You come at the king, you best not miss. Unless you’re execs of the Han Solo movie and planning reshoots, because, well, you can just cut Michael K. Williams’ character entirely thanks to scheduling issues. Star of The Wire and, latterly, part of the Assassin’s Creed movie, Michael K. Williams revealed in an interview with Deadline that the new direction Ron Howard wanted to take the movie meant more shoots for Williams, which didn’t fit in with his busy schedule. Williams was apparently lined u

For every Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight there’s a Jared Leto in Suicide Squad. But now DC are looking at developing a completely separate Joker origin story – away from the DCEU – with no Jared Leto. Oh, and Martin Scorsese is involved. Martin Scorsese is attached in an unspecified role. The Joker’s origin story is famously all over the place in the comics – with the most iconic example being The Killing Joke’s Joker falling into a chemical vat after being chased by Batman.

Game of Thrones season 7 may have been going full steam ahead for some time now (think Jon reaching Dragonstone in record time and one too many speedy journeys North), but that approach is not without its critics. The most recent episode, Beyond The Wall, is perhaps most guilty of some timeline weirdness, so much so that the director of the episode has thrown out a few comments addressing the issue. Speaking to Variety, Alan Taylor was aware of how everything seemed stuck on fast-forward as Jon

Free stuff is awesome. Titanfall 2 is giving away stuff that, in other games, you’d be expecting to pay at least a few quid for. So, with all that in mind I dived into an Attrition match in one of Titanfall 2’s newest maps: Glitch. For those that played the first Titanfall, Glitch will bring back memories of Wargames, a level with half-formed walls and wire-frame tanks that took place inside a VR-like training simulator. Unlike the recent COD titles, which added floaty jumps and basic wall-runni

Are you a fan of Stranger Things? In a recent interview with Vulture, Stranger Things showrunners Matt and Ross Duffer confirmed that the show will be getting a season 3 (yay! “We’re thinking it will be a four-season thing and then out,” Ross Duffer said, instantly transforming my perception of season 2 from ‘more of a good thing’ to ‘a good thing that’s halfway over and has gone by too soon.’ So do the Duffer brothers have a plan on where they’d like to resolve the stories of Mike, Will, Dustin

Shenmue 3 has been a long time coming. So it’s only natural that fans have a lot of hope (if not money) invested in the Kickstarted sequel. Unfortunately, the game’s first teaser hasn’t been met with unanimous applause, but instead a mix of disappointment and defensive passion. Our hero Ryo’s mug literally doesn’t change throughout the entire teaser, while magical girl / love interest Shenhua only has the most basic blinking and mouth animations. And weirdly shaped robot faces or not, I’m glad t

We’re not ready to say goodbye to Game Of Thrones season 7 yet – not when a White Walker dragon just got added to the mix – but at least we now know the season 7 finale will be big. Ravens tell us that the #GoTS7 finale will be 79 minutes and 43 seconds.Watch “The Dragon and the Wolf” Sunday at 9PM on @HBO. According to ‘Beyond The Wall’ episode director Alan Taylor, the finale will pack its own punch. “So, from my episode to the finale next week, the plot points of my episode are topped by the

Reddit user RagingWinston was checking out the new Junkertown map (which takes place in a post-robot-apocalypse part of Australia) when something caught their eye; a particular neon sign with an un-Australian choice of words. “On the new map, Junkertown, after the first checkpoint there is a sign on the street corner which advertises ‘take-out’, a term which I guess is more commonly used in America. “I’d like to offer a direct apology to the entire country of Australia,” Kaplan said. We will fix

In lieu of a new trailer, our best look at some of the heroes and villains in Star Wars: The Last Jedi may be an upcoming stamp collection heading to Australia. The pack, containing the Light side of the Force on the left and the Dark side of the Force on the right, will be available starting September 19 – but fans are already oo-ing and ah-ing over the images. It looks like there will be 20 stamps total, representing everyone from C-3PO to Supreme Leader Snoke. And speaking of the First Order’

Gamescom has given us our best look at the Xbox One X yet, including the special pre-order Xbox One X Scorpio special edition. We sat down with Mike Ybarra, the corporate Vice President of Xbox & Windows gaming platform to find out more about the new console. One thing he makes clear while speaking to him is that the Xbox One X is a premium product, conceived and created as a high end console. We’ve got 360 back compat games, original Xbox back compete games and everything that runs on the S wil

