Production on a movie adaptation of martial arts action game Sifu continues, and according to Deadline, Netflix has joined in. Along with Netflix, 87Eleven Entertainment and Chad Stahelski (of John Wick fame) are also part of the production, along with T.S. Nowlin, who will be working on the movies script.Stahelski and 87Eleven Entertainment are working on a number of movies, including an upcoming adaptation of Ghost of Tsushima alongside Sony. Theyre also creating a Rainbow Six movie based on Tom Clancys original works, and a remake of action movie Highlander with Lionsgate.Nowlin is also known for his work in writing for movie adaptations, previously having worked on The Maze Runner, and more recently, Netflixs The Adam Project.Originally released all the way back in 2022, Sifu is a story about a young martial artist setting forth to get revenge on a criminal enterprise that was responsible for the death of their master. The game features a unique mechanic where dying ages the protagonist up, making their moves more lethal, but also reducing their max HP.For more details about Sifu, check out our review.Sloclaps next major title is a football game called Rematch. Unveiled during The Game Awards back in December, its coming to PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S some time in 2025. The game features players taking each other on in 5-on-5 football matches, and touts immersive third-person action, skill-based gameplay, and intense online competition.

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Left to right: Rosanne Dub, vice president, workplace environmentandRaphalle Parenteau, director, workplace environment. Photo credit: dificadifica, a firm active across all sectors of the built environment, has announced the appointment of Rosanne Dub as vice president, workplace environment, and Raphalle Parenteau as director, workplace environment.difica is a collective of more than 140 architects, urban planners, interior designers, engineers, and other built environment professionals, with work throughout North America and internationally.With almost 30 years of experience, including 13 years at Gensler, Dub brings a strategic vision to workplace and corporate environment consulting, aligning client objectives with workplace planning strategies.As vice president, Dub will embody the strategic vision of workplace and corporate environment consulting services. Her experience and understanding of various business sectors, both public and private, will allow her to grasp project-specific challenges quickly and deliver valuable workplace strategies.Since joining difica, I have had the privilege of working alongside incredibly creative and knowledgeable teams. Together, we are pushing boundaries to design innovative and sustainable spaces that reflect dificas commitment to excellence, organizational success, and the human experience, said Dub.Parenteau, an interior designer, strategist, and seasoned practitioner with almost 20 years of experience, combines private practice expertise with academic contributions. She also plays a key role in defining project directions and maintains a commitment to budgets, timelines, and quality standards.As director of workplace environments, Parenteau will oversee all project phases, leading a team of designers, project managers, technicians, and other specialists. She will also ensure the integration of additional cross-disciplinary expertise whenever needed.At the heart of architecture are people. At difica, our success comes from the quality of relationships we build with our clients and collaborators. Driven by the desire to make a positive impact on our community, we believe that together, we can achieve great things, said Parenteau.The post difica promotes female leadership in design and innovation appeared first on Canadian Architect.

Marvel Rivals maintains top spot on PC engagement charts for January 2025 | Newzoo ChartsThe NetEase hero shooter, which recently experienced layoffs, broke into the Top Five for overall revenueImage credit: NetEase News by Sophie McEvoy Staff Writer Published on Feb. 21, 2025 Marvel Rivals made it into the Top Five of Newzoo's overall revenue chart for January 2025, moving up one spot following its release on December 6, 2024.NetEase's hero shooter maintained the top spot for player engagement on PC and rose from No.6 to No.2 on the platform's revenue chart.The game also made it into the Top Five for PlayStation revenue. This success is despite NetEase confirming layoffs at a US support studio for Marvel Rivals earlier this week.Looking at the individual charts for revenue, PC saw two new entries with Marvel's Spider-Man 2 and Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth.Spider-Man 2 released on January 30 and just about made it into the Top 20 despite being available for only two days before the cut off point.Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth debuted at No.10 following its launch on January 23. It also ranked at No.20 on the overall revenue chart, up from its No.138 spot in December 2024.There were two new titles on the Switch revenue chart, with Hello Kitty Island Adventure debuting at No.6 and Donkey Kong Country Returns HD at No.8. It Takes Two broke into the Top 20 in January, rising ten places to No.15.As for player engagement, it remained consistent across all consoles with a few movements here and there. However, on the individual charts PlayStation experienced two major shifts.Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League leaped from No.223 to No.16 following Rocksteady's announcement that it would end support for the game. Episode 8, which launched on January 14, was the final piece of post-launch content.Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered skyrocketed from No.470 to No.13 due to it being a free game for PS Plus subscribers throughout January.Here are the Top 20 games by revenue in the US, UK, Germany, France, Spain, and Italy for January 2025, across PC and consoles, according to Newzoo:RankLast month RankTitle11Fortnite22EA Sports FC 2533Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, 3, Warzone, and Black Ops 644NBA 2K2556Marvel Rivals612Minecraft78Grand Theft Auto 589The Sims 4915Valorant107League of Legends1110EA Sports College Football 251220Counter-Strike 2 & Go1311EA Sports Madden NFL 251414Roblox1544Genshin Impact1619World of Warcraft175Path of Exile 21817Super Mario Party Jamboree1924Red Dead Redemption 220138Final Fantasy 7 RebirthAnd here are the Top 20 games by monthly active users across US, UK, Germany, France, Spain, and Italy for January 2025, across PC and consoles, according to Newzoo:RankLast month RankTitle11Fortnite22Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, 3, and Warzone 2.034Minecraft43Marvel Rivals56Roblox65Grand Theft Auto 577Rocket League88EA Sports FC 2599Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege1010Counter-Strike 2 & Go1112EA Sports College Football 251215NBA 2K251317The Sims 21416Apex Legends1519Red Dead Redemption 21613EA Sports FC 241711Helldivers 21820Valorant1924EA Sports Madden NFL 252014Overwatch 1 & 2

