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Soccer star Zinedine Zidane will be the FIFA 20 Ultimate Edition cover star. Every year, another Electronic Arts FIFA game hits store shelves. While not necessarily a favorite of core gamers, the series remains one of the top-selling annual franchises. Alongside other sports titles like Madden, NBA 2K, and MLB: The Show, FIFA has a significant audience beyond the typical video game fandom, though its tight soccer gameplay has earned the series a sizeable following outside of die-hard sports fans....

A UK-based gambling watchdog has found that loot boxes in FIFA and other video games do not constitute gambling, at least under current laws. Loot boxes in games have come under international scrutiny in the past few years due to concerns from both players and governments over whether they should be classified as gambling. Members of Parliament in the UK have recently been leading an inquiry into “addictive technologies,” especially video games and the way their publishers implement loot boxes....

There is no shortage of big screen Robin Hood interpretations, the most recent of which being a 2010 effort directed by Ridley Scott and starring Russel Crowe. However, that hasn’t deterred Lionsgate from green-lighting the upcoming Robin Hood: Origins. The project, which will be directed by Otto Bathurst, is currently in pre-production and will offer a gritty take on the iconic thief in green tights. The movie has already lined up its protagonist, with Taron Egerton, perhaps best known as Eggsy in Kingsman: The Secret Service, in the title role and has an impressive supporting cast that features Oscar-winner Jamie Foxx (The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Django Unchained) as Little John and Eve Hewson (Bridge Of Spies) as Maid Marion....

When a show is as massively popular as HBO’s Game of Thrones, it is not surprising that its network would be keen to ensure the continuation of this success. After the show’s staggering amount of 2015 Emmy Wins and ever persistent fan fervor, future season renewals are clearly a no brainer for HBO execs. The epic fantasy drama currently holds the record for HBO’s most watched series to date and is the network’s longest running series at present....

Game of Thrones’ seventh season recently began proper production, with announcements arriving about casting and other on-set goings-on. Even though the series won’t return to the air until next summer, fans of the popular HBO series are already speculating on what might transpire when the show comes back. What will happen when Daenerys Targaryen and her assembled army finally arrive on Westeros? Can Sam Tarly come up with a plan in Oldtown to defeat the White Walkers?...

[This is a review of the Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life premiere. There will be SPOILERS.] – Originally introduced in 2000, Gilmore Girls spanned seven seasons following the lives of Lorelai Gilmore (Lauren Graham) and her daughter Rory (Alexis Bledel). Their small Connecticut town of Stars Hollow was populated by lovable and quirky characters, including the diner owner Luke Danes (Scott Patterson), Lorelai’s best friend/business partner Sookie St. James (Melissa McCarthy), and Rory’s best friend Lane Kim (Keiko Agena), among others....

Dean Devlin, the writer of the 1998 Godzilla reboot, reflects on what went wrong with the American adaptation of the popular Toho property. The film has been ridiculed by fans and is commonly considered to be the worst Godzilla movie ever made. One of fans’ biggest problems with the movie is that its version of Godzilla barely resembled the King of the Monsters, both in spirit and in appearance. Long before Gareth Edwards and Legendary Pictures created the MonsterVerse with 2014’s Godzilla, TriStar Pictures tried their hand at an American adaptation of the Japanese classic....

Meredith Grey is synonymous with complicated relationships. Since her start on Grey’s Anatomy, she has been entangled with men to the point that they have consumed her every thought. This is not to say that Meredith is romance-crazy, but she does jump into relationships with everything she has. Whether the romance is with someone she has been with for years, or someone she just met recently, Meredith will have strong emotions about them....

Solo: A Star Wars Story saw a major director shakeup and there’s been plenty of rumors and speculation about what went down behind the scenes, but now that the movie is about to release, we have a pretty good idea of what actually happened. After Phil Lord and Chris Miller had directed almost the entirety of principal photography, they were unexpectedly fired and quickly replaced by Ron Howard, who finished the movie, including significant reshoots....

From the very first trailer for Warner Bros. supervillain team-up caper Suicide Squad, it was clear that the Joker’s sidekick/fangirl Harley Quinn was going to be a central focus - as much as there ever is a central focus in an ensemble movie. This is the first time we’ve seen the popular character in live action on the big screen, after all, and hype for the movie has only been heightened by the fact that Harley is being played by Margot Robbie, whose star has been steadily rising since her memorable role in Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street....

