Monthly Archives: May 2019
Why Retro Gaming Fans Should Be Excited About the Sega Genesis Mini
When Nintendo announced the NES Classic, it set a great precedent for how a first-party should treat its gaming history. Nintendo followed up and improved on the formula with the Super NES Classic, and both systems remain the high-water mark for all-in-one classic consoles. But the Sega Genesis Mini is shaping up to be the new gold-standard.
If you care at all about video game history and preservation, you should absolutely add the Genesis Mini to your collection. How can I say something so authoritatively without having so much as seen one in person, much less tested out the games inside? It's easy: M2 is handling the development of the software.
What Does a 10/10 Mean to You?
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Genies Weren’t Always So Nice Like in Aladdin
If you’re hoping to find a magic lamp containing an all-powerful genie, be careful what you wish for.
Despite what Aladdin, I Dream of Jeannie or modern paranormal pop culture promise, tapping into phenomenal cosmic powers – contained in an itty-bitty living space – can lead to a world of hurt. Like the song says, you ain’t never had a friend like a genie, but millennia of folklore suggest you probably will wish you didn’t.
In modern entertainment, such as Disney’s new live-action Aladdin based on the 1992 animated film, genies are powerful beings trapped within a lamp, and relegated to granting wishes to masters. Jafar’s fate in the animated film also suggests a human can be transformed into a genie. But that’s not at all how things started for genies…
Marvel Teases X-Men’s Most Important Scene in History
Marvel Comics is gearing up for the relaunch of the entire line of X-Men comics under writer Jonathon Hickman this Fall. We already know that things will kick off in July with a pair of event mini-series called Powers of X and House of X, and now Marvel has tweeted out a page drawn by artist R.B. Silva that promises to be “The most important scene in the history of the X-Men.”
Take a look:
The most important scene in the history of the X-Men. #HouseofX #PowersofX #MarvelComics pic.twitter.com/nsoNfACPpq
Taika Waititi-Directed Akira Movie to Open in 2021
Fans of Akira and dynamic Hollywood director Taika Waititi, rejoice! The release date for Waititi's live-action Akira film has finally been announced.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the live-action adaptation of the iconic manga/anime is set to hit theaters on May 21, 2021.
Before Waititi's involvement was set in stone, he told IGN he wasn't interested in simply remaking the iconic animated film. As a fan of the books, he said he'd much rather go back to the manga source material for inspiration and focus on casting Asian leads if he ended up directing.
Harrison Ford Says No One Else Can Play Indiana Jones After Him
In a recent interview, Harrison Ford has said that when he is done playing Indiana Jones, the character will be done with him.
Via Time, Ford spoke on NBC's Today and stated how in the future, if he has his way, no other actor would ever again take up the whip and hat as, according to Ford, he is the one and only Indiana Jones.
New Nintendo Labo VR Kit Minigame Released
Today, the latest Nintendo Labo VR Kit miningame - Sushi Board - has launched on the Nintendo Switch.
Nintendo has slowly but surely been releasing more and more reasons to hold its cardboard creations up to you face and today, they added one new minigame to the roster.
As spotted by Nintendo Life, Sushi Board has released for free and with almost no fuss via the Toy-Con Workshop Channel (found in the news section of the Nintendo Switch Home screen). There’s pretty much no information out there about what this game is, but typically Nintendo’s Labo Kit VR offerings are simple minigames that explore an interesting aspect of VR, as opposed to fully fledged immersive experiences. This joins other recently released Labo VR Kit Minigames like Alien Bopping, in which you, well, bop aliens on the head and a city smashing simulator.
Call of Duty 2019 Is Allegedly Titled Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
This year’s Call of Duty game is allegedly a soft reboot of the Modern Warfare series, and will be titled Call of Duty: Modern Warfare.
The news comes from Twitter user and YouTuber LongSensation, who simply tweeted the name along with the addition of “I’m not joking.”
I can confirm this is true, and that it's hilarious. The first one was "Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare" so obviously the fourth one is "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare." Video games are absurd https://t.co/Ghb1m2srC4
— Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier) May 24, 2019
Exclusive South Park Season 22 Deleted Scene
South Park: The Complete 22nd Season is hitting DVD and Blu-ray on Tuesday, May 28th. We have an exclusive clip from that set, which features one of the deleted scenes included in Season 22's bonus features.
This deleted scene was originally part of Season 22's penultimate episode, "Unfulfilled." This clip appears to be an alternate ending for that episode, one in which Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos battles a strike leader named Josh, who was accidentally squished into an Amazon shipping box earlier in the episode and fomented a socialist uprising against the company (as one does). Check it out below:
This clip seems to suggest that "Unfulfilled" was originally intended to be a standalone episode rather than the start of a two-part story arc it eventually became. In our review of "Unfulfilled," we scored the episode at an 8.2, saying it, "doesn't reach the heights of the best Season 22 episodes, but it does find plenty of dramatic and comedic gold as it skewers Amazon and draws in all sorts of science fiction elements for good measure."
Sonic The Hedgehog Movie Delayed Until 2020
Following the Sonic The Hedgehog movie's director Jeff Fowler's decision to fix Sonic's design after fan outcry, he has now announced that the film will be pushed back to February 14, 2020 to make the iconic character "just right."
Announced on Twitter, Fowler said that the team needs a bit more time and, in response to people's fear that this design shift would impact those VFX artists that would have to crunch to make the original date of November 8, 2019, possible, he reassured that "#novfxartistswereharmedinthemakingofthismovie."
