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• As some analysts "hope" GTA 6 will normalize $100 games, one Baldur's Gate 3 dev points out that "prices haven't risen with inflation"

  20-01-2025 21:17 via gamesradar.com
  
  When I was a kid, video games cost $40. Now they're $70, and analysts are discussing a potential $100 price tag for Grand Theft Auto 6. One Baldur's Gate 3 dev says companies hoping for this are "saying the quiet part out loud."GTA 6 is one of the most-anticipated games in history. We're all going to buy it, that much is certain, the only question that remains is how much we'll pay for it. The $70 standard for triple-A games came into effect a few years ago, but in 2024, some of the best-selling
  
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• Leading analysts predict the Nintendo Switch 2 could shift anywhere between 14 million and 20 million units in its first year - if Nintendo can keep up with demand

  20-01-2025 21:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Leading games industry analysts predict that the Nintendo Switch 2 could well match and succeed its predecessor in first-year sales, though it's far from guaranteed and requires Nintendo to have the stock ready to go.As a quick refresher, the Nintendo Switch sold around 15 million units globally during its first year in 2017 before reaching around 150 million consoles in the following years. It's interesting, then, to see reports that Nintendo has readied itself to shift 20 million Switch 2 unit
  
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• 30 years later, Fallout creator Tim Cain is searching for a legendary D&D player who cheesed an entire competitive dungeon with a lightning-fast Monk build

  20-01-2025 20:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  Tim Cain might be best known as the creator of the Fallout series, but since there's probably no Fallout without D&D, it makes sense that he'd have an interest in the iconic tabletop game. In fact, that interest is so deeply held that Cain is now searching for a legendary player he heard about more than three decades ago.In a recent YouTube video, Cain explores the legend of the '1 million XP dungeon', a first-edition D&D competition he says he heard about in 1993 at a gaming convention
  
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• As Dragon Age: The Veilguard director leaves and studio closure rumors surface, Mass Effect 5 director appears to hint the RPG is just fine: "Every week is a good week at work for me"

  20-01-2025 19:08 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's been a rather strange few days online for BioWare fans, with Dragon Age: The Veilguard's director confirmed to be leaving BioWare, and unconfirmed rumors that the developer's Edmonton studio could be closing. However, after some clarification from the Dragon Age director herself regarding her departure, some vague comments from the project director of Mass Effect 5 seemingly hint that fans of the sci-fi RPG series have nothing to worry about when it comes to the next game.Corinne Busche had
  
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• The First Berserker: Khazan could be the action RPG that gets me hyped for a 3D gaming monitor comeback, and it's thanks to Samsung

  20-01-2025 18:56 via gamesradar.com
  
  Samsung just gave me a reason to get excited about 3D gaming monitors again, as it's collaborating with Nexon to add glasses-free visuals to The First Berserker: Khazan. The action RPG already looks like a ripping romp thanks to its vivid cell graphics aesthetic and gritty anime aesthetic, but now its set to reignite the flames of three dimensional visuals via 2025 Odyssey displays.In a press release, Samsung reveals that it's officially working alongside The First Berserker: Khaza developer Nex
  
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• Charlie Cox isn't kidding – the Daredevil star thinks he'd have "a lot of fun" playing DC's Joker

  20-01-2025 18:43 via gamesradar.com
  
  If there's anyone better at dancing with the devil in the pale moonlight, it's Daredevil: Born Again star Charlie Cox. Fitting then, that he'd consider taking on DC's Clown Prince of Crime, the Joker, if it weren't for all the incredible performances that have already brought the legendary villain to life.While attending Fan Expo in San Francisco, the star, who is set to return to the MCU as the Man Without Fear, was asked if there were another comic book character he'd like to play. Being caref
  
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• 10 years after the original comic, Mark Millar's feel-good superhero series Huck returns for a sequel

  20-01-2025 18:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  Well, it's certainly been a minute, but Mark Millar and Rafael Albuquerque's big-hearted superhero Huck is set to return in 2025 – 10 years after the character's first and only comic series to date. Huck: Big Bad World is a new six-issue limited series from Millar and Albuquerque, plus colorist Dave McCaig, and letterer Clem Robins. It revisits the titular small town gas station worker, an autistic man with superpowers who lives his life by the rule of doing one good deed ev
  
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• Marvel fans are convinced that Scarlet Witch will return to the MCU, but they're not sure if she'll rejoin the Avengers

  20-01-2025 18:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  Marvel fans are debating Scarlet Witch's return to the MCU – and while everyone can pretty much agree that Wanda will be back, they're not sure if it'll be as part of the next iteration of the Avengers or in another capacity.Wanda was a member of the original Avengers squad, but has kind of been off doing her own thing since Endgame. After the events of WandaVision, she was last seen in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and her fate was left a little ambiguous at the end of the
  
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• A Jedi was cut from the Star Wars Skeleton Crew finale – was she Jod’s former master?

