Month: March 2020

The Angry Birds are coming back to TV screens, with a new Netflix series scheduled for 2021. Angry Birds: Summer Madness will debut on the streaming service, and is planned to consist of 40 episodes that will run for 11 minutes each.

The show will feature all our the birds from the games, and will have a similar humor and tone to the Angry Birds movies. The Mighty Eagle will serve as camp counselor, and, as you’d expect, the pigs will pop up as antagonists.

It will also feature some new characters that players have not seen previously, and will hopefully please kids who are still being introduced to the games (scary thought: some kids who grew up with the original are adults now).

A single screenshot from the new series has also been released–here it is.

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Game photography is quickly becoming its own genre within gaming, with more and more games adding camera features. Talented players have been finding new ways to experiment with the medium, leading to some outstanding pieces of art and a new form of photography.

Twitter user @LUCKYless11 has taken some exemplary shots within Uncharted 4, using the photo mode included in-game to produce a form of virtual photography. These images feel almost realistic in nature, completely candid and relaxed, like a photograph taken from someone’s real home and not a video game.

Even Neil Drunkmann, Vice President of Naughty Dog, has praised these shots on twitter.

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Hulu has unveiled a first look at a new series from Rick & Morty co-creator Justin Roiland. The show is called Solar Opposites, and it looks…well, a lot like Rick & Morty.

The show is about an alien family that travels to Earth, not realizing that the planet is infested with humans. They have to do their best not only to blend in, but to deal with all the intricacies of our planet. Naturally, it looks like things are going to go extremely wrong for them.

The trailer, below, features an unusual amount of violence against birds–by our count five birds die in it. Enjoy!

All episodes of the first season of Solar Opposites will release together on May 8. The show stars Sean Giambrone (The Goldbergs) and Mary Mack (Golan the Insatiable), as well as Roiland himself.

Roiland also played the eponymous Trover in Trover Saves the Universe, which was created by the game development studio he founded, Squanch Games.

The second half of Rick & Morty Season 4 does not have a release date yet.

Activision is rolling out updates across the Call of Duty universe, including new guns in Warzone, a new map in Modern Warfare, and new modes in Mobile. Here’s everything you need to know about all three games.

Ryan and Greg break down American Horror Story Freak Show Episode 6 “Bullseye.”

EA has released a new patch for Anthem to fix an issue with the weekly challenge not rewarding players with loot on completion. The weekly challenge, Legendary Runner, was supposed to give out 2,000 coins as a reward on completion and count towards the monthly count of challenges. After players had completed this mission once, the mission failed to reward players for any future completions of the same challenge in the following weeks.

Without this weekly challenge being counted as completed, some players were unable to unlock their monthly challenges, missing out on a chance to get a Masterwork Ember–a rare crafting element for crafting Javelin armor and weapons.

For players who have finished or attempted to complete the challenge previously, EA will be backtracking through accounts and accrediting them with rewards for each completion. These rewards should now be granted in-game, if they are not appearing make sure to reach out to the Anthem support page.

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Sad news has come to light as the news of Landon Montgomery, co-founder of Gearbox, has passed away. The news was confirmed by the official Gearbox Twitter account, with a message of support and affection going out to those who knew him.

Online, tributes have been pouring in, as many remember Montgomery for the good he did in the world and the games he made. From working on various Half-Life titles, Halo: Combat Evolved, the Brothers in Arms series, 007 Nightfire, Deathmatch Maker, Borderlands, and Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3, Montgomery has influenced almost every one who plays games in some respect.

While Montgomery left Gearbox back in 2007, Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford has spoken openly about his memories with Montgomery on Twitter, reminiscing on just how devoted Montogmery was to his craft.

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DC Universe Online, the free-to-play MMO for PS4, Switch, Xbox One, and PC, is expanding soon with the Birds of Prey. Their episode will debut on April 16, according to a post by Dimensional Ink Games’ senior community manager, Ted Stone, on the PlayStation Blog.

The event will be available to all players who have hit level 15 or above for a limited time, and the team will consist of Black Canary, Harley Quinn, The Huntress, and Poison Ivy. While there’s plenty of overlap, this isn’t quite the same team as from the recent Birds of Prey movie.

The in-game episode will follow Lex Luthor having lost his mind and destroyed LexCorp Tower, which will send Metropolis into a panic. Playing through this episode, the player will repeatedly come into contact with the Birds of Prey team, regardless of whether they’re playing as a hero or a villain. Each will have unique abilities and fighting styles that they can help you out with.

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Time skipping may seem like a good way to speed things up in Animal Crossing, but if you aren’t careful it can screw up your island. Here’s why you shouldn’t time skip.

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to force people to self-isolate, students across the world have been impacted as classes move online and practicals become impossible. But 450 students at the National Film and Television School in the UK are likely feeling a bit better about their situation now after a surprise masterclass from David Fincher.

Fincher, whose directorial credits include The Social Network, Fight Club, and (my personal favorite) Zodiac, made a surprise appearance over Zoom, Indiewire reports. The Masterclass was conducted through Zoom, and since Fincher tends to shy away from interviews and press appearances, it offered some rare insight into his processes.

Unfortunately, the class he gave is unlikely to appear online anytime soon, but it would have been a nice surprise for the students.

David Fincher’s next film, Mank, is going to Netflix in 2020. He has not released a movie since 2014’s Gone Girl, but he served as an executive producer and director across both seasons of Mindhunter, also on Netflix.

The future of Mindhunter is currently in doubt, with the show’s actors released from their contracts while Fincher pursues other projects.