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Street Fighter 6 Adds Fatal Fury’s Mai on February 5

Street Fighter 6 is set to add Fatal Fury’s Mai to its roster on February 5, and she will be the second-last character Year 2 character following M. Bison and Terry. Elena will be the final character added in this group, and more details on her will be revealed in the future.

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Long-running anime-inspired pirate adventure Grand Piece Online is kicking off February with a mini update that adds in the Turtleback Cave island, Kira fruit, and more for Roblox players to enjoy.

Developer Grand Quest Games published patch notes for the relatively smaller content update, revealing a handful of treasures to keep adventurers entertained while they wait for the next major release. While that does mean there are only a few tangible additions, such as that new island and fruit, the team made sure to include a solid group of balance adjustments to help keep its swashbuckling Roblox experience smooth across the board.

After some San Diego Comic-Con early preview footage, fun teaser imagery, and other sneak peeks, the first actual teaser trailer for The Fantastic Four: First Steps has arrived.

Fantastic Four is the 37th (!) MCU movie, which is a bit ironic, considering the FF are often called “Marvel’s First Family” because 1961’s Fantastic Four #1 marked the official launch of Marvel Comics – a re-naming of a company that had been around since 1939 – and the kick-off of a massive run of successful superhero debuts. But with the Fantastic Four movie rights finally back with Marvel Studios, following multiple FF films from 20th Century Fox, we at last have the gang that started it all in the MCU! …Except that sure doesn’t look like the MCU?

Days of Retro Future Past

As teased by those earlier images, the First Steps teaser fully reveals the 1960s-inspired, retro- futuristic world the film is set in. Clearly this isn’t the prime MCU (or “Sacred Timeline,” to use TVA terminology) we’ve been following for 17 years now, since that universe pretty much looks like our own, just with a lot more superhero battles. As with last year’s Deadpool & Wolverine, we’ve got a new MCU film not really set within the MCU – this one introducing an entirely new universe. We’re not sure what year it is for the First Steps gang, but it’s very likely it’s simply 2025 or thereabouts, just in a reality where the visual style has stayed firmly rooted in what we’d consider the past.

In the teaser we see Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic (Pedro Pascal) and Sue Storm/Invisible Woman (Vanessa Kirby) showing a guest around their kitchen, which boasts a midcentury modern look that would have been right at home in the era when Stan Lee and Jack Kirby introduced the Fantastic Four. Despite the 1960s also introducing Marvel mainstays like Spider-Man, Hulk, Iron Man, Thor, Daredevil and the X-Men, there’s always been something more innately throwback about the FF, thanks to many elements from the original comics. This included going so big (often literally) on Reed’s incredible inventions, the wholesome family element of this team, and the idea that they were local celebrities, much of which is referenced in the teaser.

This is probably why the idea of a period piece Fantastic Four movie has always sounded appealing – and indeed was the approach director Peyton Reed, eventual director of Ant-Man, and screenwriter Mark Frost (co-creator of Twin Peaks) were going to take with the FF when Reed was going to direct the film back in the early 2000s. At this point, the history of the MCU is way too established to say the Fantastic Four were running around New York as celebrity superheroes in the 1960s, but the multiverse approach allows the film to still maintain this feeling.

First Steps’ director, Matt Shakman, already has some great experience doing this kind of throwback style within the MCU, having directed every episode of the TV-era-jumping WandaVision.

Of course, as optimistic and cheerful as the Fantastic Four can be, that doesn’t mean it’s devoid of any angst, which the teaser hints at via the moment where Ben Grimm/The Thing (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) sadly looks at footage of himself before he was transformed, silently lamenting his inability to change back to human – a core aspect of the character’s plight in the source material.

Fantastic Four and Other Decades’ Influence

While the primary aesthetic of The Fantastic Four: First Steps is inspired by the 1960s, a couple of elements in the teaser come from later eras in the team’s history.

Among a small group that includes the likes of Harley Quinn and Firestar, the helpful robot H.E.R.B.I.E. stands out as a comic book character originally created not for the comics themselves, but for a previous adaptation – specifically the late 1970s animated series, The New Fantastic Four. But while there was probably some R2-D2 influence at work when H.E.R.B.I.E. debuted in the wake of Star Wars, the idea of a cute robot buddy certainly works for the 1960s as well.

