Infinite, a sci-fi thriller starring Mark Wahlberg and directed by Antoine Fuqua, is set to debut exclusively on Paramount Plus in the US. As reported by Variety, ViacomCBS CEO Bob Bakish announced the news on the company's quarterly earning call, saying that this film is a big-budget offering for Paramount Plus that will skip theaters all together, just as Disney+'s Soul did. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2013/08/13/mark-wahlberg-takes-the-mark-wahlberg-quiz"] Wahlberg will play Evan McCauley in Infinite, a man who "is haunted by the fact that he demonstrates skills he has never learned and has memories of places he has never visited." After meeting a secret group known as the Infinites, he learns that his memories are real and that they are coming from multiple past lives. Joining Wahlberg will be Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sophie Cookson, Jason Mantzoukas, Rupert Friend, Toby Jones and Dylan O’Brien. IGN exclusively revealed Infinite's synopsis and logo last year - when it was scheduled to arrive in theaters on August 7, 2020 - and described a first-of-its-kind SXSW activation known as the ISM Hexadome Experience. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic led to a cancellation of both SXSW and this event. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2017/11/08/mark-wahlberg-and-will-ferrell-interview-each-other-daddys-home-2"] Infinite is based on the novel The Reincarnationist Papers by D. Eric Marikranz and looks to explore the idea of reincarnation and the implications of being reborn throughout generations while keeping all your memories. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com. Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

A massive piece of a Chinese rocket is in an uncontrollable orbit that will eventually see it plummet down to Earth and it could theoretically land anywhere on the planet. Despite how scary that might sound, and to an extent it is, scientists say there's no real need for concern. According to a TIME report on the matter, there are a couple of reasons for that, the biggest being that over 70% of the Earth's surface is water. The second major factor is that scientists from all over the world, including the U.S. military, are working to solve this dilemma. Plus, a lot of the rocket will literally burn up before ever touching down on the Earth's surface. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/05/27/spacex-preparing-for-companys-first-manned-flight-to-iss"] According to Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics astronomer Jonathan McDowell, who spoke to TIME about this event, "what typically survives... are small components made of metals that can tolerate the extreme heat of reentry and larger ones that melt at lower temperatures, but may partly make it through due to their size." If that's not enough to calm your nerves, TIME reports that Space Command is tracking 27,000 human-made objects, like this Chinese rocket, in space at any given time with the majority of those 27,000 objects in low-Earth orbit. Basically, you can rest your head at night without needing to worry too much that a rocket will come falling through your roof. How did all of this come about, though? According to TIME, China launched its Long March 5B rocket on April 28 with the job of bringing a 22-ton, 16.6-meter core module of the country's new Tianhe space station into orbit. Typically, the first stage rocket used to launch something like this into space and orbit is not flown high enough or fast enough to actually enter orbit. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=gorgeous-photos-of-earth-from-space&captions=true"] This allows the rocket to fall back down to Earth – almost always over water, like the Pacific Ocean in China's case – safely and predictably. But the Long March 5B first stage rocket did go into orbit and an unsustainable orbit at that. That unsustainable orbit means the rocket piece will continue to go around the Earth, falling more and more as it does. This means where it might land will remain a mystery until it's much closer to the surface of the planet. TIME reports that U.S. Space Command is aware of and tracking the whereabouts of this rocket and that while its expected reentry point is unknown, it's expected to re-enter Earth's atmosphere on May 8. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/10/22/nasa-spacecraft-lands-on-an-asteroid"] "The rocket stage's orbital inclination – its angle relative to the equator – is 41.5 [degrees], carrying it as far north as Chicago, Rome, and Beijing and as far south as New Zealand and Tasmania," according to TIME's report. According to McDowell in TIME's writeup, because of the rocket's orbital speed – 28,000 kilometers per hour or 17,500 miles per hour – miscalculating its entry by even half an hour can make a difference of 10,000 km in landing distance. Again, to reiterate, despite the unknowns surrounding this, scientists and the U.S. military (and probably many other officials) say there isn't a huge cause for concern due to how much of the Earth is ocean and how much of this rocket will burn up in the planet's atmosphere. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/01/29/spacex-successfully-launches-60-more-starlink-satellites-into-orbit-ign-news"] If you're curious about successful space rocket landings that don't involve so many unknowns, read this story about how SpaceX made its first successful rocket landing on Earth two days ago. Check out this story of how SpaceX successfully launched 60 more Starlink satellites into orbit after that and then read about how the company plans to race remote-controlled cars on the Moon this year. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Wesley LeBlanc is a freelance news writer and guide maker for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @LeBlancWes. 

