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Marvel’s Eternals star Kumail Nanjiani has revealed how director Chloe Zhao carefully selected the cast for the upcoming cosmic superhero movie.

Nanjiani was interviewed by Vulture as part of a profile piece on The Rider and Nomadland director, and the ex-Silicon Valley actor explained that Zhao made her choices based on how each star’s personality fitted into their Eternals counterpart. Nanjiani, who will portray Kingo in the superhero flick, described why he was surprised by a particular answer that Zhao gave him during a meeting about his character, and how that extended to the movie’s whole cast.

“I was like ‘Okay, so how do you want to see Kingo?'” Nanjiani said. “She was like ‘He’s you. I picked you because I wanted him to be you.’ That’s how she picked the entire cast. She wanted everybody to put pieces of themselves into each character.”

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The Eternals’ ensemble is the most diverse cast seen in a Marvel movie to date, and Nanjiani puts that down to the commitment shown by Zhao – who is also the first Asian woman to direct an MCU movie – to represent different ethnicities and cultures in a superhero flick. Recalling a shot of the cast, Nanjiani admitted that he got emotional over the image. He said: “You never see a movie with a cast that looks like the world this much, let alone big superheroes in a Marvel movie.”

Nanjiani is the latest member of the Eternals team to heap praise on Zhao over her vision of the film. Fellow Eternals star Salma Hayek recently described the film as possessing “a completely different DNA” to previous MCU movies due to the way it was shot, while Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige revealed that Zhao’s Eternals pitch was the “best he’d ever heard“.

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In other Marvel news, Falcon and the Winter Soldier actress Emily VanCamp revealed how the upcoming Disney+ show compares to WandaVision’s trippiness, while Assembled – a new Disney+ documentary series – will provide a behind-the-scenes look at Marvel’s 2021 TV series.

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The landmark Microsoft-Bethesda acquisition was reportedly a factor in Google’s decision to close its Stadia game development studios.

A report from Kotaku says that Google Stadia General Manager Phil Harrison brought it up as a factor during a Q&A with staff following Google’s decision to shut down its two internal game studios in Los Angeles and Montreal in early February.

According to Kotaku’s sources, Harrison “pointed specifically to Microsoft’s buying spree and planned acquisition of Bethesda Software later this year as one of the factors that had made Google decide to close the book on original game development.” Microsoft announced its plans to acquire Zenimax Media and Bethesda Softworks in September 2020, bringing blockbuster franchises such as The Elder Scrolls, Fallout and Doom under its wing. It’s not entirely clear what the connection between the acquisition and Stadia’s decision is, although it could be seen as an inability to compete in the market.

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Harrison reportedly mentioned the COVID-19 pandemic and “the rising costs of game development” as other factors in the decision. Kotaku’s report notes that the studio’s game developers were shocked by the decision to close the studios, as just weeks before they had been praised by Harrison via email for the “great progress” made by the teams. Kotaku’s sources say this was “emblematic” of the reported mismanagement at Stadia’s studios prior to their closure.

Despite the first-party studio closures, Google recently announced that more than 100 third-party games would be added to its streaming service by the end of 2021.

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Warner Bros. has released a series of motion posters for the upcoming Mortal Kombat movie, featuring Mileena, Kung Lao, and many, many more.

The short videos, released on Twitter, offered fans a closer look at who’s playing who in the latest adaptation of the blockbuster video game series, which is scheduled to cannonball onto HBO Max and into theaters on April 16, 2021. The posters were unveiled alongside the announcement of the new trailer arriving on Thursday, February 18. Check out the screenshots of the posters in our gallery:

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The posters showcase the movie’s cast of ferocious fighters, including Joe Taslim’s Sub-Zero, Josh Lawson’s Kano, Sisi Stringer’s Mileena, Max Huang’s Kung Lao, Chin Han’s Shang Tsung, Jessica McNamee’s Sonya Blade, Ludi Lin’s Liu Kang, Tadanobu Asano’s Raiden, Mehcad Brooks’ Jax Briggs, and Lewis Tan’s Cole Young — an all-new character, described as a “washed-up MMA fighter” who bears a mysterious birthmark in the shape of the Mortal Kombat symbol on his chest.

Together with Sonya Blade, his journey will lead him to the temple of a thunderous Elder God known as Lord Raiden, where he will come into contact with a group of highly-skilled fighters, resulting in plenty of fights and (for the first time) “crazy fatalities,” which means the R-rated movie will likely feature several of the classic violent finisher moves.

“There are some crazy fatalities,” revealed Tan, who performed his own stunts on set. “We’ve picked a couple of iconic ones. There’s a lot of really cool signature moves that you’ll see, a lot of Easter eggs that we snuck into the film, but there are some really badass fatalities that I can’t wait to see on the big screen. They’re brutal, man. They, they don’t hold back.”

