Monthly Archives: February 2020
Eminem Returned to the Oscars After Refusing to Perform 17 Years Ago
Earlier in the evening, Taika Waititi made history after winning an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for Jojo Rabbit. Click here to see the full list of Oscar nominees and winners. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=oscar-record-holders&captions=true"] [poilib element="accentDivider"] Matt Fowler is a writer for IGN and a member of the Television Critics Association. Follow him on Twitter at @TheMattFowler and Facebook at Facebook.com/MattBFowler.Look, if you had another shot, another opportunity... Thanks for having me @TheAcademy. Sorry it took me 18 years to get here. pic.twitter.com/CmSw2hmcZo
— Marshall Mathers (@Eminem) February 10, 2020
Eminem Returned to the Oscars After Refusing to Perform 17 Years Ago
Earlier in the evening, Taika Waititi made history after winning an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for Jojo Rabbit. Click here to see the full list of Oscar nominees and winners. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=oscar-record-holders&captions=true"] [poilib element="accentDivider"] Matt Fowler is a writer for IGN and a member of the Television Critics Association. Follow him on Twitter at @TheMattFowler and Facebook at Facebook.com/MattBFowler.Look, if you had another shot, another opportunity... Thanks for having me @TheAcademy. Sorry it took me 18 years to get here. pic.twitter.com/CmSw2hmcZo
— Marshall Mathers (@Eminem) February 10, 2020
Taika Waititi Celebrates Oscar Win With Thor 4’s Natalie Portman
Taika Waititi Celebrates Oscar Win With Thor 4’s Natalie Portman
Natalie Portman’s Oscar Attire Featured Names of Snubbed Women Directors
At tonight's awards ceremony, Portman arrived in a black and gold dress, adorned by a black cape that featured the names of women directors who many felt should have been nominated for Best Director this year. The names listed, in gold embroidery, were Lorene Scafaria (Hustlers), Lulu Wang (The Farewell), Greta Gerwig (Little Women), Marielle Heller (A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood), Mati Diop (Atlantics), Melina Matsoukas (Queen & Slim), Alma Har'el (Honey Boy), and Céline Sciamma (Portrait of a Lady on Fire). [caption id="attachment_2300131" align="aligncenter" width="550"] Photo Credit: Amy Sussman / Getty Images.[/caption] Portman's next projects include voicing her MCU character Jane Foster for Disney+'s animated Marvel's What If? series and then bringing Jane back to the Thor franchise in 2021's Thor: Love and Thunder - where Jane will be The Mighty Thor. Check out all the winners of this year's Oscars so far, including Brad Pitt and Toy Story 4. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=oscar-record-holders&captions=true"] [poilib element="accentDivider"] Matt Fowler is a writer for IGN and a member of the Television Critics Association. Follow him on Twitter at @TheMattFowler and Facebook at Facebook.com/MattBFowler.Ron Howard: "We are honored ... to be here to present the award for best director." Natalie Portman, done with this shit: "And here are the all-male nominees." pic.twitter.com/8JboypiADo
— David Mack (@davidmackau) January 8, 2018
Natalie Portman’s Oscar Attire Featured Names of Snubbed Women Directors
At tonight's awards ceremony, Portman arrived in a black and gold dress, adorned by a black cape that featured the names of women directors who many felt should have been nominated for Best Director this year. The names listed, in gold embroidery, were Lorene Scafaria (Hustlers), Lulu Wang (The Farewell), Greta Gerwig (Little Women), Marielle Heller (A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood), Mati Diop (Atlantics), Melina Matsoukas (Queen & Slim), Alma Har'el (Honey Boy), and Céline Sciamma (Portrait of a Lady on Fire). [caption id="attachment_2300131" align="aligncenter" width="550"] Photo Credit: Amy Sussman / Getty Images.[/caption] Portman's next projects include voicing her MCU character Jane Foster for Disney+'s animated Marvel's What If? series and then bringing Jane back to the Thor franchise in 2021's Thor: Love and Thunder - where Jane will be The Mighty Thor. Check out all the winners of this year's Oscars so far, including Brad Pitt and Toy Story 4. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=oscar-record-holders&captions=true"] [poilib element="accentDivider"] Matt Fowler is a writer for IGN and a member of the Television Critics Association. Follow him on Twitter at @TheMattFowler and Facebook at Facebook.com/MattBFowler.Ron Howard: "We are honored ... to be here to present the award for best director." Natalie Portman, done with this shit: "And here are the all-male nominees." pic.twitter.com/8JboypiADo
— David Mack (@davidmackau) January 8, 2018
Alita: Battle Angel Sequel Fan Campaign Buzzes the Oscars
