Yearly Archives: 2018
See How The Witcher Cast Compares to Their Video Game Counterparts
Netflix has just released new photos of The Witcher cast members in costume, featuring Henry Cavill as Geralt of Rivia, Freya Allan as Ciri, Princess of Cintra, Roach, and Anya Chalotra as the sorceress Yennefer.
Not only is The Witcher a beloved book series written by Andrzej Sapkowski, but also a popular video game franchise, developed by Polish studio CD Projekt Red.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Easter Eggs Don’t Activate Until After the Game Launches
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 launches on October 12, and its Easter eggs won’t activate in its Zombies mode until then in order to level the playing field for all players so they can find them as a community.
Revealed on the official Call of Duty Zombies Reddit, developer Treyarch said the decision was made to create a spoiler-free environment for players worldwide, and that all Easter eggs in Voyage of Despair, IX, Blood of the Dead and Classified won’t go live until 10am PT on Friday, Oct. 12.
"We also know how important it is for fans to discover the secrets hidden within each launch day experience together as a community,” said Treyarch on Reddit. "Therefore, in the spirit of doing everything we can to create a spoiler-free, 100% level playing field for Easter Egg hunters around the world, we’re trying something new for the first time: Black Ops 4 Zombies Easter Eggs will be enabled worldwide in Voyage of Despair, IX, Blood of the Dead, and Classified at 10AM Pacific Time on Friday, October 12."
Our Dream PS5 Launch Games
BEYOND!
On this week's episode of IGN's weekly PlayStation show, Beyond, host Jonathon Dornbush — who is know your official, new host of Beyond — is joined by Max Scoville and Brian Altano to break down the news of PlayStation finally acknowledging the PS4's successor. The crew discusses their dream launch games, and how realistic they think possible games might be for launch, and discuss what features they'd like to see with the new system.
Additionally, the crew discusses the new Resident Evil 2 footage, Borderlands 2 VR and the PSVR 2nd anniversary, Kingdom Hearts 3, Yakuza Kiwami, and answers YOUR questions.
Unfortunately we have no time codes this week, but the episode is full of great discussion so be sure to stick around through the entire show.
Majora’s Mask Perfectly Captures An Entire Generation’s Anxieties
As Link approaches Ikana Canyon in the build-up to the penultimate act of The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask, one barely-noticeable NPC ironically sticks out. Shiro is a Clock Town Soldier – far from home, invisible to anyone that passes him, and desperate to carve out the effervescent personality that he so solemnly believes he lacks.
“I'm shocked. You're the first person who's ever spoken to me,” Shiro tells Link when he looks through the Lens of Truth. “I've been here for many years, waving my arms around and asking for help, but everyone ignores me and passes me by. It's 'cause I'm about as impressive as a stone, right? ...I'm used to it, though."
The Zelda series – in spite of its save-the-princess plot and regular forays into colorful wackiness – is no stranger to darkness. After being manipulated into maniacal delusions by Ganondorf, Twilight Princess’s tragic anti-hero Zant appears to commit suicide at the game’s conclusion. Beneath its cartoon facade, The Wind Waker is premised on the divine flooding and subsequent near-total annihilation of Hyrule. Ocarina of Time features one of the series’ few on-screen NPC deaths (an easy-to-miss Hyrulean Soldier with an uncanny resemblance to Majora’s Mask’s Shiro).
Fantastic Beasts: 6 New Posters From The Crimes of Grindelwald
Warner Bros. released six new posters for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.
Each poster shows two characters on it who are somewhat respective partners to one another in the upcoming film.
The second of five installments for the Fantastic Beasts stories include Eddie Redmayne reprising his role as the soft-spoken Newt Scamander, with the newly joined cast member Jude Law portraying young Albus Dumbledore.
Other posters include Gellert Grindelwald, played by Johnny Depp in front of Credence Barebone, played by Ezra Miller; Tina Goldstein, played by Katherine Waterston alongside Yusuf Kama, played by William Nadylam; Queenie Goldstein played by Alison Sudol, standing by Jacob Kowalski, played by Dan Fogler; and Leta Lestrange, played by Zoë Kravitz next to Newt's brother Theseus Scamander, played by Callum Turner.
Spider-Geddon Shocks With a Lethal Opener
The opening chapter of Marvel’s Spider-Geddon event mini-series saw the heroes suffer devastating losses.
Warning: beware spoilers for Spider-Geddon #1 by Christos Gage, Dan Slott and Jorge Molina!
The villainous Inheritors of Spider-Verse made a shocking return and took the lives of two spider-characters in the process.
The blame rests squarely on Otto Octavius aka the Superior Octopus, who in a bid to become immortal combined the technology of the Jackal and the Inheritors to create supply of clones for him to transfer his mind into should his current body perish. However, the Inheritors were able to secretly access their cloning tech in his lab to respawn their bodies, essentially allowing them to escape the prison they found themselves in at the end of Spider-Verse.
Marvel Teases New Guardians of the Galaxy Team Roster
Marvel Comics has big plans for the Guardians of the Galaxy in 2019, including launching a new ongoing series from Thanos Wins creative team Donny Cates and Geoff Shaw. The new series will introduce a bigger, more eclectic Guardians roster, and Marvel has begun revealing the members of that new team.
Marvel has released a new teaser image featuring a partially obscured look at the new Guardians lineup. Check out the characters confirmed so far:
Art by David Marquez. (Marvel Comics)
The 20 Best Horror TV Shows of the Last 10 Years
Are you in the mood to binge-watch some seriously scary TV shows? We've looked back over the last decade and selected 20 of our favorite horror-drenched offerings for you to enjoy in the comfort of your own crypt.
From saucy vampire-on-werewolf action to delectable cannibal romance through the return of the Deadites and anime chillers, we've got something for everyone in our radical round-up of the best horror TV shows that have aired over the last 10 years. Read on for the full list…
The Haunting of Hill House
Mike Flanagan's adaptation of the Shirley Jackson novel The Haunting of Hill House instantly became one of those must-binge Netflix series, imbibing a dark and deep family drama with outright horror. The show is as much about the ghosts that haunt the Crain family as it is their equally haunting past, smartly skimping on the gore in favor of psychological blood and guts that delve into the adult lives of the family’s children and how their time in the house helped to make them the men and women that they are today. For better or worse.
The Disney-Fox Acquisition Deal Will Close by Jan. 1, 2019
The acquisition of Disney with 21st Century Fox is set to close on January 1, 2019, according to Variety.
Current President of 21st Century Fox, Peter Rice, told employees the news at a town-hall meeting on Wednesday in Los Angeles. Rice will be joining Disney as a top TV exec once the deal closes.
Rice was joined by Fox CFO, John Nallen, who will become COO of the New Fox – the remaining assets of Fox that will not be scooped up by Disney in the acquisition.
Sources said that Rice told employees the deal will be ready to close on January 1.
PSN Name Changes Are Coming, But There Are Some Issues
PlayStation finally made an announcement PS3 and PS4 owners have been waiting for for years — the ability to change PSN names.
Of course, with the announcement of PSN name changes coming for all users early next year, there are some caveats to that experience. To break down what that all means, Beyond host Jonathon Dornbush and Beyond producer Barrett Courtney explore what this huge shift actually means.
Among those lingering questions and issues is that not all games will support the name change adjustment. Only games released after April 1, 2018 are guaranteed to work with the name change, while a selection of other games — to be revealed later — will work with it. PlayStation has also noted very specifically that not all PS4, PS3, and Vita games and applications will work with this process.