Monthly Archives: March 2019

5 Avengers: Endgame Secrets Hidden in the Poster

The MCU is great at hiding all sorts of clues in plain sight in just about any and all promotional material, from trailers to tweets. Naturally, this means that even the official movie poster is more than likely hiding some juicy details just waiting to be noticed.

We did our best to comb through every inch of the newly released Avengers: Endgame poster with that in mind, plucking out every possible clue and character angle we could uncover, from the major (what's going on with Thor?) to the minor (look at Steve using his shield to protect little Rocket) and everything in between.

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The Flash’s Ezra Miller Writing Movie Script with Grant Morrison

Ezra Miller, who has played The Flash since Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, is now said to be writing a version of the script for The Flash with comics author Grant Morrison.

As reported by THR, this move is in response to a "clash of creative visions" between directors John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, who want a more light-hearted approach, and Miller who "is said to want a darker take on the material."

Additionally, these sources say that the script may be ready to submitted to the studio as early as next week.

It is said that if WB decides to go against Miller and Morrison's take on The Flash, "the actor could part ways with the project," as "Miller’s holding deal on Flash expires May."

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Dwarf Fortress Is the Craziest Game You’ve (Probably) Never Heard Of

Dwarf Fortress is the most incredible and impressive video game you’ve probably never played. Under continuous development since 2003 (!!!) by Tarn Adams, with assistance from his brother Zach, anyone who has enjoyed games like Rimworld, Factorio, and Prison Architect has experienced a portion of the video game DNA that Dwarf Fortress pioneered and has been refining for over 15 years.

Let me explain. No, there is too much. Let me sum up: Dwarf Fortress’s procedural world generation is the most sophisticated and complex in existence, simulating thousands of years of geology, history, myths and Gods, songs, civilizations, animal life, and everything else. Then you get to build a dwarven fortress in this world, capable of a matching level of fanatical attention-to-detail. This detail extends to the smallest minutiae - body parts can be bruised or torn off entirely in combat, dwarves might vomit or pass out at the site of blood, or maybe all the towns cats will get alcohol poisoning from drinking spilled ale; the level of simulation feels endless. But these details also extend upward, to the highest levels of macro simulation as well. Wars can be provoked or prevented. World economies can be shifted.

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An 8th Goku Is Coming to Dragon Ball FighterZ

Update: Bandai Namco has confirmed that the younger Goku from Dragon Ball GT will be added as part of the FighterZ Pass 2, which include six new characters in total. The announcement states that he "packs a big punch with special attacks like the Super Kamehameha attack, transforming him into Super Saiyan 3. Goku is also able to use his Super Spirit Bomb, Power Pole, and Reverse Kamehameha to flatten the competition."

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Despite Dragon Ball FighterZ’s 30+ character roster currently sitting at roughly 10-20% Goku (depending on how you count it), an upcoming DLC will reportedly be adding another Goku as a playable fighter.

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Every IGN Tom Clancy Game Review – Vote For Your Favorite Series

Tom Clancy may have passed, but his name will live on forever in the hearts of gamers because Ubisoft will never let it die. To say there have been quite a few games with "Tom Clancy's" stamp of approval on them – the most recent of which being the just-announced Ghost Recon Breakpoint – would be an understatement. So, let's walk back through the multitude of reviews to see how each game under the military-thriller umbrella performed, from the first-person shooters to the third-person stealth action to strategy games and arcade flight sims.

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Anthem Update Adjusts Grandmaster Loot Drops

In an effort to change loot drops in Anthem for the better, BioWare has officially increased the rate of masterwork and legendary drops.

In a post on the official Anthem Reddit, global community lead Andrew Johnson announced that an update has gone live that increases masterwork and legendary drop rates for grandmaster 2 and grandmaster 3 difficulty levels. These drop rates have also been increased for harder enemies at all difficulty levels, including the Legendary Titan, Epic Titan, Legendary Fury, Legendary Acid Ursix and Legendary Luminary Elder. As this is a server-side update, no downloads or patches will be necessary to see these changes take hold.

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Valve Removes Steam Tributes to Suspected New Zealand Shooter

Following this morning’s terrorist attack of two New Zealand mosques which resulted in the deaths of at least 49 people, Valve has been continuously removing tributes that various Steam users have been making to the suspected shooter.

Reported by Kotaku, Valve has cracked down on over 100 Steam profiles that have been memorializing the suspected shooter following the attack. These tributes often incorporated his alleged name into their profiles, and uploaded user images of the suspected shooter as well as screenshots from a Facebook livestream of the shooting. Other tributes referred to the suspected shooter as a saint or hero, or used derogatory language in reference to his victims.

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Halo: Former Director Reveals His Vision for Showtime Series

Though planning for Showtime's planned Halo TV series is officially underway, with production expected to start later in 2019, the long-in-development project had a recent key staffing turnover when attached director Rupert Wyatt, best known for directing Rise of the Planet of the Apes, departed the project in December 2018 and was later replaced by Robin Hood and Black Mirror helmer Otto Bathurst.

Though he's now off the project, Wyatt had previously been deeply involved with Halo as both director and executive producer, and still has a lot of emotional investment in the series. IGN caught up with Wyatt at SXSW while he was promoting his new movie Captive State and chatted about what would have been had he stayed on Halo.

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Marvel Stars Reacts to James Gunn Returning for Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3

With news that the previously-fired James Gunn has been reinstated by Disney and Marvel Studios as director of Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3 bursting its way onto the internet, various Marvel talent have been responding to the news.

Here’s what they had to say.

Karen Gillan, who plays Nebula, quoted Groot’s touching line that cemented the Guardians as a family.

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