Monthly Archives: November 2018
All 74 Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Characters Have Been Revealed, DLC and Fighters Pass Announced
During the final Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Nintendo Direct, Director Masahiro Sakurai confirmed that after today's presentation, there will be no more full characters announced for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, but a full DLC plan is in place for more to be added in the future.
This will bring the total character count of fighters to 74, not including echo fighters like the recently announced Ken, in which more may still be revealed.
As for DLC, Sakurai confirmed that there will be five sets of DLC - all with a character, stage, and music track - and each is expected to be $5.99 USD.
Ken Masters and Incineroar Join Super Smash Bros. Roster
Director of Nintendo, Masahiro Sakurai, announced Thursday during the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Direct two new fighters who are joining the roster.
So far 72 fighters have been confirmed.
The new additions include Ken Masters as a new echo fighter and Incineroar, the Pokemon who will use primarily pro wrestling moves in his fighting.
Ken's appearance is based on Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo, and has a wheel attack, a focus attack, and his kicks will change based on your command inputs. The shape of Ken's Hadoken is different and he is faster than Ryu, along with having other tweaks from different previous titles.
Incineroar is the advanced evolution of Litten, who is mainly used for his wrestling moves in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – including his love to pose for the audience, which you can cancel to get him back in focus of the fight.
Great PS4 Slim 1TB With Spider-Man Black Friday Deal at Target
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Target's United States Black Friday ad is live, giving us a glimpse into the deals we can expect from the big red retailer on Black Friday. Among them is a Super Mario Maker special edition 2DS, with Super Mario Maker for 3DS preinstalled.
The limited-edition system is yellow with orange-red highlights and has an NES Mario sprite located under the D-pad. Target has it listed at $79.99.
Dragon Ball Super’s Goku Becoming a Macy’s Day Parade Balloon
Dragon Ball Super's Goku will be a part of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade this year, in the form of a gigantic balloon.
To celebrate the upcoming North American release of Dragon Ball Super: Broly, Goku will take to the skies when the Parade passes through Manhattan on November 22.
The balloon is 70 feet long, 36 feet wide and 56 feet tall, and was created by a combination of Macy's Studio artists and Toei Animation. It depicts Goku in his Super Saiyan Blue form.
A preview of the Goku float.
What Did You Think of This Week’s Comics?
The comic book industry closed out the month of October with a number of major releases. Marvel wrapped up Old Man Logan and debuted the Spider-Geddon tie-in Spider-Force, while DC delivered a new chapter of Heroes in Crisis and kicked off the Drowned Earth crossover.
Scroll down to check out our new reviews and thinkpieces, and be sure to let us know your favorite books of the week in the comments below.
Heroes in Crisis #2 Review
Just Cause 4 Expansion Pass DLC Announced
Square Enix has unveiled the Expansion Pass to Just Cause 4, which will bring three new content packs to the open-world action game in 2019.
Purchasing the Expansion Pass gives you access to all three planned content packs, and you can also gain access to them by purchasing the game's Gold edition. As a bonus, the Gold Edition and Digital Deluxe package let you play the main Just Cause 4 game a day early, and access to all three expansions a week early.
UK Daily Deals: Best PlayStation Plus Deals November
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Deltarune’s Uninstaller Can Accidentally Delete a Lot More Than the Game
Undertale creator Toby Fox released a free new project, Deltarune yesterday. Fans are scrambling to uncover its secrets, but one strange feature is definitely unintended - the game's uninstaller can accidentally delete the entirety of the folder it's a part of.
Players began noticing the problem yesterday, prompting Fox to tweet a warning:
Hey apparently the uninstaller for DELTARUNE just deletes the entire directory the uninstaller is in. Depending on where you installed it, this could have some consequences. I recommend you don't use the uninstaller.
— tobyfox (@tobyfox) October 31, 2018
Dreams Could Be Where a New Generation of Electronic Musicians Get Their Start
I don’t know how to explain Dreams to you. This enigmatic storytelling platform is so expansive it’s hard to pin down. Every time I see it, however, there’s always something that blows my mind, and in a recent demo at PAX Australia, it was audio. Dreams has, is, one of the most fully featured audio interfaces I’ve seen outside of industry standard software.
And the best part is that the demo wasn’t even meant to be focused on audio. My host, game designer and programmer at Media Molecule, Daniel Kidney, had been demoing the game for about 14 hours when I got to him so he was ready to go off script. He asked what I wanted to see. And on a whim, I said audio.
Netflix Is Changing Things Up By Releasing 3 Movies in Theaters Early
Netflix is debuting three of its award-contender movies in theatres before they appear on its streaming service.
Alfonso Cuarón's Oscar-contender Roma will debut in several cinemas across LA, New York City and Mexico on November 21st, three weeks before it appears on Netflix. The Coen Brothers' The Ballad of Buster Scruggs will appear in theatres a week before on November 8, and Susanne Bier's Bird Box will also get a week-long theatrical berth beginning December 13.
The move marks an acknowledgment on behalf of the distributor that the theatrical experience is still important (particularly during awards season), despite past suggestions from Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos to the contrary.