Thanks to the ongoing trial pitting billionaires Elon Musk and Sam Altman against each other, it's come to light that Valve founder Gabe Newell--the third billionaire in this story--emailed Musk to ask if Hideo Kojima could get a tour of SpaceX.

In an email from October 2018, Newell wrote to Musk telling him that Kojima really wants to go to space. Newell thought Musk--who runs SpaceX--might be a good person to talk to. "He'd love to get a SpaceX tour," Newell wrote to Musk, according to PC Gamer.

Musk wrote back to Newell, saying, "Sure, it would be great to meet Hideo Kojima and he's welcome to see the rocket factory." Whether or not Kojima actually got this tour is unknown, however.

The first trailer for director Zach Cregger's Resident Evil movie is here, and it gives fans just a taste at what this new adaptation of Capcom's legendary survival-horror series will look like. It's less zombie movie and more monster flick, and includes a creature that looks ripped straight out of the recent Dune films (before you get too excited, no, it's not a sandworm).

About a minute into the trailer, the film's hero Bryan, in true Resident Evil fashion, drops into a sewer. He's then confronted with a massive, pale-looking man sitting directly in his path--one that bears a striking resemblance to Baron Harkonnen, the main villain of author Frank Herbert's early Dune books.

The similarities to Cregger's monster and the Baron, particularly director Denis Villeneuve's interpretation of the character seen in 2021's Dune Part One and 2024's Dune Part 2, are hard to ignore. Both characters are giant, pale, seemingly hairless men. In Baron Harkonnen's case, he's so massive he uses anti-gravity technology to float around. Despite the two looking nearly identical, Cregger in a trailer breakdown with IGN actually revealed a different literary inspiration behind the giant man in the sewer.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe is marching toward Doomsday, its upcoming Avengers sequel, and Marvel Rivals is starting the countdown with a new Avengers mode alongside a free skin for Loki.

Subscribers to Disney Plus can claim their free Loki skin by visiting the website and scrolling to their Disney Plus perks, but the skin won't be around forever. Players only have between May 1 and July 30 to add the outfit to their in-game wardrobe. The Loki skin is said to be styled with "Disney Plus colors," or, for the uninitiated, that bluish-green color you see below.

Loki is getting the special attention because he's the star of the game's new limited-time Avengers mode. In it, one player takes on the role of the trickster god himself, while a team of six others works together to try to defeat him. The asymmetrical PvP mode is the first of several updates planned between now and the end of the year. As a roadmap, it's collectively called the Path to Doomsday, as it all leads to the release of Avengers: Doomsday on December 18.

For over 30 years, Mark Rosewater has been leading design teams for some of Magic: the Gathering's biggest sets, and continues to do so with his role as lead designer on the upcoming Marvel Super Heroes expansion. However, while he's been exploring the Magic multiverse, he's been developing his own game on the side, with the hopes of one day sharing that side game with the world. Today, on the official Magic: the Gathering Secret Lair website, Rosewater has finally unveiled that game, Mood Swings, and players will be able to order it soon.

Mood Swings is a game played with a single 45-card deck, though there will be over 100 cards available for the game at launch. Each card is named after a mood--Patience, Hostility, Cheer, Bashfulness, etc.--and comes with a corresponding power and point value. Each player in the two-to-four-player game will play one mood from their hand per turn, and once all of the powers resolve, the player whose board has the most points wins the round, and first to three rounds wins the whole game.

Rosewater released a blog on the MTG website, as well as a tutorial video on the official Wizards of the Coast YouTube, diving deeper into the game's rules and some of the cards players will find in their decks. "About 28 years ago, I came up with an idea for a more accessible trading card game called Mood Swings," Rosewater says in the blog. "The idea behind it is simple. Trading card games are a lot of fun, but Magic, while amazing, can be complicated. Mood Swings is my attempt to make something simpler."

Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick has shared a story about passing on making a sequel to one of the company's legacy franchises because the developer pitching the game wasn't all that jazzed about it. Which franchise was it? Frustratingly, Zelnick didn't say, but he shared the story as a means to speak to why Take-Two doesn't make every game it could and is instead more selective.

"We had a greenlight meeting years ago, and it was about a sequel to one of our franchises. There was something in the room, some vibe in the room I wasn't comfortable with," Zelnick said at the iicon event this week, as reported by Variety. "So I said to the producer, 'Listen, let's pause. How excited are you about working on this title?' And he said, 'Well, I know we're making this sequel and I feel good about making the sequel.' I said, 'You're not answering the question. And how excited are you?' And he said, 'Well, candidly, I'm not all that excited about working on it.' I said, 'Well, let's end the meeting right here. We're just not doing that.'"

He said this amid a wider conversation about making sequels to Take-Two's legacy franchises, including L.A. Noire. On the subject of another L.A. Noire game, Zelnick said Take-Two is looking at making new installments in all of its franchises, but isn't committing to anything unless the people behind those pitches are passionate.