Jess and Ed pull up some old favourites and let you know which old games they still love to play, from Heroes of Might & Magic III to Quest For Glory. Is your favourite mentioned? Leave it in the comments!As summer comes to a close, we must sadly say goodbye to several stellar anime, like Planet With and My Hero Academia Season 3. But we can find comfort in the knowledge that a bunch of new anime series and movies will begin airing on Netflix, Amazon, and other streaming services with the start of the fall season.
There are a few series and movies you’ll definitely want to check out this October. Sentai Filmworks has secured the exclusive distribution rights to Bloom Into You, a well-written love story between two high school girls that also addresses the pressures of living with low self-worth and the struggles of understanding asexual love. Bloom Into You is airing exclusively on HIDIVE (in Japanese first with the English dub following in three weeks) on October 5. This fall, HIDIVE is also airing episodes of the English dub of Princess Principal, one of the best anime from 2017.
You should also add Crunchyroll’s Goblin Slayer to your queue–especially if you’re a fan of Dark Souls. Goblin Slayer is a dark fantasy about an inexperienced priestess, called Priestess, who’s saved by a male adventurer named Goblin Slayer after her entire party is gruesomely butchered in front of her. Priestess decides to travel with Goblin Slayer to learn more about him, and on their journey she meets High Elf Archer, Dwarf Shaman, Lizard Priest, Cow Girl, Witch, and Spearman. The series begins airing on October 6.
Other series to look out for are That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime and SSSS Gridman. The former launches on October 1, with the original Japanese version on Crunchyroll and the English dub on Funimation. The latter comes out on Funimation on October 6. Slime is an isekai–a story where a normal person is transported to another world–that’s about pretty much exactly what the name implies, and Studio Trigger’s Gridman is an anime remake of Gridman the Hyper Agent, a series about three kids creating a video game superhero. Golden Kamuy and Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure also return with new seasons this fall.
The full list of anime series and movies that have been confirmed to premier this fall on Amazon, Crunchyroll, Funimation, HIDIVE, and Netflix are listed below. We’ll update the list if additional titles are announced.
In Captain Marvel, The Skrulls will make their long-awaited MCU film debut. The movie will also explore elements of the Kree-Skrull War. We break down what happened during the Kree-Skrull War – one of the most famous and influential Marvel story arcs!At Oculus Connect, Industrial Light and Magic took the stage to announce a new project aimed squarely at Star Wars fans. Vader Immortal, a launch title for the new Oculus Quest headset, will tell a new story in the Star Wars universe in-between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope. It’s coming in 2019 and is described as a VR “experience” rather a game or anything else of the sort.
“The very initial conversations around this project started three years ago, around the launch of ILMxLAB,” said ILM’s Mohen Leo in an interview with the official Star Wars website. “Lucasfilm was in production on Rogue One. In the film, the audience gets a glimpse of Darth Vader’s castle on Mustafar, which we knew would be intriguing to a lot of fans. This was also around the time that some of the first really compelling content for the Oculus DK2, the developer kit that preceded the Oculus Rift, came out. We recognized that VR has a unique ability to transport people to a fictional place and let them explore it. So, we thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be cool to let the audience visit and explore Vader’s castle, and have the opportunity to learn some of his secrets?'”
The tech follows on the heels of Star Wars: Droid Repair Bay, which had Oculus players in the midst of a battle with General Leia. It’s being written by David S. Goyer, who is also working on the VR experience, Secrets of the Empire. And despite what you might assume, Vader Immortal will be part of the official Star Wars canon.
Oculus Quest is the next iteration of Oculus hardware, with full-room tracking and motion controls. Quest is a standalone VR set like the Go, but is optimized for both PC and mobile games, unlike the Go’s mobile focus. It will cost $400–the same price as the Oculus Rift–when it launches next spring.
Red Dead Redemption 2 looks to be a sprawling western epic, but just how sprawling, and how epic? Triple digits worth of gigs, that’s how much, according to the box for the recently announced PS4 Pro bundle. You may want to clear some space.
Rockstar Intel noted that the back of the bundle shows the HDD space requirement in tiny print: 105 GB. The box also reveals the multiplayer count (2-32 players) and that the as-yet mysterious PS4 exclusive content is only exclusive for 30 days. But that space requirement is the most unexpected piece and so it stands out.
Note, of course, that this could be the space requirement for the game on PS4 Pro, since that’s what the bundle includes. It’s possible that the Pro version will require some higher-res textures to take full advantage of 4K TVs. Players with standard PlayStation 4 and Xbox One systems may not have such a high space requirement. GameSpot has contacted Rockstar and will update as more information becomes available.
It does make sense that the open-world game from Rockstar is large, though. It takes place across several different environments as Arthur and his band of outlaws get chased across the old west by the long arm of the law, and Rockstar has put an incredible amount of detail into everything from the wildlife and hunting to a more robust conversation system. For more details, check out some of the things that surprised us most in our recent hands-on.