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Warner Bros. is expected to release the new James Wan-produced live-action adaptation of Mortal Kombat to theaters and HBO Max simultaneously. The movie’s distribution plan was reconsidered due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, which has impacted several studios and their respective release calendars over the past year.

For more Mortal Kombat action, check out our deep-dive into the history of its bizarre movie and TV adaptations and read more about how the upcoming movie will be grounded in realism.

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

After the news broke that Mandalorian and Game of Thrones star Pedro Pascal has been cast as Joel in HBO’s TV adaptation of The Last Of Us, fans have already begun to imagine what his take on the character might look like. One fan artist has gone beyond simple Photoshop mockups, with a lovingly rendered take on Pascal with Joel’s beard and scruffy style.

After being posted to Reddit by artist Andrea C. White, the painting was soon shared on Twitter by Naughty Dog’s Neil Druckmann, who is also serving as a writer on the HBO series.

Another artwork being shared around by fans is by artist Taryn Platt, who envisioned Pascal as Joel along with his co-star Bella Ramsey as Ellie. The two are both Game of Thrones alumni, with Ramsey stealing the spotlight in later seasons as the fierce young noblewoman Lyanna Mormont.

Both pieces of fanart show interpretations of the characters that are closely aligned with their video game equivalents but it’s likely that, as with Netflix’s Witcher series, the live-action adaptation will put its own spin on both the characters and the story.

Executive producer Craig Mazin has said that the TV show will feature both characters and events not depicted in the games, but has assured fans that with Druckmann on board, the TV show will be intended to expand on TLOU’s world, not rewrite it.

The Mortal Kombat movie is getting a new trailer this Thursday, February 18.

The trailer announcement was made alongside a short video of Joe Taslim as Sub-Zero. Taslim is a renowned martial artist and appeared in such films as The Raid, Fast & Furious 6, and The Night Comes for Us.

Joe Taslim is Sub-Zero. #MortalKombatMovie trailer Thursday. pic.twitter.com/63Rv7Kwahs

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The Mortal Kombat movie will arrive on HBO Max and in theaters on April 16, 2021, and we recently got a closer look at the film that will also star Mehcad Brooks as Jackson “Jax” Briggs, Chin Han as Shang Tsung, Hiroyuki Sanada as Scorpion, Tadanobu Asano as Raiden, Ludi Lin as Liu Kang, Sisi Stringer as Mileena, Josh Lawson as Kano, Jessica McNamee as Sonya Blade, Max Huang as Lung Lao Max, and Lewis Tan as an all-new character named Cole Young.

This film is a reboot and will see Young, who is a “washed-up MMA fighter” and bears a birthmark in the shape of the Mortal Kombat symbol on his chest, meet up with Sonya Blade. She then leads him to the temple of Lord Raiden where he comes into contact with a group of highly-skilled fighters.

“When we first meet Cole, he’s in a really bad spot,” Tan said. “He’s down on his luck. He’s kind of a washed-up MMA fighter who used to be a champion, who used to believe in himself, who used to have a lot of hope in his career. And it’s all gone down the drain. It’s a very interesting place for a hero to start, and I think that, along the journey of Mortal Kombat and Cole discovering where he comes from, you’re introduced to all these other iconic characters and elements that everybody loves so dearly.”

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There will also be some “crazy fatalities” in the film that will make fans of the franchise very happy.

“There are some crazy fatalities,” added Tan, who performed his own stunts on set. “We’ve picked a couple of iconic ones. There’s a lot of really cool signature moves that you’ll see, a lot of Easter eggs that we snuck into the film, but there are some really badass fatalities that I can’t wait to see on the big screen. They’re brutal, man. They, they don’t hold back.”

For more on the Mortal Kombat movie, which finished filming back in 2019, check out the history of its bizarre movie and TV adaptations and read more about how the upcoming movie will be grounded in realism.

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The new Presage Exotic mission in Destiny 2 sends you to a derelict Cabal ship to uncover what happened to its crew–and a fellow Guardian. There are many secrets hidden in the mission, including some tidbits that can reveal its story and unlock a Triumph called Figments of an Answer. To earn it, you’ll need to find and scan five different specific objects hidden in the mission.

Because the Glykon, the ship where Presage takes place, is so twisting and huge, it can be very easy to miss the five objects you’re looking for and the story that goes with them. We’ve marked down everything you need to find on the Glykon to unlock Figments of an Answer and get your first look deeper into Destiny 2’s strange new mission.

Make sure to check out the rest of our guides for the Season of the Chosen, including a guide to unlock the Dead Man’s Tale Exotic scout rifle and unlock Presage.

How To Earn The Figments Of An Answer Triumph

Here’s where to find each scannable object hidden in the Glykon during the Presage mission. These items won’t be available until your second run through the mission, so keep that in mind.

