Monthly Archives: October 2017
Telltale’s Batman: Season 1 Nintendo Switch Release Date Announced
Telltale's Batman: Season 1 is coming to Nintendo Switch on November 14 in North America and November 17 in Europe and Australia.
Telltale Games has confirmed on Twitter that the first season of the Batman series will be arriving next month on the hybrid system. Last month, Telltale talked about how Switch was a "perfect match" for the studio, as it plans on also bringing Guardians of the Galaxy to the Nintendo console.
Netflix Plans to Produce 30 New Anime Series for 2018
Netflix is planning on producing 30 new original anime series for release next year.
The Verge reports the streaming giant plans to spend $8 billion on original content for 2018, and a sizable chunk of that will be invested in new anime. According to outlet, it appears Netflix's investment in anime has been going well in terms of viewership.
Netflix's recently released original anime series Neo Yokio is from Vampire Weekend frontman Ezra Koenig and has Jaden Smith voicing the main character. Read IGN's review of the show to find out why we found it "fails to find focus in an uninteresting parody."
Lone Wolf and Cub Film Adaptation Moves Forward
Paramount is moving ahead with a film adaptation of the influential manga Lone Wolf and Club.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Justin Lin — who helmed the third through sixth Fast and Furious installments — will produce the project. He's also reportedly eyeing the director's chair for the film, which is being scripted by Seven writer Andrew Kevin Walker.
Marissa McMahon, Kamala Films, and Joshua Long are producing along with Lin. However, no release date for the movie has been set yet.
Lone Wolf and Cub
Destiny 2’s First Prestige Raid Now Live
Destiny 2's Leviathan Prestige Raid is now live on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
"The Prestige Raid is now live. Good luck! We will be watching," Bungie said in a post on Twitter.
Announced earlier this month, the more difficult version of Destiny 2's first Raid introduces tougher enemies, as well as "minimal" mechanical changes to encounters. As Bungie previously noted on its website, due to the Raid's heightened difficulty, it doesn't "expect everyone to be successful."
Green Lantern: Earth One Channels Alien’s Gritty, Unexplored Universe
Green Lantern: Earth One reinvents Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern in a modern world where there’s no such thing as Batman, Wonder Woman, or Superman and alien life hasn’t been discovered yet. Jordan seeks the thrill of adventuring through space but is stuck in a dull job mining asteroids for a private contractor, Ferris Galactic. That is, until he finds a powerful green relic from the long-extinct Green Lantern Corps and he’s confronted by the very villains that destroyed them, the Manhunters.
DC Comics’ Earth One graphic novels re-imagine individual heroes (or teams like Teen Titans) to tell standalone stories unconnected to the greater DC Universe or even other Earth One stories. That was the appeal for co-writers Gabriel Hardman and Corinna Bechko (Star Wars: Legacy, Invisible Republic) , who saw this as an opportunity to cut to the core of Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern mythos. Talking to us at New York Comic Con, the pair spoke about how they’re taking a gritty sci-fi approach akin to Alien.
Wolfenstein 2’s Marketing Leans Into Real-World Events
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus' marketing is intentionally tying into real-world events, Bethesda confirmed in a new interview. But developer MachineGames decided on the game's story long ago and did not intend the game to offer any specific social commentary on recent events.
Bethesda's Pete Hines spoke with Rolling Stone's Glixel about Wolfenstein II's recent marketing, which includes use of phrases like "There is only one side" and a take on the Nazi-punching meme that gained particular prominence earlier this year.
Dragon Ball FighterZ Adds Nappa and Captain Ginyu to Roster
The upcoming Dragon Ball FighterZ has added villains Nappa and Captain Ginyu to the ever-expanding roster.
In an update in V-Jump (via Siliconera), the roster update was accompanied by information on the game's story mode.
The saiyan Nappa will be able to summon Saibamen to aid him in battle, and his Meteor special attack is called "Kapa!" The special attack has Nappa firing a devastating energy beam from his mouth.
Captain Ginyu will have the ability to call out all of the members of The Ginyu Force. His special Meteor attack will be, as series fans may expect, "Body Change." This ability will allow Ginyu to swap characters and health with their opponent.
Netflix Unveils Its Most ‘Binge Raced’ Shows
Streaming services like Netflix have changed the way we consume programming, turning many of us into binge watchers. However, Netflix recently unveiled some information on people it calls "binge racers," which are individuals who binge an entire season of a show within 24 hours of its release.
Netflix revealed a ranking of the 20 most-binge-raced original programs it provides, but they may not be the shows you expected them to be.
The top show in the rankings is Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life. Considering how many devoted fans Gilmore Girls has, and how long those fans had to wait for new episodes, this makes sense. In second place is Fuller House, which also ticks the nostalgia boxes. Third is Marvel's The Defenders, followed by the surprising The Seven Deadly Sins and The Ranch to round out the top five.
I Flew 1,750 Miles to Catch a Pokemon
This week, I traveled 1,750 miles to catch a Pokemon in Pokemon Go.
With a near-complete Pokedex, on Monday I flew to Austin, Texas to catch one of few I still needed: Corsola, a region-exclusive Pokemon who spawns in the tropics, including areas in Latin America, Africa, Australia, Asia, and, thankfully, the southernmost parts of the United States.
It sounds extreme, but as someone who has poured thousands of combined hours into open world games on consoles, there’s something thrilling about being a completionist in a game where the map is the real world. More importantly, completing the Pokedex is one of few tasks left right now in a game with a huge player base that’s growing restless waiting for new content.
343 Details Next Round of Halo 5, Halo Wars 2 Updates
343 Industries has shared new information regarding updates coming soon to Halo 5: Guardians, Halo Wars 2, and more.
In a recent Halo Livestream, 343 announced that Halo 5 is getting an Overtime content update in November, which will feature 4K upgrades for Xbox One X owners, updated weapon tuning, and the return of the Oddball multiplayer mode. After the launch of the Overtime update, new skins will also be made available.
The content update will also see the introduction of the Local Server app, which will allow Halo 5 players to host a local server on a Windows 10 PC on the same network as Xbox One consoles for low-latency multitplayer matches.