Oswald Revealed as Next DLC Character for KOF 14

SNK has revealed that Oswald will be the newest DLC character for the The King of Fighters XIV. The character is playable at SNK’s booth for the first two days of EVO Japan 2018, from January 26.

SNK had already announced that a new DLC character would be playable at EVO Japan. The announcement came with the image of a joker card, which led to fans speculating that it would be Oswald – speculation that proved to be correct,.

At SNK’s booth, there are official cosplayers dressed as characters from SNK Heroines Tag Team Frenzy, which was announced during the Nintendo Direct Mini earlier this month. One of the cosplayers is dressed as Nakoruru, who has not been announced yet for the game, so this might be a hint that she’ll join the roster as well.

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La La Land Director Developing Drama Series for Apple

La La Land director Damien Chazelle is developing a drama series for Apple.

Variety reports Apple has given a straight-to-series order for the untitled project. Plot details are being kept under wraps for now. Chazelle will write and direct every episode and will also serve as executive producer.

La La Land producers Jordan Horowitz and Fred Berger will executive produce along with MRC, the studio behind Ozark and House of Cards. No further details, including a premiere date and casting, have been revealed.

Chazelle is also executive producing and directing multiple episodes of a series for Netflix, the Parisian-set musical drama The Eddy. In addition, he's in production on his next movie, First Man, which stars Ryan Gosling and Claire Foy, and opens in theaters later this year.

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Big Changes Coming to Hearthstone’s Ranked Mode

Big changes are coming to Hearthstone's Ranked Play this March.

Blizzard announced on Twitter the Ranked Play ladder is changing, and Hearthstone game director Ben Brode detailed what players can expect in the video below.

Dedicated Servers Coming to For Honor in Season 5 Update

For Honor's fourth season is due to wrap up next month, and Ubisoft has announced the next season, Age of Wolves, and made good on last year's promise of the introduction of dedicated servers.

Initially announced last July, dedicated servers are a feature that the community has been very vocal in their desire for. P2P servers have been criticised for the poential for cheating, connection issues, and latency. Ubisoft confirmed that they will go live after the Age of Wolves drops on February 15.

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25 Failed Young Adult Movie Franchises

The final film in the Maze Runner motion picture trilogy comes out this weekend, and we have to be honest: It's something of a milestone event. No, it's not because the Maze Runner films are the most popular movies in the world. It's actually because The Maze Runner series is one of the very few Young Adult (YA) movie franchises to actually reach its conclusion. It may not have made as much money as Harry Potter, Twilight and The Hunger Games, but The Maze Runner actually adapted all the books in the series, and that's more than most YA would-be movie franchises can say for themselves.

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Scientists Clone Monkeys With 20 Year-Old Technique

Scientists have cloned monkeys using the same process that saw Dolly the Sheep make headlines back in 1996.

CNN reports that while they're not the first cloned monkeys to make history - that honour goes to rhesus monkey Tetra, created in 1999 - they are the first that are the result of the same process that was used to create Dolly.

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Destiny 2: Bungie Looking At Changes to Controversial Shader System

Destiny 2's community isn't as happy as it could be, and one of the points of contention has been over the single-use shaders that has players calling for the old system to make a comeback. And it looks like Bungie is going to be making some changes to keep everyone happy.

"We know you miss D1 Armor Shader mechanics," a community manager wrote in an update this week. "

looking at ways to re-integrate that capability without losing the ability to shade weapons, Ghosts, ships, Sparrows, or customize specific pieces of armor."

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IGN UK Podcast #419: The ‘Lot But Big’ Boys

We've got a monster of a podcast this week. Simon's had his head up a Hornetaur in Monster Hunter: World, Krupa's been going off in Shadow of the Colossus and Gav's been have a lovely time watching naughty German dramas and playing Crossing Souls.

We've also got an absolute banger of a Keyword Countdown and Sidekick Simon's Football Manager Update. Would you be happy with a 49% win-rate? Because Gav's not.

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IGN UK Podcast #419: The 'Lot but Big' Boys

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UK Daily Deals: Nintendo Switch Grey With FIFA 18 for £299, 3DS Pokemon Crystal Out Now

 

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Nintendo Switch Grey With FIFA 18 for £279

Amazing Nintendo Switch deal for those who are still looking to buy one. Buy Nintendo Switch console in grey with FIFA 18 and save £25.00. You can also get Nintendo Switch in neon/blue at Tesco with two games of your choice, which includes The Legend Of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Mario Rabbids Kingdom Battle.

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Blade Runner 2049 Director Answers 9 WTF Questions

Blade Runner 2049 is a film that poses as many questions as it answers. Some are big, meaty, existential questions that make you look inwards and perhaps learn about yourself. Others, like the ones we like, are just a bit nerdy.

We got a chance to sit down with director Denis Villeneuve, and posed 9 of our favourites to him. He was very patient.

WARNING: Major Blade Runner 2049 spoilers follow. Scroll down at your own risk.

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