Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind Early Access Outlined
Elder Scrolls Online players who purchase the digital upgrade version of the upcoming Morrowind expansion are eligible to start playing on May 22.
You can start exploring the entirety of the game, including 2 new houses available for purchase in Vvardenfell: the Ald Velothi Harbor House and Amaya Lake Lodge.
According to the game's official site, early access is only available on the PC version due to the certification process required for the Elder Scrolls Online clients on consoles.
Anyone who pre-ordered the physical version of the Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind Collector's Edition can get in early by following the steps laid out in the official announcement.
Judge Dredd: Mega-City One TV Show Announced
IM Global Television and Rebellion have announced a partnership create a Judge Dredd television series.
The series, titled Judge Dredd: Mega-City One, will follow a team futuristic cops called Judges who "encounter the myriad challenges of a world in which east-coast cities have merged into a giant megalopolis."
Judge Dredd: Mega-City One poster
Judge Dredd: Mega-City One will be based the iconic character from Rebllion's British comic books and set in the 22nd century, where the threat of domestic terrorism and growing conflict between the rich and deprived are prevalent issues that need resolving.
Twin Peaks in 5 Minutes
Twin Peaks is returning in less than two weeks with its much-anticipated season 3 premiere. To get up to speed on the major events of Twin Peaks and the film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, here's as brief a synopsis as we could muster.
Be warned: major spoilers ahead.
Click through the gallery below for a refresher on Twin Peaks characters.
When the body of homecoming queen Laura Palmer washes up on the sleepy shores of Twin Peaks, the small Washington town goes into an absolute panic. Meanwhile, Laura’s classmate Ronette Pulaski is found wandering in a catatonic state near the train tracks. Enter Special Agent Dale Cooper, sent in by the FBI to investigate. Cooper quickly finds a link between Laura and Ronette’s attackers and the murder of a young woman named Teresa Banks, whose corpse was found in similar circumstances the year before in Deer Meadow — wrapped in plastic and with a tiny letter slipped under her fingernails.
Overkill’s The Walking Dead: New Concept Art Released
During today's Starbreeze livestream event, new concept art for Overkill's The Walking Dead was released.
Check out the slideshow below for a look at two new pieces of concept art, along with a few images showcasing the game's character models:
Overkill's The Walking Dead is a cooperative online shooter, where players must fight to survive against both walkers and other human survivors during the zombie apocalypse.
Earlier this month, Starbreeze and Skybound Entertainment announced another delay for the game to allow the studio more time to expand on its original vision for the project. As such, Overkill's The Walking Dead is now slated to launch sometime in second half of 2018.
Assassin’s Creed Games Have Leaked 13 Times
Another year, another Assassin's Creed leak. We recently reported on a promotional keychain that seemed to point to the next AC game being set in Greece, and titled Assassin's Creed Odyssey. If that's the case, this marks at least the 13th (!) leak in the long, porous history of the Assassin's Creed franchise. In fact, the only core entry in the series to date not to have been leaked in some fashion is Assassin's Creed 2, which released back in 2009.
Let's take a look back through the fine tradition of Assassin's Creed revelations through less-than-ideal means.
Deadpool Animated Series Announced for FXX
FXX has ordered an untitled Deadpool "adult action-comedy" animated series, set to debut in 2018.
The 10-episode first season is executive produced by Atlanta's Donald Glover and Stephen Glover, who will also serve as showrunners and writers on the upcoming show.
No plot details or casting announcements were made at this time. The untitled Marvel's Deadpool series will also be executive produced by Marvel's Jeph Loeb and Jim Chory and be produced by Marvel Television, FX Productions, and ABC Signature Studios. This series will mark the second Marvel TV series for the FX family of channels, with Noah Hawley's Legion having premiered earlier this year on FX.
"Donald Glover is an incredibly gifted and versatile artist who’ll bring the untitled Marvel’s Deadpool series to life with the same intense, singular vision as his breakout hit Atlanta," said Nick Grad, co-president of original programming for FX Networks and FX Productions. "With the success of Legion, we’re looking forward to again partnering with Marvel Television to create a series that is bold, striking and entirely original."
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FOX Cancels Sleepy Hollow After Four Seasons
Sleepy Hollow won't be back for a fifth season, as FOX has canceled the supernatural drama series.
As reported by Deadline, Sleepy Hollow's fourth season had an incredibly modest viewership in its Friday night slot, which, when taking into account delayed viewing, had an average of 3.2 million viewers.
Tom Mison as Ichabod Crane and Janina Gavankar as Diana Thomas in Sleepy Hollow Season 4
Vanquish PC Port Will Release This Month
PlatinumGames' sci-fi shooter Vanquish will finally make its way to PC on May 25.
Following some prolonged teasing by publisher Sega, the Shinji Mikami cult classic will come exclusively to Steam, and those who bought Bayonetta's long-awaited PC port last month will automatically receive a 25% discount when they pre-order.
All pre-orders will receive the Digital Deluxe edition, which includes a digital art book, 5-track soundtrack sampler, exclusive wallpapers and Vanquish avatars for your Steam profile. The Digital Deluxe Edition will only exist as a pre-order bonus, and will revert to the standard edition upon release on the 25th.
The 100: How Will Kane React to Clarke’s Shocking Choice?
In the midst of a huge storyline for The 100, there’s also a notable event going on behind-the-scenes in this week’s episode, as Henry Ian Cusick makes his directorial debut on the series.
Having played Marcus Kane since the series began, Cusick directs “The Other Side,” which depicts the fallout from Clarke’s shocking decision last week, locking most of her people inside the bunker to save them, which simultaneously condemned everyone outside the bunker – Kane and Octavia included – to death.
I spoke to Cusick about how he came to direct on The 100, what the experience was like, how Kane is dealing with Clarke’s decision, and more.
IGN: How did you decide you were interested in directing an episode and how did it come to be that you ended up doing it?