The natural disaster movie Twisters debuted in theaters this past weekend, and it had a great start. The movie stormed up $80.5 million in North America alone, which gives Twisters the biggest opening-weekend box office results for a natural disaster movie in the history of movies, not adjusted for inflation.

The previous record-holder was Rolan Emmerich's The Day After Tomorrow, which opened with $68.44 million back in 2004.

Twisters also becomes the third-best start in North America so far in 2024, trailing only Dune: Part II ($82.5 million) and Inside Out 2 ($154.2 million). Twisters is tracking just ahead of Gozilla x Kong: The New Empire, which made $80 million over its opening weekend earlier this year in North America.

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Following last year's debut of the live-action One Piece series on Netflix, a popular fan cast picked Jamie Lee Curtis to play Dr. Kureha in Season 2. Curtis not only endorsed the fan cast, she said she would lobby for the role after the end of the actors' strike. Unfortunately, Tomorrow Studios--the production company behind the series-- has confirmed that Curtis will not be joining the show.

"She loves the show. She has too many films and TV shows that she's going into production on so our production dates aren’t going to work," Tomorrow Studios president Becky Clements told Deadline. "She definitely wanted to do it, but she's got deals in first position, and it just became complicated."

Last year, Curtis was so enamored with the idea of playing Dr. Kureha that she shared this piece of fan art that featured her as the character.

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Deadpool & Wolverine features multiple different versions of Deadpool, including Lady Deadpool. A trailer confirmed this, but didn't show the character's face, leading many to wonder who might be in the suit. One theory that spread across the internet was that Reynolds himself would play the part. But he's now confirmed that's not true, and he claims he has no idea who got the role.

"I love listening to the conspiracy theories. Who is it? My favorite one that traveled quite a bit that I saw was... me. I don't know how I could do that with my hips. I cannot walk like that to save my life. My shoulders? They're absurdly broad for a suit like that. So no, it is not me," he told Access Hollywood.

Asked if the person playing Lady Deadpool is someone famous, Reynolds said he can't say because even he doesn't know who's playing the part. Or at least that's the story he's sticking to.

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Activision's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III will arrive on Xbox Game Pass on July 24, according to multiple reports.

The date originally surfaced during the XboxEra podcast. Leaker eXtas1s backed this up, and then Insider-Gaming corroborated the date as well. Microsoft is known to make Game Pass announcements on Tuesdays, so if this news is true, we might know soon.

Modern Warfare III is the most recent Call of Duty game, having launched in November 2023. It would be the first Call of Duty game to come to Game Pass since Microsoft completed its acquisition of Activision Blizzard in 2023.

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TennoCon, Digital Extremes' yearly convention, partners and donates towards charities in Canada. For TennoCon 2024, the Warframe developer chose two charities to partner with, unlike previous years where a single charity would be their choice for the community event. This year, AbleGamers is Digital Extremes' overseas choice and Make-A-Wish is its local charity choice.

With Make-A-Wish, Digital Extremes has granted a child's wish to become a video game voice actor. James, a 16-year-old with Spina Bifida, is familiar with Warframe due to his older brother being a Tenno--the affectionate name designated to the players of Warframe. Kevin Lim, a voice actor for the Warframe character Bombastine, was how Digital Extremes initially discovered James' wish.

"Through being involved with [Make-A-Wish, Lim] got wind of a boy named James–whose wish was to be a voice in a video game," community manager Megan Everett said. From there, Lim asked James, if he would be interested in being a voice actor for Warframe due to Lim's recent work on the game's Duviri Paradox expansion.

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Platformers have been a mainstay of gaming for decades now, and in this new Humble deal, you can get one of the greatest games in this genre for just $6. Celeste is one of several games up for sale in the Humble Bundle Pixels with Porpoise promotion, and you can also grab a few other games like Towerfall: Ascension, its expansion Dark World, and Webbed. If you donate $10 or more, you can also add Rivals of Aether, Anvil Saga, Hero's Hour, and Children of Morta to your collection of PC games.

Humble Bundle: Pixels With Porpoise See on Humble

• Rivals of Aether
• Anvil Saga
• Children of Morta: Complete Edition
• Heroe's Hour
• Celeste
• Webbed
• Towerfall Ascension
• Towerfall: Dark World (expansion)

Proceeds from the sale will go toward The Whale and Dolphin Conservation, a global charity dedicated to protecting those mammals and other sea creatures. The group works to defend the creatures through campaigns, lobbying, advising governments, conservation projects, field research, and rescue efforts.

