Monthly Archives: October 2018
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Red Dead Redemption 2 Is a Brutal World for a Lone Cowboy
A little over two hours into Red Dead Redemption 2, Arthur has a decision to make. The Van de Linde gang have moved down from the snowy, hostile mountains known as the Grizzlies, which serve as the backdrop to the opening of the game, and have set up camp just outside the town of Valentine. The camp has needs – food primarily, but also money – and so various members of the gang head out in search of supplies.
At this point, markers appear on the mini-map – the location of other gang members, which Arthur can visit to learn the intricacies of hunting from Charles Smith, or get into a bar brawl after Bill Williamson pisses off the local landlord. But this being an open-world game - with a strong emphasis on open – he can choose to ignore them completely and go off on his own adventure.
Red Dead Redemption 2 Rumored Achievements and Trophies Leaked
A list of rumored trophies and achievements for Red Dead Redemption 2 leaked on PSN Profiles by a user Wednesday night.
There are allegedly 51 achievements and trophies – 52 including the PlayStation Platinum, and the list contains trophies that are rumored for both single-player mode for Red Dead Redemption 2 as well as Red Dead Online.
Some of the trophies are as follows:
- All's Fair (Bronze) Red Dead Online: Successfully counter a rival Posse's Free Roam mission.
Secret Six: CBS Developing Series Based on the DC Comics Title
Another DC comic series is headed to the small screen. Variety reports that CBS has committed to a pilot for a drama series based off Secret Six.
Rick Muirragui (Suits, Charmed) will write and executive produce Secret Six for CBS. Bill Lawrence (Scrubs, Rush Hour) and Jeff Ingold (Rush Hour, Undateable) will also serve as executive producers.
Secret Six debuted in 1968 and has followed four different teams of six, led by a shadowy figure codenamed Mockingbird. Team members have included Harley Quinn, Deadshot, Lex Luthor, Bane, the Joker, and more.
In the comics, the members of the team are blackmailed into working together by Mockingbird, whom members often suspect to secretly be one of the other five. The role of Mockingbird has been held down by different characters as well, including Lex Luthor.
See How The Witcher Cast Compares to Their Video Game Counterparts
Netflix has just released new photos of The Witcher cast members in costume, featuring Henry Cavill as Geralt of Rivia, Freya Allan as Ciri, Princess of Cintra, Roach, and Anya Chalotra as the sorceress Yennefer.
Not only is The Witcher a beloved book series written by Andrzej Sapkowski, but also a popular video game franchise, developed by Polish studio CD Projekt Red.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Easter Eggs Don’t Activate Until After the Game Launches
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 launches on October 12, and its Easter eggs won’t activate in its Zombies mode until then in order to level the playing field for all players so they can find them as a community.
Revealed on the official Call of Duty Zombies Reddit, developer Treyarch said the decision was made to create a spoiler-free environment for players worldwide, and that all Easter eggs in Voyage of Despair, IX, Blood of the Dead and Classified won’t go live until 10am PT on Friday, Oct. 12.
"We also know how important it is for fans to discover the secrets hidden within each launch day experience together as a community,” said Treyarch on Reddit. "Therefore, in the spirit of doing everything we can to create a spoiler-free, 100% level playing field for Easter Egg hunters around the world, we’re trying something new for the first time: Black Ops 4 Zombies Easter Eggs will be enabled worldwide in Voyage of Despair, IX, Blood of the Dead, and Classified at 10AM Pacific Time on Friday, October 12."
Our Dream PS5 Launch Games
BEYOND!
On this week's episode of IGN's weekly PlayStation show, Beyond, host Jonathon Dornbush — who is know your official, new host of Beyond — is joined by Max Scoville and Brian Altano to break down the news of PlayStation finally acknowledging the PS4's successor. The crew discusses their dream launch games, and how realistic they think possible games might be for launch, and discuss what features they'd like to see with the new system.
Additionally, the crew discusses the new Resident Evil 2 footage, Borderlands 2 VR and the PSVR 2nd anniversary, Kingdom Hearts 3, Yakuza Kiwami, and answers YOUR questions.
Unfortunately we have no time codes this week, but the episode is full of great discussion so be sure to stick around through the entire show.
Majora’s Mask Perfectly Captures An Entire Generation’s Anxieties
As Link approaches Ikana Canyon in the build-up to the penultimate act of The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask, one barely-noticeable NPC ironically sticks out. Shiro is a Clock Town Soldier – far from home, invisible to anyone that passes him, and desperate to carve out the effervescent personality that he so solemnly believes he lacks.
“I'm shocked. You're the first person who's ever spoken to me,” Shiro tells Link when he looks through the Lens of Truth. “I've been here for many years, waving my arms around and asking for help, but everyone ignores me and passes me by. It's 'cause I'm about as impressive as a stone, right? ...I'm used to it, though."
The Zelda series – in spite of its save-the-princess plot and regular forays into colorful wackiness – is no stranger to darkness. After being manipulated into maniacal delusions by Ganondorf, Twilight Princess’s tragic anti-hero Zant appears to commit suicide at the game’s conclusion. Beneath its cartoon facade, The Wind Waker is premised on the divine flooding and subsequent near-total annihilation of Hyrule. Ocarina of Time features one of the series’ few on-screen NPC deaths (an easy-to-miss Hyrulean Soldier with an uncanny resemblance to Majora’s Mask’s Shiro).
Fantastic Beasts: 6 New Posters From The Crimes of Grindelwald
Warner Bros. released six new posters for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.
Each poster shows two characters on it who are somewhat respective partners to one another in the upcoming film.
The second of five installments for the Fantastic Beasts stories include Eddie Redmayne reprising his role as the soft-spoken Newt Scamander, with the newly joined cast member Jude Law portraying young Albus Dumbledore.
Other posters include Gellert Grindelwald, played by Johnny Depp in front of Credence Barebone, played by Ezra Miller; Tina Goldstein, played by Katherine Waterston alongside Yusuf Kama, played by William Nadylam; Queenie Goldstein played by Alison Sudol, standing by Jacob Kowalski, played by Dan Fogler; and Leta Lestrange, played by Zoë Kravitz next to Newt's brother Theseus Scamander, played by Callum Turner.
Spider-Geddon Shocks With a Lethal Opener
The opening chapter of Marvel’s Spider-Geddon event mini-series saw the heroes suffer devastating losses.
Warning: beware spoilers for Spider-Geddon #1 by Christos Gage, Dan Slott and Jorge Molina!
The villainous Inheritors of Spider-Verse made a shocking return and took the lives of two spider-characters in the process.
The blame rests squarely on Otto Octavius aka the Superior Octopus, who in a bid to become immortal combined the technology of the Jackal and the Inheritors to create supply of clones for him to transfer his mind into should his current body perish. However, the Inheritors were able to secretly access their cloning tech in his lab to respawn their bodies, essentially allowing them to escape the prison they found themselves in at the end of Spider-Verse.