American Pie star Shannon Elizabeth had her breakout role in the beloved 1999 teen comedy — but before packing on the laughs, she recently revealed she was “really scared” during the audition process.

"The audition process for American Pie was difficult," Elizabeth, who played the film’s foreign exchange student Nadia, explained to Fox News in an interview published on Sunday, April 12. "I was scared. I was really scared."

Elizabeth revealed that her audition required her to do the big scene where the main character, Jim, does a striptease dance to a Barenaked Ladies song on a video call, but with the roles reversed. "In the audition, it was the opposite of what you saw in the movie," she said. "I had to dance for Jason instead of him dancing for me."

Even though the scene in the film ultimately put the onus on Jason Biggs, the movie’s star, to do the striptease, the audition marked the beginning of a challenging role for Elizabeth, despite the fact that it was her big breakout part.

"I’m not somebody [who’s] super comfortable in my own skin, to be honest," she told the outlet. "But, you just overcome that. When you have to turn it on, you have to work, because I do love working. I do love acting. So you just let everything else go."

She went on to have roles in many iconic comedies, including Thirteen Ghosts, Love Actually, and Jay and Silent Bob Strikes Back. But aside from her role in the first two and fourth American Pie films, most people probably know her from her part as Buffy Gilmore in the 2000 comedy classic Scary Movie. At this point, her death scene in that film is iconic, and heavily quoted to boot.

Elizabeth has since pivoted from acting to conservation work and no longer performs full time — but that doesn’t mean she wouldn’t return for another walk in the American Pie universe. "I would love to see a film where it’s all about Nadia back in her home country and what she does there, and following her around, seeing her day-to-day life now," the former actress said of her hopes for another film. "I think that would be so much fun."

The last American Pie film, American Reunion, came out in 2012, so it wouldn’t be too surprising if Universal decides to pursue a legacy sequel at some point in the near future. That said, we haven’t heard anything concrete about another installment, so Elizabeth might just have to keep waiting.

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Lex Briscuso is a film and television critic and a freelance entertainment writer for IGN. You can follow her on Twitter at @nikonamerica.

Harry Potter movie star Daniel Radcliffe has said he disagrees with former Spider-Man Andrew Garfield, who recently praised his performance in the Wizarding World films.

On the upside, however, Radcliffe told the Happy Sad Confused podcast that he no longer feels "cringe" when watching his performance as a child actor — something he previously did while rewatching the movies as a teenager.

For context, Garfield recently revealed to Hits Radio that he had only just watched the Harry Potter movies for the first time, and noted that Radcliffe was "really good" in them. Garfield's praise was then put to Radcliffe, who responded that the actor was "fantastic," before saying: "I disagree with him about my performance in Potter, but that's really nice."

"I have more time now for me in the early films," Radcliffe continued. "When I was 18 I would cringe watching the earlier films. Now I think the earlier films are sweet, and I cringe when watching myself when I was 18 or 19. And I assume those dates will keep changing as to what I find palatable about my own work."

Asked to rank the eight Harry Potter movies, Radcliffe picked the series' final installment, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, as his favorite, with Goblet of Fire in second place. Half-Blood Prince was ranked bottom, though Radcliffe said this was for his own "stuff" and not for the film itself.

Separately, Radcliffe has also spoken warmly of the new actor set to take on the title role in HBO's upcoming Harry Potter TV series. Radcliffe wrote to 11-year-old Dominic McLaughlin last year to wish him luck for the start of the show's mammoth production, which is set to continue for much of the next decade.

"I just see those pictures of him and all the other kids and I just want to hug them," Radcliffe said at the time. "They just seem so young. I do look at them and I go, 'Oh, it's crazy that I was doing that at that age.' But it's also incredibly sweet, and I hope they're having a great time."

HBO is set to debut its first episodes of the Harry Potter series this Christmas, with the season then continuing into early 2027. Writing is now underway on the series' second season, and a recent major set leak gave fans a detailed look at the new Diagon Alley, while HBO has admitted the company is spending big on the show, and making a level of financial investment it normally wouldn't make.

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Major story spoilers for the upcoming James Bond game 007: First Light are reportedly circulating online, following a leak that originated from the Indonesian ratings board.

Over an hour of footage — privately submitted to the ratings board by developer IO Interactive — has now been found via the Indonesian Game Rating System (IGRS) website and shared further, VGC reports, including clips which detail the game's ending.

Much of 007: First Light's plot has been kept under wraps until now, with IO Interactive keen to keep its surprises intact until the game's release — which is still six weeks away, on May 27. Contacted by IGN today, IO Interactive declined to comment further on the matter.

007: First Light is the long-awaited next game from IO, the developer of Hitman, with a starry cast and big ambitions to kickstart a new blockbuster James Bond video game trilogy. Featuring a brand-new origin story for the MI6 agent, First Light will introduce a fresh-faced incarnation of Bond played by Dexter: Original Sin star Patrick Gibson, alongside a cast of secret agent besties and villains played by The Eternals' Gemma Chan, The Walking Dead's Lennie James, and The Hunger Games' Lenny Kravitz.

Last week, IO Interactive confirmed it had delayed the game's Nintendo Switch 2 version, which is now set to arrive "later this summer." Previously, the game had been due to launch in March, before an earlier delay late last year.

Other leaked information from the Indonesian Game Rating System reportedly includes spoilers for Bandai Namco role-player Echoes of Aincrad, and mention of Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Resynced, which Ubisoft has confirmed though not formally revealed. In details still visible online, the game is currently listed with a 2026 launch date for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S.

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The season 2 finale of The Pitt is almost here, but with that euphoria comes some sadness — because Supriya Ganesh, who plays senior resident Dr. Samira Mohan, will be making a surprise exit from the show after Season 2. Needless to say, fans aren’t happy, but creator R. Scot Gemmill and star Noah Wyle are speaking out and addressing her upcoming departure.

“It’s an inevitability that’s going to happen every season with this show because as writers we’re hard pressed to figure out what a lapse of time we can have and keep most of the ensemble together realistically,” Wyle explained to Variety while attending PaleyFest’s The Pitt screening and panel in Los Angeles on April 12.

