October 2019 – Page 52

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Nintendo Switch Compatible Micro SD Card Deal

If you’re looking to greatly expand the storage on your Nintendo Switch, and you want it to be fast, the SanDisk Extreme Micro SD card is on sale in the spacious and roomy 256GB version.

Luigi’s Mansion 3 Is Out Next Week–Here Are the Preorder Bonuses

Those pulled toward the morbid side of things will be pleased to hear that Luigi’s Mansion 3 is coming to Nintendo Switch on a very appropriate day: October 31. The game finds the green-clad bundle of nerves once again trapped in a haunted building and having the daylights scared out of him as he tries to vacuum up the spectral embodiments of the dead.

New to Luigi’s ghost-busting arsenal this go-round is Gooigi, a gelatinous double of the nail-biting hero, who can slip through grates and is impervious to spikes. Gooigi’s only weakness? Water. If you’re ready to lock in your Luigi’s Mansion 3 preorder, we have all the info you need below. Let’s get to it.

Assassin’s Creed Creator Is Sorry About All Those Radio Towers

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Patrice Désilets is best known for creating the Assassin’s Creed series, having served as creative director on Assassin’s Creed, Assassin’s Creed 2, and Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood. He left Ubisoft in 2010 before founding Panache Digital Games in 2014, and he’s sorry for all those radio towers.

In a Q&A panel with Destructoid at EGLX, one attendee asked Désilets if he’s still considered “The Assassin’s Creed guy,” to which the creative director responded, “I dunno man! Honestly, I don’t know. A little bit! If you’re going to spend years on something I hope that happens.”

Those early Assassin’s Creed games popularised the concept of the climbable viewpoint, whereby you would reveal parts of the game map by scaling towers and syncronising the view. Other open-world Ubisoft games quickly adopted the mechanic, most notably the Far Cry series, and it made its way into a plethora of other games, including The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

“Breath of the Wild, wow!” Désilets exclaimed. “That was a game where you could do anything, once you finished the first half-hour or so. Now, you’re going to just climb towers and unfog the rest of the map. Sorry…it’s my fault…”

Désilets latest game–and Panache Digital Games’ first–still features plenty of climbing, although there are no radio towers to be found. Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey puts you in the primitive body of an early hominid 10 million years in the past, with the goal of ensuring your lineage continues through to two million BC, when our ancestors’ evolution transitioned from ape-like beings into a more human species.

Jordan Ramée handled GameSpot’s Ancestor’s review, saying “Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey lingers for far too long on its most toilsome aspects. The game does reward initial experimentation, but then asks you to repeat processes over and over again without any means of securing your legacy. It’s an absolute grind to reach the closest that Ancestors has to an endgame goal–survive for eight million years–and one costly mistake, whether the game’s or your own, can erase everything you’ve accomplished.

“What small satisfaction the game does provide is consistently ruined by violent predators, though the threat does lessen once you make it far enough into the neurological network’s expansive skill and perk tree. But as it stands, investing in Ancestors’ journey demands too much effort for too little reward.”

Rick And Morty Season 4 Episodes Titles Have Been Revealed

There’s now less than a month until the long-awaited return of Rick and Morty. Season 4 of the acclaimed animated show premieres on Adult Swim on November 10, and the titles of the first five episodes have been revealed.

The titles were announced by the Adult Swim Twitter account in a new video. They continue the tradition of bizarre puns on movies and TV show titles, and are “Edge of Tomorty: Rick Die Repeat,” “The Old Man and the Seat,” “One Crew Over the Crewcoo’s Morty,” “Claw and Hoarder: Special Ricktim’s Morty,” and “Rattlestar Ricklactica.” Check the video out below:

This video follows the first trailer for the new season, which was released earlier this month. Rick and Morty Season 4 will consist of 10 episodes, but we’ll have to wait until 2020 for the rest of the season.

While there will be a bit of a gap before we can see the rest of Season 4, co-creator Dan Harmon has promised that fans will never have to wait as long as they have since Season 3, which ran back in 2017. In a recent interview, Harmon said: “I think it’s safe to say without fear of being wrong that the gap between Seasons 3 and 4 will be the longest and last time that it’s ever so long that it’s ridiculous. I don’t know how fast we can do it, but I know it will never be this long again.

“There were so many things that had to be settled before we even started Season 4, and it’s really safe to say we’re literally writing Season 5 while finishing Season 4 just to force ourselves to commit to a certain schedule.”

