Month: January 2021

The movie based on the video game Borderlands is in development, and from the sound of it, production may begin very soon. The movie will film at least partially in Budapest, Hungary, according to Adam Goodman of MidAtlantic Films, a Hungary-based production company.

Goodman told The Hollywood Reporter that MidAtlantic has created space in its studios for the Borderlands movie, while other big-name projects will also film there. The Borderlands movie is directed by Eli Roth (Hostel, Inglourious Basterds), with Cate Blanchett and Kevin Hart set to play main roles.

Goodman said his studios are “basically fully booked” until summer 2021, which suggests that the Borderlands movie will film before then, in the first half of the year.

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Fire Emblem–your favorite RPG franchise that combines chess and dating–and Gilmore Girls got a fan-made crossover. The creator, Marlowe Dobb, borrowed the power of both cult classics to create an hour-long Fire Emblem Sacred Stones mod with characters and plotlines from Gilmore Girls.

According to Fire Emblem: Gilmore Girls’ itch.io page, the mod contains four custom maps, multiple playable characters, fun dialogue, and “depictions of a normal mother-daughter relationship.” Playing the mod requires a ROM version of FE Sacred Stones and a .ups patch applying software.

Fire Emblem has received a lot of great fan-made mods over the years. Fire Emblem Girls, a standout mod that also uses FE Sacred Stones as its base, impressively upgrades the difficulty of the original game and includes a ton of other custom content. Like the name implies, all the characters in Fire Emblem Girls are female characters from different Fire Emblem games.

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A sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is confirmed to be coming, so we take the time to look back at the series as a whole and think about what we’d want to see from the next installment.

Despite having released all the way back in 2013 through Early Access, the PC survival game Rust is enjoying a new lease on life recently after numerous streamers started playing it again. This uptick in attention has led to a huge spike in sales and revenue, according to Garry Newman of developer Facepunch.

Newman revealed on Twitter that Facepunch made more than $1 million in gross revenue on two different occasions this week on Steam. You can see the sales graphic below. Now, some of this revenue might be related to Facepunch’s other game, Garry’s Mod, but you’d have to imagine the bulk is coming from Rust.

Newman also shared that Rust recently doubled its record for player count, a record that was set just days prior. Steam’s public data shows that Rust had more than 200,000 peak concurrent players on January 8, which makes it among the most popular games on Steam overall.

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While January tends to be a slower period for game deals as things calm down post-Black Friday, there are still a few solid sales running this month, and one of them can be found at Best Buy. The retailer just kicked off its first three-day sale of 2021, offering some nice discounts on games for Switch, PS5, and Xbox Series X; gaming monitors; Xbox controllers; and more. The sale ends Sunday, so be sure to check out everything on offer before then. Fortunately, we’ve highlighted some of the best gaming deals for you here.

Best Buy currently has some game deals that are left over from Black Friday, like Final Fantasy VII Remake and The Last of Us Part 2 for $30 each, and both games are still excellent pickups at that price. You’ll also find some nice Switch game deals, like Ring Fit Adventure on sale for $70 (instead of $80), just in time for your New Year’s fitness resolutions. The newly released Fitness Boxing 2 is also down to $40 and is a nice complement to Ring Fit if you’re looking for more at-home workout options. Other great deals include Yakuza: Like a Dragon for $35, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla for $40, and Super Mario 3D All-Stars for $50. For the latter game, there’s also a bundle that comes with the collectible three-piece Mario coin set.

Check out the best gaming and tech deals from Best Buy’s weekend sale below, including some solid discounts on 4K TVs, gaming monitors, smart devices, and gaming laptops. For some products, we’ve included links to Amazon when that store is price-matching. Plus, check out other sales happening this weekend, like Ubisoft’s bargain bin sale on PC games, the Xbox Last Chance Sale, and the PlayStation Store Holiday Sale, which just added more games.

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Disney’s first big new TV show of 2021 is WandaVision, which features Paul Bettany and Elizabeth Olsen reprising their Marvel roles, and it’s almost here. Ahead of its premiere on January 15, Disney has confirmed that not one but two episodes will debut on release day.

Previously it was expected that only one episode would be available for the debut. After that, new episodes of WandaVision will premiere on Disney+ on Fridays at 12 AM PT / 3 AM ET.

The new show follows Vision (Bettany) and Wanda (Olsen) as they live their lives, seemingly trapped in a sitcom which bounces around between time periods. The trailers so far have left us with more questions than answers. But with the show finally premiering soon, it won’t be long until we know what’s going on and if the show provides some answers about what happened to Vision and Wanda in the aftermath of Endgame.

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SNK Corporation has formally revealed The King of Fighters XV by debuting gameplay and showing off six characters. The game will launch later this year.

The announcement was initially postponed on Wednesday and suffered a brief delay. Characters shown off in a new trailer (below) include K’, Kyo Kusanagi, Leona, Benimaru, Shun’ei and Mai Shiranui. Not much in the way of detail is added, but we get a good look at the game’s visual style, which looks to be a little more stylised than KOF 14.

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Following the reveal trailer, KOF XV Creative Director Eisuke Ogura and Producer Yasuyuki Oda revealed a little more about how the game will play when it launches in 2021.

“We’re focusing on keeping the series’ staple of being fast-paced while also adding elements to make it more exciting,” Ogura notes. The developers are currently “brushing up features and optimizing the game,” but plan to ship in 2021. Another trailer for The King of Fighters XV will land next week to supplement the reveal.

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Today’s trailer also included news on King of Fighters 14 Ultimate Edition – out now digitally – a new release for King of Fighters 2002 Unlimited Match on PS4, and then revealed Cham Cham and The Last Blade 2’s Hibiki Tanake as DLC characters for the Samurai Shodown Season 3 Pass. Samurai Shodown will also receive a game reblance in March.

KOF XV was announced during EVO 2019, and we got our first glimpse of the game back in December 2020, which revealed that in addition to the characters mentioned above, Benimaru would be playable. It’s not clear what platforms the game will be available on just yet.

Here’s our review of King of Fighters 14, which debuted in 2016. We scored it an 8, noting its “dated graphics and dodgy netcode”.

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Jordan Oloman is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow him on Twitter.