Devs is a new miniseries from FX, streaming on Hulu. We talked with Alex Garland, the creator, writer, and director of Devs to learn more about the sci-fi thriller.
Overwatch Competitive’s Hero Pool Is About To Rotate–Here’s Who’s Being Removed
Year three of the Overwatch League is underway and a large part of keeping this season new and exciting is the addition of Hero Pools. These Hero Pools are an alternative to how hero bans usually go down in tournaments, with players and coaches picking characters to ban at the start of each match. In Overwatch Competitive Season 21, four different heroes will be banned each week.
The most important part of this update is that these heroes aren’t just banned in the Overwatch League, but across all competitive play. This includes Competitive Play mode, which is available to any player in Overwatch, regardless of platform. Game modes like Quick Play and Arcade are not affected by the bans.
This week Hanzo, Mei, Orisa, and Baptiste are all banned. This follows the two DPS, one tank, and one support hero formula, which the Hero Pool system will stick to every week. Each week four heroes will be picked from those roles, with no hero being banned for more than two weeks in a row.
Exit West: Obamas, Russos Team for Netflix Movie Starring Riz Ahmed
Reports say that Higher Ground Productions, Barack and Michelle Obama’s production company, is in talks to produce a Netflix adaptation of the bestselling novel, Exit West.
The film rights for Mohsin Hamid’s novel were acquired by Joe and Anthony Russo in 2017, and Collider reported that the Russo brothers will produce the film alongside Higher Ground Productions.
Riz Ahmed is currently set to star in the adaptation. The actor recently starred in Venom as Carlton Drake, and in Rogue One as Bodhi Rook. Ahmed also recently won the Critics Award at the Berlin Film Festival for co-writing Mogul Mowgli.
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Ahmed would play Saeed, a young man who has to flee his home after a civil war breaks out. Exit West begins in an unnamed country in the Middle East, and it discusses issues surrounding the global refugee crisis. Saeed and his partner Nadia flee using magic doors that lead to different places all over the world.
The production companies are reportedly pursuing Yann Demange, director of White Boy Rick and ’71, to direct the project.
This isn’t the only new Netflix project we’ve recently heard about. Taika Waititi is making a Charlie and the Chocolate Factory series for Netflix, as well as a wholly original series about the Oompa-Loompas.
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Logan Plant is a news writer for IGN, and the Production Assistant for Nintendo Voice Chat, IGN’s weekly Nintendo show. You can find him on Twitter at @LoganJPlant.
Here’s How Much 007: No Time To Die’s Delay Will Cost MGM
No Time To Die, the 25th James Bond movie, was recently delayed from its original April 2020 release date into November in response to lower global cinema attendance due to the coronavirus (COVID-19). With cinemas shut across China and other parts of the world encouraging citizens to stay indoors, delaying the film made sense for MGM, even though tickets had recently gone on sale.
Sources have told The Hollywood Reporter that this delay will ultimately cost between $30-50 million, as so much has already been spent on promoting the film for an April release. However, releasing the film in April likely would have dropped the film’s box office total by 30 percent.
Considering the box office potential for the Bond franchise, the losses will, MGM hopes, be offset by higher attendance. The last time Daniel Craig returned to the series after a lengthy break between films with Skyfall, it made over $1.1 billion worldwide.
As the report points out, MGM spent $4.5 million on a Superbowl spot, and the stars of the film have been on an extensive press tour. Furthermore, Billie Eilish’s Bond theme is extremely popular right now–it remains to be seen if it will endure on the charts until November, however.
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Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX Review – Better Than You Remember
When the original pair of Pokemon Mystery Dungeon games were released in 2006, they were received as the ugly Duckletts of Pokemon spin-offs. Now, almost 15 years later, it is clear how wrong we were to write off Spike Chunsoft’s ambitious take on the titanic series: Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX for Switch is wondrous to play and, in a way, boasts a substantially more resonant fable than most other recent Pokemon games.
