Marvel's upcoming Moon Knight series for Disney+, which will star Oscar Isaac (if you go by series cinematographer Gregory Middleton's Instagram post), has now added additional directors. Joining Egyptian filmmaker Mohamed Diab are, per THR, Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, the duo behind behind sci-fi horror movies The Endless and Synchronic (which starred Jamie Dornan and Anthony Mackie). "It is understood that Benson and Moorhead will direct several episodes," THR stated, while Diab is also set to helm several chapters and The Umbrella Academy's Jeremy Slater will serve as head writer. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/10/26/oscar-isaac-in-talks-for-disney-pluss-moon-knight"] Moon Knight revolves around Marc Spector (Isaac), a former soldier of fortune, whose encounter with an Egyptian god of vengeance and moon deity, Khonshu, inspires his transformation into a costumed vigilante. The series will begin shooting in Budapest in March. Looking for a deeper dive into Moon Knight, here's everything you need to know about "Marvel's Batman" from the comics. The MCU's first official Phase 4 offering, and Marvel's first Disney+ series, WandaVision, will premiere Friday, January 15 with two episodes. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=the-best-sci-fi-movies-on-netflix&captions=true"]

Marvel's upcoming Moon Knight series for Disney+, which will star Oscar Isaac (if you go by series cinematographer Gregory Middleton's Instagram post), has now added additional directors. Joining Egyptian filmmaker Mohamed Diab are, per THR, Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, the duo behind behind sci-fi horror movies The Endless and Synchronic (which starred Jamie Dornan and Anthony Mackie). "It is understood that Benson and Moorhead will direct several episodes," THR stated, while Diab is also set to helm several chapters and The Umbrella Academy's Jeremy Slater will serve as head writer. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/10/26/oscar-isaac-in-talks-for-disney-pluss-moon-knight"] Moon Knight revolves around Marc Spector (Isaac), a former soldier of fortune, whose encounter with an Egyptian god of vengeance and moon deity, Khonshu, inspires his transformation into a costumed vigilante. The series will begin shooting in Budapest in March. Looking for a deeper dive into Moon Knight, here's everything you need to know about "Marvel's Batman" from the comics. The MCU's first official Phase 4 offering, and Marvel's first Disney+ series, WandaVision, will premiere Friday, January 15 with two episodes. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=the-best-sci-fi-movies-on-netflix&captions=true"]

Welcome back to Game Scoop!, IGN's weekly video game podcast. In the first episode of 2021, your Omega Cops -- Daemon Hatfield, Tina Amini, Sam Claiborn, and Justin Davis -- are talking more Cyberpunk now that we've beat it (no spoilers), games that are stuck in development hell (looking at you, Dead Island 2), playing Video Game 20 Questions, and more. The music in this episode is from Mega Man 5. Watch the video above or hit the link below to your favorite podcast service. Listen on: Apple Podcasts YouTube Spotify Stitcher   Find previous episodes here!

Welcome back to Game Scoop!, IGN's weekly video game podcast. In the first episode of 2021, your Omega Cops -- Daemon Hatfield, Tina Amini, Sam Claiborn, and Justin Davis -- are talking more Cyberpunk now that we've beat it (no spoilers), games that are stuck in development hell (looking at you, Dead Island 2), playing Video Game 20 Questions, and more. The music in this episode is from Mega Man 5. Watch the video above or hit the link below to your favorite podcast service. Listen on: Apple Podcasts YouTube Spotify Stitcher   Find previous episodes here!

Following a wave of social media bans and suspensions from services like Facebook and Twitch, Twitter has now announced that it has permanently suspended President Donald Trump's account @realDonaldTrump. In a statement on its official blog, Twitter announced, "After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them -- specifically how they are being received and interpreted on and off Twitter -- we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence." If you go to Twitter right now and search for the @realDonaldTrump Twitter account, you will be greeted with the grayed-out "Account suspended" notification. [caption id="attachment_245973" align="alignnone" width="1402"] Source: Twitter.com | Captured by IGN.[/caption] Twitter added, "In the context of horrific events this week, we made it clear on Wednesday that additional violations of the Twitter Rules would potentially result in this very course of action." The company added that accounts such as Donald Trump's "are not above our rules entirely and cannot use Twitter to incite violence, among other things." Specifically, Twitter cited two tweets from Trump on January 8, 2021. The first reads:

"The 75,000,000 great American Patriots who voted for me, AMERICA FIRST, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, will have a GIANT VOICE long into the future. They will not be diresepcted or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form!!!"

as well as a follow-up tweet from Trump in which he announced he will not attend President-Elect Joe Biden's inauguration on January 20. Twitter previously suspended Donald Trump's Twitter account following the attack on Capitol Hill by Trump supporters on Wednesday, but that was only a 12-hour ban. However, as more details from the attack are released, Twitter has now permanently suspended Trump's account. Other social media services like Facebook and Instagram, as well as Twitch, have suspended or disabled Trump's official accounts at least until the U.S. Presidential inauguration on January 20. Twitch has similarly cited the risk of further violence as a reason for suspending Trump's Twitch account.

