During SDCC 2022, we learned more information on Spider-Man: Freshman Year, the prequel series announced at Disney+ Day last year that focuses on the MCU Spider-Man during his freshman year of high school. This includes confirmation that the animated show will launch on Disney+ in 2024, and Charlie Cox's Daredevil will appear in the series.

Just announced at #SDCC2022:

Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man: Freshman Year, an Original series, streaming in 2024 on @DisneyPlus. pic.twitter.com/v7sqUUHoPa

— Marvel Studios (@MarvelStudios) July 22, 2022

Charlie Cox's Daredevil appearing in Spider-Man: Freshman year comes a few weeks after it was reported that Cox and Vincent D'Onofrio would return and reprise their roles as Daredevil and Kingpin in the upcoming live-action Disney+ series, Echo. In 2021 Kevin Feige said in an interview with CinemaBlend that Cox would return as Daredevil, with the actor making a brief cameo that same year in Spider-Man: No Way Home.

Although no trailer was shown at the panel, we did get plenty of new details on the upcoming animated show outside of a release window and Cox returning to voice Daredevil. This includes confirmation of some villains set to appear in the series: Dr. Octavius, Chameleon, Speed Demon, Scorpion, and Butane the Pyromaniac. Additionally, Harry Osborn and Amadeus Cho will appear in the series.

The panel also revealed, that the second season of the show, subtitled "Sophomore Year," will focus on Peter's sophomore year of high school.

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Upcoming Star Wars series The Acolyte will be led by Amandla Stenberg, most famous for playing Rue in The Hunger Games.

The official Star Wars Twitter account posted a short and sweet message (below) welcoming Stenberg to the franchise alongside a picture of them posing with R2-D2.

Stenberg will (presumably) play the titular Acolyte, a new sith in training, in a story told from the perspective of the bad guys. Taking place a century before The Phantom Menace, the show explores the end of the High Republic era and promises to be a "mystery thriller" inspired by martial arts movies.

Join us in welcoming Amandla Stenberg to the the Star Wars galaxy. #TheAcolyte https://t.co/PhriTUdZcv pic.twitter.com/LJp9LeZQik

— Star Wars (@starwars) July 22, 2022

Reports emerged in December last year that Stenberg was in talks with Disney to lead the upcoming series (that remains without a release date) but it's now finally official. They have more recently featured in the likes of As You Are, The Hate U Give and Dear Even Hansen.

We don't know too much else about the show, though it plans to bring back parts of the old Star Wars canon that was wiped when Disney acquired the franchise.

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Season Two of Marvel's What If...? will arrive for Disney+ subscribers in early 2023, with a third season confirmed for sometime in the future.

Revealed during Marvel's animation panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2022, a behind-closed-doors preview showed off a handful of heroes and villains from the MCU's multiversal realities, including Captain Carter, Steve Rogers as Iron Man, Black Widow, Thor Ragnarok's Hela, Young Star-Lord and Ego, The Scarlet Witch, Mandarin, and more. The preview also showed Thanos fighting Captain America from Infinity War.

Just announced at #SDCC2022:

Marvel Studios’ What If…? Season 2, an Original series, streaming early 2023 on @DisneyPlus. pic.twitter.com/zbqClqfrfJ

— Marvel Studios (@MarvelStudios) July 22, 2022

The last part of the preview takes place in the year 1602, which is a year longtime Marvel Comics fans will remember. Marvel 1602 was a 2003 eight-issue miniseries penned by Neil Gaiman. The story follows Marvel superheroes that exist in the Elizabethan era, including Nick Fury, X-Men, the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, Doctor Doom, and more.

What If...? Director Bryan Andrews and Writer AC Bradley were on stage at Comic-Con to talk about the new season. They also pointed out that the Captain Carter seen in What If...? is not the Captain Carter that appeared in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. The What If...? segment of the panel ended with confirmation that a third season of the show is planned.

Based on the comics line of the same name, What If...? tells canon stories from across the MCU multiverse, imagining events that differ wildly from the MCU stories we know from the live action movies and series. We awarded the first season a 6/10 review, saying it "features a few standout remixes of MCU canon, but inconsistency across the board leaves it with plenty to improve on for next season."

The show eventually became more important to the wider MCU than we expected, and Chadwick Boseman was posthumously nominated for an Emmy after his performance as a T'Challa take on Star-Lord in the show.

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Yesterday, AMD uploaded a video on its official YouTube video revealing a new feature called "Voice Suppression," allowing users to filter background noise, Tom's Hardware reports.

