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WWE officially announced on Twitter one hour before the Crown Jewel pay-per-view began that it is changing the stipulations to two of the card’s biggest matches. Roman Reigns and Brock Lesnar’s WWE Universal Championship match will now be contested under No Disqualification, while Bobby Lashely vs. Goldberg will be also Falls Count Anywhere match. The title match’s stipulation likely helps “The Tribal Chief” as it allows The Usos to get involved without the match being thrown out....

James Cameron explains how he actually threatened to fire the Avatar sequel writers. It’s been a long road to this point for the franchise. With years passing in between the first movie and the second entry. The director sat down with Marianne Williamson to talk about the challenge of following up the highest-grossing movie in history. China has the film on screens again and people are wondering if that might stoke the fires under the sequels....

A new datamine for Call of Duty: Vanguard seems to indicate that the game could receive tie-in content related to Attack on Titan! According to Call of Duty dataminer/leaker @Nanikos, multiple lines of code have been discovered in the game with “aot_titan” listed. One of these lines of code seems to point to the existence of an Operator based on the series. The leaker believes that a tie-in event could happen next month but, as with any datamine, readers are advised to take this with a grain of salt until we receive some kind of official confirmation....

After much discussion and speculation online about plans for unannounced projects such as a “Call of Duty: Warzone 2” and “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2,” Activision shared the first official details on its plans for the future of Call of Duty. A post shared on Friday as well as several concise social posts confirmed not only the plans for the next mainline Call of Duty game which will indeed be a sequel to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare but also confirmed a new Warzone “experience” is coming....

Lolth, the iconic spider-goddess at the heart of Dungeons & Dragons’ first adventure, has received a major redesign. Earlier this week, Wizards of the Coast revealed three new Magic: The Gathering cards from the upcoming “Adventures in the Forgotten Realms” set as part of the launch of a summer-wide celebration of Drizzt Do’Urden, the iconic drow ranger and star of a longrunning series of novels by R.A. Salvatore. One of those cards featured Lolth, the famed spider goddess responsible for the corruption of some of the drow in Dungeons & Dragons lore....

Elijah Burke had to be taken to the hospital following National Wrestling Alliance’s Hard Times 2 pay-per-view on Saturday night in Atlanta, according to a report from PWInsider’s Mike Johnson. The show’s main event saw Trevor Murdoch successfully retain the NWA World Heavyweight Championship from Mike Knox only for Matt Cardona to suddenly arrive in the promotion and beat down the champion. Mick Foley then appeared and sent out Burke to make the save, but something went wrong when “The Pope” started brawling with the heels at ringside and was tossed into the steel steps....

Genshin Impact developer miHoYo has revealed that it intends to release partial redesigns of the base outfits for characters Jean, Amber, Rosaria, and Mona in the future. These new “Alternate Outfits” do not currently have a definitive final design or release window as of yet, but the tentative drafts that the developer shared appear to largely keep most of the previous outfits’ designs with the addition of a bit more clothing or accents....

GTA 6 fans are starting to lose all hope of seeing the day it releases. Today, Rockstar Games revealed and dated Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition, a trio of remasters of GTA 3, GTA Vice City, and GTA San Andreas. As the leaks revealed weeks ago, the remasters will release in November for a plethora of platforms. What Grand Theft Auto fans didn’t get today was anything about GTA 6, a game Grand Theft Auto fans have been hearing about for years through rumors and leaks, but which has yet to surface or even be officially confirmed....

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is introducing a new mode through its PUBG Labs feature that dims the lights and takes away much of the on-screen UI. This new mode called “Challenger Battle Royale” takes place on the Sanhok map at sunset with the entire area darkened to make players rely on their senses and the occasional flare that lights up the map. Things like the player’s HUD and ping messages have been removed entirely, so you’ll have to keep a close eye on anything that you see moving....

Johnny Depp is reportedly eyeing new projects following the Pirates of the Caribbean ouster at Disney. Daniel Richtman talked about how the megastar has shifted his focus toward lower budget projects. Depp is looking for more money as the case between him and his ex-wife Amber Heard continues on. A lot of fans are upset that the Pirates star has been under this much scrutiny. The civil suit has played out largely in the media, and those legal fees can be expensive....