A massive piece of a Chinese rocket is in an uncontrollable orbit that will eventually see it plummet down to Earth and it could theoretically land anywhere on the planet. Despite how scary that might sound, and to an extent it is, scientists say there's no real need for concern. According to a TIME report on the matter, there are a couple of reasons for that, the biggest being that over 70% of the Earth's surface is water. The second major factor is that scientists from all over the world, including the U.S. military, are working to solve this dilemma. Plus, a lot of the rocket will literally burn up before ever touching down on the Earth's surface. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/05/27/spacex-preparing-for-companys-first-manned-flight-to-iss"] According to Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics astronomer Jonathan McDowell, who spoke to TIME about this event, "what typically survives... are small components made of metals that can tolerate the extreme heat of reentry and larger ones that melt at lower temperatures, but may partly make it through due to their size." If that's not enough to calm your nerves, TIME reports that Space Command is tracking 27,000 human-made objects, like this Chinese rocket, in space at any given time with the majority of those 27,000 objects in low-Earth orbit. Basically, you can rest your head at night without needing to worry too much that a rocket will come falling through your roof. How did all of this come about, though? According to TIME, China launched its Long March 5B rocket on April 28 with the job of bringing a 22-ton, 16.6-meter core module of the country's new Tianhe space station into orbit. Typically, the first stage rocket used to launch something like this into space and orbit is not flown high enough or fast enough to actually enter orbit. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=gorgeous-photos-of-earth-from-space&captions=true"] This allows the rocket to fall back down to Earth — almost always over water, like the Pacific Ocean in China's case — safely and predictably. But the Long March 5B first stage rocket did go into orbit and an unsustainable orbit at that. That unsustainable orbit means the rocket piece will continue to go around the Earth, falling more and more as it does. This means where it might land will remain a mystery until it's much closer to the surface of the planet. TIME reports that U.S. Space Command is aware of and tracking the whereabouts of this rocket and that while its expected reentry point is unknown, it's expected to re-enter Earth's atmosphere on May 8. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/10/22/nasa-spacecraft-lands-on-an-asteroid"] "The rocket stage's orbital inclination — its angle relative to the equator — is 41.5 [degrees], carrying it as far north as Chicago, Rome, and Beijing and as far south as New Zealand and Tasmania," according to TIME's report. According to McDowell in TIME's writeup, because of the rocket's orbital speed — 28,000 kilometers per hour or 17,500 miles per hour — miscalculating its entry by even half an hour can make a difference of 10,000 km in landing distance. Again, to reiterate, despite the unknowns surrounding this, scientists and the U.S. military (and probably many other officials) say there isn't a huge cause for concern due to how much of the Earth is ocean and how much of this rocket will burn up in the planet's atmosphere. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/01/29/spacex-successfully-launches-60-more-starlink-satellites-into-orbit-ign-news"] If you're curious about successful space rocket landings that don't involve so many unknowns, read this story about how SpaceX made its first successful rocket landing on Earth two days ago. Check out this story of how SpaceX successfully launched 60 more Starlink satellites into orbit after that and then read about how the company plans to race remote-controlled cars on the Moon this year. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Wesley LeBlanc is a freelance news writer and guide maker for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @LeBlancWes. 

Blizzard Entertainment has announced that World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Classic will officially be released on June 1, 2021. As detailed by Blizzard, Burning Crusade Classic will launch in the Americas, Europe, Taiwan, Korea, and Australia/New Zealand on June 1 at 3pm ET/6pm PT/11pm BST and on June 2 at 7am CST/8am KST/10am AEDT. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2021/02/19/world-of-warcraft-burning-crusade-classic-trailer"] To access Burning Crusade Classic, all players will need is a Battle.net account and a World of Warcraft subscription. No additional purchase is required. On May 18, the Burning Crusade Classic Pre-expansion Patch will be released and "each character must choose whether to advance onward to Burning Crusade, move to a Classic Era realm, or use the Character Clone service to play in both games." You can read more about that process here. Burning Crusade was originally released in 2007, and the addition of its classic version will add two new races to World of Warcraft Classic's playable roster - the Alliance Draenei and the Horde Blood Elves. It will also raise the level cap to 70 and add flying mounts. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2021/02/19/world-of-warcraft-shadowlands-chains-of-domination-trailer"] As with World of Warcraft: Classic, content from the original games like the opening of the Black Temple, Zul-Aman, and the Sunwell will be added in phases over time. For more, check out all the details on World of Warcraft: Shadowlands Patch 9.1 Chains of Domination and all the other big announcements from BlizzCon 2021. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com. Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