The leaked trailer mentions AMD Noise Suppression will use a "real-time deep learning algorithm" to provide users with "two-way noise-reduction" that will filter out background noise from both incoming and outgoing microphone audio. The video also suggests that Noise Suppression will be a new setting found in the Audio and Video Tab in the AMD Adrenaline driver. AMD has since removed the trailer from its YouTube channel, though Reddit user u/zenobian managed to download the trailer and post it on the AMD subreddit.

AMD Noise Suppression sounds interesting, and the concept reminds me of Nvidia's RTX Voice. This beta software launched in early 2020 and allowed Nvidia graphics card owners to improve their outgoing audio quality by eliminating most of their background noise using AI. While RTX was in the name, a patched version of RTX Voice supports older cards such as the GTX 1060, but your mileage will vary if you use a non-RTX card. Nvidia would later include the feature in an app called Broadcast, which launched in September 2020 and requires an RTX GPU.

AMD did not immediately respond to IGN's request for comment.

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The Sideshow Collectibles booth is always one of the highlights of San Diego Comic-Con, and 2022 is definitely no exception. With a massive display featuring iconic heroes and villains from franchises like Star Wars, Marvel, DC, Resident Evil and The Witcher, there’s something for everyone in this year’s lineup.

Check out the slideshow gallery below for a closer look at the many jaw-dropping statues, figures and life-size busts on display at Sideshow’s booth:

With so many cool pieces on display, it’s hard to narrow things down to just a few standouts. But we’re definitely impressed with Sideshow’s Star Wars statues this year, particularly the Premium Format Figures based on The Mandalorian and the Star Wars Mythos: Darth Vader statue. The latter might just top the original for being one of the best Star Wars collectibles ever produced, depicting a battle-ravaged Dark Lord of the Sith with a flaming lightsaber.

Several of Sideshow’s partner companies are also displaying new items at the show. Hot Toys continues to deliver stunningly lifelike figures from the Marvel, DC and Star Wars franchises. Unsurprisingly, Hot Toys is going especially Batman-heavy this year, with figures based on 1989’s Batman, the Dark Knight trilogy and Robert Pattinson’s version of Batman.

Hot Toys is also (finally) showing off new versions of Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield’s versions of Spider-Man, as seen in Spider-Man: No Way Home.

For gamers, the real centerpiece of this display is undoubtedly Pure Arts' Lady Dimitrescu statue from Resident Evil: Village. Even at 1:4 scale, this statue is practically the size of a middle school child.

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Marvel Studios has shared an adorable first-look trailer at the upcoming I Am Groot animated shorts that will be released on Disney+ on August 10, 2022.

The trailer features our favorite Guardians of the Galaxy tree friend going on adventures of his own, and he looks to be in his Baby Groot form for at least part of the series. In the trailer, we get a glimpse of him being attacked by aliens before inadvertently befriending them by farting out a leaf that they use for food. Yep, you read that right!

We also see him wearing a colorful scarf, a headlamp, dancing with a mirror version of himself, dressing up in a grass dress, and just being incredibly adorable.

SDCC also treated fans to a new poster of Groot relaxing by a tree that may or may not be his cousin, and there are equally cute bugs and creatures around him.

The trailer for I Am Groot was accompanied by the official announcement of Season 2 and Season 3 of Marvel's What If... ?, the news that Spider-Man: Freshman Year will arrive in 2024 with Charlie Cox's Daredevil, info on Marvel Zombies, and a release window and new details for X-Men '97.

You can also check out everything announced so far for San Diego Comic-Con 2022!

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The cast and crew of Amazon's highly-anticipated Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power series revealed a fascinating bit of information regarding female dwarves during their San Diego Comic-Con presentation in Hall H: apparently, they will have beards after all according to executive producer Lindsey Weber.

It's difficult to say if Weber's comments apply to all female dwarves of Middle-Earth, especially after we saw Sophia Nomvete's Princess Disa beardless in a character poster earlier this year.

During the panel, Nomvete calls Disa a "force of nature and a joy," and shared her audition story with the audience:

"I auditioned for this role when I was two days away from giving birth," Nomvete explained. "I got the call to say, that you will be flying the torch for this incredible character when my daughter was five weeks old. I stepped onto a plane with my family when she was eight weeks old."

She went on to say that her costume unravels so that she would be able to feed her baby between takes. “That is the power of a female dwarf," Nomvete continued. "Kaza Doom is alive and in its prime. For any great success for any people or race, there are females. And here I am."

