Game of Thrones’ Lena Headey: ‘I Wanted a Better’ End
SPOILERS FOR GAME OF THRONES FINAL SEASON BELOW
As the final season of Game of Thrones came to an end, a common concern among fans was that major characters were being quickly killed off to facilitate a shorter-than-usual production, neutering much of the emotional catharsis built up over the past near-decade. While secondary players like Varys and Euron Greyjoy being dispatched might make sense, it was the death of Cersei and Jaime Lannister that perhaps upset fans the most, and actress Lena Headey feels similarly, according to a feature from the Guardian.
Mortal Kombat 11: Kombat League Ranked Mode Added This Week
NetherRealm Studios announced the Kombat League ranked mode will be added as a free content update tomorrow, June 18.
Kombat League is a four-week, seasonal ranked mode where players compete against other fighters online to earn exclusive in-game rewards. It’s comprised of nine tiers, where players start as Apprentice and fight their way to the rank of Elder God, with each rank unlocking exclusive in-game items. Players can also earn in-game items playing in daily and seasonal quests, and once a season ends, a new season will start immediately with new rewards and incentives.
You can see some of these unlockable costumes and learn even more about how Kombat League works in the trailer below.
Hunger Games Prequel Announced, Takes Place in ‘Dark Days’ of Panem
Good news for fans of Panem; the Hunger Games is coming back with a prequel book set 64 years before the original Hunger Games novel, and a film adaptation is almost certain to follow.
According to author Suzanne Collins, the novel is set to be released on May 19, 2020, and will take place in the "reconstruction period 10 years after the war," which led to the creation of the Hunger Games, themselves. The news comes by way of The Hollywood Reporter.
Although details concerning the plot or characters have not yet been revealed, Collins did hint at thematic elements present in the prequel; "The reconstruction period... commonly referred to as the Dark Days - as the country of Panem struggles back to its feet - provides fertile ground for characters to grapple with these questions and thereby define their views of humanity."
Cyberpunk 2077 E3 Demo Will Be Made Public During PAX West
The extended gameplay demo of Cyberpunk 2077 shown behind closed doors during E3 2019 will be made public during PAX West 2019.
Revealed by CD Projekt Red global community lead Marcin Momot on Twitter, industry insider Shinobi602 wrote "Cyberpunk 2077 extended gameplay demo won’t be made public until after Gamescom 2019 (August 20-24),” to which Momot responded “It’s going to happen exactly during PAX West.” This year’s PAX West is set to take place in Seattle, WA from August 30 - September 2.
CD Projekt Red previously revealed it wouldn’t show this demo publicly until after Gamescom, but didn’t initially announce a specific timeframe.
Carrion is the Horror Movie Monster Game I’ve Always Wanted
It says a lot about Carrion that the first human you're able to ambush and rip to pieces can be found sitting on a toilet. You play as an escaped creature—an amorphous amalgamation of tendrils and teeth—stalking down dimly lit corridors and slinking through vents in your quest for freedom and vengeance on the scientists that imprisoned you. At first you'll be fairly puny looking, but as you expand and devour, you'll gain health and mass until you start looking like a spaghetti monster from hell. Developer Phobia Game Studios has created a sort of reverse-horror game—the best kind—as it lets you re-enact scenes from your favorite creature features. Do you slowly crawl though a duct and pop out to yank scientists to their doom one by one? Or would you prefer to madly rampage through a lab with incredible speed—grabbing everything you can wrap your tentacles around and flinging them at any who dare stand against you? You'll be able to choose for yourself when it's out on PC sometime next year.
Is Marvel Teasing the Return of Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man?
Marvel Comics is teasing a mysterious new Spider-Man project that could either involve a crossover with the Fantastic Four or a series set in the universe of Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy.
Check out the teaser image below:
The logical assumption is that Marvel is teasing an upcoming crossover between Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four. The two franchises have a long history of intermingling, with the first team-up between Spidey and the FF happening way back in 1963's The Amazing Spider-Man #1. More recently, Spider-Man joined the Fantastic Four in 2011 in the wake of Human Torch's death, and even took over ownership of the Baxter Building following the team's post-Secret Wars disappearance. This would be the first official team-up between Spidey and the FF in several years, with Marvel only recently bringing back the monthly Fantastic Four comic last summer.
The Gears of War Movie Is Set in an Alternate Reality
In an interview with IGN, The Coalition’s studio head Rod Fergusson revealed the Gears of War movie is being excluded from the franchise’s canon.
“In order for the movie to be successful, it has to be a great movie first and a Gears movie second,” Fergusson said. “Basically the way that we sort of reconciled that was, we said, ‘oh the movie should be an alternate reality. It should not be dependent on the game story, nor should it influence the game story.’”
Fergusson said by doing this, they’d not only allow there to be more room for potential with what could happen in the movie but to allow new creatives with different processes to think about the Gears world in a unique way. Fergusson said they take this approach with all the Gears worldbuilding media, like the Gears of War books and comics.
Rocket League: I Think I Like the New Spike Rush Mode More Than the Main Game
I've been trying to decide whether I think Spike Rush is better than Rocket League's base mode. When I'm shown it at E3, the Psyonix devs in attendance casually introduce it as a component part of their ongoing Radical Summer event. It comes alongside a neon swathe of '80s nostalgia-inducing cosmetics (from Ultimate Warrior decals to ET-themed wheels to a drivable KITT from Knight Rider), and another mode, Beach Ball. None of that is as good as Spike Rush.
The (very good) pitch I'm given is that if regular Rocket League is soccer with cars, Spike Rush is rugby with cars. Arriving for free on July 1, the mode's fairly simple. There are still three cars on each side, and each is trying to get a big ball into the opponents' goal, earning a point every time they do.
Destroy All Humans! Remake: New Tweaks to an Old Formula
The only assets Black Forest Games has taken from 2005’s Destroy All Humans! are the original voice lines and music. Every other aspect has been rebuilt to bring alien anti-hero Cryptosporidium 137 aka Crypto back to our screens. The developers describe this new outing as “not a remake, but a remake of what people remember it being”. In my short time seeing the game I knew exactly what they meant, for better or worse.
At its core, Destroy All Humans! is still about exactly that: destroying all humans. Their towns, army bases and general peace of mind. It’s a third-person shooter but also incorporates stealth elements, and vehicle combat when commanding Crypto’s Saucer. You’re encouraged to cause as much destruction as possible, raining death from above, then strolling through the ruins finding new and interesting ways to interfere with the survivors.
Dragon Quest Builders 2 Is Probably What You Wanted from the Original
Long story short: Dragon Quest Builders 2 is shaping up to be just like the original, but with smart new features and quality-of-life improvements. Many of those new features weren't accessible in the demo I played at E3 2019, but you can get a glimpse of them in the trailer below.
According to the producers, the idea behind the original Dragon Quest Builders was to take a sandbox-style building game (i.e. Minecraft) and give it the structure of a, you know, regular video game. It was designed so that anyone, young or old, longtime gamer or novice, could pick up a controller and learn how to build cool stuff. Dragon Quest Builders 2 is based on those same principles, but expands your capabilities.