“Emergency rooms have a high revolving door,” the actor, who previously starred on another hit medical drama ER, noted. “As always, we try to bring in new characters or promote from within as we go through these cast changes and try to keep the storylines fresh, but obviously Supriya has been a huge part of our show since the beginning.”

He added: “Dr. Mohan is a beloved character, and I love playing with her and working with Supriya, and we wish her all the best in her next endeavors, and we’re going to miss her.”

Noah Wyle explains Supriya Ganesh exit from "The Pitt" after Season 2.
MORE: https://t.co/BEx1m7JD50@variety #justforvariety #thepitt pic.twitter.com/IRgHwPvDqy

— Marc Malkin (@marcmalkin) April 13, 2026

For Gemmill, he thinks Ganesh’s exit is, ultimately, true to the experience of working in high-stakes healthcare. “It’s sort of the nature of the show. Unfortunately, the way the medical profession works, you come in, you learn, you move on, and we want to try and be as truthful to that process as possible,” he said. “So we’re going to turn over our cast. But I think it’s a great launching pad for people and that’s the best we can do.”

That said, fans are a bit suspicious of the actress’s departure. It was originally announced by Variety on April 2, and the outlet cited a source who claimed her split from the series was a “story-driven decision.”

But she was originally scheduled to attend PaleyFest and ended up dropping out at the last minute on Saturday. “Hi everyone, not sure why it’s not removed off the site but I will not be at PaleyFest this Sunday,” Ganesh told fans via a post to her social media channels. “I know some of you bought tickets to see me and I hope you know this is not a decision I take lightly. Love you all.”

Her unexpected cancellation for PaleyFest seems to have made the situation feel a bit suspicious for fans, but there’s no denying that Ganesh’s character has been spending a lot of this second season weighing her options for her life after residency. So it’s not that weird that her character might decide to pursue opportunities outside of the Pittsburgh area where the show takes place. After all, teaching hospitals are definitely revolving door environments by design, so it’s entirely possible the decision to write Dr. Mohan off of the show was a mutual one.

The Season 2 finale of The Pitt is set to air on HBO Max on Thursday, April 16.

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A competitive Pokémon Go player who had their recent tournament victory scrubbed over "unsportsmanlike" behavior is now fighting The Pokémon Company to have the decision overturned.

Earlier this month, footage of Firestar73 winning 2026 Orlando Regional Championships went viral after news broke that the player had been handed a game loss due to his celebration, in which he quickly removed his headphones and stood up to perform a fist pump, before calmly shaking hands with his opponent. You can watch the moment for yourself below.

At the time, viewers described Firestar73's subsequent game loss as "embarrassing," while his opponent reportedly acknowledged that the player should have kept the win. Now, Firestar73 has issued a formal statement on the matter, and said he's begun the process of having the decision overturned, all while maintaining he bears no "ill will" to the judges involved.

After a long loser's bracket run, @Firestar73_ wins a decisive game 5 to win the Orlando Regional Championship. Allegedly this celebration was unsportsmanlike, resulting in a game loss and giving NTC The win. I'm at a loss for words, I feel so bad for firestar. pic.twitter.com/72l1RJO31v

— AXN (@ItsAXN) April 5, 2026

"By now you have all seen the video of my reaction after winning the 2026 Orlando regional," Firestar73 wrote in a lengthy statement. "You can all form your own conclusions about whether my reaction was unsportsmanlike or whether a one-game loss that flipped the result was too harsh. Nearly all of you, if not actually all of you, have said you disagree with the decision. I am extremely thankful for the public support you've all expressed."

Firestar73 has asked The Pokémon Company to reverse the decision for two main reasons. Firstly, that his celebration was equivalent to various other examples of extremely similar reactions that can be viewed online, reactions The Pokémon Company itself has apparently told competitive players they welcome as demonstrations of the "emotion and celebration" that playing Pokémon video games provokes.

Secondly, Firestar73 argued, even if the celebration did fall foul of "unsportsmanlike" behavior rules, that under the Pokémon Go Tournament Handbook (Section 7.1), a game loss is only applied "when a mistake severely impacts the integrity of the game state." Here, Firestar73 argued that the game had already concluded, therefore his celebration cannot be worthy of disqualification. He went on to note other clauses on "minor unsporting misconduct," which typically result in simple warnings.

"I do not hold ill will towards anyone who was involved in this decision, especially the two judges you saw on stream," Firestar73 concluded. "They did not make the decision to hand down the one-game loss. That decision was made by someone much higher up on the Tournament Organizer's staff. As I explain below, I think that person made a good-faith mistake. I am asking everyone involved – please, DO NOT direct any harassment, threats, or ill will towards ANYONE involved in this. I don't want to focus on who's responsible for the past. I want to focus on the future on the future — on why the result should rightly be changed."

IGN contacted The Pokémon Company previously for comment on the matter, but did not receive a response.

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The hackers who accessed Grand Theft Auto 6 developer Rockstar Games have said they will publish the stolen data online because their ransom demands have not been met.

The CyberSec Guru reported over the weekend that a hacker group called ShinyHunters had used AI analytics platform Anodot, a SaaS cloud-cost monitoring tool Rockstar uses, to breach Rockstar’s Snowflake data warehouse, posing as a legitimate internal service. ShinyHunters set a ransom deadline of April 14, warning: "pay or leak."

ShinyHunters' statement in full follows:

"Rockstar Games

Your Snowflake instances were compromised thanks to Anodot.com. Pay or leak.

This is a final warning to reach out by 14 Apr 2026 before we leak along with several annoying (digital) problems that'll come your way. Make the right decision. Don't be the next headline.

FINAL WARNING PAY OR LEAK."

But in a statement issued to IGN over the weekend, a Rockstar Games spokesperson insisted “a limited amount of non-material company information was accessed,” and stressed the incident “has no impact on our organization or our players.”

