Not only did a PlayStation showcase happen this week packed with God of War, Marvel and Star Wars games, but the long-awaited trailer for The Matrix Resurrections dropped as well. Cardy, Matt and Joe are here to talk all about them as well as all of the films and games they've been enjoying over the past week. There's a lot, so buckle in for a long one.

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PlatinumGames has updated fans on Bayonetta 3 , saying that development is continuing as expected, but that the release of further details surrounding the game is essentially out of the studio's control.

In an interview with VGC, Bayonetta creator Hideki Kamiya said that the studio is "proud" of the work that it has put into Bayonetta 3. However, despite previously saying that fans might see more from the game this year, Kamiya remained cautious about announcing when fans might expect a reveal for the game, stressing that the decision to show it off was ultimately up to Nintendo.

“If you remember last time, I said that even though everyone was asking about Bayonetta 3, maybe you should tell everyone to forget about it for a while," said Kamiya when asked whether fans would likely see anything from the game in time for Christmas. "I kind of need to keep to that stance for now because ultimately, it’s not our decision what to say and when to say it.”

Bayonetta 3 was originally announced at The Game Awards 2017, where a short teaser trailer was shown for the title. However, since then, nothing been shown off from the series' third installment. Elsewhere in the interview, Kamiya spoke further about how the studio is keen to show fans more from Bayonetta 3.

“As much as everyone is clamoring to see it, we are really, really waiting to release it too,” said Kamiya. “Everyone who is working on the project is of course very proud of what we’re doing and wants everyone to see what we’re doing. As much as fans are waiting for it, we are waiting for the day when we can show it. We want everyone to cheer us on as we run to the final stretch. We want to show it too!”

Considering the general silence surrounding the game, it wouldn't be too unrealistic for fans to wonder whether this was due to issues in its development. However, PlatinumGames' studio head Atsushi Inaba was reported to have reassured fans when speaking to VGC. “There’s no need to worry," he said. "Don’t worry about it at this time. Everything’s OK.”

Back in June, Nintendo said that Bayonetta 3 was "progressing well" despite its absence from E3 2021. Nintendo's Bill Trinen said, "We like to show things when we're ready to show them. And certainly, we like to show things when the developers are ready to show them. We didn't have it here at E3, but stay tuned."

For more on Bayonetta 3, make sure to check out our dedicated IGN page for the game where you can read up a range of the latest news about the upcoming Nintendo title.

Jared Moore is a freelance writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.

Cory Barlog has revealed that he won't be returning to direct Santa Monica Studio's upcoming Norse heavyweight God of War: Ragnarök. Instead, the latest installment to God of War will feature series veteran Eric Williams in the director's seat, while Barlog is moving on to work on other unannounced projects.

In an interview aired as part of the recent PlayStation Showcase, Santa Monica Studios pair Cory Barlog and Eric Willaims confirmed the reshuffle in leadership on the new title, explaining that changing directors has always been a feature of how things are done at the studio.

“It’s always been a tradition here at Santa Monica, to change the directors across the games," said Williams, who has been at the studio since 2004. "We’ve had really good success with that. Cory is the only repeat director and, you know, rightfully so: he’s pretty damn good at what he does.”

Barlog further expanded on the studio's decision to change directors between iterations of the franchise talking further about the need for fresh perspectives and the tole that directing a game like God of War can have on a person.

"The important thing for us is to get a fresh perspective each time but also a fresh pair of legs in the sense that you're really exhausted at the end of finishing one of these things. So you've got to con somebody else into doing it - like him."

Elsewhere in the interview, Barlog was hesitant to offer much insight into what he'd be doing instead of working on God of War: Ragnarök. When asked about what projects he's working on, the Sony Santa Monica studio creative director said, "Oh you'd like that wouldn't you, you'd like me to just spill the beans and tell you everything that's going on right now. We're actually doing a bunch of stuff, it's really exciting... but I don't really have anything I can talk about right now specifically, mostly because we’re really focused on God of War Ragnarök."

God of War: Ragnarök is set to release in 2022 for both PS4 and PS5. For more on the series, why not check out our full detailed look at God of War: Ragnarök where we talk about the different characters set to join the God of War franchise and what's next for Kratos and his son.

Jared Moore is a freelance writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.

Gameplay from a since-lost movie tie-in for Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 4 has seemingly resurfaced more than a decade after it was created.

