Month: April 2020

We’re well into the second quarter of 2020, and the game releases show no signs of stopping. While April had a pair of heavy-hitters with Resident Evil 3 and Final Fantasy VII Remake, May is looking a little quieter. But just because there aren’t as many blockbusters heading our way doesn’t mean we’ll have a lack of new releases. Here’s a look at the biggest video games coming out in May 2020.

Minecraft Dungeons

Release Date: May 26

• Xbox One: Microsoft Store
• Switch: eShop
• PC: Microsoft Store
• PS4: Not yet available

What if Minecraft, but dungeon crawling? I have to assume those were the exact words that popped into the mind of whoever came up with this game. But it’s no cheap Diablo knockoff. It has a number of smart ideas of its own. Check out our Minecraft Dungeons preview for more.

Maneater

Release Date: May 22

• PS4: Amazon
• Xbox One: Amazon

You take control of a shark in this open-world game that lets you evolve your predator from a young fish into a vicious, uh, man-eater. Read our Maneater preview to get an idea of how it all works.

Saints Row: The Third Remastered

Release Date: May 22

• PS4: Amazon
• Xbox One: Amazon

The Saints Row series has proven that the GTA formula works just fine when you crank up the comic absurdity to 11. This remastered edition features improved graphics and over 30 pieces of DLC. Check out our Saints Row: The Third Remastered preview for more info.

2K Collections on Switch

Release Date: May 29

• BioShock: The Collection: Amazon
• Borderlands Legendary Collection: Amazon
• XCOM 2 Collection: Amazon

If you’re a Switch-owning fan of 2K games, mark May 29 on your calendar. The publisher is dropping three collections of its popular games on the hybrid device all at once.

Other May 2020 Game Releases

Forza Street (May 5)

• iOS | Android | PC

Someday You’ll Return (May 5)

• PC

Void Bastards (May 7)

• Switch | PS4

Super Mega Baseball 3 (May 13)

• PS4 | Xbox One | Switch | PC

Those Who Remain (May 15)

• PS4 | Xbox One

The Wonderful 101: Remastered (May 19)

• Switch

Total Tank Simulator (May 20)

• PC

Arcade Spirits (May 22)

• PS4 | Xbox One | Switch

Star Wars Episode I: Racer (May 26)

• Switch

Shantae and the Seven Sirens (May 28)

• PS4 | Xbox One | Switch | PC

Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition (May 29)

• Switch

Ninjala (May 27)

• Switch

Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus (May)

• Switch

For a broader look at 2020, check out the rest of the games announced for this year.

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The first Baby Yoda Funko Pop, which finally releases next month, quickly became the best-selling Funko Pop of all time. Unsurprisingly, Funko has already created a few new Baby Yoda Funko Pops that you can pre-order now. While we have to wait until this fall to watch Baby Yoda’s next appearance in Season 2 of The Mandalorian, at least his new Pop figures look back at some of his most adorable moments from Season 1.

Check out the trio of new Baby Yoda Pops below, two of which release in July, while the deluxe Television Moment set (featuring a cameo from Mando) arrives in September.

Baby Yoda with Frog | $11

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Anne Hathaway says that she went on her audition for Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises prepared for a totally different DC Comics femme fatale: Harley Quinn.

In a new interview with BBC Radio 1 (via Batman-News), Hathaway explains that she dressed in the style of Harley Quinn when she met with Nolan assuming that was the role he had in mind for her only to discover in the middle of it that she was up for Catwoman.

“I came in and I had this lovely Vivian Westwood kind of beautiful-but-mad tailoring top with stripes going everywhere,” Hathaway recalled. “And I wore these flat Joker-ey looking shoes. And I was trying to give Chris these crazy little smiles.”

This went on for some time before Nolan dropped a bombshell on her.

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“About an hour into the meeting he said ‘Well, I’m sure I don’t have to tell you this, but it’s Catwoman,’” Hathaway said. “And I was shifting into a different gear. ‘Now ok, we’re slinky. We’re slinky. And I hate my shirt. I love my shirt, but I hate it right now. We’re slinky.’”

Given how notoriously secretive Nolan is about his projects, Hathaway can be forgiven for not knowing which character she was up for before she went in. And considering his previous Bat-film, The Dark Knight, featured Joker, perhaps Hathaway assumed the sequel would somehow bring in his shrink-turned-girlfriend Harley Quinn.

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In the end, Hathaway played Catwoman in Nolan’s final Bat-film and Margot Robbie went on to bring Harley Quinn to life in Suicide Squad and Birds of Prey.

Hathaway also recently sent well wishes to the screen’s next Catwoman, Zoe Kravitz, who will play Selina Kyle in next year’s The Batman.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Season 3 introduces an all-new Flaming throwing knife, Light Machine Gun and multiplayer Operator Ronin. Here are the sights and sounds of the new weapons in action.

With Justice League Dark: Apokolips War coming to digital next week, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has revealed exciting new details on their next animated DC Universe Movie, Superman: Man of Tomorrow.

According to Entertainment Weekly, the film sees “Clark Kent working as an intern for the Daily Planet and learning on the job how to save the city of Metropolis.”

Darren Criss (Glee, Midway) has been cast in the lead role of Clark Kent, while Star Trek and Heroes’ Zachary Quinto will voice his foe, Lex Luthor.

Criss is no stranger to DC Comics adaptations, having appeared on The CW’s Supergirl and The Flash as the supervillain known as Music Meister.

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The voice cast ensemble of Superman: Man of Tomorrow also includes San Andreas and True Detective’s Alexandra Daddario as Lois Lane, Brett Dalton (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) as cosmic bounty hunter Lobo, Ryan Hurst (The Walking Dead) as the supervillain Parasite, and Ike Amadi (Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion’s Revenge) as Martian Manhunter.

Jonathan and Martha Kent will be played by Neil Flynn and Bellamy Young, respectively.

The film’s creative team includes director Chris Palmer, screenwriter Tim Sheridan, and supervising producer Butch Lukic.

Superman: Man of Tomorrow is due out this summer on digital, 4K Ultra combo pack, and Blu-ray combo pack.

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This year also saw the release of another Man of Steel animated movie from WBHE, Superman: Red Son. In our positive review of the film, we praised it as “one of the stronger additions to DC’s animated movie library in recent years.”

Beginning as a toy brand in 1984, which then spun-off into a cartoon series, Transformers has had seven theatrically-released Transformers movies–one of which was the 2018 spin-off Bumblebee. Now, there’s another Transformers movie in the works, but this one will take the audience back in time. No, not like how 2017’s Transformers: The Last Knight showed Transformers hanging out with King Arthur and Merlin.

The next Transformers film will be an animated feature, and Deadline is reporting that Toy Story 4 director Josh Cooley is being tapped to helm the film. The script comes from Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari (Ant-Man & The Wasp).

This story will be very different from past Transformers films, as it will take place on Cybertron and will follow the relationship between Megatron and Optimus Prime, before the war between Autobots and Decepticons made them enemies.

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Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla was fully announced today with a CGI trailer, but the press release also included the first in-engine screenshots of the game.

While almost certainly composed, rather than taken during regular gameplay, they give a sense of what the first next-generation Assassin’s Creed game will look like. Check them out in the gallery below:

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The images include a castle-based battle scene, possibly a siege, a group sailing in a longship, and a verdant countryside scene. The latter two images show off the female version of main character, Eivor.

Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla was teased in a lengthy stream yesterday, and subsequently revealed as a current- and next-gen game, coming this Holiday 2020.

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