Celeste is the headliner of this bundle, and in case you've never played it, you're in for a treat. A platformer with an important message, Celeste combines pixelated graphics with challenging levels. As you unlock more abilities, you'll be put to the test across its dozens of levels, and at its core, it's a moving tale about overcoming self-doubt. The other games are also pretty great, as Children of Morta combines action-RPG gameplay with family dynamics to tell a fascinating story. This is the complete edition, so you're getting a stack of extra content like new gameplay modes, characters, and co-op multiplayer.

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Bandai Namco has announced Heihachi Mishima as the next DLC character for Tekken 8 and revealed that, for the first time in the series' history, a new chapter in the story mode will be added to the game. The extra story content will delve deeper into the ongoing feud between the Mishima and Kazama families.

The announcement was made during Evo 2024, at which Tekken 8 was a major attraction for players wanting to compete in high-level battles and viewers who want to see the best of the best duke it out in the fighting game. Heihachi is a fan-favorite character and one of the main antagonists of the Tekken series. His arrival follows Eddy Gordo, a DLC character that is already available, and Lidia Sobieska, who will be available widely from July 25. Heihachi is expected to be available in Fall 2024.

The story expansion, which builds on the ongoing 'The Dark Awakens' storyline, will be free, but publisher Bandai Namco has not yet confirmed when it will be available.

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Today, during Tennocon 2024, Digital Extremes debuted a new gameplay trailer for Warframe: 1999, a narrative-driven spin-off quest for Warframe set in the late 1990s. Along with some tubular action sequences, the trailer showed off a new boss fight where the most dangerous enemy might be the earworm that infects your real-world brain during the battle.

The trailer kicks off in a deserted shopping mall, complete with old, clunky computers and an arcade lined with machines. A team of Protoframes, led by the main character Arthur, then pursue Dr. Entrati, who Warframe fans know as the first person to make contact with the Void that gives the Tenno their power.

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The trailer shows multiple action sequences that highlight the new Atomicycle vehicle, new weapons like the AX-52 rifle, and a fight against a massive tank set to late '90s nu-metal. We also get to meet Arthur's teammates, including Amir the brainiac, Aoi the logistics expert, and Quincy, a marksman whose Cyte-09 Warframe is new to the Warframe experience.

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Today during a presentation as part of Evo 2024, SNK announced new characters for two of its fighting games--one currently available and one coming early next year. Kevin Rian, the justice-seeking S.W.A.T officer, has joined the Fatal Fury: City Of The Wolves roster, while dual femme fatales Vice and Mature will be added to The King Of Fighters XV later this year.

Kevin comes to City Of The Wolves from the previous game, Garou: Mark Of The Wolves. His reveal trailer shows off his hard-hitting moveset, which includes the ability to crawl along the ground and rise right into a kick, as well as a few explosive punches.

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Vice and Mature, meanwhile, are the butlers of longtime KoF villain Rugal Bernstein. The reveal trailer shown at Evo did not show any footage of the duo, but it did confirm that both will be added to KoF XV in December 2024.

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SNK has been busy at this year's Evo, thanks to three separate announcements presented during the show. Along with new characters for two other games, the company has also announced that SNK Vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos is back, and PC players can download it today via Steam--with PS4 and Nintendo Switch versions dropping on Monday.

The return of SVC Chaos adds multiple enhancements to the 2003 fighting game, including hitbox indicators for precise training sessions and a gallery of artwork. A suite of multiplayer options--buffered by rollback netcode--will also be available, with online lobbies holding nine players at a time and a tournament mode with multiple bracket formats built in.

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The playable roster features 36 characters from both Capcom and SNK, and it includes well-known fighters like Street Fighter's Ryu and Ken and Fatal Fury's Terry and Mai, along with some deep cuts like Mars People from Metal Slug (SNK) and Tessa from Red Earth. This new version also unlocks the secret bosses from the arcade version--Athena and Red Arremer--for use at the start of the game.

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Today, as part of the Tennocon 2024 festivities, the dev team behind Soulframe--a new multiplayer online game from Warframe developer Digital Extremes--hosted a one-hour livestream, which showcased new gameplay, new locations, and the opening moments of the game.

The game opens with a small bird flying over a vast field, which quickly turns into a war zone with a massive army descending on a castle in the clearing. The bird flies into a window to find a woman holding a baby in her arms. The narrator then asks questions to the player, and based on their responses, the woman's appearance will change.

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The stream then jumps to later in the game, and it showed off a few key locations in the world of Soulframe--The Nightfold, for example, is a hub world where players can upgrade skills, weapons, and more. The scene then jumps again to the overworld map, where we see the hero take on a group of knights in open combat while wielding a massive axe.

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About 10 to 15 years ago, Capcom entered a lull. Resident Evil 6 was critically panned, Lost Planet 3 was released to largely negative reviews, and as a result, the studio's reputation took a small hit. Recently, however, things have changed.

