Monthly Archives: April 2021
The Borderlands Movie Has Its Moxxi
Borderlands: The Movie rounded out its cast with a slew of announcements today, highlighted by Gina Gershon and Cheyenne Jackson.
Lionsgate revealed that Gershon, Jackson, Charles Babalola, Benjamin Byron Davis, Steven Boyer, and Ryann Redmond will be joining the cast of Borderlands. Bobby Lee will also be introduced in the new role of Larry.
They will join a large cast that includes Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, Jamie Lee Curtis, and a slew of other familiar names. Eli Roth is set to direct the new film.
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In addition to announcing the new additions to the cast, Lionsgate also revealed their roles. Gershon will take on the role of Moxxi, who is one of the most popular cosplaying subjects for Borderlands fans. Jackson, meanwhile, will play Jakobs, who is Pandora's idea of a "refined gentleman." In the film, Jakobs is about to get married to Hammerlock, who is played by Babalola.
As for Boyer and Redmond, they will play Scooter and Ellie respectively, who run a scrapyard on Pandora. Davis will step into the role of an arms dealer named Marcus, while Lee will play a soldier from Roland's former unit — a new addition to the Borderlands universe.
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The Borderlands movie has been in development since at least 2015. Roth was revealed to be the director early last year, and development has continued apace since then. It will aim to adapt the extremely popular series of games for film, with Lilith (Blanchett) forming an alliance with an unexpected team that includes Tiny Tina (Greenblatt) and a host of other misfits. Black will play Claptrap, because of course.
The Borderlands movie does not have a release date yet.
Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion Review – A Leek to the Past
You might be relieved to learn Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion isn’t really about avoiding your financial responsibility to society. There’s no book-keeping, no audits, no lurking threat of a visit from the IRS. Instead, the act of tax evasion is a mere prelude, an unlikely catalyst for a rollicking and increasingly silly pastiche of the action/adventure genre.
Less concerned with ripping off fellow citizens and more with pilfering tropes from the Legend of Zelda, Turnip Boy is shameless about the source of its obvious inspiration. Within minutes from the start of the game, the village elder has dispatched you on a quest and you’ve retrieved a mystical sword from a sun-dappled forest grove. But it borrows and parodies familiar elements with an affection and exuberance that sweeps you along in a giddy rush for the entirety of its short but sweet duration.
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With Turnip Boy’s fiscal failure exposed in the opening scene, the town mayor channels Tom Nook by setting a quest that will allow you to pay off your debt and eventually inherit the family home. His demands are ludicrous from the get-go and seemingly untethered from your ultimate goal. But rather than leaving you annoyed at having to run some pointless errands, each new task only compounds the absurdity in amusing new ways. Really? That’s why you needed a laser pointer? You’ve got to be kidding me.
Continue Reading at GameSpotTurnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion Review – A Leek to the Past
You might be relieved to learn Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion isn’t really about avoiding your financial responsibility to society. There’s no book-keeping, no audits, no lurking threat of a visit from the IRS. Instead, the act of tax evasion is a mere prelude, an unlikely catalyst for a rollicking and increasingly silly pastiche of the action/adventure genre.
Less concerned with ripping off fellow citizens and more with pilfering tropes from the Legend of Zelda, Turnip Boy is shameless about the source of its obvious inspiration. Within minutes from the start of the game, the village elder has dispatched you on a quest and you’ve retrieved a mystical sword from a sun-dappled forest grove. But it borrows and parodies familiar elements with an affection and exuberance that sweeps you along in a giddy rush for the entirety of its short but sweet duration.
Gallery
With Turnip Boy’s fiscal failure exposed in the opening scene, the town mayor channels Tom Nook by setting a quest that will allow you to pay off your debt and eventually inherit the family home. His demands are ludicrous from the get-go and seemingly untethered from your ultimate goal. But rather than leaving you annoyed at having to run some pointless errands, each new task only compounds the absurdity in amusing new ways. Really? That’s why you needed a laser pointer? You’ve got to be kidding me.
Continue Reading at GameSpotGTA Online: Claim Triple Motor Wars Rewards, Several Login Freebies, and More
This week in GTA Online, players can score several freebies, double rewards in Bunker Series Adversary Modes and Bunker Sell Missions, and much more.
