Recommended Videos A special downloadable pack for Max Payne 3‘s multiplayer mode, featuring characters from earlier games in the franchise, has been announced. Titled the Classic Multiplayer Character Pack, it will contain playable versions of Vladimir “Vlad” Lem, Vincent “Vinnie” Gognitti, Jack Lupino, Alfred Woden, Mona Sax, Valerie Winterson, Nicole Horne, and the NYPD version of the series’ title character from Max Payne 2. The pack will initially be available for free, exclusively to those who purchase the game’s Special Edition, though Rockstar has also confirmed that it will be released to the general public at some point.

Clive Barker famously burst onto the horror scene with a ringing endorsement from Stephen King. The horror giant singled out Barker’s collection of short stories, growing under the name The Books of Blood, and King claimed Barker was the future of horror. Recommended Videos King may have helped fulfill that prophecy, but he was right. Barker proved to be hugely influential on the genre, dragging modern horror to Hell and back.

Kevin Feige is famed for keeping his ear to the ground and regularly giving his fanbase exactly what they want, and never has that been proven truer by the casting of John Krasinski as Reed Richards in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, with the actor having been at the very top of Fantastic Four casting wish-lists since the second the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s reboot was first announced. Recommended Videos While it isn’t 100% certain given what we know about the franchise’s approach to alternate realities and variants, it would be a real shocker were The Office and Jack Ryan alum replaced as the patriarch of Marvel’s First Family when the fifth feature-length adaptation of the comic book icons with a fourth different lineup enters production.

The Super Bowl gave us a ton of new trailers to get excited about, but one that has people particularly hyped is the trailer for Wicked. The upcoming film based on a stage play based on a book based on characters from another book has been in development for a long time; in fact, the project was first announced by Universal back in 2012. However, numerous delays in production and the COVID-19 pandemic has meant that the film has been trapped in development hell for almost 12 years.

Recommended Videos First 4 Figures, a manufacturer of high quality statues and figures from various video game series’, has revealed the first figure to be released in its Tekken range: King II, successor to the original King. The product page describes the statue as being highly-detailed (they’re not wrong, see here for more screenshots), made out of polystone and standing at a whopping 19 inches in height. Being cast in high quality polystone, every detail on King has been captured perfectly, and is finished with a detailed hand-painted finish.

Voldemort is one of the most famous literary villains around, and, thanks to the portrayal of the character by Ralph Fiennes, an iconic movie character too. The design for Harry Potter‘s big bad is iconic, with his serpent-like features making him hard to even look at. But Voldemort wasn’t always this creepy. Recommended Videos Voldemort was born Tom Marvolo Riddle to a witch mother and muggle father. After becoming an orphan at an early age Tom realized he was different from the other children, and used his unusual gifts to hurt others.

In the comedy department, one of the most beloved anime out there is One Punch Man, known for its masterful mix of serious combat with light and funnier moments. Unfortunately, this anime has been on a break for three years now, as some time was needed for the manga to provide enough new material for the adaptation. However, it seems like the wait won’t continue for much longer, as fans have recently been blessed with the official confirmation that a third season is in the works.

Loki started his journey in the MCU as a pretty beatable villain, despite his status as a literal God — he has been thwarted by Thor, Captain America, Iron Man, Doctor Strange, Hulk, Thanos, etc. But the Loki of right now? Oops, sorry, more precisely it’s Loki as the God of Stories, who is keeping trillions of trillions alive. Recommended Videos Spoilers ahead for Loki season 2, as we lay out exactly how powerful the variant Loki is, compared to the OG God of Mischief, and to his past self at the beginning of the series.

Hiro Mashima’s 2006 manga, Fairy Tail, is currently regarded as one of the best in the fantasy and adventure genres. It’s not for nothing that this is currently one of the best-selling manga works of all time, after all. And as tends to happen with all successful media, in 2009 Fairy Tail got an anime adaptation, which expanded beyond the borders of its source material over the years. Recommended Videos Now, the franchise is made up of over 300 anime episodes, several OVAs, two animated movies, and a special DVD extra.

Those who love crime TV shows are likely familiar with the Power franchise, one of Starz’s best series — and one with a fair share of accolades to its name. This fictional universe sparked thanks to the success of its original show (also simply titled Power), which ran for six seasons between 2014 and 2020 before reaching its conclusion. While that closed the book on the show, it opened the door to a much bigger story.