Fast and Furious Actors Dictate How Much They Get Beat Up in Fight Scenes

Crew members on the Fast & Furious movies claim that actors Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham strongly dictate how much they get hit during fight scenes.

According to an article in The Wall Street Journal, the three actors have created specific guidelines that ensure they don’t get beat up too much on screen.

The report says Diesel saw that Statham was getting more hits on him during rehearsal for a fight in the seventh Fast & Furious movie, so he came to producers with a numerical system that gives a different value to each type of hit. This was rejected for being too convoluted.

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10 Things to Do to Prepare for Monster Hunter World: Iceborne

Monster Hunter: World alone has hundreds of hours of content (yes, really!) but don’t worry, you don’t have to put that much time into it to be prepared for the massive expansion, Iceborne, even though its Master Rank will be a good difficulty jump from High Rank.

Now is a better time than ever to prepare since all of the Event Quests are back, too! This video is a quick look at what you should do, whether you’re new, Hunter Rank 50, or beyond. There’s a lot to cover, so if you need more details about any of it, make sure to check our comprehensive IGN Monster Hunter: World Wiki! Nearly every link in this article is to a guide, so click on anything you want more explanation for.  Let’s begin!

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HBO’s Watchmen: Everything We Know About The Dark Superhero Show

Watchmen is one of the most acclaimed comic books of all time. The 1986 limited series was written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Dave Gibbons, and set a new standard for mature superhero storytelling. After many years of attempted movie adaptations, Zack Snyder’s film version was released in 2009 to mixed reviews and moderate box office.

So there was some surprise when in 2017 it was rumored that a Watchmen TV show was in the works at HBO. Snyder’s movie had been released less than a decade earlier, and while there were a few big changes, it was a reasonably faithful adaptation. What more could be added in a TV show? But as showrunner Damon Lindelof subsequently explained, his Watchmen show is not an adaptation–but something he has termed a “remix,” using the existing comic narratives to create something new.

Watchmen is set to premiere on HBO in October. Although Lindelof and his team have been tight-lipped about what to expect, we are starting to learn more about his hugely anticipated show. So here’s everything we know about Watchmen to date–and we’ll continue to update this as more information is released.

Riot Games Confirms It’s Making a Fighting Game

Riot Games, makers of the popular MOBA game League of Legends, confirmed that the company is working on a fighting game.

The news comes straight from Tom Cannon, co-founder of the Evolution Championship Series (or EVO as it’s more widely known), which is currently in its first day of its 2019 event. Cannon is also a Riot Games employee, following Riot’s acquisition of Radiant Entertainment. Cannon joined a talk show hosted during the event, where he confirmed the fighting game’s existence.

The Halo TV Show Wants To Satisfy Gamers

When it comes to adapting a video game into a live-action adventure, it’s a tricky proposition. After all, you have to create something a mainstream audience can invest in while making sure fans of the source material are satisfied. Bargain bins are filled with examples of movies that missed the mark, but Showtime is betting it can right the wrongs of previous adaptations with its upcoming Halo TV show.

Speaking to press at the TCA press tour, Showtime Networks co-president Gary Levine revealed casting announcements for the character of Cortana, among others, and detailed how the show plans to appeal to fans of the Halo games. “The good news is we’ve been working very closely with 343 [Studios] through the entire development process,” he explained. “And they are there both as a resource to tell us stuff we don’t know and also to make sure we’re not violating anything big in the canon. So we’re doing this with total confidence that the fans are going to embrace what we’re doing.”

He also noted that while the graphic content of the show will be along the lines of what’s seen in other Showtime series–“PG-13,” as he put it–“violence is going to have consequence.” When it comes to a war between the USNC and the Covenant, that’s reassuring to hear.

The big question remains whether we’ll see Master Chief’s face on the new show, though. When GameSpot asked Levine about it a year ago, he teased Chief’s potential unmasking as “a key question and an important part of our series.”