Having just wrapped up his first major Amazing Spider-Man storyline, writer Nick Spencer opts for a palate cleanser with this second, shorter arc. Issue #6 kicks off a goofy storyline that emphasizes the odd dynamic between Peter Parer and new roomie Fred Myers (aka – The Boomerang). The result is every bit the goofy interlude fans of Spencer’s Superior Foes of Spider-Man would expect, even if the art serves as a step down from the previous arc.
Unfortunately, despite what the cover indicates, there isn’t a great deal of emphasis on the Peter/Mary Jane romance in this issue. The focus is more on the growing friction between Peter and Fred and the former’s struggle to expose the latter without outing himself as Spider-Man. It’s a ore low-key conflict, but one that serves as a fun change of pace given the wacky spectacle of recent issues. The plot also takes some amusing turns along the way, resulting in Peter finding himself in the most unlikely place imaginable.
If you entice me with deep, turn-based RPG combat, clever puzzles, and jaunty, Gaelic folk ballads, you can pretty easily have me eating out of the palm of your hand. The Bard’s Tale IV certainly did for the majority of the 50-ish hours I spent delving its dungeons and enjoying its quirky lore and charming voice acting. The fact that so much of it is so great made it all the more disappointing that it’s hobbled by technical problems too frequently to disregard them.
Set in a picturesque, storybook land that resembles a romanticized medieval Scotland – but with elves and goblins running around – the straightforward but rousing main quest tells a decent tale of ancient sorcerers, kingly bloodlines, and wicked gods. It can get a little hard to follow at times as it seems preoccupied with calling back to as many characters and events as possible of the first three Bard’s Tales, which came out in the ‘80s. But the small lore snippets discovered in books, notes, and NPC conversations help the setting come alive even if you have no idea who Tarjan the Mad God is.
Today brought even more reason to look forward to this year’s Arrowverse crossover. We now know that the crossover will be titled “Elseworlds,” and that it’ll be introducing the Monitor (played by LaMonica Garrett).
Both reveals offer a much better idea of what this year’s big DC crossover will be about. But even more intriguingly, it hints at the larger direction the Arrowverse could be heading in the years to come. Here’s why the Monitor news is significant and why we think the Arrowverse is building towards a full-fledged adaptation of DC’s Crisis on Infinite Earths.
The Monitor is a character first introduced in DC’s comics in 1982. Essentially, he’s DC’s answer to Marvel’s The Watcher – an omniscient being who observes the universe from afar. The Monitor’s duties extend to the whole of the DC multiverse, however. The Monitor became a central figure in 1985’s Crisis on Infinite Earths. There he rallied a group of heroes against his dark opposite, the Anti-Monitor. This villain sought to devour all life and destroy the multiverse entirely, a goal it nearly succeeded in.
Warning: Full spoilers for the episode follow…
Hah. There’s the tie-in we’ve been waiting for!
No more allusions to connective Coven tissue or whiffs of Murder House collusion, but actual Coven witches arriving on the scene. Just as Sarah Paulson’s Apocalypse character fell, her Coven role, “Supreme” Cordelia, showed up to – hopefully – answer a question or twelve.
So, yes, business picked up at the end of “Forbidden Fruit.” Things got interesting. Ah, but does interesting mean good? Not necessarily. See, one of the greatest tricks American Horror Story has pulled over the years is becoming a show so utterly overflowing with massive “WTF?” moments that it gaslights us into thinking good things are happening. Well, things are happening, surely. But that’s all. It’s just plot movement. For every one question answered, three more get raised. Miriam Mead actually being a robot is so bizarre and arbitrary that it feels like a small weird part of a fridge magnet poem where someone keeps switching the words around.
While Doomsday Clock has so far proven itself to be an engrossing read and a worthy follow-up to Watchmen, it hasn’t been delivering *everything* readers have been wanting out of this story. For a conflict that hinges so heavily on the confrontation between Superman and Doctor Manhattan, we’ve seen surprisingly little of either character in the first six issues. But as the series passes the halfway mark, that’s finally beginning to change. Doctor Manhattan finally becomes a central player in the narrative in issue #7, offering new and compelling insight into how this godlike being reshaped the course of an entire universe.
One of Doomsday Clock’s strengths is the way in which this series so effortlessly replicates the look and tone of Watchmen despite not involving any of that book’s creative team. Part of that boils down to the fact that Gary Frank and Dave Gibbons have such complementary art styles. They’re both precise draftsmen who bring plenty of detail and nuance to every page. But it’s also due to the way Frank and writer Geoff Johns emulate so many of Watchmen’s storytelling devices. There’s the ironic juxtaposition of narration and image, something that only works when writer and artist are working closely in sync.