Monthly Archives: October 2018
Arrowverse Crossover Poster Shows a Very Different Flash and Green Arrow
The CW has revealed the first poster for this year's Arrowverse "Elseworlds" crossover featuring The Flash's Grant Gustin and Arrow's Stephen Amell (via Amell's Twitter), showing the heroes as you've never seen them before - as each other.
My name is Barry Allen and I am the fastest man alive. pic.twitter.com/TibqsR7mT8
Pokemon from Diamond and Pearl Now Available in Pokemon Go
Following a tease last week, Niantic has started to release Pokemon from Generation 4 (originally discovered in the Sinnoh region) in Pokemon Go.
In a post on Pokemon Go’s official site, Niantic announced that Sinnoh Pokemon (originally found in Pokemon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum) will be released in waves, with the first batch arriving today followed by additional Pokemon in the weeks to come. As expected, Sinnoh Pokemon are available to catch in the wild, battle in raids, or hatch in eggs and IGN has already been able to catch some ourselves.
Marvel’s Spider-Man: First DLC Pack Out Next Week, Includes 3 New Suits
Marvel's Spider-Man will receive The Heist, the first chapter of its planned The City That Never Sleeps DLC series, on Tuesday Oct. 23, with a New Game Plus mode still "coming soon."
The Heist will be available for $7.99 USD or as part of the $24.99 USD season pass, Insomniac Games announced in a PlayStation Blog post today.
The first of three add-on chapters, The Heist opens with an art museum robbery that mixes up Spider-Man and Mary Jane Watson with Black Cat. The DLC will include new story missions, crimes, challenges, Trophies, Spider-Man suits, and a new enemy faction.
Mega Sg Looks To Reignite The Console Wars With a 1080p Sega Console With No Emulation
Analogue has announced the Mega Sg, a 1080p console that is "compatible with the "2,180+ Sega Genesis, Mega Drive and Master System game cartridge library" and does not use emulation.
The Mega Sg has been engineered with FPGA (field programmable gate array), which is different from the "Classic" line of consoles like the Super NES Classic or NES Classic, and allows you to play on a console that has reproduced what the originals did and supports cartridges without using emulation to simulate the experience.
What This Watchmen Teaser Reveals About the HBO Series
HBO has given Watchmen fans their first real glimpse of the upcoming TV series. Yesterday, the newly launched Watchmen Instagram account posted a photo of one of the new characters in the series, a mysterious, masked vigilante wearing a yellow bandana.
Check out this new character below:
At first glance, this lone photo doesn't seem to reveal much about the tone and direction of Lindelof's show. However, there are a few key inferences to be made from this character. Scroll down for some thoughts on the reveal and what it means for the HBO series.
Epic Games Suing YouTubers for Promoting, Selling Fortnite Cheats
Epic Games is suing YouTubers Brandon "Golden Modz" Lucas and Colton "Excentric" Conter for allegedly using, promoting, and selling Fortnite cheats on their YouTube and other social media channels.
The North Carolina lawsuit, published on TorrentFreak, claims Lucas and Conter's actions are in violation of copyright laws, are breaches of contract, and could be considered "unfair and deceptive trade practices and unfair methods of competition." Epic claims that both Lucas and Conter have been banned for using Fortnite cheats in their videos but have persisted in doing so by creating new accounts with false info.
Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is ‘Next Level Dark,’ Says Kiernan Shipka
If you grew up in the '90s and had a passing knowledge of Sabrina the Teenage Witch, chances are you were probably obsessed with Salem Saberhagen, the snarky cat (voiced by Nick Bakay) who stole every scene he appeared in, despite generally appearing as a rather stiff looking puppet. In Netflix's new Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, the kitty isn't quite as chatty (at least in the series premiere) and so far has no credited voice actor.
But in a new behind-the-scenes featurette released by Netflix, we do get a hint of what the character might sound like if he does decide to start communicating with our teen heroine - and much like the new iteration of the series, it's a little more chilling than comedic.
Dragon Quest X Producer Wants to Turn the MMO Into an Offline Game for the West
Dragon Quest X, 2012's Japan-only multi-platform MMO, could still come west – just not in its original form.
Speaking during the Super Dragon Quest X TV Fall Festival, series executive producer Yu Miyake expressed interest in bringing the MMO west (via Siliconera):
“Dragon Quest X has plenty of rich stories, and I want to make something to share it with others, including those overseas,” Miyake said.
Former Dragon Quest X producer Yosuke Saito echoed Miyake's comments. "We talk about an offline version here and there, but I don't think it's impossible. It'd be great if we could introduce it to customers."
Bandai Namco to Distribute Cyberpunk 2077 Across Europe
Bandai Namco has announced that it will distribute CD Projekt Red's Cyberpunk 2077 across several European markets.
The partnership includes 24 countries in total: Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Malta, Norway, Portugal, San Marino, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.
"We're looking forward to working once again with CD Projekt Red and
another of its games in Europe, providing first-class services to one of the most eagerly awaited games of the coming years," said Bandai Namco Entertainment Europe VP Southern Europe & Biz Dev Alberto González Lorca in a press release.
The 3 Hellboy Comics Inspiring the New Movie
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There's a new Hellboy movie on the way in 2019. Not only will this latest cinematic adventure reboot the franchise and introduce a new cast (including Stranger Things' Jim Hopper, David Harbour, in the titular role), it promises to draw even more closely from the Hellboy comics. That's according to Hellboy creator Mike Mignola, anyway. Mignola recently revealed that the film is specifically inspired by three Hellboy graphic novels - Darkness Calls, The Wild Hunt and The Storm and the Fury.