If you just can’t wait to see Henry Cavill play Geralt in Netflix’s adaptation of The Witcher, there’s a PC mod for The Witcher 3 out there that may just give you a slight sneak peek of what to expect from the former Superman. A modder named Adnan has posted his creation over on Nexus
Month: August 2019
This Krypton review contains spoilers. Krypton Season 2, Episode 10 After that season finale, I think we can officially retire the phrase “prequel series” in relation to Krypton. If you haven’t already, that is. But “The Alpha and the Omega” is nothing short of a stellar episode that brings a satisfying conclusion to the General
Jonathan Hickman, Pepe Larraz, RB Silva, Marte Gracia, and the rest of the team are now two issues into House of X and Powers of X, the intertwining X-Men event comics meant to reset the marvelous mutants, and in four issues over one month, they’ve managed to change everything we know about the X-Men. This
Need For Speed Heat has been revealed as the next game in the massively popular racing franchise, with the game’s first trailer drifting onto the web today. “We’re delivering more options than ever before for players to be unique and make themselves known,” promises creative director Riley Cooper from Ghost Games. Cooper continues: “Our fans have
Star Wars Resistance season 2 is set for liftoff, according to Disney. The show was renewed midway through the first season, which sees Kazuda Xiono, a young pilot turned Resistance spy, investigate a station called the Colossus and its connections to the First Order. Along the way, he makes a few friends and participates in high-stakes
Dark Nights: Metal did more for DC’s cosmology than any event they’ve had since Crisis on Infinite Earths. And as the gift that keeps on giving (alternate timelines), DC is capitalizing by pushing out evil versions of major crossovers. The latest two: Blackest Night and Infinite Crisis. These stories join previously announced alternate takes on Batman: Knightfall
While the highlight of the new Apex Legends Ice Crown event should be the addition of a limited time solo mode to the team-based game, all most players can seem to talk about are the absurdly expensive cosmetics that may just rank among the most outrageous microtransactions we’ve seen in recent years. Apex Legends‘ new
Coming off the success of Netflix’s original documentary series The Toys That Made Us, series creator Brian Volk-Weiss announced at San Diego Comic-Con 2019 a spinoff series titled The Movies That Made Us. Each episode will chronicle the production of “generational” films and look at the impact these iconic films had on popular culture. You
Early last year, DC introduced a series of Walmart exclusive comics featuring new stories by some of comics’ top creators. One of those featured a Batman tale written by Brian Michael Bendis with art by Nick Derington. These stories were kind of difficult for many fans to find on a consistent basis, so DC’s faithful
In an interview with Game Informer, Xbox first-party studio boss Matt Booty was asked whether or not a studio like Double Fine (which was recently acquired by Microsoft) would be allowed to develop for other platforms. His response was surprising. “I think that the question is less binary about, ‘should it be on Switch, should it
The Dark Crystal entered the pop culture fray as a fantastical theatrical offering during the 1982 Christmas season. Directed by Jim Henson and Frank Oz, featuring groundbreaking animatronics and imaginative creatures from Henson’s Creature Shop, the Tolkien-esque fantasy film earned fans, but was hardly a box office smash. However, the fandom apparently endured enough to
Carry On, Rainbow Rowell’s follow-up to her fandom-centric Fangirl, is at once both a clever, cathartic critique of the Harry Potter series and other Chosen One narratives and its own fantastical love story—and now it’s getting a sequel! Rowell has written a sequel to her young adult book about queer wizards Simon Snow and Baz and their
During Microsoft’s E3 2018 conference, the studio shed a little light on a recent Kickstarter project called Session that looks to revive the skateboarding genre. As you might imagine, Session leans heavily on your nostalgia for classic skateboarding experiences like Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater and the Skate series. That’s a sensible strategy, but it is
This Legion review contains spoilers. Legion Season 3 Episode 8 What a long, strange trip it’s been. Besides being the series finale, “Chapter 27” of Legion feels like an end of era because it very well may be the last live-action piece of Marvel content not cooked up by the Disney brain trust, and while Doctor Strange dipped
Stories of one special man bearing the weight of the world are so common in fantasy, it can be hard to find a new angle to make the story unique. In Blood of an Exile, debut author Brian Naslund manages to embrace the old tropes while also presenting a world where its species are connected,
Nightdive Studios (the studio behind the troubled development of the System Shock remake) are working on an enhanced version of System Shock 2. “You asked for it and we are working on it,” reads a post on the Nightdive Studios’ Twitter account. “System Shock 2 Enhanced Edition coming soon!!!” The studio doesn’t offer any additional
Each season of Netflix’s The Crown is set to cover about a decade of the Queen’s life, so it’s not a shock to hear that a round of recasting is in the offing for The Crown Season 3, which, thanks to a major time jump, will take place in the 1970s. Here’s everything we know about
Once & Future, a space-set reimagining of Arthurian legend, was one of the most fun reading experiences I’ve had this year. Cori McCarthy and Amy Rose Capetta‘s young adult novel casts Arthur as teen girl named Ari living in a future where humanity has populated the galaxy. The story is highly-inclusive, action-packed, and ended on a killer cliffhanger.