Between the trailer release for the MCU's Spider-Man No Way Home and Insomniac Games announcing Spider-Man 2 at this month's PlayStation Showcase, everyone's favorite wall-crawler has taken center stage in recent weeks. However, in addition to newer editions of Spider-Man circulating the web, Obscure Gamers has leaked footage from what seems to be the game tie-in for Sam Raimi's scrapped Spider-Man 4 movie.

The footage, which was posted on Obscure Gamers YouTube channel, allegedly shows an early build copy of what could have been for Radical Entertainment's Spider-Man 4. Over eighteen minutes long, most of the clip features Spider-Man swinging casually around a relatively well-modeled build of New York City.

The city itself looks pretty complete compared to other features in the footage. According to Obscure Gamers, this is likely because the game was using a version of a map brought over from Prototype. In 2019, Wayne Dalton, a previous environment artist for Radical Entertainment, shared a range of screenshots and details from what he said was the canceled Spider-Man 4 that ended up becoming Prototype 2, adding to speculation that this would have been the case.

Spider-Man's web-swinging mechanics and some of his combat techniques are both shown off in the footage - both of which seem at first glance to be very similar to that of previous Spider-Man games in the Raimi tie-in series. One of the more surreal parts of the footage, however, come in the form of the footage's NPCs. Unfinished and untextured, citizens of Manhattan can be seen walking and driving around the streets as grey blob-like character models. In a few absurd clips throughout the footage, Spider-Man can be seen interacting with the blobs as they flock toward him before waving and cheering him through the city streets.

Despite few details being officially confirmed for Raimi's canceled Spider-Man 4, speculation at the time suggested that John Malkovich would have joined the cast to play Vulture. Earlier this year, leaked footage from YouTuber CyberSonic seemed to show off what might have been a final battle sequence between Spider-Man and Adrian Toomes in the movie.

Whilst Activision's previous addition to the franchise, Spider-Man 3, released to mediocre reviews, many fans would likely still be intrigued to see what could have been for a final fight scene between Spidey and the Vulture in a fourth movie tie-in title.

Jared Moore is a freelance writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.

Marvel's Eternals will reportedly not receive a simultaneous release in theaters and on Disney+ Premier Access following the success of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.

Hollywood insider Matthew Belloni shared the latest in his What I'm Hearing newsletter, which covers recent happenings in the entertainment industry. This week, he delivered the news of Marvel's Eternals release plans, revealing the powers that be over at Disney have decided to give the movie an exclusive theatrical run following the recent release of Shang-Chi.

"After Disney C.E.O. Bob Chapek basically dared Shang-Chi to perform in theaters over Labor Day weekend, and it did $94 million domestically, he couldn't possibly put Eternals on Disney+ day-and-date, right?" Belloni quizzed in the most recent edition of his newsletter sharing his insider insight.

"I'm told Chapek and distribution chief Kareem Daniels have made their decision on the November movie's fate, and it will indeed receive an exclusive theatrical run," he added, noting that Disney had declined to comment on the news. "Marvel's Kevin Feige and Angelina Jolie's agents can exhale now."

Chapek previously referred to Shang-Chi's release as an "interesting experiment," noting that the film's performance would serve as "yet another data point to inform our actions going forward on our titles," though the studio had originally planned on the film being released in a "much more healthy theatrical environment."

Unlike Marvel's Black Widow, which received a day-and-date Disney+ release, Shang-Chi was released exclusively in theaters on September 3, and is expected to arrive on Disney+ 45 days later for all subscribers. The film rang up an estimated $71.4 million at U.S. theaters between Friday and Sunday.

The superhero action-adventure, starring Simu Liu in the titular role, ended up closing out the extended Labor Day weekend with an estimated $94.4 million in ticket sales in the U.S., with Monday boosting its tally even further. Shang-Chi also crushed 2007's Halloween, which previously held the record for the best Labor Day opening weekend at $30.6 million.

Marvel's Eternals is the next Phase 4 movie on deck after Shang-Chi. The film, from Oscar-winning director Chloé Zhao, is due out on November 5, though there has been no official announcement in regards to whether it will follow Shang-Chi and play exclusively in theaters before moving to streaming platforms or replicate Black Widow's day-and-date release.

Adele Ankers is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow her on Twitter.

While Halloween Kills will still be released in theaters on October 15, Universal has announced that it will arrive on Peacock the same day.

