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The first trailer for the Disney+ show Turner and Hooch has been released. The series is a reboot of the 1989 Tom Hanks movie about a cop and his slobbering canine assistant.

The new show is actually a sequel to the original movie, with Josh Peck (Fuller House) playing Scott Turner Jr., a US marshal and the son of Hanks’s now-dead character. It seems that before he died, Turner Sr. rescued another giant French mastiff from a shelter and wanted his son to have it–as one character says, “It’s almost like the original Hooch came back.” Lots of chaotic dog-related hijinks ensure, as Turner tries to control his to his unruly new pet and the pair set out to solve crimes. Check the trailer out below:

Turner and Hooch is a 12-episode show, and it premieres on Disney+ on July 21. It also stars Carra Patterson (Straight Outta Compton), Brandon Jay McLaren (Graceland), Anthony Ruivivar (The Haunting of Hill House), Lyndsy Fonseca (Kick-Ass), Becca Tobin (Glee), and Jeremy Maguire (Modern Family).

The original movie hit theaters in July 1989, and also starred Mare Winningham, Craig T. Nelson, and Reginald VelJohnson. There was an earlier attempt to make a spin-off show, and a pilot was shot with Tom Wilson replacing Hanks as Turner. However, the series wasn’t picked up and the pilot was instead released a made-for-TV movie in 1990.

For more Disney+ coverage, check out GameSpot’s guide to all the movies, shows, and exclusives hitting the service in July.

The Suicide Squad director James Gunn kept Idris Elba’s Bloodsport role under wraps for quite some time.

As reported by ComicBook.com, Gunn recently participated in a Q&A on Twitter where he was asked whether he filmed any alternate scenes, especially character deaths, to prevent story details from being leaked. Gunn said they didn’t shoot any smoke screen scenes, though they did go to great lengths to keep Idris Elba’s role a secret from everyone, including the crew.

“To keep Idris Elba’s character from getting out we called him Vigilante in the script and on his chair back,” Gunn revealed. “We kept it so secret that, we were a week away from finishing shooting and the production designer, Beth Mickle, said, ‘wait, he’s not Vigilante?’ And to make it weirder, DC’s character Vigilante is one of the leads of my Peacemaker show.”

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Early reports pointed to Elba playing Deadshot, taking over the role made famous by Will Smith in the original Suicide Squad. We later learned Elba would be playing a different character, though some of that Deadshot DNA appears to have carried over to the gun-toting killer who is seemingly more sympathetic and morally grey than other Task Force X members.

In a follow-up tweet, Gunn also revealed that he maintained the element of surprise with the entire Suicide Squad cast over the course of the shoot. He explained that each actor only had script pages “up until the point their character dies,” meaning that some of the cast members are only just seeing the movie’s ending now while others still haven’t watched it yet.

It’s unclear how many characters will make it through The Suicide Squad’s 2 hours, 12-minute runtime, as Gunn previously revealed he had been given free rein by Warner Bros. to kill off any character in the DCEU movie. “They gave me carte blanche to do what I wanted,” he said. “I wasn’t looking for shock value but I wanted the audience to know anything could happen.”

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The Suicide Squad is set to hit theaters and HBO Max (for 31 days) on August 6, 2021.

Speculation has been rife as to who will survive the movie, though Gunn admitted he doesn’t have time to tally up the results because he’s too busy writing the upcoming HBO Max spinoff series focused on John Cena’s Peacemaker, which will be produced by Gunn’s Troll Court Entertainment, and The Safran Company, in association with Warner Bros. Television.

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Konami has surprise-released an online performance test demo for the game that will presumably become PES 2022 – but for now is officially referred to as ‘New Football Game’.

Available on PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, and PS4, the demo will be available until July 8. Detailed on an official FAQ, Konami makes clear that this is primarily a test for the game’s matchmaking and servers, and that the gameplay itself remains unfinished.

IGN understands that this demo has been created in Unreal Engine – which PES will switch to for the first time this year – but Konami says that “gameplay mechanics, balancing, animations and graphics are all under development and will be improved before the official launch.” IGN also understands that in-development versions of the game have already been improved beyond the state of the demo.

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The demo only allows online 1v1 games, with Manchester United, Bayern Munich, Juventus, and Barcelona making up the available teams.

