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Batman Arkham Shadow VR sequel in the works, actor confirms

by admin September 5, 2025

Last year, Camouflaj and Oculus Studios released a Batman-flavoured VR release in the form of Arkham Shadows, and it looks like the teams are taking another bite of the apple.

During a recent interview with Culture Combine, which was spotted by UploadVR, Commissioner Gordon’s actor confirmed a sequel is in the works.

Actor Mark Rolston was chatting about his career, and the difference between approaching games such as Blade Runner and Spider-Man 2.

“In the Blade Runner game, I was a voiceover, but for Spider-Man, I do complete motion capture, voice, and everything,” the actor told the publication, before slipping this little nugget of information into the conversation:

“Same thing with the Batman Arkham Shadow VR game. We’re about to start another one of those. I play Commissioner Gordon.”

So, there you have it!

Our Ian rather enjoyed Batman Arkham Shadow in its release last year. “Batman Arkham Shadow can feel rough around the edges at times, but it’s still a more than worthy entry to the Arkham series, and an essential Quest 3 experience,” he wrote in Eurogamer’s four star Batman Arkham Shadow review.

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Original Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater voice actor says playing Snake was “the definitive role in his life”

by admin August 24, 2025

David Hayter – the original voice behind one of gaming’s biggest characters, Snake – says portraying Hideo Kojima’s stealthy creation “was the definitive role in [his] life”, and if he was asked to reprise the role, he’d be “down” to voice him again.

In an interview with Inverse alongside fellow Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater voice actors Lori Alan and Cynthia Harrell, Hayter – who was dropped from the role and replaced by Kiefer Sutherland for the fifth instalment, The Phantom Pain – called it “the definitive role in [his] life”.

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“Anytime they ask me to be Snake, I’m in,” Hayter said. “It’s the definitive role in my life. It’s so complex and so profound, and there are so many different aspects to both him and Big Boss. So anytime it comes up, I’m down.

“I get so many people coming up to me now saying, I just got into Metal Gear last year because of the Master Collection, and it’s so cool to see 18-year-old fans and younger kids discovering it for the first time,” the award-winning Hollywood writer added. “A great game should be like a great movie or like a great album – it should live on. And a lot of times, because consoles and technology change, a lot of great games disappear. And so I’m just grateful that Konami is behind this in the way they are.”

That said, if given the opportunity, Hayter was candid enough to acknowledge he wouldn’t have minded re-recording some of Snake’s lines for the remake.

“I do feel that I’m a little better of an actor now than I was then,” he admitted. “It was fine back in the day, but I would have loved to bring some of the knowledge that I’ve picked up over the past 20 years to it. But you don’t want the controller lines to be better acted all of a sudden, because that’ll take you out of the game.

“I’ve been working in Hollywood for quite some time now,” he added. “This is a beloved franchise, a huge world with massive worldwide appeal. So I’m never surprised when something like this comes back. But I didn’t anticipate it would be this. But to start with, Snake Eater is very cool, because it’s generally considered the pinnacle of Metal Gear.”

We recently learned that Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater has brought back the secret Guy Savage mode. But it wasn’t made by Konami alone – Platinum Games, perhaps best known for its Bayonetta and Astral Chain series, is responsible for the surprise action minigame.

Connor had a great time with Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, awarding it five out of five stars in our review, writing: “A legend is brought back to life with Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, in a surprisingly sensitive remake from Konami featuring developers from the original.”

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Solid Snake’s Actor Wishes For A Do-Over In Snake Eater Remake

by admin August 22, 2025

David Hayter, the long-time voice of Snake in the Metal Gear Solid series, is just like any other creative. He, like most of us who spend years improving our craft, looks back at older work and wishes he could iron out some of the wrinkles. Maybe you wish you’d sung a different note, chosen other words to express an idea, or posed the subject of a painting a little differently. In Hayter’s case, Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater has him wishing the remake had allowed him to re-record his 20-year-old lines.

In an interview with Inverse, Hayter, alongside The Boss actor Lori Alan and the vocalist behind the game’s music, Cynthia Harrell, reflects on the experience of working on the original Snake Eater game that launched on the PlayStation 2 in 2004. Each of them was surprised to learn that a Snake Eater remake was in the works, but they were more surprised that they were asked to contribute to it. Alan told Inverse she would have expected to be recast, but that’s not the route Konami took. Instead, Delta primarily reuses the 20-year-old recordings from the original. However, Hayter and Alan did hop back in the booth to update some lines for the game’s tutorials. Hayter says that while he’s always down to play Snake again, he wishes Konami would let him re-record his whole performance after gaining 20 more years of acting experience.