The latest entry in the Halloween franchise will be available to all Peacock Premium and Premium Plus subscribers at no extra cost and is taking a similar strategy to Universal's The Boss Baby: Family Business, which itself also changed to a same-day theater and Peacock release plan.

Halloween Kills is a sequel to 2018's Halloween and will have a lot to live up to as that first film not only had the biggest opening weekend for any horror film with a female lead (Go Jamie Lee Curtis!), but it also is the highest-grossing Halloween movie and with global box office earnings of over $250 million.

Halloween Kills takes place right after 2018's Halloween and sees Michael Myers escape his fate to once again go after Curtis' Laurie Strode, Judy Greer's Karen, Andi Matichak's Allyson, and more. In this story, however, the Strode family joins other survivors of Myers' first attack to band together to end his reign of terror once and for all.

In our Halloween Kills review, we said that it "delivers deliciously gory kills and nods to John Carpenter's original classic, but still feels like half a movie."

It may feel like half a movie because it is the second film of a trilogy that is set to finish with Halloween Ends. Director David Gordon Green has said that Halloween Ends is meant to "bring closure to the saga of Michael Myers and Laurie Strode."

Halloween Kills is only one of the 40 films we've chosen as the top fall movies to look forward to this year alongside Dune, Marvel's Eternals, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, and more.

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Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

We're getting closer and closer to the return of Dexter, and a brand new trailer has confirmed the return of two major characters who should be familiar to fans of the show.

For those who want to be surprised, we advise you to watch the trailer first, which once again establishes that Dexter is in a remote and snowy town where some murdering is going on. The suggestion is that Dexter hasn't changed all that much since his monstrous heyday, but then again, Dexter does say he's an "evolving monster." (Cue Pokemon theme).

Old habits die hard... or do they? #Dexter pic.twitter.com/2hW40ORzuo

— Dexter on Showtime (@SHO_Dexter) September 9, 2021

The two characters revealed in the trailer are Deb Morgan, who is played by Jennifer Carpenter, and Dexter's now teenage son Harrison. Deb Morgan, of course, was a major character in the original series — an officer in Miami's homicide department as well as Dexter's adoptive sister. It seems that Dexter has a lot of family issues to work out in the new series.

The two characters shown in the new trailer will be joined by other familiar faces from the show, including John Lithgow, who played one of its most iconic villains. The new miniseries will pick up where the original left off, taking place 10 years after the original.

The original Dexter is fondly remembered, even if most seem to agree that the show's quality declined over time. Series star Michael C. Hall has previously said that he's ready to return to the series after the "unsatisfying finale," and there's plenty of hope that the new miniseries will set things right for fans.

Dexter: New Blood will debut on Showtime on November 7.

Kat Bailey is a Senior News Editor at IGN.

Christopher Nolan is eyeing his next movie which will again be set in World War 2. This time, it’s a biopic about the father of the atom bomb J. Robert Oppenheimer. And Nolan is supposedly looking to work with a studio that isn’t Warner Bros.

According to Deadline, Nolan is going to follow up his high-concept thriller Tenet with another historical picture about World War 2. This film will follow Oppenheimer and his role in developing the atomic bomb.

Also according to the report, Nolan is shopping the screenplay to several major studios. It appears Nolan is making good on his promise to not work with Warner Bros. after the latter announced it would begin releasing movies day-and-date on theaters and HBO Max. This move was deeply unpopular with directors like Nolan, James Gunn, Denis Villeneuve, and Patty Jenkins.

Warner Bros opted to release Tenet exclusively in theaters during the COVID-19 pandemic to sluggish box office returns. Keep in mind Tenet was released before vaccines became readily available.

Oppenheimer was an American physicist who was crucial to the United States Manhattan Project, a top-secret operation tasked with developing the first nuclear weapons. Oppenheimer was there during the Trinity test in New Mexico, the site of the first successful atom bomb detonation in 1945.

Following the detonations of the bombs in Nagasaki and Hiroshima in Japan, Oppenheimer publicly opposed the proliferation of nuclear weapons as part of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.

Deadline doesn’t have details on casting, though claims Nolan is reaching out to frequent collaborator Cillian Murphy who has appeared in several of Nolan’s movies.

Nolan’s last historical movie about World War 2 was 2017’s Dunkirk, which was about rescuing stranded Allied soldiers trapped in France. While not a sci-fi film, Nolan employed multiple timelines to heighten the drama.

