Krafton is the latest company to present a "bold vision for the future" that can purportedly only be realized by harnessing the power of generative AI.The PUBG maker joined Nvidia at CES 2025 to introduce its prototype 'Co-Player Character' (CPC) concept, which is billed as a human-like companion that can assist players in a variety of scenarios.Krafton CEO Changhan 'CH' Kim said the tech was built in collaboration with Nvidia and is powered by an on-device SLM (Small Language Model) for gamingcrafted using Nvidia ACE technology.Kangwook Lee, head of the Deep Learning Division at Krafton, claimed CPCs will surpass traditional NPCs due to their ability to engage players with dynamic interactions such as real-time conversations, strategic cooperation, and flexible responses tailored to in-game scenarios."We will continue to innovate user experiences by integrating CPC into our games and aim to establish it as a benchmark for the gaming industry," he added in a blog post."Our collaboration with Nvidia is a testament to the transformative potential of AI in gaming, and we plan to work closely together to push the boundaries of what is possible."Krafton demonstrated how CPCs might be integrated into existing titles such as PUBG with a video (embedded below) that showed a CPC in the guise of a 'PUBG Ally' that can search for specific weapons and ammunition upon request, spot and engage enemies in combat, and drive vehicles.Krafton said it intends to deploy CPC technology across its gaming portfolio, including the PUBG franchise and upcoming life simulation title inZOI.The South Korean company is by no means the first tech firm or video game studio to espouse the supposed transcendental benefits of generative AI technology.Others including EA, Embracer, Square Enix, Microsoft, Ubisoft and others have jumped on the bandwagon in recent months, but it remains to be seen whether players or developers will find a practical use for generative AI tools that are often hyped beyond measure by their creatorsbut (as this writer opined last year) can sometimes feel woefully underbaked or depressingly misguided.

Though Yuto Suzukis manga Sakamoto Days hasnt been publishing for all that long, an animated adaptation of the series is already making its way to Netflix in just a few days.Set in a world where its not uncommon for people to have superhuman abilities, Sakamoto Days tells the story of Taro Sakamoto (Tomokazu Sugita / Matthew Mercer), a legendary hitman who becomes a humble convenience store owner after falling in love with his wife. While Sakamotos wife Aoi (Nao Tyama / Rosie Okumura) doesnt hold his past against him, their marriage hinges on her rule that he must never kill again.For the most part, its easy enough for Sakamoto to stick to Aois rule. But things start to get tricky when a bounty is placed on his head that makes him the target of other assassins like telepath Shin Asakura (Dallas Liu) and sharp-shooter Heisuke Mashimo (Ryta Suzuki / Xolo Mariduea). Netflixs new trailer for the series teases a bit of how some of Sakamotos enemies quickly become allies in his fight to keep his small family safe, and while it doesnt show all that much of the shows action, well be able to check it out for ourselves when the show debuts on January 11th.