Fans can also check out one of the new episodes ahead of its TV screening at the Adult Swim Festival. It takes place in Los Angeles and runs from Friday, November 15 to Saturday, November 16, and is described by Adult Swim as a “one-of-a-kind, 360-degree fan experience.”

Xbox One Skateboarding Game “Session” Delayed — “We Know This Sucks,” Dev Says

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One of the new game reveals at Microsoft’s E3 2018 briefing was for a new skateboarding game called Session. The game was released on Steam Early Access earlier this year, but the Xbox One version has now been delayed to a later point in 2019.

In a Facebook post, developer Creature Studios said the team needs “more time” to finish the Xbox One port. The game is now slated for release in late November or early December.

“We know this sucks and we totally understand as we know you have been waiting to play the game on console for a while now,” the studio said. “We know it’s not great news to hear, but it’s not particularly fun to announce either, especially for a small studio like ours.”

“It is never easy to make such decisions as we know it can have an impact on several levels, so these decisions are never taken lightly,” the studio added. “We thank you for your understanding and hope you will stick around for the Xbox One release!”

Session was originally slated for launch on Xbox One’s Early Access-style Game Preview program in October. For more, check out GameSpot’s recent impressions piece, “In A World Without Skate 4, Session Makes Me Feel Better.”

Session was originally funded on Kickstarter, bringing in some CA$ 163,716, which was more than double its funding target. The game has a unique control setup where each stick represents one of your feet. Unlike the Tony Hawk or Skate franchises, there is no scoring system and the game has a day/night cycle.

Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker Is The Longest Star Wars Movie Ever

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is the final entry in the Skywalker Saga that began in 1977. It’s expected to close the book on some storylines from throughout the franchise, and it’s now seemingly confirmed that the film has a super-sized length.

AMC Theatres has revealed that the film has a runtime of 155 minutes, which makes it the longest movie in the entire space opera series, according to IGN. The 1977 original, A New Hope, was the shortest of the main series at 121 minutes, while The Last Jedi was previously the longest at 152 minutes. 2008’s animated movie The Clone Wars was only 98 minutes.

The Rise of Skywalker will be one of the longest mainstream blockbusters ever, but it won’t hold that record. Avengers: Endgame, which like The Rise of Skywalker, was the final entry in a saga, clocked in at 181 minutes.

In other news, advance tickets for The Rise of Skywalker are on sale now. One ticket-seller, Atom, reported that Episode IX sold more tickets within the first hour than Avengers: Endgame to set a new record for the platform.

The tickets went on sale on October 21 alongside the release of a brand-new trailer. This video, which is said to be the “final” trailer before release, revealed a first look at Dominic Monaghan’s character, teased more of Palpatine, and showed some heart-breaking C-3PO dialogue. A new poster has also been released; check it out below.

Here Are the Best Tablets for Your Little Ones

A tablet is a great learning tool for kids, and there’s plenty of options. Here’s our picks for the best tablet for your little one(s).

Up Your Screen Size and Resolution With The Best 27″ Gaming Monitors

Full HD 60Hz gaming monitors are so 2010, it’s time to get current with a 27-inch QHD 144Hz gaming monitor and we’ll help you make the right choice to meet your needs.

HBO’s Watchmen Premiere Ratings Revealed

HBO has revealed that 1.5 million people tuned in to the debut of Watchmen.

As reported by Variety, Watchmen’s premiere was “up 21% in linear on last week’s “Succession” season finale, and up 20% from the 1.2 million multi-platform figure posted by the “Succession” season 2 premiere.”

It was, however, down almost 30% compared to the season 2 premiere of Westworld that drew in 2.1 million viewers.

Watch our spoiler-filled discussion/review of the first episode of HBO’s Watchmen!

For comparison, Watchmen was well behind the phenomenon that was Game of Thrones, which saw 17.4 million tune in for the first episode of the eighth and final season earlier this year.

Does Palpatine’s Warning Hint at Rey’s True Origin?

Another Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker trailer has arrived, but nothing has yet disproved this theory of where Rey began and where she’s headed. In fact, in light of the history of misdirection in Star Wars trailers, hearing Palpatine’s voice say “your coming together… is your undoing” suggesting that Rey and Kylo Ren uniting against a common foe actually points to it meaning something completely different. It could, for example, mean that Rey and her fellow clones meeting is what Palpatine had planned… ever since his previous plan resulted in him being tossed down a garbage chute.