Month: March 2021

Nickelodeon has greenlit The Patrick Star Show, the SpongeBob SquarePants spin-off series. In addition, the first image from the starfish-starring show has been released.

For the first season, 13 episodes of The Patrick Star Show have been ordered, and the show will debut sometime this summer. The Patrick Star Show will be a family sitcom focusing on the titular character and his family, who have to constantly deal with Patrick’s antics. The SpongeBob Twitter released an image from the show, which you can check out below.

“Nickelodeon is diving deeper into Bikini Bottom to give fans a look at our lovable young adult Patrick Star and his entire family with a sitcom only he could imagine up,” said Ramsey Naito, president of Nickelodeon Animation in a press release. “This second original spinoff allows us to expand our reach, tell new stories and connect with our audience around the world who continue to love these characters.”

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It’s another month to look at which games saw the biggest number of downloads on PlayStation consoles in the US and Canada, and unsurprisingly Grand Theft Auto V continues to dominate the top 20 list on PS4. Even with publisher Take-Two Interactive admitting that GTA V has begun to reach a point of oversaturation, it still finds itself at the top of charts regularly and January was no exception.

The PS4 chart saw very little change in its most-downloaded hierarchy. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare dropped down a few spots so that Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War could take over its position, Red Dead Redemption 2 rose several slots higher, and newer sports games such as NBA 2K21 and Madden NFL 21 all found a position to grab hold of. As for new games, Little Nightmares II was downloaded enough to take fifth place, while Persona 5 Strikers came in at number eight.

On PS5 it was a different story for the top spot as FIFA 21 was the most-downloaded game of the month. It was followed by Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War in second place, Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales in third, and Madden NFL 21 in fourth. Werewolf: The Apocalypse – Earthblood was the newest game on the PS5 list and took the number 13 position, while Nioh 2 Remastered – The Complete Edition rose above the werewolf simulator and claimed the number 11 slot.

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ASUS may have accidentally leaked the existence of a fourth Nvidia GPU set to release for laptops, listing the unannounced RTX 3050 Ti as an option for one of its upcoming laptops.

The product listing for the ASUS TUF Dash F15, spotted by Videocardz, lists configurations featuring two RTX models already available for laptops, namely the RTX 3060 and RTX 3070. But its third configuration mentions the RTX 3050 Ti, with the listing mentioning that the GPU will feature just 4GB of GDDR6 memory. Clock speeds and power consumption are not disclosed on the listing.

This would make the RTX 3050 Ti the most entry-level Ampere GPU Nvidia has released thus far, especially with such a restrictive memory allocation (for reference, the incredibly popular GTX 970 featured 4GB of VRAM, albeit with much slower memory). The RTX 3060 for laptops was already stretching it with just 6GB of VRAM, making it a tough sell for modern gaming on the go.

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Some Disney+ subscribers experienced crashes while watching the season finale of WandaVision in the hours following its release.

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The crashes appear largely isolated to those on the West Coast of America, where fans will have been tuning in to watch WandaVision from midnight PT. This localisation can be seen on the maps provided by Downdetector, a sister site of IGN that tracks technical issues at websites, game services, and streaming platforms. The site also notes a spike in reports from around the time the episode was made available.

Some affected viewers took to social media to complain, posting images of the error message displayed.

Not what you want to see when you stayed up to see #wandavision pic.twitter.com/hxCAO9yLJD

— Bill Goodykoontz (@goodyk) March 5, 2021

Fans have posted to Twitter in previous weeks about their frustrations with Disney+ instability, which appears to have affected some people’s attempts to view WandaVision and other shows on the platform in previous weeks. But with this week being the season finale of WandaVision, many will have wanted a hassle-free experience.

For more from WandaVision, check out our season finale review, but make sure you watch the show beforehand to avoid spoilers. For something less spoilery, take a look at what the show’s director has to say about Vision’s much-debated line about grief.

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Matt Purslow is IGN’s UK News and Entertainment Writer. 

A new live-action movie based on the acclaimed manga and anime Hellsing is in development at Amazon. Deadline reports that the film will be adapted by John Wick writer Derek Kolstad.

Hellsing was created by Kouta Hirano and is a retelling of the Dracula myth, in which the iconic vampire is reimagined as a special agent who works for the Hellsing Organization and helps protect England from a variety of supernatural threats. The manga ran from 1997 to 2008, while an anime series was produced in 2001. In the US, it was broadcast by Adult Swim in 2014.

There’s no word yet on casting or a director for the Hellsing movie. In a statement, producer Mike Callaghan said, “I’ve always loved the vampire genre, especially when a creator is able to put their own unique spin on it, so when Derek introduced me to Alucard and the Hellsing Organization, I knew we had something special in that tradition. Kouta Hirano’s gonzo reimagining of the Dracula-Van Helsing mythology is an exhilarating, quirky mashup of action and horror that’s unlike anything we’ve seen before.”

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Head of Xbox Phil Spencer is a big fan of Nintendo, as we’ve seen with the two companies’ collaboration over the last few years, and he made an appearance in a new Nintendo documentary.

Playing With Power: The Nintendo Story is a five-part documentary series available to stream for free on Crackle. It features interviews with a wide variety of video game experts and industry legends, Spencer being among them. According to VGC, Spencer praised Nintendo’s focus on creating a family-friendly and inviting atmosphere for gaming, adding that he doesn’t think it’s possible to decouple Nintendo from the industry as a whole.

Spencer also admitted he didn’t understand the N64 controller’s design–to be fair, few people do–but praised how Nintendo boldly innovates in ways its competitors don’t. We’ve certainly seen that several times, from the DS to the Wii, along with less-successful examples like the Virtual Boy and Wii U.

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