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Season 2 of HBO’s The Last of Us introduces characters from The Last of Us: Part II the game, including Abby. The character generated a lot of heated discussion when the game came out in 2020, and the expectation is that the cycle will repeat itself with Abby on the TV show. Isabela Merced, who plays Dina in Season 2, responded to the backlash against Abby, saying in an interview, “there are so many strange people in this world.” She also reminded people that Abby, who is played by Kaitlyn Dever on the show, can’t hurt you because she is not real. Merced also revealed that Dever received extra security detail during filming.”There are people who actually genuinely hate Abby, who is not a real person. Just a reminder. Not a real person,” Merced said in an appearance on the Happy Sad Confuse…

Lego Super Mario 64 Question Mark $200 See at Amazon Lego retired the Super Mario 64 Question Block set at the end of July. The writing was on the wall before then, as the set has frequently been out of stock at major retailers, including Amazon, for months. But strangely enough, Amazon has replenished its stock–probably for the last time. If Lego-scalping history is any indication, buying the Mario 64 Lego …

The video game industry layoff trend continues as Ubisoft has cut 45 jobs across its teams in San Francisco, California and Cary, North Carolina this week.A spokesperson for Ubisoft confirmed to Bloomberg that the company made the “difficult yet necessary decision” to lay off staffers in an effort to “align these studios’ organizations with their future business and development objectives.”Those who lost their jobs will get severance payment and outplacement support. Back in April this year, Ubisoft eliminated 45 jobs across other divisions. GameSpot has contacted Ubisoft in an attempt to get more details on these cuts.These cuts appear to stem from Ubisoft’s ongoing cost-reduction plan to help improve profitability and appease investors. The cuts at Ubisoft have stretched beyond 1,000.Ubi…

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The next Transformers movie is almost a month away from premiering and will be the first animated Transformers movie to hit theaters since the 1986 feature. Chris Hemsworth, Brian Tyree Henry, Keegan-Michael Key, Scarlett Johansson, and more voice the iconic characters with Hemsworth and Henry taking on Orion Pax and D-16 before they were Optimus Prime and Megatron, respectively. Paramount released a quick featurette with the interviews with the cast about their roles and the characters’ major differences from what we’ve seen. “What intrigued me was the origin story,” Hemsworth says. “And to be voicing Optimus Prime is another level. He begins as Orion Pax, he’s a worker in the mines, this is his journey to become the all-powerful, all-knowing Optimus Prime. This film has an incre…

September is traditionally when the box office cools down after the summer blockbusters finish their runs. But if the early word on Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is any indication, then this long-awaited sequel is going to buck the trend with an opening weekend worthy of the summer.Via The Hollywood Reporter, the sequel to 1988’s Beetlejuice is projected to open with $80 million. If the film manages to pull that off, it will have one of the highest September openings of all time. That said, it should be noted that Warner Bros. is offering a more conservative outlook for the film. The studio believes that the total will fall somewhere between $65 million to $75 million, which would still be a big opening.Regardless of the final total, these projections suggest that now was the right time for dire…

August is officially underway, which means a ton of new events are on the horizon for Pokemon Go. The mobile game is capping off its Shared Skies season with a variety of activities over the next few weeks, including new Spotlight Hours, a Team Go Rocket takeover, and a Shadow Raid weekend.Those aren’t the only events players can look forward to this month. Pokemon Go will also host not one, but two Community Days in August, and some fan-favorite legendary and Mega Pokemon will return to raid battles for a limited time.To help get you up to speed on everything going on this month, here’s a roundup of all the biggest events happening in Pokemon Go in August 2024.Table of Contents [hide]

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Developer All Possible Futures has announced that The Plucky Squire will launch on September 17 for PC, PS5, Switch, and Xbox Series X|S. It’ll also be included on PlayStation Plus for Extra and Premium tier subscribers.The Plucky Squire follows a young boy named Jot who can switch between his 2D storybook world and the outside 3D realm. Jot is kicked out of the storybook by Humgrump, who finds out he’s destined to be its villain, in an attempt to rewrite the ending. Now Jot must venture between both planes in order to restore the book’s original good ending.

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Andor Season 2 will forever change how Star Wars fans feel about the movie Rogue One, according to Andor lead Diego Luna. He said in a new interview that people will experience Rogue One in a new light after Andor Season 2 because they’ll finally see and understand what the characters did and went through leading them to the events of Rogue One.This includes the droid K-2SO, who is voiced by Alan Tudyk. “I think people watching Rogue One, after watching Season 2, are going to see a different film. Everything will be signified differently knowing what had to happen for K-2 to be there,” Luna told Entertainment Weekly. “It’s going to make you witness the journey of Rogue One in a different way, I think. And not just with K-2, but with many other characters. I think it’ll be really cool,” Lun…