Rockstar's statement in full follows:

"We can confirm that a limited amount of non-material company information was accessed in connection with a third-party data breach. This incident has no impact on our organization or our players."

Now, speaking to the BBC, ShinyHunters said Rockstar Games had refused to meet their demands, and so the stolen data would be published online as warned. The BBC described ShinyHunters as “a prolific group of English-speaking cybercriminals, thought to be in their teens, who specialise in data theft and extortion.” They’re reportedly responsible for hacking Ticketmaster, and have a history of breaking into cloud storage systems used by big corporations.

As the BBC pointed out, law enforcement advice around the world is not to pay cybercriminal ransoms as it fuels the industry and there is no guarantee hackers will actually delete stolen data.

Rockstar's statement downplays this latest leak, insisting the information is "non-material," and that players and the company's plans are unaffected. But as it stands, we do not know what company information ShinyHunters has obtained. If ShinyHunters follows through on its threat, those details may emerge tomorrow.

Rockstar has suffered a number of damaging leaks in the past. In 2022, more than 90 videos and images from an early version of GTA 6 were leaked online by hackers in what was one of gaming's biggest security breaches. "We take leaks very seriously indeed and they disappoint all of us, it's really frustrating and upsetting to the team," Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick said in response.

Then, in December 2023, the first GTA 6 trailer leaked on X/Twitter less than 24 hours before its scheduled premiere, causing Rockstar to officially post the trailer on YouTube earlier than planned. Rockstar developers took to social media to express their frustration at the leak, which Zelnick later called "disappointing." But, he insisted, "ultimately, I don't think it hurt us."

GTA 6 is due out on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S on November 19, 2026.

Wesley is Director, News at IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.

UPDATE: Microsoft has confirmed plans to debut Metro 2039 as part of an Xbox First Look showcase with developer 4A Games and publisher Deep Silver.

"Xbox has always been a home for the franchise, and we’re honored to continue that relationship by bringing you a first look at this next exciting chapter," said Will Fulton, Xbox Wire Editor, in a post on Xbox Wire.

Xbox First Look: Metro 2039 is set for Thursday, April 16, at 10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern / 6pm UK.

ORIGINAL STORY: A brand new Metro game is reportedly set to be revealed this week as part of a so-far unannounced Microsoft Xbox showcase.

NateTheHate, who has a number of accurate leaks, including the correct dates of Nintendo Directs, to their name, took to social media to say the new Metro game is called Metro 2039, and it will be announced as part of a Microsoft show set for April 16. It’s unclear at this stage what type of show Microsoft has up its sleeve, or whether it will also include first-party Xbox game news. There’s also a rumor that Sony plans a State of Play showcase for this week, although that’s unconfirmed for now.

News of a new Metro game shouldn’t come as much of a surprise, given developer 4A Games has talked about working on it in the past. But the name of the game is new, as is significant gameplay footage from a previous version of the game, which leaked over the weekend.

The subterranean survival-horror Metro video game franchise, which is based on Russian writer Dmitry Glukhovsky's post-apocalyptic book series, so far includes Metro 2033, Metro: Last Light, and Metro Exodus. VR game Metro Awakening came out in 2024. Metro Exodus came out in 2019, which means it’s been seven years since the last mainline entry in the franchise.

IGN’s Metro Exodus review returned an 8.5/10. We said: “Metro Exodus brings its survival horror to the surface without sacrificing any of the series’ signature tension.”

Wesley is Director, News at IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.

Marathon fans are debating the best way to get more people into the brutally difficult and complex endgame raid, Cryo Archive, suggesting ways to help more casual players learn the high-stakes map.

Across the board, if you fail to exfil at the end of a Marathon game, you lose everything you took in with you, including your weapons and consumables. But Cryo Archive is even harder to get into, because your loadout needs to be worth at least 5,000 credits just to play.

"Give everyone the free loadout that was offered when the map launched once per week," suggested redditor timeobedlam. "It'll give players a low-risk way to engage with the content (on a very limited basis) and won't really inject that much value into the overall economy (let's be honest, most of those loadouts will get wiped out by super-kitted teams and will be left on the ground)."

The proposal picked up traction on the Marathon subreddit, where hundreds of players left upvotes and commented. Many agreed with the idea of "just make it free once and then charge 5K [credits] after that."

"I’d play more of it for a straight-up credit exchange set than piecing a 5k kit together," explained one player, while others liked the idea of being able to load custom pre-made loadouts so "you wouldn't have to rebuild all the time."

"Would love to be able to make a kit from regularly stocked items you can buy, and then have a one-click option to buy the kit," suggested this player. "It would pull items from inventory if available, and then automate purchases after."

Bungie has repeatedly said that while Marathon has a steep learning curve, over time, recovering from a bad loss gets easier. But then Cryo Archive doubled down on the ultra hardcore experience, with several requirements you need to meet in order to access it.

Former professional Counter-Strike player, Shroud, has said that while Cryo Archive offers an incredible experience, it's too difficult for casual players. Speaking in a recent stream, the influential gamer said: "Cryo Archive is insane. It's the most elaborate extraction shooter map I've ever seen in a game ever. The loop that they made is truly something special. The problem is, is it too elaborate? Is it too complex? Is it too much of a grind? Is your 9-5 grandma and grandpa going to be able to do it? I don't know."

Marathon's difficulty is the subject of much debate, and is often cited as one of the reasons the game has struggled to maintain players or sell in mainstream numbers. Are people bouncing off Marathon because of how brutally difficult it can be? Were some put off by its steep learning curve?

A new report recently claimed Marathon’s budget is over $200 million, and while player numbers have fallen significantly since launch, Bungie’s extraction shooter is allegedly not facing an imminent shutdown.

Vikki Blake is a reporter for IGN, as well as a critic, columnist, and consultant with 15+ years experience working with some of the world's biggest gaming sites and publications. She's also a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her at BlueSky.

The closure of Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us multiplayer game sent shockwaves throughout the video game industry, and surprised even the developers who were making it. But for one former Xbox veteran, it was the right call — despite how painful it was.

