The lead-up to The Rise of Skywalker began at the D23 conference in August, and our Star Wars podcast hosts have the news. The Mandalorian is premiering with Disney+, and we have mixed feelings about the tone. What does it mean for a Star Wars show to do “dark” storytelling correctly? Very importantly, the trailer
This Power Rangers Beast Morphers review contains spoilers. Power Rangers Beast Morphers Episode 9 There’s a moment in ‘Silver Sacrifice’ that made me stop and reevaluate my position on Power Rangers Beast Morphers. When we last left the series I was fairly lukewarm on it. Okay but somewhat lacking. Then we got the scene outside the Riptide Gym.
Over his seven years as a comic book writer, James Tynion IV has gone from cowriting Batman backups with Scott Snyder, to launching some genuinely terrifying creator-owned horror books, to helming Justice League Dark, and partnering again with Snyder on the core Justice League title. And while he’s collaborated on event comics before, he’s never
An upcoming piece of Control DLC will apparently be related to the Alan Wake universe in some way. So, Remedy released the DLC roadmap for Control recently, which is already great news for those who are enjoying one of the more unique and entertaining games of 2019. The Fall DLC will add a photo mode
Power Rangers has just celebrated its 25th anniversary but the series is will continue! The 26th season will be Power Rangers Beast Morphers and its airing on Nickelodeon in 2019! Beast Morphers will adapt footage from the Japanese Super Sentai series Go-Busters. While this season had previously been skipped for adaption previously it now finally
Friday the 13th’s Jason Voorhees has been part of pop-culture for decades. It shouldn’t be surprising that he’s had his share of comic book adventures, what with him essentially being a supervillain in a story with no superheroes. Granted, he’s a one-dimensional supervillain with an incredibly vague origin story, but he’s been memorable enough to
The Shenmue 3 announcement was one of the big surprises of E3 2015, leading to an initial clamor of support which saw its Kickstarter campaign well over $2m within hours of launch. Shenmue 3‘s $6.3m totally eclipsed the previous record holder, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, which raised $5.5m. It’s undoubtedly good news for fans of the earlier Shenmue games, and
This Killjoys review contains spoilers. Killjoys Season 5 Episode 9 “Hello, sister. It’s been awhile.” With only two episodes remaining in the series’ run, Killjoys finds itself in the complex position of attempting to address as many open story threads as possible heading into next week’s finale. Of course, they won’t all receive attention, but
In what is suitably being referred to as “Crisis on Infinite Riverdales,” Archie Comics currently has major multiverse issues flowing through many of their books. From Jughead’s Time Police to Jughead the Hunger Meets Vampironica and beyond, the Archieverse is colliding in weird and unexpected ways right now as the publisher barrels towards its 80th
Anthem is coming to EA Access in what we’re sure is in no way some kind of last-ditch effort to keep the game relevant. Anthem has been added to the EA Vault which means that EA Access subscribers will be able to play it for no additional cost. That means that anyone who pays $4.99
This Titans review contains spoilers. Titans Season 2 Episode 2 Picking up three months after “Trigon,” the second episode of Titans Season 2, “Rose,” is a tight story that sets up new mysteries, and introduces fresh threats – making it feel more like a premiere than last week’s installment. Straightaway, it’s worth mentioning how the action has
DC’s Black Label is dropping a pretty big book in December: the latest in the series spawned from The Dark Knight Returns. This one is called The Golden Child, and the most shocking thing about it is probably its artist. Rafael Grampa, the Eisner-winning Brazilian creator of 5 and Mesmo Delivery, takes the penciling duties
The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening is getting a remake for the Nintendo Switch. The news was revealed during February’s Nintendo Direct presentation. The game features an all-new 3D art style that celebrates the classic top-down perspective of the iconic Game Boy title. Nintendo didn’t go into detail regarding the extent of the upgrades for
Sure, ‘90s kids are now adults, who, chances are, have binged the tech-driven, philosophically-based horror complexity of Netflix’s Black Mirror. However, the gateway anthology horror show for many of that generation – besides Goosebumps – was Nickelodeon’s Are You Afraid of the Dark?. Now Nickelodeon is bringing the series back as a three-part miniseries for a new
The name Stephen King conjures up images of horrific creatures, monsters, places, and some of the most enduring villains in fiction. These are beings of unimaginable evil that test the limits of the protagonists’ will to survive, and some of these villains have gone on to become almost as famous (or infamous) as the writer
