The Witcher Showrunner Explains Why Nilfgaard Armour Is So Ugly
The Nilfgaardian armor design in Netflix's The Witcher.[/caption]
Talking to IGN, Hissrich explained why the armour looks so strange. “What was important for us about the Nilfgaardian army was to bring it away from the Cintran army,” she said. “[Cintra has] an incredibly well-trained army that comes from a kingdom with a lot of money. We wanted to contrast that with Nilfgaard, which obviously is a very powerful army as well, but is moving northward and has been for a while, and conscripting new people into its army.”
“[The armour had to] look like they picked it up, they did it quickly, and they put them on them. It’s not meant to have the same look as standard armour.”
Producer Tomasz Bagiński noted that the Nilfgaardian army was inspired by huge historical forces, which often used quickly made, poorer-looking armour in order to protect their vast numbers of soldiers.
“If the Cintran army has 200 soldiers, then [Nilfgaard] has 20,000,” he explained. “It’s about numbers, about covering other armies with people. And there were armies like that, in the history of the human race, and they were actually quite effective. But they weren’t looking great!”
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Bagiński also said that they wanted to make Nilfgaard feel like a strange force coming from different lands. “It was quite important to make them look alien, in a way,” he said. “They are different. It’s a huge group of people coming from the south who are almost just aliens.”
For more, you can listen to the entire interview with Hissrich and Bagiński on episode 520 of the IGN UK podcast. Unfortunately if you’re looking for even more of the show, you’ll have to wait as The Witcher Season 2 is not due until 2021.
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Matt Purslow is IGN's UK News and Entertainment Writer. You can follow him on Twitter. The Witcher Showrunner Explains Why Nilfgaard Armour Is So Ugly
The showrunner of Netflix’s The Witcher, Lauren Schmidt Hissrich, has explained the decisions behind the controversial design of the Nilfgaardian army’s armour.
The armour, first spotted in set photographs leaked months ahead of the show’s launch, is oddly shaped and covered in ‘wrinkles’. It became the subject of much online confusion and even ridicule, with many unfavorably comparing it to the designs used for the CD Projekt RED video games.
Next Batman Game Teased With New Logo
Update:
Warner Bros. Games Montreal updated their website with a mysterious circle that houses some of the different sigils teased so far. Two of the blanks are filled with the emblems for the League of Shadows and today's mysterious Gotham City symbol. But there are still eight circles left empty.
WB Games seems to be teasing at least eight more emblems that could represent different factions in the game. We know at least one other emblem not included in this circle is a torch symbol WB Games teased in September 2019, but the rest remains a mystery. It's likely WB Games will continue to reveal more emblems to complete this sigil.
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The studio behind Batman: Arkham Origins has revealed a new logo that teases its next game.
Warner Bros. Games Montreal updated its social media accounts today with a new logo that seems to be for its next Batman game. The logo comes with a caption that reads “Cape sur la nuit / Capture the Knight.”
Cape sur la nuit / Capture the Knight pic.twitter.com/cIJTEZgDj1
— WB Games Montréal (@WBGamesMTL) January 9, 2020
You can see half the logo on the studio’s Facebook page while the rest of it has been uploaded to the studio’s Instagram and Twitter accounts. Twitter account @ArkhamVideos has stitched them together to create what it believes the full image will be.
As can be seen when putting all three images together, the logo is white and circular, with an eagle’s head at the top, wings coming down the side, and in the middle are eagle talons, a crown, a set of scales, and crossed swords. There's also the shape of a city, potentially Gotham.
Full logo teasing the new WB Games Montreal's project #CaptureTheKnight pic.twitter.com/Qwd4cOvqAK
— Batman Arkham Videos (@ArkhamVideos) January 9, 2020
As with the teaser WB Games Montreal released back in September 2019, it appears that these logos could points towards a new Batman game featuring the Court of Owls - despite that definitely being an eagle in this new logo. The previous tease was backed up with a tweet from original Court of Owls author Scott Snyder, with the hashtag #bewarethecourtofowls.
The Court of Owls is a secret society that kidnaps children and trains them to become assassins known as Talons. The Court of Owls is one of Batman’s more recent villains in the comic books, being introduced in 2011, and more recently becoming known as the Parliament of Owls.
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WB Games Montreal’s latest release was the Batman: Arkham Collection, which packaged all three of the Batman games it made with Rocksteady together for PS4 and Xbox One.
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Next Batman Game Teased With New Logo
The studio behind Batman: Arkham Origins has revealed a new logo that teases its next game.
