Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night Gets a Publisher

505 Games has signed on to publish Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, producer Koji Igarashi announced today in an update on the game's Kickstarter page.

Speaking in an announcement video, Igarashi explained 505 and its "vast marketing power" will be working with his small team to bring Bloodstained to more players. 505 has also published games such as Abzu, Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, and Payday 2.

Developed by Inti Creates, Bloodstained is a 2.5D action adventure game, directed and produced by Igarashi, whose past works include the critically acclaimed Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and other titles in the Castlevania series. Bloodstained will also feature the work of Castlevania composer Michiru Yamane.

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Arrow: Stephen Amell Talks Season 5’s Legacy Theme

Arrow: Season 5 sees a lot of big changes for Oliver Queen -- new job, new allies, new enemies -- but it's also a season that is busy looking back to its roots. The theme of "legacy" is woven into many of its facets: the villain Prometheus is a result of the Green Arrow's actions, the flashbacks will finally set the stage for the Oliver viewers met in Season 1 and Arrow's team will include new recruits who have been inspired by Star City's resident superhero.

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Suicide Squad Extended Cut Coming to Blu-ray

Suicide Squad's home entertainment plan has been revealed, including the theatrical version and an extended cut of the film. It will be available on Digital HD on November 15, while the physical Blu-ray and DVD versions will be released December 13.

The extended cut adds 13 more minutes of previously unseen footage to the film, and will also be available to own on Digital HD. An Ultra HD Blu-ray of Suicide Squad will cost $44.95, while the Blu-ray 3D combo pack will go for $44.95, the Blu-ray combo pack for $35.99, and the 2-disc DVD special edition for $28.98. Suicide Squad: Extended Cut will be available on the Ultra HD Blu-ray, Blu-ray 3D combo pack, and Blu-ray combo pack. All Blu-ray editions come with a digital version of both the extended film and the theatrical version in Digital HD.

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One Piece Film: Gold Coming to North American Theaters

One Piece Film: Gold is getting a limited theatrical release in North America, showing up on silver screens from January 10 to 17.

Funimation Films is bringing the 13th movie in the anime franchise over from Japan, where One Piece Film: Gold has made $48.7 million at the box office.

The poster for One Piece Film: Gold The poster for One Piece Film: Gold

“We’re confident that this film will create a new generation of fans for the franchise as well as grow the audience

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Beyond Good and Evil Is Free On PC This Month

In celebration of its 30th anniversary, Ubisoft announced today that subscribers to its Ubisoft Club program will be able to play Beyond Good & Evil on PC for free this month.

Originally released in 2003, Beyond Good & Evil is a criticailly well-received action platformer from the mind of Rayman creator Michel Ansel. It follows an investigative reporter, Jade, as she attempts to expose a government conspiracy threatening her home planet, Hyliss.

Beyond Good & Evil will be available for thirty days, starting on October 12. It will only be available to those who have subscribed to the Ubisoft Club, a free program to anyone with a Uplay account. Other games that have been offered include Prince of Persia: Sands of Time and the first Splinter Cell game.

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Flow, Flower Soundtracks to Be Released on Vinyl

The soundtracks to thatgamecompany's two games before Journey, flOw and Flower, will be released on vinyl via iam8bit, the online retailer announced today.

Pre-orders will open tomorrow at 11 a.m. PT/2 p.m. ET for both vinyl offerings on iam8bit's official website. The flOw vinyl, featuring Journey composer Austin Wintory's score, will cost $25 and feature album art by Filip Hodas.

The Flower vinyl, featuring Vincent Diamante's score, will cost $35 and also have art by Hodas. Both soundtracks have an estimated shipping date of Q1 2017.

Check out the art for both new soundtracks below:

flOw first released on PlayStation consoles in 2007, while Flower came to the PS3 in 2009. Both games were coupled together with thatgamecompany's third title in Journey: Collector's Edition.

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Voodoo Vince Returning In 2017

Voodoo Vince: Remastered has been revealed to be in production for Xbox One and Windows 10 PCs.

Some of you are squealing right now, and many more of you are Googling "Voodoo Vince." Let me save you the trouble: it was a fun, charming puzzle-platformer released exclusively on the original Xbox in 2003. Its quirky setting and unique-at-the-time mechanics helped it build a small following, but it was subsequently lost to time.

According to the press release, and the very brief teaser trailer, Voodoo Vince: Remastered will be coming some time next year. In addition to now being presented in a 16:9 aspect ratio and running at 60 fps, the visual effects have been "updated," though the exact nature of said update isn't really explained, and the trailer doesn't appear to show any remastered footage.

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Wrestling Wrap Up: Everyone Bow to Sasha Banks

Two PPVs a month? Not a fan. Nope. It's aggressive and it hurts. Of course, I'm just coming at this from a time management perspective. There's just too much damn wrestling and we all know this. I kind of wish my 12-year-old self who used to have to hunt, with feverish desperation, to catch one match on TV as a kid -- no matter the promotion -- could hear me be such an a-hole about the abundance of armbars these days. He'd scowl me something awful.

All these PPVs are a by-product of the brand split, of course. It's just one of the hiccups and hurdles I'll have to begrudgingly adjust to as I navigate my way through the New Era. And I'm willing. There are more benefits to the split than drawbacks. No, not every wrinkle's been smoothed over, but there's enough great stuff going on to keep me interested. I mean, just think about it. We didn't see Dolph Ziggler wrestle at all this week. Now that he's relegated to one show, if he doesn't have a match on that show, he doesn't get a match.

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