Those who play the New Football Game demo and fill out a survey about it will earn 25,000 GP (PES’ virtual currency) for use in PES 2021 Season Update’s MyClub mode.

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The latest event announced for WotC’s D&D Live event is the Chaos Carnival table, a live event that will see some of WWE’s superstars enter the world of Dungeons and Dragons. Joining Dungeon Master Aabria Iyengar will be wrestlers Xavier Woods, Ember Moon, MACE, and Tyler Breeze.

The quest these wrestlers will have to undertake “involves high-flying attractions and wildly dangerous stakes,” which DM Iyengar thinks will suit her superstar players well. “Each player at the table lost something precious to them at the Chaos Carnival years ago… can they unravel the secrets below the Big Top before they become the next main attraction?”

The event will be raising money for Connor’s Cure, a charity chosen by the table’s participants.

The Chaos Carnival table is one of four that will take place at the D&D Live event. WotC has already announced the Lost Odyssey: Last Light Table, which will feature the likes of Jack Black, Kevin Smith, Reggie Watts, Lauren Lapkus, and Jason Mewes, hosted by Kate Welch.

D&D Live will also serve as a promotional event for WotC, involving announcements and new information for both upcoming D&D content, and other WotC properties like Magic: The Gathering. The event will be livestreamed on the newly resurrected G4 network, as well as on Peacock and on the official D&D social channels, taking place on July 16 and 17.

The biggest draw of A Pirate’s Life, the new expansion content for Sea of Thieves, might be Captain Jack Sparrow and the many other Pirates of the Caribbean characters now a part of the live game’s world. But while it’s nice to delve into the crossover content to see nods to both Disney’s films and its theme park attractions, the story and Easter eggs aren’t the reason you should check out A Pirate’s Life. What the new expansion really excels at is giving new pirates and lone scallawags a new, low-stakes way to engage with Sea of Thieves without the threat of getting riddled with enemy cannonballs and losing hours of progress.

A Pirate’s Life launched as a free expansion to Sea of Thieves this week, and while it makes a few changes to the game at large, it mostly consists of five new “Tall Tales” that specifically concern Pirates of the Caribbean mainstays Jack Sparrow, Davy Jones, Captain Barbosa, and others. These stories take you on a journey to uncover what’s brought Captain Jack to the Sea of Thieves, sending you to some new locations that haven’t been part of the game before.

These aren’t the only Tall Tales in the game–there are quite a few others that take you on lengthy voyages all over Sea of Thieves–but the story chapters in A Pirate’s Life (or at least the first three, as that’s all I’ve completed so far) are a bit of a different speed than the rest of the game. They represent a pretty solid on-ramp into Rare’s excellent swashbuckling adventure game if you’ve never played it. They’re also fun to take on alone, filling a gap in Sea of Thieves content that’s been there throughout the game’s life.

For new players, A Pirate’s Life is a nice way to get started in Sea of Thieves. You can jump into the new content as soon as you’ve completed the tutorial mission, Maiden Voyage. After a quick story introduction, you’re able to sail your ship straight into a portal that takes you to the Sea of the Damned, a new location for A Pirate’s Life. Once you’re through the portal, you’re alone in the new area (unless you brought a crew, that is), free to explore its story, solve its puzzles, and uncover its secrets.

The Tall Tales of A Pirate’s Life feel like more traditional, linear video game levels than most of the rest of Sea of Thieves, and that’s handy if you’re learning the ropes. The content has you figuring out how to make your way through the Sea of the Damned’s locations, but it won’t really test you. Die in combat or fall too far as you’re climbing a wrecked ship, and you’ll respawn shortly to give it another go.

That gives you a chance to get the feel for Sea of Thieves while also giving you something interesting to explore without the risk of running afoul of other players. Pirates marauding the waves are the central draw of Sea of Thieves, but also its greatest annoyance–because even if you’re just starting out, you’re always at risk of getting run down, cannoned, boarded, and slain by other cutthroats. It can make getting used to the game harrowing. Since you’re alone in the story of A Pirate’s Life, however, you have a chance to get used to the game before going up against other players.

