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Tomb Raider: Sigourney Weaver in Talks to Join Live-Action Prime Video Show

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Par :Michael Cripe
9 décembre 2025 à 22:02

Sigourney Weaver may soon swing into the world of Prime Video’s next video game adaptation, as the Alien star is reportedly in talks to join the cast of the new Tomb Raider show.

A Deadline report says Weaver, who will appear in Avatar: Fire and Ash next week and The Mandalorian and Grogu in 2026, is currently in active negotiations to appear in the series in an undisclosed role. Her deal with Amazon has not yet been finalized.

Should Weaver board the latest crack at a live-action Tomb Raider adaptation, she’ll join Game of Thrones alum Sophie Turner, who has been confirmed to star as Lara Croft. Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny) is attached as creator, writer, and executive producer on the show, which is expected to begin production January 19, 2026. Chad Hodge is also involved as executive producer and co-showrunner, with Jonathan Van Tulleken in the mix as director and executive producer.

The Prime Video Tomb Raider series comes from Story Kitchen, Amazon MGM, and Crystal Dynamics and currently has no release date. Exact details about how the new live-action Tomb Raider show will tell a story unlike what viewers have seen in the past remain a mystery. However, in an update posted to the Story Kitchen website last week, fans learned the show aims to “reinvent the franchise on a massive scale” and interconnect the “new live-action television series and video games into a unified storytelling universe.”

The Tomb Raider universe is undeniably going through a bit of a shift as of late. The live-action show itself has been in the works since sometime in 2023, with the animated Netflix show, Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft, arriving to help with the wait in 2024. Season 2, its final season, will arrive this Thursday, December 11.

While the video game wing of the franchise hasn’t received a new mainline entry since 2018’s Shadow of the Tomb Raider, fans have been told to expect an update at The Game Awards. A tease for the announcement, which was posted just yesterday, signaled a glimpse at Lara Croft’s future that will premiere this Thursday.

Fans have known a new Tomb Raider game has been in development since 2022, with Crystal Dynamics confirming the project is being built in Unreal Engine 5. While we wait to see how Weaver may fit into the next live-action Tomb Raider adaptation, you can check out the Lara Croft redesign revealed in 2024.

Photo by Jason Mendez/Getty Images for ReedPop.

Michael Cripe is a freelance writer with IGN. He's best known for his work at sites like The Pitch, The Escapist, and OnlySP. Be sure to give him a follow on Bluesky (@mikecripe.bsky.social) and Twitter (@MikeCripe).

'It Was the Moral Core' – Russell Crowe Takes Aim at Gladiator 2 and the Changes it Made to Maximus as a Character

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Par :Michael Cripe
9 décembre 2025 à 20:48

Russell Crowe is ready to talk about Gladiator 2, and he’s not exactly happy with how Ridley Scott’s sequel ties in with the original.

Crowe, who won an Oscar for his lead role as Maximus in the 2000 Best Picture winner, spoke about his disappointment in its long-awaited follow-up during an interview with Australian radio station Triple J. He begins airing his grievances by referring to the film as a “sequel that we don’t have to name out loud” but quickly makes his target clear.

“It wasn’t the pomp. It wasn’t the circumstance. It wasn’t the action. It was the moral core,” Crowe explains. “And the thing is there was a daily fight on that set. It was a daily fight to keep that moral core of the character. The amount of times they suggested sex scenes and stuff like that for Maximus, it’s like, you’re taking away his power.”

The area the actor specifically takes issue with is the existence of Gladiator 2’s main character, Lucius (Paul Mescal). It is eventually revealed that Lucius is the secret son of Maximus and the child of an affair Crowe’s character had with Connie Nielsen’s Lucilla. Considering much of Maximus’ journey kicks off as a result of the murder of his wife and child, the actor wasn’t exactly pleased with the decision to retroactively and significantly alter his past.

“But what are you talking about?” Crowe says of Gladiator 2. “So you’re saying at the same time he had this relationship with his wife he was f**king this other girl? What are you talking about? It’s crazy. The women in Europe, when that movie started coming out, I would be at, you know, restaurants, and they’d come talk to me and go, ‘What’s going on?’ It’s like, ‘Hey, it wasn’t me! I didn’t do it!’”

Crowe goes as far as to call Gladiator 2 a “really unfortunate example of even the people in that engine room not actually understanding what made the first one special.” It’s an update that follows comments he made in the lead-up to Scott’s 2024 revival, when the star said “they should be f**king paying me for the amount of questions I am asked about a film I am not even in.”

We gave Gladiator 2 an 8/10 in our review upon its release late last year. At the time, we said the film “finds strength and honor in a familiar story, with enough fresh perspective to feel relevant and an unmissable Denzel Washington supporting turn which practically screams ‘are you not entertained!?’” Scott said Gladiator 3 is “in the process right now” in August, though it’s unclear if Crowe or Mescal will be brought back in any capacity.

Michael Cripe is a freelance writer with IGN. He's best known for his work at sites like The Pitch, The Escapist, and OnlySP. Be sure to give him a follow on Bluesky (@mikecripe.bsky.social) and Twitter (@MikeCripe).

Battlefield 6 Devs Leave Wicked Grin Skin Almost Unrecognizable After Community Calls Out Bright Colors

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Par :Michael Cripe
9 décembre 2025 à 19:22

Notorious Battlefield 6 skin Wicked Grin has had its colors toned down once again, but this time, players are celebrating the removal of, well, its Wicked Grin.