Blizzard Entertainment has announced that World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Classic will officially be released on June 1, 2021. As detailed by Blizzard, Burning Crusade Classic will launch in the Americas, Europe, Taiwan, Korea, and Australia/New Zealand on June 1 at 3pm ET/6pm PT/11pm BST and on June 2 at 7am CST/8am KST/10am AEDT. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2021/02/19/world-of-warcraft-burning-crusade-classic-trailer"] To access Burning Crusade Classic, all players will need is a Battle.net account and a World of Warcraft subscription. No additional purchase is required. On May 18, the Burning Crusade Classic Pre-expansion Patch will be released and "each character must choose whether to advance onward to Burning Crusade, move to a Classic Era realm, or use the Character Clone service to play in both games." You can read more about that process here. Burning Crusade was originally released in 2007, and the addition of its classic version will add two new races to World of Warcraft Classic's playable roster - the Alliance Draenei and the Horde Blood Elves. It will also raise the level cap to 70 and add flying mounts. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2021/02/19/world-of-warcraft-shadowlands-chains-of-domination-trailer"] As with World of Warcraft: Classic, content from the original games like the opening of the Black Temple, Zul-Aman, and the Sunwell will be added in phases over time. For more, check out all the details on World of Warcraft: Shadowlands Patch 9.1 Chains of Domination and all the other big announcements from BlizzCon 2021. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com. Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

SpaceX's prototype rocket, Starship, which has plans to eventually go to the Moon and Mars, has made its first-ever successful landing back on Earth. The space company founded by Elon Musk has made four attempts at landing one of these rockets following a takeoff since December and each time, the rocket landings were unsuccessful, ending in a fireworks show of explosion. Wednesday's flight, however, was a success and the rocket landed vertically as intended, as reported by The New York Times.

Starship landing nominal!

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 5, 2021

The above tweet was Musk's first tweet following the first-ever successful landing of his company's prototype rocket, something the SpaceX team has been working toward for months. According to NYT, Wednesday's flight saw the rocket shoot into the "skies over Boca Chica, adjacent to the Gulf of Mexico." It flew for four minutes to a maximum altitude of about six miles before heading back down to its landing pad in Texas. On its way back to the surface of Earth, the rocket flipped into a horizontal orientation until it was closer to the landing pad, at which point its engines were powered back on to position the rocket into its standard vertical landing position, according to NYT. This successful landing is a big step forward for SpaceX, which is working toward preparing this type of rocket for landing on the Moon and even Mars. SpaceX's now-famous Falcon 9 rockets are used often by NASA to bring satellites into space or people and cargo to the International Space Station. The challenge of SpaceX's prototype rockets used Wednesday is landing them successfully. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2018/02/06/spacex-successfully-test-launches-falcon-heavy-rocket"] "SpaceX's Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy rocket (collectively referred to as Starship) represent a fully reusable transportation system designed to carry both crew and cargo to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars, and beyond," according to the SpaceX website. "Starship will be the world's most powerful launch vehicle ever developed, with the ability to carry in excess of 100 metric tonnes to Earth orbit." According to SpaceX, the Starship being tested as of late will take Japanese entrepreneur, Yusaku Maezawa and the crew of dearMoon to space in the first-ever civilian passenger flight. The dearMoon project is currently accepting applications for eight more civilians on the flight, which will feature a flyby of the Moon during the ship's week-long journey. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/05/27/spacex-preparing-for-companys-first-manned-flight-to-iss"] For more about SpaceX, read about how the company is going to race remote-controlled cars on the Moon this year and then read about how SpaceX is building NASA's new Lunar Lander. Check out this story about how SpaceX successfully launched 60 more Starlink satellites into orbit last year and then read about how SpaceX astronauts used a Baby Yoda doll as a zero-gravity indicator on a flight last November. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Wesley LeBlanc is a freelance news writer and guide maker for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @LeBlancWes. 

SpaceX's prototype rocket, Starship, which has plans to eventually go to the Moon and Mars, has made its first-ever successful landing back on Earth. The space company founded by Elon Musk has made four attempts at landing one of these rockets following a takeoff since December and each time, the rocket landings were unsuccessful, ending in a fireworks show of explosion. Wednesday's flight, however, was a success and the rocket landed vertically as intended, as reported by The New York Times.

