“I think that no game called ‘Factions’ will ever come out, but not in a bad way,” Grubb says “[Naughty Dog] probably just decided they could do more. That’s the stuff I was able to source in multiple places and that I would feel ok in saying…it seems pretty well known in some circles that they are moving beyond their original smaller ambitions to something more and that’s as much as I can possibly say....
That’s what makes the release of Skyward Sword HD for Nintendo Switch so fascinating. Nintendo hopes that they can use quality-of-life improvements to fix most of the mechanical complaints people had about the original version of Skyward Sword and give fans a reason to reevaluate a game that some say deserved so much more the first time around. Did they succeed? Well, we of course know that the final word on Skyward Sword will still be written by the fans, but here’s what some critics are saying about this long-awaited remaster and one of the Nintendo Switch’s biggest games of 2021: Dave Aubrey, The Gamer: Score: 4/5 Chris Scullion, VGC: “While even an excellent remaster such as this can’t make Skyward Sword a perfect Zelda game, this is such a drastically improved version of one of the most overlooked entries in the series, and Switch owners simply mustn’t overlook it a second time around....
Ganon is arguably one of the most iconic villains in video game history, which is especially impressive when you consider he was also one of the first. When gamers were introduced to the character in the first Legend of Zelda game, Ganon was just a big, blue, anthropomorphic boar who teleported around the room and shot fireballs at Link. During that fight, Ganon had neither backstory nor personality, but subsequent entries expanded on the character and revealed he used to be a human (retconned to Gerudo) named Ganondorf....
Magic: The Gathering Adventures in the Forgotten Realms is finally here, and Magic’s long-anticipated crossover with Dungeons & Dragons brought with it new creatures, new mechanics, and if the Standard 2022 queue in MTG Arena is any judge, a burst of new excitement in the newest sets. This batch of new cards has completely changed the future of the standard format and should make some significant changes in a few non-rotating ones as well....
The Orville: New Horizons Season 3 Episode 9 When The Orville: New Horizons was introduced eight weeks ago, it appeared to be everything you’d want to see was on the horizon. It was shiny, big, bold, exciting, and most importantly: it introduced new ingredients that promised to take the show in directions it had yet to explore. Yet it would be all for naught if the scripts didn’t bring that same revitalized energy, or take any chances in terms of the story....
In case you haven’t already heard, everyone’s favorite sea echinoderm is getting his own spinoff show! Longtime neighbor and best friend to SpongeBob SquarePants is ditching his classic under-a-rock abode and is changing scenery to spend time with his sea star family! And while there might be some retconning involved with Patrick’s kin, we don’t need to dive deep into the specifics of SpongeBob canon, do we? Our friends at Nickelodeon have provided us an exclusive first look at the brand new open for The Patrick Star Show!...
The Rings of Power continues establishing the kingdoms of the Second Age in episode 3. After first showing us the many lands of the Elves and taking us back to the mines of Moria, this week’s episode focuses in on Numenor, the island paradise where Men now rule after fighting alongside the Elves in the war against Morgoth. By the time of The Lord of the Rings books and movies, this kingdom no longer exists, as after a great downfall, the Numenoreans migrated to Middle-earth to form the kingdoms of Arnor and Gondor....
The Simpsons Season 33 Episode 9 “Mothers and Other Strangers” is the series’ Mother’s Day installment, filling in for the Thanksgiving holiday, and it is a feast of emotional stuffing. Glenn Close returns as Mona Simpson, the radical hippie demonstrator who left Homer when he was 9 to go on the run from the FBI, which in this episode, tries to masquerade as Festive Balloons Inc. But nothing can cover up the broken heart, or the broken timelines, of the Simpson saga....
The set in question is called “Jotunheim” and it’s apparently an objective Task Force X needs to conquer in The Suicide Squad. But for all intents and purposes, this could be the kind of Nazi fortress that the gritty characters of movies like The Dirty Dozen or Where Eagles Dare need to conquer, whether or not they get out alive. That’s no accident, according to director James Gunn. “A lot of the film is within the genre of war caper films,” Gunn tells reporters later that day, specifically referencing The Dirty Dozen, Kelly’s Heroes, and others....
“TheSuicideSquad team just got me these amazing new official title treatments for my birthday,” James Gunn said. “And the cast and crew and I have so much more to show you guys on Aug. 22 at http://DCFanDome.com. See you there!” Additionally, The Suicide Squad cast, including Margot Robbie in her high-pitched Harley Quinn voice, wished Gunn well by doing this small video tribute to the man and logo. With the bright yellow and red color-scheme, the new design emphasizes the comic book origins of the characters and looks far removed from the neon-coded, and splashy graffiti/tattoo influenced, design of the original Suicide Squad movie logo....
