Nintendo and Zynga surprised us today with a cinematic trailer for the upcoming Star Wars: Hunters. In the trailer above, we get a look at how classes will be divided between Jedi and Sith, with versions of lightsaber-wielding force users, heavy gunners, agile fighters with jet packs, and more. 

Zynga and Disney reached an agreement in 2018 to develop a mobile game. Developed in conjunction with their subsidiary studio NaturalMotion, Star Wars: Hunters has its sights aimed at the free-to-play, competitive multiplayer market. The game will be published by LucasArts.

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Star Wars: Hunters was first announced at February’s Nintendo Direct with a teaser trailer. Apparently set after the fall of the Empire, the matches appear to be set in an in-universe sporting event, though we don’t expect there to be much in the way of story. The game has been compared to other team-based games like Overwatch, where players choose classes and fight to clear objectives rather than reach kill count. 

Along with the trailer, Nintendo announced a pre-registration bonus.

The official Star Wars: Hunters website promises “special in-game content” for players that register to receive updates on development and launch dates.

Star Wars: Hunters will launch on Nintendo Switch, iOS, and Android in 2022.

Dua Lipa is a worldwide musical sensation and it’s hard to argue she’s not after being nominated for six Grammy awards in 2020 alone. Those accolades came to her thanks to the album Future Nostalgia. it was featured over 40 best albums of the year lists across various media outlets and one of the best songs on the album, ‘Levitating,’ can be thanked for its success.

Now Dua Lipa has teamed up with an animation group called NOSTALOOK that specializes in creating animations in the style of the 70s through the 90s to create the official ‘Levitating’ music video. The group did an amazing job channeling the energy of anime like Sailor Moon and Creamy Mami to create something truly special.

“We, “NOSTALOOK” have produced an animation MV for Dua Lipa’s song “Levitating”! We did our best to create a retro and cute atmosphere like the 80’s anime. Hope you guys enjoy the MV. Thank you for your valuable time!”

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Dua Lipa’s album Future Nostalgia featuring hit singles like ‘Don’t Star Now’, ‘Physical’, ‘Break My Heart’, ‘Hallucinate’ and of course ‘Levitating’ is available for purchase now.

There’s just a month left to go before Chucky comes back to our screens in his own self-titled series, the first time the Child’s Play franchise has materialized on TV. As well as taking the horror universe back to its routes, leaving out some of the wilder, campier elements from the later movies, it’ll also be updating and expanding its remit in fresh ways to give it more depth than ever before.

At least, that’s what creator Don Mancini is promising in this new two-minute featurette for the incoming Syfy show, which you can check out above. In it, Mancini says that we can expect all the usual scares and moments of black comedy, but also some surprisingly emotional material, too.

“People will laugh and they will scream in the ways that they expect,” he says, “but I also hope to make people cry.”

The heart of the series promises to be the “very sweet teen gay romance”, as Mancini puts it, between Zachary Arthur’s protagonist, Jake Wheeler, a boy who finds Chucky at a yard sale, and his boyfriend, Devon (Björgvin Arnarson).

“We explore a very sweet teen gay romance that I think people might be surprised at the depth of it, and I think it has a whiff of real life pain.”

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Mancini went on to say that old-school fans will have much to enjoy, with the featurette including glimpses of Jennifer Tilly and Fiona Dourif, both of whom are back as popular characters Tiffany Valentine and Fiona Dourif, but newcomers will get hooked on the show’s “rich story”.

“Longstanding fans will of course find plenty of what they’ve come to love,” Mancini concluded, “but new fans I think are going to find a surprisingly rich story, with complex characters.”

On top of all that, Chucky has also been confirmed to explore the origins story of Charles Lee Ray, who is once again voiced by Brad Dourif, with it revealed how his twisted childhood turned him into a killer in the first place.

Mancini, who serves as showrunner alongside Brand New Cherry Flavor‘s Nick Antosca, wrote and directed the pilot episode for Chucky. Catch the eight-episode first season when it premieres on Syfy and USA Network on October 12th.

Disney Plus’ new Marvel series, What If…?, is taking audiences through a set of stories by asking one of the most enlightening and sometimes heartbreaking questions there is to ask — what if?

The episodes so far have seen everything from T’Challa becoming a Star-Lord to Nick Fury struggling to save the Avengers from a serial killer and even zombies. That’s right — the series turned some of our favorite heroes into Zombies in episode 5 of the animated series.