And then there’s the Fantastic Four costumes in the film. The FF have almost always worn some variation of a blue team uniform, though there have been many redesigns over the years. The classic 1960s suits were dark blue with black trim, before John Byrne gave the team their biggest overhaul to date in the 1980s, with larger white trim replacing the black.

It’s clearly the Byrne uniforms the First Steps costumes are most inspired by, albeit with some tweaks, including the white stripes going down the arms of the costumes for The Thing and Johnny Storm/Human Torch (Joseph Quinn), while the Invisible Woman uniform is closest to the exact Byrne look. Here though, the entire team is wearing a much brighter blue than in the comics, reflecting the film’s cheerful, upbeat vibe.

Outer Space, Dimension-Hopping and More

The teaser indicates that the Fantastic Four are already very well known during the film, rather than this being a straightforward origin story, as we see not just their fame but also hear Reed say “Before we went up the first time” when mentioning the mission to space that gave them their powers – clearly indicating they have been back to space since. This very much matches the FF’s comic book adventures, which frequently have them traveling to other worlds, whether they be via spaceships or dimension-hopping.

And of course we know they’ll be facing a decidedly big threat from the space in First Steps via Galactus (played by Ralph Ineson), a giant cosmic entity who literally consumes worlds. The one previous live-action depiction of Galactus, in 2007’s Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, infamously turned Galactus into a cloud rather than a giant human-like alien, so seeing that distinct helmet of the character here is a great way to let comic book fans know we’re going to get a more classic Galactus this time.

We don’t see the Silver Surfer in the teaser, though we know Julia Garner is playing this universe’s version, who is an alien woman known as Shalla-Bal. However, we do get one shot of John Malkovich, who’s playing a mystery character. There are a couple of possibilities that leap to mind though, including the Red Ghost, a supervillain who has a similar look with long white hair in the comics, albeit with no beard. And then there’s Philip Masters, AKA Puppet Master, the father to the blind Alicia Masters, the longtime love interest to Ben Grimm, the Thing. With both Malkovich and Natasha Lyonne in First Steps in unspecified roles, it feels like they could be playing Philip and Alicia.

To Be Continued… in Avengers: Doomsday and Secret Wars?

Though it feels doubtful Robert Downey Jr.’s Doctor Doom will have a large role in the FF movie, it also feels like a rather safe bet that the actor will at least appear in a concluding scene or credits scene to introduce the character before we see him play a huge role in the next two Avengers movies – which are also going to feature the Fantastic Four.

The comic book Secret Wars storyline involves different universes colliding, with Doom playing a central role, so it always made sense he’d be a part of that story in the MCU. Presuming we meet him in First Steps, it’s easy enough to establish him as Reed’s rival in brilliance, who for some reason sets out on a path that will take him – and his enemies – across the multiverse.

Because obviously the Fantastic Four retro universe is going to somehow cross over eventually with the regular “Sacred Timeline” of the MCU that we all know. If the films follow the comics version of Secret Wars, that may be more of a “crash into” than a “cross over”…

And though it’s understandably not getting any of the attention, it is amusing to note that Robert Downey Jr. isn’t the only actor who played a well-established role in the MCU who will now be playing someone else entirely too, as Ebon Moss-Bachrach, playing the Thing here, also played Micro in Season 1 of The Punisher. So while we’re all assuming characters like Peter Parker and the Avengers will gasp seeing Victor Von Doom’s face, how about we get a scene where Frank Castle gasps seeing The Thing change into Ben Grimm?

Okay, that’s probably not a priority…

This review is based on a screening at the 2025 Sundnace Film Festival.

A horror movie taking place in the shadow of its central metaphor, The Thing with Feathers adapts a poetic novella steeped in maudlin black comedy into a 104-minute slog. While it boasts a strong central performance from Benedict Cumberbatch as a grieving father, it also severely misuses the actor’s skillset. But that’s just the most noticeable of its many major problems.

The film begins with Cumberbatch’s unnamed character comforting his two elementary-school-aged sons (played by siblings Richard and Henry Boxall) after their mother’s funeral. The sudden loss of his spouse sends him into a tailspin faster than he can pick up the pieces of their lives, and his grief eventually manifests as a giant, humanoid crow. (The thing with feathers in the Emily Dickinson-indebted title of the source material.) Embodied by Eric Lampaert and voiced by David Thewlis, the immaculately designed creature torments Cumberbatch’s widower at night with frank barbs about his failures.

