Marvel’s Daredevil and Luke Cage Could Be Saved by Hulu
After Netflix's Marvel shows got cancelled this past year, Hulu has now voiced they are open to scooping them up and possibly reviving Daredevil and Luke Cage.
In an interview with TheWrap, Senior Vice President of Originals at Hulu, Craig Erwich, said they would be interested in any titles under the Marvel name.
"Marvel has a ton of titles we’d be interested in," Erwich said.
"It kind of just depends on when they’re ready,
who, most importantly, is going to be behind these things," he said.
Netflix cancelled three of its five Marvel TV shows in the past few months, including Daredevil, Iron Fist and Luke Cage. Leaving Jessica Jones with a third season coming out, and season two of The Punisher debuted last month without any announcement yet of a third season to follow.
Spider-Man PS4 Director Reflects on the Game’s Development
In a panel at DICE today, Insomniac's Ted Price and Bryan Intihar sat down to discuss the latter's history at the company.
Inevitably, some of that discussion veered onto the topic of the company's biggest hit, Spider-Man on PS4, for which Intihar was the creative director. On the way, we learned a few things about the game's development - here are the highlights:
There Were Originally Too Many Gold Trash Cans
While discussing how Intihar learned to provide feedback during production, he gave an unexpected example:
"Do you want to know how it started originally? With me screaming about gold trash cans animating. That we had too many gold trashcans in the F.E.A.S.T. shelter, because I thought that was a big detail. I was like: there cannot be gold trashcans in this. And there was a point where one of our old environment artists just started putting gold trashcans in screenshots and sending them to me."
Amy Hennig Feels There Will Be a ‘Revolution’ in How We Receive Game Content
During a DICE Summit 2019 conversation between Amy Hennig and Tim Schafer, Hennig discussed narrative in games, streaming, accessibility to a wider audience and more.
Hennig, best known for her work on Uncharted, spoke about her canceled Star Wars project with Visceral Games and making narrative games as a whole. "As much as we would all very much own the fact that we love to play these narrative games… these things that are very intentionally authored, structured like familiar stories from film or TV or theatre, and they’re by definition finite – it’s becoming harder and harder to make those games anymore,” said Hennig. “Partly because of business model, and cost of development, but I think it’s a shame."
Want to Get Into the Web Industry? Check Out the IGN Internship!
Hello internet! We are excited to announce this year's IGN paid internship program (including the annual Code Foo program)!
For the past eight years, IGN has run a paid internship program called Code Foo for aspiring web developers. This year we're changing things up quite a bit! In addition to Code Foo, we will also be offering paid internship programs for Product Management and Design! Each program will run in tandem, and it will also be eight weeks this year instead of six.
The 2019 application goes live on February 15th, 2019 at IGN Internship 2019. The program will run from June 17th to August 16th. You must be eligible to work in the US.
Xbox Announces Plans to Expand Future Gaming Through Technologies
Microsoft announced its plans for expanding gaming to its users over the next decade at DICE 2019 on Tuesday.
Head of Global Gaming Partnerships and Development at Xbox and Microsoft, Sarah Bond, spoke about the methods that will be implemented by Xbox to put their visions into reality.
Bond noted the amount of gamers globally at the moment, and what the growth rate will be like by the year 2030.
“Of the eight billion people on the planet, four billion of them are digitally connected and two billion of them are gamers. By 2030, the eight will become nine, the four will become five, but the big number is of the two billion – that will become four billion. Nearly half of the world’s population will be playing games."
Game of Thrones Showrunner Says Cersei Killed Ser Pounce
In a break from the show's custom of depicting deaths on-screen (and in keeping a lid on such things in the meantime), Game of Thrones showrunner David Benioff revealed that King Tommen’s cat (and Internet sensation) Ser Pounce is dead, having been killed off-screen in the time since he was last seen in Season 6.
And who could commit such a feline felony? Why, none other than the late king's sinister mom, Cersei Lannister.
“Cersei hated the name ‘Ser Pounce’ so much she could not allow him to survive," Benioff informed Entertainment Weekly. “So she came up with her most diabolical
Everything to Expect From the February 13th Nintendo Direct
After what felt like (and actually was) the longest ever recorded passing of time between Nintendo Direct presentations, Nintendo is finally set to wow us with a brand new thirty five minute block of non-stop Nintendo news at 2pm PT/5pm ET/11pm BST/9am AEDT on Wednesday, February 13th (Thursday the 14th for Australia). Are you excited? You should be! After a record-breaking 2018 and with the Nintendo Switch selling gangbusters, this is Nintendo’s first big opportunity to outline their 2019 plans, lock down some release dates, and just totally surprise the heck out of us.
So what can we expect from it? What can we not expect from it? What would be so crazy it would be a dream come true? Let’s break it down.
Activision Blizzard Begins Laying Off Workers
Ahead of its fourth-quarter earnings report, Activision Blizzard has started the process of laying off members of its staff. During the call, it said the draw down will affect approximately 8% of its work force, or nearly 800 employees.
According to a report by Kotaku, a note has been sent to Activision Blizzard staff by Blizzard president J. Allen Brack stating "staffing levels on some teams are out of proportion with our current release slate. This means we need to scale down some areas of our organization."
The press release accompanying the Q4 earnings report states Activision Blizzard will actually increase the size of development teams on "its biggest franchises, enabling teams to accelerate the pace and quality of content."
BioWare ‘Definitely Not Done With Mass Effect’
Series fans can rest easy; BioWare isn't done with Mass Effect or Dragon Age.
According to Polygon, who sat down with the team at BioWare, Mass Effect is "very much alive." BioWare General Manager Casey Hudson said, "In my mind, it's very much alive. I'm thinking all the time about things that I think will be great. It's just a matter of getting back to it as soon as we can."
Mark Darrah, Executive Producer on Anthem and Dragon Age, went into further detail on what a new Mass Effect might look like. "We're definitely not done with Mass Effect. There's a lot of stories to be told. We could pull on the threads we put down with
PlayStation Exec Discusses What Sony Learned From PlayStation 3’s Missteps
During his DICE 2019 keynote speech, SIE Worldwide Studios Chairman Shawn Layden discussed the lessons Sony has learned in game development, including how missteps with PlayStation 3 led to changes with PlayStation 4.
In his Beyond Generations keynote, Layden discussed the three lessons Sony has learned in game development: quality above all, embrace new ideas, and people want to play.
When discussing quality above all, Layden said “PlayStation 2 was an industry triumph, it remains one of the best-selling consoles of all time. But coming off the heels of that, was PlayStation 3: a stark moment of hubris in the nearly 25 years of PlayStation history. As we sometimes call it, PS3 was our Icarus moment."