Japanese Skaters Performed to Yuri on Ice at Olympics
Two Japanese figure skaters evoked the popular anime Yuri!!! on Ice at the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympic Winter Games.
The skaters, Miu Suzaki and Ryuichi Kihara, used show protagonist Yuri Katsuki's free skate music, appropriately called Yuri on Ice, for their figure skating routine. Watch the routine, via Twitter, below.
yuri on ice at the olympics!!!! pic.twitter.com/eKUYf8hC8Z
— David Zhou (@dz) February 9, 2018
The Spider-Women Are the Stars of Marvel’s Spider-Man
Last year, Marvel turned heads by ending the animated series Ultimate Spider-Man and quickly following it up with a brand new series, Marvel's Spider-Man. Many questioned the purpose of replacing one Spider-Man cartoon with another, especially given that both shows focus on a high school-age Peter Parker. However, with time it's become clear that there's more distinguishing Marvel's Spider-Man than simply its rebooted continuity and overhauled animation style. Marvel's Spider-Man is the first animated series that truly feels like an ensemble project. For the first time, Spidey is on equal footing with heroes like Miles Morales, Gwen Stacy and Anya Corazon.
That ensemble approach has really become evident with the show's current five-part storyline, "Spider-Island." A loose adaptation of the comic book storyline of the same name, "Spider-Island" explores what happens when millions of Manhattan residents suddenly develop spider powers. That plot twist has allowed for both Spider-Gwen (voiced by Laura Bailey) and Spider-Girl (voiced by Melanie Minichino) to join Peter and Miles in the superhero game, effectively transforming Spider-Man from a solo player to a member of a full-fledged superhero team.
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Nothing quite matches the experience of playing games and watching movies as they’re projected on your living room wall. I became a projector disciple over 15 years ago and have never looked back. But projectors can be bulky, aren’t very attractive, and need to live on a stand in the back of your room, or mounted on the ceiling (which introduces a whole bunch of installation issues).
Every World Confirmed for KH3 So Far
Update: This story published earlier this year ahead of Disney Expo Japan 2018. It has been updated since then and is being republished in light of the latest Kingdom Hearts 3 WInnie the Pooh trailer.
Square Enix has slowly unveiled the suite of Disney worlds set to appear in the long-awaited Kingdom Hearts III. And if you're worried you may have missed a reveal or two throughout all those years, IGN has you covered.
Check out the gallery below for a look at every Kingdom Hearts III world — and a couple of key locations — we know of so far.
Updated to include the D23 Expo Japan 2018 announcement of a Kingdom Hearts 3 Monsters, Inc. world, as well as the reveals of two new worlds at E3 2018, and the Winnie the Pooh world revealed at X018.
The Tick Finally Meets a Spoon in This Exclusive Sneak Peek
The Tick returns to Amazon Prime Video on February 23, and in the remaining six episodes of Season 1, things are going to get weird(er).
After ending the first half of the season on a humdinger of a cliffhanger, creator Ben Edlund tells IGN that "we’re going to be feasting on Arthur meeting and dealing with his lifelong nemesis the Terror," after the chilling villain captured our long-suffering sidekick-turned-hero in episode 6.
In drawing Arthur further into The Terror's world, the show will also be exploring more of Arthur's past, and the traumatic incident that bound him to the villain in the first place.
"One of the fun things that happens in the season that I’m really excited to have people get to watch is the Flag Five and the story of the death of those heroes and the death of Arthur’s father. That hangs like a specter over the story," Edlund says. "It’s really a big part of the first season, Arthur’s origin story and his first moments with the Terror. But also Midnight, who’s another member of the Flag Five... he steps into the second half and we learn more about how he relates to the Flag Five and get to have fun with that character, and get to unfold what the Terror started that day, and in a lot of ways, how those things come back to both pay dividends to the Terror, and also in some ways act as a thorn in his side."
3 Awesome Ways to Play Far Cry 5 – IGN First
All month long IGN is diving deep into Far Cry 5, the next entry in Ubisoft's massively open-world series set in a rustic slice of Montana. We've got a ton of great things planned for you over the course of February, but we're going to kick things off today with a bang!
Well, actually, not just a bang. One of my favorite aspects of the Far Cry series is the option to play just about any way you want. Do you prefer quiet, stealthy kills from far-off vantage point? Maybe you're a bazooka-toting madman that knows how to make an entrance. Whatever personal brand of liberation happens to be, you can bet you'll find a place for it in the secluded mountain valleys of Hope County, Montana.
PUBG’s Chinese Mobile Games Are Now in Early Access
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds mobile games were announced last year after Tencent won the exclusive rights to PUBG in China. The two games - Army Attack and Exhilarating Battlefield - have had 75 million players pre-register between them, and have just entered early access - topping the country's iOS charts.
The news comes via industry analyst Danial Ahmad on Reset Era and Twitter. As well as localising the main game for China, Tencent developed the two mobile games that focus on land, sea, and air battles in Army Attack, and a mobile version of the main game with Exhilarating Battlefield.
Battalion 1944 May Be the Old-School WWII Shooter You’ve Been Waiting For
There’s something distinct about the way the original Call of Duty and its first sequel captured the relentless chaos of war and distilled it down to reflex-based twitch shooting. Battalion 1944, for better and for worse, is pretty much exactly that.
I think I lasted maybe 10 seconds into my first match before getting headshot from across the map by someone I couldn’t see. Many of the battlegrounds feature long stretches of open space or tight corners that open up into tiny arena bunkers and courtyards. Even the forest-based maps included spots with no trees specifically to foster lining up the best shot. The layouts being designed this way certainly encourage a healthy amount of gunfire, but they sometimes funnel people towards each other so quickly I barely had time to breathe before I was waiting to respawn again.
Dragon Ball FighterZ Producer Will Be a Competitor in EVO 2017
Dragon Ball FighterZ producer Tomoko Hiroki has announced she will compete at this year's EVO 2018 tournament, which includes the Bandi Namco fighting game in its roster. The produced made the revelation on the Dragon Ball FighterZ EVO announcement video, adding "Practice a lot!," she said, "Because I will enter the tournament."
Dragon Ball FighterZ is one of the new titles to make its debut at the tournament this year, alongside the currently unreleased BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle. King of Fighters 14 didn't make the cut and neither did series regular Marvel vs. Capcom with last year's Infinite. DC's heroes and villains will step in instead, in the form of Injustice 2.
Metroid Prime 4 Reportedly in Development at Bandai Namco
Bandai Namco is rumoured be working on Metroid Prime 4 for Switch, according to reports. Earlier this week, Bandai Namco was reported to be working on Ridge Racer 8 and an unannounced first-person shooter game, both of which are Switch exclusives according to the resume of a Bandai Namco developer on LinkedIn. Now it looks like that FPS game might well be Metroid Prime 4, according to "multiple sources."