Monthly Archives: October 2018
God of War Director to Deliver PAX South 2019 Keynote
God of War Director, Cory Barlog, will deliver the opening "Storytime" keynote at PAX South 2019 in San Antonio, TX.
Barlog served as the lead animator on the original God of War after joining Sony in 2003. He wrote and directed God of War 2, and took home a BAFTA award for his writing. Barlog continued to contribute on the franchise installments, including God of War: Chains of Olympus and God of War: Ghost of Sparta. He later left Sony in 2009 for LucasArts, Crystal Dynamics, among others.
In 2013, Barlog returned to Sony to direct the newest installment of God of War, which received high praise across the board.
“Doing a sequel to a beloved game is a unique challenge, and so is rebooting a franchise for a modern audience - Cory Barlog has done both,” Co-founder of Penny Arcade, Jerry Holkins said. “We're overjoyed to have him join us at PAX South. If I get the chance, I'm gonna tell him about this place I know in San Antonio where they make the guacamole with Orange Juice instead of Lime. It sounds crazy, but it works.”
Update: Another Red Dead Redemption 2 Leak Excites Fans
Update: Another element of Red Dead Redemption 2 has popped up online pre-release - this time it's the game's map.
We'll include the rest of this update at the bottom of the story, to avoid potential spoilers.
Red Dead Redemption 2 is only a few days away, but it has just experienced one of its first major leaks -- and it has fans very excited.
The leak, which first appeared on a Resetera thread, is a 24-second video showing protagonist Arthur Morgan getting off his horse seemingly during an interrogation, only to quickly shoot down the interrogators. Though some get away, the last one Arthur shoots gets a special focus in a kill cam, slow-motion look at his death.
Halloween SPOILERS: Let’s Talk About That Ending
SPOILER ALERT: The following article discusses, in detail, the ending of Halloween (2018).
David Gordon Green’s Halloween is now, if you don’t adjust for inflation, the most financially successful movie in the whole franchise, outgrossing the previous record-holder, Rob Zombie’s 2007 remake, in its very first weekend. That’s great news for Halloween fans, who are clearly desperate for more old-fashioned entries in this iconic, influential franchise.
But it’s bad news for the filmmakers, who have written themselves into a hole. Literally.
Halloween (2018) retconned the entire franchise, removing all the supernatural elements, and even the soap operatic revelation that Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) was Michael Myers’s sister. Over the course of the new film Myers escapes, goes on a killing spree, and winds up at Laurie’s house. But instead of killing Laurie and her daughter and her granddaughter, Myers gets trapped in Laurie’s basement. She seals off the door, and sets the house on fire, seemingly killing the boogeyman forever.
Jade Raymond Leaves EA Motive
Motive Studios founder, Jade Raymond, has left the company, according to Electronic Arts.
Samantha Ryan, who currently runs EA's mobile, Maxis and Bioware, will now oversee Motive Studios as well.
A representative for EA told IGN in a statement:
“EA Studios is focused on bringing more creative new games and content to players. Laura Miele and her team have taken several steps internally to better support our game makers in this pursuit, such as expanding Samantha Ryan’s portfolio to lead additional studios, including Motive. Samantha is known for driving creative design and supporting game teams so they can bring their visions to life. She is a deeply experienced game-maker with a gameography that spans from The Sims to Batman: Arkham City to No One Lives Forever to the highly-anticipated Anthem. With this change, Jade Raymond has decided to leave Electronic Arts. In her time with us, Jade helped to build great teams, and our projects underway at Motive and other studios continue unchanged. We’re appreciative of all of her efforts, and we wish Jade all the best as she moves on to her next adventure. We are driving greater creativity into everything we do across EA Studios, and we’ll look forward to sharing more in the months to come.”
Fortnite: Save the World Free-to-Play Delayed Out of 2018
Fortnite: Battle Royale is so popular that it's easy to forget that Fortnite: Save the World, Epic Games' original vision for the game.The PvE mode was supposed to get some new life by joining in Battle Royale as a free-to-play mode this year, but that move has now been pushed into 2019.