With well received Resident Evil remakes, strong numbers on Street Fighter and Monster Hunter, and success with rolling the dice on new ideas like Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess, Capcom is undeniably having a moment. And, with a plethora of new titles on the way such as the highly anticipated Monster Hunter Wilds, Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster, and Resident Evil 9, we don't see the publisher's winning streak ending anytime soon.

This week on Spot On, Tam and Lucy shower some much deserved praise on the iconic studio and discuss what they hope to see from it in the future. Will we get another Marvel vs. Capcom? Can the publisher find a way to make mobile games work for them? Let's chat about it.

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Nintendo has revealed new additions to the Splatoon Amiibo roster. Four new Amiibo figures based on characters in the Splatoon franchise are set to release on September 5. Nintendo is bundling these Amiibo into two-packs for $30 each: Pearl and Marina in one, and Callie and Marie in the other. Preorders for both two packs are live now at Best Buy, but keep in mind Amiibo preorders tend to sell out quickly. Both Amiibo sets have already sold out once at Best Buy. If you want even more Splatoon Amiibo figures, Best Buy has Inkling Boy in stock for $13, too.

Splatoon Amiibo 2-Pack - Pearl and Marina $30

Pearl and Marina made their initial appearances as major characters in Splatoon 2. Co-hosts of Inkopolis News as well as the popular Splatfests, the Octoling Marina and Inkling Pearl comprised the two-member musical group Off the Hook in Splatoon 2. The pair made appearances in the Octo Expansion, the single-player campaign DLC, as well as Splatoon 3's Side Order DLC campaign.

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Callie and Marie formed the musical duo the Squid Sisters and essentially played the same roles as Pearl and Marina, but they played them in the original Splatoon game for Wii U. In addition to being in a famous band, Callie and Marie hosted Splatfests and Inkopolis News. They have made appearances in solo modes across all three Splatoon games. This will be the second time Callie and Marie have been bundled in an Amiibo two-pack (the first is sold out and likely out of print).

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One week away from the release of Deadpool and Wolverine, Marvel Studios just couldn't resist releasing one last trailer that blew one of the biggest cameos in the film: Dafne Keen's return as Wolverine's clone daughter, Laura/X-23. Keen originated the role in 2017's Logan, which was meant to be Hugh Jackman's final appearance as Wolverine before he agreed to return for this film. Now, Keen has revealed that she was able to keep her comeback a secret by taking her cue from the way Andrew Garfield lied about Spider-Man: No Way Home.

"All the [inspiration] comes from Andrew Garfield," said Keen during an interview with EW. "He is the master at this." While Jackman's Wolverine is not the same variant who met his end in Logan, Keen revealed that she is reprising the same version of Laura, who is now a young adult.

"It was wonderful to get to come back to that and explore that as a grownup," added Keen. "Now understanding more parental rage so much more and bringing that to the table for her. I found that Laura in Logan stumbled into having a dad and then having lost her dad. We find her again really knowing how to appreciate--and with this kind of wiseness to her--how much her father means to her."

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In 2019, Marvel Studios was on top of the world with Avengers: Endgame, the culmination of the Infinity Saga, and its epilogue, Spider-Man: Far From Home. But thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was almost another two years before another Marvel movie was back in theaters. While promoting Deadpool and Wolverine, Marvel's Kevin Feige reflected on the way COVID affected the MCU's shared universe and the studio's production.

"I think you can go look at any big broad slate presentation we've done over the last 10 or 15 years and there have been changes--small and big--to them," Feige told GameSpot. "Certainly, as you point out, these last few years have unquestionably been the most disruptive to all of us as citizens of Earth, but also to those of us trying to plot out a shared cinematic universe."

Some of the challenges of COVID meant that Marvel's release schedule was upended. For example, Spider-Man: No Way Home was released before Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness even though Spidey's film was originally supposed to take place afterwards. COVID has also had the unintentional effect of closing some of the five-year gap between our present and the MCU's near-future after Endgame. It's currently unclear when the present day Marvel movies are supposed to take place.

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The world of Once Human is absolutely enormous, and while you can unlock teleportation stations that let you fast-travel around the map, you'll need a vehicle. The good news is that there are several in Once Human, including a motorcycle you can unlock fairly early. It'll help you get around for a while, but if you want to use the motorcycle long-term--or if you want to unlock better vehicles later on--you'll need to understand the systems for crafting, upgrading, and repairing them.

How any of that stuff works isn't particularly clear, though. Here's everything you need to know about getting your motorcycle, fixing it up, and keeping it in working condition, as well as making better vehicles later on.

