Everything You Need to Know About Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV

We’re less than a month away from the release of Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV. For those of you who don’t know, Kingsglaive is the companion film that was revealed during the Uncovered event a few months back, alongside the Brotherhood anime series. Given that the world of Final Fantasy XV exists across three different mediums, we thought it’d be useful to give you a quick primer on the way to fully experience Square-Enix’s decade-in-the-making story.

Good question. Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV is a companion film that exists simultaneously with the events of the game. Instead of focusing on Noctis and company’s road trip, the story primarily takes place inside the kingdom of Lucis’ crown city of Insomnia. It follows the drama of Notcis’ father King Regis and Noctis’ bride-to-be Luna  as they deal with an armistice with the warring empire of Nifelheim. Suffice it to say, the peace treaty doesn’t last super long.

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Suicide Squad Likely Won’t Get Released in China

Suicide Squad may miss out on a major global haul, as David Ayer's upcoming comic book film reportedly won't be making it to theaters in China anytime in the near future.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, "sources close to the decision-making process" say the chances of Suicide Squad reaching the world's second biggest film market are growing "increasingly unlikely."

China Film Group, the nation's foreign film distributor, has reportedly refrained from adding Suicide Squad to its release calendar. Considering most of the scheduling is handled months in advance, there appears to be no interest in releasing the PG-13 film in the region, with an unnamed Chinese executive saying, "they think this is not a good film to release in China."

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Overwatch Passes 15 Million Players, World Cup Announced

Activision confirmed today that Overwatch has now exceeded 15 million players globally, “including box and digital sales, internet game room players, and multi-user console households.” The news comes via the publisher’s second-quarter earnings report. Overwatch players have spent a combined total of around 500 million hours in the game, according to the publisher.

The report also noted Blizzard had the biggest online player community in its history during the previous quarter, buoyed by the rapid success of Overwatch and supported by the continuing popularity of the likes of Hearthstone and World of Warcraft.

Hot on the heels of this news Blizzard itself has announced the inaugural Overwatch World Cup, which will be held at Blizzcon 2016 in November.

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Stranger Things’ Cast Terrified During VR Experience

Netflix has brought Stranger Things to life by turning its popular TV series into a VR experience, and the show's cast and creators were completely terrified when they took it for a spin.

Watch co-creators Matt and Ross Duffer, as well as stars Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin and Millie Bobby Brown react to living out one of Stranger Things' scariest scenes in virtual reality in Netflix's new video below.

A second season for Stranger Things hasn't officially been announced, but the Duffer brothers already have a few things in mind for the series. In fact, the show's creators have expressed interest in making a video game to bridge the story between seasons.

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Hayley Atwell on Whether Agent Carter Could Return

Hayley Atwell is keen to step back into Peggy Carter's shoes, despite the cancellation of Marvel's Agent Carter after its second season.

Speaking with reporters at the Television Critics Association panel for her new ABC series Conviction (via Slashfilm), Atwell said she would happily manage both series if ABC would let her.

“I think they would have figured something out in terms of making a special or waiting until we finish this season and then me doing something else with another network perhaps,” Atwell said. “All I’m saying with that is it’s still a much-loved show for the people involved in the making of it and we know that the fans, it has a special place in their hearts. That’s something that I would be very happy to go back to if the opportunity came.”

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Pokemon Go Dev “Actively” Fixing Tracking, Catching Issues

Niantic has heard your issues with recent Pokemon Go bugs, and is actively working on resolving them.

The developer posted a lengthy blog post that largely focused on why they shut down third party trackers (more on that in a bit), and in it mentioned the problem with Pokemon Go's "Nearby" functionality. Originally the game had a three-step tracking system that allowed players to gauge how close they were to a Pokemon. But when a bug caused all Pokemon to stick at being a three-step distance away, Niantic removed the feature entirely in its most recent update.

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‘Majority of the Team at Bungie’ Working on Destiny 2

During Activision's second quarter earnings call and investor Q&A, Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg revealed that the bulk of Bungie's focus has shifted to the upcoming Destiny sequel.

"The majority of the team at Bungie is actually focused entirely on creating Destiny 2," Hirshberg said during the call when asked for an update on Destiny's future.

Hirshberg didn't elaborate more on what is in the works for the game, but he reconfirmed that the sequel is on track for a release in 2017, as Activision previously stated earlier this year.

Before the upcoming Destiny sequel releases, however, the first game will see its next major expansion from Bungie later this year with Rise of Iron. Hirshberg noted that pre-orders for Rise of Iron are ahead of Destiny's 2015 expansion, The Taken King.

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Prey Looks Like A Mix Of Bioshock and Dishonored

After its surprise announcement at E3 2016, we learned a bit more about Arkane Studios' re-imagining of Prey a week ago when the studio's president, Raphael Colantonio, broke silence and talked about some of the core pillars of Prey's gameplay. Today at QuakeCon 2016's keynote address though, Colantonio took the stage with lead designer Ricardo Bare and blew the doors wide open with a detailed gameplay presentation that reminded me of the original Bioshock in a lot of the best ways, but with a dash of the Arkane magic that made Dishonored such a break-out hit.

First things first: any ideas that this would be a reboot, or spiritual successor to the original Prey are now well in the rearview mirror, not just because Colantonio has already said as much, but because this gameplay demo (which was shown only to QuakeCon attendees) departs immediately from its predecessor, both visually and mechanically.

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The Walking Dead: New Negan Photos Released

In anticipation of The Walking Dead's return this October, AMC has released a batch of new photos teasing what's to come in Season 7.

Get a new look at Jeffrey Dean Morgan's Negan, who's returning as a series regular, as well as Morgan Jones as Lennie James, Khary Payton as Ezekiel and several others in the gallery below.

Photos courtesy of AMC.

AMC unveiled the trailer for Season 7 last month at San Diego Comic-Con. There the network confirmed that Khary Payton will star as Ezekiel and that his audition blew Robert Kirkman away.

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