After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence.https://t.co/CBpE1I6j8Y

— Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) January 8, 2021

Update 1/8/21 4:45 pm PT: According to The Verge, if Trump were to use Twitter through a government account like @POTUS, Twitter will try and limit the account's use. If Trump tries to create a separate account then that account will be permanently suspended "at first detection." Update 2 4:56 pm PT: According to reporters at The New York Times Parler, a microblogging platform particularly popular with Donald Trump supporters, has been removed from the Google Play Store. Apple has also reportedly told Parler to begin moderating its users within 24 hours or risk being removed from the App Store. Update 3 1/9/21 6:13 pm PT: As reported by BuzzFeed News, Parler has been removed from the Apple's App Store and Amazon has kicked it off its Web hosting services. Apple said in a statement that "Parler has not taken adequate measures to address the proliferation of these threats to people’s safety. We have suspended Parler from the App Store until they resolve these issues." Amazon's ban, on the other hand, will take place on Sunday, January 10, and if Parler does not find another host, it will go offline. BuzzFeed News obtained an e-mail from Amazon Web Services (AWS) Trust and Safety team to Parler Chief Policy Officer Amy Peikoff explaining the decision. “Recently, we’ve seen a steady increase in this violent content on your website, all of which violates our terms," an e-mail obtained by BuzzFeed News read. "It’s clear that Parler does not have an effective process to comply with the AWS terms of service,” the email reads. “[W]e cannot provide services to a customer that is unable to effectively identify and remove content that encourages or incites violence against others,” the email reads. “Because Parler cannot comply with our terms of service and poses a very real risk to public safety, we plan to suspend Parler’s account effective Sunday, January 10th, at 11:59PM PST.” On January 6, 2021, during a meeting with both houses of the legislature to certify the results of the 2020 U.S. Presidential election, a riot broke out as Trump supporters stormed and briefly overtook the US Capitol buildings. Members of the Senate and Congress were forced to flee or hide for safety. Since then, it has been revealed that four rioters died as well as one police officer. The riot is currently being investigated. It should be noted the official @POTUS Twitter account is still active but will be reverted to Biden's team on January 20. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Matt T.M. Kim is a reporter for IGN. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

A space object that passed by Earth in 2017 was likely from aliens, according to Harvard professor, Avi Loeb. Loeb's new book, Extraterrestrial, examines the cigar-shaped object named Oumuamua that flew by the Earth in 2017 at 196,000 mph and the professor believes the origin of that object to be aliens. He spoke to CBS News about this belief and said scientists didn't collect enough data from the object when it passed by our planet. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=cosmos-possible-worlds-gallery&captions=true"] "At first people thought, 'Well it must be a rock, just like the asteroids or comets that we have seen before within the solar system,' but as they got more data on it, it looks very weird," Loeb told CBS News. "It's possible that there is a lot of space junk out there or it is a probe. We don't know because we didn't collect enough data, enough evidence." Loeb said he's saying this so that the next time an object like the one from 2017 passes by, scientists examine it more carefully. He said the object didn't look like a comet, which is what some called it, but behaved like something with "an extra push." NASA said in 2018 that it was "the first object ever seen in our solar system that is known to have originated elsewhere," but stated the origin of the object was unknown. Loeb writes in Extraterrestrial that the object was probably some kind of debris from an advanced alien technology originating from many light-years away, according to CBS News. Let's hope the aliens that disposed of it are the nice kind and not the bust-out-of-your-chest kind. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/09/14/signs-of-alien-life-found-on-venus-ign-now"] The Harvard professor said that scientists should look for potential "messages in a bottle" with objects like Oumuamua instead of focusing on radio signals as evidence of aliens. He also said these kinds of ideas aren't popular in the science community and that they are "out of the mainstream" and "should not be." "We should be open-minded and search for evidence rather than assume that everything we see in the sky must be rocks," Loeb said. For more aliens, read about these possible signs of life detected on Venus and then read about how a galactic federation of aliens might already be in contact with the US and Israeli governments. Check out this story about a study that claims alien civilizations destroyed themselves through progress after that. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Wesley LeBlanc is a freelance news writer and guide maker for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @LeBlancWes. 

