I grew up in the 80s and 90s. Having reboots and even continuations of the things I loved growing up is really great. Ghostbusters Afterlife was great and paid a really great tribute to Harold Ramis. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles the Cowabunga Collection is one of my most anticipated games this year and it’s a bunch of games I have already played. As great as those are, seeing things like the Goldbergs and Stranger Things, that take place in the 80s just hit different. There’s something about seeing the characters love the same ones I loved growing up that make me feel more connected to the show. I know it’s weird, but it’s as if I am watching what could be me back then.
I think that’s one of the reasons why those kinds of shows are so popular. Despite being good shows with entertainment value, I think that were they to take place in the present, they wouldn’t be as popular as they are. Could you imagine Stranger Things taking place in the early 2000s? Yes it might connect with some younger people, but I don’t think it would have been as big of a hit if only for the era. The era can play a big part in the story too, to the point that it couldn’t be the same in the present. Stranger Things has no cell phones, barely any computers with modems, etc.
No high speed internet? There were libraries.
Taking place in the 80s means that with these limitations of the era needs to have workarounds for modern conveniences. Luckily these workarounds were around in the 80s. No cell phone? There were plenty of Pay phones. No high speed internet? There were libraries. It wouldn’t be the same if the characters could just send out a Tweet and let the world know about the Mindflayer attacking Hawkins. Think about how many older shows would be completely changed if they took place with current technology. There were at least five episodes of Seinfeld where a cellphone would have solved the main problems that were happening. Of course a modern Seinfeld could work, but it would be much different than the ones in the 90s.
There are many examples of this. What shows do you think wouldn’t work if they were made today? Do you have any ideas of shows that would be made better by setting it today?
Here’s a post I never thought I would write, I lost 50 pounds since February 2. Obviously for my health, I had to, but I didn’t think it would be this soon. I won’t say it was easy, I had to completely change my diet and give up alcohol to do it. I went from burgers and fries to grilled chicken and vegetables. My fruit and vegetable intake has probably increased 200% too. For a while I was making a smoothie every morning, but that has basically stopped for the most part unless I wake up hungry. The pills I am on possibly has something to do with it too.
Now that I can’t have certain foods like cheeseburgers, when I do have them (which is usually once every two to three weeks), I appreciate them more. I won’t get one that is “subpar”, but will actually get a good one. I’m probably becoming as much of a “burger snob” as I am as a “pizza snob”. Since moving to Delaware, I’ve limited where I eat pizza from. Unlike living in New York and New Jersey, good pizza here is hard to come by. I find that pizza coming off a conveyor belt oven usually is garbage. If it’s brick oven or coal fired or something like that, then it’s pretty decent. A traditional pizza oven is hard to come by here, probably due to the lack of natural gas lines. You can’t have a traditional oven using electric.
The Future
Now that my weight is down so much, I am going to increase the weight training, I think. My goal is to increase muscle mass at this point, or at least not lose anymore than I’ve already lost. I’m also thinking of somehow incorporating weight loss/weight training into my content in some way. I don’t know how yet, I was thinking about posting smoothie recipes earlier, but considering they are all the same, I decided to just post some on Twitter. After I posted two I realized how many are actually the same, maybe a few grams difference in what I put in it.
I also suppose I will need to get new clothes at some point as well. I didn’t realize how different I looked until I was going through pictures for my Instagram posts. It’s weird seeing the difference, but a good weird.
What is the hardest part for you to get in shape? Are you trying to be healthier? Let me know.
With just under a month to go until the Xbox and Bethesda press conference for Summer Game Fest, the rumors are flying. What rumors you ask? According to Green Ninja on Twitter, Microsoft is going to announce Ubisoft+ Classics will be part of Game Pass. Will they actually include it? It’s possible, but I doubt it. EA Play already can be accessed with Game Pass, so adding Ubisoft seems like a pipe dream. As great as three bundled services under one price sounds, Ubisoft+ Classics is already part of Playstation Plus.
