Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 (that’s a mouthful) will feature an exciting recently announced mode that lets you experience some retro 2D gameplay. “Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 is taking the series to another dimension for the first time with classic 2D and exciting 3D events,” says Sega
Month: August 2019
Fifteen years ago, Ghost Hunters premiered on Sci-Fi Channel and ushered in an era of paranormal reality television. Co-led by Grant Wilson and Jason Hawes, the series initially followed the plumbers-by-day, paranormal investigators by night, as their team set out to explore, validate, or debunk reports of hauntings. While not the first attempt at an investigative style series,
Marvel announced in January 2017 that it has signed a multi-year, multi-game deal with publisher Square Enix to develop titles based on the popular superhero universe. The first title in the works is Marvel’s Avengers. According to Marvel, the game will feature a completely new and original story, and will introduce a universe gamers can play
The Terror creeped out audiences last spring with its tale based on a novel by Dan Simmons, which in turn is based on a true story about a failed British expedition into the Arctic to find the Northwest Passage. Full of scares, gore, and despair, The Terror Season 1 was TV horror at its very best. Of course,
The forthcoming book Marvel: The Golden Age 1939 – 1949 was scheduled to feature an introductory essay by Eisner Award and Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist and author, Art Spiegelman. Spiegelman’s essay (which can and should be read in full here) draws a parallel between the rise of authoritarianism in Europe before World War II and
Gamescom 2019 arrives at the tail end of summer, closing out what has been a busy games season that kicked off with an explosive E3. While Gamescom isn’t quite as big as E3 in terms of game reveals and announcements, it is a source of news and new footage for the year’s upcoming fall and
Kristen Stewart will go to any length to distance herself from the sun. The upcoming survivalist movie Underwater shows the Twilight star leagues away from her past horror endeavors. It is a combination of a cabin-in-the-woods movie and a submarine thriller. But the first trailer for the film explores what happens when a protagonist drops
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe is one of those properties that has been around for so long that there are multiple takes on it and they’re all over the place. Like Batman, Spider-Man, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Ghostbusters, there are incarnations that are badass and incarnations that are wonderfully…not so badass. It
Hideo Kojima, the famed creator of the Metal Gear series, returns from a brief hiatus after his highly publicized exit from Konami with his strangest concept yet: Death Stranding, a game that’s all about connections, according to the developer. Kojima’s goal is to create a game where players interact with each other beyond just trying
The following contains spoilers for Mindhunter season 2. There are a handful of moments scattered throughout Netflix’s excellent Mindhunter season 2, in which lead characters Holden Ford (Jonathan Groff), Bill Tench (Holt McCallany), and Dr. Wendy Carr are asked the most common question in the American lexicon: what do you do for a living? The question comes
In an interview with Game Informer, members of the Call of Duty team recalled their time working on 2007’s Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. Specifically, they remember how the game’s design direction was influenced by the success of Halo. “All my friends were playing Halo, and I couldn’t convince them to give CoD 2
After Moonlight surprised Oscar audiences in 2017 (in more ways than one,) after nabbing the Best Motion Picture of the Year prize, the entertainment industry became the proverbial oyster of its writer/director, Barry Jenkins. Indeed, after following up this past Christmas with drama If Beale Street Could Talk, Jenkins will continue to parlay his momentum
Many modern video game movies suffer from the delusion that they must be “good.” Mortal Kombat didn’t have that problem. Released in 1995, Mortal Kombat followed what some call the unholy trinity of early ‘90s video game adaptations: Super Mario Bros., Double Dragon, and Street Fighter. The legacy of those films are forever entangled, but it’s not
The most unlikely superhero story of the last two years may very well be how Krypton defied the usual tedious prequel expectations and became a compelling standalone sci-fi story of its own. The series, which aired on Syfy, told the story of Seg-El, Superman’s grandfather, and how he got mixed up in time traveling, reality
We loved what Marie Lu did with Batman canon in her young adult book Batman: Nightwalker, and we can’t wait to see what she comes up with for Rebel, the next installment in her bestselling Legend series. read more: An Interview with Marie Lu Rebel, which comes out on October 1st, plunges readers back into
In one of the more surprising and welcome moments of Xbox’s E3 2019 presentation, Microsoft confirmed that they are working on a new Microsoft Flight Simulator game. Simply titled Microsoft Flight Simulator, we’d call this a reboot of the franchise, but it’s not like there were any complex plot threads tying the series to its roots.
