Bella Ramsey, who plays the ever-headstrong Ellie in HBO's upcoming The Last of Us adaptation, has revealed that the show's producers requested that she not play the game before filming began. In the spirit of Ellie herself, though, Ramsey didn't play entirely by the rules.

Speaking to USA Today, Ramsey stated that she skirted the line by watching some of the game on YouTube. "I was actually encouraged not to [play the game]," she said. "After my first audition, they asked me, 'Have you played it?' And I said, 'Nope,' and they said, 'Keep it that way.' I did watch some of the gameplay on YouTube just to get a sense of it."

Ramsey also shared a memorable moment that occured between her and co-star Pedro Pascal, who portrays The Last of Us's other main character, Joel.

"But I'm so excited for it to come out," she said. "It was such a big part of my life. I shot for a whole year, which is quite a long time when you've only lived for 19 years. Pedro wrote a little card to me at the end, saying, 'How interesting that something so huge and life-changing should happen so early in your life and so late in mine.' I thought it was a really sweet observation and I just had the best time."

Ramsey rose to popularity after her portrayal of fan-favorite Game of Thrones character Lyanna Mormont, proving that her young age had no impact on her ability to play strong, fierce characters. This seems to have made her a natural fit for Ellie – a character known for her tenacity – and by the looks of the recent teaser trailer for The Last of Us, she's likely already got it in the bag.

The Last of Us show will largely follow Naughty Dog's original game, following Joel and Ellie on a mission across a post-apocalyptic US to deliver her to a group who want to study her immunity to a deadly virus in an attempt to cure it. If you want to catch up on the story before the TV adaptation, there's never been a better time than now, thanks to the recent remake of the game for PS5.

We'll see if the show can match the same heights as the beloved game when The Last of Us airs on HBO in early 2023.

Billy Givens is a freelancer at IGN with over a decade of experience writing gaming, film, and tech content. His work can also be found on GameSpot, USA Today, Digital Trends, Tom's Guide, and more. You'll find him blabbering on about video games and more on Twitter at @mektige.

While we'll have to wait to learn more about two of the newest supes to join Season 4 of The Boys, Prime Video has shared the first looks of Susan Heyward's Sister Sage and Valorie Curry's Firecracker.

Prime Video is waiting until the premiere of The Boys' fourth season to share exactly who these characters are, but the images give us a small glimpse of the two.

Curry has previously starred in Peacock's The Lost Symbol, The Tick, American Pastoral, and 2016's Blair Witch. Heyward has starred in Delilah, Orange is the New Black, Powers, and Vinyl. Both Curry and Heyward also appeared in Fox's The Following.

We don't yet know exactly when The Boys' fourth season will arrive on Prime Video, but the casting announcements for the upcoming season that revealed the additions of Curry and Heyward also confirmed that Cameron Crovetti's Ryan Butcher will become a full-time regular after performing in a recurring role for The Boys' second and third season.

We called The Boys' third season 'Amazing,' and said that it "achieves a balance between impactful storytelling and extreme violence that cements itself as one of the best shows on streaming, no matter year or genre."

Following the finale, we spoke to showrunner Eric Kripke about the latest season and what fans can expect from the upcoming one, including that this is Homelander's world and we're just living in it. While it hasn't been officially confirmed, reports have said that one we can look forward to is The Walking Dead's Jeffrey Dean Morgan joining the cast.

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Keanu Reeves has reportedly stepped away from Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese's The Devil in the White City series for Hulu.

As reported by Variety, Reeves will no longer be playing Burnham in the adaptation of the 2003 book by Erik Larson, which was due to be the first major television role of the actor's career.

The Devil in the White City is set in Chicago as Daniel Burnham struggles to create the 1893 World's Fair while serial killer H. H. Holmes (played by DiCaprio) plots to use it as a murder destination. DiCaprio committed to the role way back in 2009, and confirmation that Scorsese would direct came in 2015.

Reeves' participation was first floated much later, however, with talks between the Matrix actor and Hulu reportedly taking place in January 2022. His lead role as Burnham was only confirmed in August, meaning it only took two months for Reeves to call off his first venture onto the small screen.

He still has a lot on his plate, of course, as Reeves was recently confirmed to be returning for the Phantom Liberty expansion of the Cyberpunk 2077 video game. John Wick: Chapter 4 will also see him return as the leading role when it premieres on March 24, 2023.

As for his dream projects, Reeves has expressed interest in joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe and, perhaps more so, wants to play Batman in a live action film.

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer. He'll talk about The Witcher all day.

Developers are continuing in their quest to make the original Doom playable on every object to ever exist, and it can now be played on Windows' Notepad app.

As reported by The Escapist, developer Sam Chiet has created a fully operable version of Doom in a completely unmodified version of text editor Notepad.

