Mario Tennis Aces Release Date Revealed
During today's Nintendo Direct, Mario Tennis Aces on Switch got a release date of June 22. This confirms a leak from earlier today.
Alongside the date, Nintendo announced that before June, a Pre-Launch Online Tournament will take place. More details will come in the future.
Aces was announced back in January during a Nintendo Direct Mini. Its the 8th entry in Nintendo's sports franchise, which began back back in 2000 with Mario Tennis on the Nintendo 64. Aces will be the first Mario Tennis game to feature a Story Mode since Mario Tennis: Power Tour on the Game Boy Advance back in 2005.
Netflix Strikes Deal for Deadpool Creator’s Extreme Universe Characters
Deadpool creator Rob Liefeld's Extreme Universe movie franchise has landed at Netflix.
Deadline reports the streaming service acquired the rights to the film adaptations after a deal with Shangai-based Fundamental Films fell through. The plan is to create feature movies with a connective tissue, all based on the six Extreme Universe comic books.
The characters include Bloodwulf, Kaboom, Bloodstrike, Brigade, Lethal, Re-Gex, Nitro-Gen, and Cybrid, and they're all written in a similar subversive style as Deadpool, which became a huge hit for 20th Century Fox and Ryan Reynolds.
Okami HD Coming to Nintendo Switch
Okami HD is heading to Nintendo Switch this summer. This news came during Nintendo's March 8 Direct.
The Switch version will utilize touch-screen functionality, which makes sense given the game's emphasis on its Celestial Brush.
Capcom and Clover Studio's 2006 classic originally hit in 2006. Since then, it's come to Wii, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. A sequel called Okamiden was released on Nintendo DS in 2011.
We scored the amazing game a 9.4, calling it, "one of the finest games to come out of Japan in the last decade."
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WarioWare Gold Is Coming to 3DS With 300 Mini-Games
Today's Nintendo Direct kicked off with a new WarioWare announcement.
WarioWare Gold is the biggest WarioWare game ever, with over 300 minigames, including "remove a BandAid" and "something to do with toilet paper."
If you've ever played WarioWare before, you know the minigames are almost microgames, with some of them taking literally seconds. It's weird and kind of wonderful, although the quality of WarioWare games does vary pretty wildly.
WarioWare Gold hits 3DS August 3.
Seth Macy is getting a Waluigi license plate for his truck. Follow him on Twitter @sethmacy to see he's completely serious.
PUBG’s 2018 Road Map Reveals New Content
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds 2018 road map unveils a slew of new content and features planned for the coming months, starting with PC test servers going live this week.
The test servers will feature a new significantly smaller 4x4km island map, providing a fast-paced and more intense experience compared to the usual fare, with shorter matches and "a higher player density."
The vehicle and limb penetration system is being postponed to iron out a few kinks, but everything else will be live in the test servers as planned. The update was initially delayed as the devs sought to tackle cheaters, who have been a thorn in the side of the game for months now.
Sopranos Movie Prequel in the Works
The Sopranos creator David Chase is developing a film prequel to the hit HBO series.
Deadline reports Chase co-wrote the screenplay with The Sopranos scribe Lawrence Konner, with New Line on board. The movie, currently titled The Many Saints of Newark, is set in the era of the Newark riots in the 60s and follows the rivalries between the African-American and Italian gangs.
A few fan-favorites from the original series are set to appear in the film. Some of the stars who starred in the show include Edie Falco, Steven Van Zandt, Jamie‑Lynn Sigler, and Lorraine Bracco. The main star, James Gandolfini, passed away in 2013.
Batman Comics Writer Debuting New Sci-Fi Short Film at WonderCon
Comics writer Kyle Higgins will be showcasing his sci-fi short film The Shadow Hours with a special panel at WonderCon in Anaheim, Calif., IGN can exclusively reveal. Hosted by IGN comics editor Joshua Yehl, the panel on Sunday, March 25th will include a screening of The Shadow Hours followed by a Q&A with Higgins and notable members of the production.
Even if you can't make it to WonderCon, you're still in luck, because IGN will be exclusively debuting The Shadow Hours online on IGN.com on Monday, March 26th.
Starring Da Vinci's Demons' Tom Riley, The Shadow Hours follows twin brothers (Riley) born with a mysterious condition: only one of them can be awake at a time. Posing as one person, each awake for only half of a day, they make a living as private investigators until a budding romance threatens to ruin their lives. Check out the full WonderCon panel description below:
Avengers: Infinity War: Bucky Drops the Winter Soldier Name in Favor of a New One
Bucky Barnes throws off the shackles of his past with a brand-spanking new name in Avengers: Infinity War. The Winter Soldier will now go by a new name, which should not be a surprise to those who have seen Black Panther.
Some spoilers may follow. Turn back now if you don't want to know any more.
The reveal comes courtesy of Entertainment Weekly's Avengers: Infinity War covers. The accompanying description reads, "Sebastian Stan's rehabilitated assassin now goes by White Wolf. It's intriguing to see a man whose memories were scrambled, wiped, and rebuilt paired with Pom Klementieff's alien mind-reader."
How Timeless is Rewriting the Rules in its Unexpected Season 2
It was the "uncancellation" heard round the world. When NBC canceled Timeless last year after only one season, the dedicated fanbase rose up to make their passionate, disappointed voices heard.
While every canceled show has fans crying foul, there was something special about Eric Kripke's quirky time-travel drama. NBC execs were actually inspired to change their minds, and within just a few days the canceled series was renewed for Season 2 (on the same network with the same stars and writers and showrunners, no less). That kind of resurrection is unprecedented, and Timeless certainly isn't wasting its second chance at life, according to the creative team.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Announced With Release Date
Activision has officially announced Call of Duty 2018 is Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, the next entry in Treyarch's Call of Duty series.
Black Ops 4 will be released for the PS4, Xbox One, and PC worldwide on Friday, Oct. 12. Those interested in actually seeing what's in store from the fourth entry in the Black Ops franchise can look forward to a community reveal on May 17.
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