Ubisoft+ Classics is a collection of older Ubisoft games and doesn’t include their full library. Ubisoft+, however is their entire catalog of games. New releases are added to the service on release and any DLC and premium editions of games are part of their subscription service. It’s a pretty great deal and I wish EA Play and Game Pass included DLCs as part of their subscription fee. Even if Game Pass included DLC for their first party games, that would be pretty huge.
They also said that Xbox Game Pass Family plan will also be announced at the showcase. This would be huge if true. Xbox 360 had a family plan for their Gold Membership, so the fact that it disappeared was disappointing. People with multiple Xboxes (including me) will be ecstatic that we will finally be able to allow our families to play with us on a separate console or even on PC using their own accounts.
Contraband
The final leak they revealed was that we will Contraband gameplay. Contraband is co-op smuggler’s paradise set in the fictional world of 1970s Bayan. From Avalanche Studios. It was announced last year at E3, so a lot of people have been waiting for more information about the game. This was last year’s trailer:
Are you excited about these potential leaks? Anything you’re hoping to see?
Behaviour Entertainment’s flag ship game is going into it’s seventh year and they did a live stream to celebrate. They talked about the next 12 months of Dead by Daylight and the next chapter(s?) that are coming up. Were the leaks accurate? Let’s talk about it.
Dead by Daylight Chapter 24
The chapter is officially called Roots of Dread and it comes with a killer, survivor, and map. Right now it is on the PTB, with an official release date for June 7th, 2022. As we reported earlier, the new killer is the Dredge. The survivor is Haddie Kaur. The map is Garden of Joy. The Dredge is supposed to be the boogyman, the fear that we all had growing up. The map is part of a small town and a lovely house in this town. What’s interesting about the map is they said it’s not specific to these characters. It will have variations for different ones. With them almost done redoing all of the maps to the new engine, it is possible that it would be faster to redo this map numerous times for future updates.
The killer perks as previously reported are:
Septic Touch: Whenever a survivor performs the healing action within your terror radius, that survivor suffers from blindness and exhaustion, it lingers for 6 seconds after healing is interrupted by any means. This unlockable perk is unlocked in the Bloodweb at level 40.
Darkness Revealed: When you open a locker, the auras of all survivors within 16 meters of any lockers are revealed for 3 seconds. This perk has a 30 second cool down. This unlockable perk is unlocked in the Bloodweb at level 35.
Dissolution: 3 seconds after injuring a survivor by any means, Dissolution activates for 12 seconds. The next time a survivor fast vaults over a pallet inside your terror radius, the Entity will break the pallet at the end of the vault and the perk deactivates. This unlockable perk is unlocked in the Bloodweb at level 30.
Haddie Kaur’s perks are:
Residual Manifest: After a successful killer blind, the killer is affected by blindness for 30 seconds. The perk also allows you to rummage through an opened chest once per Trial and guarantee a basic flashlight.
Inner Focus: You can see other survivor’s scratch marks within a 32 meter range of you. Whenever another survivor loses a health state within a 32 meter range of you, the killer’s aura is revealed to you for 5 seconds.
Overzealous: After cleansing a totem, your generator repair speed is increased by 4%. This perk deactivates when you lose a health state by any means.
The killer’s powers will be that he can teleport to lockers, this will provide him a fast way to get around the map.
Chapter 25?
Early in the show they announced that the RPD map, the one that came with the Resident Evil chapter would be getting different variants. Later in the show they announced something called Resident Evil Project W. This is more than likely related to the RPD map variants. It would be odd for them to announce the next chapter so early. It wouldn’t be unfound though. The Ringu was announced in December and released in March. If this is the 25th Chapter, then we could expect Wesker as a killer, with Ada Wong, and Rebecca Chambers as survivors.
Perk Updates
Without mentioning what they are, it was announced that 40 perks on both survivor and killer are going to be reworked. Right now, there are perks that survivors and killers typically run, these are known as meta perks. The goal is to change them enough so they aren’t meta. This means that Hex: Ruin, BBQ and Chili, Dead Hard (which never works anyway), Decisive Strike, along with many others will be reworked. They’re hoping to roll that out this summer.
