Bunny will be seen first in the new movie alongside the Amazons from Wonder Woman.

“We reworked a lot of things, not only her look, like making sure she had an appropriate length on her shorts and was feminine without being objectified, but gave her a real voice,” Lee said. “For us, it was, let’s ground her athletic prowess, her leadership skills, and make her as full a character as the others.”

Kath Soucie voiced Lola Bunny in the original movie, while Kristen Wiig voiced the character on The Looney Tunes Show.

A New Legacy debuts on July 16 in theaters and on HBO Max. The first trailer came online over the weekend, showing off LeBron James in the lead role of the live-action/CGI hybrid film.

A self-described “casual engineer” has created a working Nintendo Switch that is 650% larger than normal. According to a Reddit post, Michael Pick created the very big Switch in order to donate it to St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital in Tennessee.

As spotted by VGC, Pick documented the build process on his YouTube channel, and he also showed off how the comically oversized Joy-Cons actually work. He played a few rounds of Mario Kart before switching to Fortnite and claiming a Victory Royale.

The giant Switch consists of a television and a docked normal Switch that hides inside of the device’s housing. The oversized Joy-Cons are attached to levers that manipulate the real Joy-Cons when the large button is pressed. Pick also placed chargers in the mounts to ensure that they don’t run out of juice.

A college student at Cornell recently donated several Nintendo Switches and games to the Children’s Minnesota Hospital after collecting more than $30,000 from the GameStop stock boom. If you’re looking for the best Switch games to play, check out our list of the top 25 best Switch games. Nintendo Switch sales recently surpassed 80 million units sold, making it one of Nintendo’s most successful consoles ever.

Since its launch in 2001, Xbox has always seemed to appeal to a very specific demographic–the bro demographic. Or, that’s at least how Kurt Indovina saw it. Over the years, Kurt has watched as the Xbox evolved from being the console that came pre-packaged with a headset encouraging players to talk smack to each other online, to the console intended for everyone, regardless of age, demographic, or accessibility requirements.

While Kurt never felt the Xbox was intended for him, all that has changed in recent years. In this video, he explains how the identity of Xbox has changed, starting from the system to play Halo and Gears of War on, to shifting its focus towards accessibility with the Adaptive Controller, and services like Game Pass.

Kurt also deconstructs the bro culture that surrounded Xbox, by looking back on the early 2000s, examining the documentation for terms like bromance, and how its popularization rose alongside bro-affiliated movies like American Pie and Van Wilder.

But since the launch of the modern Xbox Series X|S consoles, Microsoft has successfully turned its image around, drifting further and further from a niche demographic, to the one that wants you to play more games, with more people.

FunPlus’ free-to-play strategy game State of Survival is adding The Walking Dead’s Daryl Dixon as a new character. GameSpot can reveal today that Dixon–who is performed on the TV show and in the game by Norman Reedus–will be added to the game starting April 15.

He’s coming to the game as part of a special limited-time event through October. Dixon will be a playable character, and his canine companion dog from the TV show will be by his side as they try to survive against zombies.

Reedus is lending his voice and likeness to the game, which the actor announces himself in the video below.

“We’re thrilled to partner with AMC and The Walking Dead to bring our two worlds together,” FunPlus executive Chris Petrovic said in a statement. Since launching State of Survival in August 2019, it has been our dream to allow players the opportunity to experience The Walking Dead in our game, and we’re excited to be able to deliver that to them.”

AMC Games boss Clayton Neuman said Dixon is one of the most famous and recognizable zombie universe characters overall, and he’s excited to bring Dixon to State of Survival.

“State of Survival and AMC’s The Walking Dead present different takes on the zombie apocalypse, but they also share a lot of common themes so bringing them together was very natural,” Neuman said. “What we’ve created allows the best elements of both universes to shine, and we’re excited for the millions of fans and players around the world to experience it.”

You can pre-register for the event here.

2020 was a big year for State of Survival. In its launch year, the game passed 60 million global downloads and was the top-downloaded game in Taiwan and South Korea across Google Play and the App Store. The game was also featured 104 times in 2020 as the Game of the Day on the App store.

AMC’s The Walking Dead remains very popular, and the shoe is coming back for its eleventh and final season this August as part of a 24-episode mammoth final season. Reedus’ Dixon character is one of the most popular on the show, so it’s no surprise that, even after The Walking Dead ends, his story will continue in a spin-off show.

In addition to crushing it at the box office, Godzilla vs. Kong is making an impact on HBO Max. The film debuted on the streaming service day-and-date with its theatrical release on March 31 in the US, and Warner Bros. has confirmed it broke records for the platform.

It was viewed more in its first four days than any other film or show since HBO Max released in May 2020, according to reporter Pamela McClintock. That means it tallied more views than Wonder Woman 1984, which debuted on HBO Max in December, and did better than March’s Snyder Cut of Justice League.

Warner Bros. did not, however, share a total number of streams for Godzilla vs. Kong. The company also did not reveal how many new subscribers it was able to sign up through the movie.

Warner Bros. has numerous other high-profile movies coming to HBO Max this year, including Mortal Kombat, The Matrix 4, Dune, Space Jam: A New Legacy, The Suicide Squad, The Many Saints of Newark, and Cry Macho.

The film studio has said this simultaneous release strategy is in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and will not continue in 2022. In fact, WB just reached a deal with Regal to have its 2022 movies debut in cinemas for 45 days before coming to HBO Max.

Godzilla vs. Kong is already getting close to $300 million worldwide at the box office and is setting pandemic-era box office records.

The next Microsoft virtual event has been set, but don’t expect it to house big gaming announcements. The Microsoft Build conference is an annual event aimed at software developers and engineers, and the company has set the dates at May 25-27.

Microsoft confirmed the dates to GameSpot sister site ZDNet following an appearance on a public events page, though it’s still not present on the dedicated Build event site. Registration details have not been shared yet.

Microsoft has been sticking with virtual events so far this year due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. It is also planning a series of “What’s Next” virtual events that will focus more narrowly on particular areas of interest. A “What’s Next for Gaming” event is reportedly expected in the coming weeks as well, separate from the Build conference. GameSpot has contacted Microsoft regarding the events schedule.

This could be in addition to whatever Microsoft has planned surrounding E3 or other summer reveal events, which are still unconfirmed. The ESA has confirmed it is planning a digital show, and in response to reports that it would be charging a fee the company has confirmed it will be free, at least in part. More details are said to be coming soon.

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