HBO Coming to Sling TV Ahead of Game of Thrones’ Season Premiere
HBO will be available on live television service Sling TV in time for the Game of Thrones Season 5 premiere on April 12. An exact launch date is expected to be announced soon.
The HBO package will cost $15 USD per month on top of Sling TV's $20 USD monthly fee. The package includes one HBO live channel, as well as the company's massive VOD library.
Sling TV's "Best of TV" core package includes channels such as ESPN, AMC, A&E, TNT, and more. The service recently came to Xbox One in North America, offering a 30-day free trial. Sling TV is also available on PC, Mac, iOS, Android, Amazon Fire TV/TV Stick, and current-gen Roku players/Roku TV Models.
The Differences Between Fire Emblem If: Black and White Kingdom
The new Fire Emblem 3DS game showcased during yesterday's Nintendo Direct will be sold as two separate versions in Japan, with no word yet on whether the Western launch will use the same model.
Fire Emblem If's official website details how the two versions, Fire Emblem If: Black Kingdom and Fire Emblem If: White Kingdom, will differ in story and difficulty.
According to Siliconera, experience points and money will be more plentiful in White Kingdom, making it the easier experience of the two games. Black Kingdom should offer more of a challenge due to the scarcity of resources.
You’ll Only Be Able to Get Greninja Amiibo at One Retailer
Another day, another retailer-exclusive amiibo is revealed. Greninja, the Pokemon who wears its tongue as a scarf, will only be available in amiibo-form at Toys R Us.
The folks at Amiibo News confirmed the exclusivity deal with a statement from Toys R Us. Tomorrow, the retailer will begin taking pre-orders for all the wave 4 amiibo not exclusive to other places, including Charizard, Wario, Pac-Man, Lucina, and Robin in addition to the exclusive Greninja.
So far, Ness was announced as only available at GameStop, and Jigglypuff is limited only to Target stores. Visiting the Target link for Jigglypuff reveals that the item is already sold out. GameStop's exclusive Ness figures will be available for pre-order beginning today at 2 pm ET, and you can either try your luck online or venture out into the real world and secure your pre-order at a physical location.
5 Best Cards in Hearthstone’s New Expansion
Hearthstone's Blackrock Mountain expansion hits North America on April 2, rolling out 31 new cards over the next five weeks. The previous expansion set produced tremendous disruptive effects on the Hearthstone environment, and we expect Blackrock to likewise alter the balance of power in new and exciting ways. Two of our resident duelists, James Duggan and Tate Fiebing, pick their personal top five Blackrock cards in the strategy video above, predicting potential interactions with existing decks and exploring innovative new strategies.
James and Tate also put together a comprehensive video breakdown of the eighteen class cards, eight neutral minions, and five new legendary cards. This two-part analysis prognosticates on the provocative possibilities of every single new card in the set.
Binding of Isaac Is Coming to Wii U, Xbox One, and New 3DS
Those who have been patiently waiting to play The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth on Nintendo platforms or Xbox One don't have much longer to wait, as the game's creator has confirmed his twisted title will be made available to a wider audience in the near future.
In a post on Twitter, Edmund McMillen announced his hit indie title will be coming to New Nintendo 3DS, Wii U, and Xbox One "soonish."
so for those that only read headlines, binding of isaac rebirth is FOR SURE coming to WiiU, new 3DS & Xbox1 soonish! https://t.co/NG2zNOdkkS
This is What GTA 5 Looks Like Running at 60 fps on PC
Rockstar has released a brand new trailer for Grand Theft Auto V on PC, showing the title running at 60 frames-per-second.
First announced earlier this week, the new trailer is truly gorgeous. Check it out below:
Current gen hardware versions of the GTA V are running at 1080p, 30 fps, on both Xbox One and PS4, which means the PC version will run at a 100% greater framerate, which we can all safely assume will never be brought up by PC gamers in online arguments.
Quantum Break Delayed to 2016
Microsoft has announced Quantum Break will not release before next year.
A statement issued by the company claims the decision was made in order to avoid the end of 2015 being too crowded by Microsoft exclusives.
"We’ve got the strongest games lineup in Xbox history right now, with 2015 blockbuster exclusives like ‘Halo 5: Guardians,’ ‘Rise of the Tomb Raider,’ ‘Fable Legends,’ and ‘Forza Motorsport 6,’ and more we’ll announce in the coming months,” said Shannon Loftis, Head of Publishing. “With so many games launching this year, moving ‘Quantum Break’ to 2016 extends our incredible portfolio into next year with a monster new IP.”
We heard last year that in the Quantum Break video game you'll play as "Jack Joyce in a desperate fight to stop the fracture, that threatens to cause the end of time. In the
Daredevil’s Kingpin Wants to Kick Spidey’s Butt
Daredevil, the first Marvel/Netflix series, is hitting on April 10, and in advance of the show’s debut we sat down with the Kingpin of crime himself, Vincent D'Onofrio, to talk about this new aspect at the MCU.
We Won't See Daredevil in Captain America: Civil War
One fun item that came up during out chat with D'Onofrio was concerning Spider-Man, who recently joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe and therefore can now theoretically face off against Wilson Fisk, a.k.a. the Kingpin. A frequent enemy of both Daredevil’s and Spidey’s (Fisk’s first appearance was actually in The Amazing Spider-Man #50), Kingpin’s big-screen rights were previously held by Fox (which also had Daredevil before the rights reverted to Marvel in 2012). But now that Marvel can use Spidey as well as Kingpin, a match-up would seem to be inevitable.
Another Amiibo Goes Retailer Exclusive
Nintendo's Jigglypuff amiibo will be exclusive to Target's online store in North America.
According to a listing on the retailer's website, the NFC-enabled pink figurine can only be purchased through Target, and will not be sold in stores. You can put in your pre-order right now, with an expected ship date of "on or near" May 29.
During last night's Nintendo Direct, the company announced that the next wave of Super Smash Bros. amiibo is coming in May. This upcoming batch includes Robin, Lucina, Wario, Pac-Man, Charizard, and Ness, who we discovered will be exclusive to GameStop.
New, Quirky Indie Platformer Aims to Tackle Prejudice
Butcherlab has announced quirky indie platformer Theo and Lizzy.
Players take up the role of Theo, a young man who comes from a family of ground-dwellers. Unfortunately for Theo, the most important person in his life, Lizzy, doesn’t live on the ground, she lives on the ceiling.
“Lizzy
a young woman,” reads the presser, “whom, like all her friends and family, lives on the ceiling. This is how it has always been. That was until Theo found out he was able to do something very special indeed...”
In a nutshell, Theo and Lizzy is a story of love and prejudice: two starry-eyed lovers, each of whom come from different backgrounds on a quest to be together in spite of their family’s wishes. Think Romeo and Juliet mixed with elements of the novel Noughts & Crosses, only a platformer, with lots of running on ceilings.