Call of Duty League 2020: First Details Announced
Call of Duty League has revealed the first details of its 2020 competition, with 12 teams competing in "home-vs-away 5-versus-5 professional match play".
Teams from Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Florida, London, Minnesota, New York, Paris, Seattle, Toronto and two Los Angeles outfits will each host two 'Home Series' events, one each in spring and summer. Each Home Series will feature multiple pro teams taking on best-of-five matches in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare on PS4.
Teams with the best win-loss records will head to postseason championship, featuring double elimination playoffs, with a season champion crowned at the Call of Duty League Championship Weekend event.
Check out what multiplayer has in store for pros and amateurs alike in the modern Warfare multiplayer trailer:
Pokemon Center London: Here’s the Exclusive Merch
London's limited-time Pokemon Center has opened today, and will keep its doors open until November 18. We got to have an early look around the pop-up and, more importantly, check out all the exclusive British-themed PokeMerch on sale there.
For those of you wondering, yes, you can buy a plushie of that Pikachu in a bowler hat. Check out the merch below:
The store itself is set over two levels. The ground floor is dedicated to merchandise, with a full section set aside for the London exclusives, as well as a Switch area, a Detective Pikachu section and most of the regular themed merch we've seen in Pokemon Centers around the world.
Doctor Strange 2: Jade Bartlett Tapped to Write MCU Sequel
Marvel Studios has reportedly tapped up Jade Bartlett to work on the screenplay for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
According to Collider, the studio has hired the up-and-coming screenwriter to contribute to the long-awaited sequel to 2016's Doctor Strange, though it is unknown whether she is working on the project in sole or co-writing capacity, or if she is re-writing the script.
At this time, there has been no official announcement from Marvel Studios in regards to this update.
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Ghost Recon’s Military Advisor Talks Storytelling in the Tom Clancy Universe
While 2017’s Ghost Recon Wildlands represented a pivot away from the overtly futuristic backdrops of Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter and its rapid fire sequel, the newly-released Ghost Recon Breakpoint rolls some of those high-tech shenanigans back into proceedings. Breakpoint explores the ramifications of advanced automated technology growing into a very real and very dangerous threat.
IGN recently spoke to Ghost Recon Breakpoint military advisor and writer Emil Daubon. As a Green Beret with three combat tours – two in Afghanistan – Daubon has lived a good deal of what the Ghost Recon fantasy attempts to represent. Enthusiastic about people diving into the game, Daubon chatted to IGN about storytelling in the Tom Clancy universe, the strengths and limitations of military shooters, and what The Punisher’s Jon Bernthal brought to the table as Breakpoint’s bruising big bad.
The Lighthouse Ending Explained: Lovecraft, That Light and More
Massive SPOILERS ahead in our explainer breakdown of the ending of The Lighthouse!
Robert Eggers' The Lighthouse tells the story of two lighthouse keepers assigned to run and maintain a lighthouse off the coast of Maine. But since this is a Robert Eggers movie, things don’t go quite according to plan. "It was always the idea to have this film be a bit obscure and ambiguous and, for lack of a better word, weird," Eggers recently told Esquire. "That it would be, maybe not scary, but tense and hallucinatory and strange and provoke more questions than it would provide answers."
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie Opening Weekend Nielsen Ratings Revealed
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie had a successful opening weekend, averaging over 6.5 million viewers over its first three days of release on Netflix.
As reported by THR, Nielsen revealed that El Camino "had an average minute audience — the closest thing to Nielsen's linear TV ratings for streaming shows — of 6.54 million over its first three days of release." Nearly 40% of those viewers watched El Camino on the day of its release, while Nielsen also confirmed that "8.2 million people watched at least a few minutes of the film."
THR points out that "Netflix contends that Nielsen measurements of its programming aren't accurate because they count TV viewership only and don't include viewing on other devices. Nielsen also only measures U.S. audiences; the limited data Netflix has released for its shows and films are worldwide figures."
The Boys Season 2 Casts Patton Oswalt in Secret Role
Amazon's The Boys has cast Ratatouille's Patton Oswalt in a "#SecretRole" for its second season.
The Boys creator Eric Kripke took to Twitter to reveal the news that Oswalt would be joining the cast of The Boys for at least its second season, saying "Thank you @pattonoswalt, that was AMAZING! #TheBoysTV #Season2 #SecretRole"
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Won’t Have Fast Travel
While Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order will see players traveling the galaxy as Cal Kestis, it will not feature fast travel as Respawn Entertainment wants players to "explore and traverse (and re-traverse) the different planets."
During a hands-on event featuring the first few hours of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, USgamer.com noticed that fast travel was not an option while exploring one of the early planets, Zeffo. Instead, players must traverse back to their ship, the Mantis, before leaving and flying back out into space.
We reached out to EA for a comment on this, and they responded by saying "while we don’t have fast travel in the game, we do want players to explore and traverse (and re-traverse) the different planets, which players can do from the Mantis. We also wanted each planet’s explorable areas to feel interconnected through discoverable shortcuts back to key areas. No matter how deep you got into a planet, you can traverse back to where you want to go with ease or through a little planning on your map."
‘Batman’s Not a Hero,’ Says Robert Pattinson
Robert Pattinson, who will play the Caped Crusader in Matt Reeves' upcoming The Batman film, revealed some key insights about his take on the iconic comic book character, and what excites him about the role.
In an interview with the New York Times, Pattinson admits that he would prefer not to play a straightforward good guy because "the most fun part of doing movies is that you can explore the more grotesque or naughty sides of your psyche in a somewhat safe environment." Following up on Pattinson's comment, the NYT noted, "You were saying earlier that we should be skeptical of any actor who wants to play the hero, and yet here you are playing Batman."