Yearly Archives: 2018
The Walking Dead Star Weighs in on That Shocking Ending
This interview contains spoilers for The Walking Dead Season 9, episode 8, titled "Evolution."
The Walking Dead's midseason finale killed Jesus in spectacularly brutal fashion, providing a shocking introduction to new villains The Whisperers and leaving us with one hell of a midseason cliffhanger to chew on for the next couple of months.
After Daryl, Jesus, and Aaron ventured out to save Eugene, the group found themselves caught in a spooky, fog-filled graveyard, surrounded by an encroaching horde of walkers. Normally, taking down zombies is no big deal for a fighter as accomplished as Jesus, but the bearded brawler wasn't counting on one of the zombies being capable of ducking his sword swing and stabbing him in the back while his guard was down.
Plenty of Xbox One Deals at Walmart for Cyber Monday
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Walmart Black Friday 2018 is in the books, and now the retailer set its sights on Cyber Monday for even more chances to save.
The PS4 Slim 1TB Spider-Man bundle and Mario Kart 8 Nintendo Switch bundle look as though they're gone for good, but there are still chances to save on the stuff you expect from Cyber Monday. Smart TVs, Apple products, gaming laptops and computers and more are on sale.
Best Walmart Cyber Monday Video Game Deals
Best Cyber Monday 2018 Best Buy Deals: Xbox Bundles, Computers, TVs, and More
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Black Friday may be over, Cyber Monday is only beginning. Many of the deals have rolled over from one sales event into the other, and as new ones appear we will be sure to add them into the appropriate category.
While many deals did come to an end, Best Buy still has a great variety of Xbox One X bundles, various game sales and of course, a slew of PC and TV sales across dozens of products. Don't see anything you like? Make sure to check out some other retailers like Amazon or Walmart.
Same Same But Different: Red Dead Redemption 2 vs The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
What’s wonderful about video games is that different games – and teams – can tackle the same concepts and ideas in fundamentally different ways. Take The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Red Dead Redemption 2. Two wildly different games in most respects, but in some ways they’ve incorporated very similar ideas into their respective open worlds. Both games offer incredibly rich destinations, dense with systems and content, but little direct explanation. These are games that want players to discover how they work and the things that are possible on their own. Importantly, however, beyond their core ambitions, both games also put an emphasis on a number of other, more specific things – the importance of horses as transport and companions, changing clothes according to climate, hunting and gathering as core gameplay elements, dynamic weather and day/night cycles, and so on.
Amazon’s Cyber Monday Sale Is a Week Long Event
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Black Friday 2018 is behind us, and while Amazon's best Black Friday deals started early, many of them have rolled over into Cyber Monday sales. We're gathering up all of the best Cyber Monday deals at Amazon and listing them here for your convenience. Instead of a one-day sale, it looks like Amazon is just extending its Black Friday sales week into an entire Cyber Monday deals week.
No idea if the Spider-Man PS4 Slim 1TB Black Friday bundle or the Mario Kart Switch Bundle will return for Cyber Monday at Amazon.
10 Best NES Games of All Time
The NES library is ridiculously good. A lot of crap was shoveled onto the platform throughout the course of its lifetime, but a shockingly high proportion of games manufactured for the NES are good, and more than a handful are bona fide classics.
Getting the list down to ten was NOT easy. I left off dozens of legitimate contenders, zeroing in on games that in many cases beat their closest rivals not by miles but by mere inches.
But in the end, I narrowed it down to these ten. Now remember, these are NES games... no Famicom-exclusives allowed. Every game here was available for the stock Nintendo Entertainment System, (though one of the ten, a European exclusive, never made it it to America). These are the games that encapsulate what was great about the Nintendo Entertainment System. Let’s Play with Power.
Wreck-It Ralph 2’s Sarah Silverman on Her Big Disney Princess Moment
SPOILERS ahead for Ralph Breaks the Internet!
Thanks to the trailers, it’s been known that Ralph Breaks the Internet, the sequel to Wreck-It Ralph, would include appearances by many of the Disney Princesses in a loving but hilarious ribbing of the animated icons and their problematic pasts.
But what wasn’t known until the movie was finally shown was that Vanellope von Schweetz -- who interacts with the likes of Moana, Snow White, Cinderella, Mulan and Rapunzel in these scenes -- gets her very own Disney Princess song later in the film, the parodic “Slaughter Race,” which was composed by none other than Oscar-winning Disney composer Alan Menken.
Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure Should Be the Next Anime on Your Watchlist
The Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure anime is a lot of things: explosive shonen battles, small-town murder mystery, and Elizabethan melodrama, to name a few -- and now it’s added “gangster drama” to that list. The anime adaptation of the delectably outrageous series is back for its much-anticipated Golden Wind arc, and I’m sure you’ve already seen plenty of wacky gifs and screenshots. But you’ll be forgiven if you only know Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure by its memes. After all, there are so many that “is that a Jojo reference?” has itself become a meme. It’s no wonder -- the complete absurdity of the characters and scenarios means that you’ll never know what’s going to happen next. With the story shift to focus on the gangster son of an iconic series villain, there’s no doubt that Golden Wind will continue to put the “bizarre” in Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure. If you’re looking for one of the most unique anime out there, consider making Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure your next binge.
14 Best Modern Metroidvanias
‘Metroidvania’ has become a buzzword in recent years, most often appearing as a bullet point in indie game descriptions. As the name suggests, it describes a game whose design borrows ideas from the likes of Castlevania and Metroid; its challenging, exploration-based, and progression throughout is based on acquiring items or upgrades to access new areas.
Because many of the best examples of Metroidvanias pair it with elements of other games – most often roguelikes and RPGs – it’s sometimes difficult to define exactly what a Metroidvania is. For this list, we’re sticking to the basics while casting a somewhat wide net.
Listed below are some of the very best modern Metroidvania games currently available.
Aquaman: Mary Poppins Star Julie Andrews’ Role Revealed
Julie Andrews, known for her roles in Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, Torn Curtain and more, will have a key voiceover role in the upcoming Aquaman film.
Spoiler warning: potential spoilers for Aquaman ahead.
IGN can confirm Variety's report that Andrews will indeed appear in Aquaman as the voice of Karathen, a mythical sea creature that helps Aquaman negotiate peace between Atlantis and the world above. Though far from her first voiceover role, it appears Andrews will have her recognizable voice digitally altered to some degree.
Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, Aquaman producer Peter Safran said “We wanted the Karathen to have the voice of a classic British actress, albeit somewhat digitally altered. And when we found out Julie was interested and available and excited to do it, casting her was a no-brainer.”