The outbreak on the ship led to its captain’s firing after he pleaded for help in a leaked letter.
Paul Whelan: Russia spy trial opens for ex-US marine
The US ambassador to Moscow condemns the trial as a “mockery of justice”.
Has San Diego Comic-Con Been Cancelled Yet?
No. In terms of the headline in question, Comic-Con is still a go. The annual pop culture event that brings in millions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of people to San Diego and its Gaslamp District is still planned for July 23-26, even with a social distancing order currently in effect as the global COVID-19 pandemic moves forward.
The bigger question is “why hasn’t Comic-Con been cancelled?”
For those who have ever been to Comic-Con before, staying at least six feet away from someone else is a near impossibility. There is nowhere in the convention area where that is an easily achievable feat–unless you jump in the water. Comic Con International has stated that it is “monitoring the situation,” as they remain hopeful that the show can go on.
Final Fantasy 7 Remake Walkthrough Chapter 6: Light The Way (Spoiler-Free)
Another mission awaits Cloud and Avalanche in Final Fantasy 7 Remake as you head into Chapter 6. This is one of the more labyrinthine areas of the game, and there are some important items along the way that are easy to miss–including one of the best Materia orbs you can find in the whole game.
We’re here to help guide you through that big rotting pizza with our Chapter 6 guide, taking you through every boss fight and helping you find every item, weapon, Materia, and collectible. And if you need more help, check out our FF7 Remake guide roundup for every guide we’ve got.
- Chapter 1: The Destruction of Reactor 1
- Chapter 2: Fateful Encounters
- Chapter 3: Home Sweet Slum
- Chapter 4: Mad Dash
- Chapter 5: Dogged Pursuit
Chapter 6: Light The Way Walkthrough
After the opening cutscene kicking off the chapter, Tifa and Barret will head down the ladder to your left. Before you follow them, take a breather at the nearby bench and purchase whatever supplies you need from the vending machine behind you to the right. If you haven’t purchased any Leather Bracers yet, now’s a good chance to stock up to give your party additional Materia slots. Afterward, climb down the ladder, and then turn the opposite way from Barret and Tifa to open a chest with a hi-potion.
The Steam Game Festival Returns This June
The Steam Games Festival is returning this summer offering gamers a digital-event where they can play limited-time demos for upcoming releases. The event will run from June 9th to 14th directly through the Steam launcher.
Geoff Keigley announced the very first Steam Games Festival in 2019 as part of The Game Awards. For 48-hours, players could try limited-time demos of games including System Shock and SkateBird.
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Similar to last year’s event, the upcoming Steam Game Festival will spotlight games set to be released within the next year, so any game available to demo won’t be so far off from launch. The demos will likely be limited-time only, meaning once the festival is over the demos will disappear.
The Steam page for the Game Festival is currently live, and players can set reminders for when the event launches. For developers, there’s a separate link for them to get their upcoming games featured in the festival. The deadline to submit your game ends on April 24th.
The Steam Game Festival is yet another digital-event taking place during what was traditionally the week reserved for E3. IGN will be hosting its own Summer of Gaming event throughout the month highlighting new announcements, along with IGN’s full pre-show and post-show coverage of any games.
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Matt Kim is a reporter for IGN.
Westworld Breakdown: Season 3 Episode 5 “Genre” Plot, Theories, & Easter Eggs
Serac finally gets his time in the spotlight and we learn about Westworld Season 3’s would-be villain. Lucy and Tamoor are here to break it all down.
In Other Waters Review – The Life Aquatic
Beyond the reef, the shelf drops away into the turquoise haze of the open ocean. I find myself surrounded by golden-peaked pillars aglow with the shimmering petals of sunlit life. Bright green webs of twisted tendrils extend from pillar to pillar, forming a writhing network of bridges for the feathery, fern-like creatures who patrol and maintain them. It’s a spectacular, awe-inspiring scene. Yet it exists mostly in my imagination, its wonder shaped by a handful of single-sentence descriptions and a simple two-colour contour map. In Other Waters does so much with seemingly so little, emerging as a masterclass in prudent, minimalist storytelling.
Dr. Ellery Vas is a xenobiologist following in the wake of her partner who disappeared while researching extraterrestrial life on the ocean planet Gliese 667Cc. Stationed at her partner’s abandoned lab and equipped with an AI-controlled diving suit, Vas explores the depths in search of answers. In a disarming inversion of the typical human-AI relationship, you play the AI; Vas sets the objectives, often conferring with you, but it’s your job to plot her course, gather samples, and run tests back in the lab.
