Stranger Things Creators Want to Make a Video Game to Bridge Gap to Season 2
Stranger Things hasn't officially been renewed for season 2, yet the show's creators already have ideas in mind about that theoretical season. Not only that, but the Duffer Brothers also know how they'd like to bridge the gap between the two seasons.
Speaking with IGN about the end of the recently released eight-episode first season, executive producers Matt and Ross Duffer revealed they'd have to jump forward a year in the timeline of the show for the supposed next season. And if they could tell the story of that missing year in any medium, they'd prefer to do it as a video game.
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Gears of War 4 Now Comes With All Four Original Games
Buying Gears 4 now gets you the entire Gears series. Order now and your copy will come with a digital download of Gears 1, 2, 3, and Judgement. These are Xbox 360 versions of the game, playable on Xbox One via backwards compatibility. I actually own two copies of Gears 3 and have a lot of fun playing local multiplayer Horde on my Xbox One while a buddy plays with me on my old 360. You can't connect an Xbox One with a 360 over Live, but it will work locally over the same Wifi connection. I play Left 4 Dead 2 this way as well.
And don't forget, you'll only pay $48 for this pre-order if you have Amazon Prime.
Falling Water EPs Respond to Inception Comparisons
On paper, USA's new TV series Falling Water seems to bear a lot of resemblance to Christopher Nolan's 2010 sci-fi film Inception.
Coming from executive producer Gale Anne Hurd, Falling Water follows three separate people who slowly realize they are all sharing the same dream, and that their dreams could have big answers for major questions in their lives. But while co-creator Blake Masters acknowledged they're both similar because of the idea of dreams being more than they seem, he explained at the 2016 summer TV Critics Association press tour that he and his late creative partner Henry Bromell originally came up with the idea for Falling Water long before Inception had incepted its way into pop culture.
Dota 2’s $20 Million International Starts Today
The biggest event in eSports is here: Dota 2’s The International 2016. From August 2-13, the 18 best Dota 2 teams from around the world will compete for an insane prize pool of nearly $20 million -- culminating in the grand finals at Key Arena in Seattle next week.
Whether you’re brand new to Dota or a player with a few hundred (or thousand) games on your record, there’s a lot to keep in mind. From what’s at stake to who’s playing to the biggest stories to keep track of, here’s what you need to know about TI6.
This Is the Largest Prize Pool in eSports History
The total TI6 prize pool is, at the time of writing, a whopping $19.2 million. For context, TI5’s prize pool was $18.4 million, and TI4’s was $10.9 million.
Wrestling Wrap Up: Smackdown Needs Tag and Women’s Titles
While we're all still getting used to this brand split, what with Randy Orton and Brock Lesnar "invading" each other's shows for sneak attack with little-to-no consequence, a big move may be on the horizon.
Two separate world titles were pretty much a given, but now it seems - based on rumors - that Smackdown will be getting its own set of tag belts and a separate women's title of some sort.
As you know, this wouldn't be the first time that the WWE had two tag championships. In fact, New Day's current reign record is based on the belts that started in 2002, but a whole new Women's title would be a big deal, especially since WWE just changed its rhetoric and created the Women's title this past April. There are risks and rewards that come with these changes, which reportedly wouldn't happen until after SummerSlam, during the build to the Smackdown-only PPV Backlash.
How NBC’s The Good Place is Like Lost
In NBC's new comedy, The Good Place -- created by Michael Schur (The Office, Parks and Recreation, Brooklyn Nine-Nine), with Drew Goddard (Marvel's Daredevil, Lost, Cabin in the Woods, The Martian) directing the pilot and executive producing along with Schur -- Kristen Bell's Eleanor is an ordinary woman who enters a heavenly afterlife after a clerical error mistakes her for one of the world's best and noble people. From there, her slice of paradise starts malfunctioning because of her mere presence, confounding her resident guide and overseer, Michael (Ted Danson).
The cast and creators of this new series sat for a Q&A panel at the Television Critics Association summer press tour where Schur spoke about how different this project was from Parks and Recreation. "The pilot is a pretty good template for what is an average episode for this show," he explained. "It has a contained story, and then at the end something kind of dramatic happens and it sends the show spiraling off into a different place. The model for this show, in some ways, in my own head, is Lost."
Darkest Dungeon PS4, Vita Release Date Revealed
Sony fans have long wondered when they’ll get to play the psychological roguelike Darkest Dungeon. We finally have that release date.
Darkest Dungeon will arrive on PlayStation 4 and Vita on September 27th.
Darkest Dungeon is that dungeon-crawling RPG where your heroes' mental faculties are affected the deeper they delve. It officially launched on PC early this year.
The PlayStation version will be packing a bunch of added content. There are now 15 total heroes to play with and a larger campaign. It’ll set you back $25.
Oh, and it features cross-buy and cross-save support.
Check Out These Gorgeous Walking Dead Covers
The Walking Dead comic is kicking off a major new storyline called "The Whisperer War," and to celebrate Image has commissioned a new series of interlocking variant covers from artist Arthur Adams. These six covers depict a massive showdown between series mainstays like Rick Grimes and Michonne and the bloodthirsty Whisperers.
First, check out the full, unbroken image below:
Pokemon Go Dev ‘Revokes’ Legendary Pokemon Access from Players’ Accounts
Pokemon Go developer Niantic Labs has responded to the alleged appearance of legendary Pokemon, including most prominently Articuno, in Trainers' accounts, revealing that the company has removed these Pokemon from players' accounts.
In a statement provided by a Niantic representative to IGN, the company said that it has "rectified the situation" and "revoked" the legendary Pokemon. The statement reads:
"We recently noticed that a few Legendary Pokemon got into a few accounts when they shouldn’t have, To preserve the game’s integrity and as a measure of fairness, we have rectified the situation and revoked the legendary Pokemon from the Trainers’ accounts."
New Medic Character Among Big Updates Coming to Evolve
Evolve is kicking off a new event today called Shear Madness, and with it comes an update each week for the next five weeks. The Quantum Surge Update, the first of the new changes, launches today.
Among the changes coming to Evolve is a new medic character Quantum Caira who uses "sustained healing and careful positioning" to keep the team in the hunt.
Shear Madness also introduces a new co-op mode, character adaptations, 3 map variants, as well as community-suggested features and improvements.
Additionally, the event brings balance tweaks, advanced Hunter tutorials, and an "all new 'Try Before You Buy' option," where perks normally unlocked with Silver Keys can now be accessed in training mode.