That’s also what makes the new content a great addition for solo pirates. You can play Sea of Thieves alone normally, but it is a fraught life on the high seas. Sailing a sloop on your own is exhilarating, and Rare’s sandbox leads to some great things when you’re alone. You’ve got to constantly scan the horizon for other, stronger ships that might decide you’re a plump target, and if you spot someone, Sea of Thieves quickly becomes a stealth game to avoid detection–or a horror game if your hold is full of treasure and you need to run.

The fact that Sea of Thieves can support so many different experiences is great, but playing it alone is also often frustrating. Spot a galleon while you’re hauling treasure or trying to advance your various in-game rankings, and you can lose a lot of progress. Getting chased around islands can suck up hours as well. With a crew of friends, this unpredictability is the draw of Sea of Thieves, but alone, it can get frustrating to constantly be disadvantaged as a buccaneer. Have enough sloops sunk beneath you, and you might decide the pirate’s life isn’t for you, after all.

So these new Tall Tales help fill a void in Sea of Thieves by making it a little more viable to play on your own. There’s a little bit of high-seas travel involved, but for the most part, you’re off in your own little world as you uncover these stories. Though they include combat with various enemies and creatures, including bosses, they’re not so difficult that you can’t handle them alone. Rare has also worked to make resources plentiful whenever you’re challenged, so it’s hard to get wrecked in a solo fight. Even if you do, though, you can just respawn straight back into the fray and try your luck again.

It’s nice to have content in Sea of Thieves that doesn’t require coordinating with a bunch of friends and clearing a block of time to play, and really, Rare should think about this sort of design more often. Sea of Thieves is a great game, with a lot of compelling ideas and mechanics–but it’s particularly great with other people, and a lot less so when you’re alone. Stuff like A Pirate’s Life can make the game a little more fun for a variety of players, whether they’re just starting out in the game or don’t have access to a crew but would still like to raise a sail and draw a sword.

Jerry Seinfeld is making a movie about Pop-Tarts for Netflix, according to Deadline. The superstar comic has signed with Netflix to star in, direct, and produce Unfrosted, a movie inspired by a joke he started telling about the rectangular breakfast treat as far back as 2010.

While there was reportedly a quiet bidding war over the project, Seinfeld has signed with Netflix thanks in part to his previous relationship with the streaming giant, which previously produced his Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, along with a pair of his stand-up specials.

The plot of the film is unclear at this point. The joke itself had Seinfeld guiding audiences through his personal discovery of Pop-Tarts.

“How did they know that there would be a need for a frosted, fruit-filled, heated rectangle in the same shape as the box it comes in, and with the same nutrition as the box it comes in?” Seinfeld asks in the bit. The video above has the comedian deconstructing the joke for the New York Times back in 2012.

“Stuck at home watching endless sad faces on TV, I thought this would be a good time to make something based on pure silliness,” Seinfeld said in a statement to Deadline. “So we took my Pop-Tart stand-up bit from my last Netflix special and exploded it into a giant, crazy comedy movie.”

Production on Unfrosted will begin next spring. Seinfeld already has a first draft of a script ready, co-written with Spike Feresten and Barry Marder.

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Strange Planet, a popular webcomic about extraterrestrial beings participating in human norms, is getting a 10-episode animated series on Apple TV+.

Strange Planet creator Nathan Pyle and Dan Harmon of Rick and Morty fame will co-create the new show. Amalia Levari will be the showrunner. Apple’s in-house animation company Apple Studios and ShadowMachine (BoJack Horseman) have been tapped to produce. On ShadowMachine’s side, Alex Bulkley and Corey Campodonico will exec produce alongside Steve Levy and Taylor Alexy Pyle.

Joining Central Park, Stillwater, Doug Unplugs, and The Snoopy Show, Strange Planet will be Apple TV+’s fifth original animated show. Apple recently also purchased streaming rights to original animated film Wolfwalkers, further expanding viewers’ options for animated content.

Strange Planet began in 2019 online, creating a buzz for its whimsical depictions of aliens participating in the song and dance of human rituals. Pyle also published three graphic novels that are spin-offs of the original comic: Strange Planet, Stranger Planet, and Strange Planet: Existence Chronicles.