Smart lock companies have spent 2024 crafting nifty ways for you to gain entry into your home, including iPhone-tapping Home Key options from Aqara, a palm scanner from Philips, keypad and fingerprint smart locks from August, and even a Face ID-style one from Lockly. These all sound pretty futuristic already... but do they feel like magic?Im talking magic like how my cars driver door unlocks without me needing to do or touch anything other than pulling on the handle. Im talking about smart home locks that see me approaching and take action so I dont have to pause and interact with anything when I really just need to run inside to use the bathroom.You dont even need to take out your phone to unlock UWB-capable smart locks. Image: UltraloqLuckily, at CES 2025, many smart lock makers are poised to launch models that offer touchless passive entry support. That means you wont need to take extra steps like pulling out an RFID fob from your pocket or smacking your Apple Watch against a pad to unlock your door. (Thats so last year!)One of the most promising locks from the show is Schlages new Sense Pro Smart Deadbolt, which comes equipped with an ultra wideband (UWB) chip that will sense your paired smartphones trajectory and motion to know when to trigger an unlock for you.RelatedSchlage isnt the first to announce UWB in a smart lock; that credit goes to U-tecs Ultraloq Bolt Mission, which was revealed last year. The Ultraloq was announced with a lack of support for the newAliro smart access standard backed by Google, Apple, Samsung, and others (meaning no Apple Home hands-free unlocking support).Now, the Bolt Mission is here at CES with a Q1 2025 launch timeframe, a $399 price tag, and a promise that Aliro and Apple Home hands-free are coming. Theres also the Lockly Secure Pro, which promises Apples touchless feature, costs $379.99, and will arrive in Q4. While itll still be a while before a lot of these devices are on the market, the UWB-powered smart lock options are clearly arriving soon.Schlages Sense Pro debuted at CES 2025 and supports hands-free unlocking. Image: SchlageOf course, plenty of companies are still sticking to other unlock technologies instead of UWB. That includes palm scanner locks such as TP-Links Tapo PalmKey and TCLs Smart Lock D1 Pro, both of which claim they use AI to scan for vein patterns in your hand. Meanwhile, others, like the Lockly Styla, are just here to look nice. Heck, if youd rather have everything but UWB, you can look at SwitchBots new Lock Ultra, which literally has 16 different hands-on-something unlocking methods. Smart lock makers are trying pretty much anything right now, including adding digital peepholes to deadbolts in the new Lockly Vision Prestige and TCL Smart Lock Ultra. But whats really missing from smart homes today is that new car feeling: where you finally drive off the lot no longer needing to think about age-old ideas like lock, unlock, and push to start. We still have to see these locks in action to see whether they can reliably and securely pull off their hands-free feat. But the opportunity is coming. I hope the smart lock companies have that transformative feeling in mind as they launch products with UWB this year.

The first Nintendo Switch basically had the road to itself, and Nintendo instantly proved just how awesome a hybrid console and handheld could be, leading to massive success. The next Switch is imminent, but it will launch into a world thats packed with very capable handheld gaming PCs that could present an interesting challenge to Nintendo, especially following news from CES 2025.Valves Steam Deck kicked off the handheld gaming PC push in large part because its Linux-based SteamOS makes playing your games just about as easy as it is on consoles. Thats why one of the biggest CES announcements is that Valve is going to let people install SteamOS on other handhelds as soon as April, potentially making the entire handheld PC gaming market a lot more appealing.The first official non-Valve device with SteamOS is set to be Lenovos $499 Legion Go S, which launches in May. But its not hard to imagine a near-term future where many other hardware makers announce their own SteamOS handhelds, meaning the magic of SteamOS might be available in all kinds of interesting devices very soon. (And hopefully, the increased competition means Valve will make the eventual next Steam Deck really good.)The Lenovo Legion Go S next to a Steam Deck OLED. Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The VergeCES 2025 featured a bunch of other handheld gaming hardware, too, like the chonk that is Acers Nitro Blaze 11. It has a gigantic 10.95-inch screen, detachable controllers, and a kickstand. Its huge! Intel and Tencent also made a handheld with an 11-inch screen, and theirs has stereo 3D. My colleague Sean Hollister finally got to see the MSI Claw 8 AI Plus. Razer made a docking station that works with handheld gaming PCs. And in a CES panel, Microsoft promised news about changes to the handheld Windows experience for later this year, which could improve things for people who already own Windows-based hardware.RelatedThats a lot of cool stuff! But Nintendo is the 800-pound gorilla in the room, and as interesting as all of the PC gaming hardware is, the Switchs imminent successor will almost certainly be a very compelling upgrade. The original Switch was released nearly eight years ago, so the successor will likely be much more powerful and will probably have splashy new games in marquee franchises like Super Mario and The Legend of Zelda. (Id bet already-announced Switch games like Metroid Prime 4: Beyond and Pokmon Legends: Z-A will get some kind of boost on the next Switch, too.)Right out of the gate, Nintendos new console will also have an enormous library. The company already announced its next console will be compatible with original Switch games a catalog that includes many of the indie hits that are also some of the best games on handheld PCs.Back in 2017, when the original Switch launched, there wasnt anything like it. The Switchs successor will compete in a much more crowded field and one thats getting even more crowded after CES 2025. Hopefully, the competition means everyone makes better hardware and better games. Its a great time for handhelds.

