Avatar: The Last Airbender Is Getting Expansion Novels
Avatar: The Last Airbender is getting new expansion novels centering on the origins of Avatar Kyoshi.
Per EW, Nickelodeon is teaming up with Abrams Children’s Books on two YA novels about Kyoshi, who made her debut on the show in the first season. The character is considered to be the longest-living human Avatar in history.
F.C. Yee (The Epic Crush of Genie Lo) will write the novels, with Avatar and The Legend of Korra co-creator Michael Dante DiMartino serving as a consultant. The first book, titled The Rise of Kyoshi, will focus on Kyoshi establishing the Kyoshi Warriors and the Dai Li.
Shovel Knight: King of Cards Release Date Announced
Yacht Club Games has plenty of more Shovel Knight content to come, and the developer is now finally ready to share when the King of Cards, Showdown, and more are coming.
IGN can exclusively reveal that Shovel Knight: King of Cards, the third and final story-based expansion, will be released on April 9, 2019. Shovel Knight Showdown, previously revealed earlier this week by IGN, will also be released on April 9.
Yes, both to-be released expansions are debuting on the same day, because Yacht Club has also announced a physical version of Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove — the complete collection of Shovel Knight and all of its expansions, will see a physical, retail release on April 9, 2019 in both North America and Europe for the PS4 and Nintendo Switch.
Fan Voted Top 10 Dragon Ball Villains
With Dragon Ball Super: Broly’s release on the horizon, we started wondering: Who is the best Dragon Ball villain of all time?
We have our own thoughts, but we wanted yours, so along with our friends at Funimation, we put the question to the fans. The results... weren’t what we expected.
Here are your favorite Dragon Ball villains, with the votes tabulated based on the number of times a character was submitted and how many times those submissions were liked:
10. Marron - 1% of votes
Warriors Orochi 4’s Smartest Addition Is Some Very Dumb Magic
It feels like the Warriors series is constantly looking for a way to act smarter than its fans actually want it to be. The release of any given Dynasty, Samurai, or spin-off Warriors game will come with the promise of some new idea or other. We’ve had flexible combo systems, skill-based special gauges, weapon classes, squad controls. The last ‘innovation’ was the most sweeping of all, as Dynasty Warriors 9 swapped the series’ compact, enemy-packed battlefields for an astonishingly empty open world that, somehow, still wouldn’t run properly. The less said about that the better.
The thing is, I’d imagine the majority of Warriors fans are in the same boat as me. Perversely, this is a series beautiful entirely because of its mindlessness. Sweeping bright red enemy armies from the mini-map feels closer to the pleasure of a Tetris or an emptied pool table than the stresses of the hardcore action games Omega Force has seemed keen to copy in the past.
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NPD: US Video Game Industry Has Record-Breaking Six Months
2018 has already been a huge year for video game sales, with US consumers reportedly spending $19.5 billion on video game-related products in the first six months of the year alone - a 40% increase on the first six months of 2017.
The news comes from the NPD Group (via Gamesindustry.biz), which reports that hardware sales are also at a seven-year high, totaling $1.7 billion in the first half of 2018. That's seemingly thanks to an increased market for the Xbox One, as well as strong support for the Nintendo NES Classic and SNES Classic Editions.
What Did You Think of This Week’s Comics?
It was another big week for the comic book industry as August wound down. Marvel released a major Venom spinoff in Web of Venom: Ve'Nam #1, while DC kicked off a new volume of Brian Bendis and Alex Maleev's Scarlet.
Scroll down to check out our new reviews and thinkpieces, and be sure to let us know your favorite books of the week in the comments below.
Scarlet #1 Review
Written by Brian Michael Bendis | Drawn by Alex Maleev
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Metal Wolf Chaos, and Why From Software Isn’t Releasing New Mech Games (Right Now)
I was entirely unprepared to meet From Software’s Masanori Takeuchi. When I arrived at Devolver Digital’s Gamescom booth to see Metal Wolf Chaos - the 14-year old, Japan-only Xbox mech game about a vengeful American president - I expected to interview someone working on the current-gen port, not the producer of the 2004 original.
As I was ushered into a separate room to meet the senior managing director of quite probably the most well-respected developer in the world right now, my prepared questions about exactly how many guns I could make the mech-president shoot, and how many the mech-president could shoot all at once, seemed woefully inadequate.
Gwent: Single Player Campaign Will Now Be a Standalone Title
Developer CD Projekt Red has announced that the upcoming single player campaign for Gwent: The Witcher Card Game will now be launching as a standalone game in its own right.
The mode, called Thronebreaker, had already been delayed from its expected release date last year. However, in CDPR's latest financial briefing, it was revealed that it will now be known as Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales, and has evolved into a full-scale, 30-hour RPG.
This hasn't affected the gameplay, which will still be driven by Gwent matches, but seems to be an indication of the new size and scope of the single player campaign.