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The Nintendo Switch is currently going through a shortage of stock, with the current COVID-19 pandemic slowing down the production of units in factories around the world. Thankfully, it seems that this shortage is going to be over soon, with figures from the Nintendo financial results release indicating that Nintendo believes the impact of production will be over by this Summer.

David Gibson, who works for the research company Astris Advisory Japan KK, live-tweeted and translated the release of the financial results as they released. The Switch is only halfway through its lifecycle, with no plans for a Nintendo Switch 2 anytime soon, so the continued sales of the console are key to the success of the system.

The sales of the Nintendo Switch are currently on track to overtake the Wii’s total sales figures even with the setback in production. The sales on games during this period for the Switch have remained strong as well, with Animal Crossing: New Horizons selling 13.41 million copies since launch, with 50% off those as digital sales.

For the time being, the Nintendo Switch is still sold out across the world and online. While the Nintendo Switch Lite has come back in stock periodically, each time the stock has sold out once again.

Tokyo Game Show is the latest 2020 event to be cancelled, at least in its usual form. The show’s organizers have announced in a press release, shared on Twitter by user Wario 64, that the physical event will not go ahead this year. Instead, it’ll be entirely digital.

The event, which will be held between September 24 and 27, will now take place entirely online. “Due to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) on a global scale and the situation remains unpredictable in Japan as well, the organizer and co-organizers have reached this decision after a long consideration to place the utmost priority on the health and safety of visitors, exhibitors, and stakeholders,” the press release reads.

You can read it in its entirety below.

Tokyo Game Show is, generally, a big show for many publishers–last year Sony used it to show off Death Stranding in-depth ahead of its release. In 2018, close to 300,000 people attended the show.

This is far from the first major games event cancelled in 2020. Paris Games Week will not go ahead, E3 will not happen this year, and GDC will be digital only.

With the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 on the way this year, Tokyo Game Show likely would have been used to showcase the next generation of games–that could still happen, but don’t expect hands-on reports.

We’ll be sure to keep you updated when more details emerge of what Tokyo Game Show will look like, and how it will operate, as a digital event.

The American rock band Weezer is coming to The Simpsons. The band will be featured in the end-credits sequence for this Sunday’s episode, performing the show’s theme music in a heavier manner.

The clip was posted to YouTube ahead of this weekend’s Season 31 episode, and it rocks. The group is captured faithfully, it seems, with lead singer Rivers Cuomo’s character model looking particularly authentic-looking. The clip also shows Moe Szyslak in attendance at the concert, throwing up the flying W sign as he enjoys the gig. You can check out the clip further down the page.

This is just the latest musical outro for The Simpsons in recent years. A 2019 episode of the show featured a music video for the song “White Wine Spritzer” by the Ned Flanders-themed metal band, Okilly Dokilly–and it was truly a sight to behold. Before that, the band Green Day was featured in The Simpsons Movie, performing the show’s theme and trying to tell the crowd to be more environmentally responsible. Earlier on, Fall Out Boy performed The Simpsons theme for the outro segment in Season 20, Episode 9, “Lisa The Drama Queen.”

In other news, The Simpsons has predicted the future once again. Fans recently noticed that Season 4, Episode 21, “Marge In Chains,” features a sequence where members of Springfield are demanding a cure for a virus, only to get attacked by killer bees.

Disney is producing a live-action Hercules movie, and the Hollywood giant has recruited The Avengers: Endgame directors Joe and Anthony Russo to produce it. In a new interview, the brothers spoke about their long-running fandom of Hercules and offered some teases for what to expect from the new movie.

Anthony Russo told Collider that he and his brother are “Hercules fanatics.” When they caught wind that Disney was interested in making a live-action film, they made the case to executives that they were the right partners to produce it. “And here we are,” Anthony Russo said.

The film is only in the earliest stages of development, the brothers said. Right now, they aren’t even sure if it will be a musical like the 1997 animated movie it’s based on.

“We can’t say one way or the other,” Anthony said, immediately thereafter confirming that “music will certainly be a part of it” in some capacity.

