Monthly Archives: March 2019
Valve Terminates Contract With Artifact Creator
Late last week, Valve confirmed to Variety that it had laid off 13 employees and a number of its contractors, one of which was lead Artifact designer and Magic: The Gathering creator Richard Garfield.
According to an an email Garfield sent to Artifact fan site Artibuff, both he and Skaff Elias (the two of which make up a game design consulting company called Three Donkeys) were among the contractors let go by Valve, a decision Garfield said “makes sense for a number of reasons.”
Tom Holland, Russo Brothers to Follow Avengers With Non-Marvel Film Cherry
Spider-Man actor Tom Holland is in talks to star in the Russo Brothers’ upcoming non-Marvel film Cherry.
Per Variety, Joe and Anthony Russo will direct the film using a script from Jessica Goldberg, best known for creating the Hulu series The Path. The Russo Brothers’ production company AGBO acquired the rights to Nico Walker’s novel Cherry last August, and reportedly plans to shoot this summer.
Cherry's plot revolves around Walker’s own life, where he dropped out of college, served as an Army medic in Iraq, returned home after receiving several medals and commendations, suffered from severe PTSD and became addicted to opioids. To fund his heroin addiction, he robbed 11 Cleveland banks in four months, was arrested and given an 11-year prison sentence, during which time he wrote his highly-praised book. Walker is scheduled to be released from prison in November 2020.
Tom Holland, Russo Brothers to Follow Avengers With Non-Marvel Film Cherry
Spider-Man actor Tom Holland is in talks to star in the Russo Brothers’ upcoming non-Marvel film Cherry.
Per Variety, Joe and Anthony Russo will direct the film using a script from Jessica Goldberg, best known for creating the Hulu series The Path. The Russo Brothers’ production company AGBO acquired the rights to Nico Walker’s novel Cherry last August, and reportedly plans to shoot this summer.
Cherry's plot revolves around Walker’s own life, where he dropped out of college, served as an Army medic in Iraq, returned home after receiving several medals and commendations, suffered from severe PTSD and became addicted to opioids. To fund his heroin addiction, he robbed 11 Cleveland banks in four months, was arrested and given an 11-year prison sentence, during which time he wrote his highly-praised book. Walker is scheduled to be released from prison in November 2020.
Visiting Dumbo’s Real-Life Circus Set
Walking onto Dumbo’s Pinewood set is legitimately like walking into a circus.
As I visit in late 2017, the core of the Medici Circus - the new Dumbo’s birthplace - is remarkably intact, a bustle of tents and stalls cut through with a train track, taking up the bulk of one of the legendary studio’s main spaces. Far from the blown-apart, half-open buildings of a traditional set, this feels like a real place (albeit built inside a whole other real place).
Camera operators have to navigate the gaps between attractions, and tents jostle for space with mixing desks and make-up stations. It might not be being used like a circus - peek inside most of the structures and you’ll find craftily-stored equipment - but it was constructed, at least in part, by trained circus builders, right down to working stables. Going by the smell, they were working recently.
The Google Controller Pictures You’ve Seen Online Aren’t Real
Renders of the heavily rumoured Google Controller are just mock-ups based off of a patent filing.
It’s no secret that Google is working on something cloud gaming-related, and rumours abound that we'll see a reveal for a 'Netflix for Games'-type service at this year’s Game Developers Conference.
Perhaps as part of this, Google has filed a patent (via The Verge) for a system that notifies players when they get an invite or a game is ready to play through a controller.
The Google Controller Pictures You’ve Seen Online Aren’t Real
Renders of the heavily rumoured Google Controller are just mock-ups based off of a patent filing.
It’s no secret that Google is working on something cloud gaming-related, and rumours abound that we'll see a reveal for a 'Netflix for Games'-type service at this year’s Game Developers Conference.
Perhaps as part of this, Google has filed a patent (via The Verge) for a system that notifies players when they get an invite or a game is ready to play through a controller.
DMC 5 Has A Scene That’s Seemingly Only Censored on Western PS4s
Eagle-eyed Devil May Cry 5 players have spotted that Trish’s bottom is censored exclusively on Western PS4s.
Devil May Cry 5 has been going down a storm but according to a report by VG247, some players have noticed a small inconsistency when it comes to nudity on the Western PS4 release.
If you or your workplace are offended by a) DMC5 spoilers or b) mentions of digital posteriors, turn back now.
DMC5 features boss enemies that quite literally possess classic characters from the series' past. After one such enemy gets pummelled by Dante, fan favourite Trish falls out of it bloodied and naked.
How Harry Potter: Wizards Unite Builds Off Pokemon Go
I’ve accepted that I’ll never go to Hogwarts. That letter must have gotten delivered to the wrong house, and even if it found its way to me, a 27-year-old jumping into a first-year Potions class might look a little silly. And yet I’ve craved for the wizarding world to seep into my muggle life.
Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, from the developers of Pokemon Go and set for a 2019 release, aims to do just that. It’s an experience not nearly as immediately sellable as Pokemon Go’s catch-and-collect loop, I loved the potential for this new AR adventure to deliver an engaging, daily dose of magic after spending an hour freeing hippogriffs and dueling dark wizards.
I’ll admit, before learning about Wizards Unite, I remained skeptical of how Niantic’s location-based gameplay could be adapted to a Harry Potter experience, much less one tapping into my fan fiction dreams of living in the wizarding world. But, Niantic and WB Games San Francisco’s initial hook is an interesting one — a great Calamity threatens to break the Statute of Secrecy that keeps the wizarding and muggle worlds separate. Objects, people, creatures, and even memories have been displaced from time and space, trapped and potentially about to break that world-separating seal en masse.
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