Object 1: Cabal Bodies

Progress through the ship until you make it to the switch that opens the door to the loading ramp where you first spawned in on the Glykon. Throwing the switch unlocks the door that leads into the ship proper. As soon as you go through, you’ll be confronted with some weird plantlife. In the center of the room, you’ll see several Cabal bodies have been grabbed by the vines and suspended in the air. Scan them for your first hint at what’s going on in this place.

Object 2: Scorn Helmets

Continue forward until you hit a room with a pair of big electrical barriers splitting it apart. You’ll start on one side of this room and enter a narrower hallway in order to reach a switch. To get to the other side, you’ll need to jump a gap, then use spores to run through a sealed Darkness doorway. Before you do that, however, jump across and check to the right of the sealed door to find two Scorn helmets lying on the floor beside the path forward.

Object 3: The Guardian’s Jump Ship

After you complete the section with the trash compactor, you’ll drop into a fight with some Scorn enemies and see the Locus of Communion for the first time. Keep moving until you enter the ship’s hangar for a big fight with two Abomination Majors. Clear the room and head toward the back left corner, where you’ll exit out the big hangar opening and go back out into space. Before you do, scan the ship right next to the exit. It belongs to the Guardian you’re searching for, and it’s outfitted with some Season of Opulence gear.

Object 4: Dark Ether Canisters

Before much longer, you’ll hit another room with an electrical barrier, but this one will be above you. You’ll unlock a door exposing a power conduit that lets you interrupt the barrier briefly so you can pass through it. On the other side, turn left to find a side room with a switch clearing the path back to the far side of the barrier. To the right of the switch are some canisters with a light blue liquid inside, your fourth piece of evidence.

Object 5: Calus’s Message

The fifth and final scannable object appears after your boss fight with the Locus of Communion. Defeat it and leave the boiler room through the newly opened door. Continue until you can blow open a hole in the floor and drop down into a ventilation shaft lit in red. Instead of continuing down the clear path, turn the other way and hop over the low pile of junk to get to an open space on the other side, where you’ll find a little hologram of Calus’s face. Scan it for one last tidbit of info about what happened aboard the Glykon.

Take a look at all the Overdrives from the main roster of the upcoming fighting game, Guilty Gear Strive. Captured from the beta on PS5.

Streaming giant Netflix and gaming giant Valve have surprised the internet with the announcement of a new animated series based on the Dota game franchise. The companies each took to their Twitter accounts to announce the series, with a release date of March 25.

Both tweets refer to the series as “anime.” Some anime fans may wind up debating that classification–hard to tell, though, since we currently know nothing about who’s actually making the show. Netflix simply posted a teaser video in which a man identifies himself as Davion, Dragon Knight, a character from the game Dota 2. He then battles a dragon, before the logo Dota: Dragon’s Blood appears. The teaser says the series was made “in collaboration with Valve.” Meanwhile, Valve said in a tweet from the official Dota 2 account, “We’re excited to announce a brand-new anime series exploring the Dota universe like never before. As fellow fans of Dota and its passionate global community, we look forward to sharing this new adventure with you when it premieres on Netflix March 25.”

Finally, Netflix’s official listing for the show describes its premise in brief: “After encounters with a dragon and a princess on her own mission, a Dragon Knight becomes embroiled in events larger than he could have ever imagined.”

Dota began life as a player-made mod for the game Warcraft III and is credited as the origin of the MOBA (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena) genre that also includes League of Legends and Heroes of the Storm, among others. Valve partnered with the original creator of Dota to develop and release Dota 2 in 2013, and the genre has been going strong ever since.

The streaming series Dota: Dragon’s Blood looks similar to other animated video game adaptations Netflix has produced recently, including the Castlevania series and last year’s Dragon’s Dogma series. However, it’s unknown at this time whether these shows are related in any way.

Developer Larian Studios is holding another Panel from Hell livestream for Baldur’s Gate 3. It’s sure to be full of pretty big announcements–for context, last year’s Panel from Hell livestream revealed the date for when Baldur’s Gate 3 would launch in early access.

The livestream is scheduled to begin on February 17 at 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET. You can watch the livestream via the video embedded below.

On the Baldur’s Gate 3 website, Larian Studios writes that this livestream will “divulge all the secrets in [the game’s] biggest patch yet.” The patch in question is Patch 4, scheduled to go live in Baldur’s Gate 3 sometime this year.

In GameSpot’s Baldur’s Gate 3 early access review, David Wildgoose writes, “To some extent, it is fascinating to play Baldur’s Gate 3 today with the knowledge you will be able to follow its progress over the coming months–and possibly years–with a kind of academic interest in how AAA RPGs are built. You’ll be able to witness first-hand how rough cuts are beaten into shape and finally polished. And for some small section of the audience, that alone will be worth the price of admission. For the rest of us, however, there’s no rush. Baldur’s Gate 3 isn’t done yet. It’s okay to wait until it is.”