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There may be change on the horizon for The Last of Us Part II as developers at Naughty Dog cryptically tease that Ellie might be the game’s only playable character. With 2013’s original being a two-part gameplay experience where fans controlled both Ellie and the hardened survivor Joel, fans again find themselves asking the unthinkable, “Is Joel about to be killed off?” Despite Joel (voiced by Troy Baker) being the lead of The Last of Us up until players took control of Ellie in the winter segment, the sequel has already pushed focus onto her expanded role while Joel has sat on the sidelines....

FOX renews both Family Guy and Bob’s Burgers for new seasons. In the lead-up to this year’s upfronts, all the major broadcast networks have been canceling (and picking up) TV shows at an alarming rate. FOX has been one of the most active networks when it comes to cancellations, having canned shows such as Lucifer and Brooklyn Nine-Nine. (However, NBC eventually picked up Brooklyn Nine-Nine for season 6.) Still, FOX’s fall lineup won’t be entirely filled with new shows....

Much can be said about Stewie Griffin. He’s an intelligent, witty, narcissistic criminal mastermind. He’s also a baby. Family Guy viewers know that Stewie is at least one years old, and despite the fact that the show has aired for over twenty years, he hasn’t aged much since. Stewie’s mannerisms have evolved over the years. While he was once an aggressive artillery inventor set to take over the world, in recent episodes he has become more satirical and flamboyant (although he still wants to kill Lois)....

Back in the days of iOS 13, a group of hackers found an “unpatchable” exploit that enabled permanent jailbreak on iPhone and iPad based on all A-series chips up to the A11 Bionic. In 2021, another jailbreak tool brought support for newer devices like iPhone 12 running iOS 14. Now it seems that we’re getting close to the first iOS 15 compatible jailbreak tool. Jailbreak for iOS 15 The Odyssey Team group, which already provides jailbreak solutions for iPhones and iPads running previous versions of iOS, has shared the first images of a new jailbreak tool called “Cheyote” that works with iOS 15....

Kit Harington, whose star-making turn as the brooding Jon Snow on the hit HBO series Game of Thrones made him a fan favorite, is said to be an inpatient at the exclusive Privé-Swiss health facility in Connecticut. He’s reportedly being treated for stress, exhaustion and excessive alcohol use. Game of Thrones officially wrapped up on Sunday, May 19, but a behind the scenes documentary titled “The Last Watch” aired on May 26, and showed the final table read with the cast and showrunners David Benioff and D....

On Tuesday, Google kicked off its “Get The Message” RCS campaign online and will be continuing with digital billboards in NYC going after Apple. Starting August 25, the pressure campaign will appear on over 500 digital billboards in Manhattan and Brooklyn. The examples we have today show the ads appearing on LinkNYC kiosks and their portrait displays, which fit the messaging thread nature of the advertisements. [Note: We were initially informed that there would also be “static billboards,” but we’re now told NYC is just a digital campaign running until October 6....

Google will have several games on Stadia when the platform launches later this year, and we’ve compiled a list of all of those launch titles, assuming that there aren’t any changes prior to Stadia’s release. Google Stadia is entering the video game streaming market, with the idea that all of the hard work of the hardware will be done on the server end, which means that games can run on high-performance settings on any device....

The question of superheroes on television has been one in great debate for decades now. The fans are often looking for more screen time for their favorite heroes and the movie studios want capes and costumes to stick to the big screen for the most payout possible. There is some fan frustration over shows like Fox’s Batman prequel television series Gotham sticking to a very “real world” approach to beloved characters when we haven’t had the gift of a Batman television show on the air for fifty years....

Since his daring debut with Cronos, mesmerizing Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro has inspired a ferocious fandom that would like nothing more to slip into his brain–stuffed with mad monsters and gorgeous gore–and take a tantalizing tour. Well, those near Los Angeles had that wish granted in August, when the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) opened “At Home With Monsters,” an exhibit that strives to explore del Toro’s creative process through its awe-inspiring display of paintings, drawings, maquettes, artifacts, and concept film art....

Nomad is out with two new accessories for the iPhone 12 lineup and ahead of today’s launch, we’ve been able to test out both the thin and supple Horween Leather Skin as well as the precision-cut tempered glass screen protector. Read along for a closer look. Going beyond cases and your average skins, Nomad’s Horween Leather Skins for iPhone 12 offer a premium look and feel without adding bulk at a mere 0....

