Yearly Archives: 2018
Leaving Netflix in Sept: The Dark Knight, Ghostbusters, More
Your "Last Call" list for Netflix in September is here, so jot down these important dates because the streaming giant is purging itself of both Batman Begins and The Dark Knight - along with Ghostbusters, 13 Going on 30, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Dead Poets Society, Martin Scorsese's Casino, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, and excellent modern horror flick The Descent.
This is also a good chance to catch A Star is Born before the Lady Gaga/Bradley Cooper remake comes out, as well as Sidney Lumet's fantastic, final movie Before the Devil Know's You're Dead, starring Ethan Hawke and the late Philip Seymour Hoffman.
5 Things We Learned About The Division 2
With the gameplay of The Division 2 already on display a couple of months ago at E3 2018, the team at The Division 2 developer Massive Entertainment took a different tack for its behind closed doors demo at this year’s Gamescom. I was given a deep dive into the lengths that Massive is going to in order to present a compelling and authentic open-world to players, and here are five big takeaways.
It seems like an obvious choice that a game about an ongoing civil war in the United States would take place in the nation’s capital, but Washington, D.C. wasn’t always going to be the setting for The Division 2. Developer Massive Entertainment originally considered both Seattle and New Orleans as potential settings for their open-world shooter sequel, but ultimately settled on D.C. largely due to the sheer diversity in environments that would help push the game experience far beyond the slightly one-note concrete jungle of the original’s New York City.
Monument Valley Is Heading for the Big Screen
Big news for Momument Valley fans - Ustwo Games' mind-bending puzzler is making its way to the big screen, with Patrick Osborne (whose 2014 film Feast took way the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film) taking the reins as director.
As reported over on Deadline, the film will be produced as a collaboration between Paramount Pictures and Akiva Goldsman's Weed Road Pictures, with Goldsman himself producing. No screenwriter has been hired as of yet, so it could be a while before the film sees a release.
"The rumours are correct. There's going to be a Monument Valley movie! In collaboration with Paramount Pictures and Patrick Osborne. We couldn't be more excited, " Ustwo wrote on Twitter.
Teamwork Is Key in Team Sonic Racing
Years of playing kart racers has made me a little aggressive. When I’m leading the pack and suddenly a projectile knocks me back five spots, a blind rage tends to take over.
But in Team Sonic Racing, even when the worst happens, you can get a little bit of help. Instead of braving the tracks alone, you’ll have two teammates who can bail you out when you’re offroad, transfer you items from afar, and even join with you for a massive synchronized speed boost.
Each character in Team Sonic Racing has a specific class: Power, Speed, or Technique. In our demo at Gamescom, example teams were made up of one character from each class -- Sonic, Tails and Knuckles on one team, Shadow, Rogue and Omega on another, and Chao, Big and Amy on a third. We also saw an additional set of three characters that SEGA isn’t ready to talk about just yet. A SEGA representative confirmed to us that in the final game you’ll be able to mix and match to your heart’s content, including a team of three Sonics or three Bigs, for example.
18 Big Things Coming From Marvel and DC in November
November is shaping up to be an especially big month for both Marvel and DC. Marvel is bringing back Uncanny X-Men and celebrating a major Avengers milestone, while DC is launching the weekly "Drowned Earth" crossover and debuting some high-profile new creative teams on books like Green Lantern and Wonder Woman.
Scroll down to see all the major new series and storylines hitting comic shops in November.
The Return of Uncanny X-Men
Uncanny X-Men #1 cover by Leinil Yu. (Marvel Comics)
Life is Strange 2 Developers on Leaving Chloe and Max Behind
Some mild spoilers for the set up of Life is Strange 2 ahead.
“We wanted to do something different”, said Life is Strange 2’s co-director Michel Koch at Square Enix’s official Gamescom reveal on Monday night. “Something original. We wanted to push the concept we created in the first season."
"Life is Strange is not just Max and Chloe, or Arcadia Bay.”
Life is Strange 2 jumps from the original’s high school setting to the empty roads of the American West Coast. You play as teenager Sean, the older brother of Daniel, both fleeing their suburban USA town after three bodies are left on the ground following an explosive encounter with a neighbour and the half-glimpsed revelation that Daniel is capable of telekinesis. Life is Strange 2 is a road trip that sees Sean coming of age as he tries to look after his brother, who is deeply impressionable and potentially unaware of the power that lurks within.
Devil May Cry 5 Feels Amazing, Even When Your Arm Falls Off
Nero's arm falls off constantly, and I think it might be Devil May Cry 5's best new feature.
When I first saw that Dante's nephew had had his demonic arm mysteriously amputated and replaced with a robotic prosthetic, I assumed that it would become upgradeable, embracing the 'RPG systems in action games' zeitgeist. I was wrong.
Capcom's doubled down on the series action roots, turning that robot arm into an excuse to introduce as many new abilities as possible - and doing it in the funniest possible way. Nero's arms are replaceable and, better, disposable.
Each type of arm (I've tried two, but Capcom's already shown off more) comes with a different special attack that helps bridge combos and keep the game's style meter ticking up. Those attacks can be charged up for the equivalent of super attacks - a Kamehameha-like energy beam, for example - but the pay-off is that you lose the arm once it's over.
New Control Demo Digs Into Weapon Forms, Boss Battle
When we first saw Control, Remedy’s next supernatural action adventure game coming out in 2019, you may have been confused. You, like me, may have marveled at its floatiness and wondered about its creepy setting and transforming pistol and architecture. You may have thought the mysteries would drag out from there, for months on end, like any good E3 trailer would normally set up for.
But the team at Remedy’s been very forthcoming since then, talking (mostly) freely about what form the narrative and gameplay structures in the game will take. During our liveshow at E3, our own Max Scoville and Ryan McCaffrey learned that the main protagonist, Jesse Faden, seeks out the Federal Bureau of Control -- a government organization in charge of all things alien and supernatural -- to discover what happened to give her the powers she increasingly gains throughout the game. In doing so, she becomes trapped in the FBC headquarters after an invasion of something called the Hiss that seems to possess humans, and assumes the role of its director through some mystical ritual that has yet to be explained.
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Overwatch Gets New Map, New D.Va Animated Short
Blizzard has released a brand new cinematic short for Overwatch's D.Va, alongside Busan, a new map.
The long awaited short, Shooting Star, shows a more vulnerable side to the fan-favorite hero. Check it out below.
Overwatch's new control map is also D.Va themed. Players will battle for three territories in Busan, Sanctuary, Downtown, and MEKA Base.
Sanctuary features an ancient temple and historic architecture, Downtown is all bright lights and a central light rail station (watch out for the train), and the MEKA Base houses South Korea's frontline defense against the gwishin omnic attacks. Check out your first look at Busan, which is currently available on the PTR, in the trailer below.