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2019 was an active, if a bit underwhelming, year for tech. As the final year in the current console generation’s life cycle, 2019 finally brought us some concrete bits of information about the PlayStation 5 and, to a lesser degree, Xbox Scarlett. Nintendo launched the smaller and more portable Switch Lite, as well as the innovative Ring Fit Adventure, 2019’s answer to Wii Fit – with a surprisingly robust RPG component to boot. Meanwhile, foldable screens started to show up on phones and tablets, Google Stadia proved that game streaming can work – eventually, and VR truly started reaching the masses. Here’s the biggest tech stories of 2019.

Nintendo’s Fun and Funky Hardware

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Amazon has chosen a new voice for Alexa, and it’s none other than Samuel L. Jackson. The Hollywood legend will be the first celebrity voice featured on Alexa and will offer both clean and explicit versions.

If you’ve ever wondered what it’d be like to have the iconic Nick Fury give you the weekly weather report, hop on your Alexa and give it a try. To enable Jackson on your Alexa device, simply say, “Alexa, introduce me to Samuel L. Jackson.”

From there, you’ll be able to choose either a clean or explicit option — however, the more crass version of Jackson will cost you $0.99 (for a limited time, then it will be raised to $4.99). If you decide against your initial selection, you can always change it in your Alexa settings.

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Before the new trilogy was announced, Star Wars was in a weird place. The prequel trilogy directed by George Lucas had landed badly with fans of the originals, and it was unclear what the future of Star Wars was going to be. And so, when the sequel trilogy was announced following the acquisition of Lucasfilm by Disney in 2012, the excitement was palpable – and Abrams seemed to capitalize on this by going out of his way to recapture the spirit of the original movies in his first Star Wars movie, 2015’s The Force Awakens.

Since Disney’s reboot of the franchise, many fans have started to reassess the prequel trilogy, while kids who grew up with Episodes I to III look back on the films with nostalgia. For all their faults, it seems as though the prequels have found a new place in the hearts of Star Wars fans. During a promotional visit to Tokyo for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, director JJ Abrams told IGN Japan that working on the franchise gave him a new respect for “how easy George

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6 Underground is cartoonishly raucous explosion porn from mayhem maestro Michael Bay that feels like a film that was made over a decade ago and was just somehow recently unearthed by Netflix. It’s a testament to star Ryan Reynolds and his seemingly effortless charisma because without him the movie would have been a snow-blind mess.

Overstuffed with countless car crashes and numerous “booms” and “louds,” 6 Underground owes pretty much any watchable aspects to Reynolds and his charm. And even with Reynolds, the film is overlong, easily trespassing into tedium at the halfway point.

The premise, in itself, feels very Avengers-esque, in the sense that it centers on a rogue team of specialized operatives who will happily cross borders and waters to right egregious wrongs. But 6 Underground is an argument both for and against the Sokovia Accords, as Reynolds plays a Tony Stark-level billionaire genius who’s decided to fake his death, become a ghost, and pull off grand vigilante-style heists and hits with operatives he’s recruited (and ghosted) in order to punish powerful evildoers (in this case, the dictator of Turgistan).

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Franklin and Ghost is transforming from comic to animated series, and IGN has the first look at what the series will have to offer.

The Frankin and Ghost animated series features the following main cast, all of which you can hear in the clip above:

• Billy Bob Thorton (Goliath, Armageddon) as Ghost
• Veronica Taylor (Pokemon, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) as Delilah
• Christopher Sabat (Dragon Ball series, My Hero Academia) as villain Erich Badguey
• Sean Schemmel (Dragon Ball series, Sophia the First) as Franklin

The series is still in development without a release date, but the Franklin and Ghost universe will get a tabletop game sometime in 2020.

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After coming to a close in 2013, The Office has elected to release the full, uncut version of Michael Scott’s movie, Threat Level Midnight. The full 25-minute movie can be viewed on The Office’s YouTube page and will feature a handful of unseen clips.

For those who don’t recall, Threat Level Midnight first appeared in Season 2 of The Office when Pam discovers Michael’s incomplete screenplay of the movie. The Season 7 episode, “Threat Level Midnight” saw the completion of Michael’s film and allows fans to see a glimpse of Scott’s James Bond spin-off. Be sure to check out our review of The Office’s Threat Level Midnight episode.

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When Red Dead Redemption 2 arrived on PC last month, it came with some additional content not available in the console versions, including a Photo Mode and some exclusive story missions. Along with the Moonshiner update that Rockstar dropped for Red Dead Online today, the developer has now brought the game’s PC-exclusive content to PS4.

Players on Sony’s console now have access to Red Dead Redemption 2’s Photo Mode, which lets you snap images, edit them with filters, text, or stickers, and share them with other players via Rockstar’s Social Club. On top of that, several new horses and trinkets have been added to the game’s story mode, along with a handful of new Bounty Hunter missions, treasure maps, and more.

Here’s all the new content that’s now available in the PS4 version, courtesy of Rockstar’s blog:

• Story Mode Bounty Hunter Missions: track down wanted criminals Herman Zizendorf, Camille de Millemont and Bart Cavanaugh
• Story Mode Gang Hideouts: Take on the deadly Del Lobos gang at Gaptooth Breach and Solomon’s Folly
• Story Mode Treasure Maps: Landmarks of Riches and The Elemental Trail
• “To The Ends of The Earth” Story Mode Mission
• Weapons Added to Story Mode: M1899 Pistol, Evans Repeater, High Roller Revolver and LeMat Revolver
• Horses Added to Story Mode: Warped Brindle Arabian, Few Spot Appaloosa, Perlino Andalusian and Red Chestnut Arabian
• Hidden Trinkets Added to Story Mode: Hawk Talon, Cat Eye, Shark Tooth, Turtle Shell and Crow Beak

Xbox One players won’t be left out for long; Rockstar says that all this content will arrive on Microsoft’s platform on January 21, along with the timed-exclusive PS4 content that rolled out today as part of the aforementioned Moonshiner update. That includes a new hideout, Beaver Hollow, as well as a handful of new emotes and apparel. You can read more about the latest batch of timed-exclusive content for PS4 on Rockstar’s website.

Red Dead Online’s Moonshiner update is available now on PS4, Xbox One, and PC, and it’s coming to Google Stadia later this month. Headlining the update is the titular Moonshiner Frontier Pursuit, which lets you open and run your own bootlegging business.

Christopher Nolan’s upcoming film Tenet just dropped a cryptic teaser video on Twitter.

In the silent video, the word Tenet spins around for 50 seconds as the background and font alternate between being black and white. The Tenet account tweeted the video without any comment.

Back in August, Nolan surprised some audiences of Hobbs & Shaw with a teaser trailer, which has yet to be released online. IGN saw the trailer, which makes Tenet seem like Inception but with time travel. Warner Bros., the studio behind the mysterious film, has said Tenet is “an action epic evolving from the world of international espionage.”

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