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Update: It’s happening! Banjo-Kazooie are joining Super Smash Bros. Ultimate as DLC! After ample anticipation, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is now available and in the hands of gamers around the globe. Toting a 74-character roster, it’s easily the biggest Super Smash Bros. game yet. Still, fans are rallying for a handful of characters to join the fray as downloadable content, and few of these combatants (with the exception of maybe Geno or Waluigi) have the groundswell of support that is currently behind the title characters from Banjo-Kazooie....

[UPDATE: Ben Affleck has refuted this rumor.] - Zack Snyder’s Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice is right around the corner, and many people have been wondering about the potential quality of the film. It’s no secret that there’s a lot riding on its success. Warner Bros. is using the project as a launching point for the DC Extended Universe, already scheduling a complete slate of movies that goes until 2020....

Aside from superhero movies, the other major trend in Hollywood right now is Disney reworking its classic animated films for a modern audience. The Jungle Book was both a critical and commercial success with its awe-inspiring effects and star-studded cast this past spring. Then in the summer, Pete’s Dragon also earned accolades aplenty and ultimately became a financial success (despite overall making far less than The Jungle Book), thanks to its relatively lean cost....

Comic books are big business these days. As of the end of 2015, fans were spending over $248 million per month on the top 300 comics in print. The value of the comics industry grows even more when you consider that comics-based films now make up a multi-billion-dollar segment of the film industry as well. To help celebrate this, AMC Networks is planning a ‘history of comic books’ documentary miniseries that is tentatively titled Heroes and Villains: The History of Comic Books....

A fan edited googly eyes onto Venom, putting a silly twist on Tom Hardy’s symbiote. Even though Sony Pictures made a deal with Marvel Studios that allowed Spider-Man to be introduced into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the studio is putting to use their catalog of Spider-Man related characters by developing their own superhero films. The first will hit theaters later this year with Ruben Fleischer’s Venom, though a Black Cat and Silver Sable movie and a Morbius the Living Vampire film are also in the works....

Hollywood legend, Angela Bassett, has graced both the small screen and the silver screen for years. Now, she’s bringing her talent to the Mission: Impossible franchise in Mission: Impossible - Fallout, which is now playing. She sat down and talked about joining the blockbuster film franchise, her role in Marvel’s Black Panther, and the next season of the Fox television series 9-1-1. Screen Rant: I love the Mission: Impossible franchise. Now, a lot of younger fans only know it as a movie series....

Apple and other tech giants are using anti-China lobbying as part of their attempts to fend off US antitrust legislation, according to a new report today. The lobbying is being done via US foreign policy think tanks … The Financial Times reports. The piece notes that the sums are small in absolute terms, but are still large enough to see tech giants rival oil and gas companies in their think-tank donations....

Today’s Apple event was packed with new announcements from Apple. There’s the iPhone 14 lineup with four new models, the Apple Watch Series 8, the Apple Watch Ultra, AirPods Pro 2, and much more. Head below for the full details on everything Apple announced at today’s “Far out” event from the Steve Jobs Theater. Apple Watch Series 8 We kicked things off today with the new Apple Watch Series 8. The biggest change here is the addition of not one but two new temperature sensors....

Apple unveiled the iPhone 13 a month ago. As the product is still rolling out across the globe, Apple executives reflect back on the company’s 15 years of smartphone camera revolution and discuss how the iPhone 13 improves this experience. Apple’s VP of software camera engineering Jon McCormack, VP of hardware camera engineering Graham Townsend, and iPhone product manager Louis Dudley were interviewed by Exame’s Thiago Lavado. In this interview, McCormack and Townsend talk about what’s Apple’s goal to create the best camera experience for its users....

We’re now halfway through Thanksgiving week, and new gear has joined the ongoing Black Friday Apple MagSafe sale. That’s alongside a doorbuster of a discount on the Beats Studio Buds at $100 and this Satechi up to 30% off holiday sale. Hit the jump for all that and more in the latest 9to5Toys Lunch Break. Apple’s MagSafe Battery Pack joins the official accessory sale Serving as a perfect companion to your new iPhone 13 or existing iPhone 12, the Apple MagSafe Battery Pack arrives to dish out some extra power while on the go....

