As Kril the hermit crab, you'll need to wear the trash around you as shells to withstand attacks from enemies many times your size. Embark on an epic treasure hunt to buy back your repossessed shell, and discover the dark secrets behind the polluted ocean. Fight your way through kelp forests, coral reefs, sand castle cities, and even the unfathomable darkness of the deep-sea trenches, all in the name of getting back your prized shell.

Danny Boyle and Alex Garland's upcoming zombie movie 28 Years Later has made significant progress this year. In addition to finding a home with Sony, the film has reportedly found its lead actors.

According to a Deadline report, the upcoming zombie movie will have Jodie Comer, Ralph Fiennes, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson in prominent roles. All of these actors have starred in various high-profile movies. For example, Taylor-Johnson recently starred in The Fall Guys, while Comer appeared in 2023's Napoleon and Fiennes in 2022's The Menu.

The Deadline report explains that Boyle is set to direct the first film written by Garland, while Nia DaCosta, the director of 2021's Candyman, will handle the film's sequel. As of now, the plan is to shoot both movies back-to-back. Other than that, not much is known about the movie's overall plot.

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Lucasfilm is celebrating this year's Star Wars Day by releasing all six episodes of Star Wars: Tales of the Empire, a thematic follow-up to 2022's Tales of the Jedi. While Tales of the Jedi followed Ahsoka Tano and Count Dooku's respective rise and fall, Tales of the Empire presents fans with two women on darker paths: Morgan Elsbeth (Diana Lee Inosanto) and former Jedi Barriss Offee (Meredith Salenger). But in the first preview scene from the series, Morgan finds herself in almost a heroic role as she goes up against General Grievous (Matthew Wood).

In Star Wars: The Clone Wars and in Revenge of the Sith, Grievous was a Kaleesh cyborg who was taught how to effectively wield multiple lightsabers by Count Dooku. Several Jedi died at Grievous' hands, which is why Morgan and her fellow Nightsisters are so overwhelmed in their battle against him.

Inosanto originated the role of Morgan Elsbeth in The Mandalorian Season 2, when she was revealed to be an associate of Grand Admiral Thrawn. She reprised her role in the Ahsoka series last year. Morgan's side of Tales of the Empire will presumably reveal how she ended up in Thrawn's service.

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Before the premiere of X-Men '97, it was announced that Theo James, the star of Netflix's The Gentlemen, would provide the voice of "a fan-favorite character" on the series. And during the events of this week's episode, "Bright Eyes," James' role was finally revealed to fans... and his importance to the remaining episodes of Season 1 may have been underplayed by X-Men '97's creative team.

Warning: the following contains spoilers from the latest episode of X-Men '97 on Disney+. If you haven't seen the installment or don't want to know what happens, stop reading now.

Sharp-eyed viewers may have caught a glimpse of James' character in the fourth episode, "Lifedeath 1," when he appeared in a picture on Forge's wall. But now, Bastion stands revealed as the true mastermind behind the mutant massacre on Genosha, as well as Operation: Zero Tolerance, an initiative that has created advanced human Sentinels.

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Video game giant Embracer won't have that name for much longer. As part of the company's recent announcement that it's splitting into three distinct companies, the Swedish giant also confirmed that the name Embracer is going away.

Current Embracer CEO Lars Wingefors told GI.biz that he will create a new holding company for which he will serve as the majority shareholder for all three companies. The name of this overarching company has not been confirmed yet, however, nor do we know when the name Embracer might go away for good.

Wingefors denied that he's dumping the Embracer name to distance himself and the company in general from the controversy surrounding the outfit after its decision to lay off 1,400 people, cancel more than two-dozen games, and close studios.

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Later this year, Anya Taylor-Joy will take on the role of a young Furiosa, the role first played by Charlize Theron in Mad Max: Fury Road. Before Taylor-Johnson joined Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, though, she turned to her friend and co-star in The Menu, Nicholas Hoult, who appeared in Fury Road nearly a decade ago.

"These movies are big, colossal beasts, and it's a type of filmmaking where it’s all stitched together so surgically that you can feel a bit lost in it," Taylor-Joy told Total Film. When she went to Hoult, he gave her a direct piece of advice: "trust George."

Director George Miller created the Mad Max franchise in 1979, and his comeback in Fury Road was hailed as one of the best action movies of all-time. To better understand Miller's world, Taylor-Joy added that she "would watch the first 10 minutes of Fury Road over and over again."

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A patch for Marvel's Spider-Man 2 mistakenly removed the option to use Classic Suit variants in the game. After reports from the community, developer Insomniac Games has released a new patch, version 1.002.004 to be exact, which addresses this specific issue.

The issue was fairly self-explanatory. Users over at Reddit quickly found out they were unable to use Classic Suit variants last week after the release of version 1.0002.003. The official Instagram account replied to a comment on April 18 saying the team was aware and looking into the issue.

That previous version was focused mostly on addressing stability fixes and reported bugs from the community, including an issue where masks and lenses on certain suits would appear wavy, or how an orb of light would appear on Peter's Iron Spider Suit. They're definitely pretty to look at, but suits sure carry their singular tech intricacies.