Naughty Dog stopped development on The Last of Us Online in December 2023, saying it would have needed to put all its resources into post-launch content for years to come — an approach that would have severely impacted its ability to develop future single-player games, including what we now know is Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet.

Earlier this month, the director of The Last of Us Online spoke out on the “devastating” impact of its cancellation, which he said he only found out about 24 hours before Sony made it public.

Vinit Agarwal, who was game director on The Last of Us Online, spoke openly about why The Last of Us Online was canceled despite being “very very close to done,” blaming it on a combination of factors including the widespread industry pullback following COVID lockdowns, and Sony’s subsequent reassessment of its live service push. Naughty Dog had to make a choice between The Last of Us Online and single-player adventure Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, Agarwal said. The decision, as we know, was to go with Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet.

“And so one of the casualties of that was this game I was directing,” he said. “Basically, at one point, a decision had to be made. ‘Okay, make this game or make the next game that Neil Druckmann was directing, the president of the company.’ And so, kind of naturally, you can understand what happened there. They had to pick the game that was kind of the soul, bread and butter of the studio, rather than this experimental game that I was working on that I believe was going to be really big, but unfortunately couldn't see the light of day.”

Now, Laura Fryer, who has extensive experience working for video game publishers under her belt, has suggested that the real mistake was Sony and Naughty Dog greenlighting The Last of Us Online in the first place.

Fryer, a founding member of Xbox and one of Microsoft Game Studios’ first employees, released a new video in which she expressed sympathy with the team at Naughty Dog who had to see their project canceled, but criticized the lack of planning.

“A lot of people are saying they should have just finished the game and shipped it because it was so close, and I understand how frustrating it must be for the players who were looking forward to this game,” Fryer, who also spent four years as general manager of WB Games Seattle, where she oversaw game development for Warner Bros.’ internal studios in the Seattle area, including Monolith, creator of the Gotham City Impostors and Guardians of Middle Earth, said.

“But I think that's missing the bigger picture because the truth is that this is a classic example of the sunk cost fallacy. And I've seen it play out many times before where you have a studio that's already spent many years and millions of dollars and they feel like they have to ship the game anyway, that they have no choice, even when they know the long-term live service support will be brutal. Then the game comes out halfbaked, the team burns out on endless updates, and it usually ends badly.

“Naughty Dog didn't do that. They made the harder choice. They looked at the road ahead and they realized that they should stop instead of risking turning the entire studio into a live service operation that was only going to be able to support one big title for years. In my opinion, that was the right call, even though it hurt the team that worked so hard on it. They chose to go back to what the bread and butter of their studio was, single-player narrative games.”

Fryer’s criticism was aimed at leadership who not only allowed Naughty Dog to develop a The Last of Us live service game, but to continue to do so for seven years.

“I keep coming back to the bigger question of why did they start this game in the first place,” Fryer said. “Where was the planning? Live service games are not a mystery. There's plenty of data out there that they could have looked at to understand what it would take to do this type of game. You've got new maps. You've got new modes, weapons, seasons, balance patches. It's an infinite treadmill. Any studio leader could have run the numbers on what a team Naughty Dog size could realistically support. They could have seen pretty clearly that a team the size of Naughty Dog could never support a live service game and all of their amazing cinematic single player games. It wasn't possible.

“But instead of doing that analysis, they went ahead and let the game go forward. They let it run for seven years. Eventually, Bungie was brought in to do an analysis in 2023, and their reality check on player retention and what it really takes is what finally convinced people that it might be a problem.”

That’s a reference to comments from former PlayStation executive Shuhei Yoshida, who, speaking to Sacred Symbols+ last year, said feedback from Sony-owned developer Bungie helped to convince Naughty Dog to scrap The Last of Us multiplayer.

“The idea for The Last of Us Online came from Naughty Dog and they really wanted to make it,” Yoshida said. “But Bungie explained [to them] what it takes to make live service games, and Naughty Dog realised, ‘Oops, we can’t do that! If we do it, we can’t make Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet.’ So that was a lack of foresight.”

“The ambition was there, but the realistic upfront planning wasn't,” Fryer continued. “Naughty Dog ultimately protected what they do best: good cinematic single-player games. That's good leadership, even when it hurts. And sometimes the bravest thing a studio can do is to admit that something isn't going to work before it drags the whole company down with it.

“So when people get mad about the cancellation, I think we're focusing on the wrong thing. The pain for the team is real and I feel for them. That is a lot of time to put into a game to ultimately not have it ship. But pulling the plug, that was not the real mistake. Okay, the real mistake was in greenlighting this experiment in the first place without doing the homework upfront. That's my take.”

Wesley is Director, News at IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.

Bryan Cranston has spoken in defense of his Breaking Bad character's wife Skyler White — and her actress Anna Gunn — after criticism from his Malcolm in the Middle co-star Frankie Muniz.

During an episode of Hot Ones, Muniz told Cranston that he was one of the many, many Breaking Bad fans to dislike Skyler for being an obstacle in her schoolteacher husband's path towards becoming a meth-cooking drug kingpin. This fan opinion is nothing new, and both Cranston and Breaking Bad show creator Vince Gilligan have spoken repeatedly in the past about their surprise at the level of online vitriol aimed at the character of Skyler, and at Gunn for her portrayal.

"I wanted to kill Skyler, to make your life easier," Muniz told Cranston. "Your life would have been so much easier," he continued. "You were such a bad guy, you could have gotten rid of her, all she did was complain. Look at the money!"

"Now, see, she got a lot of blowback from that," Cranston responded. "Well, first of all, Anna Gunn is a superb actor, but she got: 'Oh, why don't you get off his back?'"

"That's how I felt," Muniz said.

"Wait a minute," Cranston countered. "Let me understand this. Her husband leaves without any explanation, she's pregnant, he's making crystal methamphetamine and people have died. And she's the bitch? Like, we couldn't understand what..."

Writing in an article for The New York Times back in 2013 following Breaking Bad's finale, Gunn said she had been honored to play the role of Skyler over the series, but had also been troubled by the backlash to her character on social media, calling it "frankly, misogynistic" and that it had "become alarming when it turned violent."

