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Dragon Quest 12 Is Still “A Ways Away,” Series Creator Says

Game designer Yuji Horii has confirmed that the next mainline Dragon Quest installment, Dragon Quest 12, is “still a ways away.”

Horii took to Twitter to share the news on New Year’s Day. He couldn’t divulge a lot of details in the accompanying statement but said there might be “something we can announce” sometime in the future. The statement, translated by Siliconera, says Horii is grateful to the fans who support the franchise and the staff who support his vision. You can read Horii’s full statement below.

“Last year we started with publishing the movie Dragon Quest: Your Story, then releasing the Switch version of Dragon Quest 11, the mobile version of DQ Walk, the announcement of The Adventure of Dai anime along with its game adaptation, the production of [DQ]12 and more; even now after 33 years have passed since I made the 1st game, I feel very glad that I can do new challenges like these. Thank you very much to all users who have cheered on Dragon Quest until now, and also to all of the many staff members who have supported me. I don’t know how long I can go on, but I feel like I want to do my best just a little bit more. I hope this year will be an amazing year to everyone. I’m looking forward to work together in this year.”

The last Dragon Quest entry, Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age, was released in 2018 for the Nintendo 3DS, PC, and PlayStation 4. An enhanced edition of the game launched on Nintendo Switch in September 2019. We gave the title a 9/10 in our review, saying, “Once you find yourself sucked into the world of Dragon Quest XI, it’s going to be hard to put down until you reach the grand finale.”

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20 TV Shows We Can’t Wait to Watch in 2020

The new year brings a new slate of TV shows for your viewing pleasure, so we’ve rounded up 20 of the biggest, most-anticipated series that are expected to premiere in 2020, just so you can get a head start on your watchlist.

This is far from an exhaustive list – in case you haven’t noticed, there’s a lot of TV these days – but a selection of new series that are on our radar that we’re fairly confident will premiere this year (even if their release dates haven’t been confirmed yet) and we think our audience might be interested in too. (High-profile genre series like Showtime’s Halo adaptation and Amazon’s Lord of the Rings have been slated to arrive in 2021, if you were curious why they’re not included.)

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Great Deals on Arcade1Up Machines

I think we can all agree that practically any room could be improved with the addition of an arcade cabinet or two. Arcade1Up sells four-foot-tall versions of some of the most beloved arcade games of all time. We’re talking games like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Star Wars, and Street Fighter II. The cabinets are easy to assemble, and they’re priced much lower than their full-sized siblings. Better yet, many of them are on sale right now at Walmart and Amazon. Let’s take a look at the deals.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Arcade1Up Machine with Riser is $50 Off

What’s New To Hulu In January 2020? Movies, TV Shows, And Original Programming Headed Your Way

It’s the new year, and the streaming service Hulu has plenty of new content for you to check out this month. From TV shows airing the day after they premiere on television to movies and original programming, Hulu is easily one of the best streaming services available for overall content. Check out everything coming to the service below, along with a few recommendations.

Available on January 1 is all three Cube movies. The sci-fi/cult classic Cube from 1998 follows a group of people who are trapped in a cube room, which is part of a much larger cube, and they must find a way to escape. Also, some of the rooms have traps, which can kill you. The 2002 sequel takes the plot of the first film and adds time travel to the mix–in a sense. It’s a bizarre but worthwhile sequel. Then there is the 2004 prequel Cube Zero, which takes place from the perspective of someone watching over the Cube experiment. It’s not great, but it’s a fun watch as well.

Aside from sci-fi films taking place in a 6-sided container, there are plenty of other things headed to Hulu you may want to watch. On January 30, the 2019 film Fighting With My Family arrives. The film follows the recreated events that led WWE’s Paige from England to NXT to Raw. In his review of the film, Chris E. Hayner said, “So where does Fighting with My Family, the studio’s first wrestling-centric biopic, land on that spectrum? As it turns out, it’s actually WWE’s best movie yet. That’s not to say it’s perfect, but WWE has taken a piece of its own history and crafted a truly engaging and inspiring film.”

Below, you’ll find everything coming to Hulu this month. For more streaming news, check out what’s headed to Disney+ and Netflix this month.

What’s coming to Hulu in January?

