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Month: June 2018
The Best Noise-Canceling Headphones
Get yourself a pair of Bose QuietComfort 35 Series II noise-cancelling headphones, or maybe a pair of Beats Studio 3 Wireless headphones, and cancel all the noise.
The Best Instant Cameras
From the Fujifilm Instax Mini 9 budget option, to Fujifilm Instax Mini 90 Neo Classic for retro action, these are the best instant cameras.
Amazon Launches New Comic Line Through Digital Publisher ComiXology
Amazon is launching four new titles through its digital comics platform ComiXology.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the new projects are Savage Game, a sci-fi Dr. Moreau style story created by NFL player Ryan Kalil, co-written by Shawn Kittelsen, with art from Chris B. Murray; Superfreaks, a tale of teenage superhero sidekicks written by Elsa Charretier and Pierrick Colinet, and art from Margaux Saltel making her series debut; the continuation of long-running series Elephantmen 2261: The Death of Shorty, created and written by Richard Starkings with art by Axel Medellin and Boo Cook; and Ask For Mercy, also from Starkings but art this time coming from Abigail Jill Harding.
Australia’s Broadband Chief Blames Gamers For Wireless Problems
The Chief Executive of Australia’s National Broadband Network, Bill Morrow, has suggested that gamers have predominantly contributed to wireless congestion problems across the country.
According to ABC, Morrow told a committee at a parliamentary hearing in Sydney: “While people are gaming it is a high bandwidth requirement that is a steady streaming process.”
As a result of this assessment, the National Broadband Network Co (or NBN) is considering “slowing down or limiting downloads for users during peak times”, and the users that would be affected by this policy are expected to be “gamers predominantly.”
The GLOW Cast Wants A WWE Crossover And Here’s How It Can Happen
As the cast of GLOW prepares to get back in the ring for Season 2, some of them have their eyes set on a bigger prize. Could the WWE be in their future? It might sound crazy, but stranger things have happened in professional wrestling.
While it’s unlikely that any of the actresses on the show would turn to wrestling full-time–outside of Kia Stevens, who previously performed in WWE as Kharma–they aren’t necessarily against giving it a shot. It’s hard to blame them, given that they’re being trained by Chavo Guerrero Jr. Besides, there are plenty of instances of WWE superstars making those far less experienced looked better than they have any right to. Right, Jeremy Piven?
“I would love to get in the ring with some of these pro wrestlers because they’re so good,” GLOW star Alison Brie said during a group interview about the show. “And I feel like they could make me look better than I am or worse; it’s a gamble. At the same time, it scares me a little, and I think that my biggest question about doing something like that, to me is like, would I want to do it as Zoya, am I doing it as Ruth?”
This is where things get tricky, but GameSpot has an idea that both Netflix and WWE should seriously consider. What if the cast of GLOW crosses over into the WWE universe in-character. While they might seem out of place on Raw, Smackdown Live, or NXT, there is one offshoot of WWE where they would fit in perfectly: Southpaw Regional Wrestling.
If you somehow missed out on the Southpaw Regional Wrestling original shorts WWE released online and via the WWE Network, you’re truly doing yourself a disservice. The faux wrestling federation is set sometime in the 1980s and sees WWE superstars like John Cena, Daniel Bryan, The Miz, and more portraying new characters in this incredibly silly promotion.
Bridging the world of GLOW with that of Southpaw Regional Wrestling would be so simple in execution if WWE and Netflix could come to some sort of agreement. After all, these two rosters of over-the-top characters were practically made for each other. Who doesn’t want to see Zoya the Destroyer (Brie) have a verbal showdown with Dan Bandana (Bryan) over who loves their country more?
However, it could also lead the ladies of GLOW to make their debuts on WWE TV as wrestlers. Thus far, members of the cast have been in attendance at a WWE pay per view, leading Britney Young (Machu Picchu) to declare her love for WWE Raw Women’s Champion Nia Jax. “I want to meet her so bad,” she told GameSpot during a group interview. “We saw her at No Mercy and she literally dropped three women.” Getting into the ring seems like a logical next step.
If Heath Slater can appear on Raw as his Southpaw character “Impressive” Pelvis Wesley, anything is truly possible. Perhaps the girls from GLOW can throw out an open challenge to Southpaw’s Debbie Desperado, played brilliantly by Natalya in Season 2 of Southpaw Regional Wrestling. If there anything you can trust in the ring when it comes to working with wrestlers who have limited experience, it’s Natalya–and she’s bound to put on a great match, regardless of which cast member she’s paired up with. You can even introduce Nia Jax as her enforcer if you want to make Young’s dreams come true.
