Marvel Studios' ensemble cast for Thunderbolts is undergoing another change as Ayo Edebiri has departed from her undisclosed role. Geraldine Viswanathan will reportedly step in to take her place, according to Deadline.

Viswanathan joins an antihero ensemble of characters that includes actors Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes, Florence Pugh as Yelena Belova, David Harbour as Red Guardian, Wyatt Russell as John Walker, Hannah John-Kamen as Ava Starr, Olga Kurylenko as Taskmaster, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Valentina Allegra de Fontaine. Jake Schreier, who is known for directing music videos from Kanye West and Justin Bieber as well as the movie Paper Towns, is directing a script written by Eric Pearson (Black Widow, Godzilla vs. Kong).

Viswanathan, known for her role in the 2018 teen-comedy Blockers, has also had appearances in films including Bad Education and The Broken Hearts Gallery as well as the TBS comedy anthology series Miracle Workers, which concluded in 2023 after four seasons.

Bandai Namco has released a trailer for its upcoming fighting game, Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero. Per Dragon Ball tradition, a large portion of the roster will consist of Goku and Vegeta variants.

Despite the trailer being only two minutes, it teases various franchise characters. Right off the bat, we're given glimpses of other fighters such as Krillin, Android 18, Mr. Satan, and a handful of others. Even though all these characters were teased, none were the main focus. As the trailer goes on, we are given glimpses of Goku and Vegeta fighting in various forms. These include Super Saiyan 1-3, their god forms, and more.

Thanks to a press release, we also know which variants of Goku and Vegeta will be playable. For those looking to main Goku, you'll have the option to pick from the following: Goku (Z - Early), Goku (Z - Mid), Gu (Z-Mid) Super Saiyan, Goku (Z - End), Goku (Z-End) Super Saiyan, Goku (Z-End) Super Saiyan 2, Goku (Z-End) Super Saiyan 3, Goku (Super), Goku (Super) Super Saiyan, Goku (Super) Super Saiyan God, and Goku (Super) Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan.

Green Man Gaming is running a limited-time PlayStation Studios sale, giving PC players a chance to experience some of the best PS4 and PS5 games on their platform of choice. GMG XP members get even better discounts on these games, so make sure to sign up for the free rewards program to get the prices shown below.

There are some incredible deals, like the PC version of Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition for just $10.63 (normally $50). This is also a great chance to pick up PC versions of some of the best PlayStation games of the PS5 generation so far, like Returnal, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, and The Last of Us Part I remake, all of which are discounted to $34.

Palworld has over a hundred Pals for you to find. Still, you might be wondering how you can acquire even more of them as you go along. Here's our guide on how to breed Pals in Palworld.

• How to breed Pals in Palworld
  • How to build the Breeding Farm
  How to breed Pals in Palworld

  You can breed Pals via the Breeding Farm structure. Here's a quick summary:

  • Any Pal can be bred with another regardless of species or element type.
  • You do need at least one male and one female Pal as partners.
  • Breeding the same type of Pal will result in a similar offspring. However, breeding Pals of different species or types can result in unexpected combinations.
  • There are thousands of potential combinations when it comes to offspring. Even some of these Pals can't be caught through regular exploration alone.
  How to build the Breeding Farm

  You need to unlock the Breeding Farm blueprint via the Technology menu at level 19. Then, you should gather 100x Wood, 20x Stone, and 50x Fiber to build it at your base. Note that the Breeding Farm is quite large, so you have to clear some space for it.

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Palworld has you finding even more creatures as you continue your adventure. Along the way, you should be able to collect eggs, as well as a device that lets you incubate them. Here's our guide on how to hatch eggs in Palworld.

You can hatch eggs once you unlock the Egg Incubator. This blueprint comes from the Technology menu at level 7, and you need Ancient Technology Points to acquire it. You then need to have 10x Paldium Fragment, 5x Cloth, 30x Stone, and 2x Ancient Civilization Parts to build it in your base.

Note that you can have several Egg Incubators in Palworld. However, you do need to have enough materials (and space) to build them all. Once you've constructed one, simply place an egg inside and wait for it to hatch. Note that all hatched Pals will always start at level 1.

One of the biggest topics often surrounding Call of Duty is the matchmaking experience, and Activision has released a new blog post to discuss all the factors that weigh into matchmaking for the game's multiplayer mode.

In a debate that's old as time, Call of Duty is often criticized for having "high SBMM," with skill-based matchmaking that's meant to match up players in lobbies with similarly skilled players, but this latest blog refutes that skill is the dominant factor.

The publisher says, "We often see the community refer to our matchmaking system as skill-based matchmaking. Call of Duty does consider skill (or more specifically player performance) as a component, as do most in the industry, but skill is not the dominant variable. We consider and prioritize several factors to create lobbies."