"Back when the show first aired, Skyler was roundly disliked," Gilligan himself said in 2022, in a profile for the New Yorker. "I think that always troubled Anna Gunn. And I can tell you it always troubled me, because Skyler, the character, did nothing to deserve that. And Anna certainly did nothing to deserve that. She played the part beautifully."

Unlike Cranston and numerous other members of the Breaking Bad cast, Gunn did not return to cameo in the show's subsequent prequel series Better Call Saul. Meanwhile, Cranston and Muniz are now back together as father and son in Malcolm in the Middle: Life's Still Unfair, which is airing new episodes on Disney+.

Last week, Muniz set the record straight on the details of his bad memory, after previously suggesting he couldn't remember shooting much of the original Malcolm in the Middle — something he has now said was "taken out of context."

Images credit: Theo Wargo/Getty Images and Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for Tribeca Festival.

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After a weekend in which multiple rumors and reports pointed to an internal delay of Microsoft’s Fable reboot beyond its fall 2026 release window and potentially into 2027, the official Fable social media account has stepped in to reiterate its previously announced date.

Giant Bomb’s Jeff Grubb said that there was concern at Microsoft about Fable potentially running up against the behemoth that is Grand Theft Auto 6, which currently has a November 19, 2026 release date.

“I’ll say that I’ve heard that Fable has been pushed internally,” Grubb said. “That doesn’t mean that it’s coming out next year. Apparently, they’re still trying to get it out this year, but they are worried about the launch of Grand Theft Auto 6. And so if it’s getting delayed beyond the release of Grand Theft Auto 6, that could push it into December, which might make it a prime candidate to get delayed into 2027. So while Xbox will have a lot of games coming out this year, that’s one that there’s still a big question mark around.”

However, the official Fable X / Twitter account this morning responded to a fan to say “we're excited to welcome you to Albion in Autumn 2026!” That reiteration of the release window is telling here, and a thinly veiled response to the weekend’s reports.

Still, it’s easy to imagine Microsoft fussing over release dates this year, as I imagine most AAA video game publishers are doing, in the face of GTA 6. And Microsoft has many release dates still to solidify. While we know Playground’s other game, Forza Horizon 6, launches May 19, it has yet to announce a release date for Halo: Campaign Evolved, Gears of War: E-Day, which is still down for a 2026 launch, the next Call of Duty, rumored to be Modern Warfare 4, and the aforementioned Fable.

Fans will undoubtedly get a clearer idea of Microsoft’s release plans from its Xbox Games Showcase on June 7. Microsoft has already said Gears of War: E-Day will be there, and we suspect Fable and the new Call of Duty will be, too, alongside release date announcements. Perhaps we’ll see more of InXile's Clockwork Revolution, Undead Labs' State of Decay 3, and maybe even Hideo Kojima’s OD.

As it stands, Fable is set for launch this fall across Xbox Series X and S, PlayStation 5, and PC. IGN has asked Microsoft for comment.

Wesley is Director, News at IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.

EA is set to shut down servers for BioWare's beloved Dragon Age: Inquisition later this month on PlayStation 3.

A message on EA's service update website shows that Inquisition's PS3 servers will go dark on April 28, more than 11 years on from the game's 2014 arrival. However, it looks like servers will remain online (for now) on PlayStation 4, PC, and Xbox.

While it's sad to see any older game get its functionality depreciated, it's perhaps surprising that Inquisition's PS3 multiplayer mode lasted this long — through two console generations, and the arrival (and shutdown) of BioWare's big live-service attempt Anthem.

Multiplayer, of course, was not the main focus of Inquisition — BioWare's sprawling fantasy RPG threequel that remains the company's best-selling game. Fans look back on Inquisition now as the game where we met our favorite elven frenemy Solas, got horny with Iron Bull, and stayed too long in the Hinterlands.

However, following the success of Mass Effect 3's own multiplayer portion, BioWare was keen to experiment with a similar offering in Dragon Age. Another PVE affair where players used various races and classes to tackle enemies from the game's campaign, the mode was supported for a little while with new maps and loadouts. Alas, the idea never took off as Mass Effect's own multiplayer offering had — and it didn't return at all for Dragon Age: The Veilguard (which, after a spell as a live-service game, ultimately launched as fully single-player).

Is BioWare done with multiplayer gaming for good, especially after the failure of Anthem? While the company is known to be working on Mass Effect 5 (release date: still unknown) there has been no mention made of another multiplayer offering there. Indeed, after EA's recent cuts to slim down the studio, anything not critical to ensuring the Mass Effect franchise's future seems unlikely to come into fruition.

Speaking of Mass Effect, according to a report earlier this month, Amazon's Mass Effect TV series is now on "the verge" of a series order, although the boss of Amazon TV has allegedly requested rewrites to make it "more appealing to non-gamers."

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The public fallout of ill-fated MMO Ashes of Creation continues, this time with an alleged full breakdown of Intrepid Studios' expenses, revealing "a troubling picture of a company that was on the threshold of financial death at multiple points in its history" and millions of dollars allegedly spent on dubious purchases.

YouTuber NefasQS claimed to have "obtained and processed the entire Intrepid Studios general ledger from 2015 to 2026," as well as corroborating documents and records that "help us finally finish most of what remains of the mystery surrounding Ashes of Creation and the implosion of Intrepid Studios."

He published the full ledger online and uploaded a video discussing some of the details, including "the interesting numbers ranging from mysterious withdrawals by John Moore (former Intrepid CEO Steven Sharif's husband) to the costs of game development, especially when it comes to outsourcing."

Sharif has disputed the claims.

Back in February, Valve quietly withdrew Ashes of Creation from sale after its director and leadership team quit just weeks after it launched as a $50 Early Access game on Steam. Game's director Steven Sharif said "much of" the senior dev team had quit "in protest," claiming that its management board had asked him to do things he "could not ethically support." According to Sharif, the Board then issued WARN Act notices — layoff warnings, in other words — to the remaining staff.