The storylines are exciting and give fans of the Marvel Universe a way to see what could have been with our favorite heroes if a storyline was changed ever so slightly — often, those small steps in a different direction lead to lasting impacts.

In this week’s episode, we see the what if that will probably bring Avengers fans to tears. While it won’t follow the exact storyline we saw unfold within the MCU, fans will get to see Tony Stark saved from certain death instead of meeting his fate as we did in Avengers: Endgame.

The trailer for this week’s episode shows Killmonger finding out about an assassination attempt against Tony Stark, and he’s the only one who can save him.

Just yesterday, the poster for this week’s episode showed that Killmonger would be the focus of Wednesday’s premiere, and now we know a bit more about what that storyline looks like. Marvel fans can tune in to Disney Plus tomorrow to see what the world would look like if Killmonger had saved Stark and quite possibly what one of the most remarkable friendships in the realm would be.

There are a lot of ways to try and teach younger audiences about things like traffic safety or the best way to ride a bike and not get hurt but one police department in Japan decided to get creative. The Matsudo City Police Department collaborated with VTuber Rika Tosada to create several videos about these kinds of topics but they sparked outrage with one women’s rights group.

The Feminist Parliamentary League raised complaints about the videos due to the “misogyny” they presented. This included things like Tosada’s “sailor-uniform-like attire,” “exposed navel,” and her “moving breasts.” While the videos were removed from the Matsudo YouTube account, the videos remain up on VASE’s channel — a VTuber group Tosada works with.

It doesn’t seem that fans are willing to take this move sitting down either. Setsuko Itakura, the CEO of VASE, published her own press release about the event and started a petition to bring the videos back to the channel. The petition currently has over 34,700 signatures and brings up several points against the Feminist Parliamentary League’s issues with the videos.

“Why do you conclude that VTuber’s ‘short clothes’ and ‘big breasts’ are immediately ‘sexual objects?’ Please explain the clear mechanism why VTuber’s awareness of traffic safety in the area leads to ‘induction of sex crimes.’”

While there’s no word yet on if the videos will return to the Matsudo YouTube, those interested to see the now controversial safety PSAs can see one example below.

There are a million ways to make money online in 2021. From simple startups to branded videos and sponsored podcasts, anyone who’s looking can find a few dozen ways to monetize their talents on the web. This is particularly true on YouTube, which offers a variety of advertising partnership and sponsorship opportunities for interested creators.

Some people are better at pulling in those monetary returns than others, like YouTube’s immensely popular ACE family. The ACE family YouTube channel features former NCAA star Austin McBroom, his wife Catherine Paiz McBroom, and their three children; Alaia, Elle, and Steel. They are no stranger to controversy, but that hasn’t stopped this famous family from raking in the cash.

The ACE family YouTube channel is a smorgasbord of influencer culture, peeks into the family’s home dynamics, viral challenges, and pranks. The typical upload sees the family providing a window into their luxurious lifestyle, with the kids and their parents as the channel’s near-constant focus. It’s a pretty typical “day in the life” approach, but one through which people can witness a uniquely opulent lifestyle.

The channel has been around since 2016. The first uploads featured Austin and Catherine back when they were still dating, and saw far more of the typical YouTube fare, complete with plenty of silly pranks and gags. This formula has evolved into a pretty typical vlog format, which has earned the channel an impressive 19.1 million subscribers. The channel sees new uploads around once a week, sometimes twice, and most new videos earn view counts in the low millions. In total, the ACE family’s videos have collected more than 4 billion views over the years, a staggering number by anyone’s standards.

Between their YouTube earnings and the money their previous careers earned them, the ACE family boasts an enviable net worth of more than $18 million, according to Nail Buzz. On YouTube alone, the family brings in an estimated $7,000 a day, based on the approximately 850,000 daily views they get. 

The ACE family also has an online store, which sells everything from backpacks and water bottles to hoodies, socks, and phone accessories. This store certainly adds to their annual earnings, as do any potential sponsors or partnerships the family has taken on. 

Several lawsuits and broiling controversies have likely struck a blow to the ACE wallet. So much so, in fact, that rumors swirled earlier this year that the family was at risk of losing their $7 million home. The speculation was debunked, however, after Austin took to Instagram to address the claim. He noted that they would inform their fans if any issues arose regarding their income or housing situation.

Other lawsuits, including several that allegedly arose out of the ACE Club fansite and Catherine’s 1212 line of skincare products, have also damaged their image. With a net worth of nearly $20 million, however, they are likely weathering things just fine.

Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, coming Oct. 26, received a new story trailer at today’s PlayStation showcase.

Eidos-Montreal and Square Enix’s upcoming game, which casts players as Peter Quill AKA Star-Lord, introduces a new plot where the Guardians go up against the Universal Church of Truth. The Church is hellbent on a messianic journey to introduce the “Promise” across the galaxy, which vows to reintroduce everything lost in an enormous Galactic War that rocked the universe just 12 years prior to the game’s start.

Expect a perfect blend of classic Marvel humor along with action-packed gameplay set to ’80s hits. The game’s graphics certainly look impressive too, although the trailer, seen above, warns that image quality is ultimately dictated by your system’s specs. So if you’ve been waiting on a PlayStation 5, now might be the time to pull the trigger.

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Alongside the main storyline, the trailer shows off the journey fans can expect when the game launches this fall, including Cosmo, a dog with “powerful telepath,” according to a PlayStation explainer blog. Expect Star-Lord to make plenty of friends and foes along the way when Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy launches on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 this October.

We all feel better when we’ve got something to believe in. It’s human nature to want to hope that something larger than ourselves is out there working for things to come together for our good. It’s why we make wishes on shooting stars, or wishbones; it’s why we look for the light in the darkness and get up in the morning to try again. We hope it will all lead us to where we’re meant to be.

The people of Crockett Island are hoping for that same type of overreaching goodness in the upcoming Netflix series, Midnight Mass. The trailer for the series dropped today and it is eerie. The synopsis for the film is as follows.

The arrival of a charismatic young priest brings glorious miracles, ominous mysteries, and renewed religious fervor to a dying town desperate to believe.

Directed by Mike Flanagan, fans know right away that it’ll be a gripping watch. Behind titles like Before I Wake and both The Haunting of Hill House & Bly Manor, Flanagan knows scary.

The trailer shows the charismatic priest easily stealing the hearts of those in the town, but things get strange pretty quickly. Crockett Island is in need of miracles, but it looks as if for all of the good that has followed the priest into town, mysterious events happen quickly after.

While the townspeople seem to fall for Father Paul quickly, native Riley Flynn, who returned around the same time as Paul, isn’t as quick to fall at his feet.

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Will Paul’s hesitancy be the thing that saves the town? Or will he be responsible for the island losing the miracles it so desperately needed? Midnight Mass premieres on Netflix on September 24th.

Fans had been starting to grow impatient with the lack of any news regarding The Matrix: Resurrections, which only recently confirmed an official title. However, that all changed in a major way yesterday, as the marketing campaign exploded into life with a massive drop of clips, images and updates.

Not only was the trailer teaser revealed, confirming that the full-length promo is coming tomorrow, but the first batch of images also hit the internet, while a myriad of brief clips was released, with the movie’s website offering a mind-boggling 180,000 different combinations of footage.

Thankfully, one enterprising social media user has compiled every individual clip together into a single video, allowing fans the chance to analyze and dissect everything frame-by-frame, which you can check out below.

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Looking at social media, it would appear the internet has gone mad for The Matrix: Resurrections, and it’s fitting that a sci-fi blockbuster so deeply rooted in technology would have such a large online footprint. The hype train is officially rolling, and it’s only going to continue gathering steam when the trailer finally hits in less than 24 hours.

It looks stunning on a purely visual level, but the same could be said about Reloaded and Revolutions, so let’s cross our fingers and hope that The Matrix: Resurrections is much more of a spiritual successor to the original than the sequels.

Sometimes it’s amazing just how much a children’s show can touch the hearts of viewers, even years after when they become adults. Nick Jr. released a video of the original host of Blue’s Clues, Steve Burns, talking to fans for the 25th anniversary of the series and it’s an absolute tear-jerker.

He talks about the canonical reasons he left the show back in 2002 after his amazing run of over 100 episodes and encouraged fans to be proud of the achievements they have achieved since they were kids.

“I guess I just wanted to say that after all these years I never forgot you… Ever. And I’m super glad we’re still friends.

Of course, this has lead to some incredibly heartfelt reactions on Twitter with long-time fans of the series chiming in on just how much their time with Steve back in the day meant to them.

One thing is for sure: we never forgot you either Steve, how could we? We can only hope the team creating Blue’s Clues keeps dropping such incredibly wholesome content for us all to enjoy.