Monthly Archives: February 2019
The Dragon Prince Season 2 Trailer Revealed
Warning! SPOILERS for Season 1 of The Dragon Prince below. You can read our spoiler-free review of the first season right here.
Netflix's epic and magical fantasy series - The Dragon Prince - returns for a second season on Friday, February 15. The adventures of Callum, Ezran, and Rayla continue with exciting new episodes for you to binge.
"The nine-episode second season follows Rayla, Callum, and Ezran as they continue their adventure to Xadia. But the journey won’t be easy: every step of the way, they’ll be challenged by new foes and old friends alike. They’ll struggle with trust and betrayal, face down vicious dragons, and be tempted by the lure of dark magic, all while protecting the newly-hatched Dragon Prince, Zym," according to a synopsis from Netflix. For an exclusive look at the upcoming season, check out the official trailer below.
Update: Xbox Live Sign In Issues Resolved, Purchasing Problems Persist
Update 2/1: Microsoft has announced that the sign in issues impacting Xbox Live have been resolved, though problems purchasing new content persist.
The official statement reads, "Previous issues with sign in should now be resolved. We're aware of users also running into issues with purchasing new content over Xbox Live and teams are actively engaged on that as well. We'll have additional updates to provide soon."
The original story is as follows:
Hot on the heels of Xbox Live going down just a couple of days ago, Microsoft’s online service is experiencing another service outage.
Long Time Fast & Furious Writer Explains What Makes the Series Special
When it comes to directors, the Fast & Furious series is a bit of a revolving door. Actors, too, have come and gone, even though a steady, core ensemble was eventually established. But there’s been at least one figure in the Fast & Furious world that has remained constant since 2006’s The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, and that’s writer Chris Morgan. Morgan has been the writer of every film in the Fast & Furious series since Tokyo Drift (a movie that, despite its status amongst some as the redheaded stepchild of the bunch, ultimately helped position the series as a broad, interconnected universe).
With Morgan behind the scenes, over the last 13 years Fast & Furious has snowballed into Universal’s highest-grossing franchise; a multi-billion-dollar box office brute. Now, it’s about to get even bigger as it expands into spin-off territory for the first time with Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw. Hobbs & Shaw will pair up two of the Fast franchise’s heaviest hitters and pit them against a juiced-up Idris Elba as Brixton, an international terrorist with superhuman-like strength who describes himself as human evolutionary change. Instead of help from the Fast crew, this time around we can expect appearances by Vanessa Kirby as Shaw’s sister, MI6 agent Hattie, as well as Hobbs’ four brothers, who run a custom car business out of Western Samoa.
Netflix Renews Sex Education for Season 2
Netflix has ordered a second season of the critically-acclaimed - and highly-watched according to their internal reports (estimated over 40 million households watching within the first 4 weeks) - Sex Education.
Starring Gillian Anderson, Asa Butterfield, Emma Mackey, and Ncuti Gatwa, Sex Education is a bawdy and endearing comedy about a teen with sexual anxiety, Otis (Butterfield), who starts a side business at school providing sex advice and couples counseling. Complicating matters is the fact that his mother (Anderson) is a real life sex therapist and - oh - he's in love with his business partner (Mackey).
Pokemon Releases the Best Charizard Card Ever
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Charizard is one of the most popular Pokemon, so it won’t surprise you to hear that cards featuring the fiery lizard are highly sought-after by collectors. However, while Charizard cards might fetch a high price on the secondary market, they have a notoriously low performance record when it comes to the actual game. Sure, you could always build a Charizard deck for fun to play against your friends, but it’d never come close to winning a competitive Pokemon TCG tournament.
That is, until now. With the release of the new expansion set Sun and Moon: Team-Up, fans of the Kanto fire starter finally have a competitively viable Charizard that is, hands down, the best ever printed.
Why Batman Readers Are in an Awkward Spot Right Now
The current volume of Batman has been one of DC's best monthly titles since it debuted back in spring 2016. Between writer Tom King's deeply introspective approach to the Dark Knight and a rotating art team featuring some of the very best in the business, there's a lot to love about the series. Unfortunately, it's also a comic that can frustrate as often as enthrall readers, particularly those who follow it monthly rather than waiting for the trade paperback collections. The series' current story arc, "Knightmares," is proving to be an especially uncomfortable reminder of that fact.
Warning: spoilers for Batman ahead!
Currently, the series is exploring the fallout of Batman #50 and the revelation that Bane is quietly manipulating Bruce's life from behind the scenes. In recent months, we've seen Bane orchestrate the collapse of Batman's engagement to Catwoman, cause him to wrongfully target Mister Freeze for the murders of three women, nearly kill Nightwing and manipulate Batman into turning on Commissioner Gordon. Bane's latest master stroke came at the end of Batman #60, where Bruce was confronted by a man who appears to be Thomas Wayne of the Flashpoint universe.
Crackdown 3 Is Part Science Experiment, Part Video Game
Crackdown 3 has been through a lot. Plenty of games have – making video games is immensely difficult, after all – but the difference is that Crackdown 3’s issues have been on public display. It’s suffered delays, big hype around new technology, developer shifts, iffy showings at major conventions, and more delays. But unlike former first-party peers Fable Legends and Scalebound, Crackdown 3 was spared Phil Spencer’s guillotine and here it is, finally releasing on February 15. Surely there must’ve been a reason why it has lived while the others died?
Ostensibly, that reason is because Crackdown 3 – and specifically its Wrecking Zone multiplayer mode – is a Trojan horse for the ballyhooed cloud-powered multiplayer technology it’s premiering. Microsoft Senior Creative Director Joseph Staten told me as much: “
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IGN UK Podcast #473: The Kid Who Would Be Joe Cornish
This week we create a potential paradox by putting Joe 'Sounds like Joe Cornish' Skrebels in a room with Joe 'I am Joe Cornish' Cornish. Mr Cornish tell us all about his latest film, The Kid Who Would Be King and surprisingly, Just Cause 4. Yes, we know what you're thinking, we also asked him about The Prestige, so don't worry.
The regular boys in the form of Dale, Cardy and Joe are also around and are talking Kingdom Heart and Alita: Battle Angel. There's also the return of The Endless Search™. Enjoy!
IGN UK Podcast #473: The Kid Who Would Be Joe Cornish
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Nintendo to Open Its First Official Store in Japan
Later this year, Nintendo is set to open Nintendo TOKYO, its first official store in Japan.
Revealed during Nintendo's financial results briefing, Nintendo is hoping that Nintendo TOKYO will "be a new point of contact between consumers and Nintendo that a wide range of people, regardless of age, gender, or experience with games can enjoy."
In addition to merchandise, Nintendo plans on hosting events in a similar way as Nintendo's New York store, as well as this shop ideally being a "new base for communicating Nintendo information in Japan."
Nintendo TOKYO is scheduled to open in Fall of 2019 in the tentatively named Shibuya Parco building in Tokyo, Japan.