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io9Games
Deadpool and the X-Force Mutants Have Invaded Fortnite
After making their bawdy, bloody introduction in Fox’s Deadpool 2, a handful of classic members of Marvel’s X-Force are dropping into Fortnite of all places and they’re all packing some serious heat. Beginning today, Deadpool, Domino, Cable, and Psylocke will all become available as playable characters as part of an X-Force-themed bundle meant to build … Continued
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io9Trailers
Artemis Fowl‘s Latest Trailer Ups the Bond Factor by Piling on the Action
Artemis Fowltells the story of how an insanely wealthy criminal mastermind—who happens to be a semi-sociopathic child—sets out with a brilliant plan to trick the world’s secret population of sentient magical beings out of their wealth. And now we know we’ll be able to watch it on Disney+ on June 12. The original book runs … Continued
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io9Books & Comics
9 Immersive Audiobooks That Will Transport You to Another World
Here at io9, we stan books. But because we’re all currently living through a reality that makes functioning like normal people a literal impossibility, reading books in the traditional way has (understandably) become especially difficult as we’re all committing out mental resources to trying to keep our minds in order in the midst of a … Continued
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Cassian Andor’s Disney+ Star Wars Series Just Got Even More Interesting
Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) and K-2SO (Alan Tudyk) are getting some new friends—or foes, as the case may be. Variety reports that Disney+’s upcoming Rogue One spin-off has added both Stellan Skarsgard (Thor, Dune) and Kyle Soller to its cast as characters whose identities have yet to be revealed. Given how so many Disney productions … Continued
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Star Wars Day Brings the End of The Clone Wars and a Fresh Mandalorian Documentary
The Mandalorian, a show you might have heard about, is currently off-season, but Disney knows that the nerds are eagerly awaiting to see what the space dad and his Force-sensitive gremlin son are in for next. The next season isn’t dropping just yet, but the studio is about to invite everyone to revisit the story … Continued
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ThunderCats Roar Is Good, Actually
Cartoon Network’s ThunderCats Roar is real good, but actually real good. If you’re a person of taste, you read that hearing the original ThunderCats theme song playing in your mind because, silly as it was, the tune was an absolute banger. Though ThunderCats Roar’s journey to the small screen was fraught, what Cartoon Network ultimately served … Continued
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Digimon Adventure: Upped Its Game By Focusing on the Real World
Toei’s Digimon reboot could have easily just been a rehashing of the original story with a fresh coat of present-day animation slapped on top of it. Thankfully, the new series has endeavored to go for something much more fascinating: a take on the Digital World with connections to the real world that make the Digidestined’s … Continued
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io9Movies
The Disney+ Version of Splash Includes a Hilarious Hair-Covered Butt
The House of Mouse doesn’t want you looking at derrières, apparently, which is extremely out of touch with the times. Because everyone’s spending more time inside, Disney’s diligently added more and more classic films like Splash to the Disney+ catalog. But what has become apparent is that before putting the movie online, Disney for some … Continued
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io9Trailers
In Penny Dreadful: City of Angels’ New Trailer, the Devil Is Working
In Showtime’s upcoming Penny Dreadful: City of Angels, the most primordial evil makes its way to Los Angeles in what appears to be an attempt at capitalizing on the city’s sizable population of glamorous sinners. In the latest trailer, you see that the show’s heroes have every intention of staving off the demon, but they’re … Continued
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10 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Podcasts That Will Give Your Ears and Mind a Treat
Much as we’ve all been losing ourselves in TV shows, movies, books, and games while self-quarantining and staying inside, there are times when all you want to do is sit back and dive into a story without actually having to put all that much energy into experiencing said story. This is where podcasts come in … Continued
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io9Books & Comics
A Chaotic Ranking of the Scarlet Witch’s Comics Costumes
WandaVision’s first trailer made it obvious that Elizabeth Olsen was finally going to get her wish of being able to play the Scarlet Witch in not just one new costume, but rather an entire variety show’s-worth of them. As luck would have it, that’s very much in line with the character’s history of costume changes … Continued
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io9Books & Comics
Kevin Conroy’s Giving Batman: The Adventures Continue a Familiar Voice
Paul Dini, Alan Burnett, and Ty Templeton’s Batman: The Adventures Continue digital-first series is breathing new life into the Batman: The Animated Series continuity by puling a number of classic characters from DC’s comics into the story that never made it into the television show. Everything about the comic’s tone and style are meant to create … Continued
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io9Books & Comics
Black Panther‘s Epic Space Opera Became a Story About the Power of Memory
Ta-Nehisi Coates’ current run on Black Panther thrust the nation of Wakanda into the far reaches of space and turned T’Challa into a resistance fighter in the midst of an epic war, the likes of which no one on Earth had ever witnessed. With the help of allies new and old, T’Challa has become the focal … Continued
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io9Books & Comics
Harley Quinn‘s Showrunner on Romance, Catwoman, and Underwater Musicals in Season 2
Harley Quinn’s second season is bringing some big changes to Gotham City that are set to push its entire cast of heroes and villains to grow and change in fascinating ways. But co-showrunner Patrick Schumacker wants everyone to understand that what Harley and the gang are going through isn’t exactly turning them into different people, … Continued
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10 Animated Classics for a Totally Radical ’90s Bingewatch
The ‘90s were a simpler time when everything was stonewashed, most people didn’t carry cell phones, and animation was absolutely all over the place in terms of tone and style. The shows a lot of us grew up watching have managed to hold up surprisingly well—and given the fact that a lot of people are … Continued
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io9Movies
Disney Decides on New Marvel Movie Dates, Drops Artemis Fowl to Streaming
Because it’s still unclear if and when countries across the world will manage to get on top of the covid-19 pandemic, there is no way of knowing when it will once again be safe for the public to return to everyday life and pile into movie theaters. This has led to Disney pushing back the … Continued
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io9Books & Comics
Barbara Gordon Is Coming to Titans‘ Third Season
With Nightwing making his debut in Titans’ second season (and Bruce Wayne showing up rather frequently for a show that isn’t about him), it was only a matter of time before even more members of the Bat-Family made their way to the DC Universe show. During a recent streamed conversation with Titans cinematographer Brendan Steacy … Continued
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io9Trailers
TNT’s Snowpiercer Series Has a New Premiere Date and Teaser Trailer
While the ongoing covid-19 outbreak has led to the postponement of a number of highly anticipated movies, networks like TNT are seizing on their chance to take advantage of the fact that people are staying at home. The network’s adaptation of Snowpiercer has been a long time coming, but now, the train’s going to be … Continued
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io9Books & Comics
Marvel’s Making a Bunch of Digital Comics Free for the Next Month
With comic book stores across the country shutting their doors due to the novel coronavirus, the entire comics industry has effectively come to a halt and it’s unclear if and when things are ever truly going to be able to return to “normal.” Many new comics are being put on hold, major conventions are being canceled, … Continued
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io9Trailers
Train to Busan: Peninsula‘s First Trailer Is the Kind of Stress You Don’t Need Right Now
Yeon Sang-ho’sTrain to Busan expertly captured the sheer overwhelming sense of devastation that would be created by a zombie outbreak that quickly spread its way through a densely-packed, unsuspecting nation. Given the current state of the world, the first trailer for Train to Busan: Peninsula—a sequel to the original film—is rather timely, but it’s also … Continued