Monthly Archives: April 2018
Football Manager Touch 2018 Comes to Nintendo Switch
Football Manager Touch 2018 is now available for Nintendo Switch.
Sega announced and released the game on the Nintendo eShop today and it's priced at $40 USD. FM Touch, which is the tablet version of the popular management simulation, has been fully optimized for Nintendo's console. It features a customized control system with support for both the touchscreen and Joy-Con controllers.
Additionally, FM touch offers a fully-fledged single-player experience alongside the 3D Match Engine, which makes its debut on consoles. The Switch port is co-developed by Sports Interactive and Hardlight, the studio behind Sonic Dash and Sonic Jump.
Solo: A Star Wars Story Runtime Reportedly Revealed
The running time for Solo: A Star Wars Story has been revealed.
The Cannes Film Festival shared the film's runtime on its website, detailing that the upcoming Star Wars movie will be 2 hours and 15 minutes long. This is on par with most of the new Star Wars movies released after 2012. The only exception is The Last Jedi, which is the longest entry clocking in at a little over 2 hours and 30 minutes.
Solo will premiere on May 15 at the Cannes Film Festival before hitting theaters on May 25. For more on the movie, which is directed by Ron Howard, check out how this latest piece of art for the film might reveal where Han Solo's famous gold dice came from.
Sea of Thieves Is Getting That Much-Needed New Content
Sea of Thieves will be getting plenty of new content starting in May and stretch out over the summer with updates and weekly events.
Developer Rare detailed its post-release support for the game, revealing that additional content will come via weekly events featuring new mechanics and rewards. This will kick off in May with the release of The Hungering Deep, which will introduce a new AI threat to the world for players to go up against.
Alongside this mysterious new threat, Rare will also be adding new mechanics to assist players and unique rewards to earn. During the summer, the new Cursed Sails event will debut bringing with it a new ship type, and the Forsaken Shores content update will introduces a new world for players to explore.
2K Studio Reportedly Developing New BioShock
A studio within 2K is allegedly working on a new BioShock game, according to a new report.
Kotaku's Jason Schreier's report largely focuses on the making of Mafia 3 and the impact it had on developer Hangar 13, but in his reporting, Schreier discovered an unannounced project in the works at a neighboring, secret studio. Codenamed Parkside, this project is said to be the next BioShock, according to the report, and it sounds like it's not only top-secret but also quite early in development.
"If anyone from Hangar 13 tried to strike up a conversation with
Will Ferrell Hospitalized Following Serious Car Accident
Will Ferrell reportedly has been hospitalized following a serious car accident, while new reports claim he has since been released.
THR reports Ferrell, along with the three other people who were in his car, were involved in a two-car crash last night resulting in multiple, none-life threatening injuries. Ferrell's car was flipped over after it was hit by another car along Interstate 5 in Orange County, California. No fatalities have been reported so far. According to TMZ, Ferrell rep informed the outlet he has since been released from the hospital and did not sustain any major injuries.
Nintendo’s Takahashi Hints At New Hardware After Switch
Nintendo performed reasonably well at this year's BAFTA awards, winning two awards for Super Mario Odyssey and one for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. However, its success was slightly eclipsed by a tease made by Nintendo’s Shinya Takahashi.
Speaking to the BBC, the general manager of Nintendo’s EPD division stated that:
"Nintendo constantly works on hardware, so we have been doing research and development, so you may see the new system sometime in the future."
Bathroom Hand Dryers Spray Hot Feces Germs Everywhere
A new, small-scale study conducted at the University of Connecticut shows bathroom hand dryers are actually extremely gross.
The study, published in the American Society for Microbiology's Applied and Environmental Biology journal, found the devices spray fecal bacteria and other nastiness from their outlets, spreading an invisible miasma of filth.
The test showed the nozzles themselves are relatively bacteria-free. When the fans wind up, problems appear. The fans suck up nastiness from the air, concentrate it, and then spray it onto your wet hands as you work to dry them off. The study placed bacteria-collecting plates underneath the nozzles and waited to see what would grow.
Rampage Earns $2.4 Million in Thursday Previews
Rampage earned $2.4 million in Thursday night previews at the domestic box office.
According to Deadline, a large portion of last night's audience was made up of younger filmgoers, ages 12-16.
The video game-inspired film is the third Dwayne Johnson-led movie directed by Brad Peyton. Previously, the two worked together on Journey 2: The Mysterious Island and San Andreas, the latter of which made $3.1 million in Thursday previews when it debuted in 2015.
Rampage is expected to dethrone A Quiet Place and top the domestic box office this weekend with upwards of $40 million. Meanwhile, John Krasinski's horror film is projected to make somewhere in the low $30 million range over its second weekend. A Quiet Place surpassed expectations last weekend with 2018's second biggest domestic debut so far.
Minecraft on Switch Getting Xbox Live Achievements
Xbox Live achievements are coming to the Nintendo Switch version of Minecraft.
Content creator Patrick Maka, who first spotted the list of Xbox Live achievements, shared his discovery on Twitter. The list of achievements, courtesy of True Achievements, appear identical to the Xbox versions of the popular title.
A Minecraft representative has since confirmed to Polygon the achievements will be added once the Bedrock update is released. "We can confirm that Minecraft players on Nintendo Switch will soon be able to earn achievements tied to Xbox Live once the Bedrock update is released," the spokesperson said.
Gotham Pulls the Old Joker Switcheroo…and it’s a Bummer
Last week, I wrote about how Gotham was most likely leading us into an unnecessary Joker swap. The introduction of Jerome's twin brother, Jeremiah (also played by Cameron Monaghan), seemed to suggest the series was returning to its initial playbook of "Jerome's just a proto-Joker," despite fans fully coming to accept Jerome, over the past couple seasons, as the perfect "Joker" for this TV universe.
Gotham had not only brought Jerome back for several memorable storylines, since his introduction in the back half of Season 1, but the show went so far as to kill him...and bring him back to life.