The much-hyped Minecraft Super Duper Graphics update is now officially dead. “Some of you might remember us announcing the Super Duper Graphics Pack during E3 2017. Super Duper was an ambitious initiative that brought a new look to Minecraft,” reads a post on the Minecraft blog. “Unfortunately, the pack proved too technically demanding to implement
Bruno Heller and Danny Cannon, the masterminds behind Batman prequel, Gotham, are staying in the DC Universe a little longer. EPIX is the well-kept home for Pennyworth, a series about the youth of future Wayne butler Alfred Pennyworth, to apply his trade. No, wait, come back. There’s a rather cool hook to this, as Pennyworth, which
Blizzard has launched a new forum designed to help you find your old World of Warcraft friends and perhaps meet up with them again to try out World of Warcraft Classic. The forum, which you can find right here, is called “Classic Connections” and allows people to either look for their old Alliance teammates, find
“Don’t ask me about the Mariachi costume,” Lodge 49 star Brent Jennings says as he settles into one of the ancient wooden seats in Atlanta’s haunted Fox Theatre. Sure enough, he is wearing a full-on black and red Mariachi suit. It’s the day after Game of Thrones season 8’s massive Battle of Winterfell episode, “The Long Night” and Jennings
The Turbografx-16 is coming back to the market, with Konami following the trend of re-releasing retro consoles as miniature modern products. The Turbografx-16, which was initially released in Japan in 1987, will be reborn as the Turbografx-16 Mini. This trend of tiny retro consoles, of course, has already seen the NES Mini, SNES Mini, and the PS
Peaky Blinders Season 5 has officially been a thing since the December 2017 Season 4 finale aired in the U.K., upon which the BBC confirmed that a fifth season renewal was already a done deal. Consequently, fans have been waiting nearly two years since we last left Tommy and the Shelby clan. Of course, Peaky
Walmart is reportedly asking store employees to remove certain references to violent video games in the wake of the recent El Paso shootings. Some Walmart employees have taken to social media to share screenshots of an internal memo which requests the removal of “signing and displays reference violence.” It then goes on to request the
This Killjoys review contains spoilers. Killjoys Season 5 Episode 4 “When you remember where you have been, you dream of where you might go.” Any concern that Killjoys might fall prey to a capture/escape/capture narrative trap quickly dissipates as “Ship Outta Luck” returns Team Awesome Force to full on fight mode, and the season’s strongest
A recent email sent to members of Capcom’s RE Ambassadors program suggests that the studio is working on a new Resident Evil game. “Hi Resident Evil Ambassadors,” reads the email. “Today we’re reaching out to recruit potential testers from our loyal RE Ambassador community to try out a new game in early development.” The email goes
Away, a developing Netflix series, will head to space for a monumental mission with a commander played by two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank and television veteran Josh Charles. Set as a 10-episode series, Away will be driven by showrunner Jessica Goldberg, who’s known as the creator of Hulu’s subversive 2016-2018 drama, The Path, and wrote
A supermassive black hole has 2.25 billion times the mass of our sun. “Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in northern Chile, astronomers have captured an extraordinary glimpse of a huge swirling disk of cold, dense interstellar gas rotating around a supermassive black hole.” Read more at Inverse. Danny Trejo became a real-life hero
Jack Ryan Season 2 is already a go at Amazon! While the Amazon television offering, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, debuted on August 31, the series officially announced its astoundingly advanced Season 2 renewal back on April 24. The series stars John Krasinski – in a form that’s surreal to fans of his classic TV run