Month: January 2021

Sex and the City was one of the biggest TV shows of the late ’90 and early 2000s, and it’s heading back to screens. HBO has announced that the comedy drama series will be revived as a new HBO Max show titled And Just Like That, with three of the original cast returning.

The new show will star Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon, and Kristin Davis as Carrie, Miranda, and Charlotte, and will pick up their lives more than a decade after their last appearance, in the 2010 movie Sex and the City 2. HBO has confirmed that And Just Like That will comprise 10 half-hour episodes and that production will start in late spring this year. A short teaser has also been released, which you can watch below via Davis’s Twitter account:

One cast member who isn’t returning however is Kim Cattrall, who played Samantha in the original series. Cattrall has been critical of Parker, previously stating she “could have been nicer” about Cattrall’s unwillingness to appear in a third Sex & The City movie and publicly rebuffing Parker’s condolences after her brother died in 2018. Parker has commented on Cattrall’s absence from the new show, stating “Samantha isn’t part of this story. But she will always be part of us. No matter where we are or what we do.”

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The striking peripheral was revealed on the Xbox blog, and is set to launch on February 9 “in most Xbox markets”, but will launch in China tomorrow, on January 12. Microsoft has said that purchase of the controller will include a 14-day trial of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate in select markets.

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The Pulse Red controller will cost $64.99 and features all of the same controller innovations introduced with the launch of Xbox’s next-gen console, such as a USB-C port and a dedicated Share button. It’s very similar in design to the Shock Blue colourway which arrived with the next-gen launch, given its white back case, black bumpers and D-pad.

Similarly, the ABXY buttons are coded red on this model, so there’s a nifty little motif in between them to show the original corresponding colours which may be displayed on-screen.

In other peripheral news, Microsoft recently issued a survey to Series X and S owners asking if they wish PS5 DualSense features were present in the Series X controller. You can check out our review of the Xbox Series X controller here, which we called a “positive evolution” from last gen’s Xbox One controller.

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The holiday shopping season is always important for any retailer, but with GameStop having fallen on tough times in recent months and leaning on the launch of the PS5 and Xbox Series X to help turn things around, this holiday season was especially significant. The company has now announced its sales results for the nine-week holiday period ended January 2, and it was a mixed bag.

Total sales dropped by 3.1 percent, and GameStop noted that this downturn was driven by a number of factors. First, GameStop had 11 percent fewer stores this holiday season compared to the last one as part of the company’s “de-densification” strategy. GameStop also noted that sales slid because of temporary store closures and various other impacts related to government restrictions pertaining to the COVID-19 pandemic. Overall, GameStop said it saw lower store traffic, especially in December, as COVID-19 cases surged across America.

Due to these various impacts, GameStop said it believes comparable store sales for the nine-week period would result in a high single-digit to low double-digit decrease. GameStop said it also faces “significant worldwide supply chain constraints” that impacted the store’s ability to secure products “across all sales channels.”

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As reported by Siliconera, the crowdfunding project to restore the gate at Watatsumi Shrine ended on January 10, amassing over 27 million yen. According to an article from Famitsu, many Ghost of Tsushima fans rallied behind the funding drive, and in the end, it managed to achieve 542% of the initial 5 million yen target.

The Watatsumi Shrine gate had been partially destroyed by a typhoon in September 2020, and repairs should begin in April 2021, although pandemic-related delays could slow that process. The project’s creator thanked fans of the game for their contributions in one of the activity reports as the campaign progressed, and a commemmorative stone will include the names of all those who pledged more than 10,000 yen (approximately $95 USD / £71 / $125 AUD).

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Torii gates are typically used to mark the entrance to a Shinto temple, and even helped inspire the creation of Star Fox. The Watatsumi Shrine is based in Toyotama, one of the three regions featured in Ghost of Tsushima.

In other Ghost of Tsushima news, the PlayStation exclusive recently beat The Last of Us II and Hades to score the Player’s Voice award at The Game Awards 2020.

We reviewed Ghost of Tsushima back in July of 2020, scoring it a 9 and calling it “an excellent action game”. If you’re making your way through the game right now on PlayStation 4 or PlayStation 5, check out our complete Ghost of Tsushima walkthrough to make sure you find all of the collectables and pick up every upgrade.

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Ghost of Tsushima is known for its picturesque landscapes, but now the community has pitched in to help make the real world a little more picturesque as well. Fans have helped to raise money to rebuild a shrine on the actual island of Tsushima that was damaged during a recent typhoon.

A crowdfunding page for the Watatsumi Shrine in Tsushima started in November to repair the shrine, which concluded on Sunday with $260,000, far above the $47,500 goal. A priest at the shrine, Yuichi Hirayama, noted the involvement of the game community in a thank you note on the crowdfunding page. The Shrine plans to engrave the names of supporters on a stone monument.

“We have received a great deal of support from the players of the Ghost of Tsushima game set in Tsushima, and I feel that it is God’s guidance,” Hirayama wrote (via VGC). “I am very grateful for the support of so many people during a cramped life due to the coronavirus and the challenging economic situation.”

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