There’s also going to be preset loadouts. You can have three set of perks as well as different outfit sets ready to go. This means that if you want to do a meme build, you will be able to just choose it and the perks will be there ready to go. It will also work the same way with the outfits and charms.
The Shrine of Secrets is going to be getting an overhaul too. If you have level 1 of a perk, you can now buy level 2 of that perk, but how does that make sense if every perk needs to be unlocked? Let’s find out.
Prestige Updates
We’ve all been there, we reach level 50 of a character’s blood web and we have the option to either Prestige and lose everything, or just stay at level 50. The update will let you prestige and unlock that character’s perks on every character. This means the game will be a lot less grindy. If you prestige three times, level 3 of those perks will be unlocked for every character.
This will be a big help for me especially, since I’ve been trying to level everyone up and get all perks, but I’m only on Jake. Prestiging a character also won’t make you lose any perks, items or addons. You can also Prestige passed three levels for more rewards. Personally, I was hoping for a blood web option of selecting a perk at the start of a blood web and it automatically making a path to that. This seems like an even better option.
Game Updates
There will be a new layout for the main menu, which will now include an incentive for playing either killer or survivor, whichever role is needed more will give you bloodpoints for playing it. You will also be able to see how long until the Rift ends right on the new main menu and not going into it to check.
A big new feature, one that arguably should have been in the game for a while, is the ability to check the store, check archives, etc while you are waiting for a match. This means that you can set a challenge while in queue for a match. Speaking of queue, you will have more than one challenge now. You will have a killer one and a survivor one, this way you won’t play killer and accidentally only be on a survivor challenge. You’ll also be able to view full Rift outfits.
Mori Updates
They are going to be redoing moris. It will soon automatically start a mori as soon as you down the last survivor. This means that killers will no longer be able to carry the last survivor to the hatch. If they want to give them the hatch, they will need to walk there. This also means that the momento mori will either get reworked or removed completely. We will probably see a rework of ebony and ivory moris as well in the future.
Bots
When Nemesis came out, he came with two AI controlled zombies. It was teased that they like to rework assets they have when asked if other characters would come with AI bots. Bots will be available in custom games for you to play with or against. This means that you will be able to practice playing with perks or against killers without affecting your rank. It also means that you won’t have to do 3v1 games if you’re missing an extra person.
Crossovers
Dead by Daylight has been very careful about doing crossovers. They usually limit it to other horror icons. Today they announced an Attack on Titan crossover.
This is the first time Dead by Daylight is collaborating with an anime. You will be able to get skins and looks inspired by the show. There are ten planned Attack on Titan outfits coming to the game soon. They showed off three pieces of concept art for the crossover. First is Oni as the Armored Titan. Second is Dwight as Eren. The third is Zarina as Hange.
Dead by Daylight Mobile
DBD Mobile is getting a huge update soon. Leader boards, a social system, quick matches, improved control layout, new reward, and more are coming. There will be a closed beta test coming in the next few weeks for these new updates. Once the closed beta is online, you will be able to sign up to it via the app stores.
Hooked on You
The biggest WTF moment came when a DBD Dating Sim was announced. “I Love You, Colonel Sanders!” developer Psyop is working on “Hooked on You: A Dead by Daylight Dating Sim.” You’ll be able to flirt with killers on Murderer’s Island. I guess all that Rule34 art finally paid off. You can expect to enjoy the humor, romance, and horror this summer.
What do you think, are you excited for these changes? Are you excited for the new dating simulator? I was hoping for a change to the way you open the doors or work on generators, but these are some welcome changes. I’m oddly looking forward to Hooked on You as well. It’s an absurd concept that seems like it would be a lot of fun.
Journalist Nick Baker from Xbox Era claimed that a Master Chief Collection style game was in the works for Gears of War. He went on to say “if you go from November 2021 to November 2022 and you look at Microsoft’s big game output, it could wind up being Halo, Gears, Forza…” If he’s right then that would be a huge game for Xbox this year.
