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
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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
If you’re not currently reading Justice League by James Tynion IV, Scott Snyder, and an assortment of DC’s best artists, you’re missing out on some of the wildest, most cosmic storytelling in mainstream superhero comics right now. Over the last year or so, Justice League has played with the very laws of reality which govern
Nintendo Switch Online is the subscription service for owners of, you guessed it, the Nintendo Switch. The portable games console’s snazzy membership club launched properly in September 2018, and, although membership isn’t essential to enjoying the Switch, it does connect you to some pretty cool stuff. In terms of pricing, single-user membership to Nintendo Switch
Who said anything about superhero fatigue? Amazon Prime has reported that its Garth Ennis superhero adaptation from producer Seth Rogen, The Boys, is already among its most watched original series ever. And that’s only after two weeks. “I’m so beyond thrilled with the response to Season 1. And mainly, it’s made me get my ass
Matthew Vaughn‘s film adaptation of Neil Gaiman‘s Stardust is more than a decade old, but it hasn’t lost any of its magic. With an all-star cast that included Daredevil‘s Charlie Cox and Homeland‘s Claire Danes, a director who would go onto make X-Men: First Class and Kingsman: The Secret Service, and a story from the mind of Neil Gaiman, Stardust is a funny, clever, and heartfelt fairy
Fans are wondering what’s going on after Death Stranding was removed from an official list of upcoming PlayStation exclusives. As users on the ResetEra forum first noted, Death Stranding is not listed as an upcoming PlayStation exclusive on PlayStation’s Australian website. The funny thing is that it was listed as an exclusive on that website
Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have long been the subject of speculation regarding their next long-term tenure after the recently-concluded global juggernaut HBO series. While a deal with Disney has procured them the dream gig of writing and directing a Star Wars film, it appears that Netflix has emerged the winner
Children of Blood and Bone arrived in 2018 as a refreshing YA fantasy offering that eschews the genre’s obligatory array of sexy monsters and post-apocalypstic scenarios, centering itself in the arena of African mysticism, focused exclusively on African characters. With the novel’s 25-year-old Nigerian-American author, Tomi Adeyemi, already set to release a sequel novel this
YouTuYouTuber SupMatto recently claimed that Borderlands 3 publisher 2K Games sent private investigators to his house over information he reportedly leaked. The claim was serious enough to prompt fans to take to Twitter and start a #BoycottBorderlands3 campaign. Now, in a statement to IGN, 2K confirms that the YouTuber in question has indeed been under investigation.
Over twenty years since its last episode, the Nicktoons’ classic Rocko’s Modern Life will return to Netflix with the revival movie, Rocko’s Modern Life: Static Cling. We’ve seen the movie and it’s awesome. It looks and sounds just like it did in the old days but, as creator Joe Murray told us via email, he