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This article was originally published on March 12, 2021.With GameStop’s stock exploding and shrinking on a weekly basis, it’s easy to forget that until recently, it was an open question whether the next-gen of gaming consoles were going to come with an optical drive at all. Physical games managed to avoid the grim reaper, for now, but little care is put into their packaging these days. A whole generation missed out on a time when you could walk into a Babbages and an encyclopedia-sized PC game box practically leapt into…

Get a look at the return of Gru in Despicable Me 4's first trailer. The Penguin’s mystery cast continues to grow. The Fall of Reach grows closer as Halo preps for season 2. Plus, Isla Fisher on the hopes for Wolf Like Me’s return. To me, my spoilers!How Invincible's Omni-Man Joined Mortal Kombat 1MercyDeadline reports Chris Pratt is attached to star in Mercy, a “big sci-fi film” at Amazon MGM Studios from director Timur Bekmambetov. Based on a script by Marco van Belle, Mercy is said to be “set in the near future when…

We’ve watched a lot of Indiana Jones stories over the years but we’ve very rarely been able to put on the fedora ourselves. That changes later this year with the release of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle for Xbox.Finding the Right Story and Tone for Indiana Jones 5 | io9 InterviewSet between the events of Raiders of the Lost Ark and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Temple of Doom is a prequel, remember), players will take control of the world’s most adventurous archeologist on a globetrotting one-player adventure…

James Gunn teases the team of his Creature Commandos DC movie. Mortal Kombat 2 teases the arrival of another big villain. Matt Smith tells us just when to expect House of the Dragon season 2. Plus, Jon Bernthal teases what he wants out of the return of the Punisher. To me, my spoilers!How Invincible's Omni-Man Joined Mortal Kombat 1GoatDeadline reports Marlon Wayans is attached to star in Goat, a “sports horror” film from Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw banner. Based on a pitch by Zack Akers and Skip Bronkie, the story is only…

Classic puzzle game Tetris has been around for over three decades, and in that time, plenty of people have reached its various endings, usually by clearing four rows of bricks at once like a digital demolitioner. That’s a challenge in and of itself, but now, someone has taken the concept of “beating Tetris” to the extreme by playing the NES game so hard it straight-up crashed, a phenomenon also known as the “kill screen.”As reported by 404 Media, 13-year-old competitive Tetris player Blue Scuti became the first human to…

Check out a veritable smorgasbord of Barbie clips. Doctor Who adds another young hero to its cast. Netflix sets a date for its Chicken Run sequel. Plus, Mads Mikkelsen discusses the chances of ever coming back to Hannibal, and some major Superman & Lois cast shakeups are on the way. To me, my spoilers!The Mario Movie's Cast and Crew Talk Bringing the Mushroom Kingdom to LifeUntitled Universal Monster MovieDeadline reports Giancarlo Esposito has joined Melissa Barrera, Alisha Weir, Dan Stevens, Kevin Durand, Kathryn…

For almost 20 years, everyone thought Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade was the last time we’d ever see our favorite archaeologist on screen again. The 1989 mega-hit sequel capped the franchise with a storybook ending, complete with our hero riding off into the sunset alongside his father and best friends. Of course, Last Crusade didn’t end up being Indy’s last crusade. Not by a long shot. And that’s not the only thing that’s changed when you watch the film today.Spoilers of the Week April 11-15As Indiana Jones and the…

Zack Snyder’s two-part movie Rebel Moon has always had a suitably epic cast, but we haven’t known much about the movie other than a group of heroes band together to try to protect the peaceful, agrarian moon colony of Veldt from the sinister, overwhelming forces of the Imperium. But now Netflix has revealed the characters who will take a doomed stand against tyranny—and the bastards who will try to take them down—in this Seven Samurai-inspired sci-fi saga, which releases its first installment in December. Zack Snyder’s…

Of all the Indiana Jones movies, I’ve seen Temple of Doom the most. Between a worn-out VHS copy and watching on TV, I’ve probably seen it 100 times. I know every wink, every expression, every inflection of every line reading. I love it unconditionally and figured, watching it again in the lead-up to Indy’s fifth and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, I wouldn’t really find much to talk about. I was wrong.Brian Baumgartner | First FandomsIn the weeks ahead, io9 is going to revisit each of the Indiana Jones films just…

The 2021 Mortal Kombat movie (which was much better than it had any right to be) ended with a tease and a promise: the film’s main character Cole (Lewis Tan) says he’s going off to Hollywood. “What’s in Hollywood?” he’s asked. “Not what... who,” he says, before the camera pans to a poster for a movie starring Johnny Cage.Thanks, Last of Us. Thanks a Lot. | The Last of Us Episode 7 ReviewThe implication, of course, is that Cole is heading to Hollywood to find the brash actor turned Mortal Kombat combatant who has been in…