LVR 3D Lua Game Development Framework / News / January 9, 2025 / Today we are checking out LVR, a free and open source 3D Lua game and VR development framework heavily inspired by LVE. LVE is a popular 2D game development framework, recently made famous for powering the smash indie hit Belatro. LVR takes the ease of use of LVE and brings it to the world of 3D games and VR applications. In fact it might be the single easiest to use code-based framework for creating 3D games.Features of LOVR include:Cross-Platform Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android.Cross-Device Supports Vive/Index, Oculus Rift/Quest, Windows MR, and has a VR simulator.Beginner-friendly Simple VR scenes can be created in just a few lines of Lua.Fast Writen in C11 and scripted with LuaJIT, includes optimized single-pass stereo rendering.Asset Import Supports 3D models (glTF, OBJ), skeletal animation, HDR textures, cubemaps, fonts, etc.Spatialized Audio Audio is automatically spatialized using HRTFs.Vector Library Efficient first-class support for 3D vectors, quaternions, and matrices.3D Rigid Body Physics Including 4 collider shapes, triangle mesh colliders, and 4 joint types.Compute Shaders For high performance GPU tasks, like particles.Key LinksLOVR HomepageLOVR GitHubLOVE HomepageYou can learn more about the free and open source Lua powered LVR framework in the video below.

Large Language Models (LLMs) aim to align with human preferences, ensuring reliable and trustworthy decision-making. However, these models acquire biases, logical leaps, and hallucinations, rendering them invalid and harmless for critical tasks involving logical thinking. Logical consistency problems make it impossible to develop logically consistent LLMs. They also use temporal reasoning, optimization, and automated systems, resulting in less reliable conclusions.Current methods for aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) with human preferences rely on supervised training with instruction-following data and reinforcement learning from human feedback. However, these methods suffer from problems such as hallucination, bias, and logical inconsistency, thereby undermining the validity of LLMs. Most improvements to LLM consistency have thus been made on simple factual knowledge or simple entailment between just a few statements while neglecting other, more intricate decision-making scenarios or tasks involving more than one item. This gap limits their ability to provide coherent and dependable reasoning in real-world applications where consistency is essential.To evaluate logical consistency in large language models (LLMs), researchers from the University of Cambridge and Monash University proposed a universal framework to quantify the logical consistency by assessing three key properties: transitivity, commutativity, and negation invariance. Transitivity ensured that if a model determined that one item was preferred over a second and the second over a third, it also concluded that the first item was chosen over the third. Commutativity ensured that the models judgments remained the same regardless of the order in which the items were compared.At the same time, negation invariance was checked for consistency in handling relational negations. These properties formed the foundation for reliable reasoning in models. The researchers formalized the evaluation process by treating an LLM as an operator function FFF that compared pairs of items and assigned relational decisions. Logical consistency was measured using metrics like stran(K)s_{tran}(K)stran(K) for transitivity and scomms_{comm}scomm for commutativity. Stran (K)s_{tran}(K)stran(K) quantified transitivity by sampling subsets of items and detecting cycles in the relation graph. At the same time, scomms_{comm}scomm evaluated whether the models judgments remained stable when the order of items in comparisons was reversed. Both metrics ranged from 0 to 1, with higher values indicating better performance.Researchers applied these metrics to various LLMs, revealing vulnerabilities to biases like permutation and positional bias. To address this, they introduced a data refinement and augmentation technique using rank aggregation methods to estimate partial or ordered preference rankings from noisy or sparse pairwise comparisons. This improved logical consistency without compromising alignment with human preferences and emphasized the essential