The 2025 DICE Awards were a wonderful opportunity to hear high-profile developers publicly praise the work of their peers. And not just the dozens or hundreds of workers it takes to make great games come to lifearound the show, you could feel the excitement for every other game nominated that evening.That excitement was so palpable that we happened to overhear Bethesda Softworks creative director Todd Howard explaining to IGN reporter Rebekah Valentine that one of his personal favorite games of 2024 was EA Sports College Football 25. Howard was explaining that it takes so much great, often unseen work to make great sports games, which often cater to an audience that only plays that particular genre (given that Howard's enthusiasm for Bethesda's Wayne Gretzky Hockey helped him land a job at the studio, he clearly has reason to be so passionate).Minutes after he passed by, Sony San Diego product development communications brand strategist Ramone Russell took to the stage to accept the Sports Game of the Year award for MLB The Show 24, a repeat achievement at the awards for the branded baseball series. With Howard's words fresh in our ears, we wanted to knowwhat is something unseen or unappreciated about the sports genre that often goes unremarked?Related:Russell (a little stunned by the back-to-back wins) offered some insight on MLB The Show's role in the Sony ecosystem. Though it and other sports series are mainstays on the yearly release calendar, he reminded our readers that large-scale triple-A development on a yearly cycle is "just madness."But it's worth it, he said. "A lot of these sports games are the reasons why other games get greenlit," he explained. "If your sport game is good, and it's coming out every year, and you have these fans that are supporting it, it allows for us and other companies to greenlight other games that wouldn't have been made.""Sports games are a very important part of the video game ecosystem."Sports games can drive big winsor big lossesfor studiosRussell's words land at a particularly apt moment, because mere weeks before he laid down these facts for us, his peers at EA were scrambling over a shortfall in revenue from EA Sports FC 24. "Global Football had experienced two consecutive fiscal years of double-digit net bookings growth. However, the franchise experienced a slowdown as early momentum in the fiscal third quarter did not sustain through to the end," the company reported in January. (The publisher seemed eager to divert attention from the surprise slowdown by repeatedly bemoaning that Dragon Age: The Veilguard "missed expectations" by only reaching a mere, tiny, unimaginably small 1.5 million players).EA's layoff-inducing blame game is particularly disappointing when you consider what Sony San Diego has accomplished with MLB The Show besides driving annual spending from big baseball fans. In 2023, the team unveiled a new mode dedicated to The Negro Leagues, the early-20th century organizations home to a generation of Black baseball players, who the National League and American League had barred from playing in their segregated organizations. The studio didn't just add players to the game's roster, it produced a bona fide campaign called "Storylines" packed with polished documentaries that laid out the story of the leagues, and why their success was more than just a compelling spectacle."We needed to be able to tell a story [with this game mode] because 95 percent of our audience has no idea what the heck the Negro Leagues are," Russell explained to us in 2024.That Sony San Diego was able to take such an ambitious gamble while pressing ahead on the next annual entry in the series remains a feat and makes this year's win all the more impressive. That the studio's steady performance acts as a foundation for peer companies like Insomniac Games, Guerrilla Games, and Naughty Dog adds an additional shine to its gleaming new trophy.