Warner Bros. Discovery's gaming boss, JB Perrette, has teased the company's future games outlook, saying it's a big benefit that DC Studios co-head James Gunn is a gamer himself. Speaking to Variety, Perrette acknowledged that WBD has not done a good enough job over the years with having its game and film divisions working together.

"Frankly, there hasn't been as close a relationship between the studio and the games business as there should have been. And James is actually a gamer, so having someone who's passionate about it is super helpful," Perrette said.

He added that WBD's gaming division, Warner Bros. Games, is now "actively working with [Gunn and Safran] on the core franchises within the DC Universe."

Bandai Namco's latest fight game, Tekken 8, has been out for less than a week, and fans are loving the character customizations. So far, they've been able to create various characters from all sorts of franchises.

Thanks to TikTok user @ spectrexgaming, we now have a good idea of how creative people are getting with the customizations. In a series of TikTok videos, they created outfits inspired by Gojo from Jujutsu Kaisen, Luffy from One Piece, Leon Kennedy from Resident Evil 4, and many more.

TikTok isn't the only place where fans have been sharing their creations. If you look up "Tekken 8 character customization" on X/Twitter, you'll find various people posting similar sentiments. One user, GameSpot's own Ben Janca, wrote, "The Tekken 8 character customization options keep surprising me. I am having so much fun with it!" Another user wrote, "The Tekken 8 character customization is wild because you’ll hop into ranked to fight a ridiculous recreation of a person/character, but they’ll still be staring at you like this."

Walter White himself, Bryan Cranston, seems content with the Breaking Bad universe coming to a close following the end of Better Call Saul. The award-winning actor spoke about how it's okay to "let it go" while promoting the upcoming movie Argylle.

Speaking with ET, Cranston was asked about the end of Better Call Saul, a spin-off of Breaking Bad. "Everything should come to an end," said Cranston, who won multiple Emmys and a Golden Globe for portraying Walter White. "I mean, everything’s cyclical, our lives are cyclical, the seasons, trees, everything. So it’s okay to have a beginning, middle, and end and then let it go."

Blizzard's first new president under Microsoft's ownership is Johanna Faries, who previously served as the general manager of Call of Duty as part of Activision.

Faries joined Activision in 2018 as the publisher's commissioner for Call of Duty esports, and later became the general manager for the Call of Duty franchise, a title she's held for close to three years. Prior to working at Activision, Fairies spent over a decade working at the NFL, where she served first as the NFL's director of consumer products and licensing, and later as VP of marketing strategy and fan development. She briefly served as its VP of club business development before joining Activision.

She replaces Mike Ybarra as Blizzard president, who recently stepped down amidst mass layoffs at Activision and Blizzard that saw more than 1,900 employees lose their jobs. In an email sent to all Blizzard employees, Fairies acknowledged the recent layoffs, noting that "the loss of talented teammates in recent days is hard to hold side-by-side with the immense excitement I feel about joining Blizzard."

Activision is sending out mystery packages to select Call of Duty: Warzone content creators to tease the return of the popular Fortune's Keep Resurgence map for Season 2.

Call of Duty streamer Majin shows off a photo of a wooden Call of Duty crate with a tweet that teased: Season 2 will "KEEP" the vibes going. Once the package was opened, Majin revealed a small model of the map's Winery point of interest. The model design reveals some sort of landscape changes can be expected, with the ground busted up and splitting through the winery building.

The winery POI will also feature changes in Fortune’s Keep 2.0 with what appears to be earthquake damage running through the Winery POI.
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Fortune's Keep originally arrived in 2022 during Season 4 of Vanguard, serving as the Resurgence map alongside Warzone's larger Caldera map. Developers at this year's Call of Duty Next event announced that Fortune's Keep would return in 2024, but this is the first official confirmation of a timeframe. It's uncertain yet if the map will return at the start of the new season or during the midseason "Reloaded" update.

At long last, the first chapter in Square Enix's Dragon Quest Builders series is coming to PC on February 13. Imagine if the art direction of Dragon Ball met Minecraft, and you'll have a pretty good idea of what to expect from this game. Or maybe you already do, as a sequel arrived a few years after the original for consoles and PC! If you're a PC user looking to see where this adorable and engrossing series began, preorders are now available. You can even get a big discount on the already budget-friendly release by preordering from Green Man Gaming.

Listed at $28, Dragon Quest Builders Steam codes can be purchased for $22.39 (a 20% discount) if you're a member of GMG's free XP rewards program. If you're not a member, you're missing out. Green Man Gaming regularly offers substantial preorder and new-release discounts to XP members.

After warning of impending game cancellations and layoffs, Embracer Group is reportedly now following through once again with an additional round of cuts. Bloomberg reports that Embracer has elected to cancel an upcoming Deus Ex game from Eidos Montreal.

The report added that a "a number of employees" are being laid off as part of the previously announced cost-cutting measures.

Bloomberg said the unannounced Deus Ex game was due to enter production this year, but there are no further details available about the rumored game. Instead, the report said Eidos will work on an "original franchise."