Warner Bros. Games Montreal updated its social media accounts today with a new logo that seems to be for its next Batman game. The logo comes with a caption that reads “Cape sur la nuit / Capture the Knight.”
Cape sur la nuit / Capture the Knight pic.twitter.com/cIJTEZgDj1
— WB Games Montréal (@WBGamesMTL) January 9, 2020
First Look of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Part 3 Is in a Music Video
A brand new music video for the original song "Straight to Hell", performed by Sabrina Spellman & Lovecraft, has given us our first look at Netflix's Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Part 3.
This new music video, which you can watch here, arrives shortly before the premiere of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Part 3 on January 24, 2020.
Part 3, according to Netflix (SPOILERS AHEAD), will find Sabrina reeling from the harrowing events of last season following her defeat of her father Lucifer. The Dark Lord remains trapped withing Nicholas Scratch, her boyfriend.
Pokemon Home Gets a Release Window
Pokemon Home, the cloud-based Pokemon storage service, will release in February 2020.
Designed to essentially replace Pokemon Bank, Pokemon Home is compatible with Pokemon Go, Let’s Go Pikachu and Eevee, and Sword and Shield. It can also be linked to Pokemon Bank, which means that it is effectively compatible with all the 3DS Pokemon games, too.
Because of the link to Pokemon Bank, theoretically, Pokemon you have collected from as far back as the Sapphire and Ruby generation on Game Boy Advance could be transferred into Pokemon Home.
With all your monsters in Home’s storage, they can then be transferred into Pokemon Sword and Shield, provided the game supports them. And with the new Sword and Shield Expansion Pass adding more older Pokemon to the game, you should be able to take even more of your collection into battle.
Pokemon Sword and Shield Expansion Pass Announced
Pokemon Sword and Shield is getting a $29.99 / £26.99 Expansion Pass (no Australian price available at time of writing) this year, featuring two new adventures - and it’ll bring back more than 200 of the past games' Pokemon missing from the new Galarian Pokedex.
The Isle of Armor expansion will be available by the end of June, while The Crown Tundra will arrive in fall. You can pre-purchase the Pass today, which will earn you codes for Pikachu and Eevee uniforms to use in-game.
The new expansions include entire new areas – accessible as soon as you reach the game’s Wild Area – and will introduce brand new Pokemon (with some exclusives depending on your version of the game), new Galarian regional forms and new Legendaries. Both will come with their own Pokedex, new characters, new outfits, and include Pokemon Dens with brand new Max Raid Battles. Players without the Expansion Pass can be invited into these Max Raids by those who do.
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX Announced
Nintendo has announced Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX, a remake of the 2006 roguelikes in which players take on the role of a human that has been transformed into a Pokemon.
Releasing on March 6, 2020, Rescue Team DX recreates the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon games Blue Rescue Team and Red Rescue Team. Like those original games, players must take a personality test at the start of the adventure to determine the type of Pokemon they will become. Both the player’s form and their partner Pokemon are chosen from a pool of 16 creatures.
A demo will be available later today at 7am PT / 10am ET / 9pm UK, and save data can be transferred to the full game.
First Look at the Green Ranger Shredder
A game-changing turn of events will see the villainous Shredder don the mantle of the Green Ranger to become the Green Ranger Shredder in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #3.
IGN has your first look at artist Simone di Meo’s character design for the brand new villain, along with the Blue Ranger variant covers for the upcoming issue:
This crossover series from BOOM! Studios sees the Power Rangers battle -- and eventually team up with -- the Ninja Turtles. The series is written by Ryan Parrott (Power Rangers: Necessary Evil), illustrated by Simone di Meo (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Venom Annual), colored by Walter Baiamonte (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers), and lettered by Ed Dukeshire (Buffy the Vampire Slayer).
Were Star Trek: Picard’s Real Villains Just Revealed?
Spoilers follow for the Short Trek episode “Children of Mars,” along with speculation about how it could tie into Star Trek: Picard.
The last episode of the second series of Short Treks just dropped, and not surprisingly “Children of Mars” serves as a prelude to the new Picard show which debuts on January 23. Up until now, the creators of Star Trek: Picard -- which sees the return of Patrick Stewart to the iconic title role after an almost 20-year break -- have kept pretty quiet about what the show will be about. But “Children of Mars” clearly sets up what will surely be a major element of the show.
How Picard Connects to “Children of Mars”
The short is mostly a wordless but effective tale about a couple of schoolgirls on Earth whose parents work out at the Federation shipyards on (and above) Mars. The two wind up in a spat, which escalates over time into a full-blown physical fight, but when tragedy strikes, they find themselves united. And it’s that tragedy that connects to Star Trek: Picard.