GTA Online: Claim Triple Motor Wars Rewards, Several Login Freebies, and More
This week in GTA Online, players can score several freebies, double rewards in Bunker Series Adversary Modes and Bunker Sell Missions, and much more.
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Next-Gen Upgrade Is Out This Summer
Update 04/29/2021: After it leaked last month, Disney has officially confirmed that Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order will receive a free next-gen upgrade for PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, which will arrive this summer.
On StarWars.com, a small update explains that the upgrade will bring "a number of technical improvements" to the game on next-gen consoles. More details are coming soon, apparently.
As part of the announcement, the game received a 70% discount on its standard and deluxe editons for PS4, Xbox One, Origin and Steam – so you can buy it cheap now and get your free upgrade this summer, if you need to.
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Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order could be getting a native next-gen console release, after the German ratings board listed new PS5 and Xbox versions.
As reported by Gematsu, USK, the German video game classification system, has rated Fallen Order on PlayStation 5 and Microsoft Xbox. These are new listings alongside the existing last-gen ratings, and suggest that a full, native next-gen upgrade of the game could be on the way. As you'd expect, those age ratings haven't changed.
The Xbox classification doesn't mention a specific console, but given that there's already a classification for the Xbox One version of the game, it's thought that this relates to the Series S and X family of consoles. The game was updated for next-gen consoles back in early January which upped the game's framerate alongside some small optimizations, but didn't go as far as a new native version of the game.
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Fallen Order recently came to Xbox Game Pass for PC after the EA Play library was added to the service earlier this week. We're also expecting a Star Wars Jedi sequel at some point, after EA said it wouldn't be slowing down its production of Star Wars games, and confirmed the game was the start of a franchise.
We reviewed Fallen Order upon its launch in November 2019, scoring it a 9 and calling it a "fantastic single-player action-adventure." It recently made our list of the best Soulslike games for fans of From Software's influential Dark Souls series.
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Jordan Oloman is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow him on Twitter.
Sweet Tooth: DC Comics Adaptation Premieres Globally on Netflix This June
Sweet Tooth, a new series based on the DC comic book series by Jeff Lemire, will premiere globally on Netflix on June 4, 2021.
Sweet Tooth is a story that takes place ten years after "The Great Crumble," an event that "wreaked havoc on the world and lead to the mysterious emergence of hybrids - babies born part human, part animal."
You can watch the first teaser trailer and see the first looks images for Sweet Tooth below!
Humanity is unsure if these hybrids are the result or the cause of a widespread virus, which means many humans either fear and/or hunt them down. Sweet Tooth follows the tale of a sheltered hybrid deer-boy named Gus who befriends a wandering loner named Jepperd before going on an "extraordinary adventure across what’s left of America in search of answers— about Gus' origins, Jepperd's past, and the true meaning of home." This new series stars Christian Convery, Nonso Anozie, Adeel Akhtar, Aliza Vellani, Stefania LaVie Owen, Dania Ramirez, Neil Sandilands, Will Forte, and James Brolin. Sweet Tooth is executive produced by Robert Downey Jr. and Susan Downey's production company and is directed by Jim Mickle. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=netflixs-sweet-tooth-images&captions=true"] "We wanted to make a show that offers escape and adventure, where nature is reclaiming the world and in many ways it feels like a fairytale," Mickle said. "SWEET TOOTH is a new kind of dystopian story, it’s very lush and hopeful. We want people to come into this world where there’s beauty and hope and adventure. This is a sweeping story — we ride on trains, climb mountaintops, run through forests. This is a show about what makes a family, what home really means, and why it’s important to keep faith in humanity.” Sweet Tooth was part of Vertigo's golden age of comics, and was an early showcase for Jeff Lemire and was billed as a combination of Cormac McCarthy's The Road and Disney movies like Bambi. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com. Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.this is the story of a very special deer-boy named Sweet Tooth. based on the beloved DC Comic, coming June 4th pic.twitter.com/HIq4jWVDNE
— Netflix Geeked (@NetflixGeeked) April 29, 2021
Sweet Tooth: DC Comics Adaptation Premieres Globally on Netflix This June
Sweet Tooth, a new series based on the DC comic book series by Jeff Lemire, will premiere globally on Netflix on June 4, 2021.
Sweet Tooth is a story that takes place ten years after "The Great Crumble," an event that "wreaked havoc on the world and lead to the mysterious emergence of hybrids - babies born part human, part animal."