Apple partnered with singer and actress Olivia Rodrigo earlier this month to promote her new song “Brutal” with various digital masks created on the iPad with Procreate and Apple Pencil. Now that the “Brutal” music video is available, Apple made a short clip highlighting that it was “Made with iPad.” Apple’s 30-second clip shared on YouTube shows parts of the “Brutal” video clip by Olivia Rodrigo, who appears “wearing” the digital masks created on the iPad....

The first time Apple showed off its Continuity Camera in iOS 16 and macOS Ventura at WWDC, it used a special mount from Belkin to mount iPhone to the top of your Mac’s display. Now ahead of macOS Ventura launching on October 24, Apple has started selling the slim Belkin mount. The new product is called the “Belkin iPhone Mount with MagSafe for Mac Notebooks.” Along with the handy foldable clip that allows it to quickly mount to the top of your MacBook, there’s a ring grip that makes it handy to use outside of Continuity Camera too....

Amid growing pressure from private companies and governments to allow sideloading on iOS, Apple is out today with a new security paper diving into real-world data on how malware is impacting mobile devices. Along with statistics like Android having between 15 and 47 times more malware than iPhone, Apple is making its latest case against sideloading with data and recommendations from the US Department of Homeland Security, European Agency for Cybersecurity, NIST, Norton, and more....

Along with announcing its new Lockdown Mode feature this past summer, the company mentioned an upgraded bounty program, a donation to fund ethical security research, and more. Now Apple Security Research has officially launched with a dedicated website, blog, details on the bounty changes, applications open for the Research Device Programs, and more. Apple launched the new security hub website led by two blog posts today. “Our groundbreaking security technologies protect the users of over 1....

Apple has settled privately with the guy who says he thought of AirPods first before they were invented. The declaration was made just as jury selection was set to begin. Seung Jin Kim and Pinn Inc. sued Apple over patent infringement that they claim occurred when the original AirPods were released six years ago. Law360 writes that the plaintiff was suing over patents related to his own idea for a wireless earbud technology....

The US Patent and Trademark Office has granted a patent to Apple for a dual-display MacBook with a virtual keyboard replacing the traditional keyboard and with the ability to wirelessly charge an iPhone. As reported by Patently Apple, this patent was submitted three years ago, and only now has Apple won it. With this patent, the company could take a radical path and get rid of a physical keyboard. The interesting thing about this application is that while rumors suggest that Apple will remove the only touchable interface on the MacBook Pro, the Touch Bar, this patent imagines a MacBook with no physical keyboard at all....

DC is bringing back Wonder Woman composer Rupert Gregson-Williams to provide the score for James Wan’s Aquaman movie. While Marvel fans have already had their first taste of what 2018 has to offer, DCEU die-hards have a much longer wait until Aquaman arrives this December. We’ve heard the first Aquaman trailer will debut at WonderCon in a few weeks, so hopefully it won’t be much longer into we get our first look at actual footage from the movie....

Arrow star Stephen Amell has expressed interest in returning to the DC Universe someday, only this time as a villain. The actor has portrayed Oliver Queen, aka Green Arrow, on the CW superhero series since 2012. It was recently announced that Amell would be suiting up one last time when Arrow returns for its shortened eighth and final season. Regardless of whether Green Arrow manages to survive the experience - which, Oliver’s death seems very likely - Amell has stated that he wouldn’t mind returning in some capacity if a future story called for such an appearance....

Directors Joe and Anthony Russo have indicated that Avengers: Infinity War has wrapped filming. The Russos made the jump to blockbuster films and the Marvel Cinematic Universe with Captain America: The Winter Soldier and instantly cemented their place in the MCU moving forward. They followed it up wonderfully with Captain America: Civil War, and their ability to balance several heroes at once made it clear why they had been chosen to direct the next two Avengers films....

Avengers: Infinity War is projected to gross up to $2 billion at the worldwide box office, thus setting a new record for the highest-grossing summer release of all-time. The blockbuster movie - directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, and based on a script by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely - has been out for almost two weeks now, and it already managed to cross $1 billion in record time, while also setting a wide variety of new box office records both at home and abroad....