Nintendo announced remakes of Pokemon Diamond and Pearl in its 25th-anniversary stream today: Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl will release later this year on Nintendo Switch. The Gen 4 remake games have been on many Pokemon fans’ wishlists for years, offering a chance to go back to the Sinnoh region and start a new adventure with Turtwig, Chimchar, or Piplup. Though an exact release date hasn’t been announced, Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl are already up for preorder at Best Buy, and other listings will likely appear soon.
Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl preorder bonuses
No preorder bonuses have been announced for Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl yet. We’ll include that information here when available.
As of right now, preorders for Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl are only available through Best Buy, which isn’t showing the covers on the listing yet.
AMC Networks chief operating officer Ed Carroll announced on an earnings call that the sixth and final season of the Breaking Bad spinoff Better Call Saul is “likely” to return in 2022. According to The Hollywood Reporter, this information was mentioned in passing while discussing other network business–though it is no small bit of intel.
Season 5 of Better Call Saul aired its finale in April 2020, which at a glance even folks who aren’t fans can deduce meant the series was heading immediately into delays due to COVID-19. In a Deadline virtual event taking place in August of that year, series co-creator Peter Gould shared, “We were hoping to go into production by the end of the year. It doesn’t seem likely that it’s going to happen with the situation that we are in.”
Even if the coronavirus pandemic hadn’t broken out, it was entirely possible for Better Call Saul would have followed its predecessor Breaking Bad’s trajectory in tackling its final season. Season 5 of Breaking Bad was split into two parts, each consisting of eight episodes–the first eight premiered in July 2012, and the second premiered in August 2013. As Gould and his co-creator partner Vince Gilligan have remarked many times on both series’ companion podcasts, the most important resource on their shows isn’t money, it’s time. But ultimately, delays hopefully mean a better product in the end.
A brand-new spin on the Pokemon franchise is coming to Nintendo Switch in early 2022. Announced during the latest Pokemon Presents presentation, Pokemon Legends Arceus is an open-world RPG set in the Sinnoh region. While we don’t know much about the game just yet, diehard Pokemon fans can already preorder Pokemon Legends Arceus.
Pokemon Legends Arceus is available to preorder at Best Buy for $60. No preorder bonuses have been revealed, but retailers tend to offer unique bonuses for Nintendo Switch exclusives.
Pokemon Legends Arceus is set in a much earlier time period than the mainline entries. You play as a Pokemon trainer who is compiling Sinnoh’s first Pokedex. Sinnoh’s Pokemon Professor has brought three Pokemon to Sinnoh–Rowlet, Cyndaquil, and Oshawott–and you get to choose one of them as your partner Pokemon. From there, you head off on an adventure to survey and catch Pokemon. The legendary Pokemon at the center of the story is, of course, Arceus, who is described as an “Alpha Pokemon.”
The first teaser trailer for Netflix’s Shadow and Bone has arrived, and IGN gave fans an exclusive inside look at the epic new fantasy series as part of IGN Fan Fest. Shadow and Bone is based on author Leigh Bardugo’s bestselling series of “Grishaverse” novels, which have sold more than 2.5 million copies worldwide to date.
IGN exclusively revealed the first teaser trailer from the series as part of an in-depth panel and Q&A with Bardugo, showrunner Eric Heisserer, and cast members Jessie Mei Li, Ben Barnes, Archie Renaux, Freddy Carter, Amita Suman, and Kit Young, uniting the cast and producers for their first public interview about the show.
Watch the cast and creators react to the Shadow and Bone teaser trailer and break down the biggest moments in the video below:
Here’s how Netflix describes the ambitious new series: “Shadow and Bone finds us in a war-torn world where lowly soldier and orphan Alina Starkov (Jessie Mei Li) has just unleashed an extraordinary power that could be the key to setting her country free. With the monstrous threat of the Shadow Fold looming, Alina is torn from everything she knows to train as part of an elite army of magical soldiers known as Grisha. But as she struggles to hone her power, she finds that allies and enemies can be one and the same and that nothing in this lavish world is what it seems. There are dangerous forces at play, including a crew of charismatic criminals, and it will take more than magic to survive.”
Warning: This article contains spoilers for WandaVision Episode 8!
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The conclusion of WandaVision is fast approaching, and Episode 8 just gave us a taste of the epic battle to come. “Previously On” ends with a mid-credits sequence featuring SWORD Director Hayward activating a copy of Vision, one who looks just like our favorite Synthezoid but for one key difference – he’s all white.
If you were reading Marvel’s Avengers comics in the ’80s or have ever played a round of Captain America and the Avengers in the arcade, you probably recognize this unusual look for Vision. But if you’re not familiar with the difference between White Vision and the usual green, yellow and orange version, here’s a quick breakdown of how the series is drawing on the source material.
Vision’s white costume dates back to a 1989 storyline called Avengers West Coast: Vision Quest. There, Vision’s body is completely dismantled, forcing Hank Pym to attempt to put him back together. While Pym is able to physically reassemble the Synthezoid (minus his damaged skin), restoring his artificial mind proves to be an impossible task. There’s no way of recovering Vision’s memories. Worse, Vision was originally reprogrammed by the Avengers using the brain patterns of Wonder Man. Wonder Man refuses to allow his mind to be copied a second time.