Available January 1

  • Bring It!: Complete Season 4 (Lifetime)
  • Brockmire: Complete Season 3 (IFC)
  • Damages: Complete Series (FX)
  • Deputy: *Sneak Peek* Pre-Linear Series Premiere (FOX)
  • Divided States: Complete Season 1 (A&E)
  • Fox’s New Year’s Eve Special with Steve Harvey: Special (FOX)
  • Glam Masters: Complete Season 1 (Lifetime)
  • Hoarders: Complete Season 10 (A&E)
  • Hunting JonBenet’s Killer: The Untold Story: Complete Season 1 (A&E)
  • Making a Model with Yolanda Hadid: Complete Season 1 (Lifetime)
  • Married at First Sight: Complete Season 8 (Lifetime)
  • Party of Five: *Sneak Peek* Pre-Linear Series Premiere (Freeform)
  • Project Runway All Stars: Complete Season 7 (Lifetime)
  • Rescue Me: Complete Series (FX)
  • Secret Life of a Gang Girl: The Untold Story: Complete Season 1 (A&E)
  • Swamp People: Complete Season 10 (History)
  • The Curse of Oak Island: Complete Seasons 2, 3 & 6 (History)
  • American Buffalo (1996)
  • Arbitrage (2012)
  • Bachelor Party (1984)
  • The Bellboy (1960)
  • Blood Diamond (2006)
  • Captivity (2007)
  • Cinderfella (1960)
  • The Conspirator (2011)
  • The Cookout (2004)
  • Crazy About Tiffany’s (2015)
  • Crisscross (1992)
  • Cube (1998)
  • Cube 2: Hypercube (2003)
  • Cube Zero (2005)
  • Dangerous Curves (1989)
  • Dennis the Menace (1993)
  • Dennis the Menace Strikes Back (1998)
  • Dracula 3000 (2004)
  • Drop Dead Sexy (2006)
  • Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
  • Fierce People (2007)
  • The Final Cut (2004)
  • The French Connection (1971)
  • Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962)
  • Golden Gate (1994)
  • The Good Guy (2010)
  • Gone (2012)
  • Grace Unplugged (2013)
  • Gridiron Gang (2006)
  • How to Eat Fried Worms (2006)
  • Kansas (1988)
  • Knowing (2009)
  • Last Rites (1988)
  • The Last Boy Scout (1991)
  • The Little Richard Story (2000)
  • MASH (1970)
  • Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie (1995)
  • Music from Another Room (1998)
  • My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997)
  • Mystery Team (2009)
  • P2 (2007)
  • Pacific Heights (1990)
  • Pi (1998)
  • The Patsy (1964)
  • The Polar Express (2004)
  • The Pom Pom Girls (1976)
  • The Possession (2012)
  • Shy People (1987)
  • Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
  • Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
  • Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)
  • Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)
  • Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
  • Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)
  • Swimming with Sharks (1995)
  • The Tenant (1976)
  • Two Family House (2000)
  • Unforgettable (1996)
  • Uptown Girls (2003)

Available January 2

  • Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins (2019)

Available January 3

  • Last Man Standing: Season 8 Premiere

Available January 5

  • Black Clover: Complete Season 1 (Dubbed) (Funimation)
  • Sex Guaranteed (2017)

Available January 6

  • The 77th Annual Golden Globe Awards: Special (NBC)
  • Conan the Barbarian (2011)
  • The Art of Self Defense (2019)

Available January 7

  • America’s Got Talent: The Champions: Season 2 Mid-Season Premiere (NBC)
  • The Bachelor: Season 24 Premiere (ABC)
  • Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time: Special (ABC)
  • Manifest: Season 2 Mid-Season Premiere (NBC)

Available January 8

  • Ellen’s Game of Games: Season 3 Mid-Season Premiere (NBC)
  • Gordon Ramsay’s 24 Hours to Hell and Back: Season 3 Premiere (FOX)
  • Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist: Season 1 Mid-Season Premiere (NBC)

Available January 9

  • Meet Wally Sparks (1997)

Available January 10

  • Homeland: Complete Seasons 6 & 7 (Showtime)
  • Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the 13th (2001)

Available January 11

  • Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector: Season 1 Mid-Season Premiere (NBC)

Available January 12

  • Little Men (2016)

Available January 13

  • Lodge 49: Complete Season 2 (AMC)

Available January 16

  • Good Trouble: Season 2 Mid-Season Premiere (Freeform)

Available January 17

  • Endlings: Complete Season 1 Premiere (Hulu Originals)
  • Everything’s Gonna be Okay: Season 1 Mid-Season Premiere (Freeform)
  • Grown-ish: Season 3 Mid-Season Premiere (Freeform)
  • The Skeleton Twins (2014)

Available January 19

  • Justified: Complete Series (FX)
  • Life, Animated (2016)

Available January 20

  • 9-1-1: Lone Star: Series Premiere (FOX)
  • The Detour: Complete Season 4 (TBS)
  • Love Island (UK): Season 6 Premiere (ITV)
  • Honeyland (2019)

