Month: October 2019

Mayans MC Lets Sons Of Anarchy Do Something It Wanted To Years Ago

Sons of Anarchy got away with a lot during its seven-season run on FX. The series featured horrific violence regularly, plenty of vulgarity, and a large dose of sex throughout. However, there’s one line the show never got the cross–and it’s one the sequel series Mayans MC regularly does.

Regardless of any betrayal or murder that unfolded on-screen during Sons of Anarchy, at no point was a character driven far enough to drop an F-bomb. After all, that wasn’t a word you heard on TV at the time. While the FX biker drama tended to push the envelope when it came to vulgarity, that word was off-limits.

Times have changed, though. It’s not uncommon to hear a character on Mayans MC throw the word around in normal conversation. So with a Sons of Anarchy reunion being staged on Mayans, it provided the perfect opportunity to let the club that started it all talk the way creator Kurt Sutter likely envisioned.

“Who do we gotta f*** to get a drink around here?” Chibs (Tommy Flanagan) said to the Mayans the moment he and SAMCRO arrived for a summit between rival clubs. It certainly set the tone for what was to follow, as viewers got caught up on exactly what’s happening in the world of SAMCRO since the death of Jax Teller (Charlie Hunnam) in the Sons of Anarchy series finale.

According to Chibs, he expected the club to be out of the gun trade a long time ago, as Jax intended. Unfortunately, as Happy (David Labrava) explained earlier in Mayans Season 2, that didn’t happen. Now, though, the club is finally looking toward the future.

“We never thought this transition would have taken so long,” the SAMCRO president explained. “Things up in Northern Cali are just only settled down and our other interest is finally starting to land in the black.” Of course, they’re also being forced out of the gun trade by circumstance. According to Chibs, the port the Sons smuggle firearms into is closing down.

Still, while SAMCRO may think they’re finally done with the gun trade, that’s likely not the case. Given that a peace they brokered between the Mayans and a rival club has erupted into a flat-out war–with the casualties already stacking up–Chibs and his crew are probably going to have their hands full in upcoming episodes.

Mayans MC airs Tuesdays on FX.

Disney CEO Responds To Marvel Movie Drama Following Negative Comments From Scorsese And Coppola

A lot of people have a lot to say about Marvel movies in the wake of the negative comments about them from Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola. Disney’s CEO, Bob Iger, has now weighed in on the drama with a take of his own.

Speaking at the WSJ Tech Live event in Laguna Beach, the CEO responded specifically to how Coppola said Marvel movies are “despicable.” Iger said “despicable” is a word he reserves for mass murderers, adding that saying such a thing about Marvel movies is disrespectful to the many people who work on Marvel movies.

Scorsese and Coppola also are failing to understand how the Marvel movie audience is reacting to and appreciating the MCU films, Iger said.

Scorsese, the Oscar-winning director behind Goodfellas, The Departed, Taxi Driver, and The Wolf of Wall Street, made waves when he said Marvel movies are “not cinema.” Coppola, the five-time Oscar winning director behind The Godfather and Apocalypse Now, backed up Scorsese’s comments and went further, saying Marvel movies are “despicable.”

Scorsese and Coppola are two of the most esteemed directors in the history of cinema, and they have every right to share their thoughts on the film business, according to Iron Man director Jon Favreau.

Just because Scorsese and Coppola do not seem to enjoy superhero movies, Marvel, DC, and other will of course continue to make them and fans won’t stop enjoying them.

“Like westerns and gangster movies (and before that, just MOVIES), not everyone will be able to appreciate them, even some geniuses. And that’s okay,” Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn said.

The One About The Outer Worlds, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, and the Elite Series 2 Controller

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Untitled Goose Game Chose Nintendo Switch Because It Was The “Right Emotional Fit”

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One of 2019’s wackier and more wonderfully whimsical games, Untitled Goose Game, is only available on one console platform: Nintendo Switch. We don’t know why developer House House hasn’t released it on PlayStation 4 or Xbox One, but now the studio has shared a little insight into why the Switch was the right fit.

Jacob Strasser of House House told Time that the Switch has an aura of “friendliness” about it that makes it the “right emotional fit” for the game where you play as a rude goose.

“It’s the nice, friendly console. Its whole aura is one of friendliness, and it feels more inviting to non-gamers, or non-traditional gamers or players. When it came down to the decision of where we would launch, it felt like the right emotional fit,” Strasser said.

Strasser previously said that PlayStation and Xbox are a “less good place to be an indie at the moment.” Despite that, House House is reportedly bringing Untitled Goose Game to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One at some point in the future.

Untitled Goose Game is also available on PC where it is currently exclusive to the Epic Games Store. House House took Epic’s money to help the studio “ensure continued sustainability.”

GameSpot’s Untitled Goose Game review scored it an 8/10. We praised it for, among other things, its inclusion of a dedicated “honk” button.

Arrow Season 8, Episode 3 Review

Warning: this review contains full spoilers for Arrow: Season 8, Episode 2. If you need a refresher on where we left off, here’s our review for the Season 8 premiere.

It was probably inevitable that the second episode of Arrow’s final season wouldn’t live up to the first. Once you kick off a season by sending Oliver Queen to a parallel universe where he’s confronted by his dead loved ones in the flesh, there’s nowhere to go but down. Well, I suppose you could follow up with another multiverse crossover involving Michael Keaton’s Batman or something, but let’s not get too crazy.

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A Longtime Arrow Character Has Been Helping The Monitor’s Crisis Crossover Plan

As the Arrow-verse continues rocketing toward the upcoming Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover event, so much more is being revealed about what’s to come. When The Monitor (LaMonica Garrett) was first introduced in last year’s Elseworlds crossover, he made it clear that the upcoming crisis was no laughing matter.