This comes after fans brought the hashtags up to trending status on Twitter recently, as reported by ScreenRant. There were over 19k tweets which included images, fan art, memes, clips, and more from fans to celebrate the movie and help push for a sequel to be made. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2019/02/07/james-cameron-on-bringing-alita-to-life"] Alita: Battle Angel wasn't as successful as many had hoped, especially in the US. Combined with James Cameron's decision to focus on his Avatar sequels over this project, fans are concerned they won't get a sequel to this film. At IGN, we happened to think the movie was pretty great and it even made it into our best reviewed movies of 2019. For those who do want to see a sequel, a good move is to vote with your wallet and pick up the film which released on digital, Blu-Ray, and DVD last July. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=best-reviewed-movies-of-2019&captions=true"] [poilib element="accentDivider"]Hope Corrigan is an Australian freelance writer for IGN who really enjoyed the aesthetic of the first movie. You can follow her on Twitter and Instagram.A plane flying circles over Hollywood right now demanding a sequel to Alita: Battle Angel. pic.twitter.com/esEoWcn8ex
— Steven Santos (@stevensantos) February 9, 2020
Alita: Battle Angel Sequel Fan Campaign Buzzes the Oscars
This comes after fans brought the hashtags up to trending status on Twitter recently, as reported by ScreenRant. There were over 19k tweets which included images, fan art, memes, clips, and more from fans to celebrate the movie and help push for a sequel to be made. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2019/02/07/james-cameron-on-bringing-alita-to-life"] Alita: Battle Angel wasn't as successful as many had hoped, especially in the US. Combined with James Cameron's decision to focus on his Avatar sequels over this project, fans are concerned they won't get a sequel to this film. At IGN, we happened to think the movie was pretty great and it even made it into our best reviewed movies of 2019. For those who do want to see a sequel, a good move is to vote with your wallet and pick up the film which released on digital, Blu-Ray, and DVD last July. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=best-reviewed-movies-of-2019&captions=true"] [poilib element="accentDivider"]Hope Corrigan is an Australian freelance writer for IGN who really enjoyed the aesthetic of the first movie. You can follow her on Twitter and Instagram.A plane flying circles over Hollywood right now demanding a sequel to Alita: Battle Angel. pic.twitter.com/esEoWcn8ex
— Steven Santos (@stevensantos) February 9, 2020
System Shock 3 Team ‘No Longer Employed’ Report Says
The entire team behind the upcoming System Shock 3 is “no longer employed” at developer OtherSide Entertainment, according to a report from VideoGamesChronicle.
This follows previous reports of other core members of the team announcing their departure over the past five months, including System Shock 3’s writer and director, lead programmer, and others. Just this week, design director Chase Jones changed his LinkedIn profile to reflect the end of his time at OtherSide.
The anonymous source also stated that System Shock 3 was “critically behind” in its development. We last saw how the game was progressing in a gameplay trailer released back in September 2019, which showed off the return of the iconic gaming villain/rogue A.I. SHODAN. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2019/09/11/system-shock-3-gameplay-trailer"]An anonymous poster claiming to be a developer from OtherSide posted on RPG Codex, explaining some additional background info.
“The only reason I'm posting is because I saw so much confusion about the state of the company and the project I thought some first person information would be welcome,” the user wrote. “I never suggested we were halfway done, core systems are a great foundation for a game but most of the work is content development which we were critically behind in, both in real assets and in tool support for an efficient pipeline.
“Was the failure of the project right? It's hard to say. If Starbreeze hadn't gone into crisis I think we would've delivered something interesting with some fresh and innovative gameplay, but a much smaller game than what people were expecting and inevitably disappointing for a sequel to such a beloved franchise.
“Those high expectations drove a lot of expensive experimentation. We were a small team and knew we couldn't compete with current immersive sims in production quality and breadth, so we had to be creative and clever and weird. And we were on our way to make something unique and possibly fun, but probably not what the audience was hungry for.”
[widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=all-the-big-games-coming-in-2020&captions=true"]The user also shared that they “don't actually know what's going on, but the team is no longer employed there,” and refrained from commenting further over concerns they may break their non-disclosure agreement.
