Monthly Archives: December 2016
Sony Announces Mobile Game Plans in Japan
Sony has announced it will begin releasing smartphone games in Japan starting in April 2017, including a number of titles from familiar PlayStation franchises.
Forward Works, a company established by Sony Interactive Entertainment, has announced smartphone versions of Hot Shots Golf (Everybody's Golf in Japan), Wild Arms, PaRappa the Rapper, and more will be coming to iOS and Android devices in Japan and other Asian territories.
A Japanase PlayStation Blog post lists Everybody's Golf as a spring 2017 release, while a second entry in the No Heroes Allowed!/What Did I Do to Deserve This, My Lord franchise is aiming for a summer 2017 release.
The 5 Most Popular Heroes in Dota 2
Flavor of the month heroes come and go in Dota 2, but no matter the patch, you can almost always find the same handful of heroes at the top of the most picked list.
Though they’re all vastly different, they do have one thing in common: they’re very good at killing stuff. Play one or two pub matches of Dota and you’re almost certain to see them.
According to Dotabuff, these are the five most popular heroes in Dota 2.
Games picked: 269 million
First Spider-Man: Homecoming Clip Released
Wrestling Wrap Up: Dean Ambrose Deserved the Betrayal
I'm gonna get needlessly analytical with this week's headline topic, but what is the Wrap Up if not my prix fixe menu of self-indulgence?
Dean Ambrose was a total a-hole to James Ellsworth and, basically, deserved to get bitten on the ass by the whole Ellsworth phenomenon.
Look, wrestling never delves into character complexities. It's a fairly basic black and white playbook. Heels are loud liars and/or "know-it-alls" who talk too much. The babyface's job is to shut them up with fists, even when they make sense. Hell, especially when they make sense and hit too close to the nerve.
Tomb Raider Reboot Casts Hateful 8’s Walton Goggins as Villain
Walton Goggins is in final negotiations to star as the antagonist in the upcoming Tomb Raider reboot movie.
Other than Goggins' role as the villain, no other details about his character are known, according to Variety.
Goggins, who recently stared in Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight and HBO's Vice Principals, will join Oscar-winning actress Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina, The Danish Girl), who was cast earlier this year to play Lara Croft.
Anime Helmer Shinkai’s Oscar Contender
The Japanese animated film Your Name. has been the biggest hit of the year in that country, and is currently their fifth highest-grossing film of all time. It’s on the shortlist for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, and it’s the first non-Hayao Miyazaki anime film to make over $100 million (￥10 billion) in Japan. Directed by Makoto Shinkai, it’s the story of a young girl named Mitsuha in a small town who is frustrated with her simple life. Her father, the mayor, is mostly absent and she’s constantly teased at school. She wishes that, in her next life, she could come back as a handsome boy who lives in Tokyo. Taki, a handsome boy in Tokyo finds himself switching bodies with Mitsuha a few days a week after a comet is seen in the sky. In Taki’s body, Mitsuha helps him on a date with a girl he likes. He helps her find confidence at school. Though they can’t speak, they leave each other messages, on their bodies, in notebooks and in a phone diary. Through this, they learn about each other’s lives and find themselves falling in love. The problem? They’re not just separated by location. They’re separated by time, and one of their timelines is about to end in disaster.
3 Possibilities for Pokemon Go’s Next Update
After a leak from Starbucks of all places, developer Niantic has confirmed that new Pokemon are coming to Pokemon Go soon. It will reveal details on December 12, so in the meantime… what could Niantic mean by “more Pokemon"?
We know that Sprint has formed a partnership with Niantic, which will add thousands of new gyms across the world, and for the uninitiated, Pokemon Go’s roster currently consists of 146 of the original 151 Pokemon. What comes next depends on how big the update is.
Homeland Star May Be Ocean’s Eight Villain
Ocean's Eight, the all-female Ocean's Eleven spinoff, has reportedly found its main villain.
According to Variety, Homeland star Damian Lewis, who played Nicholas Brody on the show, is close to finalizing a deal to join the cast of Ocean's Eight, and will play the main baddie in the film. Lewis had been spotted on set recently, and it now seems his role in the movie is indeed much more than just a small cameo, Variety reports.
Ocean's Eight was first announced last year, and has Sandra Bullock starring as the film's main character, the leader of of a group of thieves planning to pull off a major heist. Lewis will play Bullock's ex-lover, and the man the thieves are planning to rob.
Dragon Ball Super English Dub to Premiere on Toonami
Toei Animation, Funimation, and Adult Swim have announced that the Dragon Ball Super English dub will air as part of Adult Swim's Toonami lineup beginning next year.
Dragon Ball Super season 1 will premiere on Adult Swim on January 7, 2017 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. pT/1 a.m. GMT/11 a.m. AEST and 11:30 p.m. ET/8:30 p.m. PT/4:30 a.m. GMT/2 p.m. AEST.
The first season's 26 episodes are set to air during the Toonami block in the coming weeks and months. Check out an exclusive new clip from the English dub of episode 1 below:
Toonami will also air Dragon Ball Z Kai: The Final Chapters, which focuses on the Buu Saga, will also on January 7 at 12 a.m. ET/9 p.m. PT following the second airing of Super that night. A new Dragon Ball Super website has also launched, which will include exclusive content, video, character information, and more of the latest news about the series. Previous Dragon Ball series Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, and Dragon Ball GT all aired on Cartoon Network's Toonami block throughout the late 1990's and early 2000's.
Amazon Developing an Animated Movie
Amazon Studios is reportedly developing an animated movie about pop culture icon, Emily the Strange.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Dark Horse Entertainment is negotiating a deal with Amazon to produce the film. Once the deal is finalized, Emily the Strange creator Rob Reger will act as a producer, along with Dark Horse's Mike Richardson and Keith Goldberg.
Reger, a skateboarder who designed a variety of T-Shirts and skateboards, came up with the idea and design of Emily the Strange in the early 1990s. The character quickly took off, creating a multimillion-dollar business made up of comics, toys, fashion, and school supplies.