Nicolas Cage is playing Spider-Man in a black-and-white 1950s noir series that’s out at the end of this month, and somehow that’s not even the wildest thing discussed this week.
Asha Sharma quietly killed Xbox’s Copilot integration, an AI assistant that was officially announced as recently as March. Luke is so relieved he can barely contain it. Between that, the price cuts, and the achievement system overhaul, we try to work out whether she’s the real deal or if Microsoft just had a drawer full of approved changes waiting for someone new to take credit.
Something is different this week, can you figure out what it is? We reveal the answer at the end of the episode!
Major Nelson has been laid off - https://kotaku.com/xbox-major-nelson-unity-layoffs-2000659406 No more Naked Gun movies are in the works - https://www.darkhorizons.com/dont-expect-a-naked-gun-reboot-sequel/ We have a photo of Sophie Turner as Lara Croft - https://www.darkhorizons.com/first-photo-sophie-turner-in-tomb-raider/ The internet appears to be broadly pleased with it - https://kotaku.com/tomb-raider-sophie-turner-lara-croft-reaction-outfit-2000660188 The Fallout TV show might be Big Brother in a vault - https://kotaku.com/fallout-amazon-tv-show-reality-vault-shelter-2000660254 Players are remaking the Charlie Kirk assassination as missions in GTA Online - https://kotaku.com/gta-online-charlie-kirk-killing-assassination-missions-rockstar-deleting-censor-block-2000659038 Mother of Elon’s kid sues over Grok deepfakes - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/mother-of-one-of-elon-musks-offspring-sues-xai-over-sexualized-deepfakes/ Kathleen Kennedy is gone - https://www.darkhorizons.com/kathleen-kennedy-officially-exits-lucasfilm/ She gave an update on some stuff - https://www.darkhorizons.com/kennedy-on-status-of-star-wars-projects/
