Yearly Archives: 2018
Daredevil Season 3, Episode 12: “One Last Shot” Review
Warning: The following contains spoilers for Daredevil Season 3, Episode 12. If you need a refresher on where we left off, check out our review of Season 3, episode 11.
"I hurt people. My pride hurt people. And I need to make that right again."
Here we are at the penultimate episode of Daredevil Season 3 - perhaps even the penultimate episode of Daredevil as a series, if Netflix's recent Marvel show cancelations are meant to signal something dire - and... well, things don't quite work out for our heroes.
The Witcher Dev Reveals New Art for Series’ 11th Anniversary
Updated with Day 5 below!
Over the next eleven days, CD Projekt Red will be sharing eleven "little known" facts about The Witcher to commemorate the series' eleventh anniversary.
Check out the gallery below for everything the developer has shared so far via Twitter, and be sure to check back tomorrow as we continue to update it with each new piece of information.
As of March 2018, the acclaimed action RPG series has collectively sold over 33 million copies, according to CD Projekt. The series' latest entry, The Witcher 3, was released in 2015 and went on to win our Game of the Year. IGN's The Witcher 3 review said its "excellent combat and RPG gameplay ... elevate
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Black Friday UK 2018: When Is It, Early Deals from Amazon and How to Get the Best Deals on the Day
Daredevil Season 3, Episode 11: “Reunion” Review
Warning: The following contains spoilers for Daredevil Season 3, Episode 11. If you need a refresher on where we left off, check out our review of Season 3, episode 10.
"I know who you are, Mr. Fisk. You’re a wolf too."
As we head into the home stretch of Season 3, "Reunion" reforms and re-galvanizes the show's core trio - Matt, Karen, and Foggy - while also finding moments of redemption for Sister Maggie and Agent Nadeem. It's a gripping boxed-in/search-and-rescue story - not unlike Season 1's "Condemned" - that places Matt and Karen in a pressure cooker while restoring Fisk to the mountain top.
Daredevil Season 3, Episode 10: “Karen” Review
Warning: The following contains spoilers for Daredevil Season 3, Episode 10. If you need a refresher on where we left off, check out our review of Season 3, episode 9.
"Mom lost again."
Yes, "Karen" represents a pause in the story, somewhat, for about two-thirds of this episode, but that time is spent in giant flashback to Karen's tragic past and not our present day characters pacing, blabbing redundant dialogue, or hemming and hawing around the actual story.
Boy, it's about time this series got around to illuminating certain aspects of Karen. Usually, all we get are Matt-centric trips down memory lane. In fact, even with all the mentions of her brother this season, I still didn't expect this much focus on her. Yes, I thought the brother stuff would resurface in a big way, but I didn't figure we'd actually devote this much time and effort to Karen's dark past.
Netflix Has Cancelled Luke Cage
One week after Netflix pulled the plug on Marvel's Iron Fist, the streaming network has cancelled Luke Cage, IGN has confirmed.
"Unfortunately, Marvel’s Luke Cage will not return for a third season,” Netflix and Marvel said in a joint statement Friday. “Everyone at Marvel Television and Netflix is grateful to the dedicated showrunner, writers, cast and crew who brought Harlem’s Hero to life for the past two seasons, and to all the fans who have supported the series.”
The news comes the same day Netflix premiered Season 3 of Marvel's Daredevil, which has been earning rave reviews from critics. Luke Cage Season 2 didn't fare quite so well when it debuted back in June, with IGN noting that the season "never quite finds its footing over the course of its 13 episode run."
Netflix Has Cancelled Luke Cage
One week after Netflix pulled the plug on Marvel's Iron Fist, the streaming network has cancelled Luke Cage, IGN has confirmed.
"Unfortunately, Marvel’s Luke Cage will not return for a third season,” Netflix and Marvel said in a joint statement Friday. “Everyone at Marvel Television and Netflix is grateful to the dedicated showrunner, writers, cast and crew who brought Harlem’s Hero to life for the past two seasons, and to all the fans who have supported the series.”
The news comes the same day Netflix premiered Season 3 of Marvel's Daredevil, which has been earning rave reviews from critics. Luke Cage Season 2 didn't fare quite so well, with IGN noting that the series "never quite finds its footing over the course of its 13 episode run" when it premiered back in June.
Daredevil Season 3, Episode 9: “Revelations” Review
Warning: The following contains spoilers for Daredevil Season 3, Episode 9. If you need a refresher on where we left off, check out our review of Season 3, episode 8.
"You chose to hide the one thing that could have changed everything for me."
Once again, I have to say, I'm very pleasantly surprised at how increasingly great these middle chapters are. Even Season 1, the last season with full-tilt Fisk, didn't have the strongest midsection. These episodes are increasingly great, in fact. As in, Episode 8 is better than 7. Now Episode 9 stands taller than 8. Sure, it wraps up with the most cliffhanger-y ending so far, and that deflates the tires a touch, but "Revelations" is still really powerful all the way through. Most importantly, it makes me care about Nadeem.
In Wake of Red Dead 2 Crunch Discussion, Rockstar Office Now Explicitly Told Overtime Is Optional
Surrounding the controversy of Rockstar employees working mandatory 100-hour work weeks during the development of Red Dead Redemption 2, a UK-based office, Rockstar Lincoln, has decided to switch their system of mandatory overtime to voluntary, according to Kotaku.
Kotaku originally heard from six sources and was told differently from Rockstar's head of Publishing, Jenn Kolbe, that overtime was never mandatory, but was part of a system that involved requesting and scheduling overtime by bosses – but that employees could always say no.