Director Dylan Southern has a keen eye for individual moments, but they often fail to coalesce into a satisfying whole. Scenes that flash back to the father discovering his wife’s body create the sense that the past and the present are unfolding at once via matching movements and framing – yanking bygone trauma into the here and now. However, these subtle emotional ripples are quickly cast aside in favor of rote jump scares born of disconnected dream sequences. Whenever the giant crow rears its head in the family’s apartment, it’s presented in oddly matter-of-fact fashion, allowing for few instances of reaction or realization as its presence sets in. The bird is an astonishing creation, but the way it’s shot and edited makes little impact.

The father in Porter’s story was an academic, but here he’s a gothic comic artist who gets lost in his sketches of black, feathery creatures, which more directly connects the dots between his coping mechanism and the way his grief takes hold. However, the crow ends up fulfilling the opposite function of what’s intended: While it appears at inopportune moments, as something that must be confronted no matter what, its arrival robs the film of all weight and tension. On paper, it’s meant to be an antenna for the family’s sorrow. In practice, it’s a distraction from it – no matter how many verbose explanations of its own purpose and meaning Thewlis delivers.

As the film goes on, switching narrators and points of-view in segmented chapters, Southern’s visual approach becomes increasingly ill-fitting for Cumberbatch’s presence. Every actor in the film (especially the young Boxall boys) performs in a tremendously natural fashion, which cinematographer Ben Fordesman echoes through his free-flowing camera. However, Cumberbatch’s presence sticks out sorely, perhaps through no fault of his own. He’s utterly emotionally committed, but his movement and posture in each scene feels too rhythmically calculated for a film unwilling to match an approach perhaps better suited for an expressionistic form of theater like Noh or kabuki. In short: The Thing with Feathers doesn’t know how to contain him. Opposite the Boxalls, Cumberbatch’s animalistic transformations feel at worst comedic, and at best, severely out of place.

The Thing with Feathers wears its underlying meanings on its sleeve, but for a story that unravels slowly, that’s hardly a good thing. Its messages and motifs are made crystal clear early on, after which it spends the vast majority of its runtime – which, in spite of its slightness, still feels like an eternity – retracing its steps and repeating itself while adding few new dimensions. Meanwhile, it acts as a reminder of other, better films (like The Babadook) which have executed similar concepts with far more finesse.

Anime Vanguards update 3.5 is here with four new units, multiplayer functionality for boss rush, a starting questline, and a collection of bug and quality-of-life adjustments for Roblox players.

Developer Kitawari unveiled everything in its Fate Boss Event patch notes, pulling back the curtain with even more changes following the arrival of update 3.0 late last month. Topping the list of new content are four units – Sokora, Saber, Lilia, and Isdead – which can be found across different in-game challenges. There’s also a Saber boss event, which comes with its own rewards, including two Secret units, trait rerolls, gold and gems, and more that you’ll have to log in to see for yourself.

The Boss Rush overhaul includes multiplayer functionality for Roblox players looking to take on challenging tasks with friends, as well as normal and elite difficulty modes, tournament support, and boss event cycle changes. The Anime Vanguards Sand Village map has also gotten a full-on facelift that gives it a new design and enhanced visuals, and Worldlines have been reset, with additional resets coming every .5 update. Another new feature is one Kitawari says it added to address fan feedback: a starting player questline.

Since its debut on Broadway back in 2003, Wicked has stolen the hearts of adults and kids alike. With the release of the Wicked movie, the fandom has only grown, to the point of becoming big enough that Wicked now has its own line of merchandise. Just a month before the film hit theaters in November, LEGO released a whole line of Wicked sets you can build. As of right now, some of these are discounted on Amazon.

Wicked LEGO Sets on Sale at Amazon

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is set to release on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC on April 24. It’s a turn-based RPG, but it also incorporates real-time mechanics sort of like the Mario RPG series. But the tone is way more serious, weird, and artsy. It looks great. It’s coming out in standard and deluxe editions, and they’re all available for preorder now (see it at Amazon). Let’s dive in to see what comes in each.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 – Standard Edition

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 – Digital Deluxe Edition

• Get it for PS5 – $59.99
• Get it for Xbox – $59.99
• Get it for PC (Steam) – $53.99

The deluxe edition comes with the base game, plus the following extras:

• The “Flowers” Collection – Six outfits and hairstyles inspired by the Flowers of Lumière, along with six additional “Gommage” outfit variations. One for each playable character.
• “Clair” – A custom outfit for Maelle
• “Obscur” – A custom outfit for Gustave

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Will Be on Xbox Game Pass

How Does the Deluxe Edition Upgrade Work?

