• Marvel’s What If…? Season 2 Announced for Early 2023 Alongside Season 3 Confirmation

    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.

    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.

    There's tons of news for all your favorite shows, films, games, and more coming out of San Diego Comic-Con 2022, and we've got the full schedule to guide you through the weekend of panels, announcements, trailers, and surprises.

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    AMD Noise Suppression Is the Company’s Answer to Nvidia RTX Voice

    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.

    Taylor is the Associate Tech Editor at IGN. You can follow her on Twitter @TayNixster.

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    Darth Vader and Batman Figures Steal the Show at Sideshow’s Booth | Comic-Con 2022

    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.

    There's tons of news for all your favorite shows, films, games, and more coming out of San Diego Comic-Con 2022, and we've got the full schedule to guide you through the weekend of panels, announcements, trailers, and surprises.

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    I Am Groot Trailer Reveals the First Look at the Adorable Guardians of the Galaxy Spin-Off

    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!

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

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    Dragonheir: Silent Gods – Tell Your Own Story in This Multiplayer RPG

    Dragonheir: Silent Gods is an upcoming party-based online multiplayer role-playing game that is set in a world filled with magic and dragons. Players will become the chosen one and embark on a journey to save a world that was nearly destroyed during a battle of the dragon gods.

    Dragonheir is set to release on PC, iOS, and Android in 2023 but fans will soon be able to jump into the world of Arkendia with a series of tests that will take place during 2022. So to prepare you to save the world from certain doom, here are five reasons why this RPG is one you won’t want to miss.

    Experience Movie-Like Branching Storytelling Through Sandbox Exploration

    Dragonheir: Silent Gods is all about player freedom and giving adventurers journeying to Arkendia a chance to forge their own story as they see fit. Dragonheir features non-linear missions and side-quests that allow players to explore its many biomes however they’d like. This means they can journey freely from ice fields to underground caverns to forests, plains, and more to experience unique puzzle-solving gameplay and a thrilling and captivating branching story that will play out like a movie.

    Furthermore, Dragonheir features dice-based gameplay that will make any Dungeons & Dragons player feel right at home. The dice will determine if you can steal, trade, fight, persuade, and even if you are skilled enough to recruit legendary NPCs to join your team. The choices are yours, but the rolls will decide your fate.

    Challenge Epic Bosses

    Dragonheir takes place following a battle of the gods that saw the whole world set aflame by the roar of the Dragon God. After you awake in a new shattered world without your memories, you embark on a quest to recover what you lost and take down monsters and dragons on your way to save what is left of Arkendia and all you love.

    One of these epic bosses is known as Tiamat, a three-headed dragon that threatens everything you hold dear, who must be stopped before her Force of Darkness engulfs the world. Tiamat is just one of the many chromatic and metal dragons that await you in Dragonheir; defeating them will reward you with ascension materials, equipment, runes, and divine artifacts.

    Collect Powerful Heroes

    While players will embody the chosen one destined to save the world, they won’t have to solve all the world’s problems alone. Dragonheir is set to feature over 200 different heroes with over one million options for how to build them. As for who these heroes are, the world of Arkendia is filled with Iskallan Dwarves, Death Knights, Orcs, Plain Humans, Dark Elves, Sorcerers, Knights, Undead, and many more.

    One such hero is the Dwarven Fighter Gimgus, a bellicose mercenary, lecherous alcoholic, and gambling master who seizes the day and will be a valuable and entertaining addition to any party.

    Next-Generation 3D Classical Aesthetic Style

    Dragonheir: Silent Gods’ artstyle is inspired by exquisite retro aesthetic flair and the art is powered by high-quality and powerful next-gen 3D technology. From clothing to weapons to jewelry and more, all the gear from the different races of Arkendia have been realistically imagined and were designed to help build out this fantasy world and make it feel as real as possible.

    Semi-Real-Time Strategy Combat

    Dragonheir features innovative semi-real-time combat that will reward those who enter each battle with a strategy and the knowledge of all the tools, spells, heroes, weapons, and more in their arsenal. Much like chess, positioning is key and the way heroes are placed can be the difference between victory and defeat. When in battle, the choice will be yours as to when you should attack or defend, push forward or retreat, and more. From sending a sword-wielding warrior to face an enemy in one-on-one combat to a sorcerer unleashing an area-of-effect spell that will devastate a group of enemies, the combat options are endless.

    Dragonheir: Silent Gods will be released on PC, iOS, and Android in 2023. Want to get your hands on more news for Dragonheir: Silent Gods? Follow their official Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, & Youtube to stay up to date on more information.

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