You can watch the first teaser trailer and see the first looks images for Sweet Tooth below!
Humanity is unsure if these hybrids are the result or the cause of a widespread virus, which means many humans either fear and/or hunt them down. Sweet Tooth follows the tale of a sheltered hybrid deer-boy named Gus who befriends a wandering loner named Jepperd before going on an "extraordinary adventure across what’s left of America in search of answers— about Gus' origins, Jepperd's past, and the true meaning of home." This new series stars Christian Convery, Nonso Anozie, Adeel Akhtar, Aliza Vellani, Stefania LaVie Owen, Dania Ramirez, Neil Sandilands, Will Forte, and James Brolin. Sweet Tooth is executive produced by Robert Downey Jr. and Susan Downey's production company and is directed by Jim Mickle. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=netflixs-sweet-tooth-images&captions=true"] "We wanted to make a show that offers escape and adventure, where nature is reclaiming the world and in many ways it feels like a fairytale," Mickle said. "SWEET TOOTH is a new kind of dystopian story, it’s very lush and hopeful. We want people to come into this world where there’s beauty and hope and adventure. This is a sweeping story — we ride on trains, climb mountaintops, run through forests. This is a show about what makes a family, what home really means, and why it’s important to keep faith in humanity.” Sweet Tooth was part of Vertigo's golden age of comics, and was an early showcase for Jeff Lemire and was billed as a combination of Cormac McCarthy's The Road and Disney movies like Bambi. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com. Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.this is the story of a very special deer-boy named Sweet Tooth. based on the beloved DC Comic, coming June 4th pic.twitter.com/HIq4jWVDNE
— Netflix Geeked (@NetflixGeeked) April 29, 2021
Game Delays Got Even Worse as the Pandemic Progressed, But Studios Grew
A GDC survey of over 3000 games industry professionals revealed that game delays have gotten worse as the pandemic progressed, but many game studios have also grown in tandem.
The Game Developers Conference 2021 State of the Industry Survey notes that 44% of the developers it spoke to said they had a game delayed during the pandemic. This is up on last summer's survey, which reported that 33% (or a third of all game developers) had delayed a game due to the impact of COVID-19.
While many of those delays will be internal, we've seen a large numbe rof games publicly shift their dates already this year – check out every game delay announced in 2021 so far.
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Yet at the same time, almost half of game studios have also grown considerably. 47% of studios surveyed said that they had expanded their staff over the past year, and 66% said that productivity and creativity had stayed the same or even increased.
This suggests studios are starting to adapt to working from home - 41% of those who responded to last year's survey said that productivity had been damaged by the move to remote working conditions.
You can view the results of the full survey here, which is available as a free download. In the same survey, it was revealed that the PS5 is the most popular console to develop for, while PC remains the most popular platform for developers overall. This survey lands ahead of the Game Developers Conference 2021, which will occur between July 19-23 as an all-digital event, for the second year in a row.
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Jordan Oloman is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow him on Twitter.
Game Delays Got Even Worse as the Pandemic Progressed, But Studios Grew
A GDC survey of over 3000 games industry professionals revealed that game delays have gotten worse as the pandemic progressed, but many game studios have also grown in tandem.
The Game Developers Conference 2021 State of the Industry Survey notes that 44% of the developers it spoke to said they had a game delayed during the pandemic. This is up on last summer's survey, which reported that 33% (or a third of all game developers) had delayed a game due to the impact of COVID-19.
While many of those delays will be internal, we've seen a large numbe rof games publicly shift their dates already this year – check out every game delay announced in 2021 so far.
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Yet at the same time, almost half of game studios have also grown considerably. 47% of studios surveyed said that they had expanded their staff over the past year, and 66% said that productivity and creativity had stayed the same or even increased.
This suggests studios are starting to adapt to working from home - 41% of those who responded to last year's survey said that productivity had been damaged by the move to remote working conditions.
You can view the results of the full survey here, which is available as a free download. In the same survey, it was revealed that the PS5 is the most popular console to develop for, while PC remains the most popular platform for developers overall. This survey lands ahead of the Game Developers Conference 2021, which will occur between July 19-23 as an all-digital event, for the second year in a row.
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Jordan Oloman is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow him on Twitter.