Author: Trafficblast

The Borderlands franchise is well known to host a plethora of pop culture references as well as some nicely tucked away easter eggs. After many hours playing Borderlands 3, here are some of the coolest we’ve found along the way.

(If you don’t want some of these awesome moments spoiled for you, stop reading here, ya dingdong. I don’t want to read how this was spoiled for you in the comments because you were “forced” to read it.)

Click through the gallery above, or scroll down for the full list.

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This is an advance review out of the Toronto International Film Festival. Lucy in the Sky opens in the US on Oct. 4 and in the UK on Dec. 6.

“I am alone now. Truly alone, and absolutely isolated from any known life.” Those words were attributed to Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins – the one who didn’t walk on the moon – and are referenced during Lucy in the Sky, as a way of summing up the existential crisis being experienced by the film’s title character.

For this is the story of those remarkable folk who reach for the stars, orbit the planet, then return to earth with a thud; struggling to come to terms with a world that suddenly seems so small. Legion and Fargo showrunner Noah Hawley’s directorial debut – from a Brian C. Brown and Elliott DiGuiseppi script that he retooled – works when examining the psychological fallout from such a trip. However, when combined with a lurid tale ripped directly from the headlines – Lucy in the Sky is “inspired by real events” – the movie slips into melodrama.

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The cast of Amazon Prime’s Wheel of Time are together at last in a new photo posted by showrunner Rafe Judkins to his Instagram.

Though the cast members were all previously announced, this is the first group photo showing the actors who will be playing Moiraine (Rosamund Pike), Rand Al’Thor (Josha Stradowski), Perrin Aybara (Marcus Rutherford), Mat Cauthon (Barney Harris), Egwene Al’Vere (Madeleine Madden), Nynaeve (Zoë Robins) and al’Lan Mandragoran (Daniel Henney) all together.

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Madden NFL 20 is the best-selling game of August 2019, repeating its victory after being the top-selling game in July of this year, while also becoming the seventh yearly Madden entry in a row to top the charts in August.

As reported by the NPD Group, Madden is now the third-best-selling game of 2019, trailing behind Kingdom Hearts III and Mortal Kombat 11. Minecraft, interestingly, had its all-time high placement on the NPD best-sellers chart, coming in as the second-best-selling game for the month of August.

Our Madden NFL 20 review said this year’s entry had some of the best moment-to-moment gameplay in the series. However, our reviewer found other parts like the Franchise mode to be somewhat lacking.

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Compelling adaptation of Donna Tartt’s bestseller, though one that might have been better served as a mini-series.

Nintendo has announced a new fitness-based game called Ring Fit Adventure, and it launches exclusively for Switch on October 18. Ring Fit Adventure comes with a circular “Ring-Con” controller and leg strap you put your Joy-Cons into. Then you control your character in the game by doing physical exercises. Ring Fit Adventure has 20 worlds to explore and many enemies to defeat using 40 “fit skills” you learn as you play. These involve various movements and stances, including yoga poses.

If you could use some exercise in your gaming life, you’ll probably want to know where you can preorder Ring Fit Adventure and how much it costs. We have you covered below, so read on.

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A second Game of Thrones prequel series is reportedly in the works at HBO, according to Deadline and The Hollywood Reporter.

Both outlets are reporting that the new series is close to a pilot order. Written by Colony co-creator Ryan Condal and produced by Condal and A Song of Ice and Fire author George R. R. Martin, the potential prequel is based on Martin’s Fire and Blood, a history of the Targaryen dynasty. Set 300 years before the events of Game of Thrones, the series would reportedly focus on the dominance and decline of House Targaryen.

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Welcome to Nintendo Voice Chat! Nintendo may have dropped most of the big announcements during last week’s Nintendo Direct, but there was one wacky reveal left for this week. Nintendo revealed its latest fitness game, Ring Fit Adventure, as well as a new peripheral… The Ring-Con! Join the NVC crew as they discuss Nintendo’s new fitness experiment. Then, stay for gameplay impressions of Link’s Awakening, which comes out next week! Plus, hear about Celeste’s farewell chapter, Pokémon Sword and Shield’s potential autosave feature, new amiibo releases, and more. Finally, the panel takes your questions on Question Block.

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This is an advance review out of the Toronto International Film Festival. Jojo Rabbit opens in the US on Oct. 18, in Australia on Dec. 26, and in the UK on Jan. 3, 2020.

You can watch our video review for Jojo Rabbit in the player above.

At the start of Jojo Rabbit, the Fox Searchlight fanfare segues into a Hitler Youth song, while the opening credits feature stock footage of Aryan children performing ‘Heil Hitlers’ to a German-language version of I Wanna Hold Your Hand. This should give you a clue that Taika Waititi’s new film – a very loose adaptation of Christine Leunen’s 2008 novel Caging Skies – is flirting with bad taste from the off.

Yet while the film’s approach to World War II events is unsettling – and its comic coming-of-age story frequently outrageous – Waititi and his talented cast find tenderness and humanity in the material, making this a period piece that couldn’t be timelier. The film’s central conceit is certainly a headline-grabber – kid receives counsel from his imaginary friend, who just happens to be Adolf Hitler. But while that aspect of the story has been placed front-and-centre in the film’s early marketing materials – and dominates the movie’s opening scenes – JoJo Rabbit is about much more than that, with a very different friendship at the heart of proceedings.

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