As for what it would include? It will probably include remasters of Gears of War 2 and 3. It should also include the Ultimate Edition, which is a remaster of the first Gears game. If it is like the Master Chief Collection then it’s possible that we would get Gears of War Judgement either included as part of the collection or as a DLC later on. Would it include Gears of War 4 and 5? I doubt it for a few reasons. The first being that Gears of War 4 and 5 wouldn’t get much out of remasters for the Series X. Second, both games have already received updates for the Series X/S. I think it’s just a matter of time before we get a collection of Xbox 360 Gears games. The real question is will it be in 2022?
What about Gears of War 6?
Last year Nvidia GeForce Now database was leaked. The leak included a list of unannounced games including God of War, Detroit: Become Human, Gears of War 6 and many others. The two former were announced for PC in the subsequent months, but Gears of War 6? That’s still unannounced. Nvidia did confirm that the leak was real, but that the games listed were purely speculative. Gears of War 5 released in 2019, so a new game releasing in 2022 would make sense. In July 2021, the Coalition announced they were winding down development of Gears 5 and would be working on new projects using Unreal 5.
While that may not seem like enough time to create any game, Epic developed Unreal Engine 5 with forward compatibility in mind. This means that developers can create games in Unreal Engine 4 and move them to the next-generation engine later. It’s possible that the collection or even Gears 6 started on Unreal 4 and moved to 5 in the past few months. Is it really that easy though? Epic makes it seem very easy to switch from 4 to 5. With Fortnite chapter 3, they switched from Unreal 4 to Unreal 5’s engine. How many other released games will be changing engines though? That remains to be seen.
What else was leaked?
Here is the full list of what was leaked, but it’s important to take these with a grain of salt:
Unannounced title by Square Enix (could be like four games) — Tomb Raider on Unreal Engine 5 announced
Kingdom Hearts IV
Resident Evil 4 Remake
Street Fighter 6
Dragons Dogma 2
Monster Hunter 6
GTA 3, Vice City and San Andreas Remasters
Bioshock RTX remaster
Bioshock 2022
Mirrors Edge RTX Remaster
Untitled Respawn Game (Three Star Wars games)
Titanfall 3
Tekken 8
Human Fall Flat 2
The Talos Principle 2
Crysis 4
Earth Defence Force 6
Bayonetta 3
Judgement (this one seems odd to me due to legsl disuptes with SEGA and actor agency)
Catherine Full Body
Shin Megami Tensei V
Batman: Arkham Knight RTX Remaster
Half-Life 2 Remastered
Project FPS
Xcom 3
Injustice 3: Gods will Fall
Destroy all Humans 3
MGS 2 & 3 HD (no shot in my opinion)
Mario and Rabbids
Death Stranding Directors Cut PC
Sniper Elite 5
City Skylines 2
Total War 9
Payday 3
Hangar 13 Unannounced (Cancelled Superhero game)
Fight for Middle-Earth
Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled (PC)
Mortal Kombat Next Gen & Mortal Kombat XII
Moss – listed on Steam (PSVR Timed Exclusive it seems)
Space Punks (for Steam)
Hitman Pro
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Remastered
Goat Simulator 2
Wreckfest Sequel
Worms Next =X
Titan Quest 2 =X
Outcast
Viking by Criterion.
Metro Next
S.T.A.L.K.E.R Android
As Dusk Falls and As Dusk Falls Season 2 (ERSB Ratings confirm)
Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers (Switch Exclusive)
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order
Ruined King
Summer Game Fest
If there is a new Gears of War game coming this year, then it will more than likely be announced at Summer Game Fest. The question is what else could be announced? It depends on how many of these titles are supposed to be released in the next year. I’d be very excited for remasters of the Gears games, but there is so many other games listed I’d be excited for. Ultimate Alliance 3 would be fun, I know it’s on Switch, but putting it on PC would be great. It would be even better if they could get the license to list 1 and 2 again, I’d love to go back and replay them.
Are you excited for the possibility of a Marcus Fenix Collection? What about Gears 6? What else on the list are you excited for?
They tell you to stick to your niche. What if you can’t have a niche, you start to have one and then in a few days or even hours, you’re bored? Welcome to the world of ADHD. We hyper fixate on something, learn all we can, then get bored of it. A lot of times it seems that researching and learning is more enjoyable than doing the actual thing itself. Something that once gave us dopamine no longer does so we move on. So what are we to do?