National City’s Girl of Steel will return for Supergirl season 5, undoubtedly facing off against a new alien menace seeking to conquer the planet. The news was confirmed by The CW earlier this year. One of the biggest narratives going into this season is that Supergirl will have a new costume. Find out more about
Grant Morrison and Liam Sharp’s The Green Lantern wraps up in October with issue 12, and DC just announced what’s coming next: the destruction of the entire Green Lantern Corps. No, scratch that: the complete erasure of the Green Lantern Corps from existence. Following up on the events of The Green Lantern #12, Morrison and
Writer/designer Sam Barlow and Annapurna Interactive are teaming up to bring us a spiritual successor to the revolutionary indie game, Her Story. Called Telling Lies, this title is described as a “spiritual successor to Her Story.” It deals with the process of how governments can collect feeds from various personal cameras across the world. Specifically, it
This Killjoys review contains spoilers. Killljoys Season 5 Episode 5 “Get behind me; I’m hunting asshole.” Though “love conquers all” admittedly comes across as a trite sentiment, the most basic of all human emotions finds itself front and center as Killjoys reaches the midpoint of its final season. “A Bout, A Girl” features the welcome
Brian Michael Bendis and DC Comics are about to bring back the Legion of Super-Heroes in the pages of Superman, before launching them back to where they belong, headlining their own monthly book. It’s been a minute since the Legion has graced the pages of DC Comics, but Bendis and artist Ryan Sook are ready
Mortal Kombat was the fighting game franchise that distinguished itself as the ostentatiously ultraviolent Chinese grindhouse-inspired alternative to the cartoony quarter-munching of the Street Fighter franchise, notably with its over-the-top characters. However, its de facto main character has been, for the most part, the ascetic and honorable chopsocky Shaolin monk warrior, Liu Kang. Consequently, it’s
Riverdale Season 4 is happening! This is great news for fans of quirky, unpredictable, and always entertaining TV. Perhaps more so than any other show on TV, Riverdale is very comfortable in its own skin; season three was a weird and wonderful experience, with episodes like “The Midnight Club” flashback installment and the noir experiment pushing
Raising Dion is another superhero series that’s joining Netflix’s original content; a lineup recently stemmed after an across-the-board cancellations of its Marvel shows. However, this 10-episode serial genre offering (bearing a uniquely heartfelt family twist,) has a major ace up its sleeve with a co-star who’s one today’s hottest box office draws, Michael B. Jordan.
Halo Infinite Creative Director Tim Longo has left developer 343 Industries. This information comes from Kotaku who first heard rumors that Longo had left the studio. When they reached out to Microsoft, the company confirmed Longo’s departure. “We have recently had two changes to the Halo Infinite development team,” reads a statement from Microsoft. ”Our Executive
Lost in Space Season 2 has officially been confirmed by Netflix. Lost in Space Season 1’s promising, cliffhanger conclusion indicates that the producers are confident there will be a Lost in Space Season 2. Series co-creators Burk Sharpless and Matt Sazama confirmed to IndieWire that they are working on season two and have some “wild’ ideas. further
Picking up where The Batman Who Laughs left off, Batman/Superman kicks off at the end of August promising to infect heroes from around the DC Universe with dark multiverse Joker venom. But the identities of the infected have been mostly hidden, until now. We already knew that the first one to catch giggles would be
Ben Irving, the Lead Producer on Anthem, has shockingly decided to leave BioWare. “After 8 amazing years at BioWare I have made the decision to move on and have accepted an exciting opportunity at another gaming company,” says Irving via Twitter post. “Since the first time I played Baldurs Gate many many years ago, BioWare
Romantic comedies got a lot of much-deserved love and attention in 2018; one of the less-talked-about contributions to that glorious rom-com resurgence was the Greg Berlanti-directed Love, Simon, an adaptation of Becky Albertalli’s queer young adult book Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda. Love, Simon was a critical and box office success, making $66 million on
Mr. Mercedes Season 3 is officially set for Audience Network. The renewal of Mr. Mercedes Season 3 arrived shortly after the late-summer-launched Season 2 wrapped its run on October 24, 2018, and has a late 2019 release date. Stephen King has called it the show’s best so far… The series will continue its process of adapting Stephen