In the spirit of the infamous Wii Fit series, Nintendo is releasing new fitness software and hardware for the Nintendo Switch. Stick with us, because this is odd and pretty fascinating. The software is called Ring Fit Adventure, and it serves as the companion to a new exercise peripheral that’s basically a giant, round workout cable
Supernatural Season 15 was confirmed by The CW back in January, to no one’s surprise. However, it turns out that the Winchesters aren’t going to live forever, since we would later learn that said fifteenth season will be the final one for the long-running genre series, set for a 20-episode run. Believe it or not,
Marvel Comics has signed a deal to bring more of Conan the Barbarian creator Robert E. Howard’s works to Marvel. Since Conan arrived back at Marvel earlier this year, the company has had great success with the most savage hero of all. Marvel has delighted fans’ bloodlust with both Conan the Barbarian by Jason Aaron
Team Ninja is working on a sequel to their well-received Souls-like title, Nioh. In a way, it’s not too surprising to hear that Team Ninja is working on a sequel to Nioh. After all, the game reportedly sold even better than they were expecting it to sell and performed especially well on PC where the developers had
The Flash season 6 is almost here! That means way more speedster shenanigans and time-traveling adventures with Barry Allen and his team at STAR Labs. But there will be some changes in the new season, and we’re not just talking about Barry’s sharp new Flash costume! Current showrunner Todd Helbing was replaced by Eric Wallace. “From
Event comics usually come with a passel of one-off tie ins. Sometimes they’re very good. Sometimes they’re a way of giving someone a try out. Sometimes they’re a way of getting somebody work. These are all good things! But very rarely are they ever impactful on a character or the direction of a line. That
This Walking Dead article contains spoilers. Much has happened since Telltale’s The Walking Dead, an episodic adventure game based on Robert Kirkman’s hit comic book series, first launched in 2012. Not only did the success of the first game spawn several follow-up seasons, but it also allowed developer Telltale Games to branch out to other
It’s been a long gestation period for Josh Boone’s (The New Mutants) adaptation of Stephen King‘s The Stand, but it’s finally happening. The book will be adapted as a 10-episode limited series at CBS All Access, the network’s subscription service. Boone, who is set to direct the series, will also executive produce and pen the
There’s so much to look forward to in our speculative fiction future. Here are some of the fantasy books we’re most excited about and/or are currently consuming… Join the Den of Geek Book Club! Best New Fantasy Books in July 2019 Dragonslayer by Duncan M. Hamilton Type: First book in trilogyPublisher: Tor BooksRelease date: 7/2/19
Civilization 6 is getting a battle royale mode because it’s 2019 and game identity has disappeared faster than me trying to play a battle royale game. Seriously, though, this new mode (known as Red Death) is pretty interesting. In it, 2-12 players compete to be the last civilization standing on a map that becomes smaller
Jason Momoa is getting his feet wet(ter) on television with Apple. The Aquaman star and Game of Thrones alum will headline See, an upcoming sci-fi drama for the tech company’s burgeoning scripted stable, one of many slated in Apple’s ambitious original series plans. The series will have Momoa starring in an “epic, world-building, futuristic” drama from
When DC’s Black Label imprint was first announced, fans were promised that they would journey to the darkest edges of the DC Universe with some of the most brilliant creators as their guides. Batman: Damned, by Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo, kept that promise, delivering one of the most terrifying, challenging, and controversial DC projects
Google has announced a brand new online gaming platform called Stadia, which will allow players to stream both high-end AAA and indie games on any device without the need for a console, a disc, or a hefty download. The company has long been teasing its “vision for the future of gaming,” and the exact specifics
A car powers through a looming darkness as a chorus of critters clashes against the onset of steady rain. Inside the vehicle, newly acquainted FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully are blazing a trail out in no-man’s land, a long stretch of road that cuts through a dense Oregon forest. Mulder looks down at
House of X and Powers of X have done the unthinkable: they’ve made having an encyclopedic knowledge of Marvel X-Men continuity minutiae an asset. Now I have a reason to talk about Xorn’s brother Xorn who was posing as Magneto pretending to be Xorn OTHER than to make someone go away. This is, of course,