Monthly Archives: October 2019
These are Rick and Morty’s Most Searched For Episodes
It's been two years since we've had a new run of Rick and Morty episodes, but in just one month, on November 10, the multi-dimensional mad scientist misadventures start up again on Adult Swim.
While there are heated debates to be had over which Rick and Morty episode is the best, and compelling cases to be made for each person's favorite, SEMrush, an online visibility management and content marketing SaaS platform, took a look at Google searches and discovered which episodes people are looking for the most.
If we're to believe that these search numbers correlate to overall popularity then the Season 3 finale, "The Rickchurian Mortydate," where Rick got into a feud with the president and Beth started to think she was a clone, ranked number one.
WWE: RAW and SmackDown Draft Results – Night 1
With WWE SmackDown's big move to FOX, shifting to a live Friday night show on a major network, some law and order needed to be laid down. While there've been WWE brand splits in the past, the most recent "shakeup" last Spring didn't exactly take and soon a "Wild Card Rule" was put into place that pretty much allowed either show - RAW or SmackDown - to use any Superstar.
But now WWE's two main shows have two separate corporate masters - FOX and NBCUniversal. It's not feasible for these companies to openly share their TV stars. So starting this week, on SmackDown, a more-concrete Draft occurred that would draw a hard line through the main roster, separating over 50 wrestlers between Monday's RAW on USA and Friday's SmackDown on FOX.
Robert Forster, Jackie Brown and Breaking Bad Actor, Dies
Oscar nominee Robert Forster died on Friday, October 12, 2019, at his Los Angeles home from brain cancer at the age of 78.
As reported by THR, Forster, who earned the Oscar nomination for his performance as Max Cherry in in Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown, was born on July 13, 1941, in Rochester, New York. He attended the University of Rochester with the goal of becoming a lawyer, but a girl would change his life forever.
Joker: How Zazie Beetz’s Sophie Character Changed During Filming
SPOILERS AHEAD for Joker.
One of the biggest revelations in Joker was that Joaquin Phoenix's Arthur Fleck's relationship with Zazie Beetz's Sophie was not real and was all inside his mind. This, according to Beetz, was not set from the start and Sophie's role and story actually evolved and changed during filming.
During an interview with THR, Beetz was first asked to discuss this big reveal and if, upon a second viewing, there was anything we should look for that "distinguishes Arthur's Sophie form the real Sophie?"
HBO’s Band of Brothers Team Developing WWII Drama for Apple TV Plus
Apple has made a deal with Steven Spielberg's Amblin Television, Tom Hanks, and Gary Goetzman's Playtone to bring an event limited series based on the Donald L. Miller book Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany to Apple TV+.
As reported by Deadline, this new limited series will be a followup to their Emmy-winning World War II HBO miniseries Band of Brothers and The Pacific.
Miller's book "tells the story of the American bomber boys in WWII who brought the war to Hitler’s doorstep." This new series has become the first one greenlit with Apple serving as the studio, and Deadline reports that "the miniseries will be more than eight hours in length, and that it will cost well north of $200 million to produce."
Zombieland: Double Tap Social Media Reactions Are Very Positive
Members of the press and influencers were able to attend early screening of Zombieland: Double Tap, and early impressions are very positive for the sequel of 2009's Zombieland.
Many claim that if you loved the original, you will also love Double Tap. Also, newcomer Zoey Deutch just may be the star of the show.
Here's our roundup of the first reactions to Zombieland: Double Tap.
Scott Menzel, editor-in-chief of We Live Entertainment, called Zombieland: Double Tap a "bloody blast," saying Zoey Deutch as Madison "steals every scene & is the film's MVP."
Killer Queen Black Review – ‘Cause I’m Having a Good Time
If you're fortunate enough to have a barcade in your neck of the woods, you have probably seen it: a huge, imposing pair of arcade cabinets with "Killer Queen" emblazoned on the marquee in blue and gold. Maybe you've even seen or played a versus session, with five players gathered around each screen attempting to work together and clutch sweet, sweet victory. Killer Queen is ideal for arcades, it's a unique game built around the camaraderie of being together in a public space--a vibe that's difficult to translate to the often solitary online experience PCs and consoles offer.
Enter Killer Queen Black, the first appearance of Killer Queen beyond the dimly-lit neon lights of modern social arcades. While it isn't a 1:1 port of the arcade original, Killer Queen Black nonetheless delivers a tremendously fun and engaging multiplayer experience, whether you're playing with a bunch of friends at home or joining in random battles online.
It's important to realize that Killer Queen in any form is, fundamentally, a multiplayer experience. That means that if you don't plan to play with local friends or take the game online, there is little that it will offer you beyond a brief tutorial mode and the ability to play with CPU-controlled teammates and enemies. But when you do get a party started, Killer Queen Black realizes its full fun and frenetic potential.
