Monthly Archives: December 2019
No Man’s Sky Update Adds Full Audio Creation Tools
No Man’s Sky is giving players the gift of music this holiday season with a surprise update that adds a full music creation tool into the game. The free update will allow No Man’s Sky players to create custom beats they can play in their base.
In the No Man’s Sky 2.24 update, Hello Games added a new tool called the ByteBeat Device. It’s a full-on audio creation tool that can generate beats to play on your base. By default, the tool will procedurally generate random presets, but seasons musicians can venture into the advance setting and manually program the beats themselves.
Hello Games released a full blog post about the ByteBeat, but it sounds fairly comprehensive. Players can modify melodies and drums, fill in notes automatically with the arpeggiator, and adjust octave, key, and tempo.
The Last Remnant Remastered Releases on iOS and Android
Square Enix has released The Last Remnant Remastered on iOS and Android devices without any kind of announcement or lead-up. The game can be downloaded from your respective app store today and will cost $20, however, it will not feature any kind of microtransactions within the game.
First spotted by Engadget, The Last Remnant Remastered is a port from the 2008 Xbox 360 title — which also received a PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch port last year.
Watchmen: Explaining the Confusing Ozymandias Timeline
Full spoilers follow for Season 1 of HBO's Watchmen.
HBO's Watchmen series is full of mysteries and puzzle boxes, and few characters are more confounding and mysterious than Ozymandias. It was only three episodes in that we even got hard confirmation Jeremy Irons has been playing Adrian Veidt. And even then, his story has been unfolding to the side of the other main characters. It can be difficult to nail down just when the Veidt scenes are taking place and get a full picture of what's happened to the character in the years between the original comic and the events of 2019.
But with the release of the Season 1 finale (and thanks to the always helpful resource that is Peteypedia), many of the missing pieces have fallen into place. Read on for a full breakdown of Watchmen's Ozymandias timeline, from 1985 to 2019.
PewDiePie Will Take Hiatus From YouTube
Felix 'PewDiePie' Kjellberg has announced that he will be taking a hiatus from YouTube for an undisclosed amount of time beginning in 2020. The popular YouTuber said that he is "feeling very tired" and needs to take a "break from YouTube next year
."
Reported by The Loadout, PewDiePie announced his decision to leave YouTube at the end of his latest 'Pew News' video. His announcement can be found around the 10:40 mark, where he states that he has simply grown tired of creating content and needs a break.
Who Was Lube Man in Watchmen?
Full spoilers follow for Season 1 of HBO's Watchmen.
Who was Lube Man in Watchmen? For a character who was barely even in the show -- the slippery sucker in silver was spotted in just one scene earlier this season -- the so-called Lube Man has captured the attention and imagination of viewers everywhere. And while his true identity was not revealed on the Watchmen season finale, HBO's companion site Peteypedia has seemingly confirmed what many fans had already suspected.
Doctor Who to Release Episode-Specific Merch Every Week of Season 12
Hot Topic has officially partnered with BBC America and BBC Studios to offer Doctor Who fans a range of brand new, exclusive T-shirt designs inspired by each new episode of the sci-fi drama throughout its fast-approaching Season 12 run.
In a first for the live-action TV series, episode-specific merchandise will be released on Hot Topic's Doctor Who Hub on a weekly basis immediately after each episode airs, allowing fans to commemorate Jodie Whittaker's exciting second season as the Doctor.
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising Movie Is Coming to Theaters Next Year
My Hero Academia’s second movie is on its way to over 1,000 theaters in North America in early 2020, Funimation announced. The exact screening dates weren't announced, but there will be showings for subbed and dubbed versions of My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising in Canada and the U.S.
This second film once again puts Deku and the rest of his class in charge of saving the day, this time in a new place called Nabu Island. We don't know exactly where this film fits into the My Hero Academia timeline, but we do know that All Might is already in retirement and that Shigaraki may have something to do with the film's new villain.
Heroes Rising is the second My Hero Academia film and may be the final one. Maybe. Creator Kohei Horikoshi, who is overseeing the production of Heroes Rising, said in July that this film will be more 'Plus Ultra" than the first and that there probably won't be a third. The first, Two Heroes, and received a 7.7 from IGN.
Star Trek: Picard Renewed for Season 2 Before Premiere
Star Trek: Picard, the upcoming CBS All-Access show that continues the story of Star Trek: The Next Generation’s Captain Jean-Luc Picard, has reportedly been renewed before the season one premiere has even aired.
Deadline reports that a second season is all but officially confirmed thanks to the revelation that over $20.4 million in California tax incentives have been allocated to the Alex Kurtzman-led project. CBS has refused to comment on any plans for a second season, but that money trail certainly suggests something big. For comparison, the first season was awarded $15.6 million this time last year, which certainly paints a picture of a second season being put in place.
There Were Other Names Considered for God of War
The iconic God of War franchise, and the main character Kratos, originally had very different names according to ex-Sony Santa Monica exec Stig Asmussen.
In this month's episode of IGN Unfiltered (the full episode airs tomorrow), Ryan McCaffrey sat down with Respawn's Stig Asmussen to talk about his time at Sony Santa Monica, the history of blockbuster PlayStation exclusive God of War, the recently-released Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, and much more.
"In terms of the name Kratos, there's an interesting story," Asmussen said, "David Jaffe, who was the director on God of War, put it out to the team, 'Hey, anybody got any cool ideas for what the name of this character could be?' and everybody would just send emails... and then those emails would be forwarded over to marketing, and they kind of picked who they thought the top choices would be."
Superman: Red Son – Exclusive Movie Trailer
IGN is excited to debut the first trailer for Superman: Red Son, the 38th entry in the DC Universe Original Movies lineup.
Watch the trailer in the player above or by clicking the video below:
Superman: Red Son is based on DC's classic 2003 Elseworlds comic by Mark Millar. The story takes place in an alternate reality where the spaceship carrying Kal-El lands in Stalinist Russia instead of the Kents' farm in Kansas, resulting in a Man of Steel who's not so concerned with the American way.
The new film features the voice talents of Jason Isaacs as Kal-El, Amy Acker as Lois Lane, Diedrich Bader as Lex Luthor, Phil Morris as James Olsen, Phil LaMarr as John Stewart, Vanessa Marshall as Wonder Woman, Sasha Roiz as Hal Jordan, Roger Craig Smith as Batman, Paul Williams as Braniac, and William Salyers as Joseph Stalin.