role of logical consistency in improving logic-dependent algorithm performance.Researchers tested three tasks to evaluate logical consistency in LLMs: abstractive summarization, document reranking, and temporal event ordering using datasets like SummEval, NovelEval, and CaTeRS. They assessed transitivity, commutativity, negation invariance, and human and self-agreement. Results showed that newer models like Deepseek-chat, Phi-3-medium, and Gemma-2-9B had higher logical consistency, though this did not correlate strongly with human agreement accuracy. The CaTeRS dataset showed stronger consistency, focusing on temporal and causal relations. Chain-of-thought prompting had mixed results, sometimes reducing transitivity due to added reasoning tokens. Self-agreement was related to transitivity; this shows that consistent reasoning is fundamental for logical consistency, and models such as Phi-3-medium and Gemma-2-9B have equal reliability for each task, emphasizing the necessity for cleaner training data.In the end, researchers showed the importance of logical consistency in enhancing the reliability of large language models. They presented a method for measuring the key aspects of consistency and explained a data-cleaning process that reduces the number of defaults while still being pertinent to humans. This framework can further be used as a guideline for subsequent research in improving the consistency of LLMs and for continuing efforts to implement LLMs into decision-making systems for enhanced effectiveness and productivity.Check out the Paper. All credit for this research goes to the researchers of this project. Also,dont forget to follow us onTwitter and join ourTelegram Channel andLinkedIn Group. Dont Forget to join our60k+ ML SubReddit. Divyesh Vitthal Jawkhede+ postsDivyesh is a consulting intern at Marktechpost. He is pursuing a BTech in Agricultural and Food Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He is a Data Science and Machine learning enthusiast who wants to integrate these leading technologies into the agricultural domain and solve challenges. [Recommended Read] Nebius AI Studio expands with vision models, new language models, embeddings and LoRA (Promoted)

Wicked star Cynthia Erivo has revealed her next dream role is to play Storm from X-Men in a Marvel Studios film.Erivo told the National Board of Review that she wants to explore the character's depth and "inner turmoil" more than what's been done previously. Storm, real name Ororo Munroe, is a mutant with weather manipulation powers, and is a beloved member of the X-Men."I really want to play Storm," Erivo said. "I know it sounds frivolous but I think we haven't uncovered how grand she is and all of that inner turmoil that she has, so I think there's a world where we could do something like that."Erivo played Elphaba Thropp, a reimagined Wicked Witch of the West, alongside Ariana Grande's Glinda the Good in Wicked, which reviewed strongly and brought in $164.2 million in its opening weekend at the box office. It won the Cinematic and Box Office Achievement at the 2026 Golden Globes as a result.Marvel Studios, creators of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, is likely considering its new wave of X-Men at the moment. Storm was famously played by Halle Berry in the Fox X-Men films before Alexandra Shipp took on the role from X-Men: Apocalypse. The Fox X-Men universe was subsequently scrapped in favor of the more popular and successful MCU, with last year's blockbuster success Deadpool & Wolverine acting as a farewell.The X-Men Movies in (Chronological) OrderIn November, Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige teased the introduction of X-Men characters in the "next few" MCU movies. Feige said fans will see some X-Men players that you might recognize in the next few MCU movies, but he stopped short of saying which characters or what movies. The Fantastic Four: First Steps comes out in July.On bringing the X-Men into the MCU, Feige added: I think you will see that continues in our next few movies with some X-Men players that you might recognize.Right after that, the whole story of Secret Wars really leads us into a new age of mutants and of the X-Men. Again, [its] one of those dreams come true. We finally have the X-Men back.Image Credit: TheStewartofNY/FilmMagicRyan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He'll talk about The Witcher all day.

