Possible Rogue One/Star Wars Rebels Connection Revealed
A new TV spot for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story released recently, and it might contain an Easter egg that would connect the film to Star Wars Rebels.
The TV spot is only around 15 seconds long, but at the :07 second mark there's a very brief shot of several space ships. As ComingSoon points out, there's speculation that one of these ships is Ghost from the Rebels TV show. Both ships have similar physical features and builds.
The potential sighting of Ghost, from ComingSoon.
10 Big Missing Games of PSX 2016
Last weekend's PlayStation Experience was a big show for Sony fans. We got confirmation of long-rumored projects like The Last of Us Part II and Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite, plus surprises like Uncharted: The Lost Legacy and even Knack 2.
But even with a solid lineup of announcements, a few major games sat out this year's show. Some of these were just announced a few months back at Sony's whirlwind E3 2016 press conference, but others have been absent for years.
Star Wars Battlefront’s VR Mission Might Be My Favorite PSVR Experience
Star Wars Battlefront has seen a steady trickle of new content since it launched last year, spanning classic characters and planets from the original Star Wars trilogy, Jakku from the Force Awakens, and recently, Rogue One’s Scarif DLC. With the new Rogue One VR Mission, however, Battlefront might have some of its coolest post-release content yet.
Before now, experiences like PlayStation World’s Ocean’s Descent and Batman: Arkham VR were my default games to show uninitiated players how cool PlayStation VR can be. With the Rogue One VR mission, I have my new go-to. If you grew up with Star Wars and have always wondered what it’d be like to pilot an X-Wing through an asteroid field, take down waves of TIE fighters, and go head to head with a massive Imperial Star Destroyer, Rogue One VR is probably the closest you’ll be able to get right now.
New DuckTales Series Gets a (Brief) Teaser and Summer Slot
DisneyXD's new DuckTales animated series now has a release window and a new, but brief, teaser to go along with the announcement.
Entertainment Weekly reports that the series will make its debut on DisneyXD sometime next summer, in 2017. The teaser, which lasts only 15 seconds, gives a good look at the series' logo and a quick snippet of the theme song.
Disney first announced it would be rebooting the series last year. The new show is set to feature most of the classic characters, including Scrooge McDuck and his grandnephews, Huey, Dewey, and Louie, plus plenty of other fan-favorites: Duckworth, Magica De Spell, Launchpad McQuack, and Flintheart Glomgold.
Sony Announces Mobile Game Plans in Japan
Sony has announced it will begin releasing smartphone games in Japan starting in April 2017, including a number of titles from familiar PlayStation franchises.
Forward Works, a company established by Sony Interactive Entertainment, has announced smartphone versions of Hot Shots Golf (Everybody's Golf in Japan), Wild Arms, PaRappa the Rapper, and more will be coming to iOS and Android devices in Japan and other Asian territories.
A Japanase PlayStation Blog post lists Everybody's Golf as a spring 2017 release, while a second entry in the No Heroes Allowed!/What Did I Do to Deserve This, My Lord franchise is aiming for a summer 2017 release.
The 5 Most Popular Heroes in Dota 2
Flavor of the month heroes come and go in Dota 2, but no matter the patch, you can almost always find the same handful of heroes at the top of the most picked list.
Though they’re all vastly different, they do have one thing in common: they’re very good at killing stuff. Play one or two pub matches of Dota and you’re almost certain to see them.
According to Dotabuff, these are the five most popular heroes in Dota 2.
Games picked: 269 million
First Spider-Man: Homecoming Clip Released
Wrestling Wrap Up: Dean Ambrose Deserved the Betrayal
I'm gonna get needlessly analytical with this week's headline topic, but what is the Wrap Up if not my prix fixe menu of self-indulgence?
Dean Ambrose was a total a-hole to James Ellsworth and, basically, deserved to get bitten on the ass by the whole Ellsworth phenomenon.
Look, wrestling never delves into character complexities. It's a fairly basic black and white playbook. Heels are loud liars and/or "know-it-alls" who talk too much. The babyface's job is to shut them up with fists, even when they make sense. Hell, especially when they make sense and hit too close to the nerve.
Tomb Raider Reboot Casts Hateful 8’s Walton Goggins as Villain
Walton Goggins is in final negotiations to star as the antagonist in the upcoming Tomb Raider reboot movie.
Other than Goggins' role as the villain, no other details about his character are known, according to Variety.
Goggins, who recently stared in Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight and HBO's Vice Principals, will join Oscar-winning actress Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina, The Danish Girl), who was cast earlier this year to play Lara Croft.
Anime Helmer Shinkai’s Oscar Contender
The Japanese animated film Your Name. has been the biggest hit of the year in that country, and is currently their fifth highest-grossing film of all time. It’s on the shortlist for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, and it’s the first non-Hayao Miyazaki anime film to make over $100 million (￥10 billion) in Japan. Directed by Makoto Shinkai, it’s the story of a young girl named Mitsuha in a small town who is frustrated with her simple life. Her father, the mayor, is mostly absent and she’s constantly teased at school. She wishes that, in her next life, she could come back as a handsome boy who lives in Tokyo. Taki, a handsome boy in Tokyo finds himself switching bodies with Mitsuha a few days a week after a comet is seen in the sky. In Taki’s body, Mitsuha helps him on a date with a girl he likes. He helps her find confidence at school. Though they can’t speak, they leave each other messages, on their bodies, in notebooks and in a phone diary. Through this, they learn about each other’s lives and find themselves falling in love. The problem? They’re not just separated by location. They’re separated by time, and one of their timelines is about to end in disaster.