  20-01-2025 18:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  Thanks to a post on social media, it's been revealed that the Skeleton Crew were almost graced with the presence of a Jedi before the scene was left on the cutting room floor.Revealed via Instagram, actress Yasmine Al Massri gave fans a glimpse behind the scenes of her time as a Jedi that unfortunately didn't make it into the final version of the show. Whether it did or not, though, she seemed overjoyed at donning the iconic cloak and robes in what would've been the first for the franchise. &ldq
  
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• Star Wars fans think they've found a prequels plot hole involving Anakin Skywalker

  20-01-2025 17:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  Star Wars fans might have found a prequels plot hole that involves Anakin Skywalker and Order 66.Now, Order 66 is the command given to the clone army by Emperor Palpatine to wipe out all of the Jedi. As one fan points out on Reddit, in The Clone Wars finale, it's shown that the clones try and kill Ahsoka Tano even though she's no longer a Jedi. Considering Anakin was dressed as a Jedi – even though he'd fallen to the dark side and become a Sith by the time of the command – then "sure
  
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• Severance is now on DVD but just for Christopher Walken — and he still hasn’t watched it all

  20-01-2025 17:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  Severance fans were firing up the first episode of season 2 last week, but star Christopher Walken may have already cracked open a DVD case to watch it, as that's the only way he sees the hit Apple TV+ show.While in attendance with the rest of the Severance cast, including executive producer and director Ben Stiller, on Sirius XM's Cohen Live, Walken was asked if he'd watched all the show's episodes so far. The man behind former optics and design head Burt Goodman was completely open about where
  
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• A Chainsaw Man movie update is coming in just a few months

  20-01-2025 17:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  Chainsaw Man is heading to the big screen this year, and we will be getting some important news soon. As announced this week, Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc will be sharing new information on March 23, 2025, during its panel at AnimeJapan.Fans are expecting that the new information includes an official release date for the movie, which is set to be released in Japan at some point in 2025, as well as further details about the plot. MAPPA has only released a couple of short teasers so far, so we might be
  
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• After Dune 2 and Deadpool and Wolverine set the trend, Cinemark's Bring Your Own Popcorn Bucket day included a bedside table and a cauldron

  20-01-2025 17:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  Dune 2 and Deadpool and Wolverine might have set the popcorn bucket trend with their iconic tie-ins, but Cinemark has upped the ante with a 'Bring Your Own Popcorn Bucket day' that saw some truly incredible vessels.People showed up with just about anything you could think of, including an urn and a whole bedside table. Yep, you read that right – someone showed up and got a literal drawer of popcorn to snack on throughout their movie.
  Cinemark hosted Bring Your Own Popcorn Bucket today wher
  
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• Tom Cruise inspired the opening scene of Severance season 2 – and the running sequence took five months to film

  20-01-2025 16:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  Severance season 2 hits the ground running – literally. The season premiere opens with Adam Scott's character Mark sprinting through the halls of Lumon Industries after the dramatic season 1 finale, but it turns out the sequence was a long time in the making, and had a famous source of inspiration.Although the scene looks like one long take, it was actually shot in 10 different parts. "We shot those 10 different pieces over a period of five months," Scott said on the show's official podcas
  
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• After years in Discord's shadow, Teamspeak is coming back with a huge Discord-style overhaul, and it's encouraging you to purge your Discord accounts

  20-01-2025 16:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  For years, Discord has been the go-to app for chatting with your friends while you game together, but Teamspeak is looking to change that.We all like to think we're unaffected by advertising, but I've got to admit, I love it when a company gets a little cheeky and takes a dig at its competitors. Teamspeak has been posting on Twitter about its new update, which should be coming sometime within the next day or so, and as well as letting us all know about its new features, it's been telling people
  
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• I wish I'd waited for this discount on Agricola's Limited Edition