• Get it for Xbox

If you have Xbox Game Pass, but you want the extras that come in the digital deluxe edition, you can buy the deluxe edition upgrade on the Xbox Store with the link above. It does exactly what it sounds like: turns your standard edition into a deluxe edition.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Preorder Bonus

Unfortunately, there are no preorder bonuses available at this time. If that changes, we’ll drop them here.

What Is Clair Obscur: Expedition 33?

Clair Obscur is a turn-based RPG developed by the French studio Sandfall Interactive that uses real-time elements during battles. It’s set in a dark fantasy world in which, once a year, a powerful being called the Paintress wakes and paints a number on her monolith. When she does, everyone of that age vanishes from the earth. As the game kicks off, the Paintress is going to wake soon and paint the number 33. You plays as Expedition 33, a group of 33-year-olds who plan to kill the Paintress.

The combat sounds like a real selling point for the game. It’s turn-based, but you do a lot of other things besides choosing attacks for your expeditioners. You can dodge, parry, and counter incoming attacks. You can chain combos together by pressing buttons in a rhythm, and you can use a free-aim system to target enemy weak points. It looks pretty cool. Check out our Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 preview for more info.

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Face front, True Believers, because the first trailer for The Fantastic Four: First Steps has arrived. We now have our first look at Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn and Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Marvel’s First Family, as well as robot companion HERBIE and a better sense of the retro-futurism-inspired art design. The trailer strikes the right tone for this property and feels far different from most other MCU projects. While we’re excited for everything the movie has in store when it arrives on July 25, 2025, the one character who (literally) stands above the rest is Galactus, the devourer of worlds.

We only get a glimpse of him in the trailer, but Galactus already looks to be far closer to his comics self than the last attempt in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. Let’s take a look at why The Fantastic Four: First Steps seems poised to finally do justice to this iconic Marvel character.

Who Is The Devourer of Worlds? Galactus Explained

In case you’re not familiar with Galactus, let’s go over his history in the comics. Galactus is a cosmic entity in the Marvel mythos first created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in Fantastic Four #48. Galactus started his life as Galan, a mortal being and the only survivor of the previous universe before the Big Bang that created our own. Galan survived by being merged with the sentience of his universe, recreating him as the first being of the new one. Now called Galactus, he became a giant figure who would roam the cosmos, needing to consume life-bearing planets in order to survive. Galactus would later take on a number of heralds who sought out planets for him, the most famous of which is the Silver Surfer.

In the first confrontation between Galactus and the Fantastic Four, the super team was warned of Galactus’ arrival by the Watcher, who broke his oath of non-interference to try to save Earth from being consumed. The heroes battled the Silver Surfer, but failed to stop him from signaling his master, who arrived shortly afterwards to eat the planet. Even though the FF managed to convince the Surfer to turn against Galactus, the Human Torch still had to travel into Galactus’ worldship, Taa II, and retrieve the Ultimate Nullifier, one of the only items in the universe capable of harming Galactus. When Mr. Fantastic threatened the devourer with it, Galactus swore to leave Earth in exchange for returning the Nullifier. Galactus then departed for space, but not before sentencing the Silver Surfer to exile on the planet for his betrayal.

Galactus would be an important figure in the Marvel universe ever since, returning several more times to battle the Fantastic Four under various circumstances, and also having encounters with Thor, where Galactus’ backstory was first revealed. He’s also not really “evil” in the traditional sense, instead being a morally ambiguous figure since he only eats to survive. But despite being one of Marvel’s coolest antagonists, he hasn’t been done justice on the big screen. Yet.

The Second Coming of Galactus in The Fantastic Four: First Steps

Although he’s made several appearances in cartoons and video games, such as in the ’90s Fantastic Four cartoon and Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Galactus has only appeared in one film before First Steps. That would be Tim Story’s 2007 entry Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, and it wasn’t exactly the best outing for the devourer of worlds. Although the film followed the basic template of the comic story with the Surfer’s arrival beforehand leading to Galactus coming to eat the planet (they also threw in Doctor Doom stealing the Surfer’s board, something that happened a few issues later in the source material), Galactus himself was a let-down, reimagined from his iconic comic design with purple armor and a giant helmet to a big cloud with little to no distinguishing features. He also never spoke, and was seemingly killed by the Surfer with very little effort. It certainly wasn’t what fans wanted from Galactus’ first appearance on film.