Chiet posted a clip of the game running on his Twitter (below) and his YouTube page, promising that he'll publicly release the Notepad version of the classic FPS soon. "It'll take some work to polish NotepadDoom into something releasable, but it'll almost certainly happen over the next couple days," he said in a follow-up tweet.

i got DOOM running inside Notepad at 60fps pic.twitter.com/EQFuRu4N0r

— Samperson (Crime Arc) (@SamNChiet) October 9, 2022

It joins the long list of bizarre ways to play Doom nearly 30 years after the game was first released, with someone recently making the game playable in, well, Doom. YouTube user kgsws uploaded a video of himself modding the game into itself, before showing actual gameplay of him playing Doom within Doom on PC.

Other recent examples include playing Doom on a McDonald's kiosk, on Twitter, and even a pregnancy test, joining a much longer list that includes a LEGO brick, an ATM, a potato-powered calculator, a treadmill, and more.

For those looking for a more modern and, dare we say, normal way to play Doom, the latest game in the franchise, Doom Eternal, would be a good choice. In our 9/10 review, IGN said: "Whether you're a new Doom fan or a veteran one, Doom Eternal is bound to delight & entertain you. It's gloriously fun."

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer. He'll talk about The Witcher all day.

Atlus has announced that a Persona 5 Royal cooperative card game is being developed in partnership with Pandasaurus Games.

Century: Eastern Wonders and Foundations of Rome designer Emerson Matsuuchi is creating the game, and is targeting a Q4 2023 release date. While this could mean anywhere from October to December next year, a graphic on the announcement post explicitly states it will arrive on October 21.

"Players will take on the roles of their favourite Phantom Thieves and fight to change the world in this cooperative card-based strategy game," said Matsuuchi. Little else about the game was revealed, but it will likely be a standalone release instead of a collectible product given the company's roots in board game products.

It will seemingly let players explore and interact with various locations from the game, including at the very least its supernatural side, according to co-owner of Pandasaurus Games Nathan McNair. "As a diehard fan of Persona 5 Royal, I cannot wait to bring the Palaces, Velvet Room, and world of Persona 5 Royal onto tabletops everywhere in 2023," he said.

Despite Persona 5 Royal initially being released in 2020 (and Persona 5 being released in 2016), the game has recently grown in popularity again thanks to its imminent release on Xbox, Nintendo Switch, and PC on October 21.

Its predecessors are on the way too, albeit a little further out, as Atlus recently announced that Persona 4 Golden and Persona 3 Portable will be released on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox Series, Nintendo Switch, and PC on January 19, 2023.

In our 10/10 review of the video game, IGN said: "Persona 5 Royal takes an all-time great JRPG and makes it even greater. Going above and beyond a re-release or a remaster, almost everything has been expanded and improved with an entire game’s worth of new content and improvements."

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Lara Craft Go developer Square Enix Montréal has been rebranded as Onoma following its acquisition by Embracer Group earlier this year.

As reported by GI.biz, a post on the developer's new website explained that "Onoma is Greek for name and names offer endless possibilities", symbolising that players "can be anyone, achieve anything, and go anywhere".

The post continued: "As game makers, we are inventors of new worlds, of new possibilities. Names are the beginning of stories - of our story as individuals and as a community. Stories are invitations to other worlds where the unknown, the impossible, and the magical become reality.

"At Onoma, we are creators, inventors, and storytellers, and the experiences and ideas that we bring to life connect us to each other and to players."

The rebrand marks the beginning of a new chapter for Onoma, which was acquired from Square Enix alongside Crystal Dynamics and Eidos-Montréal back in August.

It's not the only change being made by Embracer following its $300 million purchase of the three studios, however, as it's also it's also eyeing new "sequels, remakes, remasters, and spin-offs" from their library of games which includes Tomb Raider, Deus Ex, and Thief.

It's shown particular interest so far in the long dormant Legacy of Kain franchise, with Crystal Dynamics asking fans earlier in October if they'd like to see a new entry.

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer. He'll talk about The Witcher all day.

DC's Titans will return to HBO Max for its fourth season on Thursday, November 3, and a new teaser trailer features a bloody ritual that looks anything but good news.

Season 4 of Titans will have a two-episode premiere on November 3, and new episodes will be released weekly until December 1. There will then be a mid-season break and six new episodes will conclude the season later in 2023.

azarath. metrion. zinthos.

part 1 of season 4 premieres november 3rd on @hbomax. #DCTitans pic.twitter.com/ocIggEeRDL

— DC Titans @ NYCC (@DCTitans) October 9, 2022

The new teaser doesn't give us much, but it does feature the previously mentioned bloody ritual and a chant that uses the words "Azarath, Metrion, and Zenthos." These words have been used by Raven in the past to summon her dark powers and abilities, and Azarath itself is a parallel world and her birthplace.

HBO Max also released new images for Doom Patrol's fourth season, and it includes a look at the supersuit for Ryan Potter's Beast Boy, Mother Mayhem, Brother Blood, and Jinx.