What the brothers did confirm, however, is that their new live-action Hercules will not be a “literal translation” of the animated movie. They are keen to bring “something new to the table” with the movie.

“We’re going to give you a different story. I think we’ll do something that’s in the vein of the original and inspired by it, but we also bring some new elements to the table.”

According to reports, Disney has hired Godzilla and Wonder Woman 1984 writer Dave Calla ham to work on the script for the new Hercules movie. The original movie featured the voice of Tate Donovan as Hercules, with Danny DeVito playing Phil and James Woods voicing Hades. There is no word yet on who will star in the new film, who will direct it, and when it will release.

The next live-action Disney remake will be Mulan. The film was set to be released in March, but the COVID-19 pandemic led it to be delayed until July. Other Disney live-action movies on the way include the 101 Dalmatians spin-off Cruella, which is currently set for a May 2021 release, as well as films based on The Little Mermaid, Pinocchio, Peter Pan, and Bambi.

The Russo brothers’ latest production, the action thriller Extraction, arrived on Netflix in April. Check out GameSpot’s Extraction review here. The movie is getting a new instalment, but we don’t know yet if it will be a prequel or a sequel.

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is a film that we loved, as did many others. Producer Christopher Miller recently participated in a watch-along on Twitter, tweeting out facts and observations about the movie to give fans additional insight into how it was made. Among some great insights was one particular reveal of a scene that was not allowed in the film–one we’d very much like to see for the sequel.

During the watch-along, one fan asked Miller about a rumored cameo from Tom Holland, who plays Spider-Man in the current Marvel Cinematic Universe. He says that Holland’s cameo was planned alongside two other former Spider-Man actors–Tobey Maguire (Spider-Man 1-3) and Andrew Garfield (The Amazing Spider-Man 1 and 2).

Miller says that they pitched the idea to Sony, but were told that it was “too soon.” It’s unclear how the three actors would have been used–and even whether they would have all played Spider-Man–but in any case, it did not happen.

A sequel is coming–it was originally scheduled for April 8, 2022, but has since been delayed until October 7. Considering how much time will have passed by the date of its release–and how well-received the current cinematic run of Spider-Man is–perhaps we’ll see this idea revisited.

Tom Holland will next play Spider-Man in a third MCU film, which is due to start shooting in July–although whether that actually happens is up in the air right now due to COVID-19.

The anime streaming service Crunchyroll has announced the return of dubbed anime to the weekly schedule.

Back during the early stages of the coronavirus lockdown, Funimation was forced to delay all dubbed releases. The safety of the employees at Funimation was the top priority, with all employees transitioning to working from home during the quarantine. This caused a number of delays to the recording of of English dubs for various anime.

During this time Funimation and Crunchyroll were still able to roll out subbed versions of the latest anime episodes, but have fallen behind the release schedule due to nearly two months of no dubbed releases.

The following Crunchyroll shows will have dubbed episodes available going forward:

• Tower of God
• Somali and the Forest Spirit
• Science Fell in Love, So I Tried to Prove It
• The 8th son? Are you kidding me?
• My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!
• Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun
• In/Spectre

For the exact dates and more information regarding the release schedule, check out the Crunchyroll blog post.

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Finally, it’s time for Stanley to pay the price for the murders he’s committed. Let’s just say he gets what he deserves and joins the Freak Show as its newest member.

With or without Stanley (aka Richard), Elsa is determined to leave Florida for Hollywood, CA. She believes she will become the star that she’s always dreamed of. But first, she needs to sell off the Freak Show. She does so and Chester Creb becomes the new owner.

But Chester has a few problems of his own. He’s gone a bit crazy following his return from the war and we soon find out that he’s no magician at all. He commits a horrible accident during a practice run with the Goldin’s Sawing Box.

Dandy returns to turn the Tattler twins against Chester by exposing his dark past but we all know Dandy has ulterior motives as well. The twins tip Elsa off that the rest of the group wants her dead, and before they can track her down, she runs off.

With Elsa and Chester no longer in the picture, Dandy becomes new owner of the Cabinet of Curiosities for a mere $10,000. Something tells us Dandy isn’t going to be a nice boss.