Monthly Archives: May 2019
Dauntless PS4, Xbox One Release Date Announced
Update: This article has been updated to reflect the correct amount of premium currency the Elite Hunt Pass track rewards when complete.
Dauntless is being released on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC through the Epic Games store on May 21. Originally, Dauntless was set to launch on consoles in April, but was pushed back to Summer. The free-to-play action-RPG is set to release on Nintendo Switch and mobile later this year.
Though Dauntless has received major updates in preparation for the console release, the brand new character customization system launching on May 21 is especially noteworthy. It’s a lot more involved than the ancestry system currently in place. This new customization menu can be accessed at any time, too, giving existing players a chance to change up their look. Check out the video of the new character creator below we captured during our hands-on demo with the new Dauntless build on the Xbox One X.
Oddworld: Soulstorm Preview – The Oddworld Quintology Lives and It’s Prettier Than Ever
Lorne Lanning and the Oddworld Inhabitants development team did it their way. No big publishers. No rushed schedule. No creative compromises. The next entry in the always-planned quintology (take that, Alien Quadrilogy!) of Oddworld games is finally well underway after the studio voluntarily shut down in 2005, made a bunch of money from the old Abe games selling well on PC, reopened the studio, and funded the New and Tasty remake, which has led us here, to Oddworld: Soulstorm.
My first thought when getting a demo of Soulstorm from Lanning was how gorgeous it looks. It’s clear that the Inhabitants have a background in film, because both the gameplay and especially the cinematics look like those of a game with four times the budget. Speaking of those cinematics, I saw the opening one, which picks up near the end of the story; Soulstorm will then walk you back to the beginning of the tale, and you’ll eventually catch up to where you started. This adventure will chronicle the legend of Abe and his follower are escaped slaves – fugitives on the run – fighting from the brink of extinction.
Star Trek: Picard Coming to Amazon Video Outside US and Canada
The as-yet-untitled Star Trek series featuring Patrick Stewart's Jean-Luc Picard will be available to stream on Amazon Video for viewers outside the US and Canada.
Like Star Trek: Discovery, the show will be a CBS All Access exclusive in the US. However, where Discovery was (somewhat confusingly) branded as a Netflix Original in most of the rest of the world, Picard has jumped to the rival streaming service. It will appear on Space in Canada.
The news was announced by Patrick Stewart himself on the Star Trek Twitter account:
Incoming Transmission from @SirPatStew! The untitled “#StarTrek” Jean-Luc Picard series will stream exclusively on Amazon Prime Video in more than 200 countries+ outside the US & Canada and on CBS All Access in the United States. #primevideo @primevideouk https://t.co/UgxPFcRyaT pic.twitter.com/gzAZBVe0MR
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How Game of Thrones Gave This Prophecy An Unexpected Twist
Full spoilers for Game of Thrones continue below. For more on Game of Thrones, read our review of "The Bells" and check out our ranking of the top 100 Game of Thrones characters.
Game of Thrones may not adhere to all of the usual fantasy storytelling tropes, but this series does love its prophecies. From the Azor Ahai to Melisandre's final warning to Arya, prophecies are Game of Thrones' bread and butter -- even if those prophecies generally don't work out as planned. That was very much the case with one of the (book) series' most notable prophecies, the Valonqar, which involves a young Cersei Lannister being told how she would die.
Game of Thrones: Season 8, Episode 5 Review
This review contains spoilers for Game of Thrones Season 8, episode 5, "The Bells." For more, check out every character who has died on Game of Thrones so far; our theory about why Varys removed his rings in this episode; how "The Bells" echoes a vision from seasons ago, and why that Cersei scene fulfills a prophecy in a surprising way.
Game of Thrones: How Bran’s Vision Came True (and What Is Yet to Come)
SPOILERS AHEAD for Game of Thrones, Season 8, Episode 5, "The Bells."
In Game of Thrones' penultimate episode, Daenerys and Drogon set fire to King's Landing and, in doing so, made true part of Bran's vision from an earlier season.
In season 4, episode 2, "The Lion and the Rose," Bran touches a Weirwood tree beyond the Wall and is instructed by the previous three-eyed raven to meet him north, all while seeing visions which include him falling from the tower in Winterfell, his father Ned, and a shadow of a dragon flying over King's Landing.
Opinion: This Controversial GoT Twist Needed to Happen
Warning: this article contains major spoilers for Game of Thrones Season 8, Episode 5 "The Bells"!
The penultimate episode of Game of Thrones will almost surely turn out to be one of the most divisive in the series' history. This episode marked the exact moment where one of the greatest heroes in the entire Game of Thrones saga, Daenerys Targaryen, transformed from liberator to destroyer. When given the chance to spare thousands of innocent civilians from a destructive battle, Dany instead embraced her darkest impulses and burnt King's Landing to ashes. Dany has made it clear she isn't the ruler Westeros deserves. That's a bitter pill to swallow for anyone (fans and GoT characters alike) who's been a hardcore member of Team Dany for all these years. But that's exactly what makes it true to the spirit of Game of Thrones in the first place.
GoT: What the Showrunners Knew About the Hound’s Big Scene
Full SPOILERS ahead for Game of Thrones, Season 8, Episode 5, "The Bells"!
The penultimate episode of Game of Thrones finally delivered the rematch fans have been waiting years to see: The Hound vs. The Mountain! Or, as fans long ago dubbed the fight, Cleganebowl!
Sandor Clegane and his big brother Ser Gregor Clegane dueled to the death in the Red Keep as Daenerys Targaryen and her dragon-son Drogon destroyed King's Landing.
Game of Thrones: Who Died in the Battle of King’s Landing
Warning: full SPOILERS ahead for Game of Thrones Season 8, Episode 5 “The Bells”!
Game of Thrones’ Battle of King’s Landing ended up being an entirely one-sided affair as Daenerys Targaryen used Drogon to make quick work of the Iron Fleet and the city’s anti-dragon defenses before laying waste to the city and its people -- citizen and soldier alike. As the chaos unfolded, several principal characters met their end.
Here’s who died in the episode.
Cersei Lannister
Cersei met her end in the arms of her brother Jaime. The pair tried to escape through Tyrion’s secret passageway, but the exits were all blocked thanks to rubble falling as a result of Daenerys’ dragon siege. All of the horrible things Cersei has done have largely been done for her children, so in her final moments she could do nothing but hope for her unborn child to somehow survive. Many fans theorized it would be Arya who would assassinate Cersei when she face-changed her way into striking distance, or that it would be Jaime who finally put an end to his sister based on the Valonqar Theory, but in the end it was the cave-in of King’s Landing's lower levels that finally killed her along with her brother. Though the falling rocks technically killed Cersei, it was Daenerys who caused it by savagely attacking King’s Landing in order to get revenge on Cersei both for betraying her and for beheading her best friend and trusted adviser Missandei.