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Geek Culture
41 minutes ago
- Entertainment
- Geek Culture
Warner Bros. Working On Another Live-Service Game Despite Suicide Squad Flop
Despite losing US$200 million after last year's Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League , Warner Bros. Games has apparently not learnt its lesson and is hard at work on another new live-service title based in the DC Comics universe. This comes from a job listing for an executive producer role at WB Games Montréal, with the job scope including overseeing 'all phases of development, from concept to post-launch live operations', and the experience required including a 'deep understanding of the full game development lifecycle, including live services'. While the exact game title was not specified, the post did mention that it will be a 'high-quality AAA game based on one of the iconic IPs from the vast Warner Bros. and DC Comics catalogue.' It seems that despite its recent string of flops, from the aforementioned Suicide Squad , to the recently shut-down MultiVersus and 2022's disappointing Gotham Knights , WB Games has decided that the best course of action to regain the favour lost within its playbase is to double down on the very thing they hate, the dreaded live-service format. This also comes after a studio-wide shake-up late last year, where Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav discussed plans to only focus on four of its major gaming IPs: DC, Hogwarts Legacy , Mortal Kombat , and Game of Thrones , which makes this new live-service game likely to fall under the DC umbrella. This decision to once again stick to the live-service format becomes even more baffling when considering how tough of a time WB Games has it as of late, with Suicide Squad's flop leading to a 41 per cent drop in its gaming revenue last year and a four percent decrease across the studio's entire revenue, which comprises of gaming, TV and cinema. The studio has also seen layoffs and closures in the months that followed, including a team 'restructuring' at Rocksteady in September 2024, and the cancellation of its Wonder Woman game alongside the closure of three studios, Monolith Productions, Player First Games, and WB San Diego in February this year. Will WB Games' insistence on the live-service format somehow work in its favour, or is the studio committing career suicide? Only time will tell, but if history has taught us anything about the genre, it's likely the latter. Kevin is a reformed PC Master Race gamer with a penchant for franchise 'duds' like Darksiders III and Dead Space 3 . He has made it his life-long mission to play every single major game release – lest his wallet dies trying. Live Service Games warner bros WB Games WB Games Montreal
Geek Dad
5 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Geek Dad
Review – Justice League: Dark Tomorrow Special #1
Justice League: Dark Tomorrow Special #1 cover, via DC Comics. Ray: The DCU has been thrown into flux in more ways than once since the death of Darkseid, and one of those ways is that time just isn't what it used to be. We just saw a Legion of Doom from the past come to the present and begin terrorizing the heroes, only to leave dozens of time-displaced heroes stuck in the present. Now, someone is hunting the time travelers of the DCU – as this oversized tie-in issue kicks off with Waverider and Extant being murdered. A mysterious masked time traveler nicknamed Legend battles his way to the present day to seek the League's help – but he's not the only one who arrives. Gold Beetle, the young protege (daughter?) of Booster and Beetle is seeking help for her own temporal anomaly, seemingly causing her to blink in and out of existence. And that's the first clue that something very wrong is going on with Omega-powered villains targeting heroes across time. Hunted. Via DC Comics. While this isn't the start of a new series, it does put a new team together – Legend assembling a squad of time-displaced heroes, including Air Wave, Amazing Man, Batman Beyond, the Helena Wayne Huntress, and a very reluctant Jonah Hex. This group on a ship together, including the very hyper Gold Beetle, is mileage enough for a series, but they're not going to have much time to bond. They have to go up against an army of shadow-powered Omega Demons who are led by a familiar face from the thirtieth century, tying into an upcoming event taking place in the pages of Superman. The reason this is only a one-shot is made pretty clear at the end, as our heroes find themselves in a serious fix. It's great to see some of the DCU's top cult heroes again, particularly Jonah Hex, and the ongoing subplot of Air Wave seeking redemption is very compelling. More of this crew after the next event, please. To find reviews of all the DC issues, visit DC This Week. GeekDad received this comic for review purposes. Liked it? Take a second to support GeekDad and GeekMom on Patreon!