  20-01-2025 16:15 via gamesradar.com
  
  I'd spent many a year playing economics-based games on my PC but, until a couple of weeks back when my partner brought home Agricola, I hadn't found an economics board game worthy of dragging me away from my gaming monitor.I genuinely think this game should be somewhere on our best board games list, and I only wish I knew there was a 15th aniversary edition of Agricola going for $113 on Amazon before we spent money on the standard version of the game. That's around $26 cheaper than its usual pri
  
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• Ted Lasso season 4 could start filming soon according to a mysterious statement from one of the actors

  20-01-2025 15:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  We have *potentially* good news for Ted Lasso fans, as one of the show's main actors has seemingly teased season 4 of Apple TV+'s beloved show. Now, let's not rush to conclusions, since the new episodes have not been officially confirmed, and season 3 is still considered the end of the series.The statement that has fans assuming filming of the new season is imminent came from Nick Mohammed, who played AFC Richmond's ambitious assistant coach Nate Shelley in the show. The actor teased his return
  
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• Silo showrunner agrees season 2 was too dark and promises "we will be outdoors" more in season 3

  20-01-2025 15:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  Naming a show Silo, Apple's dystopian series was always expected to be a little dim visually, but season 2 turned things right down when Juliette (Rebecca Ferguson) visited the nearly abandoned Silo 17.Given the future (or past) plot threads that were teased in the show's season 2 finale, showrunner Graham Yost promises that we're finally going to go outside and stay there longer than before.By returning to a time before humanity needed to stay underground, Yost promised TV Line that we will see
  
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• Silo season 3 is now filming and the script for season 4 is already complete, reveals showrunner: "Five weeks into season 1, we knew we were going to do the whole thing"

  20-01-2025 14:07 via gamesradar.com
  
  When it comes to the good of the silo, the creator of Apple's dystopian series has things all mapped out until the very end. Not only has filming already begun for season 3 of Silo after its renewal last year, but the scripts for the fourth and final season are completed as well.Following the mind-melting ending of season 2, showrunner Graham Yost confessed to The Wrap that he knew early on during season 1 just how far things would go, thanks to the big bosses up top. After the immensely positiv
  
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• James Gunn tries to clear up which projects are DC Studios, but it's still pretty confusing

  20-01-2025 14:07 via gamesradar.com
  
  James Gunn has cleared up some confusion over some recent DC projects – though, it's still not entirely clear cut.Neither The Penguin nor Harley Quinn had the DC Studios fanfare attached, and neither project is actually within the new DCU. But, they're still part of DC Studios."All DC television & film projects are now under DC Studios," Gunn wrote on Threads. "Because Harley Quinn was developed long before us we didn’t think it was fair to put the DC Studio fanfare on there. On
  
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• I couldn't put Epic Mickey Rebrushed down last year and now the remake has never been cheaper

  20-01-2025 14:07 via gamesradar.com
  
  With 2024 in the rearview mirror, the holiday sales have gone with it. Fortunately, January is full of deals and discounts of its own, especially for PS5 fans. As we dive deep into the New Year, we've already seen the upgraded PS5 Pro get a price drop, and that's just the start of it.Some of the biggest releases of the last year have also seen major price drops, and Disney Epic Mickey Rebrushed is no different as it's now £19.99 at Amazon in the UK. In the US, the PS5 game is still close t
  
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• Sate your Cities Skylines obsession with Lego micro skyline MOCs: From Mordor to The Little Mermaid, and heaps of real-life cities too

  20-01-2025 14:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  If there's one thing my heart cannot handle, it's objects that are far smaller than they have any right to be. I'm not allergic to adorableness, though my throat does close up somewhat causing me to form generally indecipherable words several octaves higher than usual. I've found my kryptonite in bonsai trees, micro pigs, and now this: Micro Lego skylines.Seriously, why did no one tell me mini Lego skylines were a thing? In fact, don't get me any of the best Lego sets for my birthday, I'm pivoti
  
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• Palworld's roadmap includes a final boss and crossplay, but fans still want bigger bosses and more quests

  20-01-2025 13:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Palworld developers have shared their plans for future improvements to the game, and players are also adding their own suggestions.Over on Twitter (via Automaton), the Palworld devs tell us what features they're working on ahead of the game's official release. It can be easy to forget it's still in early access since it's been out since early last year.Co-op crossplay, a final boss and an ending scenario, and more ways to make Pals stronger are just a few of the many features being worked on
  
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• Marvel fans are now realizing that Fantastic Four's The Thing star has been in the MCU before

