Monthly Archives: September 2018
American Horror Story: “Forbidden Fruit” Review
Warning: Full spoilers for the episode follow...
Hah. There's the tie-in we've been waiting for!
No more allusions to connective Coven tissue or whiffs of Murder House collusion, but actual Coven witches arriving on the scene. Just as Sarah Paulson's Apocalypse character fell, her Coven role, "Supreme" Cordelia, showed up to - hopefully - answer a question or twelve.
So, yes, business picked up at the end of "Forbidden Fruit." Things got interesting. Ah, but does interesting mean good? Not necessarily. See, one of the greatest tricks American Horror Story has pulled over the years is becoming a show so utterly overflowing with massive "WTF?" moments that it gaslights us into thinking good things are happening. Well, things are happening, surely. But that's all. It's just plot movement. For every one question answered, three more get raised. Miriam Mead actually being a robot is so bizarre and arbitrary that it feels like a small weird part of a fridge magnet poem where someone keeps switching the words around.
What This Year’s Elseworlds Crossover Tells Us About the Future of the Arrowverse
Today brought even more reason to look forward to this year's Arrowverse crossover. We now know that the crossover will be titled "Elseworlds," and that it'll be introducing the Monitor (played by LaMonica Garrett).
Both reveals offer a much better idea of what this year's big DC crossover will be about. But even more intriguingly, it hints at the larger direction the Arrowverse could be heading in the years to come. Here's why the Monitor news is significant and why we think the Arrowverse is building towards a full-fledged adaptation of DC's Crisis on Infinite Earths.
Who Is the Monitor?
The Monitor is a character first introduced in DC's comics in 1982. Essentially, he's DC's answer to Marvel's The Watcher - an omniscient being who observes the universe from afar. The Monitor's duties extend to the whole of the DC multiverse, however. The Monitor became a central figure in 1985's Crisis on Infinite Earths. There he rallied a group of heroes against his dark opposite, the Anti-Monitor. This villain sought to devour all life and destroy the multiverse entirely, a goal it nearly succeeded in.
How Watchmen’s Doctor Manhattan Corrupted the DC Universe
Doctor Manhattan made his first significant appearance in DC's Watchmen sequel Doomsday Clock today, and in the process readers learned more about how he altered the timeline of the DC Universe.
Warning: this article contains spoilers for Doomsday Clock #7!
One of the central mysteries of Doomsday Clock involves the question of what Doctor Manhattan is trying to accomplish. Why did he alter the history of the DC Universe and remove a decade's worth of time? Is he merely tinkering with time out of idle, scientific curiosity, or is there something more at play?
Your Lingering PlayStation Classic Questions Answered
Beyond!
On this week's episode of IGN's weekly PlayStation show, Beyond, host Jonathon Dornbush, Brian Altano, and Max Scoville address some of your lingering PlayStation Classic questions, including the lack of an AC adaptor, whether there will be post-launch support and if the PlayStation Classic has online functionality.
Additionally, they dive into the unfortunate mass layoffs at Telltale Games, as well as Death Stranding's new TGS trailer, and Jonathon dives in for one more minute of Kingdom Hearts 3 talk.
Marvel’s Strongest Symbiotes (And Venom Isn’t #1)
Venom may be one of Spider-Man's stronger foes, but he's not the only symbiote character on the block. This villain's breakout popularity in the late '80s and early '90s inspired a new wave of symbiote characters, from villains like Carnage to heroes like Scorn and Toxin. And some of these characters have proven to be stronger and more capable than Venom himself.
If you want to know how the major symbiote characters in the Marvel Universe measure up, we've put together a helpful guide. Read on -- or watch the video above -- to see where characters like Peter Parker and Eddie Brock fall on the list of the most powerful symbiotes.
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Update: Red Dead Redemption 2 File Sizes Revealed for Xbox One and PS4
Update 10/18/2018: Through its support page, Rockstar has officially confirmed the respective file sizes for Red Dead Redemption 2 on Xbox One and PlayStation 4.
Both the physical and digital versions on Xbox One weigh in at 107 GB. On PlayStation 4, 99 GB will be required for the physical version, while the digital version calls for "an additional 50GB for the installation process," bringing its hard drive space requirement up to a whopping 149 GB.
Update 10/15/2018: A Microsoft Store listing reveals that the Xbox One version of Red Dead Redemption 2 has an approximate size of 88.57 GB.
Seven Deadly Sins Season 2 Is Coming to Netflix in October
Netflix announced Wednesday their lineup for October, and The Seven Deadly Sins season 2 is on the list.
The Seven Deadly Sins: Revival of The Commandments will release on Netflix Oct. 15. It had a 24-episode run earlier this year in Japan, where it was released early compared to other countries.
The Seven Deadly Sins anime is based on the manga by Nakaba Suzuki. The first 24-episode season of the anime came to Netflix in 2015.
The Seven Deadly Sins is Netflix's second exclusive anime, right behind Knights of Sidonia.
The first console game of the series, The Seven Deadly Sins: Knights of Britannia, was released on PlayStation 4 in Feb. 2018 and lets you play as the famous characters in unique fighting styles.
Every IGN Assassin’s Creed Review
Sit down in this comfy sci-fi chair, won't you, and plug in as we delve into our ancestral memories of IGN's Assassin's Creed reviews. From the 2007 original in which Altair first implausibly lept off a tall building into a tiny pile of hay to last year's revitalizing Origins and now the absolutely massive Odyssey, Assassin's Creed has had a pretty impressive 11-year run – including several spin-offs that didn't go quite as well. What's your favorite of the bunch?
Hellboy Reboot Release Date Postponed
Summit Entertainment announced Wednesday the Hellboy reboot will be pushed back to April 12, 2019, according to THR.
Originally planned to premiere on Jan. 11, 2019, Hellboy will now open one week after Warner Bros.' Shazam.
Stranger Things actor David Harbour is set to star in the Hellboy reboot with a script written by Mike Mignola, creator of the comic along with Andrew Cosby and Christopher Golden.
Neil Marshall from The Descent and Game of Thrones will be directing the film, and Milla Jovovich, Ian McShane, and Daniel Dae Kim will star alongside Harbour.
Developers Weigh in on PlayStation 4 Cross-Play
After this morning’s announcement that the PlayStation 4 would begin supporting cross-platform play, beginning with Fortnite, other developers have begun weighing in on this recent development.
The social channels for Xbox have already gotten in on the fun, as soon after the announcement, Microsoft showed its support of Sony’s policy reversal in allowing cross-platform play.
— Xbox (@Xbox) September 26, 2018