Fast X villain Jason Momoa has let slip about a major returning villain.

During an interview with ET, the 42-year-old Aquaman star revealed that Charlize Theron will be back as the Cipher – the main villain from The Fate of The Furious.

“I get to shoot with some really cool people that I have never — I get to work with Charlize [Theron] first up, which I'm really excited about. She's amazing,” he said. “I'm excited I'm working with Vin. I'm excited I'm working with Charlize.”

“He's amazing,” Momoa said of his own character. “He's ornery. He's misunderstood.”

The Wrap has since independently confirmed that Theron will be returning to the Fast and Furious franchise alongside Sung Kang as fan favourite, Han.

The news comes shortly after it was revealed that Brie Larson will be joining Fast X.

The Fate of the Furious (also known as F8 and Fast and Furious 8) saw Theron suit up as Cipher – a criminal mastermind and cyberterrorist who coerces Dom into working for them by kidnapping his son, holding him and Elena hostage.

And we all know how Dom feels about family.

IGN’s own review praised Theron’s villain: “Charlize Theron brings the proper degree of icy cruelty to Cipher, who is essentially a Bond villain. She operates out of a jet, has a seemingly endless supply of henchmen, and harbors plans for global domination. Theron underplays the role, making Cipher's head games and willingness to kill anyone -- and delivering it all with a cobra-like stillness -- all the creepier.”

There’s no doubt that Fast and Furious fans will be ecstatic to see her return.

Unfortunately, it looks as though Dwayne Johnson won’t be extending the same courtesy as he refused to head back for Fast X. And it looks as though Fast and Furious 11 will be the last film in the long-running franchise.

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A former Nintendo of America employee has filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) accusing Nintendo of terminating their employment due to their involvement with a union.

The specific charge, as first reported by Axios, is levied against both Nintendo of America and recruiting firm Aston Carter, which hires contractors for various administrative and customer support roles at Nintendo. It alleges that the employee was terminated from their role due to activities connected with unionization - either joining or supporting a union, and participating in other activities such as discussing their wages and terms of employment. The complaint also accuses Nintendo of "engaging in surveillance" of union activities.

Through the NLRB, employees are protected from retaliation or termination for participating in union activities or otherwise organizing. With the complaint now filed, the next step is for the NLRB to investigate the termination to determine if it was, as is claimed, illegal and related to unionization.

In a statement shared with Polygon, Nintendo confirmed the employee in question was terminated but asserts it was not due to organization:

"We are aware of the claim, which was filed with the National Labor Relations Board by a contractor who was previously terminated for the disclosure of confidential information and for no other reason," the statement reads. "Nintendo is not aware of any attempts to unionize or related activity and intends to cooperate with the investigation conducted by the NLRB.

"Nintendo is fully committed to providing a welcoming and supportive work environment for all our employees and contractors. We take matters of employment very seriously."

The NLRB has been increasingly involved in video game companies' activities lately as organization efforts continue to crop up across the industry. Just today, Apple workers in Georgia filed a petition with the NLRB to form a union. And last year, Activision Blizzard workers filed a complaint with the NLRB accusing their employers of union-busting and intimidation, and subsidiary Raven Software ultimately formed its own union. Their organizing efforts came following an ongoing series of lawsuits and accusations against the company going back to last July, beginning with a California suit accusing the company of a frat boy culture, sexual harassment, unequal pay, and more.

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Since Lightyear was announced there's been a lot of discussion about what exactly the movie is. Pixar has since clarified that it's the in-universe science fiction movie that Toy Story's Buzz Lightyear action figure is based upon. But, at a recent press event attended by IGN, we also learned that it's not just a sci-fi, but a time-travel sci-fi movie.

“It’s a story where Buzz is traveling rapidly through time because of his job, and because of that, it would separate him from society and his loved ones,” director/screenwriter Angus MacLean told us. “It's like Rip Van Winkle, trapped in a future he doesn't recognize, desperately trying to get back to the past to correct a mistake of his youth; a hero out of his own time.”

Perhaps the best-known hero out of his own time of the last decade is, of course, the MCU's Captain America. And so it's no surprise really that Chris Evans is voicing Buzz Lightyear instead of Tim Allen, who voiced the action figure version in the Toy Story movies.