The result is that Vision is reborn with none of the memories or latent humanity that made him who he was. He’s a cold, unfeeling android – a literal blank slate. His new white costume reflects that transformation, retaining the basic shapes and designs of the original but eliminating all traces of color. That new look was immortalized on the cover of The West Coast Avengers #45, a tribute to Vision’s first appearance in 1968’s The Avengers #57.
The West Coast Avengers #45 cover by John Byrne. (Image Credit: Marvel)
White Vision in the MCU
Obviously, there are a lot of differences between the comic book and MCU incarnations of Vision. For one thing, the MCU version has no connection to Wonder Man (a character who has yet to make a true appearance in this universe). The MCU Vision is instead built on a foundation of Tony Stark’s old AI unit JARVIS and given life via the Mind Stone.
Still, we can assume this new, white version of Vision is heavily inspired by the one introduced in Vision Quest. As we’ve learned over the course of the series, Hayward and his SWORD agents have been busy trying to rebuild and weaponize Vision, likely out of the same paranoia that once motivated Tony to “build a suit of armor around the world.” But Episode 8 makes it clear the original Vision is well and truly dead. Even the one who’s been appearing in the series up till now seems to be nothing more than an echo built on Wanda’s memories. It makes sense that, without a functioning Mind Stone or access to Tony’s old files, whatever climbs off that laboratory table is going to be a pale imitation of the real thing. This is a crude facsimile of Vision, one who possesses all of his powers but none of his warmth and humanity.
This being an MCU project, we’re almost surely going to see the two Visions battle it out in the series finale. The question is which of them will emerge in the end, assuming they aren’t both destroyed in the ensuing chaos. The series has hinted the regular Vision physically can’t exist outside the boundaries of Westview (which makes more sense in light of these new revelations). There may be no escaping this surreal prison Wanda has constructed. Even if Vision 2.0 is treated as an antagonist in the series finale, he may go on to have a longer arc in Phase 4 and beyond. Just as the comic book version of Vision fought a long, uphill battle to rebuild his mind and push past his white costume phase, this Vision copy may struggle to become more than just an unfeeling weapon of SWORD. And who knows, maybe we’ll finally meet the MCU’s Wonder Man along the way.
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Director Neill Blomkamp has announced on Twitter that a District 10 screenplay is being co-written by himself, Sharlto Copley, and Terri Tatchell. The trio have previously collaborated on 2015’s Chappie and this upcoming film’s predecessor, 2009’s District 9.
Beyond this terse, although incredibly exciting and highly anticipated bit of information, literally nothing else is yet known about the film–which makes sense, since it obviously hasn’t been written yet. District 9, which was an adaptation from Blomkamp’s 2006 short film Alive in Joburg, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and was widely praised by fans and critics alike for its nuanced exploration of humanity, xenophobia, and social segregation. In 2009, District 9 took in roughly $210.8 million at the box office.
For those who might have missed it at the time, District 9’s official synopsis is as follows: “Violence ensues after an extraterrestrial race forced to live in slum-like conditions on Earth finds a kindred spirit in a government agent exposed to their biotechnology.” In 2021, the notion of a foreign contaminant causing a national health crisis takes on a greater significance for audiences and creators alike, so in a way it makes sense this news is coming out after the coronavirus has had such an impact.
Gameplay of New Pokemon Snap has revealed new features, including tools, photo editing, and more.
Shown during today’s Pokemon Presents broadcast, the gameplay showed off the game’s photo editing mode, which will allow you to alter, decorate and share your snaps. Photos can rated by other players online, and even featured by the developers.
AI scoring for shots was shown to be rated on Pose, Size, Direction, Placement, Other Pokemon, and Background, awarding both a points score and a star rating. Photos will seemingly also be used to fill a Pokemon Photodex.
There are also new tools in the shape of Illumina Orbs, items that can make Pokemon glow, and change their elemental effects – presumably for higher photo scores. We also see fruits being thrown, and melodies being played to elicit new gestures from Pokemon.
The story of the game isn’t totally clear, but we see the mythical Pokemon Celebi swoop by at the end of the new trailer. New Pokemon Snap will be released on April 30.
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Popular preschool animated series Peppa Pig will be getting its own dedicated theme park within Legoland Florida sometime in 2022, according to Hasbro, which acquired the show and its parent company Entertainment One in 2019. Hasbro shared the news on Twitter.
According to Yahoo! Entertainment, the park “will feature multiple rides, interactive attractions, themed playscapes, water play areas and fun live daily shows for Peppa Pig fans and their parents. Kids will have the opportunity to play in Peppa Pig’s favorite ‘muddy puddles’ as well.” While the United States continues to recover and navigate a path back to normalcy from the coronavirus, Legoland Florida Resort is currently open for guests with “enhanced health and safety precautions.” As of this writing, the resort is operating at reduced capacity.
A quick fun fact about this upcoming theme park: It is not the series’ first foray into such an attraction. In 2011, Peppa Pig World opened in the United Kingdom. This decade-old forerunner has nine rides including George’s Dinosaur Adventure and Grampy Rabbit’s Sailing Club. That year also saw the release of the Peppa Pig: Theme Park Fun video game.
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