Honestly I think that’s why so many people’s niches (mine too I believe) is ADHD itself. When we can use ADHD as a niche itself, we can encompass a lot more things into it, like all of our current hobbies. For the longest time I tried to make my niche be geeks and nerds. I realize now that yes, that can be a part of it, but my real niche is ADHD. It’s why I can’t stick to one game when streaming. It’s why my Tiktoks, Youtube Shorts, and Instagram Reels are about anything and everything. ADHD has literally been my entire life.
If you don’t have ADHD then you probably think I’m overexaggerating, but for those of us who have lived with it everyday since we’ve been born, let me tell you I’m not. It’s been there in school. It’s been there in jobs. ADHD is always there. Money doesn’t motivate us. Consequences don’t motivate us. For us, the only thing we want is that sweet release of dopamine.
What is Dopamine?
Dopamine is a type of neurotransmitter. Your body makes it, and your nervous system uses it to send messages between nerve cells. It allows people to regulate emotional responses and take action to achieve specific rewards. It’s responsible for feelings of pleasure and reward. While researchers once believed people with ADHD produced less dopamine, new research says different. Now it’s believed that we may produce the same amount, but lose it too quickly. That may explain why we lose interest in things and depression is common in people with ADHD.
This blog (though I am hating the word blog lately since it’s more news and rumors) will continue to be the most random of stuff, from life stuff to articles and other things I find interesting. That’s why I’ve been writing about Dead by Daylight lately, it’s one game I can have fun with when I have the right people around. There will probably be a lot more game articles with the Summer Game Fest coming up though.
Are you neurodivergent? Do you have ADHD? How does it affect your life?
Less than a week after Chapter 25 and 26 leaked, supposedly another future chapter has leaked as well. A few months ago, Dead by Daylight Mobile teased what looked like a collaboration with Five Nights at Freddy’s. Nothing ever came of it, though.
The strange thing about these tweets is that it was posted on their mobile Twitter. Surely if this was a new chapter tease, they’d post it on their main Twitter. Could it be that they were teasing something specific just for mobile? Yesterday Dead by Daylight posted on Instagram an interesting photo.
When you start a night in most Five Nights games, there’s usually an audio recording from a daytime manager. Could this picture of a cassette tape be a clue that ties to the DBD Mobile Twitter? Possibly, the question is if this is for a future chapter, why are they teasing it now? It wouldn’t come out for at least three months if the Dredge leaks are true. Six months if the second chapter of Resident Evil is true.
The Dredge and Chapter 24
The chapter 24 leaks looks like they may have gotten some legs with an Instagram post today. It is supposed to come with a map called Garden Joy, that certainly looks like Garden joy on the pamphlet.
Personally I think there’s too many leaks lately. A few weeks ago there was a leak that there was going to be a double BP event, then the next day it was cancelled. It was replaced by a double XP event. I think Behaviour might be deliberately leaking things at this point to try and find the leaker or to just throw off the people who post these leaks.
What do you think? Do you think it’s possible that some of these are just some random things let out to throw people off? Let us know in the comments.
It looks like on the heels of these, DBDLeaks on Twitter is claiming that chapter 25 will be a second Resident Evil chapter that will include Ada Wong and Rebecca Chambers as survivors and Albert Wesker as the killer. I never thought of Rebecca Chambers as a central character, Ada sure, Wesker of course, but Rebecca? She was in the first one briefly and she was in Resident Evil 0, but that was it. She had her own spinoff series planned though, unfortunately it was scrapped. Could her inclusion mean that Capcom is gearing up to put her in more content? We haven’t seen her since Resident Evil 0, unless you count the photo in Resident Evil 2 Remake. I know I wouldn’t mind more Rebecca content.
DBDLeaks also claims that chapter 26 will be original with a killer known as the Knight. That could be really cool, we have a Samurai type character, a knight would be pretty cool. What other historical figures would you want to see in the game? A mummy, werewolf, Dracula would all be pretty interesting I think, but those are also pretty traditional historical monsters.