Titans' fourth season was officially announced in October 2021 at DC FanDome, just before its third season came to a close.

Titans is a live-action series that follows a young group of superheroes that form the Teen Titans as they work to save Gotham City and other locations from those who wish to do them harm.

In our review of the premiere of Titans' third season, we said, "the first three episodes of Titans might be the best yet, but that all depends on what you enjoy about the series. This is very much a story of two Robins and the man who raised them, and in that way it feels powerful and intimate."

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DC's Titans will return to HBO Max for its fourth season on Thursday, November 3, and a new teaser trailer features a bloody ritual that looks anything but good news.

Season 4 of Titans will have a two-episode premiere on November 3, and new episodes will be released weekly until December 1. There will then be a mid-season break and six new episodes will conclude the season later in 2023.

azarath. metrion. zinthos.

part 1 of season 4 premieres november 3rd on @hbomax. #DCTitans pic.twitter.com/ocIggEeRDL

— DC Titans @ NYCC (@DCTitans) October 9, 2022

The new teaser doesn't give us much, but it does feature the previously mentioned bloody ritual and a chant that uses the words "Azarath, Metrion, and Zenthos." These words have been used by Raven in the past to summon her dark powers and abilities, and Azarath itself is a parallel world and her birthplace.

HBO Max also released new images for Doom Patrol's fourth season, and it includes a look at the supersuit for Ryan Potter's Beast Boy, Mother Mayhem, Brother Blood, and Jinx.

Titans' fourth season was officially announced in October 2021 at DC FanDome, just before its third season came to a close.

Titans is a live-action series that follows a young group of superheroes that form the Teen Titans as they work to save Gotham City and other locations from those who wish to do them harm.

In our review of the premiere of Titans' third season, we said, "the first three episodes of Titans might be the best yet, but that all depends on what you enjoy about the series. This is very much a story of two Robins and the man who raised them, and in that way it feels powerful and intimate."

Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com.

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

The first part of the fourth season of DC's Doom Patrol will return to HBO Max on Thursday, December 8, and a new trailer features a surprisingly deadly and... musical bunch of creatures.

December 8 will see the first two episodes of Doom Patrol premiere on HBO Max, and a new episode will be released each week until January 5, 2023. There will then be a mid-season break, and six more episodes will arrive later in 2023.

Daddy’s home!

Hold onto your butts because #DoomPatrol Season 4, Part 1 premieres December 8, only on @hbomax. pic.twitter.com/9DsCaGHYlU

— Doom Patrol @ NYCC (@DCDoomPatrol) October 9, 2022

Doom Patrol follows a group of people who all "suffered a horrible accident that gave them superhuman abilities, but also left them scarred and disfigured. Part support group, part Super Hero team, the Doom Patrol is a band of superpowered freaks who fight for a world that wants nothing to do with them."

This new season will open with "the team unexpectedly traveling to the future to find an unwelcome surprise. Faced with their imminent demise, the Doom Patrol must decide once and for all which is more important: their own happiness or the fate of the world?"

We chose Doom Patrol as one of our favorite comic book shows of 2021, and said that it is "is f***king fun. Full stop. Picking up right where its pandemic-shortened second season left off, Doom Patrol continues to be a real damned delight. While the team from the comics has been retconned and reimagined countless times over the years, it’s always been, at minimum, weird."

For more, check out our review of the Season 3 premiere of Doom Patrol and why the series helps make this a great time to be a fan of sci-fi TV.

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

The first part of the fourth season of DC's Doom Patrol will return to HBO Max on Thursday, December 8, and a new trailer features a surprisingly deadly and... musical bunch of creatures.

December 8 will see the first two episodes of Doom Patrol premiere on HBO Max, and a new episode will be released each week until January 5, 2023. There will then be a mid-season break, and six more episodes will arrive later in 2023.

Daddy’s home!

Hold onto your butts because #DoomPatrol Season 4, Part 1 premieres December 8, only on @hbomax. pic.twitter.com/9DsCaGHYlU

— Doom Patrol @ NYCC (@DCDoomPatrol) October 9, 2022

Doom Patrol follows a group of people who all "suffered a horrible accident that gave them superhuman abilities, but also left them scarred and disfigured. Part support group, part Super Hero team, the Doom Patrol is a band of superpowered freaks who fight for a world that wants nothing to do with them."

This new season will open with "the team unexpectedly traveling to the future to find an unwelcome surprise. Faced with their imminent demise, the Doom Patrol must decide once and for all which is more important: their own happiness or the fate of the world?"

We chose Doom Patrol as one of our favorite comic book shows of 2021, and said that it is "is f***king fun. Full stop. Picking up right where its pandemic-shortened second season left off, Doom Patrol continues to be a real damned delight. While the team from the comics has been retconned and reimagined countless times over the years, it’s always been, at minimum, weird."

For more, check out our review of the Season 3 premiere of Doom Patrol and why the series helps make this a great time to be a fan of sci-fi TV.

Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com.

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