Microsoft has announced the return of its Developer Direct showcase, and confirmed what fans can expect to see.Developer Direct is set for Thursday, January 23 at 10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern / 6pm UK. In a blog post, Microsoft said fans will get an inside look at a selection of highly anticipated games coming to Xbox Series X|S, PC, and Game Pass players this year. That confirms a focus on 2025 games only.Expect developers to offer an in-depth look at their upcoming titles. Compulsion Games will show off South of Midnight, Sandfall Interactive will showcase Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and id Software will reveal more on Doom: The Dark Ages.Microsoft also teased that it will visit a surprise location to see another studios brand new game.Microsoft will announce a brand new game at the Developer Direct. But what is it?What is that brand new game? Theres a lot of speculation right now that Bethesda may be ready to reveal the much-rumored The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion remaster, which was listed in documents accidentally published as part of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) versus Microsoft trial over the buyout of Activision Blizzard.Neither South of Midnight, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, nor Doom: The Dark Ages have release dates yet, so perhaps we'll get those during the Developer Direct. Either way, Microsoft is set to firm up its 2025 lineup of games at the show.Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.

This article contains spoilers for Creature Commandos Season 1. After seven action-packed and often traumatizing episodes, Season 1 of Maxs Creature Commandos wrapped its final mission with Episode 7, A Very Funny Monster. Not only did the episode have a ton of twists and turns, but not everyone in the main cast made it out alive and some even came back to life. So with that in mind, you might need a bit of the ol Creature Commandos ending explained.Dont worry, weve got you covered, particularly when it comes to untangling that last-minute wild swerve with The Bride (Indira Varma) and Princess Ilana (Maria Bakalova). Plus, well break down what happens in the Creature Commandos end credits scene in case you missed it, how the finale sets up a potential Season 2, and blowing it out even further, how the show set up a slew of threads to pick up in DC Studioss DCU (DC Universe) at large.Creature Commandos Ending ExplainedThe crucial info to know here is that despite a lot of back and forth over the seven episodes Princess Ilana is, indeed, the bad guy. And Circes (Anya Charlotra) clairvoyant vision of the future, where she saw Ilana laying waste to the DC Universe was, in fact, a real vision of the future. At least as far as you believe clairvoyance is real (this is an ending explained for Creature Commandos, not an Are psychic powers real explained, just FYI).So in the finale, as The Bride, Doctor Phosphorus (Alan Tudyk), Nina Mazursky (Zo Chao), and Weasel (Sean Gunn) headed to kill Ilana, they were doing the right thing. But when Rick Flag Sr. (Frank Grillo) woke from his Clayface (also Tudyk) induced coma and told Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) and John Economos (Steve Agee) just enough info to get them to find out Themyscira professor Macpherson (Stephanie Beatriz) had been replaced by Clayface, something that got Waller and Economos to get the Creature Commandos to stand down? They were doing the wrong thing. Weird that not murdering someone is the wrong thing, but thats how the show rolls.PlayBut that, as we discover, was Ilanas plan all along confusing as it may be. First, Ilana seduced Flag Sr. to get him on her side. She figured him being an old, lonely man finally having sex for the first time in years (though as Doctor Phosphorus noted, he has remarkable stamina for a man his age) would be enough to convince him to kill Circe for her. What Ilana hadnt counted on was that Flag Sr. is a stand-up guy, and he instead captured Circe and brought her back to Belle Reve.At this point and this is the part that may have flown under the radar for some viewers MacPherson was still alive, and indeed a professor with knowledge of Themyscira and Circes clairvoyant powers. Ilana had sent one of her knights to spy on the Commandos in America, and he got word back to her that MacPherson was on the scene and would confirm Circes vision of Ilana destroying the world. So Ilana made the only move she could As The Bride explains to Ilana when she confronts her in her study, Ilana recruited Clayface to make it look like MacPherson wasnt who she was, says The Bride, even though she was who she said she was when she and Waller spoke.Does your brain hurt yet trying to wrap your head around this? The short version is that Ilana was a power-mad dictator bent on destroying the world and tried to confuse the situation to save her own life. The Bride figured it out and killed her not because she was going to cause World War III, but because Ilana stabbed The Brides only friend (that would be Nina Mazursky) to death.Creature Commandos GalleryAnd the grateful nation of America, through Economos, gives her a new team of Commandos to lead: Weasel, Doctor Phosphorus, a rebuilt G.I. Robot (also Sean Gunn), Nosferata, Khalis (a mummy-type villain), and King Shark (Diedrich Bader).Well, you in? asks Economos. What else I got to do? shoots The Bride right