Chapter 25 is meant to be second Resident Evil chapter, including: – Ada Wong (Survivor) – Rebecca Chambers (Survivor) – Albert Wesker (Killer)
Dead by Daylight(DBD) is coming up on it’s sixth year of being released. Every year they release a new chapter for their anniversary and the last few years they were licensed, last year was Resident Evil, the prior year was a Stranger Things chapter. This year the rumors are that it will be an original license. In year five they had three licensed chapters, so it makes sense that they’d go for original content this anniversary. Is this the new content coming to DBD though?
The Dredge
The Dredge’s powers are currently unknown, but their rumored perks are as follows:
Septic Touch: Whenever a survivor performs the healing action within your terror radius, that survivor suffers from blindness and exhaustion, it lingers for 6 seconds after healing is interrupted by any means. This unlockable perk is unlocked in the Bloodweb at level 40.
Darkness Revealed: When you open a locker, the auras of all survivors within 16 meters of any lockers are revealed for 3 seconds. This perk has a 30 second cool down. This unlockable perk is unlocked in the Bloodweb at level 35.
Dissolution: 3 seconds after injuring a survivor by any means, Dissolution activates for 12 seconds. The next time a survivor fast vaults over a pallet inside your terror radius, the Entity will break the pallet at the end of the vault and the perk deactivates. This unlockable perk is unlocked in the Bloodweb at level 30.
Haddie Kaur
Haddie Kaur’s backstory is currently unknown, but their perks are rumored to be:
Residual Manifest: After a successful killer blind, the killer is affected by blindness for 30 seconds. The perk also allows you to rummage through an opened chest once per Trial and guarantee a basic flashlight.
Inner Focus: You can see other survivor’s scratch marks within a 32 meter range of you. Whenever another survivor loses a health state within a 32 meter range of you, the killer’s aura is revealed to you for 5 seconds.
Overzealous: After cleansing a totem, your generator repair speed is increased by 4%. This perk deactivates when you lose a health state by any means.
Thoughts
If these are the perks for the new characters, wow. Finding survivors within 16 meters of a locker will pair nicely with Trickster and Huntress. I could also see killers stacking Dissolution, Spirit Fury, and Brutal Strength to not have to worry about pallets that much, plus it would change loops and chases a lot.
Inner Focus is a lot like Inner Strength, but you see other scratch marks instead of your own. Those two could stack nicely together. Residual Manifest would be a game changer, especially during Endgame Collapse. If you’re the last survivor, you could blind the killer for 30 seconds, hide, have them leave the area, then get the door open. If this is real, as a survivor main, even I have to say that Residual Manifest seems like it’s really powerful and going to get nerfed.
Noticeably absent are a new Boon Perk. The last four survivors came with them and they were a big deal at last year’s anniversary event, so are they done releasing them? Maybe. Maybe they are taking a break from totem perks in general, since neither killer or survivor have them. There’s been no mention or leak of a map yet either. They just remastered Haddonfield last chapter, so we should be getting a map with this chapter.
What do you think, are you excited for the new Dead by Daylight chapter? If these perks are real, do you like them? Do you want to see any tweaks made? Let us know in the comments.
I’m sitting here with my coffee, watching Moon Knight and I realized, I wasn’t always the biggest Marvel fan. I always liked them more than DC, but when it came to the movies, before Iron Man I was skeptical. Even with the praise that Iron Man got, I almost waited until it hit DVD actually watch it. The Marvel Cinematic Universe is what it became known as and it got huge after Iron Man. I don’t think anyone expected it to turn into this huge powerhouse of entertainment that it has become, especially when it was essentially an indie studio making these movies before Disney bought all of Marvel.
The Rumors of a Connected Universe
I remember being on MySpace before Iron Man came out, while it was still being filmed and someone claimed that Samuel L Jackson was on set and the movie was going to be the start to something never seen before. Of course, that turned into a series of interconnected movies and eventually shows. After The Incredible Hulk confirmed an connected universe, there were rumors that Marvel would be pulling in characters like Spider-Man and X-Men to make all movies connected. Of course at the time nothing came to be, but later it was confirmed that these rumors had a bit of truth. In recent years, it’s come to light that they wanted Fox’s X-Men and Sony’s Spider-Man to be part of the universe, but opted to keep control to themselves. It’s probably a good thing they did though, with both X-Men and Spider-Man being rebooted.
