Smash Bros. Ultimate Reportedly Leaks Online, Beware of Spoilers
Nintendo won't officially release Super Smash Bros. Ultimate until Dec. 7, but illegal copies of the full game are already spreading online, reports Motherboard.
As a result, spoilers may now be floating around, so be careful as you navigate social media until next week's launch.
“As far as
Switch games go this is the biggest ever,” JJB, the administrator of a popular Switch piracy community told Motherboard.
Overall, four sources confirmed the leak, with one sending Motherboard a gameplay video of a specific character and stage upon request.
Walking Dead Season 9 Midseason Premiere Return Set for February
AMC has announced that second half of The Walking Dead Season 9 will premiere on Sunday, Feb. 10 at 9:00 pm ET/PT.
The midseason premiere date announcement came from Chris Hardwick on Sunday night's episode of Talking Dead.
Hardwick also released the news that Season 3 of Ride with Norman Reedus – which follows The Walking Dead's Norman Reedus as he explores motorcycle culture around the country – will premiere the same day as the second half of Season 9, at midnight.
The following contains spoilers for The Walking Dead season 9, please be aware before continuing.
The second half of Season 9 will follow the groups of survivors as they are dealing with the events that took place over the past six years. The group will realize the world is not as it was, and their ways of surviving will not assure their safety anymore.
Rockstar Abandons Its Agent Trademark
Rockstar Games and its parent company Take-Two Interactive appear to have abandoned their plans to develop Agent, an espionage-themed game that has been radio-silent for years.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (via Eurogamer) lists the Agent trademark as being abandoned by Take-Two as of Nov. 19. "Abandoned because no Statement of Use or Extension Request timely filed after Notice of Allowance was issued," reads the trademark's current status.
Update: Nintendo Has ‘No Plans to Release The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword on Nintendo Switch’
Update: Speaking to Eurogamer, a Nintendo spokesperson commented on the potential of Skyward Sword being ported to Switch and said, "At this time we have no plans to release The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword on Nintendo Switch."
Original story follows:
Zelda Producer Eiji Aonuma may have tipped Nintendo's hand in regards to the next Zelda game heading to Switch.
Aonuma made an on-stage appearance at a Legend of Zelda musical concert in Osaka, Japan this past weekend. During the appearance, he mentioned – but did not confirm – a potential Switch version of 2011's Skyward Sword, according to Weibo users (via Eurogamer).
The Walking Dead Star Weighs in on That Shocking Ending
This interview contains spoilers for The Walking Dead Season 9, episode 8, titled "Evolution."
The Walking Dead's midseason finale killed Jesus in spectacularly brutal fashion, providing a shocking introduction to new villains The Whisperers and leaving us with one hell of a midseason cliffhanger to chew on for the next couple of months.
After Daryl, Jesus, and Aaron ventured out to save Eugene, the group found themselves caught in a spooky, fog-filled graveyard, surrounded by an encroaching horde of walkers. Normally, taking down zombies is no big deal for a fighter as accomplished as Jesus, but the bearded brawler wasn't counting on one of the zombies being capable of ducking his sword swing and stabbing him in the back while his guard was down.
Plenty of Xbox One Deals at Walmart for Cyber Monday
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Walmart Black Friday 2018 is in the books, and now the retailer set its sights on Cyber Monday for even more chances to save.
The PS4 Slim 1TB Spider-Man bundle and Mario Kart 8 Nintendo Switch bundle look as though they're gone for good, but there are still chances to save on the stuff you expect from Cyber Monday. Smart TVs, Apple products, gaming laptops and computers and more are on sale.
Best Walmart Cyber Monday Video Game Deals
Best Cyber Monday 2018 Best Buy Deals: Xbox Bundles, Computers, TVs, and More
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Black Friday may be over, Cyber Monday is only beginning. Many of the deals have rolled over from one sales event into the other, and as new ones appear we will be sure to add them into the appropriate category.
While many deals did come to an end, Best Buy still has a great variety of Xbox One X bundles, various game sales and of course, a slew of PC and TV sales across dozens of products. Don't see anything you like? Make sure to check out some other retailers like Amazon or Walmart.
Same Same But Different: Red Dead Redemption 2 vs The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
What’s wonderful about video games is that different games – and teams – can tackle the same concepts and ideas in fundamentally different ways. Take The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Red Dead Redemption 2. Two wildly different games in most respects, but in some ways they’ve incorporated very similar ideas into their respective open worlds. Both games offer incredibly rich destinations, dense with systems and content, but little direct explanation. These are games that want players to discover how they work and the things that are possible on their own. Importantly, however, beyond their core ambitions, both games also put an emphasis on a number of other, more specific things – the importance of horses as transport and companions, changing clothes according to climate, hunting and gathering as core gameplay elements, dynamic weather and day/night cycles, and so on.
Amazon’s Cyber Monday Sale Is a Week Long Event
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Black Friday 2018 is behind us, and while Amazon's best Black Friday deals started early, many of them have rolled over into Cyber Monday sales. We're gathering up all of the best Cyber Monday deals at Amazon and listing them here for your convenience. Instead of a one-day sale, it looks like Amazon is just extending its Black Friday sales week into an entire Cyber Monday deals week.
No idea if the Spider-Man PS4 Slim 1TB Black Friday bundle or the Mario Kart Switch Bundle will return for Cyber Monday at Amazon.
10 Best NES Games of All Time
The NES library is ridiculously good. A lot of crap was shoveled onto the platform throughout the course of its lifetime, but a shockingly high proportion of games manufactured for the NES are good, and more than a handful are bona fide classics.
Getting the list down to ten was NOT easy. I left off dozens of legitimate contenders, zeroing in on games that in many cases beat their closest rivals not by miles but by mere inches.
But in the end, I narrowed it down to these ten. Now remember, these are NES games... no Famicom-exclusives allowed. Every game here was available for the stock Nintendo Entertainment System, (though one of the ten, a European exclusive, never made it it to America). These are the games that encapsulate what was great about the Nintendo Entertainment System. Let’s Play with Power.