Good Omens: How Amazon Brought About the Apocalypse (in a Good Way)
Warning! Some SPOILERS for what we saw being filmed while on set in South Africa. Good Omens is set to release on Amazon Prime Video on Friday, May 31.
Occasionally the apocalypse arrives at the wrong time.
It’s happened to Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s cult comedic novel about the end of the world. At the turn of the millennium, director Terry Gilliam was poised to make a feature-length adaptation with an impressive Hollywood cast.
“Johnny Depp playing Crowley and Robin Williams was playing Hester, madam Tracy, and Aziraphale. Kirsten Dunst, I think playing Anathema,” co-author Neil Gaiman tells me. “He
just needed some money from America, a big studio to sign on. He went out, and it was just after 9/11. And no big studio was interested in a comedy about the end of the world. They just weren’t. They were like, ‘Please go away and stop bothering us’. And the thing fell apart.”
Cultist Simulator Dev Reveals New Game, Book of Hours
Weather Factory has announced an Anthology Edition of its debut game, Cultist Simulator - and dropped an official announcement of its next, Book of Hours.
Cultist Simulator: Anthology Edition is a definitive version of the game with brand new additions, a celebration of the bizarre narrative card game’s 1st birthday, and seems also to mark the end of the game’s development. Thankfully, we know what’s coming next, thanks to a new trailer:
Book of Hours began life as a speculative tweet from Weather Factory co-founder Alexis Kennedy (you can read it below), but it’s become more than the mooted Cultist Simulator ‘expandalone’ in the months since that first mention.
“That original tweet really was the product of about ninety seconds thought,” explains Kennedy to IGN, “and we've grown the team so we can do something a bit fancier. So it's going to be a fully-fledged game. It's all the same setting
Death Stranding Leak Suggests November 8 Release Date
A now-removed post on the official Taiwanese Facebook page has suggested that the release date for Death Stranding is November 8, 2019.
The post was noticed and screen grabbed by Twitter account NanoGuidingStar, and brought to wider attention by famed games Twitter account Nibel. A second source provided another screen grab of the post, this time from a mobile account. The post has since been deleted by the PlayStation account, and so there is currently no way of verifying if this is a genuine leak or a hoax. As such, this should absolutely be considered a rumour for now.
Final Fantasy XIV Shadowbringers Preview
This preview is based on play of an in-development build of FINAL FANTASY XIV: Shadowbringers, and content in the final version is subject to change.
Final Fantasy XIV’s newest expansion, Shadowbringers, is upon us with the official release on July 2nd and early access on June 28th for those that pre-ordered. I attended the North America press event in San Francisco and got a few hours with the gameplay demo. Aside from the intriguing story elements about becoming the Warrior of Darkness, this expansion has a ton of interesting changes and updates that I believe all types of players will be happily surprised by.
In Shadowbringers, we have two new jobs to pick from: the gunbreaker and the dancer. The former is a new tank job that is built around the fan favorite gunblade, while the latter is a DPS job – one of many classic Final Fantasy jobs that had yet to be added to the MMO. I tried out both but I spent a majority of my time with the gunbreaker because let’s be honest, the gunblade is just so badass.
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Super Mario Maker 2 Won’t Allow Friends to Play Together Online
Super Mario Maker 2, as it stands, will not allow friends to play online together and will only allow online play with random players as "with global leaderboards, the matchmaking for competitive play would be compromised if you could play with friends."
Speaking to Nintendo World Report, a Nintendo Treehouse representative confirmed the news at the Super Mario Maker 2 press event last week and confirmed that the only way to play with friends in either co-op or versus mode is through one system or local wireless play.
GameXplain followed up with Nintendo about this report and Nintendo responded with confirmation that what the Treehouse representative said was true.
Pokemon Masters Announced for Mobile Devices
During the Pokemon 2019 Press Conference, Pokemon Masters was announced and will allow players to "battle alongside your favorite Pokémon Trainers from the main series RPGs."
Pokemon Masters began with a suggestion from Gamer Freak's Ken Sugimori who wanted to see all the Pokemon Trainers from the video games in one game.
This new mobile game is being developed by The Pokemon Company and DeNA, developers of such titles as Super Mario Run, Fire Emblem Heroes, and Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp.
More information on this new title will be released in June but it will be releasing for iOS and Android devices, it will feature Pokemon battling, and it is said to be a "casual but uniquely Pokemon experience."
Pokemon Home Announced for Nintendo Switch and Smartphones
The Pokemon Company announced Pokemon Home, which is meant to bring all Pokemon together throughout players' journeys, wherever they play, including integration with Pokemon Sword and Pokemon Shield.
Planned for an early 2020 launch for iOS and Android devices, Pokemon Home will let players integrate Pokemon from the Nintendo 3DS' Pokemon Bank, Pokemon Go on smartphones, and Nintendo Switch games like Pokemon: Let's Go and Pokemon Sword and Shield.
All roads lead to Pokemon Home
Pokemon Sleep Is Actually a Pokemon Game You Play While You Sleep
Pokemon Sleep is a new app/game for smart phones that "tracks a user's time sleeping and brings a gameplay experience unlike any other!"
This new mobile app for iOS and Android devices will allow players to "wake up with Pokemon every morning" and aims to "turn sleeping into entertainment by having a player's time spent sleeping, and the time they wake up, effect the gameplay."
While not much else was revealed about Pokemon Sleep, the Pokemon GO Plus + was announced and will connect to Pokemon Sleep and Pokemon GO.
It will launch alongside the release of Pokemon Sleep and will use an embedded accelerometer to track player's sleep time and send information back to the device.
New Detective Pikachu Sequel Project Announced for Nintendo Switch
During the Pokemon 2019 Press Conference, a new entry in the Detective Pikachu video game series was announced for Nintendo Switch.
This will not be a simple port or re-release of 2016's Detective Pikachu for the Nintendo 3DS, but will be a new adventure that will bring a conclusion to the story ended on a cliffhanger in the original game.
In our review of the original game, we called it great and said that "Detective Pikachu gives great insight into the world of Pokemon through its fun mysteries and wonderful coffee-loving lead."
This news follows the success of the Pokemon: Detective Pikachu film starring Ryan Reynolds that had the best opening weekend for a video game film adaptation.