Month: August 2018

Fortnite Week 7 Challenges for Season 5 are here and include the Dusty Divot treasure map and the new Stage 1 search a chest challenges.

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Cyberpunk 2077 has hit a development milestone, with CD Projekt Red explaining that the game is now playable from start to finish internally.

In an interview with Engadget, producer Richard Borzymowski explained that the game can be played through from beginning to end, with the story in place. It’s still missing assets, includes bugs and requires playtesting, but this is a major step.

“It gives you the answers to all of your doubts,” Borzymowski said. “It just feels great.”

Despite that step forward, Cyberpunk 2077’s release date remains something of a mystery – even down to what year it will arrive in. CDPR says it’s targeting current-gen consoles, which, based on recent reports, puts it at some point before the end of 2020. However, Cyberpunk creator Mike Pondsmith has cautioned that “perfection takes time”.

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Shadow of the Tomb Raider will be the final chapter in Lara Croft’s origin story, a transformation we’ve watched over the last five years as she evolves from a budding archaeologist reacting to a series of life-threatening circumstances, to a proactive agent of change in the world.

In Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Lara’s hunting Trinity, trying to dismantle it cell by cell and stop the organization from doing… something terrible. And that’s Lara’s problem, really. She’s so focused on the prevention of Trinity’s machinations, that she fails to fully vet her own actions. The consequence of this blind stop-them-at-all-cost motivation is her inadvertent triggering of an ancient apocalyptic scenario. Oops.

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When the Nintendo Labo: Vehicle Kit launches this September for the Nintendo Switch, players will be able to use the Toy-Con Car, Pedal, and Key to play Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.

Announced by Nintendo, the Nintendo Labo: Vehicle Kit will join the Nintendo Labo Toy-Con Motorbike as a viable way to control Mario, Yoshi, or your other favorite characters in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.

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Baby Driver director Edgar Wright is reportedly one of the top choices to direct James Bond 25.

Deadline reports that Wright is among the frontrunners to replace Danny Boyle, who left the project due to “creative differences.” Some of the other top choices reportedly also include Jean-Marc Vallee, (Big Little Lies), David Mackenzie (Hell or High Water), and Yann Demange (White Boy Rick).

Vallee might reportedly be too busy to take on Bond 25, while Wright has supposedly expressed interest in directing a Bond film.

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It takes an entire year from start to finish to publish a new set of the Pokemon Trading Card Game (TCG). The process, handled by Creatures, Inc., is involved and thorough. It’s all-hands-on-deck, as game data designers, illustrators, play testers, and even marketing personnel strive to create one of the most popular children’s toys in the world.

Creatures, Inc. works to incorporate new game mechanics and popular characters from the TV show to remain consistent with those two core pillars of the Pokemon brand, while also paying acute attention into the strategies of competitive players so that the game remains balanced and fresh. Sometimes, the way competitive players use cards entirely alter how the next expansion set is made.

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Ghoul, the second Netflix/Phantom Films collaboration after Sacred Games, brings aboard the folks at Blumhouse (Get Out, Insidious) for something spectacular. A horror story set several years in India’s future, the three-part miniseries presents a world in which outlawed books are burned, a la Ray Bradbury, and ordinary Muslim citizens are unjustly branded terrorists, a la… well, America, India, Myanmar, take your pick.

“Enhanced interrogation” officer Nida Rahim (Radhika Apte), a cog in this fascist regime, turns her own father over to the government for compliance training. His crime? Teaching his students philosophy from outside the state’s syllabus, an action deemed anti-national. This display of loyalty lands Nida an unexpected promotion to an anti-terrorist black site, an underground prison where terrorist mastermind Ali Saeed (Mahesh Balraj) is being shipped for torture. Unbeknownst to the folks in charge however, Saeed doesn’t show up alone. As he steps out of his transport van in the pouring rain, the barking guard dogs go eerily silent. Something ghastly is in the ether, and we may just end up siding with it.

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Today, at the Pokémon World Championships in Nashville, TN, the official logo for the upcoming Pokémon: Detective Pikachu film was revealed, along with details about what fans can expect when the film releases next summer.

IGN’s Senior Editor of Comics, Joshua Yehl, is in attendance and shared a screenshot of the logo, and revealed that this will be the “first ever live-action Pokémon movie.”

In addition, the movie will “feature a battle between Pikachu and Charizard, and they prompted the crowd to chant for each Pokémon, shout “Critical hit!”, and cheers/boo – and they recorded it to use in the actual movie.”

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