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Raiders of the Lost Ark is my favorite film. Like, to the degree that if I were marooned on a desert island and given the option between water and Steven Spielberg’s classic 1981 action blockbuster, I’d go with the latter. The film released before I was born, and I didn’t really discover it until later in my life when my tastes evolved from Beethoven’s 2nd to Die Hard, but since my “discovery” of famed archeologist Indiana Jones, life has always carried a lot

Ubisoft developed an Avatar game around the release of the first film in 2009 and announced it was making another game in 2017 around the release of the second movie slated for December 2022. Now the publisher and developer has finally shown the mysterious game in question and announced its name: Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. It is coming to the PS5, Xbox Series X/S, PC, Amazon Luna, and Stadia sometime in 2022. No specific date was announced and the game is not coming to PS4, Switch, or X

Ubisoft’s E3 event is in full swing and, as expected, more details about the season pass for the forthcoming Far Cry 6 have been confirmed.
In a two-minute trailer, the company showed that players who own the season pass will be able to delve into the backstories of some of the franchise’s most nefarious villains. Vaas Montenegro, Pagam Min, and Joseph Seed will all become playable and will all be given life by their original voice actors.
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During their E3 presentation, Ubisoft has announced that the erstwhile heroes in a half-shell will be showing off their T-U-R-T-L-E power in Brawlhalla starting next week.
That’s right. Players of the free-to-play platform fighting title will be able to lead Michaelangelo, Donatello, Leonardo, and Raphael into battle from June 16, as the latest incarnations of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will be grabbing a hot slice of ‘za and going to work against the other 50+ characters that

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla released in November 2020 but Ubisoft is not even close with supporting the title. Ubisoft announced in the Ubisoft Forward that the RPG will be getting even more DLC in 2022 as well as the Discovery Tour in late 2021. This is in all in addition to the free updates and events the game has been receiving since launch.
No other Assassin’s Creed game has gotten DLC support in its second year. Odyssey got the most DLC support and its final expansion released on

Just Dance is back for another yearly installment.
Ubisoft announced that the next installment will launch on November 4, 2021. It will feature 40 new songs including “Believer” by Imagine Dragons and “Level Up” by Ciara. It will be available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and Google Stadia.
Check out the Just Dance 2022 trailer below:

It was also announced that Just Dance 2022 will get an exclusive version

Since Ubisoft’s Rocksmith released for consoles and PC back in 2011, millions of users have picked up their guitar, connected the bundled cable, and did their best to try to learn how to play. An “updated” version (which didn’t really include any updates) was released in 2014 but since then, things have been quiet.
Today though, Ubisoft has announced the next generation of the product, in the form of Rocksmith+.
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Kevin Bacon has officially joined the upcoming remake of The Toxic Avenger.READ MORE: Kevin Bacon: “After Footloose… I was sliding down the Hollywood mountain”The Footloose and Mystic River actor is set to portray a villain opposite Peter Dinklage, who is slated to star as the film’s title character, per The Hollywood Reporter.
The 1984 low-budget superhero comedy, which saw Mitch Cohen star in the lead role, follows Melvin Ferd, a mop boy who gets pushed in a vat of tox

Ubisoft kicked off its Ubisoft Forward event with a Rainbow Six Extraction release date reveal. The co-op sci-fi shooter will be out on September 16, 2021 on PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and PC. All systems will be able to play together with cross-play, which Ubisoft also confirmed.The above gameplay deep dive showcases the game in action for the first time. It shows the known Rainbow Six Siege gameplay, but with more future technology and parasitic aliens called the Archæns which

Ahoy, fellow couch potatoes! These last several weeks have been a lot of fun as DEG’s Watched at Home Top 20 has consistently been inconsistent with its list. This week, for example, sees a new champion: Four Good Days, the Glenn Close/Mila Kunis drama based upon Eli Sallows 2016 Washington Post article, “How’s Amanda? A Story of Truth, Lies and an American Addiction.” The film made its debut on the list a few weeks ago and rose to No. 3 last week, but finally claims the

"He was those characters." Apple has unveiled an official trailer for a documentary titled Who Are You, Charlie Brown?, available for streaming later in June this year. This hour-long doc special is a tribute to and also a look back at cartoonist Charles M. Schulz, who passed away in 2000. It includes conversations friends, family and others involved in the iconic comic strip to provide a portrait of the late Peanuts creator. Executive produced by Brian Grazer and Ron Howard, the documentary sp

Laurence Fishburne has confirmed that he will reprise his role as The Bowery King in the upcoming new John Wick film.READ MORE: John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum review — a brutal, blood-soaked sequelThe fourth instalment of the Keanu Reeves-led film is due to start filming in the next couple of months in Berlin, followed by shoots in France, Japan and New York ahead of its slated May 2022 release.
Speaking in a new interview, Fishburne, who plays the head of the Bowery, an

A sequel to Ubisoft Paris’ 2017 Nintendo Switch hit Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle will be announced later today at the publisher’s press conference.
Unfortunately for the development team, the sequel, which is called Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope, leaked earlier today due to a Nintendo website listing going up early. The strategy game will once again see Mario and other iconic Nintendo characters teaming up with the zany Rabbids from Rayman. The game is sl

Update: The game has officially been announced, check out the official trailer below!
A sequel to Ubisoft Paris’ 2017 Nintendo Switch hit Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle will be announced later today at the publisher’s press conference.
Unfortunately for the development team, the sequel, which is called Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope, leaked earlier today due to a Nintendo website listing going up early. The strategy game will once again see Mario and other ico

Ratatouille: The Musical is a unique social media experience that brought together a number of creative individuals, including Daniel Mertzlufft & Kate Leonard, who were kind enough to speak to ComingSoon.net about their experience adapting the popular Pixar animated film.
Based on the Disney/Pixar film, Ratatouille, the musical sensation is an unprecedented, community-written, Broadway-caliber special event that first hatched when TikTok creator Emily Jacobsen’s musical Ratatoui

A duo of skateboarding games were shown during IGN’s Summer of Gaming stream. OlliOlli World got a new gameplay trailer while SkateBird finally received a release date, which is August 12, 2021. While the two games put skateboarding at the forefront, they couldn’t be more different from one another.
OlliOlli World is a skateboarding action platformer developed by Roll7. Set in the vibrant world of Radlandia, you’ll carve, grind, and huck yourself on the gnarliest terrain as yo

Announced during IGN’s Summer of Gaming stream, a new and improved version Doki Doki Literature Club is coming to consoles and PC later this month. There will also be a physical edition packed with goodies.
Titled Doki Doki Literature Club Plus, the return of Dan Salvato’s 2017 visual novel features a slew of new content to appease both new and returning players. As presented in the announcement trailer, this includes new side stories, improved visuals, over 13 new music trackers, a