Killer Queen Black has you playing in two teams of four players (down from five in the arcade original), with one player assuming the role of the insectoid Queen and three being worker drones who aid her. Each player has an important role; while the Queen is the team's anchor and has access to powerful attack skills, the infinitely-respawning drones can pick up berries, ride snails, and upgrade in special pods to gain super-speed or become weapon- and shield-bearing warriors. Victory is achieved in one of three ways: by killing the other team's Queen three times, collecting and storing enough berries to fill your team's base, or riding a sluggish snail to your team's goalposts.
The game's varied roles and three means of victory offer up a lot of interesting strategies. Do the drones all opt to forfeit the ability to carry berries and ride the snail to gain weapons to go on an all-out offense? Or maybe only a couple should grab gear while one tries to bait the opposing Queen by riding the snail? Maybe your team's Queen can dodge and counterattack enemies, distracting the opposing team and claiming their power-stations while your drone friends hoard berries or inch the snail to the goal. You can even put yourself in the snail's jaws to stymie a riding opponent, allowing your weapon-wielding teammates an opportunity to kill off threats. There are many possibilities, and while a lot is always going on at any one time in Killer Queen Black, learning its basic rules and controls is easy enough that most anyone can jump in and quickly enjoy the strategic depth the gameplay has to offer.
Graphically, Killer Queen Black has received a significant overhaul from the arcade original. The arcade game employed a detailed retro-pixel art style, and that carries over to Black. However, the detail on the characters, animations, and background elements is significantly improved, adding a lot to the atmosphere of Killer Queen's strange humanoid-insect world. As a result it's not too tough to follow the action, even on the Switch's comparatively smaller handheld screen, Along with the graphical overhaul comes some all-new maps, many of which emphasize the clever use of screen-wrapping to enhance strategic play by letting you quickly move from end of the screen to the other.
There are many ways to enjoy the game's multiplayer modes. You can link a pair of Switches together via a local network for eight-player action, you can hop online in a custom room with friends or an assemblage of random players--you can even take a local team of up to four players online to battle against another group online.
In our testing, online play was generally smooth sailing, though it was pretty easy to tell when players' connections weren't ideal; you could see their character jumping abruptly around the map as the game struggled to catch up with their location. (To its credit, the game tries its best to match you with others based on region.) There's online voice chat for each team to coordinate strategy--though, if you don't have access to voice chat (a likelihood for the Switch version), you can also communicate through a simple emote and emphasis system that draws attention to places on the map. If there's one major gripe about online, it's a lack of options; you can turn certain maps on and off, but that's about it. With only six maps in the base game (that often repeat multiple times during a five-round set), the scenery starts to feel a stale pretty quickly.
Minor gripes aside, Killer Queen Black is the very definition of a great multiplayer game: easy to learn, fun to jump into, and packed with the sort of clutch moments that make you jump up and cheer. The satisfaction of spur-of-the-moment decisions, like sniping a Queen from the other side of the map with a carefully-timed laser gun blast, knocking an attacker pursuing your Queen off-kilter with a thrown berry, or eagerly shoving yourself in a snail's mouth pixels from the enemy goal in order to buy your teammates time to complete your berry hoard is consistently engaging. If you're looking for a unique, competitive multiplayer experience for online or local group play, Killer Queen Black is the bee's knees.
Killer Queen Black Review – ‘Cause I’m Having a Good Time
If you're fortunate enough to have a barcade in your neck of the woods, you have probably seen it: a huge, imposing pair of arcade cabinets with "Killer Queen" emblazoned on the marquee in blue and gold. Maybe you've even seen or played a versus session, with five players gathered around each screen attempting to work together and clutch sweet, sweet victory. Killer Queen is ideal for arcades, it's a unique game built around the camaraderie of being together in a public space--a vibe that's difficult to translate to the often solitary online experience PCs and consoles offer.
Enter Killer Queen Black, the first appearance of Killer Queen beyond the dimly-lit neon lights of modern social arcades. While it isn't a 1:1 port of the arcade original, Killer Queen Black nonetheless delivers a tremendously fun and engaging multiplayer experience, whether you're playing with a bunch of friends at home or joining in random battles online.
It's important to realize that Killer Queen in any form is, fundamentally, a multiplayer experience. That means that if you don't plan to play with local friends or take the game online, there is little that it will offer you beyond a brief tutorial mode and the ability to play with CPU-controlled teammates and enemies. But when you do get a party started, Killer Queen Black realizes its full fun and frenetic potential.