Of course years later Marvel has the rights to the X-Men back. They have a deal with Sony to use Spider-Man, which it sounds like Jon Watts might even be back to direct the fourth Spider-Man movie. He recently left production on the Fantastic 4 movie and Sony said they expect him to return to direct the fourth movie in their franchise.
Marvel Cinematic Universe – The Present
It’s no doubt that the Marvel Cinematic Universe has become the biggest franchise of all time at this point. What started as a singular story of a man who covers himself in armor to protect himself and the world has turned into numerous heroes, a multiverse, and after-lifes. It has taken over movies, television, and streaming, though some argue that Disney+ is the first time that the MCU does television.
Now they may have a point, there was shows like Agents of SHIELD and the Runaways, but the movies never actually touched on the TV side of things. With Age of Ultron, there was a setup of the helicarrier on Agents of SHIELD and Fury mentioned borrowing it from a friend, but that was it. Even though multiple stars showed up on the show, it still wasn’t considered canon. When Joss Whedon had nothing to do with Marvel anymore the references basically stopped. Thanos was mentioned during a later season. After that season it was basically a completely separate thing. The last season dealt with time travel and the multiverse, so it’s possible it could be brought up again at some point.
The closest thing we got to the movies mentioning any show prior to Disney+ was Jarvis in Avengers Endgame and Charlie Cox in Spider-Man No Way Home. No Way Home completely changed the game when it brought in both previous Spider-Mans, so at this point the door is open to having anyone and everyone back. It’s no longer the Marvel Cinematic Universe though, it’s more the Marvel Multiverse. The Disney+ shows are very much canon to the MCU, they mention the events of WandaVision in the trailer for the next Dr. Strange movie.
Marvel Cinematic Universe – The Future
Sony has their own multiverse going on. Venom and Morbius are set in one universe, with the Vulture crossing over in the latter’s movie. It’s possible that at some point we see an Amazing Spider-Man 3 or a Spider-Man 4 as well. With the multiverse, pretty much anything and everything is possible. It’s weird, Marvel is expanding their multiverse and saying that all these previous movies happened, they are in their own universe and the actors may change or not. DC on the other hand, sounds like they are streamlining one universe.
The future is certainly looking weird for both DC and Marvel, but fans of both should be happy. There is a lot of content coming out for both, it sounds like they both have a plan to continue making good content, and with streaming services, they can make long term weekly content connected to it all, like Peacemaker on HBO Max and Moon Knight on Disney+.
Marvel Cinematic Universe – Lessons
I was never much of a DC fan admittedly. The comics especially. I’ve watched almost all of the movies, but never went out of my way to watch it. The Arrowverse is what got me really interested in them though. That has been hit or miss, admittedly, but with HBO Max’s Peacemaker and Suicide Squad, as well as the Batman, it looks like they may be ready to take some notes from Marvel and streamline their stuff. It would be great if Marvel took some notes from their own Netflix shows and Peacemaker and allowed some more adult geared content. Moon Knight is pretty great, don’t get me wrong, but it was no where near as brutal as Daredevil.
Deadpool 3 is coming and that may change things. They said it will be the first R-rated movie produced by Marvel Studios, the previous 2 were made by Fox. It’s supposedly the only R-rated movie that they’re working on, but with the success of the first two as well as how well received Peacemaker was, I imagine that may change. I hope that’s the case.
Marvel Cinematic Universe – Fan
I started this by saying I was skeptical with Iron Man. That is true, but now I, and probably a lot more people who never thought they’d say it, am a fan of the Marvel movies. I didn’t expect a cinematic universe to ever happen and I certainly didn’t expect it to work if it did. They tried in the past with things like Freddy vs Jason, but that took years to make and even that was a one and done crossover. I can’t wait to see what is going to happen in the MCU, but I’m sure whatever it is, I will be entertained.