A space object that passed by Earth in 2017 was likely from aliens, according to Harvard professor, Avi Loeb. Loeb's new book, Extraterrestrial, examines the cigar-shaped object named Oumuamua that flew by the Earth in 2017 at 196,000 mph and the professor believes the origin of that object to be aliens. He spoke to CBS News about this belief and said scientists didn't collect enough data from the object when it passed by our planet. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=cosmos-possible-worlds-gallery&captions=true"] "At first people thought, 'Well it must be a rock, just like the asteroids or comets that we have seen before within the solar system,' but as they got more data on it, it looks very weird," Loeb told CBS News. "It's possible that there is a lot of space junk out there or it is a probe. We don't know because we didn't collect enough data, enough evidence." Loeb said he's saying this so that the next time an object like the one from 2017 passes by, scientists examine it more carefully. He said the object didn't look like a comet, which is what some called it, but behaved like something with "an extra push." NASA said in 2018 that it was "the first object ever seen in our solar system that is known to have originated elsewhere," but stated the origin of the object was unknown. Loeb writes in Extraterrestrial that the object was probably some kind of debris from an advanced alien technology originating from many light-years away, according to CBS News. Let's hope the aliens that disposed of it are the nice kind and not the bust-out-of-your-chest kind. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/09/14/signs-of-alien-life-found-on-venus-ign-now"] The Harvard professor said that scientists should look for potential "messages in a bottle" with objects like Oumuamua instead of focusing on radio signals as evidence of aliens. He also said these kinds of ideas aren't popular in the science community and that they are "out of the mainstream" and "should not be." "We should be open-minded and search for evidence rather than assume that everything we see in the sky must be rocks," Loeb said. For more aliens, read about these possible signs of life detected on Venus and then read about how a galactic federation of aliens might already be in contact with the US and Israeli governments. Check out this story about a study that claims alien civilizations destroyed themselves through progress after that. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Wesley LeBlanc is a freelance news writer and guide maker for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @LeBlancWes. 

Even as The CW continues to add new shows to its Arrowverse lineup, one potential spinoff series won't be moving forward at the network. Variety reports Green Arrow and the Canaries is now "officially dead." The news isn't necessarily surprising, given the lack of updates surrounding the Arrow spinoff. Green Arrow and the Canaries was first announced back in September 2019, as Arrow was beginning its eighth and final season. The penultimate episode of Arrow served as a backdoor pilot for the spinoff, which would have featured Mia Queen (Katherine McNamara), Dinah Drake (Juliana Harkavy) and Laurel Lance (Katie Cassidy) defending Star City 20 years in the future. But since Arrow's finale, there's been little word on Green Arrow and the Canaries, even as The CW fast-tracked the first season of Superman & Lois and announced new superhero series like Wonder Girl and Naomi. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=arrows-best-episodes&captions=true"] In IGN's review of the backdoor pilot, we wrote, "As an epilogue to Crisis on Infinite Earths, 'Green Arrow and the Canaries' mostly hits the mark. It explores the ramifications of Crisis in an unexpected way, using that to flesh out the relationship between Mia Queen and John Diggle, Jr. and establish a shared new status quo for both Laurel Lance and Dinah Drake. What this episode fails to do, however, is justify building an entirely new series around the new plot threads introduced here. The new Arrow is shaping up to be a little too much like the old. That's not a recipe for success." It remains to be seen whether the futuristic plot threads introduced in that episode will be continued in another form, or if McNamara, Harkavy or Cassidy will reprise their roles elsewhere in the Arrowverse. Given the fact that DC's Legends of Tomorrow revolves heavily around time travel, that series could easily tie up the remaining loose ends from Arrow. Or there's always the possibility of Green Arrow and the Canaries being reworked to become an animated web series, similar to CW Seed's Vixen and Freedom Fighters: The Ray. The CW's decision to shutter Green Arrow and the Canaries comes on the heels of news that Supergirl will end with the upcoming Season 6 and Black Lightning will end after Season 4. However, with Superman & Lois premiering in February 2021, Stargirl migrating from DC Universe in Season 2, the announcements of the aforementioned Wonder Girl and Naomi and rumors of a Black Lightning spinoff focused on Painkiller, the Arrowverse doesn't look to be getting any smaller in the years to come. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/01/18/crisis-on-infinite-earths-crossover-review"] [poilib element="accentDivider"] Jesse is a mild-mannered staff writer for IGN. Allow him to lend a machete to your intellectual thicket by following @jschedeen on Twitter.