MacLean's mention of Buzz's desperation to get back to the past suggests that there may be more than a hint of sadness to Lightyear. Afterall, Pixar is no stranger to makeing us all sob. And while we can expect there to be some of that, the director assures us that it's not super sad. "There were heavier versions," MacLean notes, but the final version of the film has struck the correct balance.

For more from Lightyear, check out how it fits into the Toy Story canon.

Matt Purslow is IGN's UK News and Features Editor. Tara Bennett also contributed to this report.

The full title of the upcoming Dungeons & Dragons movie has been revealed as part of today’s D&D Direct stream.

The movie, scheduled for release in March next year, will be titled Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.

The new subtitle alone gives a reasonably good impression of what kind of vibe the movie will have, but the official synopsis released several months ago makes it more clear how the thieves aspect will tie into it. The currently unnamed protagonist, played by Chris Pine, is a thief looking to rob a conman who stole all their loot. Pine’s character will gather a party consisting of a barbarian, a wizard, and a druid, and then venture forth to foil the conman who now presides as the Lord of Neverwinter.

Joining Chris Pine on his adventure is Michelle Rodriguez, Justice Smith, Regé-Jean Page, Sophia Lillis, and Jason Wong. Hugh Grant has been confirmed to be playing Forge Fletcher, the villain of the story.

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves will release on March 3, 2023. This marks a significant shift from the original plan after it was delayed from November 2021 to May 2022 due to COVID, and now to March 2023.

Matt Purslow is IGN's UK News and Features Editor.

Square Enix and People Can Fly have announced Outriders Worldslayer, an expansion to 2021’s chaotic looter shooter, will launch this June.

Outriders Worldslayer pushes the action into the further reaches of the world of Enoch, to regions where frost storms and blizzards have coated the landscape with snow and ice. This is the setting for Worldslayer’s new campaign, which sees the leader of the human insurgence faction, the incredibly powerful Ereshkigal, plotting her own future for humans on Enoch.

The expansion’s campaign features new additions to all of the key aspects of Outriders; there’s new zones, enemies and enemy variants, two new five-piece legendary armor sets per class, new multiclass three-piece legendary armor sets, weapons, and mods. In total, Worldslayer adds almost 100 new Legendary items across armor, weapons, and mods.

All of this can be played by existing players with powerful characters, but brand new players can get straight into Worldslayer by using a Level 30 Boost to bring a fresh character up to the required level for the campaign. This boost can be used as many times as you want to create several different level 30 characters.

The flagship changes, though, come in the form of new progression paths. The Power of the PAX opens up a secondary skill tree, which provides two new subclass branches for each of Outriders’ four classes (Devastator, Pyromancer, Trickster, and Technomancer). Beyond that is the Path to Ascension, a new long term progression system. After hitting level 30, all XP goes towards Ascension, which has 200 points to unlock and has been designed to support hundreds of hours of play. People Can Fly note that this progression will improve things like endurance, anomaly, and brutality, so it sounds like Path to Ascension will help build up fundamental character stats.

Worldslayer will also make changes to Outrider’s escalating endgame difficulty system by replacing Challenge Tiers with ‘Apocalypse Tiers’. These go up to level 40, and are considered an 'informal' New Game+ system. That increase is accompanied by a new, higher level cap of 75 for gear. And talking of gear, Apocalypse Tiers also open up the potential for grabbing Apocalypse-grade gear, which provides a third mod slot to help tailor the weapon to your ideal specification.

That progression system sounds like it’ll take you far beyond a playthrough of a new campaign, which is likely why a whole new endgame has been created for Worldslayer. Very little has been announced about this aside from a name, Trial of Tarya Gratar, although more information has been promised at a later date.

Outriders Worldslayer will be available on June 30, 2022. It will launch as a digital upgrade for existing players, or as an all-in-one pack with the original game and expansion.

For more, check out our Outriders review and our Expeditions guide for anyone looking to buff their characters up ahead of the expansion.

Matt Purslow is IGN's UK News and Features Editor.

Wizards of the Coast have announced that this year’s remaining Dungeons & Dragons releases will include the return of two of the TTRPG’s most beloved settings: Dragonlance and Spelljammer.

Announced as part of today's D&D Direct, this summer will see the return of sailing through the ether in Spelljammer: Adventures in Space. This new campaign setting will be introduced via three books, which can be bought together as a collection in a slipcase with a DM screen and map.

