Former Xbox Exec Mike Ybarra Joins Blizzard
Mike Ybarra, who previously was Xbox executive for Microsoft, has joined Blizzard Entertainment as executive vice president and general manager.
Ybarra tweeted the news, stating that he starts the role on November 4 but will be at BlizzCon 2019 the preceding weekend. “We will work with all our energy to serve gamers with incredible content and experiences. I can't wait to be part of this team,” he wrote.
I'm very happy to announce I'm joining @Blizzard_Ent as Exec. Vice President and GM starting 11/4 (will be at #blizzcon!). We will work with all our energy to serve gamers with incredible content and experiences. I can't wait to be part of this team. #lucky #humble #gamers #serve pic.twitter.com/kZ8dRuF3pe
Pedro Pascal Seemingly Confirmed as Max Lord for Wonder Woman 1984
Wonder Woman 1984 director Patty Jenkins has seemingly confirmed that Pedro Pascal will play supervillain Maxwell Lord in the upcoming Wonder Woman sequel.
Jenkins shared a picture of the DC Comics character on Twitter on Thursday, tagging Pedro Pascal alongside Gal Gadot and the official Wonder Woman film account.
Well hello... Max. #WW1984 pic.twitter.com/BgWsjyJixw
Don’t Expect Pokemon Sword and Shield to be Much Bigger than Previous Games
The Wild Area may be a sprawling piece of land in the Galar region, but don’t expect Pokemon Sword and Shield’s main campaign to take much longer to beat than previous entries in the series. In an interview with IGN, producer Junichi Masuda and director Shigeru Ohmori told us how big Pokemon Sword and Shield was compared to the mainline games that came before it.
Ohmori said “it’s hard to say” how Galar compares in size, but “it’s a comparable amount of main adventure content.” Rather than focus on size or game length, the new gameplay elements may have players spending more time in the Galar region while adding “more replayability to these games.” “We always try to surpass ourselves,” says Masuda, “but I think you can expect at least the amount of content that you would have seen in previous generations.”
Pokemon Timeline Hints and 7 Other Details about Sword and Shield
Pokemon Sword and Shield is the first mainline Pokemon game to be on a Nintendo home console, and after playing the first 90 minutes of Pokemon Shield we have a better sense of what’s to come. In an interview with IGN at Nintendo’s Pokemon Sword and Shield preview event, producer Junichi Masuda and director Shigeru Ohmori answered our most pressing questions regarding key gameplay changes and the future of the series as well as our most outlandish inquiries about the Pokemon timeline, Sir Fetch’d’s evolutions, and the classic, “Which starter are you picking?” For more from this interview, be sure to check out what Masuda and Ohmori had to say about online functionality and the game's length. Here are the topics covered:
Pokemon Sword and Shield Devs Break Down Online Functionality and the Wild Area
One of the biggest questions surrounding Pokemon Sword and Shield is how the Wild Area works when it comes to online functionality. After playing the first 90 minutes of Pokemon Shield we got the chance to speak to producer Junichi Masuda and director Shigeru Ohmori for details.
The Wild Area is meant to be an ever-changing trainer’s playground. Different Pokemon appear based on the weather conditions. And if you're connected to the internet, you can be paired up in the background with other players who are also playing in the Wild Area from all around the world. They'll also populate that area allowing you to see trainers doing different things from Max Raid Battles to camping and cooking curry.
Zombieland Director Teases Potential Spinoff for Zoey Deutch’s Madison
Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer has expressed an interest in making a standalone movie focused on a breakout character from Zombieland: Double Tap.
Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, the director teased a potential spin-off movie for newcomer Madison, played by Zoey Deutch, as he explained that he "would love" to make a solo story following the adventures of her ditzy character in the aftermath of Double Tap.
"I would love to do a Madison standalone movie," Fleischer told THR. "I think that story remains to be written. That would be a fun thing to go find out. That actually would've been a good post-credit scene where those two
Rainbow Six Siege’s Game Designers Rate IGN’s Operator Ideas
Rainbow Six Siege aims to one day have 100 operators. At current Ubisoft is only at the halfway mark, and so have plenty more special ops soldiers to design before it hits that goal. So, with the idea of ‘helping’ Ubisoft out, we pitched the design team six new operators. We’re absolutely positive each one is a brilliant, flawless character that will neatly fit into the game’s tactical environment. However, no one on the IGN team is an actual professional games designer, and so the Rainbow Six Siege team has a few ... different ideas about our designs. Here is the feedback we received on all six of our operators from Rainbow Six Siege game designers Jean-Baptiste Hallé and Emilien Lomet.
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Death Stranding Features a Conan O’Brien Cameo
US talk show host Conan O’Brien has revealed that he has a cameo in Death Stranding.
In a clip uploaded to the Conan YouTube channel, O’Brien can be seen visiting the Kojima Productions offices during a trip to Tokyo. After a brief profile of Death Stranding, Kojima is seen asking O’Brien if he’d like to be in the game. Presumably this was all arranged in advanced in order to make a joke out of it all, so naturally O’Brien agrees. And so commences a bizarre facial capture session.
While the clip is humorous in tone, O’Brien really is in the game. He’s… strange, too. As revealed by Kojima in a tweet, O’Brien’s character - The Wondering MC - will gift you a Sea Otter Suit when you connect with him. Yes, you can dress Sam up as a sea otter, and make him swim in a river like an otter. Just when you though Death Stranding couldn’t get any weirder.
Hocus Pocus Sequel Being Developed for Disney Plus
A sequel to 1993's Hocus Pocus is in development for Disney+ and Workaholics writer and co-producer Jen D'Angelo will be writing the script.
As reported by Collider, Hocus Pocus' stars Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy have not been attached to the new project as of yet, but "D’Angelo has been tasked with finding a way to bring back the original cast" in some way.
The original followed Midler, Parker, and Najimy who were witches from 1693 in Salem, MA that were resurrected 300 years later. They must learn to live in the 20th century and deal with the fact that Halloween has become a holiday.