Well done! You’ve survived The Suicide Squad! James Gunn’s stunning supervillain flick is a brutal ride through DC’s most deep cut characters and now you want to dig deep into what happened. So we’re here to break down that shocking ending, where we leave our heroes, and what’s next for the Suicide Squad in the DCEU. Well, those of them who survived, at least… The standalone (sort of sequel) movie centers around the Suicide Squad on a top secret mission....
The key to a good time travel tale is that it must define its arbitrary rules and then stick to them. The Tomorrow War on Prime Video skillfully keeps it simple. However, there is a moment in the film where viewers might be tempted to shout at their screens when Dan Forester, the ex-military biology teacher played by Chris Pratt, appears to temporarily misunderstand how time travel works, even though elsewhere he’s got it figured out....
Dornan is great in The Tourist – intense, funny, unpredictable and convincing at every stage of his character’s gradual discovery. It’s comfortably among his best performances so far, and one of the better received projects Dornan’s starred in (it’s fair to say that the Fifty Shades film trilogy, the 2018 Robin Hood and last year’s Emily Blunt-starring Irish romance Wild Mountain Thyme were not critical darlings). The Tourist fans looking for more Dornan need look no further....
As far as Umbrella Academy finales go, season 3’s “Oblivion” is unusually, well…final. With the respective conclusions of its first two seasons, The Umbrella Academy finished on chaotic, potentially world-threatening cliffhangers that would need immediate addressing at the top of the following season. The ending of season 1 saw the unfortunate destruction of planet Earth with our heroes escaping to parts (and times) unknown with only seconds to spare. Season 2 then brought the Hargreeves children back to the “present” only to discovery that something had gone horribly wrong as “The Sparrow Academy” were unwelcome intruders in their own home....
Negan (no last name given…or needed) is one of the most unexpectedly beloved characters on The Walking Dead. Loquacious, charismatic, and unfailingly vulgar, Negan practically jumps off the page of Robert Kirkman’s comic series, and makes a big impact through Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s performance of the AMC series. Over 193 issues of Kirkman’s comic, it became clear that the writer was just as enthralled with the brutish villain as the fans were....
With its appearance at 2021 San Diego Comic-Con (still operating remotely under the Comic-Con@Home banner), The Walking Dead unleashed another banger of a trailer. Much of it is the boilerplate zombie action that we’ve come to expect, but stay tuned to the very end for a special orientation video. Check it out below: While The Walking Dead producer Scott Gimple and showrunner Angela Kang have made little effort to hide the fact that the community Eugene and company find themselves in is “The Commonwealth” from the comics, this trailer finally confirms it....
The Walking Dead Season 8 Episode 16 Imagine, if you will, a meter. A meter like a gas gauge on the side of a house or even Politifact’s fact-checking meter. There are only two dashes on the meter. On the far right (don’t read politically into this, far right and far left are just directions on the meter for our purposes) there is the text “In a violent, amoral, and dangerous world it is OK to kill other human beings to survive....
The Walking Dead Season 9 Episode 10 Losing the Grimes family might be the best thing to happen to The Walking Dead since Frank Darabont. The Walking Dead Season 9 Episode 10 depends a great deal on two characters that wouldn’t have been featured otherwise in Daryl Dixon and Henry. (Henry has no last name, so I’ll call him Henry Windsor out of deference to his status as a member of the Kingdom’s royal family....
The Watch Episode 3 The newest episode of The Watch takes the departure from the original Terry Pratchett Discworld series even further, so that only the names of the characters and some slight bits of characterization resemble the books at all. Instead, it sends viewers down the plot toward what looks like an eventual showdown between the villainous and driven Carcer and his one-time friend, now Watch Captain Sam Vimes. Previously, Carcer stole a book from the Unseen University Library that enables him to summon a dragon—but not control it....
If you’re the kind of person who tends to umm and ahh about whether you really do need to get that new piece of budget tat that’s sitting in your online cart before you commit, Netflix’s The Weekend Away is here to encourage you to be more enthusiastic about clicking “buy now” in the future with its Chekhov’s necklace ending. The new thriller movie, which stars Gossip Girl’s Leighton Meester and Luke Norris (Poldark), is now available for the streaming service’s large base of murder-mystery junkies to gleefully consume, and follows depressed mom Beth (Meester) as she leaves her highly suspicious husband and much less suspicious baby at home to embark on a much-needed weekend vacation in Croatia....