Now, with the lives of the Green Arrow (Stephen Amell) and The Flash (Grant Gustin) on the line–not to mention the entire multiverse–the latest episode of Arrow, titled “Welcome to Hong Kong,” revealed that somebody very close to Team Arrow has been working with the Monitor all along. It was previously revealed that Lyla Michaels (Audrey Marie Anderson), who’s married to Diggle (David Ramsey) and the head of the government agency ARGUS, would take on the mantle of Harbinger in the crossover. Harbinger, in the comics, was an orphan that the Monitor rescued and raised to do his bidding.

What we didn’t know is who this version of Lyla was or what Earth she came from. In “Welcome to Hong Kong,” though, it was revealed that the Lyla working with the Monitor is the Earth-1 version fans have been watching for years. Some changes have been made to the character’s background, though.

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While Lyla hasn’t been revealed to be an orphan rescued by the Monitor at this point, she did give some insight into her troubling past. “When I was in Afghanistan, my unit got sent out on patrol on a day I pulled base duty,” she explained to Laurel (Katie Cassidy Rodgers). “There was an IED in the road. None of them made it back. I used to lie in bed at night asking myself, ‘Why them? Why not me?’ And I made every deal I could think of with any god I thought listened.”

When asked if any of the deal she made worked, she looked haunted. “Not exactly,” she offered. Clearly, the Monitor is one of those gods she made a deal with.

Lyla’s tour of duty in Afghanistan happened before Arrow began. It’s there that she met Diggle, meaning she’s potentially been under the thumb of the Monitor for as long as she’s known her husband.

What else has she done at the Monitor’s request? What is she willing to do? These are questions that will hopefully be answered as we get closer to the Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover.

Arrow airs Tuesdays on The CW.

The Outer Worlds: How Long To Beat The Fallout-Style RPG?

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Fallout: New Vegas and South Park: The Stick of Truth developer Obsidian’s next game is The Outer Worlds, and it launches this Friday, October 25. Designed by original Fallout designers Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky, The Outer Worlds was praised by GameSpot for being the “best possible version of a Fallout game.” But how long will it take you to complete?

GameSpot reviewer Edmond Tran finished the game in about 30 hours. In that time, he completed the main quest and nearly all sidequests. Jess McDonell, who created GameSpot’s video review, also took about 30 hours to reach the credits. They both played on Regular difficulty for their first runs.

As always, your mileage may vary because everyone plays games differently. Additionally, The Outer Worlds has multiple different difficulty options, including “Supernova” that has increased combat danger and more, which may encourage you to play again.

Not only that, but The Outer Worlds features narrative choices that can be grey, so you might find yourself playing again to see more of what the game has to offer.

The Outer Worlds launches October 25 for PS4, Xbox One, and PC. The PC edition is exclusive to the Epic Games Store at launch, while the Xbox One version is free with Xbox Game Pass.

The Outer Worlds is Obsidian’s final game as an independent developer. Microsoft acquired Obsidian at the end of 2018, at which time the game was well into development and already had a publisher in the form of GTA and Red Dead company Take-Two’s indie label, Private Division.

For more on The Outer Worlds and the reaction to it, take a look at this roundup of review scores from other outlets.

The Flash: Season 6, Episode 3 Review

Warning: this review contains full spoilers for The Flash: Season 6, Episode 3. If you need a refresher on where we left off, here’s our review for Season 6, Episode 2.

The Flash hasn’t given viewers much cause to feel optimistic over the past several years, but it really seems as though the series has turned a corner in Season 6. The new year started off pretty well and has only improved from there. “Dead Man Running” seems to cement the new status quo and a new era in which that classic Flash appeal is finally back.

There’s been a noticeable shift in the general tone of the series this season. Not necessarily in terms of it being lighter or darker, but simply more confident and consistent. The series is dark when it needs to be dark, but it’s also careful to balance out the more dramatic elements with goofier subplots. That’s in stark contrast to Seasons 4 and 5, where the humor often felt forced and overdone, as if in self-conscious response to the criticisms of Season 3’s Flashpoint/Savitar storyline. Here, The Flash has finally found its sense of balance again.

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EA Wants To Make College Sports Games Again

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The stable of EA Sports games once included numerous college sports games, but for a variety of reasons–including lawsuits from former players–EA stopped making them. Now, EA’s CEO has said the company might return to college sports games thanks in part to a new law that will affect certain collegiate athletes and endorsement deals.

Speaking at the WSJ Tech Live conference this week, EA CEO Andrew Wilson said EA would “jump for the opportunity” to make more college sports video games if the NCAA can come up with a system to pay players.

Wilson added that he receives lots of emails to his personal account from fans asking for EA to bring back college sports games. “I think there are many, many–maybe even millions–of players who hope that’s the case,” he said.

California governor Gavin Newsom signed a law in September that allows student-athletes to make money from endorsement deals while in school. The law doesn’t take effect until 2023, however, so it remains to be seen how it will all shake out.

EA used to develop college football and basketball games, but the final college basketball game was NCAA Basketball 10 and the final football title was NCAA Football 14.

Video games based on professional sports, meanwhile, continue to be very big business for EA. The company makes NBA, NHL, NFL, and FIFA games, with their Ultimate Team modes bringing in lots of cash from microtransactions.

Fans, including Snoop Dogg, have been calling on EA to return to the college sports game business for years. Fans got a little treat with Madden NFL 20, as the game’s story mode featured 10 different college football teams, though no player likenesses or names were used.

EA and the NCAA ended their licensing deal in 2013. In 2015, EA was ordered to pay $60 million to former college players following a lawsuit over likenesses.