First-Ever Women’s Royal Rumble Match Announced
At the end of this week's episode of Monday Night RAW, WWE Chief Brand Officer Stephanie McMahon made an appearance to announce that, for the first time in history, the company's female Superstars will perform in a Royal Rumble match at the Royal Rumble PPV on Sunday, January 28th - with the winner receiving a championship opportunity at WrestleMania 34 in April.
While this Rumble match will feature the women from both the RAW and SmackDown brands, we're not sure yet if it will also include female talent from NXT. We're also not sure yet as to how many participants there will be. The men's Rumble has contained, traditionally, 30 competitors, but there's a possibly that the female Rumble could feature fewer combatants.
How Star Wars: Episode 9 Should Handle Carrie Fisher’s Absence
This article contains full spoilers for Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Read on at your own risk.
One of the most bittersweet aspects of Star Wars: The Last Jedi is how much it sets up for General Leia Organa to do. The princess-turned-Resistance leader is a huge part of the movie but, according to everything we know, will not appear in the sequel.
Though Carrie Fisher was initially intended to have a bigger role in Episode IX than she did in Episode VIII, her death in 2016 means that Leia isn't slated to be in the final film in this new Star Wars trilogy. Lucasfilm boss Kathleen Kennedy even confirmed that the script for Episode IX was rewritten following Fisher's death so that Leia will not appear.
Dragon Ball FighterZ – 8 Characters That Need to Be in the Game
With the recent announcements of Hit, Goku Black Rose, and Beerus, along with a release date of January 26 that’s inching closer and closer, Dragon Ball FighterZ launch roster of playable characters is starting to look more and more set. However, it’s still missing a number of characters that we feel need to make the cut.
With that said, here are 8 Dragon Ball characters that we still want to see in Dragon Ball FighterZ, and of course, be warned that spoilers for both Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Ball Super’s all the way through to the most recent arc are ahead.
Destiny 2: Bungie Clarifies Three of Coins Functionality
Bungie has clarified what the new Three of Coins item does exactly.
In a forum post, the developer explained it increases the chances a player will earn an Exotic engram by 50 percent after completing an activity. While players already knew Three of Coins increased their chances of earning exotic gear, they didn't know by how much, due to a vague item description.
Bungie also said Heroic Strikes don't work with the item. As such, the studio is currently working on a fix it hopes to release sometime in early 2018. Later this week, the developer will discuss additional aspects of Destiny 2 it plans to address in the future.
Mario Needs Bigger Nintendo Players in His Roster
With the success of Mario+Rabbids Kingdom Battle, it looks like there’s no genre that the former plumber can't tackle. And if that's true, where else could Mario venture that he hasn't seen before?
Here are five oddball crossovers we’d love to see Mario in next.
While Nintendo and Rare have already had their time in the sun come and go, that doesn't mean the two companies working together in the future is totally impossible. Microsoft has let Rare release games on Nintendo's portable consoles in the past, and...well...the Switch is portable.
What the Disney-Fox Deal Means for TV
Note: This story has been updated to reflect the most recent developments regarding the Fox/Disney merger.
For even more on the Disney Fox Deal, be sure to check out how this new deal makes Disney the most powerful film studio around. Or catch up on the X-Men projects that are on hold due to the merger, and the movies and TV shows Disney is expected to get from Fox.
Wolfenstein 2 Switch Port Studio Revealed
Panic Button, the same development studio that ported Doom and Rocket League to Nintendo Switch, is also behind the upcoming Switch port of Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus.
Machine Games' narrative designer Tommy Tordsson Bjork and senior game designer Andreas Öjerfors revealed Panic Button's involvement in an interview with Gamereactor.
"They're experts at the Switch and now they're experts with the
engine so we work with them, and the Doom version turned out to be really kick-ass on the Switch so I think Wolfenstein will be the same," Öjerfors said.
PUBG Xbox One Patch Fixes Bugs, Improves Performance
A patch for the Xbox One version of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is now out.
As detailed in a forum post by the PUBG team, the patch features gameplay and UI tweaks, makes a first pass on visual and performance improvements, features a series of bug fixes, and more. It will be the "first of many" updates for the Xbox One version of PUBG.
The full Xbox patch notes are as follows:
Gameplay
- Gas can now be used while on bike or bike with sidecar
UI/UX
The Best Reviewed Movies of 2017
The year is coming to a close, and the time has come to look back at all the films that blew our minds. IGN’s film critics watched a heck of a lot of movies this year, and these were the very best.
IGN rates its movies on a scale of 0-10, and any film released between January 1 and December 31st is eligible for this slideshow, which highlights all the films that earned an 8 or above from any of our various film critics.
On this scale, any film rated 8.0-8.9 is considered “great”, any film rated 9.0-9.9 is considered “amazing” and anything that gets the coveted 10 rating is declared a “masterpiece”. And we don’t give 10s out to just anything, either. Only one motion picture earned a 10/10 rating in all of 2017. (The lowest score of the year: 1.9, yikes.)
ULTRA Rare GLOW-IN-THE-DARK SNES Cartridge Unboxed
More than 20 years after the SNES's 1990s heyday, Capcom and iam8bit have officially released a brand new SNES game: Street Fighter II 30th Anniversary Edition. As a (sold out) limited run of 5500, it's already one of the rarest SNES games ever released. In addition to a small print run of working cartridges, 1000 of the games are "Glow in the Dark Blanka Green." We tested it out in the video at the top of the page -- they really glow! The other 4500 are "Opaque Ryu Headband Red." There's no way to tell which you'll get, making the green copies impossibly hard to come by.
While there are plenty of unreleased and prototype games for the SNES, there are few official, printed cartridges from the 90s that have smaller runs than 5500, let alone 1000. For comparison, there are an estimated 2000 Star Fox: Super Weekend Official Competition Cartridges out there, and the Donkey Kong Country Competition Cartridge had a run of 2500.