Opinion: The Walking Dead’s Latest Tragedy Is Actually a Sign of Hope
Warning: this article contains full spoilers for The Walking Dead #192! For more on this new issue, check out our review of The Walking Dead #192 and our spoiler-filled recap.
Readers of The Walking Dead are no strangers to tragic plot twists. Few survive the zombie apocalypse for long, and that includes many of the most popular characters in the series. Few characters who were at the forefront of the series early on are still alive today. And with the death of Rick Grimes in the latest issue, that number has dwindled even further. But Rick's death shouldn't be cause for despair. It's actually the most promising development to occur in the comic in a long while.
Wonder Woman 84 Poster Reveals New Costume
Director Patty Jenkins has released the first poster for Wonder Woman 1984, following the news that Warner Bros. will not have a presence in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con this year.
Jenkins tweet reads: "By now you’ve heard: WB isn’t going to Hall H this year. We’re so sad to miss you there! And waiting until Dec. to start our official #WW84 campaign in full-- But the truth is… we can just… barely… wait…"
How the Game of Thrones VFX Team Made Drogon so Emotional
Warning! FULL SPOILERS for Game of Thrones Season 8 to follow. For more on the final season, check out our review of the final episode - "The Iron Throne," how Game of Thrones' prophecies came true (or didn't), how Jon Snow's fate brings the series full circle, and our explainer of the series finale's ending.
The 8 Greatest E3 Moments (Of The Last 10 Years)
E3 is upon us and it’s a time to reflect on all the moments that make us sit up and say “hey it was really worth getting up at 6am on a Monday morning to watch the Xbox confe rence because I live in Australia”. These are the moments that made us gasp in astonishment, cheer with abandonment, and cry with deep nostalgia. Here are the X greatest E3 moments of the last 10 years.
8 Gabe Newell on the PlayStation Stage, 2010
Valve boss Gabe Newell was always famously outspoken about never wanting to develop games on consoles, particularly the PlayStation 3. So it was a massive surprise to everyone, then, when in 2010 he appeared on the Sony stage to announce that Portal 2 would be landing on the console. Way to go, Gabe.
Old Pokemon Leak Full of Details Gets Further Potential Confirmation
Update 2, 8/7/19: Well, here we are again, my PokeFriends. After Pokemon's June Nintendo Direct echoed information allegedly revealed in leak from May, and then a trailer in July bolstered that leak's potential legitimacy, today's newest Sword and Shield trailer has once again officially confirmed details first mentioned in that now three-month-old leak.
This time around, the new trailer lines up with the leak by showing off the soccer hooligan-style Team Yell, as well as the fact that your rivals will be named Bede and Marnie. It also confirms regional forms similar to Sun and Moon's Alolan Pokemon, and the leak even said there would be "regional evolutions" - an idea that initially caused some confusion, but has also been backed up by the Galarian Zigzagoon seemingly having a new evolution of its own.
Sony Has the Best Response About If Next-Gen Will Be the End of Consoles
In an interview with CNET, President and CEO of Sony’s PlayStation division Jim Ryan was asked if the PlayStation 5 will be Sony's “last console."
To this, Ryan responded "Who knows how it might evolve? Hybrid models between console and some sort of cloud model? Possibly that. I just don't know. And if I did know, I wouldn't tell you."
Elsewhere in the interview, Ryan discussed the evolution of consoles and their interplay with cloud gaming.
"This transition is probably gonna be more interesting than any other we've seen in the past. We obviously have one recently announced new entrant into the gaming space
People Are Really Upset About Apple’s $999 Monitor Stand
On Monday Apple revealed an all-new Mac Pro at its WWDC event in San Jose and a swanky 6K professional monitor to go with it, but what really made headlines was the cost for the monitor's stand; a ridiculous $999. The audience seemed to laugh when the price was projected onto the screen, but it's really the price of what is just a stand. There's no input/output ports or Thunderbolt connections; it's just a stand. Granted, it looks pretty nice and all, but $999? For a monitor stand?
Beyond Good and Evil 2: New Gameplay Details and Concept Art Revealed
Ubisoft and the Beyond Good and Evil 2 development team held their Space Monkey Report #5 live stream earlier today and shared some new gameplay details and concept art for the much anticipated title.
Ubisoft decided to update its fans on the development of the game this week as Beyond Good and Evil 2 will not be at E3 2019 as the team is focuses on "core development milestones."
In addition to sharing a bunch of new concept art, the team shared some interesting details on what players can expect when they finally jump into the world of Beyond Good and Evil 2.
Bane Reveals His Master Plan to Finally Break Batman
The latest chapter of Batman reveals the full scope of Bane's plot to destroy the Dark Knight.
Warning: this article contains spoilers for Batman #72!
This new issue makes it clear that every Batman issue dating back to the beginning of the series is connected. Every story since "I Am Gotham" has been part of Bane's complex plan to psychologically destroy Batman. Even as Batman and Bane battle it out inside Wayne Manor, a series of narrative captions from the Thomas Wayne of the Flashpoint universe connect the dots of the previous 71 issues.
SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated Announced
SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated, a “faithfully remade” version of the 2003 cult classic, has officially been announced for modern systems.
Revealed by the official THQ Nordic Twitter account, Rehydrated is being developed by Purple Lamp Studios and is coming to PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch. The post also confirmed that it is, unfortunately, not coming to E3 2019.
The official trailer’s description confirmed a new multiplayer mode, reading "Are you ready, kids? The cult classic is back, faithfully remade in spongetastic splendor! Play as SpongeBob, Patrick and Sandy and show the evil Plankton that crime pays even less than Mr. Krabs. Want to save Bikini Bottom from lots of rampant robots? Of course you do! Want to underpants bungee jump? Why wouldn't you! Want to join forces in a brand new multiplayer mode? The battle is on!"