Yearly Archives: 2018
Fan Voted Top 10 Dragon Ball Villains
With Dragon Ball Super: Broly’s release on the horizon, we started wondering: Who is the best Dragon Ball villain of all time?
We have our own thoughts, but we wanted yours, so along with our friends at Funimation, we put the question to the fans. The results... weren’t what we expected.
Here are your favorite Dragon Ball villains, with the votes tabulated based on the number of times a character was submitted and how many times those submissions were liked:
10. Marron - 1% of votes
Warriors Orochi 4’s Smartest Addition Is Some Very Dumb Magic
It feels like the Warriors series is constantly looking for a way to act smarter than its fans actually want it to be. The release of any given Dynasty, Samurai, or spin-off Warriors game will come with the promise of some new idea or other. We’ve had flexible combo systems, skill-based special gauges, weapon classes, squad controls. The last ‘innovation’ was the most sweeping of all, as Dynasty Warriors 9 swapped the series’ compact, enemy-packed battlefields for an astonishingly empty open world that, somehow, still wouldn’t run properly. The less said about that the better.
The thing is, I’d imagine the majority of Warriors fans are in the same boat as me. Perversely, this is a series beautiful entirely because of its mindlessness. Sweeping bright red enemy armies from the mini-map feels closer to the pleasure of a Tetris or an emptied pool table than the stresses of the hardcore action games Omega Force has seemed keen to copy in the past.
Fortnite Week 8 Challenges – Three Oversized Seats Map and Rift Spawn Locations
NPD: US Video Game Industry Has Record-Breaking Six Months
2018 has already been a huge year for video game sales, with US consumers reportedly spending $19.5 billion on video game-related products in the first six months of the year alone - a 40% increase on the first six months of 2017.
The news comes from the NPD Group (via Gamesindustry.biz), which reports that hardware sales are also at a seven-year high, totaling $1.7 billion in the first half of 2018. That's seemingly thanks to an increased market for the Xbox One, as well as strong support for the Nintendo NES Classic and SNES Classic Editions.
What Did You Think of This Week’s Comics?
It was another big week for the comic book industry as August wound down. Marvel released a major Venom spinoff in Web of Venom: Ve'Nam #1, while DC kicked off a new volume of Brian Bendis and Alex Maleev's Scarlet.
Scroll down to check out our new reviews and thinkpieces, and be sure to let us know your favorite books of the week in the comments below.
Scarlet #1 Review
Written by Brian Michael Bendis | Drawn by Alex Maleev
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Metal Wolf Chaos, and Why From Software Isn’t Releasing New Mech Games (Right Now)
I was entirely unprepared to meet From Software’s Masanori Takeuchi. When I arrived at Devolver Digital’s Gamescom booth to see Metal Wolf Chaos - the 14-year old, Japan-only Xbox mech game about a vengeful American president - I expected to interview someone working on the current-gen port, not the producer of the 2004 original.
As I was ushered into a separate room to meet the senior managing director of quite probably the most well-respected developer in the world right now, my prepared questions about exactly how many guns I could make the mech-president shoot, and how many the mech-president could shoot all at once, seemed woefully inadequate.
Gwent: Single Player Campaign Will Now Be a Standalone Title
Developer CD Projekt Red has announced that the upcoming single player campaign for Gwent: The Witcher Card Game will now be launching as a standalone game in its own right.
The mode, called Thronebreaker, had already been delayed from its expected release date last year. However, in CDPR's latest financial briefing, it was revealed that it will now be known as Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales, and has evolved into a full-scale, 30-hour RPG.
This hasn't affected the gameplay, which will still be driven by Gwent matches, but seems to be an indication of the new size and scope of the single player campaign.
EA Launches Fundraising Initiative For Shooting Victims
EA has announced that it is establishing the Jacksonville Tribute - a fundraising initiative to support victims of last Sunday's shooting at a Madden tournament event in Jacksonville, Florida.
Making the announcement on Twitter, EA pledged to kickstart the fund with a donation of $1 million, and will be opening up the initiative to allow members of the public to contribute. All proceeds from the fund will go towards supporting the victims of the attack, as well as the families of Taylor Robinson and Elijah Clayton, who both lost their lives.
The Internet Thinks It’s Found the PS5’s Codename
If Internet sleuths are to be believed, the PlayStation 5's codename is 'Erebus'.
Detailed by ResetEra user Gemüsepizza, two lists of platforms in the Unreal Engine 4's backend now include a mention of Erebus. Erebus seemingly wasn't a part of these lists until the latest update to the engine. One list is included below:
A few extra factors have contributed to why people think this could refer to PS5. First, the name itself: Erebus is a Greek deity that personified darkness. More pertinently, he's pointed to as one of the first five (get it?) beings in existence.