Those books include the Astral Adventurer’s Guide, which includes vital source materials for both players and dungeon masters. Most important of those materials are the six new playable races: the Astral Elves, the robotic Auto Gnomes, the Hadozee (flying monkeys), the Giff (hippofolk), the Plasmoids (shapeshifting ooze), and the insectoid Thri-kreen.

Alongside the Astral guide is Boo’s Astral Menagerie, named after the miniature giant space hamster of Baldur’s Gate fame. This is a bestiary of Spelljammer’s many new monsters, including vampirates, space clowns, and solar and lunar dragons.

The final Spelljammer book is the Light of Xaryxis, a campaign book that features 12 episodes, each of which ends on a cliffhanger. Chaining these together will tell the full story of this return to the beloved Spelljammer setting.

Spelljammer: Adventures in Space will release August 16, and will be joined by a collection of new Spelljammer Wizkids figurines.

While the Spelljammer announcement was the most detailed, arguably the most exciting reveal is the official announcement that Dragonlance is returning to D&D. Very little has been shown, but we do know that the classic setting from the 1980s will return in two formats: an adventure book called Shadow of the Dragon Queen and a boxed battle game called Warriors of Krynn. These are promised for late 2022.

The D&D Direct also showed off Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel, and revealed the full title and release date of the upcoming Dungeons & Dragons movie. For more D&D, check out our interview with the director of Baldur’s Gate 3, and this massive dragon ‘miniature’ for use on the tabletop.

Matt Purslow is IGN's UK News and Features Editor.

LEGO has announced the Luke Skywalker Landspeeder Ultimate Collector Series set.

Retailing for $199.99 / £174.99, the set comes with 1,890 pieces and recreates Luke's X-34 Landspeeder from Star Wars: A New Hope.

It will be available to LEGO VIP members from May 1 while its full launch online and in stores is on Star Wars day itself: May 4.

The set comes with two minifigures, Luke Skywalker and an exclusive C-3PO minifigure with 2K moulded legs and a side print. It also includes a display plaque with the vehicle details as is standard with the Ultimate Collector Series sets.

When built the landspeeder measures 50cm long, 30cm wide, and 17cm tall. It has every detail from the iconic film including a two-seater cockpit (which features a new and uniquely moulded LEGO piece), the turbine engine without a cover, and even scratches in the right places.

Designer César Carvalhosa said: "It’s been an amazing adventure creating Luke Skywalker’s Landspeeder in LEGO brick form. It is such an iconic vehicle in the Star Wars saga. "We’ve ensured no detail has been forgotten and have even included some of the scratches. The finished product makes an incredible display and is the perfect addition to the UCS collection.”

It becomes the fourth Ultimate Collector Series set alongside the Millennium Falcon, A-Wing, Republic Gunship, and AT-AT.

On the gaming side of LEGO Star Wars, The Skywalker Saga was released earlier this month, featuring missions from all nine mainline Star Wars films.

In our 8/10 review, IGN said: "LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga provides some rollicking reimaginings of Star Wars’ most iconic moments and seats them inside a series of interplanetary playgrounds that are dense with discovery and entertaining diversions."

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer who occasionally remembers to tweet @thelastdinsdale. He'll talk about The Witcher all day.

One of Elden Ring's toughest bosses, Malenia, Blade of Miquella, is now automatically self-healing when players summon help.

While healing herself is one of Malenia's normal abilities, she is only meant to do so when her attacks hit the player. A bug in Elden Ring's latest update, however, seemingly means she can self-heal at any point of the fight and for no apparent reason.

Elden Ring's leading Malenia expert Let Me Solo Her spotted the bug when he was summoned to fight the boss.

His YouTube video shows it off clearly: even when there are no players near Malenia, never mind taking damage from her, chunks of her health bar shoot back up.

Other players have noticed it too, with reddit user Demonboy995 saying that it happened every time he was summoned to help fight Malenia.

It's unclear what's triggering the healing but users have hypothesised that, as it only occurs in multiplayer, lag is essentially causing Malenia to register hits that aren't registered by the players.

The infamous boss is perhaps just looking for her own ways to counter Let Me Solo Her, however, the now legendary Elden Ring summon who appears in other players' worlds to defeat her with ease.

Patch 1.04 also made it harder to defeat the Malenia in other, more intentional ways, as it nerfed the Swarm of Flies incantation that caused major blood loss damage.