IGN’s Dunkirk review praised the movie calling it a “monumental, unconventional, and frequently stunning war movie.”

Matt T.M. Kim is IGN's News Editor. You can reach him @lawoftd.

We finally got our first look at the upcoming sequel to 2018's God of War, officially titled God of War: Ragnarok, during Sony's PlayStation Showcase. Those with a keen eye may have spotted a familiar character teased in the trailer wielding a mighty hammer.

It was confirmed shortly after the showcase that it was, in fact, Thor who could be seen for a brief moment in the trailer. Now, we've gotten a full-body reveal of the Norse God himself and he looks very different than many of us are used to.

Warning: Spoilers ahead for God of War (2018).

Those who completed 2018's God of War may remember the Thor teaser for achieving the true ending as it's the same shot used in the trailer, implying that Kratos may be going head-to-head against the God of Thunder in the upcoming sequel.

Revealed by Sony Santa Monica Art Director Raf Grassetti on Twitter, this version of Thor more closely resembles that of Norse mythology and folklore as he's depicted with long red hair and a red beard.

My boy! pic.twitter.com/5hPocTewBJ

— Raf Grassetti (@rafagrassetti) September 9, 2021

In a developer interview following the PlayStation Showcase, Sony Santa Monica's Eric Williams, Director of the upcoming God of War: Ragnarok, revealed the character teaser and voice from the gameplay trailer was Thor. He is voiced by Ryan Hurst who is known for his work as Opie Winston in Sons of Anarchy.

Williams also mentioned that "[Opie's] take on Thor and [Sony Santa Monica's] take visually on Thor are very different from the hunky Australian you might know," implying that this version of Thor would not share many similarities with Chris Hemsworth's portrayal in the MCU films. Although, Bro Thor would like to have a word.

Williams describes his Thor as a "big, burly, hedonistic man-child" who is a "little off-kilter than the Thor people know right now." Not much else is known of the Son of Odin, aside from his ravenous killing of Giants and his stalemate against the World Serpent, but it's clear he's come for revenge and will likely play a large role in Ragnarok.

No official release date has been given, but God of War: Ragnarok is currently slated for a 2022 release date.

If you missed today's big reveals, check out our full breakdown of everything announced during Sony's September PlayStation Showcase for information on the next Spider-Man sequel, as well as some more surprises.

Matthew Adler is a Commerce, Features, News, Previews, Reviews, and Wikis writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @MatthewAdler and watch him stream on Twitch.

As a part of the news that Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is getting a much-desired remake, we also learned that voice actor Jennifer Hale will be reprising her role as Bastila Shan.

“I can confirm that that is Jennifer Hale," said Ryan Treadwell, lead producer at developer Aspyr, in a blog post today. "We all think the world of Jennifer. She is an amazing talent and immediately slipped back into the role of Bastila when she came to help us with the teaser trailer,”

In Knights of the Old Republic, Bastila is a member of the Jedi Order with a Force power known as "battle meditation," which lets her boost the morale of her friends while dismaying her foes.

She plays a critical role in the game, with her rescue from Taris being a key plot point early in the game and her connection to the Jedi Council opening doors for the protagonist later on. She's also a potential (and, in Star Wars lore, canon) romance option for the protagonist.

Hale, meanwhile, has been quite busy since she last stepped into Bastila's shoes. In games, she is perhaps best known as one of the voices of Commander Shepard in the Mass Effect original trilogy, and her more recent roles include Rivet in Ratchet & Clank: A Rift Apart, Ashe in Overwatch, and Kronika in Mortal Kombat 11.

She's also not the only returning voice actor from the original game. "I do think that you’re going to see some other familiar voices return, but that’s probably as deep as we’re gonna go on that one right now," added Treadwell in the same blog post.

And it isn't just voice actors who are returning. Treadwell also noted that many former BioWare developers who worked on KOTOR are now working on its remake, as well as developers from games like Demon's Souls Remake, Ghost of Tsushima, and Dragon Age: Inquisition.

Aspyr's remake of Knights of the Old Republic was announced as part of today's PlayStation Showcase and is headed to PS5 as a console exclusive at launch alongside a PC release, though no specific date or window has been given yet. The game is being rebuilt "from the ground up."

Rebekah Valentine is a news reporter for IGN. You can find her on Twitter @duckvalentine.