Harmon’s Rick and Morty kicked off the fifth season on June 20. The first episode is free-to-watch on Adult Swim’s YouTube channel currently! To watch the full season, viewers have a couple of options. If you have cable or satellite, you can access the show online at Adult Swim’s website. HBO Max and Hulu are also options, though it’s unknown how soon Season 5 will be available on either platform.

Warning: Full spoilers follow for Loki: Episode 3.

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We’re back with the Slack! Welcome to Slackin’ Off: Loki Edition, where IGN’s editors and writers spitball and speculate about all things God of Mischief. This week, we’re sharing our inter-office chatter regarding Episode 3, “Lamentis,” which featured Loki and “Sylvie” reluctantly teaming up in order to survive a lunar apocalypse.

This is just a quick look at some of the friendly theorizing and wonderment from IGN’s Loki Slack channel. Like you, we all don’t know what’s coming so none of these are intended to be spoilers. However, if you don’t even want to look at other people guessing their butts off, y’all should stay away from this.

In “Lamentis,” Loki and Sylvie clashed in the hallways of the TVA as she tried take a golden elevator ride up to the Time Keepers. Her intentions? Unknown at this point but they definitely differ from those of Loki, who wants to overthrow the space lizards and run the TVA himself.

Finding themselves stranded on the doomed moon Lamentis-1, as a planet threatens to obliterate all lunar life, these two Loki Variants have to overcome a lifetime of mistrust in order to work together and power up the drained TemPad. And while Loki shared much about his life with Sylvie, Sylvie was more cagey and cryptic. Also adopted, she taught herself how to enchant people’s minds, which involves intricate mental illusions if the victim’s mind is too strong. She’s also rejected the name Loki for two episodes now, though she’s never explained why. So what’s going on with this Lady Loki who prefers a totally different name?

Here are some of our thoughts. Oh, and be sure to drop your own take on Loki’s premiere in the comments — and don’t forget to vote in our poll at the bottom of the page!

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Loki Theory: Sylvie “Enchants” as an Homage to Amora the Enchantress

To be exact, in the comics there is a difference between Loki in female form and one “Sylvie Lushton,” who was a young girl living in Oklahoma who was given powers by Loki (who was acting on a lark). Apparently he just liked the idea of transforming an immortal into someone who thought they were an Asgardian. Anyhow, Sylvie began going by Amora the Enchantress. Which is a different Enchantress than the original comics Enchantress, also named Amora.

By the way, THAT Enchantress’ sister, Lorelei, appeared in two episodes of Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD, played by Elena Satine.

Anyway, everything we know so far about this Sylvie says she’s a Loki Variant. Plus, she rejects the name Loki. Or at least she says “I’m Sylvie now,” indicating she perhaps once went by Loki. Her ability to control people’s minds is referred to several times in the episode as “enchanting.” This could just be a nod to Sylvie from the comics or this specific character, played by Sophia Di Martino, could be a blend of the female Loki and Sylvie/Amora the Enchantress. Things aren’t exactly clear yet, but hopefully they will be in a week.

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Theory: Loki Is Being Enchanted by the Variant

Sticking with “enchanting,” does anyone else think there’s some mind meddling going on here? Once we saw how Sylvie works inside someone’s memories, like with the hunter she tricked into giving up the location of the Time Keepers, it’s not a huge leap to assume that Loki himself is inside a large illusion — one that she’s based on his memories. Either the entire time they’re on Lementis-1 is a trick or perhaps something happened on the train when she took a nap where a switcheroo was made.

Or… OR… Loki is a quick learner and he’s actually enchanting Sylvie. Again, it could have happened when she fell asleep. Maybe the TemPad didn’t break at all and it’s all been an elaborate illusion. She did tell him how it all works, right? Like how she puppets people? Also, even though it was with the Mind Stone, Loki is fresh off of a failed Earth invasion where he controlled people’s minds. People with strong minds who were also trapped inside their own head with Loki while they were following his orders. (Remember, this is the 2012, post-Avengers 1 Loki!)