Mint
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Mint
Peacemaker Season 2 trailer out: John Cena returns with new villains, major twists, and DC Universe crossover
After more than three years, Peacemaker is back — and judging by the explosive new trailer, Season 2 promises an even wilder ride. The HBO Max series, created and directed by James Gunn, returns on August 21, picking up after the events of 'The Suicide Squad' (2021) and the recently released 'Superman' (2025), as part of the newly launched DC Universe (DCU). The trailer opens with Ozzy Osbourne's 'Road to Nowhere', a fitting nod to the heavy-metal energy of the show and a subtle tribute to the iconic rocker following his tragic passing away. From there, it's all chaos, grief, and gunfire as John Cena's Chris Smith, aka Peacemaker, confronts not only new enemies but also the emotional wreckage of his past decisions. This season, Peacemaker is being hunted from all sides, still grappling with the emotional fallout after killing Rick Flag Jr. and the trauma of his relationship with his father. Fans get a glimpse of a new White Dragon costume — this time in blue — hinting that Auggie Smith may reappear in visions, as he did during the Season 1 finale, or that someone else might be taking up his twisted legacy. Season 2 boasts an impressive line-up of villains. James Gunn has confirmed six major antagonists, including Frank Grillo's Rick Flag Sr., who's bent on avenging his son. Sean Gunn joins as Maxwell Lord, a morally ambiguous figure connected to Justice League recruitment, while Brey Noelle makes her live-action debut as White Rabbit, a wealthy socialite with cloning powers and super speed. Returning cast members include Danielle Brooks, Freddie Stroma, Jennifer Holland, Steve Agee, and Robert Patrick, with new additions Sol Rodríguez, David Denman, Tim Meadows, and Michael Rooker adding fresh energy to the ensemble. Unlike Season 1, which was rooted in the DC Extended Universe (DCEU), Season 2 is part of the soft-rebooted DC Universe. Though the world around Peacemaker has changed, the character remains as unpredictable and emotionally layered as ever. With James Gunn back as showrunner, 'Peacemaker' Season 2 promises to blend over-the-top action with sharp humour and surprising emotional depth. If the trailer is anything to go by, Cena's antihero isn't just fighting villains — he's fighting himself.
Gulf Today
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Gulf Today
The villains steal the show in ‘The Fantastic Four: First Steps'
More than six decades after Jack Kirby and Stan Lee created a superhero team to rival the Justice League, the Fantastic Four finally get a worthy big-screen adaption in a spiffy 60s-era romp, bathed in retrofuturism and bygone American optimism. Though the Fantastic Four go to the very origins of Marvel Comics, their movie forays have been marked by missteps and disappointments. The first try was a Roger Corman-produced, low-budget 1994 film that was never even released. But, after some failed reboots and a little rights maneuvering, Matt Shakman's 'The Fantastic Four: First Steps' is the first Fantastic Four movie released by Marvel Studios. And a sense of returning to Marvel roots permeates this one, an endearingly earnest superhero drama about family and heroism, filled with modernist 'Jetsons' designs that hark back to a time when the future held only promise. 'First Steps,' with a title that nods to Neil Armstrong, quickly reminds that before the Fantastic Four were superheroes, they were astronauts. Reed Richards (Pedro Pascal), Sue Storm (Vanessa Kirby), Johnny Storm (Joseph Quinn) and Ben Grimm (a soulful Ebon Moss-Bachrach) flew into space but return altered by cosmic rays. 'We came back with anomalies,' explains Reed, sounding like me after a family road trip. They are now, respectively, the bendy Mister Fantastic, the fast-disappearing Invisible Woman, the fiery Human Torch and the Thing, a craggy CGI boulder of a man. In the glimpses of them as astronauts, the images are styled after NASA footage of Apollo 11, like those seen in the great documentaries 'For All Mankind' and 'Apollo 11.' But part of the fun of the Fantastic Four has always been that while the foursome might have the right stuff, they also bicker and joke and argue like any other family. The chemistry here never feels intimate enough in 'First Steps' to quite capture that interplay, but the cast is good, particularly Kirby. In the first moments of 'First Steps,' Sue sets down a positive pregnancy test before a surprised Reed. That night at dinner - Moss-Bachrach, now an uncle rather than a cousin, is again at work in the kitchen — Ben and Johnny immediately guess what's up. The rest of the world is also eager to find out what, if any, powers the baby will have. We aren't quite in our world, but a very similar parallel one called Earth-828. New York looks about the same, and world leaders gather in a version of the United Nations named the Future