While Levine still won’t reveal whether viewers will see the character’s face, American Gods alum Pablo Schreiber has been cast in the role. What that in mind, we asked what made the actor such a good fit for a potentially faceless part. “What I love about Pablo is he has the physicality to be a Spartan, to be Master Chief,” Levine explained. “But he is A: a great dramatic actor and B: he’s got such a twinkle in his eyes. [He’s] so good with wit and comedy. And we want the Master Chief to have that range. And Pablo brings the range.”

It’s still too early to tell, given that Halo doesn’t begin production until the fall. Our money’s on Chief taking off his mask to show viewers that “twinkle in his eyes,” though.

Halo is scheduled to debut on Showtime in 2021.

Disclosure: Showtime is owned by CBS, the parent company of GameSpot.

Check Out These Slick Animations In First Trailer For Savior

Indie studio Starsoft has revealed its first game, Savior, a platformer with very impressive, fluid-looking anmiation.

Savior is described as a 2D, action-adventure platformer where you will “dramatically change a vast open world [and] engage [with] a variety of opponents [using] strategic, precision melee combat.” The game has you controlling Sam, an adventurer caught in the middle of a cold war between The Chosen and The Fallen. It looks similar in style to classic ’80s and ’90s cinematic platformers like Another World and Prince of Persia, with elements of modern pixel-art platformers like Chasm and The Messenger thrown in for good measure.

“While you’ll need to gain wealth, power and allies; the central task of Savior is to rebuild the societies and world around you,” Starsoft wrote in a press release. “We’re building in sweeping, persistent visual changes to reinforce the idea that the player can, and does, change the world with their actions.”

Though no release date or platforms have been announced yet, Savior is available to wishlist on Steam, signalling it will arrive on PC at the very least.

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Neo Geo Mini Samurai Shodown Limited Edition Set Review

The Neo Geo Mini is one of the coolest retro mini consoles designs, and the Samurai Shodown Limited Edition (See it on Amazon) takes the self-contained mini-arcade cabinet and flexes a little extra design muscle.

It’s a really comprehensive retro mini machine. Inside you’ll find 40 Neo Geo games, including every Samurai Shodown game released for the system, which comes as no surprise since this is a special edition built around the series.

But there’s a whole slew of other classic Neo Geo fighting games, including The King of Fighters ’97, ’98 and ’99. In fact, 20 of the 40 included games are fighters, but you’ll also find the first 3 Metal Slug games and other games you may have forgotten about or never heard of in the first place. But is it more than just a novelty for hardcore Neo Geo collectors? We put it through its paces to find out.

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The Witcher: Everything We Know About Netflix’s Upcoming Original Series

One of the most talked about upcoming television series is The Witcher, coming to Netflix later this year, and that news was first revealed back in the spring of 2017. So fans of the video game series have been waiting and waiting for more news about this series, really hoping that the show lives up to its hype.

Let’s be honest. To this point, adaptations of video games to the big and small screen have been lackluster at best, and while The Witcher is based on the novel series, it’s hard for fans of the game–including myself–to separate them. However, knowing that Netflix is behind the series and more often than not, their productions tend to be high-quality, it seems like Witcher is in the right hands.

While we’re still months away from the show’s release, we still know a few things about The Witcher, so here’s everything we know. And we’ll continue to update this as more information is released.

10 Best Moments in Avengers: Endgame

Avengers: Endgame brought the entire Infinity Saga to its grand finale, and it did that by delivering one rousing, jaw-dropping, heart-pounding moment after another. So we’re celebrating this momentous superhero blockbuster by compiling a list of our 10 favorite moments that had us laughing, cheering, and crying.

You can view this piece as a slideshow by flipping through the gallery below or keep scrolling to read it as an article.

10. Hawkeye’s Family Is Dust in the Wind

Speaking of crying, kicking off our list is the gut-wrenching opening scene of the movie where Hawkeye’s family turns into dust in the wind. After sitting out Infinity War, fans demanded to know where Marvel’s premiere archer was, and we got to see a brief moment of him happily picnicking with his family before the effect of the Snap wiped them from existence. This was a grim way to start the film but it did its job by establishing the human, emotional stakes of the movie in harrowing fashion.

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