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Theory: The TVA Doesn’t Kill People, It Resets Them

TVA-wise, the biggest news this week involved the fact that the Time Keepers did not create everyone who works at the TVA out of thin air. They actually lived lives before. Sylvie used margarita-fueled memories from the hunter’s past (hundreds of years ago, to be exact) to get answers out of her. This would explain why Mobius has a connection to jet skis (other than the fact that they were a “beautiful union of form and function”). It’s a holdover from his former self. A person he doesn’t even remember. (Probably.)

Regardless, the fact that the TVA is full of Variants has yet to be sorted out. What we are wondering though is… does the TVA actually erase people? You know, with those weaponized batons? Are they taken out of existence or are they sent somewhere else and rebooted? Maybe they go to a sort of limbo-type place and get brought back to life as minutemen?

Theory: The Time Keepers Are All Lokis

Since the main story so far has been “send a Loki to catch a Loki,” it stands to reason that the Time Keepers that Loki so desperately wants an audience with are, well, also Lokis.

Going further, the Lokis already in charge are trying to wipe out all the other Loki Variants because they know all Loki Variants want to take over the TVA. We assume that the TVA actually has other Variants they’re tracking down. Ones that aren’t Lokis. But… do they? We’ve seen one arrested, back in the first episode, bragging about how his father was on the board of Goldman Sachs. The character’s name is Martin and.. .remember his hair? It was basically Loki’s hair.

Question: Are the TVA Made Up of Mind-Wiped People from the First Multiversal War?

Sure, now we know that the Time Keepers didn’t create the minutemen. But how did they choose who got their mind wiped and rebooted into the TVA? Were these all leftovers from the first Multiversal War? Or even former perpetrators who sparked the war? What better punishment then to now have to work for the TVA protecting the one true Sacred Timeline?

Question: Will Mobius Rescue Loki and Sylvie From Lamentis?

Provided that everything we saw this week wasn’t part of an enchantment, will Loki and Sylvie be saved by Mobius? Sure, the TVA is currently in chaos, but Mobius specifically knows about the apocalypse trick and would be searching for them inside these zero-survivor disasters. Given how many there are it would make sense for him to have taken a while to track them down on Lamentis-1. Especially since Sylvie said it was one of the worst ones to wind up in.

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Did you have any lingering questions or theories? Share them below, and vote in this week’s poll too! And for more on the show, check out the Loki release schedule, find out if there are Loki post credits scenes each week, and learn about how Loki evolved from Marvel villain to agent of chaos.

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Ex-Street Fighter Producer Yoshinori Ono is back in the fighting game, uh, game, after joining Delightworks as COO and president. Delightworks is working with Notes Co., Aniplex, and developer French-Bread to release Melty Blood: Type Lumina on September 30.

Melty Blood: Type Lumina is a prequel to the cult-fighting game Melty Blood based on the Type-Moon visual novel Tsukihime. The original Melty Blood fighting game is a beloved title within the fighting game community, but the lack of official tournament recognition has forced its acolytes to play the game anywhere if given the chance.

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Melty Blood: Type Lumina will feature a roster of 10 characters, and will have extensive voiceovers as a result.

There will be two versions of Melty Blood: Type Lumina at launch, a Deluxe Edition which costs $70, and a standard edition that will cost $50. The Delux Edition will include a digital copy of Melty Blood Archives which will run down the entire history of the Melty Blood series, along with a digital soundtrack.

Ono is best known as the producer and developer behind the Street Fighter series. After almost 30 years, he left Capcom and joined mobile game studio Delightworks in 2021. Delightworks is the company behind Fate/Grand Order, one of the most popular mobile games in the world.

The Fate series focuses on mages who can summon historical figures from the past like King Arthur and fight over the Holy Grail. The visual novel has become an empire unto itself and has spawned wave after wave of spinoffs, including Fate/Grand Order.

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In a translated message to his fans back in April, Ono said that he was looking forward to spending time with the FGC again, and with the new Melty Blood this might be what Ono was referring to.

In other fighting game news, PlayStation recently acquired Evo, the world’s largest fighting game tournament series in a surprise acquisition earlier this year. It’s unclear if this will lead to any first-party fighting games from PlayStation, but the field continues to grow as even Riot Games confirmed it’s working on a fighting game title, as well.

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Matt T.M. Kim is IGN’s News Editor.

Correction: An earlier version of this story stated the roster will have 6 characters. The roster will have 10 characters. The text has been updated.