Adding some legitimacy to the report, VGC cites a community manager that confirmed the poster’s comments.
System Shock 3 appears to be the victim of both the woes of its former publisher Starbreeze and its own difficulties in finding a new publisher. Starbreeze reported back in mid-2019 that it would soon experience a “liquidity shortfall” following poor sales of Overkill’s The Walking Dead game and a subsequent raid performed by law enforcement after indications of insider trading.
Starbreeze decided to sell off the publishing rights to System Shock 3 back to OtherSide in order to raise the desperately-needed cash it required to continue operations.
[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2017/03/02/system-shock-remastered-official-early-pre-alpha-trailer"]With OtherSide seemingly now floating in the ether, creative director Warren Spector (System Shock, Deus Ex, Epic Mickey) told VGC that the company was in talks with a “lot” of interested publishers. That was back in May 2019. He told VGC that the company had enough capital to fund itself for a period of time, and was also considering self-publishing System Shock 3.
IGN has reached out to a third-party PR company that previously handled communications for OtherSide for comment. We’ll update this story as we learn more.
The remaster of the original System Shock is still on our list of games we’re most looking forward to in 2020. Developer Nightdive Studios is handling work on that.
[poilib element="accentDivider"] Joseph Knoop is a writer/producer for IGN.System Shock 3 Team ‘No Longer Employed’ Report Says
The entire team behind the upcoming System Shock 3 is “no longer employed” at developer OtherSide Entertainment, according to a report from VideoGamesChronicle.
This follows previous reports of other core members of the team announcing their departure over the past five months, including System Shock 3’s writer and director, lead programmer, and others. Just this week, design director Chase Jones changed his LinkedIn profile to reflect the end of his time at OtherSide.
The anonymous source also stated that System Shock 3 was “critically behind” in its development. We last saw how the game was progressing in a gameplay trailer released back in September 2019, which showed off the return of the iconic gaming villain/rogue A.I. SHODAN. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2019/09/11/system-shock-3-gameplay-trailer"]An anonymous poster claiming to be a developer from OtherSide posted on RPG Codex, explaining some additional background info.
“The only reason I'm posting is because I saw so much confusion about the state of the company and the project I thought some first person information would be welcome,” the user wrote. “I never suggested we were halfway done, core systems are a great foundation for a game but most of the work is content development which we were critically behind in, both in real assets and in tool support for an efficient pipeline.
“Was the failure of the project right? It's hard to say. If Starbreeze hadn't gone into crisis I think we would've delivered something interesting with some fresh and innovative gameplay, but a much smaller game than what people were expecting and inevitably disappointing for a sequel to such a beloved franchise.
“Those high expectations drove a lot of expensive experimentation. We were a small team and knew we couldn't compete with current immersive sims in production quality and breadth, so we had to be creative and clever and weird. And we were on our way to make something unique and possibly fun, but probably not what the audience was hungry for.”
[widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=all-the-big-games-coming-in-2020&captions=true"]The user also shared that they “don't actually know what's going on, but the team is no longer employed there,” and refrained from commenting further over concerns they may break their non-disclosure agreement.
Adding some legitimacy to the report, VGC cites a community manager that confirmed the poster’s comments.
System Shock 3 appears to be the victim of both the woes of its former publisher Starbreeze and its own difficulties in finding a new publisher. Starbreeze reported back in mid-2019 that it would soon experience a “liquidity shortfall” following poor sales of Overkill’s The Walking Dead game and a subsequent raid performed by law enforcement after indications of insider trading.
Starbreeze decided to sell off the publishing rights to System Shock 3 back to OtherSide in order to raise the desperately-needed cash it required to continue operations.
[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2017/03/02/system-shock-remastered-official-early-pre-alpha-trailer"]With OtherSide seemingly now floating in the ether, creative director Warren Spector (System Shock, Deus Ex, Epic Mickey) told VGC that the company was in talks with a “lot” of interested publishers. That was back in May 2019. He told VGC that the company had enough capital to fund itself for a period of time, and was also considering self-publishing System Shock 3.
IGN has reached out to a third-party PR company that previously handled communications for OtherSide for comment. We’ll update this story as we learn more.
The remaster of the original System Shock is still on our list of games we’re most looking forward to in 2020. Developer Nightdive Studios is handling work on that.
[poilib element="accentDivider"] Joseph Knoop is a writer/producer for IGN.