Monthly Archives: May 2019

You Could Have a Region of Your Brain Dedicated to Recognizing Pokemon

Researchers at Stanford University have discovered that people who played Pokemon as children in the 90s might share a small region of their brain where all of that information is held, according to a new study.

As reported by Ars Technica, a recent paper published in the scientific journal Nature (and an accompanying YouTube video if you prefer that to reading a whole academic essay) breaks down the results of an experiment that compared the brains of people who played “a lot of Pokemon in their childhood” around 1995 to 1998 with people who don’t know Pokemon at all.

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GoT: Here’s Why Jaime Made That Questionable Choice

This interview contains spoilers for Game of Thrones Season 8, episode 4, "The Last of the Starks."

Jaime Lannister's slow-burn relationship with Brienne of Tarth has been one of the most satisfying storylines in Game of Thrones throughout the show's run, but in episode 4 of Season 8, just when it seems like the disgraced Kingslayer might finally be ready to embrace the possibility of a happy ending, he ends up sneaking out in the middle of the night to return to King's Landing and his "hateful" sister, Cersei.

Luckily, Brienne wakes up and catches him before he leaves, allowing them a revealing (and potentially final) moment together. In the gut-wrenching scene, Brienne insists, "You're not like your sister - you’re better than her. You’re a good man, you don’t need to die with her."

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Captain America Could Always Lift Mjolnir According to the Russos

Spoiler Warning: the following article contains spoilers for Avengers: Endgame.

According to Anthony and Joe Russo, directors of Avengers: Endgame, Captain America was able to wield Mjolnir long before the most recent entry in the MCU.

In an interview with the Happy Sad Confused podcast, the Russo Brothers were asked why Captain America was able to lift Thor’s hammer Mjolnir in Endgame when he seemingly couldn’t in Age of Ultron. The duo replied “In our heads, he was

able to wield it.”

Avatar Sequels Release Dates Pushed Back Years

Disney has pushed back the release dates of James Cameron's Avatar sequels, the studio announced Tuesday.

Avatar 2 had been slated to open Dec. 18, 2020 but will now open Dec. 17, 2021 instead.

Avatar 3 was originally scheduled to hit theaters on  Dec. 17, 2021 but has now been shifted to Dec. 22, 2023.

Likewise, Avatar 4 will open Dec. 19, 2025 instead of Dec. 20, 2024 as was originally planned.

Finally, Avatar 5 opens Dec. 17, 2027.

Disney's release date shuffle also now sees three new Star Wars movies opening in 2022, 2024 and 2026.

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Falcon Actor on That Avengers: Endgame Ending

Warning: Spoilers follow for Avengers: Endgame. Continue on at your own risk. 

Anthony Mackie, who plays Falcon in the MCU, told IMDb in a recent interview that he didn't find out he was going to be passed the shield at the end of Avengers: Endgame until Chris Evans told him while at his house one day, as reported by THR.

"We were at his house and he goes, 'You excited?' And I go, 'What are you talking about?' and he goes, 'You don't know?' He jumps up, runs out of the room and comes back in with the script," Mackie said, who was blown away after reading the ending of the script.

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3 Star Wars Movies Being Released Starting in 2022

Following the conclusion of the Skywalker Saga, Disney will release three new Star Wars movies starting in 2022.

Announced by Disney, each new film will be released on the pre-Christmas weekend every other year beginning 2022, meaning a new Star Wars film will come out in 2022, 2024 and 2026. These films have not yet been titled, but will most definitely exist outside of the nine numbered Skywalker Saga films.

The only upcoming Star Wars film we know for certain will be released is The Rise of Skywalker, which is coming to US theaters on December 20, 2019 and the UK on December 19. It’s possible all three of these films are part of The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson’s planned trilogy of Star Wars movies, which Johnson confirmed he was still working on as recently as February 2019.

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EA Access PS4 Release Date Announced

Update 06/08: EA has announced the specific day that EA Access will release on PS4. The service will be available from July 24.

Original story follows.

EA Access is coming to PlayStation 4 this July.

The service gives players access to a library of EA games, including franchises like Battlefield, FIFA, Madden, Star Wars Battlefront and more. In addition, subscribers can access EA’s Play First Trials, where they can play up to 10 hours of new games.

EA Access also grants a 10% discount on full EA game purchases, expansions and in-game items, is available for $5 a month or $30 a year and can be purchased through the PlayStation Store. As of now, it appears paying for a subscription of EA Access on Xbox One will not carry over to PS4, and vice versa.

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Borderlands 3 May Not Add New Vault Hunters in DLC

Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford has said that Borderlands 3 may not add new Vault Hunters to the game in post-launch DLC.

Talking to a fan on Twitter, who asked if there will be DLC hunters, Pitchford said “My feelings are that it might be better for us to put our time into expanding what the existing vault hunters can do and how interesting their future growth is instead of adding new ones to start over with.”