“I do feel that I’m a little better of an actor now than I was then,” Hayter told Inverse. “It was fine back in the day, but I would have loved to bring some of the knowledge that I’ve picked up over the past 20 years to it. But you don’t want the [new tutorial] lines to be better acted all of a sudden, because that’ll take you out of the game.”

While Hayter’s involvement in the remake was small, he’s hopeful this means the series is making a comeback after it went on ice following director Hideo Kojima’s departure from Konami in 2015, the laughably misguided survival game Metal Gear Survive in 2018 notwithstanding.

“Anytime they ask me to be Snake, I’m in,” Hayter told Inverse. “It’s the definitive role in my life. It’s so complex and so profound, and there are so many different aspects to both him and Big Boss. So anytime it comes up, I’m down.”

For more on the Snake Eater remake, check out Kotaku’s review.

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‘Superman’ and ‘Star Wars’ Actor Terence Stamp Dies at Age 87

by admin August 18, 2025

English actor Terence Stamp, seen across a variety of film and TV over the decades, has passed away at 87 years old.

In a statement to Reuters, the actor’s family revealed he passed on Sunday morning. Born July 22, 1938, he made his film debut with the 1962 adaptation of Herman Melville’s Billy Budd as the title character. The role earned him an Academy Award nomination and recognition that allowed him to star in films like 1965’s The Collector and 1967’s Poor Cow.

Genre-wise, Terence Stamp famously played General Zod in the first two Superman movies, and Chancellor Valorum in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. Other notable roles include Stick in 2005’s Elektra, Bud Chantilas in Red Planet, and Ramsley in Disney’s 2003 Haunted Mansion. Stamp would later return to DC for Smallville (as Jor-El) and Static Shock (Professor Menace), and voiced the Prophet of Truth in Halo 3 and Mankar Camoran in Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. He was also a potential James Bond candidate after Sean Connery retired from the role, which ended up not working out. He also appeared in Tim Burton’s Big Eyes and Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.

More recently, Stamp could be seen in Netflix’s Murder Mystery, HBO’s His Dark Materials series and Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho. Archival audio of his performance as Mankar was also used for the recent Oblivion remaster.

In its statement, Stamp’s family noted his “extraordinary body of work, both as an actor and as a writer that will continue to touch and inspire people for years to come.”

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Actor Terence Stamp, who played General Zod in Superman and Mankar Camoran in The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion, has died

by admin August 17, 2025

As reported by the BBC, the family of Terence Stamp has confirmed that the actor died on Sunday morning at the age of 87. In Stamp’s long and illustrious career, the actor had some notable videogame performances, including the Prophet of Truth in Halo, and Mankar Camoran in The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion.

Stamp was born to a working class London family in 1938, and first rose to popularity in the 1960s, once even being considered to replace Sean Connery as James Bond. Stamp is perhaps best known today for the second act of his career, where he made a mark as a versatile character actor. Stamp played General Zod opposite Christopher Reeve in the first two Superman movies in 1978 and 1980.

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Stamp had a small number of videogame appearances in his career, most notably in Halo 3 and The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion. Stamp was one of a number of famous actors who lent their voices to Oblivion, including Sir Patrick Stewart, Sean Bean, and Lynda Carter. Stamp’s performance as Mankar Camoran can once again be heard in Virtuous’ remaster of Oblivion, as well as the upcoming Skyblivion mod remake.

In the documentary, The Making of Oblivion, Stamp can be seen working in the booth, delivering some of his lines as Camoran and receiving direction from longtime Elder Scrolls lead, Todd Howard. Though Stamp says in the documentary that he had only gotten the FedEx of the script the night before recording and that he was less familiar with this “area of performance,” his delivery of Camoran remains a highlight of the game.

“Superman 1 and 2, kinda my formative years, when I was six or seven. Terence Stamp is General Zod, and he has a great line in Superman 2, where he gets Superman to kneel,” Howard explained in the documentary. “‘Son of Jor-El, kneel before Zod!’ And my brother would always do that but change ‘Zod’ to ‘Todd.’ Just over the years, one of those things.”

Naturally, in-between recording Cameron’s commanding and esoteric monologues to the Mythic Dawn cult, Stamp graciously delivered a menacing “Kneel before Todd!” For Howard and his brother.

Stamp was reportedly in talks to reprise his role as transgender drag queen Bernadette Bassenger in a distant sequel to the 1994 film, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. According to IMDB, his final role will remain an appearance in Edgar Wright’s 2021 film, Last Night in Soho.

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