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Official Pokemon ASMR Now Exists

The official Pokemon YouTube channel has released an ASMR video of Charmander sleeping by a campfire.

As Eurogamer discovered, the video starts with Charmander lying on its side before using the flame on the end of its tail to light a campfire. From there, Charmander snoozes for a whole 30 minutes, occasionally fidgeting in its sleep.

The video titled ‘Charmander’s Fireside Slumber’ was uploaded to the Japanese official Pokemon YouTube channel after the first episode of Pokemon: Twilight Wings. This is the first official video from The Pokemon Company that dives into the ASMR trend.

ASMR videos have been popular online for a number of years now. The creators try to trigger a tingling feeling across viewers’ scalp and spine using sounds and sometimes visuals. Crackling fires is one known way of triggering this response, others include whispering, scratching, tapping, and turning the pages of a book.

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The whole point of ASMR is to relax the viewer. The timing of this upload from the official Pokemon channel couldn’t be better given that many fans were recently upset by the announcement of Pokemon Sword and Shield’s expansions.

The expansions address the Dexit issue that arose in 2019 when it was learned that not all of the Pokemon would be included in Sword and Shield. The expansions put many of those missing Pokemon into the game, but the move angered some fans as they didn’t want to pay for something they feel should have been included in the game from the start.

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Quentin Tarantino to Direct Once Upon a Time Spinoff Series Bounty Law

Quentin Tarantino has revealed that he will direct the Once Upon a Time in Hollywood spinoff series, Bounty Law, based on the fictional TV show within the Oscar-nominated movie. Speaking to Deadline, Tarantino shared his plans to break out the Western drama, originally starring Rick Dalton as gunslinger Jake Cahill, to create a limited series with five half-hour episodes, which he plans to direct. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2019/10/28/once-upon-a-timein-hollywood-deleted-scene"] "As far as the Bounty Law shows, I want to do that, but it will take me a year and a half," he told the outlet. "It got an introduction from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, but I don't really consider it part of that movie even though it is. This is not about Rick Dalton playing Jake Cahill. It's about Jake Cahill." Tarantino went on to discuss some of the influences behind the Bounty Law series that features in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, as he spoke about the classic Western TV shows that he watched to switch his mindset over to that genre. "Where all this came from was, I ended up watching a bunch of Wanted, Dead or Alive, and The Rifleman, and Tales of Wells Fargo, these half-hour shows to get in the mindset of Bounty Law, the kind of show Rick was on," he said. "I'd liked them before, but I got really into them. The concept of telling a dramatic story in half an hour. You watch and think, wow, there's a helluva lot of storytelling going on in 22 minutes. I thought, I wonder if I can do that? I ended up writing five half-hour episodes. So I'll do them, and I will direct all of them." [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood-gallery&captions=true"] In addition to Bounty Law, we can expect to see more footage from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood in the future, as Tarantino previously hinted that the full four-hour cut could be released "maybe in a year's time." Meanwhile, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood has been nominated for several Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Original Screenplay, as well as Best Director. The comedy-drama was also a contributor to IGN's Most Epic Movie Moments of 2019. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Adele Ankers is a Freelance Entertainment Journalist. You can reach her on Twitter.

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Quentin Tarantino to Direct Once Upon a Time Spinoff Series Bounty Law

Quentin Tarantino has revealed that he will direct the Once Upon a Time in Hollywood spinoff series, Bounty Law, based on the fictional TV show within the Oscar-nominated movie. Speaking to Deadline, Tarantino shared his plans to break out the Western drama, originally starring Rick Dalton as gunslinger Jake Cahill, to create a limited series with five half-hour episodes, which he plans to direct. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2019/10/28/once-upon-a-timein-hollywood-deleted-scene"] "As far as the Bounty Law shows, I want to do that, but it will take me a year and a half," he told the outlet. "It got an introduction from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, but I don't really consider it part of that movie even though it is. This is not about Rick Dalton playing Jake Cahill. It's about Jake Cahill." Tarantino went on to discuss some of the influences behind the Bounty Law series that features in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, as he spoke about the classic Western TV shows that he watched to switch his mindset over to that genre. "Where all this came from was, I ended up watching a bunch of Wanted, Dead or Alive, and The Rifleman, and Tales of Wells Fargo, these half-hour shows to get in the mindset of Bounty Law, the kind of show Rick was on," he said. "I'd liked them before, but I got really into them. The concept of telling a dramatic story in half an hour. You watch and think, wow, there's a helluva lot of storytelling going on in 22 minutes. I thought, I wonder if I can do that? I ended up writing five half-hour episodes. So I'll do them, and I will direct all of them." [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood-gallery&captions=true"] In addition to Bounty Law, we can expect to see more footage from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood in the future, as Tarantino previously hinted that the full four-hour cut could be released "maybe in a year's time." Meanwhile, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood has been nominated for several Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Original Screenplay, as well as Best Director. The comedy-drama was also a contributor to IGN's Most Epic Movie Moments of 2019. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Adele Ankers is a Freelance Entertainment Journalist. You can reach her on Twitter.

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Hunt: Showdown Gets PS4 Release Date, Xbox Cross-Play Planned

Crytek has announced the release date and future plans for Hunt: Showdown on PlayStation 4, which includes cross-play with the Xbox One version.

The competitive bounty-hunting shooter will be available on PS4 from February 18, 2020. The physical version of the Xbox One version will be released on the same day.

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Crytek was able to move forward with the console versions thanks to bringing on publisher Koch Media who will be handling them going forward. This frees up Crytek so it can focus on developing updates for the game and handling the PC version.

“Update 1.2 is slated to bring random teams of three, an advanced tutorial, new Legendary Hunters, and new equipment and weapons across the board,” Crytek revealed. “Players can also expect server-side performance improvements, client CPU performance fixes, and a number of other general bug fixes.”

Beyond that update, Crytek says the plan is to add cross-play between the Xbox One and PS4 versions of Hunt: Showdown. There will also be a new map, solo PvE mode, live events, and outfit customisation.

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Hunt: Showdown is the latest game by Crysis and Far Cry 1 developer Crytek. It’s a competitive shooter in which 12 players - in teams or solo - try to track down and kill beasts and then reach the extraction point with the bounty. It’s especially exciting as players can choose to cooperate to then betray each other at any moment.

It came out on PC and Xbox One in 2019 after being in Early Access for a while. It started off with a single map that captured its 1895 Louisiana setting but since then has got a second map.