Month: September 2019

Sweet animated tale that follows a teenage girl and a friendly yeti on their journey to Mount Everest.

Here’s a list of all of the TV series canceled or ending in 2019 so far.

Apex Legends, Respawn Entertainment’s surprise-hit battle royale set in the Titanfall universe, is getting a brand new map dubbed ‘World’s Edge.’

Respawn debuted a new trailer for Apex Legends season 3, which featured not only the new map and some of its various biomes and locations, but also new legend Crypto and his hacking and drone abilities.

From the trailer, we can glean that World’s Edge will have some significantly different biomes than its predecessor, King’s Canyon. There’s what appears to be a giant ice drill sticking up out of the ground, it’s mid-section covered in a giant series of ice spikes. There’s a sort of magma biome, clearly stemming from a nearby volcano, and even adrenaline junkie Octane gets some sick air off of steam vents bursting open and throwing him into the sky.

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The CW has shared a first look of Brandon Routh as Kingdom Come Superman in Arrowverse’s Crisis on Infinite Earth’s crossover.

Brandon Routh, who played Superman in Bryan Singer’s 2006 Superman Returns, is once again becoming the Man of Steel, but this time with a black-and-red chest emblem.

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Apple’s MacBook Air laptops are lightweight, reduced-footprint notebooks which make it easy to get work done, no matter where you are. Right now Best Buy is offering some great discounts on both MacBook Air and MacBook Pro, so you can score a great deal no matter how powerful you need your portable computer to be.

MacBook Air 13-inch Laptop for $899

• Get it at Best Buy for $899

This MacBook Air comes with a full year of Apple TV+, 6 months of Webroot Internet Security, and 3 months of Apple Music. It is available in Gold, Space Gray, and Silver, has two USB-C ports, an Intel Core i5 CPU, 8GB of RAM, a 128GB SSD, and an Intel UHD graphics 617 GPU. Best Buy also offers free shipping, so your shiny new laptop will be brought to you, like the royalty you are.

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House House’s Untitled Goose Game not having a title is such a big part of its brand, that it’s hard to believe there was ever a title being considered for the game at all. But IGN has learned that one title may have had the slimmest chance of becoming the name for the indie Goose stealth sim.

“We really did intend to come up with something!” House House developer Stuart Gillespie-Cook tells IGN over email. “We’d always just called it ‘goose game’ internally, but when we had to upload footage of it for a festival, we wanted to make it clear that wasn’t the final name, so we put it up as Untitled Goose Game. We didn’t intend for that to be the name of the game, but it really stuck, and we never found anything we liked more.”

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Though a cinematic video, the Apex Legends Season 3 trailer does confirm that the battle royale game is getting a new map. You can see the Legends battle it out on the new map in the trailer, which is embedded below, alongside newcomer Crypto–who develops a friendly rivalry with Mirage.

“Welcome to World’s Edge, a new Apex Legends map where molten heat and chemical ice collide,” the trailer’s description reads. “Join our cast of Legends–including the newest Legend, Crypto–on the dropship as they’re whisked from Planet Solace towards World’s Edge on Planet Talos.”

World’s Edge was initially teased via Crypto’s first in-game appearance during Season 2, in which he invaded Kings Canyon to hack the computers in Singh Labs. Upon being discovered, the hacker flees, but not before the computer he’s been working on reveals he’s trying to find a way to visit a location only known as “World’s Edge.”

In the trailer, we see the Legends contending with both ice and fire environmental hazards, although Octane manages to use some water geysers to launch himself up into the air. We also see a city-like, urban area and a moving train. Whether all these elements make it into the actual game remains to be seen, as Respawn has advertised actions in Apex Legends’ cinematic trailers that you can’t actually achieve in-game.

Regardless, a new map is huge for Apex Legends. The battle royale game has been limited to one map since its launch–although, admittedly, it’s an exceptionally well-structured battlefield–so World’s Edge presents a drastic change. Based on the trailer, it seems like the Legends have been moved to this map while the Syndicate finishes fixing Kings Canyon (Crypto destroyed a portion of it at the start of Season 2), so World’s Edge may be the only map you can play in Season 3. We’ll have to wait and see.

Apex Legends is availble on Xbox One, PS4, and PC.

Facebook held the Oculus Connect 6 event this week to show off some of the new developments happening in its virtual reality product segment. While much of the event focused on future hardware and software changes that would mostly concern VR developers, there was a fair amount of info to excite current and prospective VR users.

Many of the biggest announcements centered around features coming to Oculus’s existing hardware in the near future. Some will come in a matter of days, while others are slated for 2020. The key to all of them is that they will dramatically enhance the experience available to users without needing to get a new VR headset, supposing you already have an Oculus Quest.

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Following this morning’s news that Marvel and Sony are making nice and Spider-Man will return to the MCU, fans are, predictably, quite happy.

While Tom Holland’s Spider-Man won’t be coming back to the MCU indefinitely – a third solo film and an unspecified appearance in a future MCU film are the only officially confirmed projects in the deal – fans are just happy to have their friendly neighborhood Spider-Man back for now.

While Tom Holland’s response to the news is unbeatable, here are some of the funniest, most joyful responses to Spidey’s return.

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Niantic is making another round of gameplay tweaks to Pokemon Go. In a new post on its official website, the developer details some of the adjustments that are coming soon to trainer battles, as well as some new attacks that will be added to the game.

First, Niantic says it’s refining the train battle system to make encounters “more intuitive and responsive.” In particular, the developer is improving the timing of damage dealt and energy charged. Additionally, a Pokemon’s health bar will now pulse when hit by an attack, making it easier to tell when a monster sustains damage.

A handful of moves are also receiving various tweaks. Bubble Beam will now reliably lower the opponent’s attack stat, while Psychic will dish out more damage and be usable quicker. On top of that, Psychic will have a chance of lowering an opponent’s defense stat. According to Niantic, these changes are “intended to make Psychic a more viable Psychic-type attack in both raids and Trainer Battles.”

Finally, Niantic is introducing two new attacks to the game: Thunder Fang and Ice Fang. A handful of Pokemon will also be able to learn attacks they initially couldn’t in Pokemon Go. You can see some of those below:

• Alolan Raichu – Thundershock
• Alolan Sandshrew – Ice Punch
• Alolan Ninetales – Charm
• Golduck – Bubble Beam, Synchronoise, Cross Chop
• Alolan Marowak – Fire Spin, Flame Wheel
• Mantine – Bubble Beam
• Mawile – Fire Fang, Ice Fang, Power-Up Punch
• Weavile – Snarl

These changes will be implemented “over the next few weeks.” In the meantime, Pokemon Go players have a lot to do. The Legendary Giratina recently returned to five-star Raid Battles. The long-awaited Mime Jr. was also added to the game earlier this week as part of a new special event. October’s Community Day is also set for October 12, and it’ll feature the Gen 3 Pokemon Trapinch.