According to a new public record request, we now know that the formal WARN Act notification was issued on January 31 and indicated that 210 employees were "affected" by the filing, 123 of whom worked in California.

As unhappy players fought to get refunds out of Steam, an update from one of the studio's directors claimed the "entire" development team was reportedly laid off without notice or their January paychecks. Then, last month, Sharif said he had won the first leg of his legal battle against Intrepid's Board of Directors, led by Chair Rob Dawson, and their affiliated entity, TFE Games Holdings LLC, claiming "breaches of fiduciary duty, violations of federal and state trade secret laws, and wrongful efforts to seize company assets, including its valuable IP, through an unlawful and manufactured insider foreclosure." The San Diego court has issued a temporary restraining order in Sharifs favor against Dawson.

NefasQS allegedly uncovered evidence of a "lavish lifestyle" that's "worse than you think," claiming Intrepid spent $220.066.46 on DoorDash, $48,568 on antiques, $21,000 for a personal chef, $8717.15 on plants, $15,981.70 on movie theater tickets, $595,098.83 on Amazon orders, $21,346 on Magic the Gathering cards, and $2,200 on hotdogs. $81,166 was allegedly also provided to Gore Oil, the company that appears to own Sharif and Moore's $4.9 million San Diego mansion, which they bought in 2020.

"[A] notable thing about the numbers we see in the ledger is that without the cash injections from various loans, creditors, and investors, Ashes of Creation — or rather Intrepid Studios — would have been bankrupt multiple times," MefasQS alleged.

"You'll see a $450,000 deposit from a creditor or investor, and that same day, John [Moore] or somebody else [...] will take out amounts that vary anywhere between $750 to $300,000 that are labelled as 'shareholder loans' in the QuickBooks data. You also see the opposite, where money is taken out, but then put back in the same day or week in the same amount."

The video also claimed that both John Moore and Steven Sharif's compensation almost doubled in 2024, going from around $245,864 and $207,922 to $476,738 and $396,768, respectively.

Sharif refuted the claims, telling Kotaku: "An examination of the facts through the judicial process has already revealed that the parties behind these claims orchestrated an unlawful foreclosure to take control of Intrepid’s assets from the people who built Ashes of Creation, with the intent to exploit those assets for their own benefit.

"NefasQS has been fed false and defamatory information by individuals with an axe to grind, in an effort to litigate this dispute in the public domain alongside our lawsuit already pending in federal court," he added. "Rather than verify those claims, he has chosen to repeat them, acting as a mouthpiece to advance a narrative that drives clicks and views, with disregard for basic journalistic standards."

The video is still live at the time of writing, although NefasQS said "someone already filed a privacy complaint against this video, just a head's up, but we will be disputing it. Someone also reported my Reddit account from our community subreddit to the admins." Some commenters have also reported being banned from the Ashes of Creation Discord server for sharing a link to NefasQS's video.

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Walker Scobell, star of the Percy Jackson TV series, will skip his high school prom due to death threats aimed at "every teenage girl who could remotely be associated with me."

The 17-year-old actor, who plays the lead role in the Disney+ Percy Jackson and the Olympians TV show, made the announcement via his Instagram, in a message that called for the end of harassment towards girls at his school.

"Just to let everyone know, I will not be attending prom," Scobell wrote. "Please stop sending death threats to EVERY teenage girl who could remotely be associated with me based on their proximity to where I live. It's not fair to them or to their families. Maybe also just stop sending death threats in general. That's just not cool. Kinda weird I have to say this."

Screenshots of numerous purported messages shared on social media show posts from fans who said they planned to turn up at Walker's high school prom with weapons, with threats that "the same thing that happen with Charlie Kirk" would happen to his date.

Discussing Scobell's decision not to attend via a lengthy thread on reddit, many Percy Jackson fans said they were shocked by the "parasocial toxicity" of some followers who followed the personal lives of the show's young cast — particularly Scobell and 16-year-old Leah Jeffries, who plays Jackson's on-screen love interest Annabeth Chase.

"The idea that people think Percy and Annabeth have to end up together and therefore Walker and Leah do as well is sickening," wrote firestorm0108. "These were actual children when they started trying to ship them together, real people, and yet the fans that are that far gone seem unable to understand that."

"It was actually mostly the Walker fangirls that are obsessed with him and delusional in thinking they have a chance with him," countered Annie567810. "They harass literally every girl he interacts with Leah as well. Some of them are too old to be acting like that over a minor. Then you have Waleah fans upset he's not with Leah either and attacking him even though Leah made it known it makes her uncomfortable yet they still do it. Then they will be sad if Walker and Leah's personal and professional relationship suffer cause of it."

"I feel so bad for them," wrote Milo-Law. "How can people be like this, focus on your own lives and relationships and stop putting effort into toxic parasocial shit."

"The kids who've grown up with social media and have been introduced into fandom culture at way too young of an age NEED their parents to intervene," concluded brendinthegenie. "The fact that the internet is so accessible that 'fans' can go and harass complete strangers without any adult finding out is so concerning. Walker shouldn't have to give up such a huge memory for this."

Disney wrapped up airing the second season of the Percy Jackson show at the end of January, with a third season now in development. The series adapts the popular young adult fantasy book series that features the modern day versions of Greek gods, with the upcoming next season set to dramatize the third book, The Titan's Curse.

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As the Invincible VS beta test winds down, players are hoping publisher Skybound Games and developer Quarter Up do something to fix its “rage quitting” problem.

The fighting game based on the comic book-turned-TV show will soon close the servers that have allowed players to try out a slice of its superhero roster since April 9. With launch still weeks away, those who signed up for the limited test are left to reflect on the battles where they may have beaten their opponents a bit too badly.

Players of varying skill levels flocked to the Invincible VS beta and quickly found that there seemed to be little penalty for those who left matches prematurely. It led to moments where Viltrumites and Guardians alike would be pummeling their foes with a string of combos only to be met with an error that simply said, “opponent disconnected.”

