Yearly Archives: 2018
Red Dead Redemption 2 Official Companion App Revealed
Rockstar has revealed that Red Dead Redemption 2 will be receiving an official companion app that will be launching alongside the game on iOS and Android on October 26, 2018.
Announced via Rockstar's website, the Red Dead Redemption 2 Companion App will connect to your PlayStation 4 or Xbox One and will deliver "real-time interactive information to your smart device."
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Fortnitemares Event Begins, Crossbow Returns, and Glider Changes in Latest Fortnite Patch
A brand new Fortnite patch released today is kicking off Fortnitemares, a limited time event where monsters spawn and wreak havoc in the battle royale mode.
The cube has made quite the journey since it first appeared last season and its latest move is releasing Cube Fragments onto the map. Cube Monsters will emerge from these fragments and killing them provides a chance at finding extra shield and loot. The small Cube fragments will spawn randomly on the map while the larger fragments can be found at corrupted zones.
To fight off the hoard of monsters are two new weapons. One is the modified return of the crossbow, now known as the Hunter Crossbow with 40 base damage and unlimited ammo. The Six Shooter allows for increased fire rate when shooting from the hip while aiming down the sight allows for more precision. The Hand Cannon got a few buffs and the Rocket Launcher has a temporary visual upgrade with the Pumpkin Rocket Launcher.
Joker Movie Includes Bruce Wayne and Alfred Pennyworth
The upcoming Joker film starring Joaquin Phoenix is set to include depictions of both Bruce Wayne and Alfred Pennyworth.
Per The Hollywood Reporter (via Comicbook.com), Dante Pereira-Olson has been cast as a young Bruce Wayne, long before donning the black cowl and becoming Batman. Pereira-Olson and Joaquin Phoenix both starred in the recent film, You Were Never Really Here.
Dante Pereira-Olson in Happy! Credit: SYFY
Stephen King Gave Teenage Film Students the Rights to One of His Stories for $1
Master of horror Stephen King sold the film rights to his short story Stationary Bike to students at the Blaenau Gwent Film Academy in Tredegar, Wales for a whopping $1.
As reported by LA Times (via Mashable), the film’s screenplay is written by 16-year-old Alfie Evans and 14-year-old Cerys Cliff. Roughly 30 students are expected to work on the project. Stationary Bike is one of the stories included in King’s collection Just After Sunset.
Spider-Man Tops U.S. Game Sales for September
The September 2018 NPD results are in, and Marvel’s Spider-Man for the PlayStation 4 was the month’s best-selling game in the United States.
Though topping the month is impressive enough, NPD notes that it has quickly become the third best-selling game year-to-date across all platforms, behind fellow PS4 exclusive God of War at number two and Far Cry 5 at number one.
Spider-Man also netted the biggest launch month in dollar sales for any Playstation exclusive in history, and generated the highest dollar sales during its launch compared to any game this year, achieving launch sales that are 37 percent higher than the combined launch month sales of every other Spider-Man game released since the NPD began tracking game sales in 1995.
Disney Eyes Pirates of the Caribbean Reboot With Deadpool Writers
It looks like Disney is looking to reboot the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, with Deadpool and Zombieland writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick in early talks to pen the script.
As reported by Deadline, not much else is known about the potential reboot, other than Jerry Bruckheimer will continue to act as producer for the franchise. It is currently unclear if Johnny Depp, who famously played Captain Jack Sparrow in the current five films in the franchise, will be involved in the reboot.
This proposed reboot runs counter to rumors that a Pirates of the Caribbean 6 is in development, though it’s possible the films are one and the same. These rumors suggested that the writers of Dead Men Tell No Tales, Jeff Nathanson and Terry Rossio, were working on the script, and that the film’s co-director Joachim Rønning would return to helm the project.
Every IGN Fallout Review
Fallout 76 is just around the corner with a beta going live for a today, so we decided to take a look back at every review IGN has ever made for a Fallout game, all the way back to the very beginning.
Flip through the slideshow below (and you can use your arrow keys on desktop for faster browsing) to see all the post-apocalyptic scores we've given the series over the years:
For more Fallout, take a look out our complete interactive Fallout 76 map to get familiar with Appalachia ahead of launch. You can also find info on the timing of the beta here, and read Bethesda's statement on how it knows there will be plenty of bugs that need to be squashed. You can also watch Gav's unofficial preview below:
The Most ’90s Movies of the 1990s
Some movies are timeless. Others are hopelessly mired in the time they were created. It's not an insult, it's just a part of their programming. Saturday Night Fever is a classic motion picture, but it's hard to imagine being made the same way in the 1990s, isn't it?
We've got some serious distance from the 1990s nowadays, and it's getting easier to point out which films are the most '90s out of all of them. Some of them are classics, some of them are turkeys, but all of them were very particular to the time they were created. They've got 1990s fashions, fads, film styles and soundtracks that rocket us right back to the turn of the century, and we kinda loved them all. Even the embarrassing ones.
Bethesda Details Fallout 76’s PVP
Bethesda has detailed Fallout 76's player versus player (PvP) combat and how it works in the wasteland of West Virginia.
In a blogpost, Bethesda outlined the rules of engagement that come into play when you run into another human player in Fallout 76 and revealed that PvP may begin as early as level five.
However, when you attack another player the damage dealt will be "greatly reduced until they agree to start a PvP duel with you by returning fire."
