James Gunn has had a busy few months.

The new co-chairman and co-CEO of DC Studios is currently finishing up his final Marvel projects, including the Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special as well as Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Gunn admits that writing the Holiday Special, a 44-minute special presentation, was a bit easy.

“I’ll be honest, I wrote the screenplay in a few hours, so it just kind of spilled out of me. It was very easy,” Gunn said. “Everything about shooting it was easy. Everything about getting the performances out of people was easy, whereas Vol. 3 was torture in every way.”

Gunn didn't elaborate on why Guardians of Galaxy Vol. 3 was so torturous, though his complex history with the series and the fact that it's his final MCU movie might be a clue. Gunn is currently deep into post-production on Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, calling it "emotional."

“It’s a big movie, and it’s so different from the special because the special is so wacky and insane," the director said. "The movie is so emotional, but it’s been a real joy making it. So it’s coming along great. I still have a ton of visual effect shots I’m working on, and of course, putting the score together with John Murphy, which is gigantic. So those are the things I’ve been focusing on most, lately.”

The Holiday Special, meanwhile, will see the Guardians taking on Christmas as Drax and Mantis try to help Peter Quill rediscover his love of Christmas. How will they ever do that? Well, they decide to gift him his favorite actor, Kevin Bacon.

"The idea of doing a holiday special with the Guardians was both a really funny idea to me and also something I really wanted to do," Gunn said. "And once I sat down and started trying to figure out what the story was, the Kevin Bacon idea came up very, very quickly, and I wrote the whole story within a few hours."

Guardians 3 will be Gunn's last project in the Marvel Studios franchise before he dives head-in to leading DC Studios through a new era. Alongside Peter Safran, the duo look to be the Kevin Feige of DC, and they are very busy planning the next decade of programming. However, it seems the duo is planning to unveil their master plan soon.

Carson Burton is a freelance news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter at @carsonsburton.

James Gunn has had a busy few months.

The new co-chairman and co-CEO of DC Studios is currently finishing up his final Marvel projects, including the Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special as well as Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Gunn admits that writing the Holiday Special, a 44-minute special presentation, was a bit easy.

“I’ll be honest, I wrote the screenplay in a few hours, so it just kind of spilled out of me. It was very easy,” Gunn said. “Everything about shooting it was easy. Everything about getting the performances out of people was easy, whereas Vol. 3 was torture in every way.”

Gunn didn't elaborate on why Guardians of Galaxy Vol. 3 was so torturous, though his complex history with the series and the fact that it's his final MCU movie might be a clue. Gunn is currently deep into post-production on Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, calling it "emotional."

“It’s a big movie, and it’s so different from the special because the special is so wacky and insane," the director said. "The movie is so emotional, but it’s been a real joy making it. So it’s coming along great. I still have a ton of visual effect shots I’m working on, and of course, putting the score together with John Murphy, which is gigantic. So those are the things I’ve been focusing on most, lately.”

The Holiday Special, meanwhile, will see the Guardians taking on Christmas as Drax and Mantis try to help Peter Quill rediscover his love of Christmas. How will they ever do that? Well, they decide to gift him his favorite actor, Kevin Bacon.

"The idea of doing a holiday special with the Guardians was both a really funny idea to me and also something I really wanted to do," Gunn said. "And once I sat down and started trying to figure out what the story was, the Kevin Bacon idea came up very, very quickly, and I wrote the whole story within a few hours."

Guardians 3 will be Gunn's last project in the Marvel Studios franchise before he dives head-in to leading DC Studios through a new era. Alongside Peter Safran, the duo look to be the Kevin Feige of DC, and they are very busy planning the next decade of programming. However, it seems the duo is planning to unveil their master plan soon.

Carson Burton is a freelance news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter at @carsonsburton.

Elizabeth Holmes, the founder and former CEO of medical startup firm Theranos, has been sentenced to 135 months (just over 11.25 years) in prison for her role in defrauding investors and consumers with a faulty blood-testing device that she claimed had massive potential.

A jury found Holmes guilty of three counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud earlier this year, and U.S. District Court Judge Edward Davila announced the sentence on Friday after a four-hour hearing. Following Holmes' time in jail, she will face three years of supervised release.

Holmes' story hit television screens this year in the Hulu limited series The Dropout. Starring Amanda Seyfried and Naveen Andrews, the show recounted the story of the Stanford University dropout who became the face of fraud in Silicon Valley. The series was highly acclaimed, and Seyfried won an Emmy in September for her portrayal of Holmes. Now, Seyfried's real life subject is going behind bars.

Back in the mid-2010s, Holmes was heavily promoted as a visionary entrepreneur. She was touted as the first self-made female tech billionare, and she promised that Theranos was developing a revolutionary technology that would make blood testing cheaper, easier and less painful. The company raised nearly $1 billion in private investment despite never proving that the technology worked.