"If someone as casual as myself is experiencing this frequently then that's a bit worrisome when you think about how the playerbase will be for this game," one player said. "Safe to say we're going to need an automated penalty system to deter rage quitting in this game for sure."

“My trick for less quits was to start playing with random characters I didn’t really practice with,” another suggested. “That way there’s a feeling out process in the beginning of the fight that makes them less likely to rage quit.”

Rage quitters, otherwise known as players who exit a match early because they may or may not be losing, are far from a new concept. Whether it be through delayed queue times or even temporary bans, many multiplayer games, especially the more competitive ones, typically have some sort of system in place to discourage this kind of behavior. Invincible VS, however, doesn’t seem to have any kind of deterrent.

Some players believe matchmaking may help the issue, with the more skilled fighters also reporting that they’ve continuously found themselves stacked in unfair matches leaning in their favor. While others have started suggesting Quarter Up implement penalties of some kind, a few believe something more extravagant, such as a feature similar to the Quitality from Mortal Kombat.

It makes sense that a free beta test would attract players who aren't as familiar with tag-team fighting games like Invincible VS, so many fans have started recommending newcomers at least don't skip the tutorial. Either way, some of the memes that have emerged from the weekend suggest players want something to be done.

“Make a fighting game free and you get a bunch of people who arent prepared for a fighting game,” one Reddit user teased.

"God forbid I have prior fighting game experience, lol," another joked.

Invincible VS launches for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X | S April 30, 2026. Those who participated in the beta gained access to the Coalition of Planets Omni-Man skin. For more while we wait to see how Quarter Up and Skybound may respond to complaints of rage quitting and other beta feedback, you can learn more about Conquest as a playable character and the two DLC fighters set to arrive this summer.

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Former Bethesda Softworks marketing lead Pete Hines has opened up about how he saw the Fallout publisher get "damaged and broken apart" before announcing his retirement in 2023.

The now-retired gaming industry veteran touched on why he chose to step away from Bethesda during a wide-ranging interview with Firezide Chat. When reminiscing about his decades-long journey through the release of everything from Doom to The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim, Hines shared his feelings about changes within the company and what ultimately drove him to leave.

Hines had previously stated that it made sense for him to retire around the launch of the long-awaited Starfield and reiterated that point in the new interview. Although moving on meant leaving colleagues like Bethesda’s Todd Howard and Erin Losi, there was more than simple timing influencing his decision.

“I just hit a point of yes, [Bethesda] needs me, and I am powerless to do what I think needs to be done to run this place properly, to protect these people, to maintain what we worked so hard to create, which is an incredibly efficient, well run video game developer and publisher,” he explained.

“And when I was unable to do what I thought my job should involve in continuing to have that place be, you know, if not the most efficient publisher in the game industry, it was way the f**k up there. And when I couldn't protect it, and I saw how it was getting damaged and broken apart and frankly mistreated, abused, whatever word you want to use, I said I am not going to sit here and watch this happen right in front of me.”

Hines continued, saying, “This is not when I wanted it to end or how I wanted it to end.” However, he said attempting to maintain his role at Bethesda took a toll on his mental health, adding that he eventually made the decision to leave sometime in 2022, the year before Starfield launched.

“Every time Todd delayed Starfield, I thought, f**k, I'm here another eight months,” he said. “And Todd was the only one who knew. It's another reason I love that man. He showed up for me when I was just at my wit's end and got me through that, and got me out of there in a way that I still retained my sanity.”

Hines refrained from speaking in detail about any individual event, person, or decision that caused him to consider exiting in the first place. The timeline leading to the Hines’ retirement includes Microsoft’s announcement that it intended to acquire Bethesda parent company ZeniMax Media for $7.5 billion in 2020 before completing the acquisition in 2021. Emails revealed in 2023 also saw the former marketing lead express confusion over Microsoft’s decision to make Bethesda titles Xbox exclusive while pushing games like Call of Duty to other platforms.

“Yeah, that was the worst f**king part,” Hines continued in the Firezide Chat interview. “It was to join a place that I genuinely was a fan of and people there I genuinely held in high regard and esteem, and then to get there and see how it actually worked.

“To talk is something, right? But I'm very much about what is the follow up to that? Do you mean what you say? Or are you just saying s**t that sounds good and then as soon as you leave this room that's completely forgotten?”

He admitted that Bethesda may not have always been able to do what it said it was going to do. However, he feels it at least always tried, adding, "We are going to do what we say and say what we do and be genuine and be authentic."

“And truthfully, I still think Bethesda is just part of something that is not authentic and is not genuine," he continued. "And that shouldn't be a surprise to you.”

Hines has been vocal about changes at Bethesda in the years since his retirement. In September 2025, he remembered the early days of his 24-year run at the game publisher, arguing that it’s “not the same” anymore. The same interview saw him discussing how it came up with the name of 2017’s Prey, the launch of Fallout 76, and why subscription services like Game Pass need developers to survive.

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Kojima Productions is reportedly on the hunt for its next big villain after recently beginning the casting process for Physint.

MP1st shared details about what Hideo Kojima has in mind for his next tactical espionage action game, which is allegedly being worked on under the codename “Shimmer,” in a report published today. While most official information about the project remains under wraps, the site states motion capture company Pivot Motion, which aided on 2025’s Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, and casting director Mari Ueda are searching to fill several new roles with plans to shoot in June 2026.

The most interesting of the parts touched on in the report involves a villain character with a German accent. This same character is expected to have a slim complexion and a quiet personality, with other details describing them as “intense” but “confident in a psychotic sort of way.” One last description for the character says they are expected to be like “Madds Mikkelsen in Hannibal but with flair.”

It all sounds very Kojima, especially considering the Metal Gear Solid game developer previously worked with Mikkelsen for the original Death Stranding. Meanwhile, other details from the alleged casting call include a mother holding a baby, five teenagers, and two male individuals. Each role is said to revolve around some sort of bus hijacking incident, though details about how it may all tie together were not shared.