On May 18, 2022, it was officially confirmed that the Wonder Twins Movie has indeed been cancelled. Variety reports that “the planned Wonder Twins live-action movie at HBO Max is no longer going forward”. It also looks like the new Warner Bros Discovery CEO is looking to add more Harry Potter content as he will be meeting with JK Rowling in the coming weeks about creating new content in the universe.
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Warner Bros Discovery made headlines in April when it announced it was shutting down CNN+ weeks after it launched, but are more big changes for the company? If recent rumors are true then yes. It sounds like there will be changes for multiple companies under the Warner Bros Discovery banner, including DC, Rocksteady, and the CW.
CW
In January, months before the Warner Bros Discovery merger was complete, it was announced that ViacomCBS and WarnerMedia were looking to sell the channel. The two companies combined their channels of WB and UPN back in 2006, but has never been able to turn a profit. Most of the revenue that came from the channel was from international and streaming, so to focus on HBO Max would be a smart move on their part.
DC TV
Leakers are reporting that a lot of DC projects in development that aren’t related to a new DCEU that is being built or the Matt Reeves Batman series will be cancelled. Earlier this week the CW cancelled Batwoman and Legends of Tomorrow. If the rumors are true, then Superman and Lois could be in its last season. Since it’s renewal, the Flash has been rumored to be returning for one final season as well. As for Stargirl, there’s been nothing officially announced, but with the CW being up for sale, the show could also be heading into it’s last season.
According to That Hashtag Show, the Wonder Twins movie has officially been cancelled. It was set to start production in July. There are still plenty of other DC shows coming out, including the Flash, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, Wonder Woman 3, Batgirl, and more. The Flash could be the key for the new universe, with the superhero having the ability to cross universes and time travel. In fact the movie Flash, Ezra Miller, has already met the CW’s Flash, Grant Guston in the Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover in 2020. The movie is already confirmed to have Val Kilmer and Ben Affleck as two different versions of Batman, so it is possible that they use the movie to course correct their missteps with the multiverse and make it a single universe.
In 2020, the CW did something similar with their Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover where the conclusion saw the creation of a new earth. The new earth saw Black Lightning and Supergirl join the same universe as the Flash, Arrow, and Legends of Tomorrow. If they do it again, could we see the Arrowverse merge with another universe? Ezra Miller has a hard time staying out of trouble it seems and fans have been vocal about Grant Guston taking over. It would be pretty great to hear Grant’s Flash talk about Aquaman having sex with fish.
Interactive Content
According to Comicbook.com, Warner Bros Discovery is trying to sell off its gaming studios. They’ve had some big successes in the past with the Batman Arkham Series and the Lego video games. It’s unclear if they would sell the IPs with the studios, so that Rocksteady would continue to make Arkham games, TT Games could continue the Lego games, etc or if the licenses would be separate. Microsoft, Sony, Electronic Arts, Take-Two and more are interested in acquiring the studios. It would be interesting to see if Microsoft gets it, they are currently in the process of acquiring Activision, with the deal expected to close in 2023. Last year, they acquired Bethesda Studios and are becoming a powerhouse for first party studios.
Other Content
Now this is purely me speculating, but with CW looking to be sold off, CNN+ shutting down, and all the other potential changes coming, I don’t see them holding on to online media companies. Even though RWBY and Red Vs Blue are still popular, it was reported last year that AT&T was trying to sell Rooster Teeth since it’s revenue dropped nearly $20 million in 2019. It’s entirely possible that Warner Bros Discovery leaves Rooster Teeth and all its other online media companies alone, but it sounds like they want to do a complete restructuring in nearly every department. Before the merger, AT&T sold Crunchyroll to Sony, it’s possible that they sell off Rooster Teeth to another company.
In any case Warner Bros Discovery seems like in 2023 it will look a lot different than it did in the beginning of 2022. Are you excited for the potential DC changes? Are you sad that the Wonder Twins movie was cancelled? Do you think this is the end of the Arrowverse? Let me know in the comments.