In late 2015, Holmes' empire started to crumble, with investigative reporting from The Wall Street Journal casting doubt on the company's claims. Eventually, the Securities and Exchange Commission got involved and federal fraud charges were levied.

Holmes' story has been followed on many other forms of media aside from The Dropout. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, a book by the reporter who broke the original story, was transformed into a podcast, and a documentary for HBO titled Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley was released in 2019.

Carson Burton is a freelance news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter at @carsonsburton.

Elizabeth Holmes, the founder and former CEO of medical startup firm Theranos, has been sentenced to 135 months (just over 11.25 years) in prison for her role in defrauding investors and consumers with a faulty blood-testing device that she claimed had massive potential.

A jury found Holmes guilty of three counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud earlier this year, and U.S. District Court Judge Edward Davila announced the sentence on Friday after a four-hour hearing. Following Holmes' time in jail, she will face three years of supervised release.

Holmes' story hit television screens this year in the Hulu limited series The Dropout. Starring Amanda Seyfried and Naveen Andrews, the show recounted the story of the Stanford University dropout who became the face of fraud in Silicon Valley. The series was highly acclaimed, and Seyfried won an Emmy in September for her portrayal of Holmes. Now, Seyfried's real life subject is going behind bars.

Back in the mid-2010s, Holmes was heavily promoted as a visionary entrepreneur. She was touted as the first self-made female tech billionare, and she promised that Theranos was developing a revolutionary technology that would make blood testing cheaper, easier and less painful. The company raised nearly $1 billion in private investment despite never proving that the technology worked.

In late 2015, Holmes' empire started to crumble, with investigative reporting from The Wall Street Journal casting doubt on the company's claims. Eventually, the Securities and Exchange Commission got involved and federal fraud charges were levied.

Holmes' story has been followed on many other forms of media aside from The Dropout. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, a book by the reporter who broke the original story, was transformed into a podcast, and a documentary for HBO titled Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley was released in 2019.

Carson Burton is a freelance news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter at @carsonsburton.

Update 11/18 3:45 pm PT: A half hour after the outage, Steam appears to be back online. Happy gaming!

Original Story: Steam appears to be down as users are reporting a sudden outage at the world’s largest PC games launcher and store.

According to IGN’s sister site DownDetector, users are reporting a sudden outage on Steam. Our own attempts to log into Steam have been unsuccessful. It’s unclear what caused the sudden outage.

There’s been no official word from Valve on what caused the outage and when services might resume.

Steam is getting ready to launch its next big sale, the Steam Autumn Sale which will begin on November 22 and last through November 29.

IGN will update this story when Steam services resume, but until then you can keep checking IGN for regular updates.

Matt T.M. Kim is IGN's News Editor. You can reach him @lawoftd.

Update 11/18 3:45 pm PT: A half hour after the outage, Steam appears to be back online. Happy gaming!

Original Story: Steam appears to be down as users are reporting a sudden outage at the world’s largest PC games launcher and store.

According to IGN’s sister site DownDetector, users are reporting a sudden outage on Steam. Our own attempts to log into Steam have been unsuccessful. It’s unclear what caused the sudden outage.

There’s been no official word from Valve on what caused the outage and when services might resume.

Steam is getting ready to launch its next big sale, the Steam Autumn Sale which will begin on November 22 and last through November 29.

IGN will update this story when Steam services resume, but until then you can keep checking IGN for regular updates.

Matt T.M. Kim is IGN's News Editor. You can reach him @lawoftd.

Millie Gibson is Doctor Who's newest companion. Gibson will play Ruby Sunday, joining Ncuti Gatwa in the fifteenth generation of Doctor Who. The announcement was made live on BBC Children in Need on Friday.

Gibson, who is currently 18-years-old, is best known for her role on Coronation Street as Kellie Neelan. She has also appearend in the shows Butterfly and Love, Lies and Records. Now, Gibson will join the Time Lord in the Tardis when the series returns in the end of 2023.

"Whilst still being in total disbelief, I am beyond honoured to be cast as the Doctor’s companion," Gibson told the BBC. "It is a gift of a role, and a dream come true, and I will do everything to try and fill the boots the fellow companions have travelled in before me. And what better way to do that than being by the fabulous Ncuti Gatwa’s side, I just can’t wait to get started."

Gibson is joining a new era of Doctor Who that is striving to break barriers. Gatwa, the 30-year-old Sex Education star, is the first black actor to portray the Doctor as a series lead. He will take over the helm of Time Lord from Jodie Whittaker, the first female protagonist on the show. Throughout her four-year tenure, Mandip Gill played Whittaker's sidekick, Yasmin Khan. Now, Gibson and Gatwa are taking over the reins.