The Doctor Who season nine finale, ‘Hell Bent’ saw viewers and the Doctor bid a final farewell to Clara Oswald (Jenna Coleman). We won’t spoil the episode right now, but if you’ve already watched it, read our review HERE. Of course, Clara’s departure now means that the Doctor is without a companion. We know that he will be joined by his wife, River Song (Alex Kingston) for the 2015 Christmas special, but as yet, no casting has been announced for anyone who could possibly be joining the Time Lord in his TARDIS when season ten comes around....

When the Doctor Who 50th anniversary special was being developed, showrunner Stephen Moffatt approached Christopher Eccleston (who played the Ninth Doctor on the show) about reprising the role in the special. Eccleston, who didn’t exactly leave the show on the best of terms, declined and Moffatt revised the story to tell the tale of the “War Doctor” that eventually aired. While it was assumed that Eccleston declined an appearance early on, newly revealed storyboards from the special show that Nine was included well into the planning stages of the episode....

Steven Moffat’s novelization of “The Day of the Doctor” has finally confirmed that the Peter Cushing movies are part of the Doctor Who canon - in a sense. Doctor Who is best known as one of Britain’s most popular TV series, but the show has actually inspired several movies too. The most recent was 1996’s Doctor Who film, starring Paul McGann, which is actually considered part of the canon; McGann’s face has been shown several times in the relaunched TV series, and he’s reprised the role in several Big Finish audio adventures....

Duncan Jones has revealed that Mute could potentially have been a motion capture animated film, based on talks held during earlier stages of production. The movie has had a long and difficult journey to release, with the director initially starting development on the film sixteen years ago. Morphing several times over the course of its creation, the project even looked to be first released as a Dark Horse comic before a finite structure was finally found....

For as long as Luke Parker was on The Bachelorette, fans have wondered why Hannah Brown kept him around for so long. Equally infuriating to Bachelor Nation is how producers could allow him to crash the rose ceremony, considering Brown was clearly over him by that point. Viewers responded by sounding off on social media to voice their displeasure. The signs that Parker wasn’t right for The Bachelorette were served up for the audience on a silver platter, shown not only in his interactions with Brown, but in his frequent disagreements with the other men on the show....

Fans of Fargo need to settle in for a long wait; the show won’t be coming back anytime soon. With season 3 of the critically acclaimed drama coming to a close on FX, rumors were floating around that this would be the last season of the show. Although that now appears not to be the case, showrunner Noah Hawley still says the wait for a fourth season might be a long one....

At the start of its fourth season’s second half, Fear the Walking Dead sets a higher bar in terms of the degree of difficulty facing the show’s ever-changing roster of characters in their quest to survive. The Walking Dead spinoff continues to evolve under the stewardship of showrunners Ian Goldberg and Andrew Chambliss, who haven’t been shy about making big changes to the show, whether they be in terms of its location or its cast....

Finally, The Rock is making a movie about professional wrestling. Dwayne Johnson is far and away the most successful pro-wrestler to ever transition to mainstream movie stardom. He’s one of the highest paid actors in Hollywood and headlines huge franchises like the Fast and the Furious and Baywatch as well as his own HBO series Ballers. Johnson even made a wildly successful return to World Wrestling Entertainment, where he first achieved global fame as WWE Champion The Rock, to main event two WrestleManias in 2012 and 2013....

Apple’s space drama For All Mankind announced today that the show has been officially renewed for season 4. Although rumors of a renewal have been swirling for a while now, the official news just dropped as part of the San Diego Comic-Con For All Mankind panel. The critically acclaimed sci-fi alt-reality series is currently in the middle of airing its third season on the Apple TV+ streaming service. For All Mankind was one of Apple’s launch shows for TV+, debuting 1st November 2019....

Epic Games has revealed that they are releasing a brand new Boogie Down emote for Fortnite players to unlock. After adding the Galaxy skin just yesterday, Epic Games has once again highlighted just how involved they are with the popular game. This new emote won’t cost players any V-Bucks, though, and luckily, it doesn’t necessitate a Battle Pass, either. Due to Fortnite’s popularity with kids - parents are even paying for their kids to get lessons - it has become a prime candidate for hackers all over the world....