Jujutsu Kaisen has planted the seeds for its future anime adventures in a possible Season 2 with a new addition made to the Jujutsu Kaisen 0 movie! With the anime’s massively successful debut season, it was surprisingly announced that the franchise would be launching its own feature film in Japan before years’ end. With the release of Jujutsu Kaisen 0 hitting theaters in Japan over the holiday season (and doing very well by the looks of the first box office numbers to come out since that debut), it seems some new additions to the movie’s story are setting the stage for a potential Season 2....

Squid Game is getting a second season according to series creator Hwang Dong-hyuk. The director and writer of the hit Netflix series spoke to the Associated Press this week about his triumph on the streaming platform and the hunger for more. Netflix’s CEO correctly predicted that Squid Game would end up being the biggest series in the history of the service. However, in some previous interviews, Dong-hyuk seemed to indicate that there hadn’t been anything concrete yet as far as plans were concerned....

One Piece is about to make movie history with Jinbe and the Straw Hats in the upcoming One Piece Film: Red! Fans of Eiichiro Oda’s original manga series have had quite a lot to celebrate over the last year with the manga reaching its 1000th chapter milestone, and the anime reaching its own 1000th episode milestone as well. But that was far from the only celebration warranted as the series clearly has some big plans in store for fans next year such as the release of the next major feature film, One Piece: Red....

A recent datamine indicates that a surprise Mythical Pokemon could appear either at this weekend’s Pokemon Go Fest or soon afterwards. Day 2 of this weekend’s Pokemon Go Fest focuses on Raid Battles, with every Legendary Pokemon currently available in the game making an appearance in raids throughout the day. Pokemon Go hinted that their might be a story-related reason for the influx of Legendary Pokemon, and a new datamine indicates that it could be related to a surprise Mythical Pokemon....

One Spider-Man: No Way Home fan is showing off an emotional photo from the last days of filming the movie. In the shot, Tom Holland is giving a speech and his co-stars are holding flowers. Both Zendaya and Jacob Batalon are listening and admiring their gifts while their friend addresses everyone around. The sea of blue screens around them really makes the flowers stand out. All of the Home trilogy trio have been open about how emotional it’s been for them to let go of these characters that they’ve been playing for so long....

The show is definitely not going on — at least for now. On Monday, The Late Show With Stephen Colbert announced that it will not be taping new episodes until further notice after host Stephen Colbert began to experience symptoms indicative of a recurrence of COVID-19. Colbert himself shared the news as well with the comment “worst sequel ever”. Guests on Monday night’s show were to have included Sarah Silverman, Shaquille O’Neal and a musical performance Sharon Van Etten....

The Flash’s “Armageddon” event continued this week with Barry Allen/The Flash (Grant Gustin) determined to show Despero (Tony Curran) that he isn’t going to turn on the world and, therefore, can’t be the cause of the coming Armageddon the mysterious alien warns of. Unfortunately, events transpire over the course of “Armageddon, Part 2” which appears to show that Despero’s assertion may be right. Previously released previews for the episode reveal that Barry goes mad after enduring one tragedy too many, thus prompting his villain turn....

The Legend of Vox Machina features a familiar face in every episode, although newcomers to the franchise might not recognize him. While the new Prime Video series focuses on the bawdy and resourceful adventuring group Vox Machina, viewers may have noticed that another character keeps reappearing in every episode as well. This long-haired male elf has appeared in each episode, occasionally suffering a grisly fate in the process. If you’ve watched Critical Role, the popular web series that The Legend of Vox Machina is adapted from, you probably recognize that the animators have put cast member Matt Mercer in every episode, a nod to the role that Mercer plays in the series itself....

The Rock kicked off Sunday’s Super Bowl event with a WWE-esque promo from the 50-yard-line inside Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium. After reflecting on how both the Los Angeles Rams and Cincinnati Bengals made it to the championship game, he said, “It is time for all of us here and millions around the world to bare witness to these incredible players, who will leave every ounce of sweat, guts, pride and legacy upon this field because that is what champions do....

James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad sees the return of Joel Kinnaman as Rick Flag, the team’s field leader who was also featured in the 2016 Suicide Squad. Throughout the new film, Kinnaman wears a t-shirt with a cartoon bunny on it. Originally, Kinnaman was going to don a Looney Tunes shirt, but Gunn decided against it. Instead, he created his own character. “I just drew Ultrabunny because originally we were gonna use, he was gonna wear a Wile E....