Cheaper Nintendo Switch to Launch by June, According to Report
Update 4/24: A new report indicates that Nintendo will launch a new, cheaper version of Nintendo Switch by the end of June, with a “modest” upgrade to the existing model allegedly coming later this year.
In a financial report by Bloomberg, a small excerpt suggests the cheaper Switch model is coming very soon. An outright "more powerful version” is allegedly not in the works, though details on this claim are sparse. Whether this alludes to a PS4 Pro or Xbox One X-like hardware boost, or simply a series of hardware redesigns akin to the DS Lite remains to be seen. The report is based on claims from two unnamed sources.
Rainbow Six Siege in 2019: What’s Over The Burnt Horizon
Rainbow Six Siege had something of a rocky start, but Ubisoft's dedication to its multiplayer-only competitive shooter has seen it go from strength to strength. With the launch of Burnt Horizon, Siege embarks on its fourth year of constant improvements — beginning with the addition of Australia (finally).
Here's a look at the year ahead.
A Sunburnt Country
The year kicks off with two new operators and a new map. The map, Outback — or Servo, as the locals call it — is a tightly built two storey arena with an emphasis on destructibility. Hanley's Roadhouse — named for Timothy Hanley, the sole Australian Operator in the original Rainbow Six — demonstrates remarkable growth from the Siege dev team from its outset.
Us Tops Box Office With Second-Best Opening Weekend of 2019
Jordan Peele's new horror film, Us, has claimed the top spot at the box office, becoming the second-best opening weekend of the year while Captain Marvel moves to second place.
The over $70 million opening makes Peele's new film the third-best horror opening of all time, and the best opening for an original horror film, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The only horror films with bigger openings are It ($123.4 million) and the 2018 Halloween sequel ($76.2 million).
The weekend's Top 10 domestic box office estimates, (according to Box Office Mojo), are as follows:
New My Hero Academia Movie Coming This Winter
A new My Hero Academia film is in the works.
According to Crunchyroll, the new film will hit theaters this winter in Japan and series creator, Kohei Horikoshi, will oversee production. The film will feature an original story, and no western release date has been announced.
Toho announced the upcoming film at the 2019 Plus Ultra Stage at AnimeJapan. This marks the second full-length My Hero Academia feature film to be produced.
この冬、#ヒロアカ が新たな物語でスクリーンに!!
Captain Marvel Bumps Iron Man From MCU’s Box Office Top 10
Captain Marvel soared past two more major milestones at the box office in its third weekend in release.
First, Captain Marvel crossed the $300 million mark domestically. The MCU's 21st film also passed the $900 million threshold at the worldwide box office.
With roughly $321.5 million taken in at the North American box office, Captain Marvel has now cracked the MCU's Top 10 performers at the North American box office, bumping the very first MCU film, 2008's Iron Man, out of it to take 10th place. Iron Man is now at No. 11 with $318.4 million.
Captain Marvel will surpass Spider-Man: Homecoming ($334.2 million) and Guardians of the Galaxy ($333.2 million) in the coming days.
11 Game of Thrones Reunions We Want to See in Season 8
We're less than a month out from Game of Thrones' epic eighth season, premiering April 14 on HBO. And while we've kept ourselves busy tracking down every clue we can find, digging into possible theories of what's to come, let's not forget that these final six episodes are also going to stab us right in the soul. Yes, the epic battles will also come with epic feels - some in the form of long-awaited reunions.
Here's a brief rundown of all the characters we want to meet up, hook up, and sync up during Game of Thrones' final bow. Sure, a lot of the list features Jon Snow finally seeing a bunch of folks he hasn't set eyes on since the freakin' first few episodes, before his adventures took him far away from the Starks and Lannisters, but it's not all Jon.
Buy Today and Get £15 off Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
Buy Today and Get £15 off Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
Buy Today and Get £15 off Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
Marvel Comics Ushers In a New Era for the X-Men
Marvel Comics just dropped another major announcement at C2E2, revealing that writer Jonathan Hickman is returning to the company in order to revamp the X-Men franchise.
As revealed at Marvel's "Next Big Thing" panel today, Hickman is writing two new X-Men-themed miniseries - House of X and Powers of X. While Marvel isn't revealing much about the plot of either book, the company is teasing the two books will usher in "the next seminal moment in the history of the X-Men." Marvel's press release compares the two books to other landmark stories like Giant-Size X-Men #1, Chris Claremont and Jim Lee's X-Men #1 and the Age of Apocalypse crossover.
Teaser art by Mark Brooks. (Image Credit: Marvel Comics)