Killer Queen Black has you playing in two teams of four players (down from five in the arcade original), with one player assuming the role of the insectoid Queen and three being worker drones who aid her. Each player has an important role; while the Queen is the team's anchor and has access to powerful attack skills, the infinitely-respawning drones can pick up berries, ride snails, and upgrade in special pods to gain super-speed or become weapon- and shield-bearing warriors. Victory is achieved in one of three ways: by killing the other team's Queen three times, collecting and storing enough berries to fill your team's base, or riding a sluggish snail to your team's goalposts.
The game's varied roles and three means of victory offer up a lot of interesting strategies. Do the drones all opt to forfeit the ability to carry berries and ride the snail to gain weapons to go on an all-out offense? Or maybe only a couple should grab gear while one tries to bait the opposing Queen by riding the snail? Maybe your team's Queen can dodge and counterattack enemies, distracting the opposing team and claiming their power-stations while your drone friends hoard berries or inch the snail to the goal. You can even put yourself in the snail's jaws to stymie a riding opponent, allowing your weapon-wielding teammates an opportunity to kill off threats. There are many possibilities, and while a lot is always going on at any one time in Killer Queen Black, learning its basic rules and controls is easy enough that most anyone can jump in and quickly enjoy the strategic depth the gameplay has to offer.
Graphically, Killer Queen Black has received a significant overhaul from the arcade original. The arcade game employed a detailed retro-pixel art style, and that carries over to Black. However, the detail on the characters, animations, and background elements is significantly improved, adding a lot to the atmosphere of Killer Queen's strange humanoid-insect world. As a result it's not too tough to follow the action, even on the Switch's comparatively smaller handheld screen, Along with the graphical overhaul comes some all-new maps, many of which emphasize the clever use of screen-wrapping to enhance strategic play by letting you quickly move from end of the screen to the other.
There are many ways to enjoy the game's multiplayer modes. You can link a pair of Switches together via a local network for eight-player action, you can hop online in a custom room with friends or an assemblage of random players--you can even take a local team of up to four players online to battle against another group online.
In our testing, online play was generally smooth sailing, though it was pretty easy to tell when players' connections weren't ideal; you could see their character jumping abruptly around the map as the game struggled to catch up with their location. (To its credit, the game tries its best to match you with others based on region.) There's online voice chat for each team to coordinate strategy--though, if you don't have access to voice chat (a likelihood for the Switch version), you can also communicate through a simple emote and emphasis system that draws attention to places on the map. If there's one major gripe about online, it's a lack of options; you can turn certain maps on and off, but that's about it. With only six maps in the base game (that often repeat multiple times during a five-round set), the scenery starts to feel a stale pretty quickly.
Minor gripes aside, Killer Queen Black is the very definition of a great multiplayer game: easy to learn, fun to jump into, and packed with the sort of clutch moments that make you jump up and cheer. The satisfaction of spur-of-the-moment decisions, like sniping a Queen from the other side of the map with a carefully-timed laser gun blast, knocking an attacker pursuing your Queen off-kilter with a thrown berry, or eagerly shoving yourself in a snail's mouth pixels from the enemy goal in order to buy your teammates time to complete your berry hoard is consistently engaging. If you're looking for a unique, competitive multiplayer experience for online or local group play, Killer Queen Black is the bee's knees.
Blizzard Officially Responds to blitzchung Controversy
Blizzard has responded to the controversy regarding Ng Wai "blitzchung" Chung, stating that it will give blitzchung his prize money and will lower his ban from professional Hearthstone play from one year to six months. However, it does not offer an apology or remove all punishments against blitzchung following his support of Hong Kong's liberation movement.
J. Allen Brack, president of Blizzard Entertainment, wrote a letter to Blizzard's community to address the event that occurred at last week's Hearthstone Grandmasters tournament, saying that even though Blizzard will reduce the punishment, "there is a consequence for taking the conversation away from the purpose of the event and disrupting or derailing the broadcast."
El Camino: What Was Jesse’s Letter About?
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie resolves any lingering questions about Jesse Pinkman's fate at the end of Breaking Bad. But the film also presents an unanswered question of its own. Who was Jesse's letter to, and what ever happened to Brock Cantillo, the young son of Jesse’s late girlfriend Andrea? We asked star Aaron Paul to give his take.
SPOILERS ahead for El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie!
Brock was a little boy Jesse came to care for while he was dating Brock’s mom Andrea. But Jesse, for all his affection for Brock, is also responsible for much of the pain this child would eventually endure.
Jesse met Andrea Cantillo in Narcotics Anonymous in Season 3.His initial intentions toward Andrea weren't altruistic; he wanted to sell her blue meth. He pivoted after discovering she was the mother of Brock. After Andrea's kid brother Tomas was shot to death, Jesse gave Andrea money to buy a new home in a better neighborhood.