Month: January 2019

Studio MDHR released one of 2018’s best games in Cuphead, and there is an expansion coming in 2019, but what’ll the studio make after that? The outfit has yet to officially announce its next project, but now producer and artist Maja Moldenhauer has offered a cryptic tease.

She said in a new Red Bull video feature, “I’m just really loving what we do. And the ideas we have for the next game are pretty epic.” The entire feature is fantastic, and it offers a nice look behind the scenes of how Cuphead came to be and the studio culture surrounding it.

Back in June, Moldenhauer told Gamereactor that Studio MDHR’s next game will likely retain Cuphead’s hand-drawn, 2D-style, but “the genre, the era, [and] the gameplay” may change. Cuphead is known for being very difficult, but Moldenhauer acknowledged that Studio MDHR’s next title might be “different and refreshing” as it relates to difficulty.

Cuphead’s expansion, The Delicious Last Course, is set to arrive sometime in 2019. It introduces a new character, Ms. Chalice, as well as more weapons and bosses. You can watch the announcement trailer in the video embed above.

Studio MDHR apparently started work on Cuphead in 2013, and it wasn’t until a while later that Microsoft announced it would be involved as a publishing partner. Whether or not Microsoft continues its relationship with Studio MDHR going forward remains to be seen.

What would you like to see Studio MDHR make next? Let us know in the comments below!

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Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, the theme park opening at Walt Disney World Resort and Disneyland Resort later this year, is getting a crossover comic miniseries this spring.

Announced by Star Wars, this five-issue miniseries will begin in April and will give readers their first glimpse of Black Spire Outpost on Batuu, the locale of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge.

Reading the comic will introduce you to “the infamous Dok-Ondar, the Ithorian collector of rare antiques,” and will tell the story of “what happens when the First Order reaches the edge of wild space.”

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If you’re having trouble waiting until Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge opens at Disneyland this summer to find out exactly what a Star Wars land will be like, this should be some very good news. Marvel is releasing a comic book based on the land that will be available in April, giving fans their first taste at the mythology behind Black Spire Outpost, the trading post located on the planet Batuu that serves as the setting of Galaxy’s Edge.

According to The Marvel.com, the five-issue miniseries will be set on the planet of Batuu and will introduce Dok-Ondar, a “collector of rare antiquities” that will appear in the theme park. The character was first mentioned in Solo: A Star Wars Story. According to Ethan Sacks, who’s writing the comic, readers will get to know the character quite a bit.

“There’s a reason Dok-Ondar’s name ripples far and wide in the Star Wars universe,” he told Marvel.com in an interview. “He’s a mysterious Ithorian who is the proprietor of the most notorious antiquities shop in the galaxy. And every item has a story behind it. Some more dangerous to listen to than others.”

To create the world of Batuu and keep the Black Spire Outpost as close as possible to what fans will be available to visit as possible, Sacks said he and illustrator Will Sliney were given plenty of concept art from the theme park expansion to make sure it’s accurate. “Armed with top-secret sketches and information from Walt Disney Imagineering and Lucasfilm, we are keeping this authentic to the spirit of this rich new setting,” he said.

The first issue of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge will be released in April. Galaxy’s Edge is expected to open at the Disneyland Resort in the summer, with Walt Disney World’s version following in the fall.

Warning: Full spoilers for Arrow Season 7, Episode 10 below. If you need a refresher on where we left off, check out our review of Arrow Season 7, Episode 9

Before transitioning into the “Elseworlds” crossover and then taking a few weeks off for the holidays, Arrow hit viewers with one of the more memorable twists in recent years. Star City’s imposter Green Arrow is none other than Oliver Queen’s half-sister, Emiko. Thankfully, the series isn’t wasting any time digging into the implications of that reveal. This episode serves as a choppy start to 2019, but one that sets several intriguing subplots in motion.

This episode is the first to give us a truly in-depth look at Sea Shimooka as Emiko. So far, she’s fine in what’s turned out to be a fairly straightforward role. Shimooka has the necessarily physicality and brooding darkness, but the series isn’t calling for much else just yet. Hopefully that’ll change as Emi and Ollie come face-to-face for the first time next week.

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We go full Mr. Miyagi as Sean Diaz and teach Daniel how to hone his powers, and when to be wary of them.