Monthly Archives: June 2019
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Magic: The Gathering Card Reveal – Check Out a Brand New Rare
Magic: The Gathering's Core Set 2020 officially arrives from July 2nd, and we've been given the chance to exclusively reveal one of its new rare cards.
Flood of Tears is a six-mana sorcery ideal for use in a classic Blue control deck, and it looks a little something like this:
The high mana cost marks it out as something of a late-game play, but the high risk could lead to some very high rewards, allowing for devastating drops to pop up on a newly clean board.
Dropped into a deck with some extra trickery - Nissa, Who Shakes the World could turn those non-returned lands into creatures, for example - and Flood of Tears might make for a very effective play in the near future.
Atsushi Inaba on Why PlatinumGames Is an Unconventional Studio
One of the things I love most about BitSummit – the yearly Kyoto-based indie games showcase - is that it’s a very egalitarian-feeling event. One booth may have a solo dev from Scandinavia demoing his or her very first project, the next may be showing off Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, and be manned by the legendary Koji Igarashi himself. Walking around the show floor you’ll see this kind of juxtaposition repeatedly: there’s no barrier between the industry newcomers and the veterans – and if you spot the likes of Swery, Shuhei Yoshida or Keita Takahashi, you can just say hello.
Marvel’s Shang-Chi Casting Update: Donnie Yen, Ludi Lin, Ross Butler
The rumor mill continues to churn for Marvel’s Shang-Chi movie as a report from That Hashtag Show claims actors Ludi Lin and Ross Butler are on the short-list of actors being considered for the role of Shang-Chi, while martial arts movie legend Donnie Yen is confirmed as being courted for an unnamed part.
Here’s everything you need to know about these potential actors for Marvel's Shang-Chi, the first Asian-led MCU movie:
The Biggest Games that Weren’t at E3
E3 is the big opportunity for developers to show off a year's worth of work, but every year some of the biggest surprises are what wasn't at the show. E3 2019 was huge for some of the most anticipated games coming in 2019 and 2020, but with Sony abstaining from this year's conference we were denied the further details we've been craving since last year's reveals. But Sony's games weren't the only ones that were MIA - here, we've collected every big game we could think of that was missing from this year's lineup.
Death Stranding
FTWD: Dwight and Morgan Had the Best Season 5 Scene So Far
Warning: Spoilers follow for Fear the Walking Dead through Season 5 episode 3, "Humbug's Gulch."
Fear the Walking Dead's fifth season has gotten off to a rocky start. Not just because of the many hurdles and harrowing dangers our main characters have faced, but also on various creative levels.
With the premiere, we re-joined the Fear cast as they attempted to help someone, which was their big mission statement coming out of Season 4. They had a warehouse full of supplies and a clear credo about helping stragglers and wanderers out on the road. Quickly, after a plane crash left them stranded in this new special somewhere, we'd learn that, to date, they'd helped no one. Nothing had panned out.
Pokemon Sword and Shield Won’t Let You Catch Every Pokemon
Pokemon Sword and Shield, the first mainline generation of Pokemon games to be coming to the Nintendo Switch, will sadly not let you be the best like no one ever was, as not every Pokemon will be catchable in the new generation.
The full Pokedex won't be available to Pokemon Sword and Shield players, according to a recent interview Famitsu conducted with producer Junichi Masuda.
Instead, Sword and Shield will only allow for Pokemon to be caught that are included in the Galar region Pokedex. Masuda told Famitsu a large part of the reasoning came down to the growing number of Pokemon species.
Scientists Discover Massive Mystery Blob Inside the Moon
In a report that sounds like it was ripped straight from a sci-fi movie, scientists have unexpectedly discovered a massive blob under the surface of the moon. Emphasis on massive -- it’s five times the size of the 75.91-mile wide Big Island of Hawaii and would weigh roughly 4.8 quintillion pounds on Earth.
According to a study published by a group of scientists in Geophysical Research Letters, the subsurface mass was discovered on the dark side of the moon 180 miles beneath the surface of its largest crater called the South Pole-Aitkin basin.
Update: Google Stadia Will Let You Change Your Username For Free Once
Update 06/18/2019: Google's Patrick Seybold has told IGN that Stadia users will indeed be able to change their username at any time, but will only offer that change for free once.
Seybold also clarified that name-changing, and the one-time free change, is not a Stadia Pro-exclusive feature. However, he did not not speak to what the name change service would cost. We'll update you on that as we find out more.
Stadia, Google’s foray into the home console/streaming market, will allow users to change their names at any time they want, according to a Google spokesperson.
Gods & Monsters Isn’t Just a Breath of the Wild Clone
At first glance you’d be forgiven for thinking Gods & Monsters, the newest open-world entry in the Ubisoft catalogue, is a sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of Wild. The playful, welcoming art style, the green rolling hills with an always-inviting horizon, and the small, unimposing hero at its core all bring Nintendo’s 2017 masterpiece to mind. Indeed, when I got the chance to see a few minutes - running via Google Stadia on a Pixel phone - the gameplay heavily evoked Zelda as well. It’s clear that God & Monsters is aimed to appeal to as big and wide an audience as possible, and with that goal in mind, what better game to model yourself on than Breath of the Wild?