Yearly Archives: 2018
Emilia Clarke Says Goodbye to Her Home Away From Home
The "Mother of Dragons" Game of Thrones star, Emilia Clarke took to Instagram to share her final goodbyes to the HBO fantasy series' final season.
"Hopped on a boat to an island to say goodbye to the land that has been my home away from home for almost a decade," Clarke said. "It’s been a trip @gameofthrones thank you for the life I never dreamed I’d be able to live and the family I’ll never stop missing." Finishing with a broken heart emoji and the hashtag #lastseasonitis.
Westworld Mobile Game Coming This Week
The popular HBO sci-fi series Westworld is receiving a mobile game on June 21 for Android and iOS, as confirmed by the official App Store Twitter account.
As reported by Mashable, the game is already out in Australia and other territories, but has yet to hit the US market.
Announced last March, the game starts the player as a new employee at Delos Destinations. Put through a training simulation of Westworld Park, the player is responsible for keeping the park running smoothly by managing Hosts and artificially intelligent park residents.
Incredibles 2 Director Isn’t Ruling Out Making a Third Movie
Incredibles 2 director Brad Bird and producer John Walker aren't ruling out making another Incredibles film.
Speaking to EW, Brad Bird revealed there are plenty of ideas he wasn't able to use in Incredibles 2 due to time restraints. Bird storyboarded and designed characters and villains which he thinks could still be explored in future movies.
"You never know how these things are going to get repurposed," Bird said, talking about his cut ideas. "There were a lot of ideas that we had on this film that could be
… whether it’s another Incredibles film, or something else.”
How The Last of Us Remains a Masterpiece 5 Years Later
In a weird way, The Last of Us has nothing to do with gnarly-looking, fungus-infected, brain-dead humans who want nothing more than to rip the flesh from your face as you trek across the rural U.S. in search of answers. That's why, early on in development, Naughty Dog hesitated over even including them in the game that's since sold 17 million copies in five years.
The Last of Us is, instead, very much about the familial bond between a man, Joel, and a girl, Ellie, over a 15-hour journey of stealth and shooting. It's also the representation of a teenager coming into her own, and coming to terms with what her presence in a post apocalyptic world means as she discovers and grapples with the varying sides of a humanity under threat. And it's the representation of a man overcoming the emotional baggage of having once been a father, restructuring his life, and then growing to embrace becoming a father figure.
Fortnite Dev Reveals How Accidental Swastika Will Be Removed
Update: Shortly following a fan's discovery that four metal floorboards placed next to each other in Fortnite accidentally created a swastika in the popular battle royale game, Epic Games has already revealed its fix for the issue.
A representative for Epic Games provided IGN with an image, below, of the developer's update to the floorboards, which will prevent this geometrical issue from occurring.
Fortnite dev's Epic Games fix for the accidental swastika issue.
The Flash’s Mystery Girl Will Now Be a Series Regular
The Flash's Mystery Girl will now be a series regular in Season 5.
Warning: Spoilers for The Flash Season 4 follow.
EW reports Jessica Parker Kennedy will reprise her role as Nora West-Allen, Barry and Iris’ daughter from the future. The character made her debut during Season 4's Supergirl crossover, "Crisis of Earth-X."
Nora West-Allen continued to appear throughout the fourth season, and showed off her super speed at one point. Her identity was confirmed in the Season 4 finale “We Are The Flash," where she revealed she made a big mistake.
The Most Important Stories of E3 2018
E3 is a whirlwind of announcements, trailer reveals, gameplay demos, and insightful interviews, and 2018 was no exception. Starting with Sony’s week of announcements leading up to the show, to all of the major press conferences, and straight through a show filled with hands-on impressions, there were hundreds of stories throughout the week. That’s why we thought it would be a good idea to wade through it all and highlight the stories that are going to ultimately have the biggest impact on our industry going forward.
From Microsoft bolstering its first-party studios, to a VERY busy February, to the surprise reveal of The Elder Scrolls 6, here are the 10 most important stories of E3 2018.
Gaming Organizations Push Back Against World Health Organization’s Classification of ‘Gaming Disorder’
The World Health Organization (WHO) officially announced "gaming disorder" as a mental health condition as part of their 11th edition of the International Classification of Diseases document (ICD-11) released on Monday.
After talks in January about the inclusion of "gaming disorder" and "hazardous gaming" within the 11th edition this coming year, the ICD-11 would define the "gaming disorder" diagnosis on three specific behaviors:
Disney to Reportedly Increase Its Fox Bid Following Comcast Offer
Disney is reportedly set to increase its $52.4 billion bid for 21st Century Fox to fend off Comcast.
CNBC reports Disney is prepared to add cash to its all-stock offer to win the bidding, however, the exact amount is not known. Last week, Comcast made an estimated $65 billion bid for Fox's assets after its offer last year was rejected due to antitrust concerns.
Fox will be holding a shareholders meeting this Wednesday, according to CNBC, to determine the Disney deal and discuss Comcast's offer. If the board decide Comcast's bid is superior, Disney would then have five days to match the $65 billion offer.
Preorder the Smash Bros. Ultimate GameCube Controller
If you want to play Super Smash Bros. Ultimate the old-fashioned way, now's your chance to preorder.
Less than a week after Nintendo announced the upcoming Super Smash Bros. Ultimate would support GameCube controllers, the devices are now up for preorder on Amazon.
Complete with an updated Super Smash Bros. logo, the Smash GameCube controller will set you back $29.99. The GameCube controller adapter, which will support four controllers and appears to be the same one Nintendo sold with the Wii U, will cost $19.99. Both items' descriptions say they will release on Dec. 31, though this could just be a placeholder date, as Ultimate is set for a Dec. 7 release.