Android Auto users are experiencing wireless connectivity issues following its recent updates. As seen by Android Authority, some Reddit users report that attempting to wirelessly connect to vehicles via the Android platform is causing their phones to reboot. Others are finding that wireless connectivity is refusing to work entirely.Google told The Verge that its team is aware of the issue and is currently investigating a fix. No ETA has been provided. We will update this story when more information or a solution is available.In recent weeks, some phones have only worked with Android Auto using a wired connection, according to several complaints on Googles Android Auto community forums spotted by 9to5Google. Users have reported Bluetooth connections will work briefly before dropping, or will only connect wirelessly once their phone has been rebooted. In some cases, Android Auto is randomly forcing connected phones to reboot without being prompted to do so.The reboots have happened when on a call, while listening to YouTube Music, and listening to Libby books, said one Reddit user. It has happened when both plugged in and unplugged, and when I have been using the gps and also not.Its a jumble of different issues, but the timeline suggests the bugs may be tied to the v13.4 and v13.5 Android Auto updates that rolled out in January and February. Its unclear if rolling back to a previous version of the software fixes the connectivity issues, and a viable workaround hasnt been established.

On the one hand, Apples latest iPhone is a huge victory. The iPhone 16E comes with most of what youd want from a smartphone a modern processor, a good camera, nice design for hundreds of dollars less than youd typically spend on a brand-new device. On the other hand, its a bit odd that this thing exists at all. Its missing a couple of the best things about the iPhone ecosystem MagSafe, multiple cameras and if youre already spending $600 on a phone, its not clear that another $200 is a particularly huge deal. So why does the 16E exist? And who is it for?On this episode of The Vergecast, we try and figure it out. With Nilay on vacation, David is joined by The Verges Jake Kastrenakes and Allison Johnson to go through all the ins and outs of Apples latest smartphone. We talk about the trades Apple made to bring the price down, the ones it maybe should have made instead, and just how big a deal the new C1 modem might turn out to be. After that, the three co-hosts talk about the other gadget news of the week. We marvel over the Oppo Find N5, a lovely foldable smartphone that none of us will ever own. We pour one out for the Humane AI Pin, …Read the full story at The Verge.

Corsair has clarified recent comments from one of its executives who claimed Grand Theft Auto 6 would release on PC early 2026.During a financial call, Corsair Gamings VP of finance, Ronald van Veen, said: Yeah, GTA 6 is probably the one everyone is talking about. And well get a glimpse of that, I think, later on in the year for console. My understanding now its going to come out in the fall for console, and then early 2026 for PC.That was enough to spark a number of headlines about Corsairs apparent insider information on GTA 6s release window, but a representative of the company told IGN that Ronald van Veens comments were speculation, and confirmed Corsair does not have release dates supplied from Rockstar or Take-Two.Take-Two recently committed to launching GTA 6 fall 2025 on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S only, despite concern around a potential delay. But what does this mean for the PC version, which remains unannounced?Its an omission in keeping with developer Rockstars playbook for its previous games, but in 2025 feels outdated. And, given the increasing importance of the PC for a multiplatform games success, is GTA 6s no-show on PC a missed opportunity or even a mistake?IGN put that question to Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick ahead of the companys recent financial results, and in his response he teased GTA 6s eventual release on PC.So with Civ 7 it's available on console and PC and Switch right away, Zelnick said of Firaxis' recently launched Civilization 7. With regard to others in our lineup, we don't always go across all platforms simultaneously. Historically, Rockstar has started with some platforms and then historically moved to other platforms.Rockstar fans have noted the studio's historical reluctance to release other past games on PC day-and-date with console, as well as its fraught relationship with the modding community over the years. Still, some had hoped that a game as big as GTA 6 could be a turning point for the studio's PC gaming attitude.Big Rockstar titles tend to get to PC eventually, but the question of how long PC gamers will have to wait for what could end up being one of the biggest games ever remains. Given GTA 6s fall 2025 release window, it seems likely PC players wont get to play the game until 2026 at the earliest.In December 2023, a former developer at Rockstar attempted to explain why GTA 6 is coming to PC after it hits PS5 and Xbox Series X and S, and called on PC gamers to give the studio the benefit of the doubt over its controversial launch plans.Weve got plenty more on GTA 6, including Zelnicks response to concern about the fate of GTA Online once GTA 6 comes out.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.