The setup allows Vas room to breathe as a character. As you guide her maritime expedition, she provides intermittent narration. She pauses to marvel at new sights, thinks out loud as she works through possible theories, and occasionally confides in you her doubts and fears. Conversation may be sparse, and your ability to respond is limited to the odd yes or no answer, yet it’s perhaps all the more affecting because of it. The two of you are strangers at the outset, but Vas’ wariness at revealing her innermost thoughts to an AI gradually washes away as she realises, despite your reticence, that you understand her predicament–in the process unearthing a memorably multi-layered character. It’s a friendship forged in aquatic isolation, one quiet line at a time.
Henry Cavill Painting Warhammer Figurines to Get Through Quarantine
The Witcher and Superman actor Henry Cavill is passing his time in self-isolation by proving his geek bonafides on social media, namely by painting Warhammer figurines.
In an Easter message to his followers, Cavill posted the image below to his Instagram account of him painting a helmet for a Warhammer figurine:
“Considering we are, both, going through the Easter period, and going through The Lockdown, I figured it a good time to put a silver lining onto the cloud that is some of the darker moments during this time,” Cavill posted. “So I’ve decided to polish some old skills and try my hand at some new ones! It is a time of rebirth after all.”
Cavill went on to profess his love for Games Workshop, the British miniature wargames company behind the Warhammer Age of Sigmar and Warhammer 40,000 fantasy game titles:
“So, as you can see here, the obvious might look a little bit like a tiny helmet…which it is. One of my almost life long hobbies, that I’ve been following but not actively doing, is this. A company called Games Workshop…or plastic crack as ‘we’ call it. Genuinely can’t get enough of the lore they have built over the decades. They have been some of my most enthused reads! If you were in denial about me being a geek before, you can’t hide from it now.”
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You can also see a computer monitor behind Cavill’s with a document being written so it appears Cavill is working on a story of his own while in self-isolation or, as he puts it, “there may just be some completely new skills I’m working on…..or there may not be, so all of your eye squinting and attempts at digital unfocusing will be in vain….orrrr maybe they won’t.”
Henry Cavill will return as Geralt of Rivia in Season 2 of Netflix’s The Witcher, which will introduce several new characters familiar to fans of the books. Production on the next season, however, is currently on hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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No Butts Allowed: Disney Plus Censors Splash
Disney Plus is playing for keeps in the streaming wars, with a massive catalog of both classics and original content, as well as a handful of new releases recently expedited to digital thanks to the global COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. There’s plenty to watch on the platform–as long as you don’t mind some uh, interesting censorship.
Allison Pregler recently uncovered one such instance on Twitter in Disney’s 1984 classic Splash, starring Daryl Hannah and Tom Hanks. Hannah, who plays a mermaid-turned-human named Madison, has one brief scene where her (currently human) butt is briefly exposed as she runs back toward the ocean. This, apparently, was far too scandalous for Disney Plus, so they opted to do the only thing they could do: utilize some absolutely bizarre looking CGI hair to hide poor Madison’s rear-end.
XFL Files For Bankruptcy – Report
It was reported late last week that the XFL, the football league launched by WWE chairman Vince McMahon, has suspended operations, laid-off employees, and had no plan to return for another season. Now, it’s being reported that the league has filed for bankruptcy. This all comes after the XFL cut its inaugural season short due to the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic.
News of the bankruptcy filing was first noted by The Hollywood Reporter senior editor Eric Gardner, who shared the filing on Twitter. The documents note Alpha Entertainment LLC, the company that owns the XFL, is filing for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, with McMahon appointed as one of the two “liquidating agents” that wrap up the company’s business affairs.
Here’s the filing. https://t.co/imT052Rbci pic.twitter.com/O6dj6zB9sq
— Eriq Gardner (@eriqgardner) April 13, 2020
This was the second attempt to launch the XFL. McMahon originally launched the league in 2001, with it folding after the first season. In 2018, the revival was announced, with the first game taking place on February 8, 2020. Little more than a month later, on March 12, the league canceled its remaining games, joining the NBA, MLB, NHL, and MLS in suspending or canceling its seasons. Additionally, the NCAA canceled the 2020 March Madness tournament.