However, from what we’ve seen so far, Galactus in The Fantastic Four: First Steps looks to be a serious course correction. The small look at him we got in the trailer as well as the tease from a drone light show at last year’s San Diego Comic-Con indicates that the new film will be sticking close to Jack Kirby’s classic design for the character. The fact that Marvel Studios selected Galactus for the villain of their Fantastic Four reboot in the first place is also an interesting choice. Even though there were plenty of FF baddies to choose from (and we might still see others… does anyone know who John Malkovich is playing?), Marvel picking Galactus indicates that they know fans weren’t happy with 20th Century Fox’s take and want to get him right this time around. And since it appears that Robert Downey, Jr’s Doctor Doom is being reserved for Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars (although we’re still hoping for a cameo in First Steps), Marvel can put all their focus on giving Galactus the MCU debut he deserves.

This is especially important because of the MCU’s recent struggles in the Multiverse Saga. Given how many movies they’ve made and villains they’ve burned through, Galactus is one of the few remaining Marvel villains with enough of a pedigree to help turn things around for the franchise. A good Galactus adaptation could help swing the MCU’s reputation around and generate further excitement for the next two Avengers films, which the Fantastic Four are set to be major figures in.

After all, a common refrain from fans back when the Fantastic Four were in exile due to the Fox-Marvel feud over the film rights was that they were more interested in seeing the FF’s rogues gallery, such as Doctor Doom, Annihilus, and Galactus in the MCU than the First Family themselves. Now, hopefully we’re all back on the “the Fantastic Four are actually good” train (you should check out Ryan North’s current run on the comics; it’s great), but it is true that Galactus and many other characters associated with the FF could be the secret sauce the MCU needs to rejuvenate the brand after they wrap up the Multiverse Saga.

Either way, Galactus is one of the best characters associated with the Fantastic Four, and it’s way past time we get to see him in all his glory in live-action. We’ll see how Marvel’s attempt at Galactus and the FF fares this July, but at least going by this trailer, their first steps seem to be on the right path.

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What started as a popular toy line has quickly become one of the biggest action movie franchises on the planet. With a total of eight Transformers movies in the franchise, it’s showing no signs of slowing down.

Now that Transformers One is available to stream, you may be wondering where you can watch all of the movies online to complete the marathon. We’ve compiled a list of where to stream every Transformers movie in the series in 2025.

Where to Watch the Transformers Movies Online

The Last of Us Season 2 on HBO will feature content that was cut from the original The Last of Us Part 2 video game, showrunner and Naughty Dog studio head Neil Druckmann has said.

Druckmann told Entertainment Weekly that “pretty brutal” content will be revived through the show, including some of the Lost Levels that were somewhat restored in the PlayStation 5 remaster of The Last of Us Part 2.

These included three different early versions of scrapped levels, including Jackson Party, The Hunt, and Seattle Sewers. The first two of these are much more calm, with Ellie attending a party in the first and tracking a bleeding boar in the second, but the final one presents plenty of the intense horror fans of the game and show are familiar with as she’s stalked by monsters in the tunnels underneath Seattle.

Whatever cut content has made its way into the show will seemingly put fans on edge, however. “[It’s] pretty brutal, but I’m very excited for people to see it,” Druckmann said. He also teased that a “pretty prominent” character only talked about in the game will make an appearance, “similar to what we did with Frank in Season 1.”

Season 2 is set to add many new characters, of course, including Kaitlyn Dever as Abby, Danny Ramirez as Manny, Tati Gabrielle as Mel, and many more, but one question mark remains as Catherine O’Hara has also joined in a mystery role.

Fans likely don’t have too long to wait before each mystery is answered, as Episode 1 of Season 2 is set to premiere in April, but there’s a chance some things will remain unclear for much longer. This is because HBO plans to extend The Last of Us Part 2 beyond a single season, unlike the critically acclaimed Season 1 which covered the entirety of the original game.

Fellow showrunner Craig Mazin has said previously that Part 2 features a lot more story to cover, so while Season 3 isn’t greenlit as of yet, they’ve built Season 2 with a “natural breakpoint” after just seven episodes.

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll talk about The Witcher all day.