Executive producer and co-showrunner John D. Payne also mentioned the importance of adhering to J.R.R. Tolkein's extensive lore. Throughout the production, Payne and his team had Tolkein "lore-masters" and "scholars" in the writer's room to make sure everything is as authentic as it can be.

Payne also spoke about the importance of casting, and how they auditioned over a thousand people for various roles in the series. "We saw hundreds of people for each role. Thousands total," Payne said. "We had two criteria: they had to be an excellent performer. And two, we had to look in their eyes and say, 'do they have Middle Earth in them?'"

You'll be able to stream The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power when it debuts on Prime Video on Friday, September 2, 2022. For more on the series, here's what Rings of Power is actually about, the first look at the Orcs, and find out what Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin thinks of Rings of Power.

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At San Diego Comic-Con 2022 we got official confirmation that "Ultra Instinct Shaggy" meme is indeed canon.

During a panel focusing on MultiVersus, the upcoming free-to-play crossover fighting game with characters from various properties owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, when asked about the meme, MultiVersus Game Director Tony Huynh confirmed that the meme had been added to the official canon.

"While it's a meme, it's actually canon," Huynh said. "In the movie, there's that bar fight scene. There was the Mortal Kombat animated movie last year, and it was connected to that." The Mortal Kombat movie is referencing is Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms, in which Shaggy appears in the Warner Bros. Animation intro.

The Ultra Instinct Shaggy meme has been around for years. As KnowYourMeme notes, the origin dates back to 2017 after a YouTuber created a remix of Shaggy from the 2011 animated film Scooby-Doo! Legend of the Phantosaur. And the meme was added into MultiVersus, where his character bio reveals that Shaggy possesses "incredible powers."

Outside of confirmation that "Ultra Instinct Shaggy" is canon, the MultiVersus SDCC panel also confirmed three new characters are joining the roster: LeBron James, Morty Smith, and Rick Sanchez. We saw some gameplay of LeBron, with the character being available starting July 26. Morty Smith will be playable starting August 9, while Rick Sanchez's release date has yet to be announced.

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Billy Peltzer is back... sort of. During today's San Diego Comic-Con panel detailing Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai, Zach Galligan — Gizmo's caretaker in the original film — was confirmed to be returning for the animated series as a recurring guest, though no details were offered concerning his role in the series.

Galligan announced the news during a surprise appearance at the panel. He will be joined by Sandra Oh, Randall Park, George Takei, and Bowen Yang, all of whom will be guests starts on the new series. Character details were not revealed.

Secrets of the Mogwai will take the series back to 1920s Shanghai, where it will reveal the origin of Sam Wing — the shop owner in the original movie. It will feature "colorful monsters and spirits from Chinese folklore" as well as a power-hungry industrialist who controls an army of Gremlins.

Gremlins has been in the news quite a bit lately as director Joe Dante has feuded with Star Wars and rumors have circulated of a new live-action series. Nostalgia remains strong for the original 1984 movie, which pitted Billy and Gizmo against a host of eccentric monsters.

In addition to its guest stars, Secrets of the Mogwai will also feature Ming-Na Wen, James Hong, BD Wong, and Izaac Wang. The first episode premiered back in June on HBO Max. It has already been renewed for a second season.

In the meantime, there's lots more news coming out of San Diego Comic-Con, including confirmation of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection's release date. Keep an eye out for our full roundup as SDCC continues.

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Shown at San Diego Comic Con today, a new trailer for upcoming Middle-earth series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power showed us the creation of a Balrog, among other things.

You'll remember the Balrog from The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring – a fiery demon able to conjure swords and whips – and the iconic "You shall not pass!" Gandalf shouts before dispatching it. In the new trailer for the upcoming Amazon TV series, we see what seems to be the birth of a Balrog, seeming from a leaf. It's possible this is Durin's Bane - the very Balrog we saw in Fellowship of the Ring.

The trailer included far more than just that, including new footage of Morfydd Clark's Galadriel as she confronts the new threat to Middle-earth, the formation of a cursed blade from Mordor and even a few shots of what appears to be Sauron himself, in his disguise as the fair Annatar.

We've already seen a handful of teasers for The Rings of Power so far, giving us looks at Galadriel, Isildur, Elendil, and more familiar characters from Middle-earth. While we wait for its coming release on September 2, IGN has a primer on what The Rings of Power is actually about, as well as why we probably won't see Gandalf anywhere.

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