  20-01-2025 13:52 via gamesradar.com
  
  The double-character club is a pretty prestigious group in the MCU with the likes of Josh Brolin, Linda Cardellini, and Michelle Yeoh all being members. Well now some Marvel fans have realized that Ebon Moss-Bachrach has also joined the line-up.The actor is set to star as Ben Grimm – or The Thing – in the upcoming The Fantastic Four: First Steps. However, he previously played David Lieberman in 12 episodes of The Punisher too, which is of course also now part of the MCU."After watchi
  
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• Your RTX 3080 and other older GPUs could get new AI superpowers after RTX 5090 launch, and I'm happy Nvidia is even considering it

  20-01-2025 13:51 via gamesradar.com
  
  Those of you with an RTX 3080 or one of Nvidia's older GPUs will no doubt be feeling a bit of Frame Generation FOMO. The tech first arrived alongside the RTX 40-series and has since evolved into a new Multi-Frame Generation feature supported by cards like the RTX 5080 via DLSS 4. However, the green teams seems to have older models on its mind, and support for your old Ampere graphics card isn't out of the question.In an interview with Digital Foundry, Nvidia's Deep Learning VP Bryan Catanzaro de
  
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• Nintendo says Switch 2 backwards compatibility exists because it's "the best direction" for consumers

  20-01-2025 13:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  Even before Nintendo unveiled the Switch 2 in all its glory, one of the few confirmed things we knew was that it'd be backwards compatible with existing Switch games, and the company has now stated that this decision was made since it was "the best direction" for consumers. Between the OG Nintendo Switch and its OLED and Lite variants, the current-gen Switch family has sold a lot. To be precise, as of last September, over 146 million consoles and 1.3 billion pieces of software had been sold
  
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• First reactions to new horror movie from Longlegs director are calling it "outlandishly demented" and "cartoonishly bloody"

  20-01-2025 13:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  The first reactions are in for The Monkey, a new horror movie from Longlegs director Osgood Perkins, and they're calling it "dark and brutal", "outlandishly demented", and "cartoonishly bloody".Adapted from Stephen King's short story, the film follows twin brothers Bill and Hal (both played by Theo James), who find their father's old monkey toy in the attic and awake something dangerous. After a series of gruesome deaths start, they decide to throw the toy away, but will that be enough to stop i
  
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• As Milly Alcock's Supergirl is confirmed to appear in Superman, DC fans are concerned the movie may have too many characters

  20-01-2025 13:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  Now that Milly Alcock's Supergirl is confirmed to appear in James Gunn's upcoming Superman movie (via The Hollywood Reporter), some fans are concerned that the first big-screen outing in the DCU may feature a few too many characters.Alongside David Corenswet's Clark Kent and Rachel Brosnahan's Lois Lane, the movie, which will be part of Gunn's DCU Chapter One: Gods and Monsters, features a 'who's who' of DC characters. Nicholas Hoult will star as Lex Luthor, while Anthony Carrigan is Metamorpho,
  
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• Captain America: Brave New World director says it was "surreal" seeing Harrison Ford's Red Hulk for the first time

  20-01-2025 13:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  Captain America: Brave New World director Julius Onah has revealed his initial response to seeing Harrison Ford's Red Hulk on the screen for the first time."It's surreal, it's incredible, it's exciting," Onah told Fandango. "I gotta tell you, when Red Hulk first became a possibility in this film, I just smiled. I was smiling like a kid, and that's when I knew it was the right idea and right moment to put it out into the world."For Onah, however, it's not just the star power of Ford or the shock
  
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• Beyond the Spider-Verse star reveals he's yet to start recording his lines as "a lot of things" are still being figured out

  20-01-2025 12:41 via gamesradar.com
  
  The highly anticipated Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse is taking longer than expected to arrive in theaters, with actor Jharrel Jerome recently confirming that "a lot of things" are still "being figured out".Jerome is set to reprise his role as the Earth-42 variant of Miles Morales, who we met at the ending of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, but it seems like preparations for the threequel are moving slow so far."No, I wish," the actor told Decider when asked if he was on production alr
  
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• Harry Potter director thinks Oppenheimer star Cillian Murphy would be a perfect Voldemort in new TV show

