MCM Comic Con London wrapped up its 2025 event with a volley of significant video game news, exclusive film footage, and candid conversations with stars from geek culture’s biggest franchises.
Among the highlights, Final Fantasy VII Remake director Naoki Hamaguchi personally debunked cancellation rumours, The Boys star Karl Urban revealed a Season 5 spoiler, and Mass Effect’s voice cast tackled the debate around AI in their industry.
Video Game News from the Con
The most significant confirmation came from the Final Fantasy VII Remake panel. Director Naoki Hamaguchi, appearing alongside voice actors John Eric Bentley, Briana White, Britt Baron, and Paul Tinto, directly addressed fan concerns about the trilogy’s conclusion.
“That is absolutely not happening, it is going ahead!” Hamaguchi stated, regarding cancellation rumours. “We’re working very hard on the third part of the trilogy now… As soon as this panel finishes I’m getting off stage, running straight to my hotel room and back to checking some of the levels in the game that we’ve already created.”
Meanwhile, the God of War panel featured stars Christopher Judge (Kratos) and Sunny Suljic (Atreus). Judge shared his desire for the series to explore a new setting, saying he hoped it would cover the Egyptian pantheon. “Because I became best known as Teal’c from Stargate, to go to Egypt would be a completion of my circle,” he noted. In a lighter moment, Judge also revealed his go-to character for family TEKKEN 8 tournaments: “I’m Eddie – because his hair game’s on point.”
The future of voice acting was a hot topic at the Mass Effect reunion, which featured Jennifer Hale, Mark Meer, Ali Hillis, and Alix Wilton Regan. When asked about the rise of AI, Hale, the voice of Commander Shepard, offered a pragmatic view.
“AI is coming, it’s coming for us all… Our job is to partner with the technology… AI is a tool like a hammer. I believe that for many years to come there is still going to be enormous demand for the sacred signal of the human soul in performance.”
Retro gaming fans were treated to a 25th-anniversary panel for Perfect Dark and TimeSplitters with developers Steve Ellis and David Doak. Ellis revealed Perfect Dark’s origins, explaining it was conceived after GoldenEye 007’s success when the team wanted to make a sci-fi shooter inspired by The X-Files and La Femme Nikita, specifically wanting a female lead who was “not a kind of a Lara [Croft] character.”
Doak touched on the ill-fated attempt to revive TimeSplitters, alluding to industry complications. “I don’t think it was our fault it didn’t work out,” he said. “Bigger forces were in play.”
Film and TV Highlights
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Amazon’s The Boys held a reunion with Karl Urban, Karen Fukuhara, Laz Alonso, and Tomer Capone. Urban, who plays Billy Butcher, dropped a major spoiler for the show’s future.
“Season 5, you’re going to find out the origin of Butcher’s scar,” Urban announced. “That is one spoiler I will tell you… but you are going to find out!”
The cast also received two Guinness World Records on stage, for Most In-Demand Action-Adventure TV Show and Most In-Demand Superhero TV Show.
Fans of the Predator franchise received a major exclusive during the Predator: Badlands panel. Director Dan Trachtenberg, joined by stars Elle Fanning and Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi, surprised the audience by screening the first 20 minutes of the upcoming film, seven minutes more than were shown at San Diego Comic-Con. Schuster-Koloamatangi also joked about being “kind of lonely” as the world’s only fluent speaker of the fictional Yautja language.
Other panels included Superbad’s Christopher Mintz-Plasse, who called on the Oscars to “take comedies more seriously,” and Ghosts co-creators Laurence Rickard and Martha Howe-Douglas, who teased that new, non-Ghosts projects “are bubbling away.”
MCM’s next event, MCM Birmingham, is scheduled for 28-30 November 2025.
