Monthly Archives: July 2019
How to Watch the Fortnite World Cup
Fortnite's World Cup finals weekend is finally here. This weekend's penultimate tournament is bringing together 200 of the title's best players from around the world to have them compete for a piece of the $30 million dollar prize pool.
Creative Finals will take today's stage from 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET, with Creative Pro-Am following at 1 p.m. PT/4 p.m. ET. The Pro-Am tournament is a pairing of 50 celebrities and 50 pro-Fortnite players competing for a $3 million dollar charity prize. The tournament's two main competitions will take place on Saturday and Sunday, Duos taking the limelight on Saturday, and Solo on Sunday. The full schedule for the tournament is below.
Disney’s Aladdin Has Officially Earned $1 Billion at Global Box Office
Disney's live-action remake of Aladdin has officially earned $1 billion at the global box office today, after almost reaching the milestone on Thursday, July 25, with $999.3 million USD.
As reported by THR, Aladdin had earned $343.1 million in North America and $656.2 million internationally through yesterday. Today, it joined Spider-Man: Far From Home, Captain Marvel, and Avengers: Endgame as the only films in the $1 billion club for 2019.
Best Smart Thermostat 2019: Never Touch the Temperature Dial Again
Traditional thermostats are kind of bungle to use. It feels like it takes a million button presses to program anything and forget adjusting the A/C if you aren’t at home, or in the correct room. If you’d rather adjust your thermostat from your phone, with your voice, or—if that isn’t futuristic enough—let it adjust itself automatically, you’ll want a smart thermostat like one of these.
TL;DR – These are the Best Smart Thermostats:
Pillars of Eternity: Complete Edition Announced for Nintendo Switch
Publisher Versus Evil is partnering with Obsidian Entertainment to bring Pillars of Eternity: Complete Edition to the Nintendo Switch on August 8, 2019, for $49.99 USD, with a 20% discount for pre-ordering.
Pillars of Eternity originally started as Project Eternity and, at the time, became the most successful video game Kickstarter of all time on October 16, 2012 with $3,986,929. It was then released on PC in 2015, with Pillars of Eternity: Complete Edition releasing on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in 2017.
The Nintendo Switch version will include The White March: Parts I & II DLC and all the major updates from the original PC version, including a raised level cap, expanded party AI options, and new difficulty levels.
Doom Eternal Battle Mode: 13 New Multiplayer Details Revealed
Doom Eternal’s 1v2 multiplayer, Battle Mode, was fully revealed in the QuakeCon 2019 keynote stream by executive producer Marty Stratton and creative director Hugo Martin.
This new mode for Eternal pits one player controlling the Doom Slayer against two other players acting as demons. Confined to an arena littered with items and tools, the Slayer must kill both demons to emerge victorious. The mode will launch with five playable demons and six maps, with new demons and maps released for free in future updates.
The stream was packed with details, and here are all the points you need to know:
1 - The five playable demons are the Revenant, Pain Elemental, Mancubus, Arch-Vile, and Marauder.
Who Should Be On the Video Game Mt. Rushmore?
Welcome back to Game Scoop!, IGN's weekly video game podcast. This week we're picking who should be on the video game version of Mount Rushmore, system-selling games, our favorite weapon types, and more. Watch the video above or hit the link below to your favorite podcast service.
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Max Payne Writer Used Game’s Script as College Application
Sam Lake, the writer known for penning the worlds of Max Payne, Alan Wake, Quantum Break, and the upcoming Control, shared an interesting bit of personal history on this month’s IGN Unfiltered. While other students in Finland were applying to colleges with research papers and resumes, Lake was required to send in a 75-page screenplay. So he submitted a draft of his video game script.
“The drama teacher had just returned to
from Los Angeles,” Lake told IGN. “He'd been here for years studying and doing script doctoring, things like that. He came back to Finland and started to teach screenwriting. In the setup for that, he was saying 'You can choose: you write in Finnish or you write in English.' That felt, to me, that's perfect. You needed to send 75 pages of screenplay as a sample, so I just sent Max Payne.”
Control: The Books, TV Shows and Movies to Check Out Before You Play – IGN First
When it comes to games, we’re pretty familiar with the trappings of fantasy, sci-fi or war narratives, but you might be a little less up to date with New Weird. Coined by author M. John Harrison to describe the work of (among others) China Miéville, it’s a form of speculative fiction that revels in inexplicability - it’s often a bit horror, a bit sci-fi, a bit fantasy, but if you put it up against any of the canon texts in those genres, it wouldn’t look like any of them. It’s telling that many authors who get told they’re part of the New Weird immediately reject it, because they think being defined at all is too limiting.
Control might well be the first mainstream New Weird game. New Weird fiction is often about a place, not people, and The Oldest House - Remedy Entertainment’s unknowable new setting - very much fits the bill. New Weird also reflects the underlying weirdness of the modern world, and Control’s fiction regularly weaves in real-life events, recontextualising them for a world in which there’s a government bureau to combat paranatural occurrences. Most of all, New Weird is really f**king odd. And yes, Control is that too.
Lucifer Adds Six Additional Episodes to the Final Season
The upcoming fifth and final season of Lucifer has been significantly expanded to include six additional episodes, taking the total count now up to 16.
Netflix shared the announcement on Friday, revealing that the season's original proposed run of 10 episodes had been extended. Tweeting from their See What's Next account, the streaming company said: "Lucifer Season 5 just got a HELL of a lot better – and bigger! We've added six hours, for a grand total of 16 episodes!"
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