While Palworld still reigns supreme, another contender to the Steam survival game throne, Enshrouded, is making quite a name for itself in the few days following its early access release.

According to SteamDB, the open-world survival game with more of an action-RPG bent is off to a strong start, having reached more than 160,000 concurrent players in recent days following its January 24 launch. In a statement, Enshrouded developer Keen Games revealed the game has attracted over a million players so far. It's also the second-best-selling game on Steam right now by revenue behind only Palworld.

"We are completely blown away by its success and the overwhelmingly positive reception," Keen Games writes in a statement. "From the bottom of our hearts, we want to thank all our players. We're excited to let you know this is just the beginning for Enshrouded."

Like several other live-service games, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League will offer players additional rewards through a battle pass of mostly cosmetic items. Where Rocksteady aims to shake up this formula is by eliminating the limited-time design of its battle pass--Halo Infinite has a similar approach--as the studio will let players complete goals on the free and paid-for premium tracks at their leisure.

Typically, live-service battle passes are up for between one to three months, and once that time has expired, so will they. The best rewards are kept right until the end of a battle pass, forcing players to grind throughout the period to unlock cosmetics and gear. This has long been criticized by players, and in a QA discussion on the Suicide Squad Discord, Rocksteady said it wants to respect the personal time of its players instead.

"We're also happy to announce that you will be able to go back and play previous battle passes after a season ends," studio director Darius Sadeghian explained. "We believe that our team has created some of the best-looking cosmetic items ever, and we want those to be available for our players to enjoy without fear that they'll miss out on anything."

Sony has a date locked in for its first 2024 State of Play presentation, as you'll be able to tune in on January 31 at 2 PM PT / 5 PM ET to see what's next for PlayStation. Sony says the 40-minute livestream will cover around 15 games, including extended previews of Stellar Blade and Rise of the Ronin.

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The previous State of Play episode in September focused on an eclectic mix of games, including Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Getting Over It developer Bennett Fody's next game Baby Steps, and a closer look at Helldivers 2. On top of that, Sony also began hyping up Final Fantasy VII Rebirth with the confirmation of an official release date--February 29, 2024--and in-depth gameplay for Marvel's Spider-Man 2 was revealed.

Apple's popular TV show Severance is back in production for Season 2. The show's official social media pages heralded the return to production, and director/producer Ben Stiller proclaimed, "back to work."

In the first image, we see Adam Scott's character, Mark, in a suit running down a hallway. We can only imagine what he is running to or from, but the show is full of people and situations that we can envision Scott's character being afraid of.

Back to work. #SEVERANCE https://t.co/3uh8ZEXJJL

Severance premiered in February 2022 and quickly became popular quickly, picking up 14 Emmy nominations and ultimately winning a pair.

Duncan Jones, the director of movies like Warcraft, Moon, and Source Code and son of legendary musician David Bowie, has wrapped filming on his next movie, Rogue Trooper. Additionally, casting for the movie has been announced, alongside confirmation that the animated film is being produced using Epic's Unreal Engine 5.

Jones wrote and directed the movie, which stars Aneurin Barnard (Dunkirk) as the title character, alongside a cast that also includes Hayley Atwell (Captain America: The First Avengers), Jack Lowden (Dunkirk), Daryl McCormack (Bad Sisters), Reece Shearsmith (Saltburn), Jemaine Clement (Avatar: The Way of Water, Matt Berry (What We Do in the Shadows), Diane Morgan (Cunk on Earth), Alice Lowe (Black Mirror), Asa Buttefield (Sex Education), and Sean Bean (The Lord of the Rings).

Based on the comic, Rogue Trooper follows the character 19, who is the lone survivor of an attack. "Desperate to track down the traitor who sold him and his comrades out, the super soldier is accompanied by three killed-in-action squad mates, whose personalities have been stored in his gun, helmet, and rucksack," reads a line from the movie's description.

Dakota Johnson stars in the upcoming upcoming Spider-Man-adjacent superhero movie Madame Web, and she said in a new interview that filming the blue screen scenes was "absolutely psychotic."

Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Johnson said she needed to trust director SJ Clarkson to bring the movie's vision to life because so much of it was filmed with CG.

"I've never really done a movie where you are on a blue screen, and there's fake explosions going off, and someone's going, 'Explosion!' and you act like there's an explosion," she said. "That to me was absolutely psychotic."

Actor Henry Cavill has finally provided an update on the Amazon Prime Video adaptation of Warhammer 40,000.

Speaking in a recent interview with Collider while promoting his latest spy thriller film Argylle, the actor best known for his role as Superman and The Witcher's Geralt of Rivia, offered that production for Warhammer 40,000 is currently ongoing.

Although Cavill wasn't able to share any specifics during the discussion, as well as nothing that could indicate when we could see the adaptation brought to the screen, he did say "Big things are happening, and we are very excited."