Were you curious about the plot to Final Fantasy 15 but just didn’t have the time, the love of RPGs, or the PS4 / Xbox One to carry you through? If either of those descriptions fits, Square Enix’s Final Fantasy 15 Pocket Edition is aimed squarely at you. Featuring a new art style and touch-based controls, Final Fantasy 15 Pocket Edition is a retelling of FF15 for iOS, Android, and Windows 10 devices. Sure there have been ports before, but a remake being released while the game it’s based on cont

You mess with Talion in Middle-earth: Shadow of War? You mess with his caragor? That’s the lesson we taught orcish warmonger Ar-Benu in our hands-on time with the game, part of which you can watch above in our full 9-minute playthrough of the Mounted Massacre mission. Execution-by-orc is frickin’ brutalBurning orcs are extra scaryNeed to clear a crowd? It’s ghost elf timeYour caragor will die to save youBut you can still make friendsRead our Middle-earth: Shadow of War news recap for more detail

Assassin’s Creed Origins’ continue to look amazing and here’s 25 minutes of new Gamescom footage showing off missions and that incredible world. There’s so much of it, and there’s no loss of detail or fogging as the view stretches off. Usually Assassin’s Creed would have called it Eagle Vision or something similar. Firstly Aya: she’s clearly an old flame of Bayek’s from the past, and the two still obviously have feeling for each other. When Bayek and Aya first meet it’s in front of this hippo fo

Shadow of War teaches a harsh lesson to people like me: you can’t do it alone. Beside me appears the Spirit of Nature Carnan, who’s oversees Middlearth’s forests and is a Tom Bombadil-level creature of old. And when I say ‘help me fight’, I don’t mean that I start controlling her every move. Far from using elegant vines as whips or summoning creatures to fight by her side, Carnan goes full-on bar brawl. Talion is tied to the rise of Mordor through his failures and through witnessing its most fea

Forza Horizon – the playful scamp to Motorsport’s more stiff-collared companion – is a charmer of a series. Forza Horizon 3: Hot Wheels is the second expansion to the main game, set in Australia. Yes, there is even a T-Rex or two in there, based on a themed Hot Wheels pack. It is pure fantasy, an injection of themes and ideas at almost total odds to what Forza Horizon is. Hot Wheels has simply highlighted one aspect of Horizon 3 that I’d never properly paid attention to: this is a toybox.

Spider-Man: Homecoming was a blast, not least because of the litany of Stark-manufactured gadgets at Peter Parker’s fingertips (and web shooters). But stuff like that blows any hopes of us dressing up as an authentic Spider-Man out of the water. Don’t worry, though, a resourceful Redditor has found a way to create Spidey’s homemade suit – you just need an Amazon account. Reddit user Venom349 (H/T ComicBook.com) has compiled a superhero shopping list to craft the suit that Peter Parker donned onc

*Warning: Spoilers for Uncharted: The Lost Legacy*Uncharted: The Lost Legacy is another slice of brilliance from Naughty Dog but that doesn’t mean that playing it doesn’t give you a serious sense of deja vu. We’ve broken down all the ways it references Nathan Drake’s adventures and even The Last of Us. Watch in the video above but mind The Lost Legacy spoilers if you want to go in cold. If you’re looking for more Lost Legacy action, here’s 9 things we wish we knew before playing Uncharted: The L

Game of Thrones season 7 (and the main show proper) is nearly at an end and we’ll desperately need something to fill the Westeros-shaped void in our hearts. It seems prime for picking up a few hundred years prior to the events of Game of Thrones: There’d be an ensemble cast worthy of any Thrones episodes, death, destruction and plenty of battles with the Wildlings. Children of the ForestSure, the Children of the Forest were glimpsed at in Game of Thrones season 6 but it’s a part of the TV show l

Ron Howard just loves showing off shots from the Han Solo movie. A flaming R2 unit to be precise. The Han Solo movie director has taken to Instagram to reveal the extra-crispy droid unit being doused in flames with the heading: “Things are a little rough all over the Galaxy.” That’s putting it mildly for R2-BBQ over here… R2 units don’t just burst into flames… unless the Han Solo movie has a whole B-plot about defective models. If you want more in the way of the upcoming Han Solo movie (and, h

Publisher 2K is doing a few things to mark the occasion: a party at the upcoming Seattle gaming event PAX West, a new YouTube channel, and a $200 BioShock 10th Anniversary Collector’s Edition that makes other special editions look like Happy Meals. For your cash, you get all three remastered BioShock games (BioShock, BioShock 2, and BioShock Infinite), all the various bits of DLC, and an 11″ collectible Big Daddy and Little Sister statue. We might never get another BioShock game, but at least yo