Dynasty

You may think you’re done with Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty, but Team Ninja isn’t done with you just yet. Koei Tecmo revealed a date for the third piece of DLC, titled Upheaval in Jingxiang, which touches down on December 12, 2023. If you’re looking for new challenges, there should be plenty to go around in Jingxiang. Chief among the additions is a new story chapter that finds Liu Bei’s forces fighting back against the chaos the Elixir has caused. As it continues to wreak havoc throughout the land following the death of Yu…

Toplitz Productions has announced that the next in the Dynasty franchise of games will be Vampire Dynasty, developed by Mehuman Games. It’s not expected to hit Early Access until late 2024, but they’ve provided a cinematic and gameplay trailer for an early look. The Dynasty series of games is a growing series of simulator titles that include Farmer’s Dynasty, Medieval Dynasty, and Sengoku Dynasty. There’s usually a different developer on each one, which has yielded some mixed results. I dug through the press release and…

Photo: Alberto E. Rodriguez (Getty Images)As Marvel looks to refocus the creative teams behind its far-flung Avengers duology in the wake of director Destin Daniel Cretton’s departure, the studio has reportedly decided that why not make the man already writing an Avengers movie, write another Avengers movie?Ms. Marvel's Directors Talk Embiggening the Show's Superhero ActionDeadline reports that Waldron—already set to to write Avengers: Secret Wars for Marvel—has now come aboard the other Avengers movie in the works, Kang…

The question of how to save the MCU has been on everyone’s mind for a while. And it’s never been a more pertinent question than now. With The Marvels stumbling out of the gate and Jonathan Majors’ star experiencing whatever the opposite of a meteoric rise is, things are starting to look rough. Meanwhile, Avengers: The Kang Dynasty, theoretically the next big thing that the MCU has been building toward, is starting to look like a dud. Destin Daniel Cretton, the director behind Shang-Chi and the Legend of the 10 Rings, has…

The Marvels is tanking at the box office. The next Avengers movie is being left completely rudderless. How is Marvel to get the fans back on side? How about finally revealing the Fantastic Four cast? We did our waiting, four years of it (not quite in Azkaban, although we did have to endure Quantumania), but finally it looks like some official casting news for Marvel’s reboot of its First Family is on its way. And reports are so thrilling that they’re successfully distracting us from some concerning Kang Dynasty…

The great behemoth MCU’s grand design, as presented by Kevin Feige every few years, has finally met its match. Undone, destroyed, after all of man’s weapons and devices had failed, by the tiniest creatures that God in his wisdom put upon this Earth: Their star actor unraveling like dollar store string cheese. Yes, with the drama surrounding Jonathan Majors continuing to spin, recent reports point to Marvel abandoning Avengers: The Kang Dynasty as the franchise’s Next Big Thing. Necessarily, this means that they’ll need a…

Photo: Frazer Harrison (Getty Images)With so many things in flux at Marvel Studios, there’s news that Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings director Destin Daniel Cretton has departed the director’s chair of Avengers: The Kang Dynasty. A move that leaves us speculating about the crossover film’s future, if anything.Ms. Marvel's Directors Talk Embiggening the Show's Superhero ActionThe story from Deadline reports that Cretton “has decided to step away as director of Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Kang Dynasty to focus on…

Director Destin Daniel Cretton is no longer expected to direct Marvel’s upcoming Avengers: The Kang Dynasty project, creating even more uncertainty for the film’s future in light of star Jonathan Majors’ ongoing criminal domestic violence case.  Cretton — who was announced as the director in 2022 — is still reportedly working with Marvel on other projects, including a sequel for Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and TV series Wonder Man, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Avengers: The Kang Dynasty was…

The Marvel fandom has been in a state of severe Kangst for months and months , ever since Jonathan Majors‘ arrest led to it appearing that Marvel Studios had no choice but to let him go as the Multiverse Saga’s big bad. Surprisingly, though, no official confirmation has emerged one way or the other. On Nov. 1, Variety published a shocking expose that reported Marvel had debated what to do with Majors and Kang at the studio’s annual retreat in September, with options discussed including replacing the character entirely…

At times it feels like Canadian director Ashley McKenzie is setting a challenge with this: are you arthouse enough? Have you got the cinematic endurance? Her film is the story of a friendship between a neurodivergent teenager called Star struggling with her mental health, and a hospital volunteer newly immigrated from China. You could imagine it being turned into a quirky-cute odd-couple indie comedy with a superficial take on neurodivergence. Instead, McKenzie pulls us into Star’s reality, how she experiences the world.…