You wake up one morning and everything seems pretty ordinary, at least until you realize that you’re not a human anymore. Instead, you’ve magically and mysteriously metamorphosed into a Pokemon–which exact species is determined by a fun little personality quiz you take at the beginning of the game. Before long you make a new best friend, who is also a Pokemon, and you decide to form a rescue team together. Why? To save foolish Pokemon who have ventured into dangerous dungeons stricken by environmental disasters, even though they’re totally aware of said environmental disasters. Over the course of the game, you embark on arduous odysseys to the many dungeons scattered sporadically across the world of Pokemon, each of which contains several ‘mons in desperate need of help and lots of others who are a bit aggravated by the daily earthquakes.
What’s important about Mystery Dungeon carving itself out a new home on Switch is that DX isn’t just some sort of lazy rehash. Perhaps the most striking thing about this reworked spin-off, at least at first, is its revised color palette. It’s pretty different to the old Mystery Dungeon games, sporting a warm painterly style to replace the originals’ GBA-era pixel art. The revamped rescue base you get about halfway through the game is especially gorgeous, while the relentlessly upbeat soundtrack is capable of both intensifying the charming tone of the art and flipping even the tensest moments on their head. This is an essential part of the game’s overall appeal, as it goes hand in hand with the fact that Mystery Dungeon is ultimately about overcoming adversity with a smile on your face. One second it seems as if you’re on the verge of the inevitable apocalypse, the next you’re bobbing along, beaming for no reason, ready to hurtle headlong into a procedurally generated dungeon to save some ‘mons and make some money.
Ghost Of Tsushima Release Date & Story: Everything You Need To Know In Under 4 Minutes
The Ghost of Tsushima release date is June 26. Here’s everything we know so far about Sucker Punch’s next PS4 exclusive.
Twitter Account Answers ‘Is Something Behind the Waterfall?’
Video games can be so many things: fantastical adventures, alien sci-fi shooters, plumber astronaut simulators. Even so, there’s one common thread that runs though countless video games, regardless of genre: waterfalls make the absolute best hiding places. Now, there’s a Twitter account diligently cataloging these wonderful cataracts.
Is Something Behind the Waterfall? is the latest creation from the person who brought the adorable Can You Pet the Dog? Twitter account into this world, and it serves as a catalog of video game waterfalls that hide caves, treasures, and countless other secrets. In just over 10 hours, the account managed to accrue over 10 thousand followers, showing that gamers everywhere just want to know what’s behind those beautiful waterfalls.
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Waterfalls in Zelda, The Witcher 3, Halo, and More
The account kicked off with an appropriate video from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, where Link finds a shrine behind one of its many, MANY waterfalls.
I have started a new account based on one of my most popular requests: @VGWaterfalls tracks video games that have waterfalls with secrets behind them. https://t.co/wCraf7DGR1
— Can You Pet the Dog? (@CanYouPetTheDog) March 5, 2020
[poilib element=”accentDivider”]The account quickly turned its gaze to Halo: Combat Evolved, where a mythic skull was quickly discovered nearby a deluge of water.
There is a skull behind the waterfall in Halo: Combat Evolved pic.twitter.com/hqPZbf9Y3D
— Is Something Behind the Waterfall? (@VGWaterfalls) March 5, 2020
[poilib element=”accentDivider”]Not long after, a highly peculiar and extremely patient waterfall in Earthbound was explored.
There is a secret passage behind the waterfall in Earthbound — but to access it, you must wait three real-world minutes while standing completely still pic.twitter.com/AUnTEkZD5a
— Is Something Behind the Waterfall? (@VGWaterfalls) March 5, 2020
[poilib element=”accentDivider”]Most recently, the account shared footage from The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, where Geralt finds a very special and extremely damp treasure chest.
There is a treasure chest under the waterfall in The Witcher III: The Wild Hunt pic.twitter.com/1qrWMlqAeD
— Is Something Behind the Waterfall? (@VGWaterfalls) March 5, 2020
Fans Make Gaming Great
Leading up to Animal Crossing: New Horizon’s March 20 release date, fans are creating some amazing (and adorable) creations that they’re sharing with the community. Last month, Animal Crossing and DOOM Eternal fans bonded over their shared March 20 release date, creating some hilarious and heartwarming fan art meshing the two disparate franchises together.
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The video game world even got hyped over the PS5’s logo, even if it surprised absolutely no one.
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Colin Stevens is IGN’s video game social coordinator, and his favorite waterfall is probably the one you can drive through in Uncharted 4. Follow him on Twitter.
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