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Due to COVID-19, there will be no in-person Pro Bowl the week before the Super Bowl as usual, but the event is living on through the Pro Bowl: Madden NFL 21 Edition, and now EA has shared more details about it. This includes a celebrity competition and a free play period for everyone.

The event itself, which is sponsored by Verizon, takes place on Sunday, January 31 at 5 PM ET on the NFL’s YouTube, Twitter and Facebook accounts, as well as EA Madden NFL Twitch.

In this special version of the Pro Bowl, celebrities and athletes will duke it out. Participants include Snoop Dogg, Deshaun Watson, Derrick Henry, and Keyshawn Johnson competing for the AFC, with Bubba Wallace, Marshawn Lynch, Kyler Murray, and Jamal Adams representing the NFC.

Everyone will play Madden 21 from their homes, and each team will rotate in a new player from the celebrity/player roster each quarter. The commentators for the game include Hall of Famer Michael Strahan and Fox Sports host Charissa Thompson.

Ninja, FaZe Swagg, AustinShow, and AMP will broadcast their own “watch parties” alongside the event itself, which will be re-broadcast at 8 PM EST and 12:30 AM EST on NFL Network.

“We’re further blurring the lines between reality and the virtual worlds of our games, creating new opportunities to connect fans through the sport they love,” EA boss David Tinson said.

NFL executive Peter O’Reilly said in his own statement, “Bringing our all-star game to a virtual stage in Madden has allowed fans to engage and enjoy the Pro Bowl, despite the unprecedented challenges of the last year. We’re excited for fans to celebrate the best players in the NFL all on one field this weekend.”

Snoop Dogg also released a statement on the upcoming virtual Pro Bowl: “I’m a Madden NFL star. So Kyler and Marshawn better watch out–my team is comin’ in to win that championship title for the AFC.”

To celebrate the event, EA is offering a free play trial of Madden NFL 21 from January 28-31. January 28 is the day that Madden 21 launches on the Google Stadia streaming service, and the free trial will be available there in addition to on console.

Super Bowl LV is scheduled for Sunday, February 7. The Kansas City Chiefs will take on Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for the title.

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Actor Gareth David-Lloyd has come forward to say he is interested in appearing in a reboot or revival of the Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood.

David-Lloyd, who played Ianto Jones on the show, told MetroUK that he wants Torchwood to come back even if Ianto isn’t part of it. As fans will recall, Ianto died during the Children of Earth storyline, but David-Lloyd believes Ianto could come back in some fashion. After all, Torchwood is sci-fi, so the time travel and alternate universe possibilities are there.

“There’s the scope for it to come back; I’d love it to come back whether Ianto would be part of it or not,” he said. “I think maybe bringing him back easily would sort of cheapen the drama that was created in Children Of Earth, but I’d obviously jump at the chance to play him on screen again. Maybe in an alternate universe or something like that? Or Ianto from the future? I’m not sure! But the popularity is definitely there.”

David-Lloyd said the success of Torchwood has allowed him to tour the world and appear at numerous fan conventions. Ianto was one of the most beloved characters on the show, and his death was tragic and unexpected.

“It’s still a really popular show and there’s a new wave of audience that have been getting into it. The kids that were too young to watch it at the time have watched it now and that’ll keep happening. I think it’s aged really well too,” he said.

In addition to his starring role on Torchwood, David-Lloyd is known for voicing Solas in the video game Dragon Age: Inquisition.

Torchwood also starred John Barrowman as Captain Jack Harkness. This character recently returned to the Doctor Who universe in the show’s latest holiday episode.

WWE and its content is moving away from the WWE Network streaming service and finding a new home on Peacock, after the wrestling company made a new deal with NBC Universal. This deal also means the end of the WWE Network come mid-March.

NBCU is paying WWE $1 billion for a five-year deal to bring WWE to Peacock, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. As part of this, WWE will close its WWE Network streaming service in the US, with Peacock getting this content exclusively in the US going forward.

“One of the key things we’re trying to do is differentiate ourselves through live events and sports, and this premium content is a cornerstone of our strategy,” Peacock boss Rick Cordella said.

However, this new agreement will mean the shut down of the WWE Network come mid-March, WWE’s streaming service which has been running since 2014. Originally, the service was the home to classic wrestling shows, live PPV matches, and original programming.

WrestleMania, WWE Icons, and Steve Austin’s Broken Skull Sessions will be exclusive to Peacock in the US from around mid-March. Additionally, historical WWE events will be available to re-watch on Peacock. The WWE Network branding will continue to appear on Peacock.

This seems like a good deal for fans of the WWE, as all of the content will be available on Peacock for $5 per month (with ads) or $10 per month without them. On the WWE Network, everything cost $10/month.