back.Thats cool and all, but Ilanas unnecessarily convoluted plan is based on Waller making multiple assumptions about Clayface and MacPherson. It also depends on Ilana having known what Circes vision of the future was about Something that were never given an indication of throughout the series (did they ever talk prior to the events of this series? Do they even know each other?)It also strangely takes the strong theme of toxic masculinity through Circe leading a group called the Sons of Themyscira (SofT) to take over the all-female island that was presented in the first three episodes And then instead gives Circe an entirely different motivation, and makes a woman the villain, another woman her killer, and seems to ignore the initial ideas of the first half of the season entirely. In fact, Frankenstein (David Harbour), the living embodiment of toxic masculinity, is almost literally an after-thought in the episode: as soon as he comes to retake his Bride, she knocks him out of a tower and presumably kills him almost instantly, spitting on his face (more on that in a second).Theres a lack of clarity in the theme and plot direction that doesnt help with the confusion over Ilanas weird plan.While the first half of the season was all about varying levels of toxic masculinity, the latter half, and this last episode in particular, doubled down on the theme of what makes you a monster. You could perhaps tie the two together the SofT boys were a different sort of monster, after all but with Circe disappearing in the second half of the season, and Nina dying for no reason other than to motivate The Bride (she tried to kill Ilana, but Weasel stopped her, giving Ilana enough of a chance to kill Nina first), theres a lack of clarity in the theme and plot direction that doesnt help with the confusion over Ilanas weird plan.Regardless, the show is over, and everything is wrapped up with a neat bow by the end of the episode, right? Wrong!Does Creature Commandos Have a Post-Credits Scene?But wait, thats still not all. After the credits roll we get one final scene. Eric Frankenstein is alive, and like after his initial encounter with The Bride hundreds of years earlier, is being nursed back to health by yet another old lady. He explains that the events of this episode make him even more in love with his perfect Bride, and then asks the old lady what soup shes feeding him.The answer? Spider-dropping soup. Tastes disgusting, says Frankenstein. Yes, agrees the old woman. And Season 1 of Creature Commandos ends, for real, as they keep eating the soup. To paraphrase Adam Driver on Girls: bad soup.PlayHow Does the Creature Commandos Finale Set Up Season 2?First things first: yep, there will indeed be a Creature Commandos Season 2, as it was renewed by Max on December 23, 2024. However, itll likely be a new mission, with a new team led by The Bride. While Nina is dead, that team would likely include Weasel, G.I. Robot, Doctor Phosphorus, Khalis, Nosferata, and King Shark.That said, it very much depends on what happens with any of these characters going forward in the DCU, and actor availability given time. Since animated series tend to take about two years to craft seasons, unless Creature Commandos Season 2 has secretly been in the works for a while, we likely wont see it until 2026, earliest; and theres a lot to come in the DCU before that. Speaking of whichPlayThe Creature Commandos Finale and James Gunns DCUThe clearest way Creature Commandos sets up the DCU is the inclusion of the Creature Commandos, who could now show up in live-action or further animated series if the story demands it.More specifically though, Rick Flag Sr. is no longer in charge of the Creature Commandos at the end of Season 1 and is recovering from his coma. We know that Grillo will be reprising his role in both Peacemaker Season 2 and Superman, and whether well see him dealing with the events of this series is TBD. But he is, at this point, in Amanda Wallers employ, just not in charge of a team.There are a slew of other setups for the DCU throughout the series, though, and we wont run them all down but here are a few dangling plot points:Clayface seems very much dead as of this episode. There are ways out of that, of course, but that points to the version of the character well see in Mike Flangans Clayface movie as either a prequel; or a new Clayface entirely.In Circes vision of Ilanas global apocalypse, she was standing side by side with what looked like Gorilla Grodd, a classic The Flash villain. Seeing as otherwise the character didnt show up in Creature Commandos Season 1, that certainly seems like an eye-popping inclusion that could be followed up on somewhere.Back during the G.I. Robot episode we met Dr. Will Magnus (once again, Tudyk) who was using G.I. Robots design to create heroes The Metal Men, something that likely could be followed up on at some point as well.But the biggest elephant in the room is Wonder Woman and Themyscria. The season started with Circe leading her SofT (Sons of Themyscria) into Pokolistan, the late MacPherson studied Amazon culture and had a very Wonder Woman-reminiscent helmet in her house, and we even got to see a dead Wonder Woman in Circes vision. We know the DCU has plans for Superman and Batman, but what about the third part of the Trinity? Theres a lot of setup here in Creature Commandos for, as far as we know at this point, no payoff. Come on, Wonder Woman. The whole worlds waiting for you.

