Update: Lucasfilm Would Love to Eventually Make a Lando Spin-Off
Update: Premiere France has since updated its original story, revealing there was a misunderstanding between the publication's journalist and Kathleen Kennedy.
What Kennedy actually said was Lucasfilm would love to eventually make a Lando spin-off one day, but this is currently not a priority. Instead, Kennedy teased more potential movies about Han and Chewie.
"We would love to tell a story about Lando Calrissian one day, but it’s not relevant, it would be fun to tell the story of Han and Chewie …," Kennedy said, translation via Entertainment Weekly.
Sony Ending Production of Physical Vita Cartridges
Sony is reportedly ending production of physical cartridges for PlayStation Vita.
Kotaku reports Sony's American and European branches plan to end cart production by the close of "fiscal year 2018," although digital distribution of games will continue. Sony's 2018 fiscal year ends March 31, 2019.
According to Kotaku, the news was revealed in a message Sony sent game developers, in which Sony asked all product code requests be submitted by June 28, 2018, with final purchase orders entered by February 15 of next year. A representative for Sony has confirmed to IGN that Vita physical cart production will be ending and that Kotaku's report is accurate.
Fortnite: There’s Something Inside the Dusty Divot Meteor
Fortnite was updated to patch 4.2 today and with it came a number of small changes to the map, particularly an eerie update to the meteor at Dusty Divot.
Small holes have been drilled into the meteor to reveal parts of what looks like some kind of metallic object. One of the holes reveals a medal rod leading some fans to speculate that there's a robot inside. The dinosaur footprint discovered when Season 4 began could also be related.
It's also possible that whatever is inside is creating the holes. Reddit user DramaLlamaNite suggests the skin reward for completing the seven weeks of Blockbuster challenges may be whatever is inside the meteor.
Why Anthem is One of Our Most Anticipated Games of E3 2018
It's that time of year again: E3 2018 is just on the horizon. From June 9-14, we'll be covering the biggest games and hardware announcements of 2018 and beyond. While you can check out our continually-updated Games of E3 List, we're now going to start diving deeper. Every day leading up to the show, we'll be highlight the stuff we want to see and play at E3 2018. Today's game: ANTHEM.
When Did We Last See Anthem?
Though we haven’t seen anything new from Anthem since its stellar reveal at E3 2017, BioWare has definitely kept us in the loop on the game’s progress. In a recent blog post, the studio’s general manager Casey Hudson remarked how the team is taking lessons learned from some of Mass Effect: Andromeda’s stumbles, and learning from them during Anthem’s development.
Okami HD Gets Nintendo Switch Release Date
A release date for the upcoming Okami HD on Nintendo Switch has been revealed.
Capcom will launch Okami HD on August 9, with it currently available to preorder via the Nintendo eShop.
The news was revealed via the official Okami Twitter account, showcasing a GIF of the touch-controlled Celestial Brush in action on the Switch.
Experience the stunning legend of Okami on Nintendo Switch on August 9th!
eShop pre-orders are now live. pic.twitter.com/Zme3OATasF
— Okami (@OkamiOfficial) May 16, 2018
The Big Bang Theory Might Continue After Season 12 After All
CBS wants The Big Bang Theory to continue past Season 12.
Deadline reports CBS is hopeful the hit series won't end with the twelfth season, which was presumed to be the show's last. Earlier this year, The Big Bang Theory star Johnny Galecki revealed the cast and crew felt Season 12 would be the best time to wrap up the hit comedy show.
However, it seems the recent Season 11 finale preformed quite well, with The Big Bang Theory showing no signs of slowing down.
The Crew 2 Is a Welcome Reset That Focuses on Fast Fun
2014’s The Crew was lacking in several areas but ambition wasn’t one of them. Its map of continental USA may have been a shrunken caricature of the real thing but it dwarfed its peers in the open world racing space by a big margin. The game itself was ultimately hamstrung by some frustrating AI issues and a po-faced narrative thread that clashed with the spirit of fun and freedom it promised, but the foundation of The Crew was nonetheless a tremendous technical achievement that oozed potential. With a world as mammoth and varied as the one developer Ivory Tower built for The Crew, the sky was the limit, right?
Figuratively, that is. In The Crew 2, the sky is a brand new playground.
How Jurassic World Evolution Made Its T.Rex – IGN First
Jurassic World Evolution allows you to rear all of the dinosaurs you'd want to from the movies. Raptors? It's got them. Brachiosaurus? It's in there. But there's one dinosaur that for fans of the series takes centre stage: T.Rex.
To find out how Frontier set about the task of reproducing not only a T.Rex but the Jurassic World T.Rex, watch the video above. You'll find lots of information about how they animated the iconic dinosaur, gave it realistic patterns of behaviour, and that all important roar.
If you liked that here's a whopping 20 minutes of gameplay from Isla Matanceros.
Shenmue 3 Delayed to 2019
Shenmue 3 won't release this year as originally planned and instead will come out in 2019.
Publisher Deep Silver gave a brief update on the game to explain the delay. "The extra time will be used to polish the quality of the game even further, to the high standards it deserves and release the product in the best possible timeframe," the statement says.
This is the second setback for Shenmue 3's release. The game was scheduled to arrive in December 2017 at one point before being pushed back to the second half of 2018.
69 Deadpool 2 Easter Eggs and References
Deadpool 2 dishes out pop culture references at a frankly sickening rate. Everything from Barbara Streisand, to obscure Canadian comic heroes to Taylor Swift’s cats gets a shoutout!
Here’s the best 69 we spotted - which is a completely arbitrary number that we didn’t struggle to make work for the benefit of a headline whatsoever.
There's a lovely little gallery below you can click through or check out the video above.
While we've got you why not check our review of Deadpool 2...
Or have a look at Deadpool 2's Josh Brolin reacting to seeing himself as Thanos in Fortnite.
Gav can be found combing through Netflix shows for obscure references to dragons in his spare time. He documents his findings on Twitter.