Category: games

The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth developer Nicalis has announced its new horror-themed game, Knight Terrors, which will be released for Nintendo Switch on October 24.

This arcade-style side-scroller, which is being developed by Nicalis and FreakZone Games, sees players control a mysterious suit of armor known as The Knight, who battles with a sword and can fly with his blood-red wings. For a look at the game in action, check out the trailer below:

In Knight Terrors, players will race through countrysides to battle all sorts of ghouls, flaming skulls, and plenty of other ghastly enemies in procedurally generated levels. The game features simple two-button controls, sprite graphics, power-ups, high score tracking, and multiple unlockable game modes. You’ll have to avoid spiked pits, and it’ll be “game over” for The Knight if he takes three hits or allows three enemies to pass.

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Marvel is stuck in a difficult position where Sam Wilson is concerned. The character is coming off a multi-year stint as Captain America and now reverting to his traditional role as The Falcon. It’s important that Sam’s new ongoing series immediately establish a strong status quo for the character, one that shows a hero changed by his experiences as Cap and not merely settling into his old job again. This first issue does build on the events of Secret Empire in a logical way, but it fails to carry over the momentum from Sam Wilson: Captain America.

In some ways, this new series isn’t even that different from Sam’s previous book. New writer Rodney Barnes continues to emphasize racial strife and political turmoil over costumed villains. The series also looks to focus a great deal of attention on Sam’s efforts to coach his new sidekick Rayshaun, in the ways of patriotic superheroing. At the same time, Barnes also focuses on Sam’s lingering disillusionment in the wake of Secret Empire. Sam is a man with tremendous faith in the innate goodness of America. If his best friend and the country’s greatest hero can turn out to be a duplicitous Hydra agent, what does that say about America itself?

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Hulk actor Mark Ruffalo informed IGN during a recent interview that Thor: Ragnarok is the beginning of a three-movie story arc for the giant, green Avenger, one that will follow Bruce Banner as he faces profound questions about his alter ego and changes to his powers.

I asked Ruffalo how the Hulk — who runs on anger and provocation — can remain the Hulk on Sakaar, where he’s been living comfortably as a gladiatorial champion and beloved celebrity in the two years since last being seen in Avengers: Age of Ultron. As Ruffalo explained, “The rules don’t apply anymore. That’s what’s so confounding to Banner and frightening. That’s kind of the exciting progression of the Banner/Hulk relationship moving forward.”

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Titanfall developer Respawn Entertainment announced it’s working on an Oculus Rift VR game.

As detailed on a recent blog post and via a short announcement trailer, which you can view below, the game is slated for release in 2019 and is some sort of a shooter.

However, not much else about the project is currently known, including a name. Also, it’s neither Star Wars nor Titanfall-related.

Director Peter Hirschmann called emotion “the most intense” part of making a game in VR.

“While you know you’re wearing a headset, your brain processes VR on an emotional level,” he said, adding “it’s all kinds of awesome.”

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Disney’s upcoming animated feature Gigantic has been cancelled.

The news was revealed In an exclusive report from The Hollywood Reporter, citing issues with the creative process.

The movie, which was set to release in 2020, was understood to provide a modern spin on the famous Jack and the Beanstalk fable. Jack discovers a world of giants in the clouds, including the 60-foot-tall, 11-year-old Inma, who he agrees to help on her journey home.

 

Gigantic was being developed as a musical comedy, with Nathan Greno (Tangled) and Meg LeFauve (Inside Out) sharing directorial duties.

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Keanu Reeves showed up at NYCC today to debut a first look at his sci-fi film Replicas, the story of a scientist who wants to clone his dead family.

Assassin’s Creed Origins has the potential to be my next video game addiction. Let me explain.

This has happened twice so far in 2017. The first time was with Persona 5, which I ended up sinking nearly 100 hours into over the course of three weeks. I couldn’t tear myself away from its depiction of Tokyo, and the bonds I was forging with the characters that inhabited it. I wanted to learn everything there was about the people, places, and things in its world.

The second was more recent, with Destiny 2, but for very different reasons. With Bungie’s sequel, my inability to turn the game off stemmed from its constant IV drip of rewards and progression. I’d heard countless people talk about this over the past three years at work – the Fireteam Chat crew knows this all-too-well. But somehow, it finally hit me with Destiny 2, and for a solid two weeks, I was all-in.

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Warning: Full spoilers for the episode below.

In service of fleshing out its two main characters, “The Boys’ Promise” rewinds time and spends a vast majority of the episode ten years in the past, serving up a backstory that, while touching, doesn’t feel especially novel or all that inspired.

So far, I’ve yet to feel truly invested in Asta and Yuno’s motivations for striving to become the Wizard King. Their motives are too cliched to foster any sense of a real emotional connection. Asta’s desire to make everyone happy and prove that anyone who works hard enough can achieve their dreams comes off as generic, and Yuno essentially parrots Asta, which makes his ambitions just as difficult to find compelling, if not more so.

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For a score as iconic as The Walking Dead’s, the series is only just now getting an official soundtrack, timed to the zombie drama’s upcoming 100th episode.

Bear McCreary’s genre-defying score will be released by Lakeshore Record and Sparks & Shadows digitally and on CD on October 20th and on LP October 27th, and IGN has a first-listen for one of its most important tracks, “The Governor.”

“The sound of The Walking Dead has evolved many times over the course of the last 100 episodes, but never more radically at one moment than it did with the introduction of ‘The Governor’s Theme,'” McCreary said in a statement to IGN.

“The low-end synths that had been a very subtle background texture before were suddenly pushed to the forefront, and the score would never be the same. From this track onwards, the score would become increasingly seared by electronic textures. Our characters were never the same after they encountered this terrifying man, so I think its fitting his music had a permanent effect on the music of the show.”

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