Marvel Television has reportedly paused work on three shows: Nova, Strange Academy and Terror, Inc.Sources told Deadline that the projects were never greenlit and may still come out, but Marvel has shifted its priorities.The change in strategy comes as Marvel Studios prepares to launch Disney+ show Daredevil: Born Again. This week, Marvel Studios head of streaming and TV Brad Winderbaum revealed the company is exploring the opportunity of reuniting the street level heroes of Daredevil, Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, and Iron Fist, better known as The Defenders.Marvel Cinematic Universe: Every Upcoming Movie and TV ShowMarvel Studios is now taking the approach of developing more shows than it makes, but, as Winderbaum told Screen Rant last year: Were really being careful about what we choose to do next.The news about Nova is particularly surprising, given just two months ago we heard that former Criminal Minds showrunner Ed Bernero was on board as a writer and a showrunner, with Nova confirmed as a series for Disney+. Check out IGNs article on everything you need to know about Nova for more.Strange Academy was expected to revolve around a magic school founded by MCU mainline character Doctor Strange, with Wong in charge. Theres no information on Terror, Inc., however.Heres what we know for sure when it comes to Marvel TV shows: Daredevil: Born Again hits Disney+ on March 4, Ironheart, on June 24, and Wonder Man is due out in December. Three MCU films are due out this year following the launch of Captain America: Brave New World: Thunderbolts in May and The Fantastic Four: First Steps.Image credit: Marvel via Getty Images.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.

A decade isnt really such a long time ago, but it feels like ages ago if youre a Star Wars fan whos lived through the many highs and lows of the franchise since Disney acquired the rights to George Lucas empire. That must go double for Daisy Ridley, who in that span of time has not only starred in a trilogy of Skywalker filmswhile experiencing all the good and the bad that comes with landing a role of that cultural magnitudebut also several more intimate indies, including the well-regarded Magpie and Sometimes I Think About Dying. Now shes also a John McClane-style action hero in this months Martin Campbell-directed thriller Cleaner.Yet, just 10 years on from her big-screen debut as Rey in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Ridley is set to return to the massive spectacle of the galaxy far, far away. Set 15 years after the end of The Rise of Skywalker, the still-in-development New Jedi Order movie will see Ridley play an older and wiser Rey, now a Jedi Master ready to guide the next generation of young lightsaber-wielding heroes.The script is still being pennedoriginally by Damon Lindelof and Justin Britt-Gibson, then by Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight, and now by George Nolfi (The Bourne Ultimatum). In the meantime, Ridley has had plenty of time to reflect on the legacy of Rey and what the character means to her a decade after she first hit the screen.[Rey] is a part of a beautiful whole, and being part of that is wonderful, Ridley tells Den of Geek. The character is beautiful and has resonated with people and continues to. I also think of the Star Wars world as [this] feeling of the people who make the films and enjoy the films, it feels like such a togetherness. Thats what I feel the legacy is.Ridley was cast in Star Wars at the age of 22, a newcomer with only a few short films and minor British TV credits to her name, and the news of her casting thrust her into superstardom virtually overnight. Landing such a huge role of course came with quite a bit of scrutiny before and after the release of The Force Awakens. Needless to say, the film brought both positive and negative attention to Ridley, who left social media all together for a time as a result, only returning to Instagram in 2022.Since completing the Sequel Trilogy in 2019, Ridley has been candid about dealing with extreme stress that led to health issues during her first tenure as Rey: I went to therapy for a bit, which was great because a lot of it was about feeling out of control, cause Im quite controlling in that I like to know whats going on and suddenly youre in a situation where you have no idea whats going on, she told Glamour UK in 2010.But after a bit of time away, the 32-year-old Ridley is ready to lead a new era of Star Wars on the big screen once again.Ive gone off and done lots of different sorts of films. I feel like Ive learned a lot and grown a lot I would hope as an actor, Ridley told Den of Geek at SXSW last year, saying she was looking forward to having a fresh start with Rey. I think it will feel like baby steps again, like sort of starting at the beginning. But yes, Im very excited!Just when well finally get to see that film is still unclear. The Rey movie, which will be directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy (Ms. Marvel), remains in the scripting stage and doesnt currently have a release date. But according to Ridley, the longer development time is for the best.People have talked about it a lot that the release date often affects films and how quickly things go into production. So the freedom to make sure that this [New Jedi Order] script is the best way to tell this story is wonderful, and I dont think any fans would want it to be rushed, Ridley told THR earlier this month. The wait will be worth it. I know what George [Nolfi] is working on, and he is a phenomenal writer. So Im really looking forward to reading it, and yes, its all worthwhile.While the finer details about what the movie is about remain a well-kept secret at Lucasfilm, last year we learned one small tidbit about the story when we asked Ridley whether Rey will be a different teacher from Luke Skywalker. Her answer: I would say, from what I understand, yes.Join our mailing listGet the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox!Cleaner is out in theaters on Feb. 21. Star Wars: The Force Awakens turns 10 on Dec. 18.