Guillermo del Toro on Turning His Movie into a Theme Park Maze
Guillermo del Toro is an acclaimed, extremely successful director who’s brought the world many memorable films – but spend a few minutes chatting with him and what you feel first and foremost is del Toro’s own passionate fandom. This is a man who loves movies and the art of making them, and what it’s like to have an audience reacting to the story being told. Del Toro’s a big theme park fan as well, and hearing he was collaborating with Universal Studios to bring his new movie, Crimson Peak, to the annual Halloween Horror Nights event, the biggest question was, “What took so long?”
As a matter of fact, the Creative Director of Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood, John Murdy, told me he’d long hoped to work with Del Toro – and nearly did for last year’s Horror Nights on a different maze, until the production of Crimson Peak being moved up put that on pause… only for everyone involved to realize Crimson Peak, a Universal film (which stars Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Tom Hiddleston and Charlie Hunnam) would make for a great Horror Nights maze itself.
The Incredibles 2 Release Now Moved Ahead of Cars 3
Brad Bird, writer and director of upcoming Pixar movie The Incredibles 2, says that it will now be released ahead of Cars 3.
In an interview with Collider, Bird said that originally "Incredibles was supposed to happen after Cars, and our wheels just happened to click a little earlier so they moved us up. Release dates are a little fluid when you're making films so far in advance."
Bird says that he is "probably three-quarters through the script," and also talked about the difficulties of making a new superhero movie in 2015. "...what's changed is there were only two other superhero franchises at the time Incredibles came out
All Dragon Quest Heroes DLC Coming West for Free
Square Enix has announced that all of the DLC for Dragon Quest Heroes: The World Tree's Woe and the Blight Below will be included free in the game's western release.
When the game releases in North America and Europe next month, all of the Japanese DLC episodes will become available after you've completed the main story up to a certain point. Most will be available after beating the king hydra.
Dragon Quest Heroes, which has sold a million copies in Asia, is scheduled for a western release in Europe on October 16, and North America on October 13.
Pokemon Z: More Evidence Surfaces Ahead of Announcement
Images from the latest issue of Japan's CoroCoro magazine have leaked online, revealing the existence of new versions of familiar Pokemon.
The new monsters will all feature in the upcoming Pokemon XY & Z anime, with the first revealed to be a new colour variation of Ash's Greninja, "Ash-Greninja," one that's described as "the form that Greninja takes when the bond between it and Ash is raised to the limit." The Ash-Greninja is dressed similarly to its trainer.
Far more interesting, however, is the new detail on the third legendary from Pokemon X and Pokemon Y, Zygarde. He has five different forms, including a blob, a cell, a dog, the snake-like creature we're already familiar with and a new Mega Evolution. These versions are called Core, Cell, 10%, 50% and Perfect Formes, respectively.
Release Date for Grand Ages: Medieval on PS4 Changed
Kalypso Media has announced that the release date for the PS4 version of Grand Ages: Medieval has changed to October 9 in Europe, and October 13 in North America.
The release date for the Limited Special Edition retail boxed version and the digital release of the PC version remains on September 25 as originally scheduled. Kalypso has apologized for the new PS4 date, blaming "manufacturing problems beyond its control."
Grand Ages: Medieval was first announced at last year's Gamescom. The strategy game takes place around 1050 AD, and has an area of Europe spanning 30 million square kilometres.
The Japanese Tearaway Trailer Is the Happiest Thing Ever
The Japanese launch trailer for Tearaway is all kinds of brilliance.
The trailer – for some reason – features a safari-garbed lady using the PlayStation 4 controller. After using the touchpad, she turns into some sort of holy spirit. Plus if you’d like to sing along at home, the trailer does have English subtitles.
Sing it with us, “Tearaway, Tearaway, it’s all new! (New!)”
In our review of Tearaway Unfolded, we said it “successfully translates so many aspects of the original,” and that it “remains a distinctive experience which celebrates creativity and fun with undimmed enthusiasm and invention, and along the way asks you to do things very few games do – whether that’s designing a snowflake or christening a baby wendigo.”
Two JRPGs Announced For Xbox One
Japanese publisher Experience Inc. has announced it's preparing to release two JRPGs exclusively on Xbox One.
During a Ustream event (via Pure Xbox), company CEO Hajime Chikami explained both titles will be released digitally worldwide with full English translations.
The first title is Stranger of Sword City. Originally released on Xbox 360, PC and PlayStation Vita, this edition of the dungeon-crawling RPG sounds more like a remake, boasting new content, new character design and even a new art style. Concept art for the redesign was also released, which you can see below. The original characters are on the solo shots, with their new designs bearing annotations.
Metal Gear Solid 5 Save Corruption Bug Fixed on PS4 and PC
Konami has confirmed its fixed a bug that was causing saved games to become corrupt when Quiet was brought as a buddy on missions 29 and 42, but only on PS4 and PC.
The company has tweeted out the "Quiet Bug" as its come to be known should now be a thing of the past on those platforms, while "the remaining platforms will follow soon".
Additionally, Konami has confirmed ongoing server issues are being looked into, with fixes hopefully set to roll out on all platforms "soon".
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Battlefield Hardline: Robbery Release Date Revealed
EA has announced that Battlefield Hardline: Robbery, the second Hardline expansion pack, will be available on September 16.
The news comes via a Tweet from the official Battlefield Twitter account.
"The theme of this pack is the Big Score," reads the expansion's details page. It'll have four new maps, a new 5v5 game mode, new weapons and gadgets, and two new vehicles. We first learned about Battlefield Hardline: Robbery at Gamescom this year.