The Dora and the Lost City of Gold cast has a number of well-known and some lesser-known actors and actresses, all of whom attempt to bring an adaptation of the hit Nickelodeon cartoon Dora the Explorer to life on the big screen. This is the first time Dora’s big adventures have been translated into a feature film, which means lots of characters from the cartoon have made their way into live-action in this new adaptation....

Sometimes it’s hard to remember that the Hogwarts professors in Harry Potter were once students. Especially older Hogwarts teachers such as Dumbledore. It’s hard to ever imagine them as young, but they were all students once, and when they were, they were sorted into Hogwarts Houses just as everyone else in the books is. Some are easy to guess because the house traits are so prominent, but there are some which are a little more difficult, or professors like McGonagall, who is Gryffindor but often seems more Ravenclaw....

The EU legislation to mandate a common smartphone charger is now a done deal. After it looked like it would pass back in June, the Council of Ministers ratified the vote in October. Today the law has been officially signed and published with a December 2024 deadline for all new smartphones sold in Europe to use USB-C. We’ve known for some time that it would likely be 2024 before smartphone makers would be forced to use USB-C as the common port in the EU....

The box office failure of the 2016 all-female Ghostbusters reboot was a real shame, because it sent the message to Hollywood that female-fronted big-budget comedies don’t work. However, the movie’s female leads aren’t to blame for its failure. There are many reasons for the disappointing box office haul – a large budget uncharacteristic of a comedy, a script in need of punching up, review-bombing by online trolls etc. – and the studio is trying to reconcile what worked in the reboot with what didn’t work in a new sequel, Ghostbusters 2020....

Back in 2020, Facebook announced a new shopping experience for its users called “Facebook Live Shopping” so that people could shop directly from live streams on the social network. However, the company announced on Wednesday that Facebook Live Shopping is being discontinued. As detailed by the company in a blog post, Facebook Live Shopping will be completely shut down as of October 1, 2022. From that date on, users will no longer be able to host any Live Shopping events on Facebook....

There’s a new Anti-Venom in the Marvel universe, introduced in the pages of Amazing Spider-Man/Venom: Venom Inc Alpha! Things haven’t been going well for poor Peter recently, with his company bankrupt and the public less-than-pleased with him… and this week’s adventure added a new twist to the spider-verse with the creation of the new Anti-Venom. Amazing Spider-Man/Venom: Venom Inc Alpha is a crossover event bringing together Venom and Amazing Spider-Man, with familiar faces Peter Parker, Flash Thompson, and Eddie Brock front and center....

Warning: SPOILERS ahead for Game of Thrones season 6, episode 7 - Game of Thrones has introduced audiences to all manner of weird and wonderful things across its six seasons, but a feel-good hippie commune might be the weirdest so far - at least, in the context of a world where death and horror seem to lurk around every corner. It’s also the last place you’d expect to find actor Ian McShane, whose past roles as Al Swearengen in Deadwood and Blackbeard in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides had many assuming that his secret Game of Thrones role would be some kind of villainous or rough-edged character....

In just a few months, HBO’s most-watched series Game of Thrones will return for the first of its last two seasons. This weekend, the premium network revealed that season 7 premieres in July, and it will be followed by a six-episode final season to debut in 2018. There’s only 13 episodes remaining before the show ends its run and not a lot of time left to be a part of one of TV’s most critically acclaimed dramas ever....

Iain Glen has explained why Game of Thrones season 8 will take so long to shoot. HBO has yet to firm down its premiere date for the fantasy drama’s final season, with rumors suggesting that fans may have to wait until 2019 to witness the epic conclusion to the wars for Westeros. While fans await fresh content from The Seven Kingdoms, hype continues to bubble away nicely: Samwell Tarly actor John Bradley has described the scale of season 8 as “monumental”; some number-crunching has revealed that season 8 will be the show’s most expensive run yet; Miguel Sapochnik of Hardhome has been confirmed for a return to the director’s chair; and Maisie Williams has been showing off her knife skills in an awe-inspiring viral video....

M. Night Shyamalan took the stage at CinemaCon with James McAvoy, Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, and Sarah Paulson to debut the first trailer for his new film, Glass. Glass is the follow-up film to both 2000’s Unbreakable and 2016’s Split, which tell a different kind of superhero story. Unbreakable, arguably one of the better films in Shyamalan’s catalogue, follows Bruce Willis as David Dunn, a man who realizes he has special abilities after he emerges unscathed from a horrific train accident....