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• How To Get The Motorcycle

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The good news is that you can get your first vehicle pretty early in the process of playing Once Human, provided you follow the main story. Keep on the tasks under the Follow the Stardust tab in your Journey menu, and eventually, Mary will send you to the settlement of Deadsville. The quest will have you learn about some of the key figures in the town, including Claire and Lowe. When you're done, Mary will send you out into the world and give you a motorcycle for your trouble.

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Rockstar's The Warriors is one of the oddest games that the GTA developer ever released, though it's quite enjoyable in its own right. According to a recent report from retro gaming site Time Extension, Rockstar came extremely close to releasing a GBA port of the game around 2005, but it was ultimately canned.

The Time Extension piece attributes the information to an anonymous former Rockstar Games employee. That employee says that the game was essentially finished when it was canceled in 2005, and that it used tech from Rockstar Leeds' GBA port of Max Payne, including the game engine. The piece also states that there's at least one copy of the game out there, but it hasn't yet seen a release due to potential legal concerns.

According to the source, the GBA Warriors had four-player co-op through the console's link cable, and it was "fun to play." However, it never saw the light of day because the PSP was gaining momentum, and Rockstar was decidedly on the Sony side of the platform war. The employee also cites Nintendo's apparent dislike for promoting M-rated games as a factor in the decision. Rockstar developed a number of original GTA games for the PSP, including Liberty City Stories, but also developed Chinatown Wars for the DS.

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We're a week away from Deadpool and Wolverine, with Deadpool being added to the MCU proper, but what fate awaits the rest of the certain X-characters has yet to be seen. The movie has several characters from the X-Men film series from 20th Century Fox--now 20th Century Studios, as it was acquired by Disney. Dealing with the multiverse is never easy, but what about the Marvel characters already in play?

During the Deadpool and Wolverine press day, GameSpot asked Kevin Feige if fans should still be excited and ready to pick up the plot threads from projects like Eternals and Moon Knight--Marvel movies and shows that have been far more standalone than the past films.

"That's at the core of the 85 years of publishing and at the core of our 15-plus years in theaters," Feige said. "And I think there was a cadence for a while where the turnover is very quick in terms of somebody popping up in one movie and appearing in the next. Tony Stark was introduced in May and you saw him again in July of 2008. But then there are also the Tim Blake Nelsons, who showed up in that very movie in 2008. And we haven't seen again until the trailer we just put out. So I think that again is the fun of what we're able to do."

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Although Horizon Zero Dawn and its sequel, Horizon Forbidden West, are not M-rated games, they aren't the most obvious choices to get turned into Lego games. Earlier this summer, Guerrilla Games and Sony revealed that Aloy's first adventure will be adapted as Lego Horizon Adventures. But considering that the Lego games are aimed at younger players than Horizon, some of the franchise's rougher edges are being toned down.

"We have tried to keep as much of the story as possible," explained Guerrilla Games' narrative director James Windeler during an interview with GamesIndustry.biz. "A lot of what happens in the world, like the destruction of the old world… that's a pretty heavy theme for an eight-year-old. So we needed to find ways to keep that present in the story, because it is essential to Horizon. But it is also not something we leaned on. You won't find some of those devastating reveals from the first game, like those corporate masterminds dead around the table or anything like that."

This wouldn't be the first time that the Lego video games have softened some story moments for young gamers. The Lego Star Wars games turned tragic moments like Luke Skywalker getting his hand cut off into something more humorous. It sounds like Lego Horizon Adventures will follow a similar path to keep things from getting too dark with Aloy and her world.

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If you're a part of The Sims community, you know there are dozens of different kinds of "Simmers," as Maxis affectionately calls us. You have the luxury-focused "motherlode" spammers, the architects, the storytellers, the folks who find comfort in watching a simple family live out their simple life, the ladder-deleters, and more. Yet even heartbroken players executing their revenge fantasies are not the most depraved of all Sims players. No no. It's the Wicked Whims community who take that crown.

Wicked Whims, for the unacquainted, is a popular mod that adds graphic nudity to The Sims 4 as well as just about everything you can do while graphically nude. Like, everything. Not that I would know because obviously I've never installed it. That would be indecent. Obviously.

But if I had installed it, I would be able to tell you that The Sims 4's upcoming Lovestruck expansion certainly doesn't come close to being as colorful as WW. However, it does add just enough spice to put that "Rated T for Teens'' label to the test and contains some concepts we've seen in Wicked Whims' less-spicy companion: Wonderful Whims. And overall, The Sims 4 experience is made much better for it. On top of adding a healthy dose of lust to the game, Lovestruck adds a whole lot of love to the game. Thanks to Lovestruck, we get some much-needed complexity and clarity to relationships, a better replication of what real-life relationships can look like, and a reminder of what makes Maxis a simulation-game powerhouse.

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