The second season of GLOW premieres on Netflix on June 29. You can see both seasons of Southpaw Regional Wrestling on YouTube.
Top New Game Releases This Month On Switch, PS4, Xbox One, And PC — June 2018
June brings us BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle, Sushi Striker, Jurassic World Evolution, Mario Tennis Aces, and Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus.
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This is the last episode of New Releases before E3 2018, and with it comes a look at some of the biggest games June has to offer. For fighting fanatics, there’s BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle, and for dinosaur lovers, there’s Jurassic World Evolution. Nintendo fans also have a good month to look forward to with the plate-flinging Sushi Striker: The Way of Sushido and the racket-swinging Mario Tennis Aces. They’ll also finally get their hands on the Nintendo Switch port of Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus.
BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle — June 5 (US) / June 22 (EU)
Available on: PS4, PC, Switch
The world of BlazBlue is wild enough, but this crossover fighting game is also bringing in characters from Persona 4 Arena, Under Night In Birth, and RWBY. With over 40 characters on the roster, there are so many possibilities for putting together the ultimate duo.
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Sushi Striker: The Way of Sushido — June 8
Available on: Switch, 3DS
Sushi Striker is about battling too: you have to take down your opponents by flinging plates of sushi at them. To do that, you must match plates of the same color to build a strong stack, but you can also mix things up with Sushi Sprites, each of which can totally turn the tables on your opponent. You can take on others in online and local multiplayer duels too.
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Jurassic World Evolution — June 12
Available on: PS4, Xbox One, PC
If you’ve ever wanted to run your own Jurassic Park, now’s your chance. Between 40 different dinosaur species, three branches of development, and a bunch of facilities to build, there are a ton of methods to help life find a way. And did I mention that Jeff Goldblum himself (as Dr. Ian Malcolm) will help guide your way?
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Mario Tennis Aces — June 22
Available on: Switch
There’s a lot to look forward to in the latest Mario sports game It’s changing things up with a suite of new special shots, and it’s the first proper story mode in the tennis series in a long time. As you’d expect, you can also take the competition online–and of course swing your racket using the Joy-Cons.
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Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus — June 29
Available on: Switch
The Nintendo Switch is also getting a hyper-violent port this month. It’s the same Nazi-killing campaign that other systems got last year, but this version lets you fine-tune your shots with the Pro Controller gyro, or fully aim your guns with the Joy-Cons. Being able to take the war anywhere your Switch can go ain’t too bad either.
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Persona, Yakuza and Authentic Video Game Tourism
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Westworld: A Big Name Returns and Big Names Fall in Season 2’s Most Violent Episode
Warning: Full spoilers for the episode follow…
“I don’t think God rested on the seventh day.”
It’s so great to have Anthony Hopkins back on the show!
Season 2 has been purposefully untethered. Because it’s about the entire park being in the throes of bloody chaos, these episodes are an unhinged collage, sometimes a bit of a mess, with no real center, with everyone’s stories sent spiraling in the wake of Dolores killing Ford at the end of the Season 1 finale.
This isn’t to say that Hopkins’ Ford is naturally a “beacon of answers,” but us just knowing that he knows things he’s not sharing, that he has a plan that hasn’t been fully revealed to us, always gave the series an undercurrent of confidence. “Les Écorchés” was the biggest episode of the season, with violence on par with some of the opening chapters that showcased the hosts’ rampage through the park terrain.
How Star Trek Online Continues the Legacy of Classic Trek
When Star Trek’s Original Series first aired in the 1960s, one theme was a constant – the theme of looking to the future. Roddenberry’s utopian vision of the future centred itself around the philosophy of working to better oneself and the rest of humanity, about looking ahead to the future, rather than languishing in the mistakes of the past. Of course, it wasn’t about forgetting those mistakes – it was about learning from them, and moving onwards.
This theme was carried right through The Next Generation (TNG) era shows and films. They all looked to the future; to the continuing evolution and betterment of humanity.
Things changed upon the release of Star Trek: Enterprise in 2001, which began a trend of producers and writers choosing to focus on a period of time before The Original Series (TOS). Enterprise and the currently airing Discovery are both set in the Prime timeline, before the events of TOS, while the J.J. Abrams produced films are all set parallel to the Original Series, but in the entirely new Kelvin timeline. The chance of a series or film that is set in the post-TNG time period being produced is beginning to look very slim indeed.