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.
Agents of SHIELD Season Finale Pics: Showdown with Hive
The end of Marvel's Agents of SHIELD's third season is upon us as the villainous, cold Hive has some major world conquering plans and it's up to Coulson's shaken team to thwart the infamous Inhuman's schemes.
In these new images released by ABC, our heroes take a stand against Hive. But where's Daisy in all this madness? And who is the "Fallen Agent" she saw in her future vision? All will be revealed in the back-to-back episodes "Absolution" and "Ascension."
The official synopsis for "Absolution/Ascention" reads: "In the third season finale, Hive's master plan is completely revealed, forcing S.H.I.E.L.D. into action."
The double-sized Agents of SHIELD Season 3 finale airs Tuesday, May 17th at 9/8c on ABC.
New Arrow Images Tease Oliver vs. Thea
Oliver sneaks down into Darhk's ark this week - aka the subterranean suburbs he designed to withstand Project Genesis - on Arrow's penultimate Season 4 episode, "Lost in the Flood."
But in his attempt to rescue Thea, will Oliver run into a sister who's been brainwashed? And ready to fight? Check out these new episode images released by The CW and see for yourself. Also, it appears as though Felicity and her father have possibly reconciled following the events of last week. But how is she handling her choice to spare millions of lives by sacrificing thousands?
The official description for "Lost in the Flood" reads: "Following the shocking events in the previous episode, Oliver and Diggle race to rescue Thea, while Felicity, Curtis and Noah join together to stop Darhk."
New Flash Images Reveal Return of Fallen Hero…Sort Of
The penultimate Season 2 episode of The Flash - "Invincible" - races into our lives on Tuesday, May 17th and The CW has released a bunch of new preview images for it.
When we last left things, Zoom had recruited a horde of Earth-2 villains for an assault on Barry and his team. And now photos reveal that one of them, the leader, is Black Siren. Yes, Katie Cassidy, fresh from her exit on Arrow, returns to TV as Black Canary's evil alternate universe doppelgänger.
Also, you'll see the curious return of Killer Frost and Reverb, both presumed to be very dead. Check it out...
The synopsis for "Invincible" reads: "After Zoom unleashes an army of Earth-2 meta-humans on Central City, Barry is shaken when he sees their leader is the Black Canary's Earth-2 doppelgänger, the Black Siren. Meanwhile, Wally takes to the streets to help the Flash stop the meta-humans, which worries Joe; and Iris and Henry become concerned about Barry taking on Zoom."