Even as The CW continues to add new shows to its Arrowverse lineup, one potential spinoff series won't be moving forward at the network. Variety reports Green Arrow and the Canaries is now "officially dead." The news isn't necessarily surprising, given the lack of updates surrounding the Arrow spinoff. Green Arrow and the Canaries was first announced back in September 2019, as Arrow was beginning its eighth and final season. The penultimate episode of Arrow served as a backdoor pilot for the spinoff, which would have featured Mia Queen (Katherine McNamara), Dinah Drake (Juliana Harkavy) and Laurel Lance (Katie Cassidy) defending Star City 20 years in the future. But since Arrow's finale, there's been little word on Green Arrow and the Canaries, even as The CW fast-tracked the first season of Superman & Lois and announced new superhero series like Wonder Girl and Naomi. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=arrows-best-episodes&captions=true"] In IGN's review of the backdoor pilot, we wrote, "As an epilogue to Crisis on Infinite Earths, 'Green Arrow and the Canaries' mostly hits the mark. It explores the ramifications of Crisis in an unexpected way, using that to flesh out the relationship between Mia Queen and John Diggle, Jr. and establish a shared new status quo for both Laurel Lance and Dinah Drake. What this episode fails to do, however, is justify building an entirely new series around the new plot threads introduced here. The new Arrow is shaping up to be a little too much like the old. That's not a recipe for success." It remains to be seen whether the futuristic plot threads introduced in that episode will be continued in another form, or if McNamara, Harkavy or Cassidy will reprise their roles elsewhere in the Arrowverse. Given the fact that DC's Legends of Tomorrow revolves heavily around time travel, that series could easily tie up the remaining loose ends from Arrow. Or there's always the possibility of Green Arrow and the Canaries being reworked to become an animated web series, similar to CW Seed's Vixen and Freedom Fighters: The Ray. The CW's decision to shutter Green Arrow and the Canaries comes on the heels of news that Supergirl will end with the upcoming Season 6 and Black Lightning will end after Season 4. However, with Superman & Lois premiering in February 2021, Stargirl migrating from DC Universe in Season 2, the announcements of the aforementioned Wonder Girl and Naomi and rumors of a Black Lightning spinoff focused on Painkiller, the Arrowverse doesn't look to be getting any smaller in the years to come. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/01/18/crisis-on-infinite-earths-crossover-review"] [poilib element="accentDivider"] Jesse is a mild-mannered staff writer for IGN. Allow him to lend a machete to your intellectual thicket by following @jschedeen on Twitter.

Convention and event organizer ReedPop has announced it will resume some physical events in 2021 in London and Birmingham.

ReedPop says that “provided it can be done safely,” MCM Comic Con will return to London on October 22-24. MCM Birmingham will run from November 13-14. A series of “virtual Metaverse events” will be held throughout the spring and summer.

MCM Comic Con London and Birmingham will be the only physical events held throughout 2021, ReedPop said in a statement. MCM will not host its March event in Birmingham, nor a May event in London. Manchester and Scotland events are also not part of ReedPop’s calendar through 2021.

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Tickets will become available online “in the coming months” prior to each event, along with additional information on each show’s health and safety measures.

In the meantime, eager UK and EU fans will be able to access ReedPop’s spring Metaverse and virtual events throughout the summer. ReedPop says its virtual experiences will provide “a 365-day celebration of all things pop culture,” and will offer exclusive content, merch, and celebrity interactions.

"We want to thank our fans for waiting patiently during this challenging and unprecedented time while we focus on bringing them the best pop culture events in the UK in a safe, responsible and fun way,” said Teresa Heitor, MCM Comic Con event director at ReedPop. “The enjoyment and wellbeing of our attendees, guests and community remains our top priority. We can’t wait to gather with you all again and until then, our team remains hard at work to continue creating events with the superior quality content and show experiences that we know our fans expect.”

With the vast majority of 2020 events having been canceled due to COVID-19 safety concerns, convention goers are likely eager to return to physical events. With the UK beginning to roll out the Pfizer vaccine, it’s possible that regional and national government bodies may rescind certain COVID-19 restrictions.

ReedPop is also responsible for New York Comic Con, C2E2, PAX, Star Wars Celebration, Crunchyroll Expo, and numerous other events, although the company did not include any mentions of additional events in its statement.

[poilib element="accentDivider"] Joseph Knoop is a writer/producer for IGN.