Category: games

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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As the biopic Professor Marston & The Wonder Women‎, about the secret life of Wonder Woman creator Harvard psychologist Dr. William Moulton Marston, is set to hit theaters October 13th, check out these other movies and documentaries about famous comic book creators and cartoonists.

It’s usually soaring superheroes who get the big screen treatment, but occasionally the people behind the scenes, the writers and artists, get their due as well. From icons like Stan Lee and Alan Moore to lesser known craftsmen and visionaries, these films give fans an inside look at lives and minds of the industry’s most legendary storytellers. Scroll through the slideshow below for some really cool movies about comic book creators.

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The first trailer for Pacific Rim Uprising, the upcoming sci-fi sequel to Guillermo Del Toro’s 2014 sci-fi action hit, arrived last week. It has now been reported that the property might be expanded into a full cinematic universe.

Director Steven S. DeKnight spoke to Nerdist and was asked about the possibility of more movies. “I’m certainly hoping so,” he said. “I think you’ll definitely probably get more comics. The plan was always to use this movie as a launching pad. If enough people show up to this, we’ve already talked about the plot of the third movie, and how the end of the third movie would expand the universe to a Star Wars/Star Trek-style [franchise] where you can go in many, many different directions.

“You can go main canon, you can go spin-offs, you can go one-offs. Yeah, that’s the plan. And I would love to see an animated TV show based on this.”

DeKnight’s comments are not that surprising. Ever since the Marvel Cinematic Universe became such a huge moneymaker for Disney, rival studios have been looking to expand their own movie franchises into connected universes, with varying degrees of success. DC’s superhero universe and Legendary’s MonsterVerse have proved popular, but Universal’s much-hyped Dark Universe of classic monster movies seems to have stalled after one movie.

Pacific Rim Uprising stars John Boyega, Scott Eastwood, Zhang Jin, Cailee Spaeny, and Jing Tian. The film had a troubled development over the years, with Del Toro ultimately handing the directorial reins over to DeKnight but remaining on board as a producer.

The trailer premiered at New York Comic-Con. Check out GameSpot’s coverage of the NYCC Pacific Rim Uprising event here. The movie hits theaters on March 23, 2018.

Note: this article contains spoilers for The Flash’s Season 4 premiere, “The Flash Reborn.” Check out our full review of the episode here.

For the second year in a row, The Flash started off its new season on a disappointing note. The Season 3 finale, “Finish Line,” left the writers with no shortage of big developments to explore. Barry Allen sacrificed everything to save his city from Speed Force-induced destruction. Caitlin Snow went into hiding, determined to find peace with the supervillain within. The rest of Team Flash had no choice but to find a way to carry on the legacy of the Flash without Barry Allen. All of which begs the question – why is Barry back already? Why rush to restore the old status quo when the new one held so much potential?

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