Midseason TV Shows We Can’t Wait to Watch
It's Midseason TV preview time, and the first four months of 2019 are set to sock you square in the squishier as HBO unleashes the final season of Game of Thrones and the third season of True Detective.
With more scripted TV series than ever (some of which aren't even on this list yet, because Netflix hits us with dozens of new unannounced titles each month!), you're going to have your hands, and eyeballs, full with all these new and returning shows.
Not only are series like Gotham, You're the Worst, Broad City, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, A Series of Unfortunate Events, and (most likely) The Punisher hitting us with final seasons, but Star Trek: Discovery, The Magicians, and American Gods are all back to thrill us with new episodes.
Top 10 Most Popular Trailers of 2018 on IGN
There are few things better than a great trailer to get us -- and you, our audience! -- hyped about an upcoming movie, game or TV show. With 2018 coming to a close, we thought it would be fun to look back at the trailers that got the most eyeballs across IGN's various platforms.
Pulling data from our YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and, of course, IGN.com videos, we compiled a list of the 10 trailers that got the most combined viewed across those five platforms. It's a somewhat surprising mix of titles, but offers a pretty good snapshot of the properties that struck 2018 the most. (This data was compiled on Dec. 30th.)
Take a look at our top trailers below, and let us know what your favorite trailer of the year was in the poll below and in the comments!
49 Big Games Coming in 2019
With 2018 firmly in the books – and what a year it was! – it's time to focus on the future. Now that 2019 is upon us and bringing with it long-awaited sequels, intriguing fresh takes, and a ton of exciting games, let's run down the list of what we know is on the way in the next year. Here are 49 big games confirmed to be coming in 2019, with the pesky reminder that delays happen and some of these could slip out of the calendar year. But with the fine print out of the way, on to the list!
Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown
Release Date: January 18 (PS4, Xbox One) / February 1 (PC)
Platforms: PS4, Xbox One, PC
A Cafe in Japan Hires Robot Servers, But With a Twist
A Cafe in Tokyo uses an all-robot staff, though some of its employees that control these servers do so remotely, under special circumstances.
As reported by NextShark, these employees have debilitating conditions like ALS and similar spinal chord injuries, and operate the robot servers from home. They operate an OriHime-D: a 4-foot-tall robot that moves, handles objects, and communicates with patrons at Tokyo’s Cafe DAWN (Diverse Avatar Working Network). Cafe DAWN is intended to resemble the robot-centric cafe featured in the 2008 anime Time of Eve.
Atlus Teases Persona 5 R, Other New Projects
Atlus has officially teased Persona 5 R, which many believe to be an enhanced release of Persona 5.
The title was revealed through a brief video following a broadcast of the Persona animation special Dark Sun... in Japan. The words “Persona 5 R” are never shown, though an official website by the name P5R.jp has been attached to the video, suggesting the upcoming title will include this new letter.
The teaser showcases Tokyo’s Shibuya district, a major location in P5, with screens displaying the P5 icon, followed by the message “New Projects” and “2019.3.” The description of the video clarifies that new information on this title will be coming in March 2019. It’s unclear if the “New Projects” referenced in the trailer solely includes P5R or also involves unannounced spinoff games, like a possible Persona 5 fighting game similar to Persona 4 Arena.
16 Biggest Box Office Flops of 2018
With 2018 winding down, it’s time to start reflecting on the year that was, including the winners… and today’s focus, the losers at the box office. First, though, let’s set a few ground rules.
First off, the movies on this list have all opened in wide release, at least over 1,000 theaters nationwide, so while Gotti ($4.3 million worldwide, $10 million budget) would certainly be considered a bomb, it also only opened in 503 theaters. While its numbers are dismal, a movie like Gotti doesn’t have a wide enough release to have the potential to make blockbuster numbers anyway, so it doesn’t really make much sense to include it here, as far as I’m concerned.
I’m also not including movies that technically ‘made money,’ even though I’m fully aware that movie math isn’t quite the same as traditional math. In the eyes of many, Solo: A Star Wars Story ($213.8 million domestic, $392.9 million worldwide, rumored $300 million budget) could be considered a “bomb,” especially since it’s the lowest-grossing movie in Star Wars history (though it’s also still the ninth highest-grossing movie domestically this year). The “budget” doesn’t include publicity and advertising, which Variety reported last year can cost anywhere between $20 million and $150 million for each movie, but isn’t a commonly reported figure. The production budget also doesn’t include first-dollar gross points paid out to actors, directors, producers and writers and a myriad of other costs, and the most common metric is that a movie needs to at least double its production budget to truly break even.
Batman’s Penis and Beyond: The Biggest WTF Moments of 2018 in Comics, Movies and TV
2018 was a pretty strange year for pop culture. Batman couldn't keep his clothes on. Sonic the Hedgehog insisted on showing off his gross-looking legs. Everyone in the Marvel Cinematic Universe either got wiped out of existence or had their Netflix series canceled.
As the year winds down, here's a look back at the five strange developments in movies, TV and comics that had us all saying, "WTF?".
Batman Shows His Penis
DC Comics debuted a new imprint this year called DC Black Label, one geared toward older readers hungry for dark, standalone stories in the vein of The Dark Knight Returns and Watchmen. That imprint kicked off with the release of Batman: Damned in October, and it immediately became clear just how un-kid-friendly Black Label truly is.
How Game of Thrones’ Main Characters Changed Over the Seasons
The night is dark and full of terrors, and so is the wait until Game of Thrones' eighth and final season premieres in April. To help tide you over, we decided to look back over the years and see just how much the main characters on the show have evolved, both physically (some of them have had pretty dramatic transformations!) and as people.
As the title suggests, spoilers lie ahead in the summaries of these characters' journeys over the years, so if you want to avoid them, you can just click through the photo galleries to see how the characters' looks have changed.
The photo galleries don't include spoilers beyond showing you what the characters look like in a given season.
What Rampage and Tomb Raider Understood That Other Game Movies Didn’t
It hardly needs reiterating that major studio feature films based on popular video games have been roundly rejected by audiences and critics pretty much since the mid-1990s. For the longest time, 1995's Mortal Kombat and 2002's Resident Evil were often held up as the exemplars of what the genre could provide, and any world wherein Mortal Kombat and Resident Evil are the best of anything is a sad one indeed.
Throughout the decades, video game fans have been disappointed again and again by flicks like Super Mario Bros. (a cult hit at best), Silent Hill, Silent Hill: Revelation, Street Fighter, Double Dragon, Doom, Max Payne, Prince of Persia, Warcraft, Assassin's Creed, and a slew of features directed by notorious schlock auteur Uwe Boll. The best that can be said of any of these is that they're “kinda good if they're on cable and nothing else is on.” Not exactly a high standard.
The Best Tenkeyless Mechanical Gaming Keyboard
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Updated: July 2018
You’ve decided it’s time to join the big leagues and dump that old, cheap, dome-switch keyboard and upgrade to a quality mechanical gaming keyboard. Congratulations. Now you must consider whether or not you want a standard keyboard with a ten key number pad on the right, or one without? The ones that forego the number pad are referred to as “Tenkeyless” (TKL) and sometimes “compact” keyboards, and they’re all the rage with professional gamers and in eSports these days for several reasons.