The Week in Fandom returns to update you on the hottest news in games, movies, and TV. For the week ending September 2, we’ve got big Nintendo 3DS news and more from PAX West, thoughts on The Flash‘s third season, and a bit of Game of Thrones casting.
The Flash’s Big Questions
The third season of The Flash begins in just over a month, and trailers and details have begun to drop. We now know a fair amount about the upcoming season, but there are still important questions on fans’ minds that remain largely unanswered. Here’s our breakdown of what we know so far, and what we don’t…
Nintendo Drops 3DS Title Deets
During the latest Nintendo Direct event, the company revealed several surprise games coming to the Nintendo 3DS. Fans of Nintendo’s handheld system can look forward to portable versions of Super Mario Maker, Pikmin, Yoshi’s Wooly World, and an all-new sports compilation title called Mario Sports Superstars. Here is a roundup of the big game reveals…
Broadbent Joins Game of Thrones Cast
Actor Jim Broadbent has joined the cast of HBO’s Game of Thrones for next season. He’s an award-winning actor who’s best known for playing a conniving mountebank and pimp as Harold Zidler in Moulin Rouge, the husband and emotional anchor of Maggie Thatcher in The Iron Lady, and the Horcrux-shilling Horace Slughorn in the Harry Potter films. But the question is, of course, who will he be playing on Game of Thrones? We’ve got some ideas…
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Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Details
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare is looking to take the series to space, the final frontier of armed combat. So far we’d seen how the futuristic setting changes the campaign, but until this week Activision had kept it pretty secret how the move would change Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare multiplayer. That all changed at Call of Duty XP, the Los Angeles convention for all things COD. Not only did they reveal how Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare multiplayer will take the series in new directions, they even let folks (like Fandom) play it for the first time.
That’s a look at some of the hottest topics in fandom this week! Keep it right here for more.