Monthly Archives: April 2019
Game of Thrones Season 8 Will Conclude Threads From Many Seasons Ago
With Season 8 of Game of Thrones just around the corner, Isaac Hempstead Wright – who has portrayed Bran Stark in the series – teased some things for fans to look out for while watching the final season, in an interview with Esquire and reported by Empire.
"There are definitely things wrapping up from many, many seasons ago where you’re like: oh, I never thought that would come back," Hempstead Wright said.
The battle scenes that have been circulating since last spring were mentioned by him as well.
How Spider-Man Helped Me Through Loss and Grief in 2018
Growing up, I never fully connected to Spider-Man. As a kid, his fantastical adventures felt connected to extravagant, adult problems that I couldn’t quite relate to. But when he finally swung his way onto the PS4 last September and then again into theaters with Into The SpiderVerse, he clicked. It was like a blossoming explosion in my mind - I had finally understood the appeal of the character who I had known my whole life. It took the culmination of years of adult experience and even worse, a death in the family, for me to really see Spider-Man for what he truly is: a totem of the human experience, and a supportive guide for our journeys through hardship.
When Insomniac’s Spider-Man came out, my father was a week away from entering the hospital for what would eventually become palliative care. At first, I felt guilty that I was enjoying my time playing a video game to escape the sounds and smells of an ICU, but in his last days, my father explained something to me: as a child, he would buy me games like Spider-Man because he loved watching my imagination grow. If I took joy in a game, comic, book, or movie, that was enough for him to know my mind was blossoming and expanding. While he would rest at the hospital, I dove into Spider-Man PS4 and was absorbed back into the world of Peter Parker and Miles Morales. I took respite swinging through the New York City skyline, webbing crooks, collecting backpacks, and being a friendly neighborhood hero. I fell hard for Spider-Man.
Game of Thrones Teasers Show New Footage
HBO released three new teasers and a poster for Game of Thrones, showing off new footage of the eighth and final season in the process.
Warning: potential (mild) spoilers below.
The promotional teasers are officially called Together, Survival and Aftermath. Together and Survival are both 30-seconds long, and include a collection of shots paired with bits of voiceover. Aftermath is longer at one-minute and shows an abandoned Winterfell, presumably in the aftermath of the White Walker invasion. It’s likely this teaser isn’t fully comprised of footage from the season, and is rather meant as a tonal piece that paints a picture of a lost Winterfell.
No Man’s Sky Feels Like a Totally Different Game in VR
Since its launch, No Man’s Sky has always been about one thing: exploring its procedurally generated worlds, and discovering the secrets each planet has to offer. With a bevy of updates and patches, it has never been a better time to delve into the endless reaches of space than right now. But even with the steady flow of content and overall performance improvements that No Man’s Sky has seen since its rocky launch, there’s always been one feature that players have clamored for since the beginning, VR.
Now that we’re finally getting the long-anticipated feature, is it any good? I’m delighted to report, that yes, it’s exactly what I imagined these last couple of years. While there are a few moments of clunkiness, as with most VR experiences, No Man’s Sky seemed to be able to make the leap the virtual world better than most games.
When I Died on Game of Thrones: Why This Vague Death Scene Works So Well
In honor of the eighth and final season of Game of Thrones, IGN is taking a look back at some of the iconic characters who've fallen along the way, and the lasting impact they had on the story. These heroes and villains may not have made it to the end of the road, but their lives weren't in vain - they stand as a fitting reminder that when you play the game of thrones, you win, or you die.
Syrio Forel only appeared in three episodes of Game of Thrones: Season 1, but his pivotal role is still being talked about years later -- in fact, theories about the fate of his character are alive and well, even as the show enters its final season. Arya Stark's "dancing master" helped set the stage for what would become one of Game of Thrones' most iconic arcs, seeing Arya follow in the footsteps of her Braavosi mentor to become not just a master swordswoman, but someone who frequently says "not today" to the God of Death.
6 Batman Characters Who Could Be the New Arkham Knight
The recent Detective Comics #1000 didn't just mark the 80th anniversary of Batman's debut, it also introduced a brand new villain to DC's comic book universe. The Arkham Knight has made the jump from video games to comics, and he's ready to free Gotham City from Batman's tyrannical reign.
While this new take on the Arkham Knight is very different from the one seen in the 2015 video game, it does seem that someone with a very personal grudge against Batman has taken up this identity. Assuming there's a familiar face under the armor, here are a few theories as to the identity of the new Arkham Knight.
Update: Avengers: Endgame Tickets Sales Set Record, New Teaser Released
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Update: Avengers: Endgame has set a new record for the most ticket sales in the first hour on Atom Tickets. The website reports that pre-sales in the first sixty minutes were three times higher than that for Avengers: Infinity War.
Original story follows.
Avengers: Endgame tickets are now on sale worldwide ahead of the film's release on April 26.
Announced on the Avengers Twitter feed, the announcement also comes with a new teaser, which you can watch below:
Dark Phoenix Is the ‘Natural Culmination’ of Fox’s X-Men Movies
In an interview with Comicbook.com, Dark Phoenix writer and director Simon Kinberg described his film as the “natural culmination for this cycle of X-Men movies” rather than an ending forced by Disney’s acquisition of 21st Century Fox.
"From the beginning of conceiving what we were going to do with this film and writing it, which was three plus years ago, so long before there was a Disney merger, I felt like this was the natural culmination for this cycle of X-Men movies,” said Kinberg. "Because it is seeing this family that you've come to love and know for how ever many films, and if you count the originals almost 20 years now, you see that family tested in a whole new way. You see that family start to fall apart in a real way for the first time, ultimately come back together.
The Umbrella Academy: Season 2 Announced by Netflix
Netflix is officially renewing The Umbrella Academy for a second season.
The main cast is set to return from Season 1, including Ellen Page, Tom Hopper, David Castañeda, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Robert Sheehan, Aidan Gallagher, and Justin Min. Casting beyond the members of The Umbrella Academy will be announced at a later date.
Steve Blackman, who acted as showrunner and executive producer on Season 1, will also return for the new season. Fellow executive producers include Jeff F. King, Mike Richardson, Keith Goldberg, Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá.
Like the first season, Season 2 will be comprised of 10 one-hour episodes, and will be produced by UCP for Netflix. Production is set to begin this summer in Toronto, Canada. While no release date has been announced by Netflix, Season 1 was released worldwide on February 15, 2019.
New Game Darkborn Literally Makes You A Monster Seeking Bloodthirsty Revenge
IGN is proud to exclusively reveal Darkborn, the debut game from developer The Outsiders. Previously codenamed Project Wight, Darkborn is a story-focused action game where you literally play a monster in a classic revenge story.
Though still in development in a pre-alpha state, Darkborn is a first-person mixture of stealth and action as you inhabit one of the titular creatures in a bid to visit vengeance on the Viking-like humans who inhabit the world.
But there’s more to it than pulping your way through grunting, barbaric Norsemen. Darkborn is positioned to tell a unique story revolving around opposing powers in the world, while you and your family are caught in the middle. As evident from the 15-minute gameplay reveal above, the opening moments of Darkborn paint the picture of a caring family unit that’s literally ripped apart, sparking your journey to grow and evolve from a cub to a predator, gaining size, strength, and incredible bestial powers.