Monthly Archives: October 2017
Treat Yourself with the Best High-End Keyboard for Gaming
For some people, a gaming keyboard is more than just a set of WASD keys. It's an investment in a particular lifestyle. It's like buying a good couch or a comfy mattress—you're going to spend a lot of time using it, so you might as well get something really nice.
Besides, gamers usually keep their keyboards through multiple gaming PC upgrade cycles, so it pays to get something with all the features you want instead of skimping on things because of budget constraints. If you do it right, it could even be the last keyboard you ever buy. With that in mind, here are the best high-end gaming keyboards.
Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp is Coming to Mobile in November
Nintendo has dropped the details of its much anticipated Animal Crossing game for smartphones, Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp.
In Nintendo's Animal Crossing-dedicated direct today, we learned the details of its upcoming mobile entry, which will launch for free on iOS and Android mobile late November.
Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp plays out like previous console entries, with a few tweaks. Rather than managing a town, Pocket Camp tasks players with managing a personalized campsite. If you gather materials around your world like cotton or wood you can craft furniture for your camp site by placing an order, but you can also make the process easier by earning - or buying with real world cash - LeafTickets, which can be used to shorten crafting time or more easily acquire materials, among other benefits.
Konami Announces Metal gear Survive Release Date
Metal Gear Survive, Konami's upcoming Metal Gear zombie survival spin-off, finally has a release date.
The game will come to the United States on February 20, 2018. The European release is scheduled two days after, on February 22, 2018.
No Australian/New Zealand release date has been announced as of writing. The release date announcement was made via the Metal Gear Official Twitter account, and also included details about pre-order bonuses available to Day One adopters of both the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 versions. The Tweet does not mention the previously announced PC version of the game, but the Steam platform is listed on the game's official site.
Captain Marvel: Rogue One’s Mendelsohn Up for Villain Role
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story's Ben Mendelsohn is up for another villain role, this time in Captain Marvel.
Variety reports that directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck are in talks with Mendelsohn to star as the film's main antagonist. Boden and Fleck reportedly wanted Mendelsohn for the role from the beginning, and when approached, the actor was quick to respond positively.
Earlier this year at San Diego Comic-Con, it was revealed that the Skrulls will be featured in Captain Marvel, which means Mendelsohn could very well be playing the leader of these shapeshifters.
Karate Kid: New Details on YouTube’s Sequel Series
New details and casting information has been revealed about YouTube's Karate Kid sequel series, Cobra Kai.
Entertainment Weekly reports that Cobra Kai will star Xolo Mariduena, Mary Mouser, Tanner Buchanan, Courtney Henggeler and guest-star TV legend Ed Asner.
While we already knew the series would take place thirty years after the movie, more details about the plot have been revealed. Daniel, the protagonist from the original, is a family man running a successful car dealership while Johnny has degraded into a drunk, unemployed antihero. The two meet causing Johnny to reopen the infamous karate dojo when their rivalry is rekindled.
Xbox One X Sleepover Coming to Australia
Want to get your hands on an Xbox One X ahead of its launch November 7? Xbox Australia has designed a pop up hotel in Sydney for you and a friend to do just that.
The 'Xbox Stay n' Play' lets guests check into a transparent cube containing four suites, where they can play Xbox One X-enhanced games like Forza Motorsport 7, Assassin's Creed Origins and Minecraft. Most importantly, guests will also be able to order room service.
Stay n' Play.
Stardew Valley Dev Says Bizarre, Helpful Bug Won’t Be Patched
We recently stumbled across an extremely strange bug in Stardew Valley which lets players create any item they want based on their character’s name, a bug which Stardew Valley developer Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone confirmed to us will not be patched out.
“I am aware of it, but I don’t think I want to fix it,” Barone said. “It's not game-breaking, it's kind of amusing, and the likelihood that someone would randomly stumble upon it is extremely low. So I feel like it's okay to leave it, and actually kind of fun.”
Schwarzenegger on How Next Terminator Will Streamline Series
Terminator star Arnold Schwarzenegger has explained how the latest movie in the franchise will seek to improve on some of the confusion created by previous Terminator films.
The actor told Business Insider that, with James Cameron and Deadpool's Tim Miller behind the wheel for the reported next film, Schwarzenegger is confident the new movie will fix and simplify the formula.
“I think
Cameron and Tim
came up with a concept where they can continue on with the T-800 but make a whole new movie,” he said. “What they are doing now with this one is basically to just take a few very basic characters, like Linda Hamilton’s character and my character, and dismiss everything else. Just move away from all these rules of the timeline and other characters.”
Wonder Woman Leads 2017’s Most Googled Costumes
Google Trends has revealed the most searched costumes this Halloween, and Wonder Woman currently stands as the top trending costume in all the land.
As reported by Fortune, the tool Google Frightgeist provides an up-to-the-minute list of the results for the most-searched costumes, and as of this writing, Wonder Woman leads the bunch. The character has had a great year, as the Gal Godot-led DC film broke box office records, and Diana Prince will be back in Justice League in November.
Top 10 Super Mario Games
Mario is, without a doubt, one of the most well known and iconic characters in any medium. He’s appeared in over 200 games across about a dozen platforms, and has had at least twice as many jobs. At the end of the day, it’s the core Mario games that have kept players coming back for nearly forty years. So, without further ado, these are the Top 10 Mario games of all time.
In Mario’s second Game Boy adventure, he has a castle (which he inexplicably owns) stolen from him by none other than his childhood friend, Wario and he must receive the titular six golden coins to break Wario’s curse and win the castle back. So, it’s pretty safe to say that this ranks among the weirder entries in the Mario series. Not unlike Link’s Awakening, the bizarre, otherworldly feel of the Game Boy Mario games only add to the character’s charm and appeal. While the original Super Mario Land was modeled after Super Mario Brothers, 6 Golden Coins borrows heavily from Super Mario Bros. 3 and Super Mario World. The overworld map allows you to tackle each of the game’s six zones in any order you choose, and in doing so you’ll explore an enormous mechanical Mario, the insides of a haunted pumpkin, and of course, Space. Also unique to this entry is the magic carrot power up, which gives Mario’s cap rabbit ears and allows him to float past obstacles. Furthermore, one of the boss fights pits Mario against the three little pigs, so, that’s pretty great too, I guess. - Zach Ryan