"Millie just is the Companion," Gatwa said. "She is full of talent, strength, she has a cheeky sparkle in her eye and is sharp as a razor. From the moment she walked into the room she captured all of our attention with her effervescence and then solidified that attention with the sheer torque of her talent. This adventure is going to be so wild and so fun, I cannot WAIT to sail the universe with Millie!"

Doctor Who is expected to return next year with Russell T Davies at the helm. Before Gatwa's debut is aired, David Tennant will return as the Doctor in three episodes for Doctor Who's 60th anniversary.

Carson Burton is a freelance news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter at @carsonsburton.

Millie Gibson is Doctor Who's newest companion. Gibson will play Ruby Sunday, joining Ncuti Gatwa in the fifteenth generation of Doctor Who. The announcement was made live on BBC Children in Need on Friday.

Gibson, who is currently 18-years-old, is best known for her role on Coronation Street as Kellie Neelan. She has also appearend in the shows Butterfly and Love, Lies and Records. Now, Gibson will join the Time Lord in the Tardis when the series returns in the end of 2023.

"Whilst still being in total disbelief, I am beyond honoured to be cast as the Doctor’s companion," Gibson told the BBC. "It is a gift of a role, and a dream come true, and I will do everything to try and fill the boots the fellow companions have travelled in before me. And what better way to do that than being by the fabulous Ncuti Gatwa’s side, I just can’t wait to get started."

Gibson is joining a new era of Doctor Who that is striving to break barriers. Gatwa, the 30-year-old Sex Education star, is the first black actor to portray the Doctor as a series lead. He will take over the helm of Time Lord from Jodie Whittaker, the first female protagonist on the show. Throughout her four-year tenure, Mandip Gill played Whittaker's sidekick, Yasmin Khan. Now, Gibson and Gatwa are taking over the reins.

"Millie just is the Companion," Gatwa said. "She is full of talent, strength, she has a cheeky sparkle in her eye and is sharp as a razor. From the moment she walked into the room she captured all of our attention with her effervescence and then solidified that attention with the sheer torque of her talent. This adventure is going to be so wild and so fun, I cannot WAIT to sail the universe with Millie!"

Doctor Who is expected to return next year with Russell T Davies at the helm. Before Gatwa's debut is aired, David Tennant will return as the Doctor in three episodes for Doctor Who's 60th anniversary.

Carson Burton is a freelance news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter at @carsonsburton.

The Justice Department has opened an antitrust investigation into Live Nation Entertainment following a fiasco earlier this week concerning its subsidiary Ticketmaster.

The New York Times reports that the Justice Department is investigating the company to determine whether or not Live Nation Entertainment abused its market power in the live events business. Earlier this week, pre-sale tickets for Taylor Swift's upcoming "Eras" tour when up, and the website crashed due to overwhelming demand.

Due to extraordinarily high demands on ticketing systems and insufficient remaining ticket inventory to meet that demand, tomorrow's public on-sale for Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour has been cancelled.

— Ticketmaster (@Ticketmaster) November 17, 2022

Ticketmaster then announced on Thursday that it was canceling the public sale of Swift's tour due to "extraordinarily high demands on ticketing systems and insufficient remaining ticket inventory to meet that demand."

Live Nation Entertainment has previously been under antitrust controversy as the company is currently under a consent decree as part of a settlement with the Justice Department following its merger with Ticketmaster in 2010.

However, this is not the only legal probe against Live Nation and Ticketmaster, as the Attorney Generals for North Carolina and Tennessee announced that they were also investigating Ticketmaster due to the Taylor Swift pre-sale ticket fiasco.

Taylor is the Associate Tech Editor at IGN. You can follow her on Twitter @TayNixster.

The Justice Department has opened an antitrust investigation into Live Nation Entertainment following a fiasco earlier this week concerning its subsidiary Ticketmaster.

The New York Times reports that the Justice Department is investigating the company to determine whether or not Live Nation Entertainment abused its market power in the live events business. Earlier this week, pre-sale tickets for Taylor Swift's upcoming "Eras" tour when up, and the website crashed due to overwhelming demand.

Due to extraordinarily high demands on ticketing systems and insufficient remaining ticket inventory to meet that demand, tomorrow's public on-sale for Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour has been cancelled.

— Ticketmaster (@Ticketmaster) November 17, 2022

Ticketmaster then announced on Thursday that it was canceling the public sale of Swift's tour due to "extraordinarily high demands on ticketing systems and insufficient remaining ticket inventory to meet that demand."

Live Nation Entertainment has previously been under antitrust controversy as the company is currently under a consent decree as part of a settlement with the Justice Department following its merger with Ticketmaster in 2010.

However, this is not the only legal probe against Live Nation and Ticketmaster, as the Attorney Generals for North Carolina and Tennessee announced that they were also investigating Ticketmaster due to the Taylor Swift pre-sale ticket fiasco.

Taylor is the Associate Tech Editor at IGN. You can follow her on Twitter @TayNixster.