Overwatch Not Ready for Player Role Queues Yet, Says Jeff Kaplan
Overwatch players might be clamoring for role queues and it might solve a lot of problems in an ideal world, but game director Jeff Kaplan says the game's just not ready for it yet.
"There’s two versions the community has proposed, and neither is fully satisfactory to me," said Kaplan in an interview with Kotaku. "One is the honor system version where I queue up as a tank, but actually I want to play McCree, and the game lets me do that since Overwatch is very much about fluidly responding to the enemy team's composition. The other version is that it locks you in. I think that also hurts the spirit of the game.”
GTA 5 Has Made More Money Than Any Film, Book or Game, Says Analyst
Industry analyst Doug Creutz says Grand Theft Auto 5 has made money than any other form of media in history, with over 90 million units sold and $6 billion in revenue.
Creutz, managing director and senior research analyst covering the media and entertainment sector at Cowen, told MarketWatch that the game has made more than blockbuster movies like Star Wars, and Gone With The Wind, which both brought in around $3 billion in theaters when adjusted for inflation. Creutz estimates that even with home entertainment sales, which he puts in the ballpark of $1 billion, the films don't come close to Rockstar's 2013 title.
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Black Panther’s T’Challa Doesn’t Understand SNL’s Black Jeopardy
SNL saw the return of Black Jeopardy over the weekend, and the sketch's usual format got a bit of a welcome shake-up with the king of Wakanda, T’Challa, starring as the third guest alongside Leslie Jones' Shanice and Chris Redd's Rashad.
Chadwick Boseman reprised his Black Panther role as a contestant on the show, making for the "blackest Black Jeopardy yet," and bungled his way through the categories before finally getting a handle on things at the end.
Categories included “Aw Hell Naw,” “Fid’na,” and "White People," which saw T'Challa finally get the hang of the game.
"Your friend Karen brings her potato salad to your cookout," read Kenan Thompson’s Black Jeopardy host, Darnell Hayes.
Pokemon: New Mythical Monster Zeraora Revealed
Excitement may be running high for Pokemon's forthcoming arrival on Switch, but the days of the 3DS iteration are not quite over yet, thanks to the announcement of a brand new mythical Pokemon for Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon - Zeraora, the Thunderclap Pokemon.
Originally announced on the Japanese Pokemon show Oha Suta, Zeraora is a pure Electric-type Pokemon, able to emit a powerful magnetic field from the pads on its hands and feet. Unlike other Electric types, it doesn't have an organ which generates electricity; rather it feeds on the electricity around it, storing it for future use.
Lucasfilm Unveils Solo: A Star Wars Story Product Line
The merchandise line for Solo: A Star Wars story has been revealed, and pre-orders for several items open today.
After revealing the first action figures based on the film in February, we now have a rundown of what will be available ahead of the film's release on May 25.
There's a gallery below, and lists of the available products - and their release dates - following that:
Available for pre-order from today:
- Solo: A Star Wars Story 3.75-inch Kessel Run Millennium Falcon vehicle by Hasbro ($99.99)
Solo Trailer Breakdown – Details You Might Have Missed
Han, Chewie and Lando are back alongside a larger focus on new faces in the latest trailer for Solo: A Star Wars Story, so IGN got a ragtag crew together to break down all the details frame by frame.
There’s a lot to get excited about, so watch the full breakdown in the video above or scroll through the slideshow below for our personal highlights.
That’s everything we found in the new Solo trailer. But there's more where that came from...
Where will Solo debut? At Cannes! Solo's major reshoots reportedly used the same script! And finally, here's why Donald Glover thinks Solo is like a "fun, Summer film!"
Revisiting Night in the Woods as an Allegory for the Millennial Condition
It's not often that you stare into the deep well of video games and find your own reflection staring back at you, but the first time I played Night in the Woods, I saw myself in Mae Borowski's nightmare eyes. From her snarky cynicism to her steadfast rejection of the world, I saw flaws in Mae that mirrored my own, but on a much larger scale, mirrored the overall sense of nihilism and defeat that characterises the millennial worldview. Mae, to me, became a representation of a generation of silenced voices, and of uncertain futures.
Ostensibly, Night in the Woods is a game about the intriguingly odd Mae Borowski returning to her hometown of Possum Springs after dropping out of college, but beneath its charming surface, it represents all the horrors of the postmodern millennial condition. It is a game unafraid of exploring the context of the world in which it takes place, drawing parallels between Mae's circumstances, and the financial and emotional struggles of the current generation of young people.
New Solo Poster Strikes a Familiar Pose
LucasFilm has unleashed a new theatrical poster for Solo: A Star Wars Story, in tandem with the latest Solo trailer.
The poster features star Alden Ehrenreich in a pose that should be extremely familiar to Star Wars fans, flanked by Solo’s high-profile supporting cast, including Donald Glover, Emilia Clarke, and Woody Harrelson.
The new Solo poster.
This artwork of Ehrenreich as Han Solo was previously glimpsed as part of a set of one-sheets based on several Solo characters. Those posters, however, were hit with plagiarism claims early last month. According to Disney those posters were created by “an outside vendor” and it was investigating the issue.
WrestleMania 34 Live Blog: Lock it in Here for Match Results and Reaction
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