Month: January 2025

Mads Mikkelsen has spoken up about how he’s replacing Johnny Depp in the Fantastic Beasts series. He told Collider that he intends to portray the evil Grindelwald in a different way than Depp did; otherwise he would be making a big mistake.

Mikkelsen said there should be a “bridge” between Depp’s Grindelwald and his own, but he won’t try to copy what the Pirates of the Caribbean star did.

“Nobody’s interested in me going in there and trying to copy anything; that would be creative suicide immediately, especially when it’s been done before and masterfully,” he said. “So everybody’s expecting us to find a different path. Having said that, we need a bridge between what he did and what I’m gonna do, so those bridges you have to f…

GoldenEye’s watch theme has become an indelible part of the legacy of the game, immortalized in internet memes and YouTube compilations. However, the track–which plays whenever the player pauses the game–sounds a little different in the Switch version of the game, as revealed by a clip that Nintendo of America posted. Co-composer Graeme Norgate noticed the subtle omission on social media. [Update: Fortunately, with the game now released, it turns out that the music isn’t missing this signature detail. However, the controls when playing on Switch are less than desirable.] Come from Sports betting site VPbet

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This week, HBO and Max premiered The Penguin, the first spin-off series from The Batman. And while this show is a part of director Matt Reeves’ plans for what he calls The Batman Epic Crime Saga, The Penguin was never meant to be the only series to come out of the first film. But while separate shows about the Gotham City PD and Arkham Asylum fell by the wayside, Reeves now says that there will be more spin-offs if The Penguin is successful.

While speaking with EW, Reeves declined to say which spin-offs he has in mind beyond The Penguin. But he did indicate that the next show or shows will be built around some of the ideas that were in the previous GCPD and Arkham Asylum pitches.

“The things that we’re talking about [now] are…

Microsoft has reportedly produced a AI-driven demo of Minecraft that lets the user control the game by telling it what to do, rather than building everything themselves. Come from Sports betting site VPbet

According to a report from Semafor, this demo lets players use AI to tell the game what to build, rather than the traditional gameplay format of moving their character around and building and digging themselves. The demo apparently uses cutting-edge AI, though not Prometheus, the tech that’s used in the recently revealed Bing chat service that is developed with OpenAI.

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Stalagmites are a somewhat new item in Minecraft that many players are still confused by. In-game, they’re known as Pointed Dripstone, which comes in two different varieties. Stalagmites are Pointed Dripstone that point up, and they’re a hazard in caves where they most commonly spawn. To learn more about stalagmites and what they can do in Minecraft, keep reading the guide below.

What is Pointed Dripstone in Minecraft?

Pointed dripstone is the name for both stalagmites and stalactites in Minecraft. Stalagmites point up from the ground while stalactites point down from the ceiling. Both spawn in dripstone caves, where they form naturally when connected to dripstone blocks. Dripstone blocks have the ability to grow pointed dr…