The man behind Metal Gear Solid teased in December 2025 that 2026 would see the team begin “casting actors, scanning, and performance capture shoots.” The first phase of that process allegedly began recently, though it’s worth noting that at least some major roles were filled months ago.

When Kojima revealed the first poster for Physint in September 2025, he also announced that Charlee Fraser, Don Lee, and Minami Hamabe had already signed on in some form. It also came with a sneak peek at what Hamabe will look like in-game, but additional details about every character in the new tactical espionage action game and its story are being kept tightly under lock and key for now.

With Death Stranding 2 having launched less than one year ago and Kojima Productions’ next game, OD, still very much without a release date, there’s no telling when Physint will sneak its way into players’ hands. While we wait to see what may come of the alleged casting calls, you can see how Kojima Productions chose to announce Physint. You can also catch up on everything announced during the studio's 10-year anniversary broadcast last year.

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UPDATE April 12, 2026: The Avatar: Aang, The Last Airbender leaks shared by @ImStillDissin have been removed from X after the original post alone garnered more than 100,000 likes. In their place is text that says, "This media has been disabled in response to a report by the copyright owner."

Paramount has yet to comment on the matter.

ORIGINAL STORY April 12, 2026: More than three minutes of footage from the upcoming Avatar: Aang, The Last Airbender movie seems to have leaked online, months ahead of its official premiere on Paramount+.

X/Twitter user @ImStillDissin sent fans of the original fire, water, earth, and air-bending gang into a frenzy when they said Nickelodeon "accidentally" emailed them the full film, posting what appears to be two scenes from the project today. If real, it could be one of the more substantial leaks of recent memory, showing Aang, Zuko, Katara, Sokka, and Toph older and reunited with a new voice cast.

“If Paramount doesn't post a trailer within the next couple days or something I'll livestream the movie alongside some Peggle Deluxe gameplay,” the leaker added in a follow-up post.

After ditching a theatrical release last year, Avatar: Aang, The Last Airbender is currently slated to premiere on Paramount+ October 9, 2026. Nickelodeon and Paramount have yet to show any official look at the movie itself, but these recent leaks may have already spoiled some surprises. Those hoping to go into the film without spoilers may want to be careful when scrolling through social media for at least the next few days.

The videos, which have been live for nearly 12 hours and carry more than 100,000 likes between them at the time of this story’s publication, show not only what appear to be crucial plot moments but also lengthy bits featuring new cast members like Dave Bautista and Taika Waititi. Those who seek out the clips may also want to keep in mind that, even if the footage is authentic, it likely comes from a project that Paramount isn't quite finished working on.

IGN has reached out to Paramount for comment.

Avatar: Aang, The Last Airbender was first announced in 2024 and is expected to be the first in a trio of animated films set in the beloved cartoon universe. Though some believed the project had been originally been titled Aang: The Last Airbender, Paramount went on to give the movie an official title, The Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender, in 2025. Instagram posts from those who attended an early screening, including star Eric Nam, who plays Aang, revealed that its latest retitle is Avatar: Aang, The Last Airbender.

Other previously confirmed members of the cast include Jessica Matten as Katara, Dionne Quan as Toph, and Román Zaragoza as Sokka. As revealed in an interview with IGN last July, Invincible and The Walking Dead star Steven Yeun is set to play Zuko.

While we wait to see something official from Paramount, you can check out the latest on the Avatar Legends fighting game. You can also read up on the live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender Netflix show, which is set to premiere its second season this June.

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As if Darth Maul wasn’t already angry enough, the team behind Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord has revealed they infused his double-bladed lightsaber with the blood-curdling screams of actor Sam Witwer.

Lucasfilm gave fans a peek into the effort it put into fleshing out the darkest parts of its universe in a new behind-the-scenes video published recently. It’s a two-and-a-half-minute look at how the longtime Darth Maul actor contributed his body and mind to help craft a version of a fan-favorite character filled with more rage than ever.

Witwer played the vengeful Sith throughout the 2010s in spinoff projects like Solo: A Star Wars Story, Rebels, and Star Wars: Battlefront 2. Maul – Shadow Lord is the first time he’s gotten to portray the character in a standalone outing, though, and judging by today’s footage, he tried to make the most of it.

step into the shadows.

Get a glimpse behind the scenes of Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord, now streaming only on @DisneyPlus. pic.twitter.com/X1ZuYVHqQK

— Star Wars (@starwars) April 9, 2026

Just one example showed Witwer donning Darth Maul’s face markings while providing reference videos for the team. It’s not exactly the kind of thing viewers may have picked up on when watching the first two episodes, which premiered April 6. What some may have noticed, however, is the rough sound his red lightsaber makes as it literally roars into his enemies.

Lucasfilm said fans can “actually hear the sound of Sam’s screaming built into the saber,” as the footage highlights moments where the weapon’s red glow is accompanied by the all-too familiar screams of the show’s title character. Besides his iconic presence in Star Wars: Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace, Darth Maul is known for being one of the angrier characters in fiction.

It’s a status that has come with a lot of scenes featuring him grunting and screaming through the years. Now, the same level of vocal work put into his iconic “Kenobi!” cry from Rebels has been infused into his lightsaber.

Maul – Shadow Lord is the latest Clone Wars-style spinoff on Disney+. Its next two episodes will premiere April 13, with two more set to follow each Monday until the finale premieres on Star Wars Day, May 4. You can see why we thought Season 1 deserved an 8/10 review here.

For more, you can read up on what Witwer said he would do to see a return for his The Force Unleashed character, Starkiller. You can also check out our list of the top 10 most anticipated TV shows of April 2026.

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Oh, Euphoria. The HBO drama quickly became a hot topic during its first season back in 2019. It’s glitzy, often feels like a music video, and can get pretty darn graphic. Seven years later, cast members like Sydney Sweeney and Zendaya have reached different stages of their career, making it all the more surprising to see most of the main cast returning to their roles for a third season.

Whether genuine excitement or morbid curiosity is inspiring you to tune in, here’s all of the release information we have for Euphoria’s new season.

Euphoria Season 3 Episode Release Schedule