“We are thrilled to bring WWE Network to Peacock beginning March 18, and to continue to create best-in-class sports entertainment content that will not only put smiles on people’s faces, but provide our fans with an experience worthy of their passion,” said WWE’s chief branding officer Stephanie McMahon in press release.

The WWE Network comes to Peacock on March 18, and at that time, there will be 17,000 hours of new, original, and back-catalog programming available on demand.

This includes all of the following:

WWE Network On Peacock Includes

• All live pay-per-view events including WrestleMania and SummerSlam; Fastlane will be the first WWE pay-per-view to stream on Peacock on Sunday, March 21.
• Original series like Steve Austin Broken Skull Sessions, Undertaker: The Last Ride and the all-new WWE Icons;
• In-ring shows like NXT, NXT UK and WWE 205 Live, as well as replays of Raw and SmackDown;
• WWE Network archives, including every WWE, WCW and ECW pay-per-view event in history;
• Groundbreaking documentaries, including WWE 24, WWE Untold, and WWE 365;
• And, starting in 2022, one signature documentary annually.

Peacock is just getting started, but it already has 26 million subscribers. One of the platform’s marquee offerings is The Office, which continues to be massively popular and successful many years after going off the air.

As for the wrestling side of things, the next big PPV is none other than the Royal Rumble, airing on Sunday, January 31. Make sure to come back to GameSpot that evening to check out live results from the event along with a review of the show.

A Quiet Place: Part 2 has been delayed until September. The horror sequel is the latest movie in the last few days to have its release pushed to the fall.

The movie will now hit theaters on September 17, 2021. A Quiet Place: Part 2 was originally scheduled for March 20, 2020 and was one of the first films to be delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was initially pushed to September 2020, and then to April 2021. However, with theaters still closed across the world and the likely situation in April extremely uncertain, Paramount has opted to shift the film again.

A Quiet Place: Part 2 stars Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe, Djimon Hounsou, and Cillian Murphy. It’s written and directed by John Krasinski, who also helmed the first movie. Check out the trailer here. There’s also a third movie in the works, to be directed by Jeff Nichols (Midnight Special).

Other movies that have been delayed until later in the year or early 2022 include the Bond film No Time To Die, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Uncharted, Morbius, Last Night in Soho, and The King’s Man. For more, check GameSpot’s guide to all the movies that have been delayed due to the pandemic.

One big title that will be with us very soon is Godzilla vs. Kong. The much-anticipated monster showdown is set to hit HBO Max and theaters simultaneously on March 26. Check out the first Godzilla vs. Kong trailer.

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As promised earlier this week, the trailer for Godzilla Vs. Kong has arrived. Watch it in all its epic, heightened kaiju glory below, and then get excited thinking about the fact that GVK is currently scheduled to hit theaters and HBO Max on March 26.

Legendary Pictures teased the trailer earlier this week when they tweeted the first image of the movie’s poster, to which fans reacted positively. The studio also posted a sneak peek teaser of the trailer on Saturday, because it’s 2021 and teaser trailers for movie trailers is definitely a thing.

The trailer itself gives us our first real glimpse at the brewing battle between Godzilla, a giant lizard, and King Kong, a giant ape. According to the film’s official plot synopsis, “an enraged Godzilla” is “cutting a swath of destruction across the globe” when King Kong, on a spirit journey to find his true home with his orphan friend Jia, gets in its way. Unsurprisingly, the legendary monsters subsequently collide “in a spectacular battle for the ages, with the fate of the world hanging in the balance.” But “the epic clash between the two titans–instigated by unseen forces–is only the beginning of the mystery that lies deep within the core of the Earth.”

Interestingly, Godzilla Vs. Kong is being represented as a standalone picture, but it’s also definitely in the continuity begun by the 2014 Godzilla movie and continued in 2017’s Kong: Skull Island and 2019’s Godzilla: King of the Monsters. Today’s trailer features Kyle Chandler, who reprises his role from King of the Monsters as reluctant scientist Dr. Mark Russell, as well as Stranger Things’ Millie Bobby Brown as his daughter, Madison Russell–alongside new characters played by Alexander Skarsgård, Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry, and others.

The trailer features some classic images of Kong sedated and in chains, before Godzilla arrives to ruin his vacation–and plenty of action-packed shots of the two enormous CG monsters exchanging blows, including one climactic moment where Kong slam dunks Godzilla’s own energy beam back into its scaly face. If you’re anticipating Godzilla Vs. Kong solely for the kaiju battles, it looks like you won’t be disappointed.

Godzilla Vs. Kong is currently scheduled to be released in theaters March 26, and–in the US–on HBO Max the same day, where it will stay for 31 days. However, conspicuously, this trailer and Legendary’s tweets only mention 2021, so we might have another impending COVID-related delay soon. After all, it’s no secret that Legendary is not happy with Warner Bros.’ decision to release the movie on streaming simultaneously with its arrival in theaters.

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