#Shaggy

There's a lot of vision and ambition that goes into a game like MultiVersus. The upcoming platform fighter features a wide assortment of WB characters duking it out in a Super Smash Bros.-style game. These characters are fully voiced, with celebrities like Maisie Williams and Matthew Lillard reprising their live-action roles as Arya Stark and Shaggy, respectively. We're all too intrigued to see how this game could live up to the hype. Luckily, we got a little preview.

Game of Thrones star Maisie Williams talked about her experience working on the new Warner Bros. fighting game, MultiVersus. The game sees an all-out brawl with characters from a number of WB's iconic franchises, from Batman and Shaggy to Iron Giant and Bugs Bunny. It's coming off the back of Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl, which has a lot of similar ideas, but was panned for not featuring voice acting for some of its most defining characters. MultiVersus has been seemingly paying attention to games like All-Star Brawl as it will feature voice acting for these characters, with many of the original actors reprising their roles. Kevin Conroy will play Batman, Matthew Lillard will play Shaggry, and Maisie Williams will play Arya.

Today is National Rescue Dog Day! Shaggy’s restaurants celebrated by partnering with the Humane Society of South Mississippi. Two pups, Winifred and Opal, spent the afternoon at Shaggy’s Gulfport during an adoption drive. All of the Coast Shaggy’s locations had some of the Humane Society’s longest resident dogs...

Warner Bros.’ take on the platform fighter — a Super Smash Bros.-like game starring Batman, Bugs Bunny, Arya Stark, et al. — has a long list of potential fighters to choose from. But Shaggy, specifically the heavily memed “Ultra Instinct” version of the Scooby-Doo slacker, was an obvious and early choice for MultiVersus, its creators say.

My expectations were pretty darn low going into Warner Bros. crossover fighter MultiVersus. The Super Smash Bros. series has been the undisputed champion of the platform fighter subgenre of fighting game, and few titles could ever reach its level of polish or its fun factor. Nonetheless, more companies have noticed the crossover potential of games like Smash and have started to make their own for their own brands, to mixed results.

With the launch of Warner Bros. Games’ MultiVersus Closed Alpha, there’s now the opportunity for you to pit Superman versus Garnet or Shaggy versus Bugs Bunny. The initial responses to this game come from nearly all sides of the gaming space—because the Closed Alpha is available on multiple platforms and features cross-play. MultiVersus is available on Playstations 4 and 5, Xbox Seris X|S and One, and PC via Steam. Also, the game will have cross-progression, meaning if you unlock a particular character on one platform, you won’t lose stats and such when moving to another.

Teyana Taylor has now joined Hillary Clinton and John McCain on the list of people who have defeated Rudolph Giuliani. Last night, Fox’s dystopian, hallucinatory singing-celebrities show The Masked Singer wrapped up its seventh season. The big news from this season was that Giuliani, the loathsome face of a right-wing coup attempt, once again got a platform where he got to attempt to present himself as a human being — something that caused multiple judges to leave the stage in disgust. That season is now over, and the winner was — get this — a real singer.

Teyana Taylor may be taking a step back from music at the end of this year, but she’s going out with a bang. Last night, the New York native was named the winner of The Masked Singer‘s seventh season on FOX. Taylor beat out Jennifer Holliday, En Vogue and Shaggy for this year’s title. Now, she will join previous season winners like T-Pain, Nick Lachey and Wayne Brady.

MultiVersus, the upcoming free-to-play platform fighter from Warner Bros. Games and Player First Games, officially kicks off a Closed Alpha today that runs through May 27th. Ahead of today's Closed Alpha launching, ComicBook.com had the opportunity to play with early access of the MultiVersus Closed Alpha as well as interview MultiVersus Principal Developer Daniel Kraft. As part of that discussion, Kraft spoke about everything from Ultra Instinct Shaggy to balancing fighters and how the developer goes about deciding which new characters to add.