Available January 22

  • Bakers vs. Fakers: Complete Season 1 (Food Network)
  • Beat Bobby Flay: Complete Seasons 6 & 7 (Food Network)
  • Chopped: Complete Seasons 32-35 (Food Network)
  • Cold Hearted: Complete Season 1 (IDTV)
  • Cooks vs. Cons: Complete Seasons 1-3 (Food Network)
  • Cutthroat Kitchen: Complete Season 11 (Food Network)
  • Dessert Games: Complete Season 1 (Food Network)
  • Dr. Pimple Popper: Complete Season 2 (TLC)
  • Flea Market Flip: Complete Seasons 10-12 (HGTV)
  • Good Eats: Reloaded: Complete Season 1 (Cook)
  • Guy’s Grocery Games: Complete Season 14 (Food Network)
  • House Hunters: Complete Seasons 111-117 (HGTV)
  • House Hunters International: Complete Seasons 113-115 (HGTV)
  • Murder in the Heartland: Complete Season 2 (IDTV)
  • Puppy Bowl: Complete Seasons 14 & 15 (Animal Planet)
  • Spring Baking Championship: Complete Seasons 1-4 (Food Network)
  • Unexpected: Complete Seasons 1 & 2 (TLC)
  • Worst Cooks in America: Complete Seasons 11-13 (Food Network)

Available January 23

  • The Prodigy (2019)

Available January 24

  • Shrill: Complete Season 2 Premiere (Hulu Original)
  • Outmatched: Series Premiere (FOX)
  • The Bold Type: Season 4 Mid-Season Premiere (Freeform)
  • Tokyo Ghoul: Complete Season 3B (Dubbed) (Funimation)

Available January 27

  • Brian Banks (2019)
  • Luce (2019)

Available January 30

  • Fighting with My Family (2019)

Our First Look At DC Multiverse Action Figures From McFarlane Toys

Way back in February, it was announced that McFarlane Toys had partnered with Warner Bros. Consumer Products to produce new action figures and collectibles based on the DC Multiverse, taking over the collector-targeted line previously handled by DC Collectibles. Sure enough, we just got a big huge pile of official images from McFarlane, as well as some details.

But first, check out these toys:

The action figures are all in 7″ scale, meaning they’re at home with the the rest of your McFarlane toys (as well as NECA and Storm Collectibles, which is great if you want to have Batman fight the Predator or Goro from Mortal Kombat) and they feature up to 22 points of articulation. And that’s not regular articulation, buddy, that’s ULTRA-articulation.

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I Miss the Brothers in Arms Series

I remember a time before Borderlands became a runaway hit. Before Duke Nukem Forever arrived a decade too late. Before the whole Aliens: Colonial Marines fiasco and long before headlines for all the wrong reasons. I remember when Gearbox felt like the most earnest development studio and studio-head Randy Pitchford seemed endearingly passionate.

Indeed, it was Pitchford’s passion that drew my attention to the Brothers in Arms series in 2004, when I stumbled on pre-release footage of the series’ first game, Road to Hill 30, while looking for info about Ghost Recon 2 on Ubisoft’s website.

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A Trio Of Great PC Games Are Free Right Now

The Epic Games Store is ringing in 2020 by giving away three free PC games until January 9 at 8 AM PT / 11 AM ET. The freebies represent the end of Epic’s 12 Days of Free Games promotion that actually ended up lasting a full two weeks. To claim the free games, you just need to have a free Epic account.

Two of the free games come from the Darksiders series. If you haven’t played the post-apocalyptic action series that pits angels against demons, now’s your chance to start from the beginning of the saga. Darksiders Warmastered Edition and Darksiders II: Deathinitive Edition are remastered versions of the first two games in the series. Both games offer quality hack and slash gameplay and awesome atmospheres. Darksiders received an 8/10 in GameSpot’s original 2010 review, and Darksiders II earned an 8.5/10 in GameSpot’s original 2012 review.

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If you like what you play, you can move onto 2018’s Darksiders 3 and the recently-released Darksiders Genesis, which introduces more role-playing mechanics and a new top-down perspective.

Quite a departure from Darksiders, Steep is a 2016 extreme sports sim from Ubisoft. Though focused on snowboarding and skiing, Steep also has paragliding, sledding, base jumping, and wingsuit flying. Steep earned a 7/10 in GameSpot’s review. Critic Leif Johnson praised the open world mountain and the game’s overall variety while lamenting the lack of objective rewards beyond cosmetics.

Now Playing: First 18 Minutes Of Darksiders Genesis Gameplay

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