"We decided to move the free-to-play launch of Save the World out of this year," explained Epic in a news post. "We’re working on a broad set of features, reworks, and backend system scaling we believe are needed to go free-to-play. Save the World has grown consistently since our launch in July 2017, and Fortnite overall has experienced unprecedented growth.
Guillermo Del Toro to Direct Stop Motion Animated Pinocchio Film for Netflix
Guillermo del Toro has announced that he will be co-directing a stop motion animated version of the beloved tale of Pinocchio.
As reported by Deadline, Pinocchio will be his first feature deal to direct since 2017's The Shape of Water, in which he won Best Director and the film won Best Picture at the Oscars.
As with del Toro's other films, his version of Pinocchio will be a much darker version, and the director has taken inspiration from "Gris Grimly's original designs drawn from Carlo Collodi's 1883 novel, the Adventures of Pinocchio."
Reign of the Supermen Exclusive Trailer Debut
Reign of the Supermen is the upcoming sequel to 2018's The Death of Superman, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment's animated adaptation of the classic DC Comics storyline. You can watch IGN's exclusive trailer debut for Reign of the Supermen in the player above or embedded below.
The film, which is slated to arrive on Blu-ray and Digital in early 2019, picks up after the events of The Death of Supermen where a world without the Man of Steel is suddenly populated by several mysterious Supermen: Steel, Cyborg Superman, Superboy, and The Eradicator.
In the meantime, Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen and even the villainous Lex Luthor are left to ponder what to do about these new Supermen who have arrived on the scene. The cast of characters also includes the Justice League, Cat Grant, and G. Gordon Goffrey.
Halloween: Jamie Lee Curtis Tells Us Which Records It’s Broken
Halloween has had one of the best openings for an October movie ever, but star Jamie Lee Curtis wants fans to look beyond its $77.5 million USD in opening weekend sales.
"OK. I’m going for one BOAST post," Curtis recently tweeted, listing the new film's accolades. "Biggest horror movie opening with a female lead. Biggest movie opening with a female lead over 55. Second biggest October movie opening ever. Biggest Halloween
opening ever."
In the film, Curtis reprises her role of Laurie Strode from the 1978 original. Halloween smashed the franchise's previous record holder, Rob Zombie's 2007 remake of the '78 original, which took in $26 million USD.
Black Ops 4 Will Receive ‘Several’ Updates to Improve Network Performance
Since Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 launched last week, some players have experienced issues with network latency that have kept them from fully enjoying its online multiplayer modes. However, developer Treyarch plans on this being a temporary problem, as the studio is currently working on a fix.
"For a game launch with as massive a population as ours hitting so many global servers at once, we configure our infrastructure to ensure game stability as the highest priority over all other factors," Treyarch said on Reddit. "Now that we're past the initial launch of the game, we are focusing on fine-tuning network performance across the globe, using the real-world data we have collected.
Netflix Has Renewed Disenchantment for 20 More Episodes
We'll be spending a lot of time in Dreamland over the next three years; Netflix has renewed Disenchantment for 20 more episodes, in addition to the 10 episodes still remaining in Season 1 that have yet to premiere.
The rest of Season 1 will debut in 2019, with 20 new episodes rolling out over the course of 2020 and 2021.
Creator Matt Groening gave a statement to accompany the news: "We’re excited to continue this epic journey with Netflix. Stay tuned for more cranked-up suspense, infuriating plot twists, and beloved characters getting knocked off."
Disenchantment follows the misadventures of hard-drinking young princess Bean (Abbi Jacobson), her feisty elf companion Elfo (Nat Faxon), and her personal demon Luci (Eric Andre). Along the way, the oddball trio encounter ogres, sprites, harpies, imps, trolls, walruses, and lots of human fools. Other members of the voice cast include John DiMaggio, Billy West, Maurice LaMarche, Tress MacNeille, David Herman, Matt Berry, Jeny Batten, Rich Fulcher, Noel Fielding, and Lucy Montgomery.