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Lots of games are released with collector's editions, but few are as involved as those that accompany Destiny 2 expansions. The universe of Bungie's shooter MMO is incredibly dense and has seen reams of lore and tons of secrets come and go over its 10-year history. With its collector's editions, Bungie translates a lot of the experience of uncovering Destiny's story and unlocking its secrets into physical objects. A Destiny 2 collector's edition doesn't just come with a statue of some real-world version of an in-game object you can put on your desk--it's also usually full of lore, mysteries, and puzzles that offer extra rewards and a deeper understanding of the game world.

With the collector's edition for The Final Shape, the next big Destiny 2 expansion and the culmination of the last 10 years of its story, Bungie looked forward at what's coming in the story--the final confrontation with the Witness, the story's ultimate villain, inside the ever-present god-like robot, the Traveler. But it also looked backward to the original Destiny and how far players have come. The package includes items that fit both themes. There's the Entelechy lore book, a compilation of pieces of information about the Witness compiled by Eido, an Eliksni scribe who was a big part of one of the seasonal stories last year. And there's an autograph book signed by and full of well-wishes from various in-game characters, some of whom have only appeared in deep-cut lore entries.

The Final Shape marks the culmination of the 10-year story arc that began with the release of Destiny in 2024.

The centerpiece of The Final Shape Collector's Edition is a replica of the first Destiny's social space, the Tower, which is a real-life version of a replica statue seen in-game in the office of Commander Zavala. It also features three small figurines that represent the three leaders of the Vanguard: Zavala, Ikora Rey, and Cayde-6.

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The Season 3 Reloaded update arrives to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone on May 1, bringing new maps, modes, and operator bundles. Some of the season's wackiest bundles will also include another way for players to earn additional XP with party pack bonuses.

How party pack bonuses work

Party pack operator bundles are Call of Duty's new shop packs that offer players the ability to level up faster. These select operator skins won't give anyone a competitive edge, but it will give a boost to the amount of XP earned.

Players will receive a double XP bonus for player progression and double weapon XP, if they are partied up with at least two other players wearing these select skins, and double battle pass XP is earned in parties of three or more players wearing the party pack skins.

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In what feels like a spiritual successor to 2016's Aragami, Ereban: Shadow Legacy transforms you into a deadly shadow that can become one with the darkness--the ultimate stealth operative. The game doesn't quite deliver the necessary challenge to make for a successful stealth game, however, as the first trick you learn will get you through the entire game without a hitch. It does far better on the platforming front, and though its cast of characters could have used some fleshing out, the futuristic sci-fi world they inhabit is cultivated with colorful sights and intriguing snippets of lore.

As its name implies, Shadow Legacy's main gimmick is its use of shadows. You play as Ayana, the last of the titular Ereban, a people who possess the innate ability to become one with and manipulate shadows. Using her shadow merge ability, Ayana can sink into shadows to creep past enemies, slink up walls, and dispose of bodies, encouraging you to stick to the shadows where your toolbelt is at its strongest. Alongside these shadow abilities, Ayana has an assortment of advanced gadgets--some are always useful like a recon pulse that marks enemies and items through walls, while others are more situational like mines that stun targets--which work regardless of the lighting situation.

Light is Ayana's enemy--you don't want to stay in it for too long.

I initially thought that this would present plenty of opportunities and strategies to sneak past enemies, most of whom will take out Ayana in a single hit. There's a healthy variety of foes who want to take her down--standard enemies don't pose much threat beyond the flashlight they carry to take away your darkness, but the more adept snipers can spot you from afar and the stealthy droids who can go invisible can ruin your day if you're not taking time to look for the telltale shimmer. And then there are the human enemies who present a moral quandary rather than a gameplay one--while the mechanical droid-like enemies that dominate each level can be killed with impunity, murdering the living and breathing human workers will negatively impact Ayana's morality and others' perception of her (which I'll touch on a bit more later).

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Elisabeth Moss, the Emmy-winning actor who starred on West Wing, Mad Men, and Handmaid's Tale, has revealed she sustained a serious injury when filming the new Hulu show The Veil. Speaking to Variety, Moss revealed that she broke her spine when filming a scene where her character, an undercover MI6 agent named Imogen, was running on a rooftop to evade an attacker. The scene was filmed on location at the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul.

The scene, as it's shown on the series, was the second time it was filmed. The first time it was filmed, Moss smashed into a wall "the wrong way" and she "ended up lying on the roof for a couple hours."

Denise Di Novi, a producer on The Veil, was with Moss when the mishap took place. Di Novi said Moss "fractured a vertebra really badly," but wanted to continue filming.

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Sony will remove a piece of in-game graffiti in Stellar Blade that created an unintentional reference to a racial slur, and the fix will come in a day-one patch.

Spotted by IGN, there's a shop in Stellar Blade called the "R Shop" owned by the character Roxanne and its sign is placed next to the word "hard" in graffiti. When placed together, the two separate phrases seem to accidentally form a reference to the racial slur.

"The placement of two graphics near each other in Stellar Blade resulted in an unintentionally objectionable phrase," PlayStation said in a statement. "Shift Up had no intention of creating offensive artwork and will be replacing the graffiti for the Day 1 patch."

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