  20-01-2025 12:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  Casting rumors for the Harry Potter TV reboot have been heating up over the past few months, with plenty of names for Snape and Dumbledore in the mix. The franchise's main villain is now getting some of the limelight with one name consistently being linked with the big bad: Cillian Murphy.The fan-casting has already got the approval of original Voldemort star Ralph Fiennes, and now it seems Harry Potter director Chris Columbus is also on board. The filmmaker, who directed the first two Harry Pot
  
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• Solo Leveling season 2 just introduced a mysterious character who is likely to have a big impact on the anime's future

  20-01-2025 12:36 via gamesradar.com
  
  Warning: spoilers ahead for Solo Leveling season 2! Turn back if you're not up to date with the anime! Solo Leveling season 2 has introduced a major new character, and they're set to have a big impact moving forward.The mysterious man is discovered inside of a gate, and it turns out this man is none other than Sung Ilhwan – Jinwoo's father (H/T ComicBook.com). Jinwoo's father hasn't appeared before now, which makes his sudden appearance all the more significant, especially considering he's
  
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• Monster Hunter Wilds devs are "looking at" lowering the recommended GPU specs, but a free hardware benchmark tool isn't coming just yet

  20-01-2025 12:24 via gamesradar.com
  
  The German Twitter account for Monster Hunter mistakenly claimed that a free tool would be released that you can use to check if your PC can run Monster Hunter Wilds, but don't worry, it is still being considered, and Capcom is also looking at lowering the recommended specs.In the original tweet (with translations provided by DeepL), the account writes that there are plans to actually release "a standalone, free hardware benchmark tool." This would allow you to run a quick check to see if your P
  
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• After 3 weeks and 115 attempts, Elden Ring sicko becomes the "first in the world" and "probably the last" to complete a no-hit run at uncapped NG+1,000

  20-01-2025 12:17 via gamesradar.com
  
  Almost three years after its release, you'd be forgiven for thinking that Elden Ring players had already pushed challenge runs to their absolute limit, but one streamer continues to prove that's not true, with their recent "first in the world" New Game+1,000 no-hit run one that they think might never be replicated.We've been covering Skumnut's antics for some time now, and whether the streamer has been slaying a ridiculously beefed-up Messmer without taking a single hit, or charging through the
  
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• Only three weeks into January, four more TV shows have been canceled – including a James Wan horror and a superhero show with 100% Rotten Tomatoes score

  20-01-2025 12:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  January might not even be over, but the list of 2025 cancelations have been stacking up. The latest shows to join the list are Extraordinary, Shardlake, Teacup, and Fraiser, joining the likes of The Franchise and The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin.Disney Plus is behind two of the latest cancelations, axing superhero show Extraordinary after two seasons and historical drama Shardlake after just one season. Variety shared the news, confirmed by a rep for Disney Plus who explained: "D
  
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• Spider-Man: No Way Home director says there's still one Easter egg no one has found yet – it's a "deep cut" from his "dumb" YouTube videos

  20-01-2025 12:03 via gamesradar.com
  
  Spider-Man: No Way Home director Jon Watts says there's still an Easter egg that no one has found yet – but it has nothing to do with Marvel."It's a hard one, but people found a lot of our intentionally placed Easter eggs. There was also a thing where people find Easter eggs that we didn't put there. We're like, 'Yeah, great,'" Watts told Screen Rant.The Easter egg in question, though, is a nod to Jon Watts and Christopher Ford's old YouTube channel waverlyflams which, beginning in 2007, r
  
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• Captain America star Anthony Mackie was convinced Sam Wilson was going to die in Avengers: Endgame: "They're getting rid of me, man"

  20-01-2025 11:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  No one was more surprised than Anthony Mackie that he was the new Captain America – mainly because he thought his character Sam Wilson was going to die in Avengers: Endgame.In an interview with Fandango, the man behind the new star-spangled hero in Captain America: Brave New World recalled when his co-star and former Captain, Chris Evans, broke the news that he was getting promoted in the comic book universe. "He goes, 'Have you read the new script?' I said 'no' ... he said, 'you don't kno
  
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• The Boys showrunner Erik Kripke says scripts for season 5 are "half-written" despite filming being under way

  20-01-2025 11:36 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Boys season 5 is now filming, but that doesn't mean all the scripts are set in stone, or even finished. Over a month after we got a first look at the new season, showrunner Eric Kripke has revealed that the new episodes are "not all written"."They're about half-written," he clarified in a recent interview with Forbes, where he opened up about how real life events are constantly integrated into the world of the popular Prime Video show."Things adjust all the time. That happened in season one
  
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