Yearly Archives: 2018
Nintendo Switch Online Service to Launch in ‘Second Half of September’
Nintendo has announced that its online subscription service will be launching in the latter half of next month.
We've known that the paid subscription service for the Switch will be up and running next month, but Nintendo has narrowed the launch window down a tad, tweeting that the service "will launch in the second half of September," meaning it should go live anywhere between September 17 and September 30.
Nintendo first announced its online subscription service in January last year with a launch planned for the summer, but by the time June rolled around the date was pushed back to 2018.
The Walking Dead Has Been Missing Something Crucial Since ‘All Out War’
One of the main reasons The Walking Dead has struck such a major a chord with fans (in both comic book and TV form) is that it tells an ongoing story of survival during the zombie apocalypse. This isn't a finite tale of intrepid heroes making their stand against the undead, but one that keeps unfolding and veering off in unexpected directions. However, if the past few years of the comic are any indication, that strength can just as easily become a weakness.
Art by Charlie Adlard. (Image Comics)
Shadow of the Tomb Raider Feels Like More of the Same…And That’s OK
I found myself, as Lara Croft, airborne and nearing the Amazon River in Peru. A storm hits, as it always does, and the plane goes down. Off course and in an unfamiliar area, Lara must find the living members of her team, assemble her tools, and decipher the clues before the bad guys, Trinity. Ain’t no rest for the wicked.
As you explore the opening hours of Shadow of the Tomb Raider, it becomes clear that parts of it are meant to be light on combat, which was okay by me after an action-packed first hour in Mexico. It instead focuses on familiarizing the player with Lara’s new moves and giving them a chance to play through some of the franchise’s famous adventure puzzles; they definitely delivered! Similar to past Tomb Raider games, I found the puzzles challenging and the most rewarding aspect, with the combat pretty same-y compared to the previous two Tomb Raider games. Even if the combat isn’t stellar, the puzzles are and there’s one specifically within this demo that felt like the best since the franchise reboot. It utilizes all of Lara’s mechanics and has an emphasis on timing, keeping things tense. It doesn’t give too much away as to what your next step might be and can be brutally punishing if you guess wrong.
Cuphead Sells 3 Million Copies
Studio MDHR has announced that Cuphead has gone triple platinum, meaning over three million copies have been sold.
Cuphead's sales have topped three million since the game's launch in September, 2017, the developer announced this week. The Microsoft exclusive title hit one million copies sold just two weeks after release, and doubled that by December.
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Be ahead of the game and preorder World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth Expansion PC, which will be released on 14th August, 2018, to unlock some of WoW's new playable races.
Monster Hunter: World Is the Biggest Steam Launch of 2018
Monster Hunter: World released on PC yesterday, and it's had the biggest launch on Steam of any game on the platform this year, and is the biggest Japanese game ever released on the service by concurrent players.
SteamCharts reports that in just 24 hours, its concurrent player count peaked at 240,901 on Steam; the highest of any game on Steam so far this year, and the seventh-highest count of all time.
The previous Japanese record holder for concurrent Steam players was Dark Souls 3 with 129,831.
ResetEra member, Cyberpunk, pointed out that the day before the PC launch, Capcom's stock opened at 3,000, the first time it's hit that number at opening since March 27, 2000.
Always Sunny Duo Score Video Game Comedy Series at Apple
Rob McElhenney and Charlie Day from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia are making a comedy series for Apple set in a video game development studio.
Variety reports this currently unnamed series will be the pair's first collaboration since working on the popular comedy It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, which McElhenney and Day both not only star in but are also executive producers.
While not much is known about the upcoming show yet, it looks to explore the intricacies of the human condition through comedy while set in the world of video game development.
McElhenney is also set to take a starring role alongside co-writing and executive producing with Day, who recently weighed in on celebrities being fired for tweets.
Our Super Smash Brothers Ultimate Reactions, Dead Cells Thoughts and Much More!
Well, we're back for another week of Nintendo news. W-W-W-WELCOME to episode 419! This week, our Super Smash Brothers Ultimate quota is up by at least 115%. We'll rundown all the new characters, stages, gameplay modes, and also... Did your know that your Switch is basically an iPod now? What a time to be alive!
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Shark Movies That Couldn’t Possibly Be Real (But Totally Are)
in a world where audiences will watch just about anything with a shark in it, ridiculous shark movies are thriving. Not standard ridiculous shark movies, like The Meg, but shark movies with a premise so absurd it would have been rejected from the writers room on Saturday Night Live a few decades go. And although many of these shark movies know how ludicrous they are, they’re still spending lots of time and money (okay, okay, “lots” is relative) to turn some truly nonsensical ideas into a reality.
Here, then, are our picks for shark movies that couldn’t possibly be real, but totally are.
Watch our review of The Meg above.
The 2-Headed Shark Attack Series
Smash Bros. Ultimate: 5 Moves that Will Make Simon Great
During a recent Nintendo Direct, the director of the Smash Bros. franchise Masahiro Sakurai announced the addition of Simon Belmont to the roster of his upcoming game. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate arrives on Nintendo Switch later this year, but the reveal gave us a preview of what to expect from Castlevania's finest whipmaster.
You can watch the trailer embedded below, and we've broken out five moments in the trailer that demonstrate moves we expect will be key to playing Simon effectively in Ultimate.
In this first highlight, we get to see what could be Simon's horizontal smash or his Forward + B attack. The range looks incredible, as Simon's whip significant outranges Corrin's already long spear smash.