Game Of Thrones Actor Drops Out Of LOTR- Rings Of Power, Role Recast

While production on Disney+’s Andor series might be on pause while the WGA strike commences, star Diego Luna and showrunner Tony Gilroy gave some input for Season 2, aiming for a 2024 release. Cassian Andor (Luna) first debuted with 2016’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, with the Disney+ series taking place before the movie and Season 2 ending right before the events of the start. We obviously know Andor’s inevitable fate, but leading up to it has been an incredible journey thus far.

So while we’ll have to wait on those details, Luna and Gilroy talked to EW’s Dagobah Dispatch podcast during this year’s Star Wars Celebration over the Spring, and before the strike.

“The beauty of this show is that even though sometimes you know what’s going to happen, it hits you as though you…

Cassian Andor was introduced six years ago in the Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and is now the focus of the aptly-titled series Andor on Disney+. In the series, we get Andor’s backstory and what led him to the doorstep of the Rebel Alliance, but not everything he does is for the greater good or the most honorable.

Within the first few minutes of meeting Cassian, he kills an informant that was on his side and did the work he set out to do. Mild spoilers ahead, but in the first episode of Andor, Cassian accidentally kills one corporate security member trying to shake him down, but then he very clearly intentionally kills another one who was a witness.

Talking to Entertainment Weekly, star Diego Luna goes into depth on where Andor is at the beginning of the series and the correl…

When Amazon’s Prime Big Deals Day promotion rolls around, it’s usually a good time to do some retail therapy. If you’re in the market for some fancy new tech, Apple is a reliable brand for sleek hardware that can serve a wide range of purposes, and there are some attractive deals this week to check out.

MacBook Air

• 2024 MacBook Air 13-inch Laptop with M3 chip — $849 ($1,099)
• 2024 MacBook Air 15-inch Laptop with M3 chip — $1,044 ($1,299)

iPads

• Apple iPad Pro 11-Inch (512GB) — $1,049 with coupon ($1,199)
• Apple iPad Pro 13-Inch (256GB) — $1,349 With coupon ($1,500)
• Apple iPad Mini 64GB (6th Generation) — $350 ($500)
• 2021 Apple 10.2-inch iPad 64GB — $258 (…
  

Diablo 4 was announced back at BlizzCon 2019, but since then, details have been pretty thin on the ground for the hotly-anticipated sequel. While we’re expected to learn more about the game at Blizzconline 2021 via a few in-depth panels, we have to settle for the few tidbits we know about the game so far until then.

Over the past few months, Blizzard has revealed bits and pieces of the game’s design, and a blog post from the developer shows off some of the major changes to the game’s itemization system, which is arguably the core of the Diablo experience. According to the post, perhaps the biggest change coming to the itemization system is the removal of Mythic tier loot. Instead, they’ll be replaced with Uniques, items that always appear with the same “affixe…

When we think of high-budget games, we may think of the cinematic experiences that drag you along a roller coaster-like ride through scripted set pieces and quick time events, like Call of Duty or Uncharted. Or we may think of the glut of open world games we’ve seen flood the market, all complete with minimaps covered in dots of things to do or collect, compelling you to comb the landscape and visit every single one. The Lego series of games by Traveller’s Tales has perfectly embodied these conflicting design philosophies across the many franchises it’s taken on and put them in a kid-friendly package. That’s why setting a Lego game in the Jurassic Park world is such an enticing prospect: it’s a series that naturally combines the cinematic with the sprawling. Lego Jurassic World encompas…

The new NFL season begins tomorrow, September 8, and to capitalize on the hype, EA Sports is hosting a free weekend for the newest entry in the series, Madden NFL 23. Additionally, the publisher announced new statistics that seem to show the new game is performing better than last year’s, at least so far.

To celebrate the start of the new NFL season, EA making Madden NFL 23 free for everyone from September 8-11 Come from Sports betting site VPbet . Additionally, the Madden NFL 23 All Madden Edition will be marked down by 25%.

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Team17’s Worms series has been happily bumping along since the mid-’90s with no signs of stopping. Despite some absurd spin-offs and missteps, the franchise’s tried-and-true turn-based, scorched-earth-style formula has allowed Worms to become one of the most consistently entertaining series around. The latest game, Worms W.M.D., is an excellent example of why Worms continues to thrive, and why it’s original formula had the right idea all along.

If you’ve never played a Worms game before, the concept is simple: opposing teams of well-armed worm commandos face off in a turn-based battle in a completely destructible 2D landscape. Physics play a key role; gravity, acceleration, charging power, and even wind direction affect the huge array of weaponry. The old standby b…

Naughty Dog is currently making its first-ever standalone multiplayer game, but what other projects might the studio make in the future Come from Sports betting site VPbet ? We don’t know for sure just yet, but Naughty Dog co-president Evan Wells said fans can look forward to the studio making new IP and also working on established franchises.

“I think the easy answer is: both. I think there’s excitement to develop new IP, but there is still a ton of love for Uncharted and The Last of Us, and I think you’ll see both kinds of projects from us in the future,” Wells said in an interview with Game Informer.

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Ahead of its acquisition of Activision Blizzard that is expected to be finalized soon, Microsoft’s finances are expected to take a big hit thanks to the Internal Revenue Service slapping the company with a fee for $28.9 billion in back taxes.

This hefty tax bill was spotted in an 8-K filing this week (via CNBC), and according to the IRS, Microsoft owes some big cash from profits that it made from 2004 to 2013. The IRS is disputing how Microsoft allocated its profits during this period among countries and jurisdictions in which it operated, but Microsoft argues that up to $10 billion that it paid in taxes have not been taken into consideration by the IRS and its new figures.

“Microsoft disagrees with these proposed adjustments and will pursue an appeal within the IRS, a proce…

The arcade may be nearly a complete relic of the past in 2022–especially post-COVID–but if you play video games, you owe it a debt of gratitude. Not only were some of the biggest video game franchises of all time birthed in the arcade, but these enormous wooden cabinets kept the medium afloat after systems like the Atari 2600, Intellivision, and ColecoVision went belly-up in the early ’80s.

Arcade games offered a sense of community, competition, and intense excitement. They’re inseparable from the story of video games as a whole, and we’ve rounded up the very best from the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s. Many of these can be played on alternative platforms today, ranging from home arcade cabinets from Arcade1Up and iiRcade to console ports on Switch, PC, and more. And …