In our 10/10 review, IGN said: "Elden Ring is a massive iteration on what FromSoftware began with the Souls series, bringing its relentlessly challenging combat to an incredible open world that gives us the freedom to choose our own path."

To make those choices with the best available information, check out our guide that features everything you could ever hope to know about Elden Ring, including collectible locations, boss strategies, and more.

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer who occasionally remembers to tweet @thelastdinsdale. He'll talk about The Witcher all day.

DuckTales fans are still smarting over the untimely cancellation of the animated series in 2021, but we haven't quite seen the last of Uncle Scrooge and his nephews. Dark Horse Books has announced The Art of DuckTales, a new hardcover book delving behind the scenes of the reboot series.

Like all of Dark Horse's art books, The Art of DuckTales will include plenty of concept art, behind-the-scenes materials and creator commentary. This particular volume even boasts interviews with developers Matt Youngberg, Francisco Angones, Sean Jimenez and Suzanna Olson, as well as cast members David Tennant (Scrooge McDuck), Danny Pudi (Huey), Ben Schwartz (Dewey), Bobby Moynihan (Louie), Kate Micucci (Webby), Beck Bennett (Launchpad McQuack), Toks Olagundoye (Mrs. Beakley), Paget Brewster (Della Duck) and Don Cheadle (Donald Duck).

The Art of DuckTales will be released as both a standard hardcover ($49.99) and a Deluxe Edition version ($99.99). The Deluxe Edition features bonuses like a gold foil cover, slipcase, a replica of Scrooge's lucky dime and even a second book called The DuckTales Guidebook, which features expanded versions of the cast and crew interviews.

Both versions of The Art of DuckTales will be released on September 20 in bookstores and September 21 in comic shops.

Other recent art book annoucnements from Dark Horse include The Art of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe and The Art of Halo Infinite.

While DuckTales ended its run after three seasons, Disney is reportedly developing a new Darkwing Duck series for Disney+. It's unknown whetehr the series will be connected to the DuckTales reboot universe.

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Lost Ark's rumoured Battle Pass is now official and already available.

Amazon Games confirmed in a blog post that the Ark Pass would be included in the action-RPG as part of the April update that released today.

The Battle Pass works in the same way as Fortnite's or Call of Duty's: players will progress through levels for different rewards by simply playing the game or, in some cases, completing specific objectives.

The regular Ark Pass is free and grants several rewards across 30 levels including a mount, pirate coins, and honing material selection chests.

Two other versions of the pass are available at an additional cost. The Premium Ark Pass costs 1,500 Royal Crystals and adds extra rewards at each level including a Vertus Pet, rapport chests, and gems.

The Super Premium Ark Pass costs 3,000 Royal Crystals and includes all previous rewards plus selection chests for the Noble Banquet skin collection, a matching wallpaper, and some legendary rapport chests.

Royal Crystals are available in set packs: 1,000 for $9.99, 2,200 for $19.99, and 5,750 for $49.99.

Also in today's Lost Ark update is the new Martial Artist advanced class, the Glaivier, which uses a short spear in the Flurry stance and a glaive in the Focus stance. Players are encouraged to use both modes as different abilities activate when swapping between stances.

The brand new region of South Vern is also now available, which requires an item level of 1,340 as the second Tier 3 continent in the game. It features new quests, characters, and stories centred around Queen Ealyn and Knight Commander Avele.

Several other additions have also arrived in the April update including new timed events and dozens of bug fixes, balance adjustments, and new additions to the Lost Ark store.

Lost Ark has proved immensely popular on PC since it was released in the west in February, shooting to second place on Steam's most played games of all time and amassing over 20 million players.

The launch hasn't been without issues though, and Amazon Games recently admitted it released the first major update too soon after launch, pressuring players into paying for what was meant to be free content.

It's also been criticised for having gender-locked classes, meaning only men can be warriors and women can be mages, and so on, alongside its female characters' revealing outfits, though these concerns have been somewhat addressed.

In our 8/10 review, IGN said: "Lost Ark is an extremely generous free-to-play ARPGMMO that draws a lot from Diablo – including its well-worn story about humans and Heaven teaming up against demons."

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer who occasionally remembers to tweet @thelastdinsdale. He'll talk about The Witcher all day.