Foundation. The Thing wears a Brooklyn Dodgers cap. Someone sounding a lot like Walter Cronkite reads the news. And there's a lot to read when the Silver Surfer (Julia Garner) suddenly hovers over the city, announcing: 'I herald your end. I herald Galactus.' The TV blares, as it could on so many days: 'Earth in Peril. Developing Story.' Yes, the Earth (or some Earth) might be in danger, but did you get a look at that Silver Surfer? That's Johnny Storm's response, and perhaps ours, too. She's all chrome, like a smelted Chrysler Building, with slicked-back hair and melancholy eyes. He's immediately taken by her, but she shoots off into space. In a rousing, NASA-like launch (the original Kirby and Lee comic came eight years before the moon landing), the Fantastic Four blast off into the unknown to meet this Galactus. But if the Silver Surfer made an impression, Galactus (voiced by Ralph Ineson) does even more so. Fantastic Four movies have always before gone straight for Doctor Doom as a villain, but his entrance, this time, is being held up for 'Avengers: Doomsday.' Still, Galactus, a planet-eating tyrant, is no slouch. A mechanical colossus and evident fan of Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis,' he sits on an enormous throne in space. Sensing enormous power in Sue's unborn child, he offers to spare Earth for the baby. What follows casts motherhood — its empowerments and sacrifices — onto a cosmic plane. There's a nifty chase sequence in space that plays out during contractions. The two 'Incredibles' movies covered some similar ground, in both retro design and stretchy parent and superhuman baby, with notably more zip and comic verve than 'The Fantastic Four.' Associated Press
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Peacemaker Grapples With a Parallel World — and Rick Flag's Vengeful Dad — in New Season 2 Trailer
Peacemaker is torn between a world where a livid Rick Flag Sr. wants vengeance, and a parallel world where the grass looks awfully greener, in a new Season 2 trailer unveiled Saturday at San Diego Comic-Con. Details on Peacemaker's Season 2 storyline had been scarce for a long while, aside from showrunner/DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn saying, 'It essentially picks up where Season 1 left off, with a couple minor differences' — including the fact that the Justice League that Peacemaker crossed paths with in the finale doesn't exist yet. More from TVLine In Bloody-Good Spartacus: House of Ashur Trailer, a Gladiatrix Enters the Arena! - Watch Star Trek: Starfleet Academy: Holly Hunter Takes Us Back to School in First Trailer - Watch Save the Dates: Solar Opposites Swan Song, E! News Shuts Down and More Now we have a formal synopsis, which reads, 'Peacemaker discovers an alternate world where life is everything he wishes it could be. But this discovery also forces him to face his traumatic past and take the future into his own hands.' 'What the whole season of Peacemaker revolves around' is the idea a pocket universe akin to the one Lex Luthor built in the new Superman film, Gunn said in a recent interview. Peacemaker Season 2 is set for a Thursday, Aug. 21 premiere, releasing episodes weekly. Gunn wrote all eight episodes and directed three, including the premiere; Greg Mottola, Peter Sollett and Alethea Jones also directed. Front man John Cena of course returns for Season 2, as does Jennifer Holland (as Emilia Harcourt), Steve Agee (as John Economos), Danielle Brooks (as Amanda Waller's daughter Leota Adebayo), Freddie Stroma (as Adrian Chase/Vigilante), Robert Patrick (as Chris Smith's father Auggie), Jand Nhut Le (as Judomaster) and Dee Bradley Baker (again voicing Eagly, who is back in a big way). Among newcomers, MCU vet Frank Grillo plays Rick Flag Sr. — the new head of ARGUS and father of the Suicide Squad films' late Rick Flag Jr., who was played by Joel Kinnaman. (Grillo also voiced Flag Sr. in HBO Max's Creature Commandos, and made his live-action debut as the character in Gunn's Superman film.) Additionally, SNL alum Tim Meadows plays ARGUS agent Langston Fleury; Michael Rooker is Red St. Wild, an eagle hunter with Eagly in his sights; Sol Rodriguez (Star Trek: Picard) plays Sasha Bordeaux (a Batman ally in the DC comics); and David Denman (The Office) fills an undisclosed role. You can also expect cameos from Justice Gang members Guy Gardner/Green Lantern (The Rookie's Nathan Fillion) and Kendra Saunders/Hawkgirl (The Last of Us' Isabel Merced), plus their backer Maxwell Lord (Sean Gunn). Peacemaker — which premiered Jan. 13, 2022, and earned a TVLine reader grade of 'A' — was renewed for Season 2 back in February 2022, just hours before its Season 1 finale dropped. Filming began in the summer of 2024 and wrapped in late November. Want scoop on , or for any other DC TV show? Shoot an email to InsideLine@ and your question may be answered via Matt's Inside Line! Peacemaker Season 2: Everything We Know — Including the New Opening Dance Number View List
