Majora’s Mask Perfectly Captures An Entire Generation’s Anxieties
As Link approaches Ikana Canyon in the build-up to the penultimate act of The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask, one barely-noticeable NPC ironically sticks out. Shiro is a Clock Town Soldier – far from home, invisible to anyone that passes him, and desperate to carve out the effervescent personality that he so solemnly believes he lacks.
“I'm shocked. You're the first person who's ever spoken to me,” Shiro tells Link when he looks through the Lens of Truth. “I've been here for many years, waving my arms around and asking for help, but everyone ignores me and passes me by. It's 'cause I'm about as impressive as a stone, right? ...I'm used to it, though."
The Zelda series – in spite of its save-the-princess plot and regular forays into colorful wackiness – is no stranger to darkness. After being manipulated into maniacal delusions by Ganondorf, Twilight Princess’s tragic anti-hero Zant appears to commit suicide at the game’s conclusion. Beneath its cartoon facade, The Wind Waker is premised on the divine flooding and subsequent near-total annihilation of Hyrule. Ocarina of Time features one of the series’ few on-screen NPC deaths (an easy-to-miss Hyrulean Soldier with an uncanny resemblance to Majora’s Mask’s Shiro).
Fantastic Beasts: 6 New Posters From The Crimes of Grindelwald
Warner Bros. released six new posters for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.
Each poster shows two characters on it who are somewhat respective partners to one another in the upcoming film.
The second of five installments for the Fantastic Beasts stories include Eddie Redmayne reprising his role as the soft-spoken Newt Scamander, with the newly joined cast member Jude Law portraying young Albus Dumbledore.
Other posters include Gellert Grindelwald, played by Johnny Depp in front of Credence Barebone, played by Ezra Miller; Tina Goldstein, played by Katherine Waterston alongside Yusuf Kama, played by William Nadylam; Queenie Goldstein played by Alison Sudol, standing by Jacob Kowalski, played by Dan Fogler; and Leta Lestrange, played by Zoë Kravitz next to Newt's brother Theseus Scamander, played by Callum Turner.
Spider-Geddon Shocks With a Lethal Opener
The opening chapter of Marvel’s Spider-Geddon event mini-series saw the heroes suffer devastating losses.
Warning: beware spoilers for Spider-Geddon #1 by Christos Gage, Dan Slott and Jorge Molina!
The villainous Inheritors of Spider-Verse made a shocking return and took the lives of two spider-characters in the process.
The blame rests squarely on Otto Octavius aka the Superior Octopus, who in a bid to become immortal combined the technology of the Jackal and the Inheritors to create supply of clones for him to transfer his mind into should his current body perish. However, the Inheritors were able to secretly access their cloning tech in his lab to respawn their bodies, essentially allowing them to escape the prison they found themselves in at the end of Spider-Verse.
Marvel Teases New Guardians of the Galaxy Team Roster
Marvel Comics has big plans for the Guardians of the Galaxy in 2019, including launching a new ongoing series from Thanos Wins creative team Donny Cates and Geoff Shaw. The new series will introduce a bigger, more eclectic Guardians roster, and Marvel has begun revealing the members of that new team.
Marvel has released a new teaser image featuring a partially obscured look at the new Guardians lineup. Check out the characters confirmed so far:
Art by David Marquez. (Marvel Comics)
The 20 Best Horror TV Shows of the Last 10 Years
Are you in the mood to binge-watch some seriously scary TV shows? We've looked back over the last decade and selected 20 of our favorite horror-drenched offerings for you to enjoy in the comfort of your own crypt.
From saucy vampire-on-werewolf action to delectable cannibal romance through the return of the Deadites and anime chillers, we've got something for everyone in our radical round-up of the best horror TV shows that have aired over the last 10 years. Read on for the full list…
The Haunting of Hill House
Mike Flanagan's adaptation of the Shirley Jackson novel The Haunting of Hill House instantly became one of those must-binge Netflix series, imbibing a dark and deep family drama with outright horror. The show is as much about the ghosts that haunt the Crain family as it is their equally haunting past, smartly skimping on the gore in favor of psychological blood and guts that delve into the adult lives of the family’s children and how their time in the house helped to make them the men and women that they are today. For better or worse.
The Disney-Fox Acquisition Deal Will Close by Jan. 1, 2019
The acquisition of Disney with 21st Century Fox is set to close on January 1, 2019, according to Variety.
Current President of 21st Century Fox, Peter Rice, told employees the news at a town-hall meeting on Wednesday in Los Angeles. Rice will be joining Disney as a top TV exec once the deal closes.
Rice was joined by Fox CFO, John Nallen, who will become COO of the New Fox – the remaining assets of Fox that will not be scooped up by Disney in the acquisition.
Sources said that Rice told employees the deal will be ready to close on January 1.
PSN Name Changes Are Coming, But There Are Some Issues
PlayStation finally made an announcement PS3 and PS4 owners have been waiting for for years — the ability to change PSN names.
Of course, with the announcement of PSN name changes coming for all users early next year, there are some caveats to that experience. To break down what that all means, Beyond host Jonathon Dornbush and Beyond producer Barrett Courtney explore what this huge shift actually means.
Among those lingering questions and issues is that not all games will support the name change adjustment. Only games released after April 1, 2018 are guaranteed to work with the name change, while a selection of other games — to be revealed later — will work with it. PlayStation has also noted very specifically that not all PS4, PS3, and Vita games and applications will work with this process.
PSN Name Changes Are Coming, But There Are Some Issues
PlayStation finally made an announcement PS3 and PS4 owners have been waiting for for years — the ability to change PSN names.
Of course, with the announcement of PSN name changes coming for all users early next year, there are some caveats to that experience. To break down what that all means, Beyond host Jonathon Dornbush and Beyond producer Barrett Courtney explore what this huge shift actually means.
Among those lingering questions and issues is that not all games will support the name change adjustment. Only games released after April 1, 2018 are guaranteed to work with the name change, while a selection of other games — to be revealed later — will work with it. PlayStation has also noted very specifically that not all PS4, PS3, and Vita games and applications will work with this process.
LEGO Overwatch First Set Revealed, Available Now
Blizzard has, in a bit of a surprise, revealed Bastion as its first LEGO Overwatch set, and he's available now.
LEGO Bastion can be purchased on Blizzard's store for $25 USD. Take a first look at the set below.
The set features Bastion's Omnic Crisis orange look, one of the character's in-game Overwatch skins. The 182-piece LEGO Bastion stands at four inches (12 centimeters) when fully assembled. Just like in Overwatch, Bastion's LEGO counterpart has a waist that swivels, arms that move, and an arm-mounted machine gun. Blizzard and LEGO even included Ganymede, Bastion's in-game bird sidekick.
LEGO Overwatch First Set Revealed, Available Now
Blizzard has, in a bit of a surprise, revealed Bastion as its first LEGO Overwatch set, and he's available now.
LEGO Bastion can be purchased on Blizzard's store for $25 USD. Take a first look at the set below.
The set features Bastion's Omnic Crisis orange look, one of the character's in-game Overwatch skins. The 182-piece LEGO Bastion stands at four inches (12 centimeters) when fully assembled. Just like in Overwatch, Bastion's LEGO counterpart has a waist that swivels, arms that move, and an arm-mounted machine gun. Blizzard and LEGO even included Ganymede, Bastion's in-game bird sidekick.