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Follow-ups/Corrections
The Metallica Podcast: Volume 1 - first 2 episodes are out now on Amazon.
Limp Bizkit - New Limp Bizkit album teased on the bands official IG account. Also, said that new songs will begin to “leak” very soon.
New Videos
Emigrate - Emigrate, the side project of Rammstein guitarist Richard Z Kruspe, has released Freeze My Mind https://youtu.be/mGARgrFwFzE their first new song in 3 years. The album for which the song comes from is yet to me titled, and is expected by the end of the year.
Dragonforce - https://youtu.be/eLed4rps7wI Troopers of the Stars from the 2019 album “Extreme Power Metal”
Tours
Dragonforce - 2022 European tour with Powerwolf and Warkings. Nov 11 in Berlin through Dec 4 in Antwerp Belgium. https://dragonforce.com/shows/
Rammstein
Rammstein lead vocalist Till Lindeman arrested in Russia over “illegal” festival appearance. Till’s manager also arrested to lying to authorities, as well as the attempted sale of “illegal NFTs” having to do with the frontman’s most recent music video.
Gaming/Tech
Follow-ups/Corrections
Pokemon GO - Pokemon GO studio Niantic has announced that the interact distance will return to the 80 meters it introduced during the lockdowns. They also maintained that this will be the new norm.
Horizon Forbidden West - February 18th 2022 is the new release date for Horizon Forbidden West. With pre-orders going live on Sept 2.
Splitgate - the free-to-play shooter has made some upgrades and officially launched season 0 beta. Still no word on the rescheduled release date, but there is word from the powers that be that they are hard at work on new weapons, maps, as well as a map EDITOR!
Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl - the Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl Smash Bros killer has just announced 2 more fighters in Cat-Dog and April O'Neil! Set to release this fall sometime.
TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge - April O'Neil ALSO revealed as a playable character for THIS game. Set to release sometime next year
Trailers
Metroid Prime: Dread - https://youtu.be/V_XnbTayTH4 More Awesome!
Marvel Midnight Suns - https://youtu.be/Wz8Vw5tOf5M The next in Marvel’s line of games is a turn based RPG called Midnight Suns. You play as an original character dreamt up by XCOM developer Firaxis co-created with Marvel, with help from the actual Midnight Suns from the comic books.
Halo Infinite - the Halo Infinite OFFICIAL release date is December 8th.
Lego Star Wars Battles
New Lego Star Wars game going to Apple Arcade exclusively.
Overwatch
Overwatch character Mcree is getting renamed in the aftermath of the Activision/Blizzard controversy. No word yet what the new name will be.
Comic Books/Books
Cowboy Bebop
The seemingly ill-fated Netflix live action Cowboy Bebop live-action series is getting a number of comic book and book tie-ins from Titan comics.
TV/Streaming
Follow-ups/Corrections
Batwoman - Bridget Regan cast as Poison Ivy.
Interview with the Vampire - Cast their Louis… and it is Jacob Anderson, from GoT. To join Sam Reid’s Lestat.
Trailers
Mayor of Kingstown - https://youtu.be/LP1htMIeID8
Bel-Air
The Bel-Air series based on the trailer that went viral some months back just cast Jabari Banks as young Wil for the Peacock series.
Movies
Trailers
Spider-Man: No Way Home - The Spider-Man: No Way Home trailer has finally dropped.
Rocketeer
Disney working on a sequel. To be produced by David and Jessica Oyelowo, with David also starring.
Alita: Battle Angel 2
Director Robert Rodriguez is hopeful that doing so much work with Disney will earn him the brownie points with the mouse to make a sequel to Alita: Battle Angel.
Expendables 4
Really is happening. 50 Cent, Tony Jaa, and Megan fox joining the cast for this one. So far the only returning cast members we know so far are Stallone, Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren and Randy Couture.
Rumor Mill
MCU
Illuminati rumored to make an appearance in the Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness movie.
Book of Boba Fett
The Book of Boba Fett series is rumored to be seeing ANOTHER bounty hunter from the extended universe. Cad Bane is said to be joining the cast of The Book of Boba fett.
Mandalorian
The rumored game has supposedly leaked some gameplay footage. https://youtu.be/tlVs43yeAsY
Mandalorian
Season 3 is said to be the final Mandalorian season.
Harley Quinn
The one time side piece of the Joker, Harley Quinn is now rumored to be getting a live-action series on HBO Max.
GoPro
The next GoPro in the Hero Black line is rumored to upgrade the sensor to a new GP2 sensor which will allow for 23 megapixel images and 5.3k video at 60fps.
Cable
The future X-Man is ALSO rumored to be making his MCU debut in the new Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness movie… or is it Deadpool 3?
Apex Legends
Netflix is reportedly trying to secure the rights to a series based on Apex Legends.
Mortal Kombat
Mortal Kombat animated series headed to HBO Max supposedly. I don’t want to debunk a Mortal Kombat rumor…