Battlefield Studios launched update 1.1.3.0 alongside its Season 1 finale, Winter Offensive, today. Although patch notes covered sweeping changes to Breakthrough, hit registration, and the overall audio experience, much of the online community was pleased to see the update tackle one of the EA FPS’s biggest controversies.

You may recognize the above Support cosmetic as the Wicked Grin skin. While the clothing items themselves seem to be largely unchanged (minus one new bright yellow armband), the outfit’s standout features have been almost completely reworked. Where there were once bright blue colors highlighting the infantry class, players will now find muted tones and the complete removal of the toothy smile the skin originally earned its name from.

The Wicked Grin changes exist as what many in the Battlefield 6 community are calling another victory what has become a massive push against goofy skins. Players began fighting against fears that Fortnite and Call of Duty-esque skins would eventually infiltrate Battlefield 6 when the System Override skin, not-so-lovingly called the “Monster Energy drink skin,” was unveiled weeks before launch. With technical director Christian Buhl previously telling IGN that BF Studios would stick to realistic, grounded visuals “for a while,” players worried the developers could change course sooner rather than later.

Wicked Grin emerged weeks after launch as a prime example of what many believed was the beginning of the end for grounded infantry skins. Backlash related to the Support skin got out of hand so quickly that some players threatened to not revive any player seen wearing it.

Word of player dissatisfaction got back to BF Studios and resulted in changes to System Override. Now, Wicked Grin, which had already been tweaked with lighter colors with the November 18 launch of California Resistance, is almost unrecognizable in Winter Offensive. There is almost certainly a group of players disappointed to see those bright blues leave, but for the more vocal players online, they’re mostly happy BF Studios is listening.

“They fixed him," one popular Reddit post says. "They fixed this skin, super muted blues and removed the ugly mask design. Big W on lostening to the people."

“Props to the community for standing up,” one comment adds, “props to the devs for listening and acting accordingly.”

Battlefield 6 launched October 10 for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X | S, and BF Studios has been doing a balancing act since. A few updates targeting glitches, aim assist, gameplay balance, hit registration, and more have arrived in the last month alone, with content updates adding new maps as Season 1 rolls on. Today, Winter Offensive added snowy terrain to some familiar locations while handing players access to the new Ice Climbing Axe melee weapon.

For more, you can read our 8/10 Battlefield 6 multiplayer review. You can also see how some players are using Portal to cope with what they feel is a lack of large Conquest map options, and why others weren't sure how to feel about some pricey new skins.

Michael Cripe is a freelance writer with IGN. He's best known for his work at sites like The Pitch, The Escapist, and OnlySP. Be sure to give him a follow on Bluesky (@mikecripe.bsky.social) and Twitter (@MikeCripe).

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2 Remake Plans Revealed as KOTOR 1 Reimagining Continues Development at Saber

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Par :Michael Cripe
9 décembre 2025 à 00:17

Saber Interactive’s troubled Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic remake is reportedly still in development – and a KOTOR 2 remake may be on the way, too.

The latest update on the long-in-the-works Star Wars remake come from a Game File report, which pulls from court documents related to a false-advertising lawsuit launched against Saber’s Aspyr Media and Lucasfilm in 2023. Recently filed records related to the suit, which involved the cancelation of the Restored Content Modification (RCM) for the Nintendo Switch KOTOR 2 re-release, appear to contain both updates for the KOTOR remake as well as mentions of a mysterious project known as “Juliet.”

Attorney Ray Kim prodded for details about what Project Juliet was during the deposition of Lucasfilm Games vice president Douglas Reilly. The Star Wars company VP’s response left little room for ambiguity.

“Juliet was the code name for a project where we were going to do a full remake of KOTOR II with modern art, modern gameplay, you know, keep the story and the characters and the general—the general content of KOTOR II, but remake it for modern hardware and modern machines with updated graphics and all those kind of things,” Reilly said. “It was something we were discussing with Aspyr.”

As for that long-lost cut KOTOR 2 content, Reilly clarified that “the plan was we would remake the content that was in the RCM as it relates to Star Wars in that Juliet project.” Whether or not a KOTOR 2 remake remains in development is hazy for now, with Reilly’s last update saying Juliet was “technically on the roadmap” as of March 2025. Should Saber continue development, it seems the plan is for a reimagined version of the entire experience, even the RCM content, to be included in the final build.

Many other details on the supposed KOTOR 2 remake remain a mystery, but the good news is that Reilly says “we’re starting with the remake of KOTOR 1,” clarifying that “Aspyr isn’t working on those games.” Instead, the KOTOR remake is said to now be in the hands of the team behind Hellraiser: Revival at Mad Head Games.

It’s yet another update on a remake of a classic Star Wars video game that was first announced all the way back in 2021. It’s since earned its place among other gaming projects that have yet to see the light of day, with previous updates leaving fans with low expectations that the reimagining could ever come to be. Still, Saber has stayed positive about its KOTOR remake in recent months, telling fans in March that, “everything that we have talked about is still in development.”

While we wait for any updates on the KOTOR remake or even that potential KOTOR 2 remake, you can see our list of every Star Wars video game in development. You can also read our 9/10 review of the original KOTOR, as well as our 8.7/10 review of its sequel.

Michael Cripe is a freelance writer with IGN. He's best known for his work at sites like The Pitch, The Escapist, and OnlySP. Be sure to give him a follow on Bluesky (@mikecripe.bsky.social) and Twitter (@MikeCripe).

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