Month: March 2018

The Walking Dead Rebounds with an Action-Packed Rick vs. Negan Episode

Warning: Full spoilers for the episode below.

Honestly, the only thing that spoiled this episode, “The Key,” a little bit, was the fact that we all knew neither Rick or Negan was dying. Despite their ferocious fight – that included Rick swinging a FREAKIN’ FLAMING BARBED WIRE BAT! – no one was going down.

No, that type of big moment is happening in the season finale and honestly, the fact that we kind of figured that back at the very start of the season has worked to hurt and hinder this run maybe more than anything else – the idea that nothing will truly get resolved until Episode 16.

That being said, the Negan/Rick confrontation this week – though further showcasing just how inept Rick is at trying to kill Negan – was pretty damn fun. Mostly because, well, we’ve seen Rick get the crap knocked out of him countless times but it’s a rare thing to watch Negan get tested physically. It’s happened a few times, but this was the most extended sequence and the most dire. It’s a slight shame that the middle part of it turned into an extended whistling-in-the-dark conversation between the two of them, since a lot of what they said was a rehash, but the upside here was that Negan learned about the Scavengers all being dead.

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Top New Games Out This Week On Switch, PS4, Xbox One, And PC — March 18-24

This week’s biggest games are all about working together. In Sea of Thieves, you and your pals can run your very own pirate ship. In Attack on Titan 2, you can team up to take down the titular titans. And in A Way Out, your only path out of prison is playing cooperatively. On the single-player side, you can solve cases with everyone’s favorite electric mouse in Detective Pikachu, or save the world in Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom.

Sea of Thieves — March 20

Available on: Xbox One, PC

If I tell you that Sea of Thieves is all about gathering a pirate crew with your friends, you can probably figure the rest out: you can explore a massive ocean, run a tight ship, battle other crews, search for buried treasure, and so much more. You might even run into a kraken or two.

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Attack on Titan 2 — March 20

Available on: PS4, Vita, Xbox One, PC, Switch

Maybe your crew would rather defend your hometown from giant, people-eating freaks. This follow-up smash-hit anime game picks up right after the first, and this time you’ll be able to play the whole thing in co-op, or take on the challenge alone with new co-op characters.

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A Way Out — March 23

Available on: PS4, Xbox One, PC

A Way Out is a forced co-op game–one player controls Leo, the other controls Vincent–where your goal is to escape prison. In practice, this means one of you can be stuck in a cutscene while the other explores or approach a situation from multiple vantage points.

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Detective Pikachu — March 23

Available on: 3DS

Don’t expect to be choosing starters and earning gym badges in this Pokemon adventure. Instead, you’ll guide a talking Pikachu and his human helper Timmy as they solve cases around town. There are plenty of clues to find and suspicious characters to interrogate.

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Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom — March 23

Available on: PS4, PC

This RPG sequel had its own set of delays, but it’ll soon be time to help King Evan restore his stolen throne. New to the game are the Pikmin-like Higgledies, which can be commanded in battle. And you’ll definitely be having plenty of those across the game’s expansive world.

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Mob Psycho 100: Season 2 of Anime Announced

A second season of the Mob Psycho 100 anime has been greenlit.

Season 2 of the anime adaptation of ONE’s web manga was announced during the “Mob Psycho 100 Reigen: Shirarezaru Kiseki Reinōryokusha” (The Miraculous Unknown Psychic) event, Anime News Network reports.

Bones, the animation studio behind Season 1, will return to produce the second season. This is in line with what we heard last year, when it was announced a “new Mob Psycho project is moving forward” at studio Bones.

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