This article contains spoilers for Skeleton Crew.It seems like Jod Na Nawood (Jude Law) may have crushed any hope of a redemption arc with his actions in Skeleton Crews latest episode. The pirate scoundrel has gone full villain after betraying the kids in episode 5. Not only does he kill Brutus the mutineer and rally his old crew behind him but he also isnt afraid to threaten Wim (Ravi Cabot-Conyers), KB (Kyriana Kratter), Fern (Ryan Kiera Armstrong), and even sweet, innocent Neel (Robert Timothy Smith) to get the gold he craves so desperately. In doing so, hes evoked the imagery of one of Star Wars most infamous villain momentsAnakins turn to the Dark Side in Revenge of the Sith.Before the episode aired, fans speculated that episode 7 would finally show us some of Jods backstory, after Jude Law revealed in an interview with Collider that so much comes to a head [in this episode] and you find out an awful lot very quickly about my character. Many fans believed that this would mean some sort of Order 66 flashback given Jods apparent Force abilities. But instead, the Order 66 imagery came in a very different way.#SkeletonCrew spoilersTHEY CANNOT END IT IN A CLIFF HANGER LIKE THIS pic.twitter.com/7gliCYSn9J ammys ceo of #NeelShield (@hondosbestie) January 8, 2025 At the end of episode 7 Were Gonna Be in So Much Trouble, the kids are finally reunited with their parents. Its a sweet, touching moment interrupted by a power-hungry Jod standing in front of them with his lightsaber drawn before the episode cuts to black and the credits roll. As many fans have pointed out, this scene is very similar to the infamous moment in Revenge of the Sith where we see Anakin draw his lightsaber menacingly in front of a group of younglings at the Jedi Temple before the movie cuts away to the next scene.#SkeletonCrew spoilers //IM SERIOUS THERES SPOILERS HERE AND I CANT CENSOR THE IMAGE IT WONT LET ME not the order 66 reference we wanted, but the one we got pic.twitter.com/TbOowCexaT Jess the rat that lives in sm-33s eye hole (@gayjedicoded) January 8, 2025 Even though we dont see Anakin murder a bunch of kids, we know thats what happens. Its an incredibly effective scene that shows us just how much Anakin has given himself over to the Dark Side.Jod may not have crossed this line just yet, but weve already seen that hes willing to go pretty far to get his gold. Hes nowhere near Darth Vader-levels of evil, but greed is a very powerful motivator, and despite the seemingly heartfelt moments he may have shared with the kids previously, it seems like theyve done little to change his mind in that regard.It may appear as though Jod has the upper hand right now, but that doesnt mean our beloved squad and their parents are as doomed as the poor younglings. These kids have proven that they are incredibly resourceful and scrappy, despite their sheltered upbringingand were on their home turf now. Jod may think that hes won and found the ultimate pirates treasure, but Id bet the entire At Attin mint that these children have a few more tricks up their sleeves.Star Wars: Skeleton Crew is streaming now on Disney+.The post Star Wars Skeleton Crew Episode 7 Just Called Back to an Infamous Revenge of the Sith Scene appeared first on Den of Geek.