Nintendo: NX Is Not the Successor “To the Wii U nor to the 3DS”
Nintendo's president, Tatsumi Kimishima has reiterated that the Nintendo NX is an entirely new console for Nintendo, and will not follow the conventions of the company's currently released hardware.
Speaking in the same interview that revealed Nintendo is considering entering the film business, he made clear that not only does the company see it as a brand new project, but one that will outperform the Wii U:
Assassin’s Creed Movie is “65% Present Day, 35% Past”
The Assassin's Creed movie's executive producer has revealed the proportion of time spent in the film's two time periods - and they're not necessarily what people expected.
Speaking to IGN on a recent set visit, EP Pat Crowley said that the video game adaptation would be set 65% in the present day and 35% in the film's Animus-assisted 15th Century Spain.
It's something of a shift from the Assassin's Creed games themselves, which place you primarily in the past, with story bridges set in their various contemporary settings.
First Look at King Kong in New Universal Theme Park Ride
The Skull Island: Reign of Kong ride is coming to Universal Orlando's Islands of Adventure theme park this summer, and IGN has your first look at new images of King Kong himself from the attraction.
The ride will take you through a 1930s expedition on Skull Island and encounters with prehistoric creatures, dinosaurs included - and then, of course, Kong.
Check out a video featuring Mike West from Universal Creative describing what it will be like to face Kong on the ride below, followed by new images of Kong in our gallery, along with a stat sheet on the legendary giant ape.
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The Witcher’s Wild Hunt of Blood and Wine
“Yeah, he was a funny guy to work with, Peter. He was quite interesting. I used to like the days where he'd actually take us out for lunch and then start drinking and go, ‘I can't be bothered to go back to work today.’ So he'd just put his card behind the bar and everyone would stay at the pub for a little bit. This is why we had quite a lot of delays on those games. A very different experience.”
Peter Molyneux gets better every time I hear about him, and CD Projekt RED senior animator, Jamie Bury, has a few things to say. He’s been animating video games with seniority for some 15, 16 years now. Prior to landing in Poland with The Witcher crew, he “worked on things like Black & White, and Fable. Crysis. These kind of things.”
On Valkyria Chronicles’ Magical Realism
It’s late October 2008 and the affecting fiction of Valkyria Chronicles peeked from store shelves for the PS3. It felt like it should loom. Scant fanfare preceded its Western arrival, and very little succeeded it. It didn’t succeed, at least commercially. For the war crime of being an artful anime SRPG in the time of brown military shooters, nobody bothered to market it properly outside of Japan, where it received a conferral of honours that persists to this day in the form of every method of merchandising known to pop culture. There’s even a threequel that charts the misadventures of a penal battalion, Valkyria Chronicles 3: Unrecorded Chronicles, that sounds fantastic. At least, on paper. It’s never been officially localised.
Nintendo Considers Entering Film Business
Update: Additional details regarding Nintendo's interest in the movie business have emerged.
In a series of posts on Twitter, Dr. Serkan Toto—the CEO of Tokyo-based game industry consultancy Kantan Games—clarified what was said in Kimishima's interview with Asahi Shinbun. According to Toto, Kimishima did not give a specific time frame as to when the company plans to release its first movie, only saying the "first title won't be ready this year but also won't take 5 years."
Toto also noted that Nintendo isn't interested in producing live-action movies, with Kimishima citing the 1993 Super Mario film as the main reason why the company is leaning toward "anime-type content where Nintendo should produce as much by itself as possible" instead. With regard to which Nintendo franchises may be adapted to film, Kimishima refused to specify.
Captain America: Civil War Nears $1 Billion Worldwide
After having the fifth-biggest opening ever, Captain America: Civil War enjoyed a strong second weekend at the North American box office, taking the top spot with $72.6 million.
Not only did Disney's latest entry in the MCU have the eighth-biggest second weekend of all time, Variety notes that Civil War is also nearing the $1 billion mark globally, having already reached $940 million in worldwide sales.
The film also pushed the entirety of Marvel's Cinematic Universe—which now spans 13 installments—past $10 billion.
NBC Renews The Carmichael Show for Season 3
The Carmichael Show has been renewed for a third season.
According to TVLine, NBC's increasingly critically-acclaimed comedy series, starring Jerrod Carmichael, will receive a 13-episode Season 3.
Jerrod Carmichael as Jerrod Carmichael, David Alan Grier as Joe Carmichael and Loretta Devine as Cynthia Carmichael. Photo credit: Vivian Zink/NBC
NBC Fall Schedule Revealed; DC Comics’ Powerless Held for Midseason
NBC have revealed their fall schedule and it's actually not that big a change from their spring one. The network is holding a ton of their new series for midseason, including the DC Comics comedy series Powerless, Wizard of Oz update Emerald City, Taken (based on the movie series) and the spinoffs The Blacklist: Redemption and Chicago Justice.
The network's big new hit this past season, Blindspot, will move to Wednesdays, while the coveted post-Voice timeslot on Mondays (where The Blacklist and Blindspot both launched) will belong to Timeless, the new time travel series from The Shield's Shawn Ryan and Supernatural's Eric Kripke.
New drama This is Us will air on Tuesdays, while NBC will try a new one-hour comedy block on Thursdays at 8:00pm with the returning Superstore and new series The Good Place, which comes from Mike Schur (Parks and Rec, Brooklyn Nine-Nine) and stars Kristen Bell and Ted Danson.
New NBC Trailers Includes Comedy from Parks and Rec’s Creator
NBC have released the first batch of trailers for their new series for the 2016-2017 TV season, beginning with the afterlife comedy The Good Place (from Parks and Rec and Brooklyn Nine-Nine's Michael Schur), Timeless (from The Shield creator Shawn Ryan and Supernatural creator Eric Kripke) and This is Us (from Crazy, Stupid, Love and Galavant's Dan Fogelman).
Check out the trailers below and look for plenty of additional new TV show trailers -- both from NBC and the other networks -- on IGN this week, as they are released during the annual Upfronts presentations each network is holding to officially announce their new lineups.