Starship landing nominal!

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 5, 2021

The above tweet was Musk's first tweet following the first-ever successful landing of his company's prototype rocket, something the SpaceX team has been working toward for months. According to NYT, Wednesday's flight saw the rocket shoot into the "skies over Boca Chica, adjacent to the Gulf of Mexico." It flew for four minutes to a maximum altitude of about six miles before heading back down to its landing pad in Texas. On its way back to the surface of Earth, the rocket flipped into a horizontal orientation until it was closer to the landing pad, at which point its engines were powered back on to position the rocket into its standard vertical landing position, according to NYT. This successful landing is a big step forward for SpaceX, which is working toward preparing this type of rocket for landing on the Moon and even Mars. SpaceX's now-famous Falcon 9 rockets are used often by NASA to bring satellites into space or people and cargo to the International Space Station. The challenge of SpaceX's prototype rockets used Wednesday is landing them successfully. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2018/02/06/spacex-successfully-test-launches-falcon-heavy-rocket"] "SpaceX's Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy rocket (collectively referred to as Starship) represent a fully reusable transportation system designed to carry both crew and cargo to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars, and beyond," according to the SpaceX website. "Starship will be the world's most powerful launch vehicle ever developed, with the ability to carry in excess of 100 metric tonnes to Earth orbit." According to SpaceX, the Starship being tested as of late will take Japanese entrepreneur, Yusaku Maezawa and the crew of dearMoon to space in the first-ever civilian passenger flight. The dearMoon project is currently accepting applications for eight more civilians on the flight, which will feature a flyby of the Moon during the ship's week-long journey. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/05/27/spacex-preparing-for-companys-first-manned-flight-to-iss"] For more about SpaceX, read about how the company is going to race remote-controlled cars on the Moon this year and then read about how SpaceX is building NASA's new Lunar Lander. Check out this story about how SpaceX successfully launched 60 more Starlink satellites into orbit last year and then read about how SpaceX astronauts used a Baby Yoda doll as a zero-gravity indicator on a flight last November. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Wesley LeBlanc is a freelance news writer and guide maker for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @LeBlancWes. 

Ubisoft has announced The Division: Heartland, a free-to-play game set in the Tom Clancy Division universe. Developed by the original Tom Clancy studio, Red Storm Entertainment, The Division: Heartland will be standalone from the main The Division series. It's planned for release on PlayStation, Xbox, and PC in the 2021-2022 window. No details have been offered beside those, so it's currently very unclear as to what kind of game The Division: Heartland will be, beyond its free-to-play nature. Ubisoft does say that it will be an "all new perspective on the universe in a new setting", though. Those interested can sign up to get involved in early hands-on opportunities. It is, however, just one component of a "transmedia" expansion of The Division, across games, movies, and novels. The previously announced The Division Netflix movie, starring Jessica Chastain and Jake Gyllenhaal, will be joined by a new original novel set after the events of The Division 2. New content is also coming to The Division 2 later this year. The DLC will add a new game mode and "new methods" of levelling up agents, said to emphasise build variety and viability. Finally, a mobile game set in The Division universe is also in development. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Matt Purslow is IGN's UK News and Entertainment Writer. 

Ubisoft has announced The Division: Heartland, a free-to-play game set in the Tom Clancy Division universe. Developed by the original Tom Clancy studio, Red Storm Entertainment, The Division: Heartland will be standalone from the main The Division series. It's planned for release on PlayStation, Xbox, and PC in the 2021-2022 window. No details have been offered beside those, so it's currently very unclear as to what kind of game The Division: Heartland will be, beyond its free-to-play nature. Ubisoft does say that it will be an "all new perspective on the universe in a new setting", though. Those interested can sign up to get involved in early hands-on opportunities. It is, however, just one component of a "transmedia" expansion of The Division, across games, movies, and novels. The previously announced The Division Netflix movie, starring Jessica Chastain and Jake Gyllenhaal, will be joined by a new original novel set after the events of The Division 2. New content is also coming to The Division 2 later this year. The DLC will add a new game mode and "new methods" of levelling up agents, said to emphasise build variety and viability. Finally, a mobile game set in The Division universe is also in development. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Matt Purslow is IGN's UK News and Entertainment Writer. 

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