[This story contains major spoilers from episode four of Task]. Soon after Raúl Castillo read the first script of Task, he got on a Zoom call with show creator Brad Ingelsby to walk through the narrative beats of the show. It was a standard meeting for an actor deciding whether or not to sign on for a new project — …
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[This story contains spoilers through Peacemaker season two’s sixth episode, “Ignorance Is Chris.”] When Peacemaker creator James Gunn conceived season two’s seismic twist, the first person he consulted was his Leota Adebayo actor, Danielle Brooks. Throughout the second season, Christopher “Peacemaker” Smith (John Cena) has been enamored with an alternate dimension that he was able to access via his family’s …
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James Gunn is inescapable these days, freely talking about the good and bad of mapping on the DCU, but if there’s one thing he’s been relentlessly focused on, it’s his personal project of Peacemaker, which he now retconned to be a full part of the DCU. And that was on full display last night. Gunn has said that Episodes 6-8 …
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Oregon State men’s basketball’s 2025-26 West Coast Conference schedule is set. Well, sort of. The Beavers — playing their final season in the WCC before rejoining the Pac-12 — know their opponents for the 18-game conference slate. But some of the dates for those games are still flexible. The reason? A new scheduling format from the WCC which allows the …
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SPOILER ALERT: This story discusses major plot developments in Season 2, Episode 6 of “Peacemaker,” currently streaming on HBO Max. In Season 2 of “Peacemaker,” the titular shoot-first-ask-questions-later hero Christopher Smith (John Cena) has been enchanted by an alternate universe in which he had never accidentally killed his older brother when they were kids. On this Earth, Chris, his brother …
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If someone had told me that Nintendo and Intelligent Systems would shadow-drop a random Fire Emblem mobile game on a Wednesday evening, I probably wouldn’t have believed it. And yet, here we go, and Fire Emblem Shadows is among us. Literally. Revealed via Nintendo and a launch trailer, Fire Emblem Shadows dares to ask: What if you gave all the …
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Nintendo’s new Fire Emblem mobile game has an Among Us-style twist The Verge Fire Emblem Shadows announced for smart devices, out today [update: launch trailer] Nintendo Everything Nintendo shadowdrops Fire Emblem Shadows for mobile devices today GoNintendo Nintendo’s first new mobile game in years is a surprise Fire Emblem spin-off Video Games Chronicle Surprise! A New “Free-To-Start” Fire Emblem Game Is Out On Mobile …
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Just as it’s about to begin, a trial for the 2006 murder of a former Miami Hurricanes player took a massive turn. ESPN reporters found a key witness, said to be dead by Florida prosecutors, very much alive when they knocked on his door in Louisville, Kentucky in August. Paul Conner lived in the apartment complex where defensive lineman Bryan …
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An artist’s impression of plumes erupting onto the surface of Enceladus. Its fellow moon Titan is seen in the sky, and the distant Sun beyond. Credit: ESA/Science Office Saturn’s moon Enceladus has long dazzled scientists with its icy plumes that spew water and mysterious organic molecules into space, fueling hopes of a habitable ocean beneath. But new experiments suggest the …
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