Why Now Is a Great Time to Return to Sea of Thieves
Like most, my initial experience with Sea of Thieves was a bit shallower than I would’ve liked. With all three factions sending you on errands to the same islands over and over, the content dried up quickly. I wanted to play more because I thoroughly enjoyed the gameplay and setting it offered, but I wanted more things to do. So I sat back and waited. Now, a little over a year and an ocean of updates later, I decided to dive back in after the brand new Anniversary Update - and here’s why I think you should, too.
I was itching to try the first part of the Tall Tales campaign -- a set of stories exploring the pirates who live on the Sea of Thieves -- called The Shores of Gold. It’s a series of nine short-form adventures that have you sailing the open seas following the trail of the Magpie’s Wing, a ship that had disappeared while searching for a mysterious island which said to possess unimaginable riches. While the clues didn’t seem to make any sort of sense when I first began, I quickly became engrossed in solving each riddle.
Monster Hunter World Helped Dauntless Grow
Dauntless, an action-RPG of the cooperative monster-slaying genre, has been in the works since before we even knew Monster Hunter World existed. Developer Phoenix Labs was hoping to inhabit a space that the core Monster Hunter series had previously never been: the PC.
So when Capcom revealed that Monster Hunter World would be coming to PC after all, you might assume that the king of the genre would end up cannibalizing some of Dauntless’s players, and maybe curb interest in the lesser known competitor entirely. It turns out that World’s massive success has actually had the opposite effect.
Pokémon Detective Pikachu Director on How Mewtwo Connects to Kanto
While on the surface Pokémon Detective Pikachu appears to take place in its own corner of the Pokémon universe, one key line opens up a whole world of connections.
Warning: full SPOILERS for Pokémon Detective Pikachu ahead!
Detective Pikachu may take place mostly in Leaventown and Ryme City, but the movie also includes a line of dialogue that confirms it exists in the same world as Kanto. While talking about Mewtwo, Dr. Laurent says they caught the most powerful Pokémon of all which had escaped from Kanto 20 years ago. Kanto is the region where the first generation of Pokémon games (Red, Blue and Yellow) take place, as well as where Ash Ketchum starts his journey to become a Pokémon master with his trusty Pikachu.
Dauntless PS4, Xbox One Release Date Announced
Update: This article has been updated to reflect the correct amount of premium currency the Elite Hunt Pass track rewards when complete.
Dauntless is being released on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC through the Epic Games store on May 21. Originally, Dauntless was set to launch on consoles in April, but was pushed back to Summer. The free-to-play action-RPG is set to release on Nintendo Switch and mobile later this year.
Though Dauntless has received major updates in preparation for the console release, the brand new character customization system launching on May 21 is especially noteworthy. It’s a lot more involved than the ancestry system currently in place. This new customization menu can be accessed at any time, too, giving existing players a chance to change up their look. Check out the video of the new character creator below we captured during our hands-on demo with the new Dauntless build on the Xbox One X.
Oddworld: Soulstorm Preview – The Oddworld Quintology Lives and It’s Prettier Than Ever
Lorne Lanning and the Oddworld Inhabitants development team did it their way. No big publishers. No rushed schedule. No creative compromises. The next entry in the always-planned quintology (take that, Alien Quadrilogy!) of Oddworld games is finally well underway after the studio voluntarily shut down in 2005, made a bunch of money from the old Abe games selling well on PC, reopened the studio, and funded the New and Tasty remake, which has led us here, to Oddworld: Soulstorm.
My first thought when getting a demo of Soulstorm from Lanning was how gorgeous it looks. It’s clear that the Inhabitants have a background in film, because both the gameplay and especially the cinematics look like those of a game with four times the budget. Speaking of those cinematics, I saw the opening one, which picks up near the end of the story; Soulstorm will then walk you back to the beginning of the tale, and you’ll eventually catch up to where you started. This adventure will chronicle the legend of Abe and his follower are escaped slaves – fugitives on the run – fighting from the brink of extinction.
Star Trek: Picard Coming to Amazon Video Outside US and Canada
The as-yet-untitled Star Trek series featuring Patrick Stewart's Jean-Luc Picard will be available to stream on Amazon Video for viewers outside the US and Canada.
Like Star Trek: Discovery, the show will be a CBS All Access exclusive in the US. However, where Discovery was (somewhat confusingly) branded as a Netflix Original in most of the rest of the world, Picard has jumped to the rival streaming service. It will appear on Space in Canada.
The news was announced by Patrick Stewart himself on the Star Trek Twitter account:
Incoming Transmission from @SirPatStew! The untitled “#StarTrek” Jean-Luc Picard series will stream exclusively on Amazon Prime Video in more than 200 countries+ outside the US & Canada and on CBS All Access in the United States. #primevideo @primevideouk https://t.co/UgxPFcRyaT pic.twitter.com/gzAZBVe0MR
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How Game of Thrones Gave This Prophecy An Unexpected Twist
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Game of Thrones may not adhere to all of the usual fantasy storytelling tropes, but this series does love its prophecies. From the Azor Ahai to Melisandre's final warning to Arya, prophecies are Game of Thrones' bread and butter -- even if those prophecies generally don't work out as planned. That was very much the case with one of the (book) series' most notable prophecies, the Valonqar, which involves a young Cersei Lannister being told how she would die.
Game of Thrones: Season 8, Episode 5 Review
This review contains spoilers for Game of Thrones Season 8, episode 5, "The Bells." For more, check out every character who has died on Game of Thrones so far; our theory about why Varys removed his rings in this episode; how "The Bells" echoes a vision from seasons ago, and why that Cersei scene fulfills a prophecy in a surprising way.
Game of Thrones: How Bran’s Vision Came True (and What Is Yet to Come)
SPOILERS AHEAD for Game of Thrones, Season 8, Episode 5, "The Bells."
In Game of Thrones' penultimate episode, Daenerys and Drogon set fire to King's Landing and, in doing so, made true part of Bran's vision from an earlier season.
In season 4, episode 2, "The Lion and the Rose," Bran touches a Weirwood tree beyond the Wall and is instructed by the previous three-eyed raven to meet him north, all while seeing visions which include him falling from the tower in Winterfell, his father Ned, and a shadow of a dragon flying over King's Landing.
