Orion Pictures has revealed the first full image of Chucky, the murderous doll and antagonist of the upcoming Child’s Play remake.
Chucky, who will be voiced by Mark Hamill, is a creepy Buddi doll who terrorises the Barclay family. In this version of the story, Chucky is a robotic doll, rather than the possessed toy as seen in the 1988 original.
The team behind The Game Awards have announced a new live show to be held at Gamescom 2019. Gamescom: Opening Night Live will air from Cologne, Germany, and it will include “announcements from major game publishers and independent developers, world premieres of new game footage and special guest appearances from the stars of the gaming industry.”
The show will be hosted and produced by Geoff Keighley, along with The Game Awards producer Kimmie H. Kim. It will air in front of a live audience and be streamed worldwide on August 19 from 8 PM CEST / 11 AM PT / 2 PM ET / 7 PM BST (4 AM AET on August 20).
The TGAs have continued to become a bigger part of the gaming calendar since their introduction in 2014. The ceremonies typically include new trailers for existing and as-yet-unannounced games, and they tend to have a rather more relaxed nature than comparable award ceremonies in other industries. They are perhaps best known for A Way Out creator Josef Fares’ “f** the Oscars” outburst in 2017.
Gamescom, meanwhile, has been running since 2009 and has become the world’s biggest video games convention. Over 370,000 people attend each year in Cologne’s Koelnmesse.
Chris Avellone shares the details on Obsidian’s cancelled RPG, Aliens: Crucible, which got as far as a “really cool” prototype.
Speaking to VG24/7 about his time at Obsidian and the cancelled Aliens RPG, Avellone said a “rough comparison” of the gameplay would be “basically Mass Effect but more terrifying.”
He added that the studio’s relationship with Sega deteriorated to the point that eventually the title was cancelled.
“We wanted to make it. But by that point Sega, I think, was… the publisher/management relations had gotten to a point where they were just tired of dealing with
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Nintendo Switch is probably my most-played console at the moment. I am so in love with being able to play games in handheld mode or on the TV, depending on my mood or situation. Prices on some of the best Switch game are reduced right now, and I highly recommend taking advantage of the sales.
If you haven’t gotten yourself a Switch yet, there are some amazing Nintendo Switch deals going on right now, including one of the best Switch deals we’ve ever seen and the return of the special edition Pokemon: Let’s Go Pikachu Switch bundle.
Indulge me with a thought experiment. You are a very successful orange salesman. You spent several harvests picking the best elements of different oranges, cross-breeding them and discovering an orange that almost everyone loves, while not breaking the bank on your end. Let’s say you end up selling, I don’t know, 90 million oranges. Impressive!
Now to the hard part: when it comes to the next generation of oranges after this success, are you going to: a) sell an orange that iterates slightly on the success of your last orange, but keeps its core appeal (I promise I didn’t start this analogy to get to this pun, it’s an accident, I’m so sorry) or, b) decide you sell aeroplanes now, and hope all your happy orange punters want to become pilots all of a sudden, for absolutely no reason.
After a lackluster Raw After Mania, WWE’s Monday night programming got back on track with the first night of the Superstar Shakeup. During the two-night event, superstars could be shifted from their shows. What was once a Smackdown superstar could have a new life on Raw, and vice versa.
There were plenty of changes during the evening, including three major tag teams headed to WWE’s Monday night programming, and two major NXT additions, but the thing that had everyone talking about wasn’t AJ Styles crossing over. It was the dumbest name change in WWE yet. And this just wasn’t another case of WWE dropping a first or last name.
Before we get into this debacle, that is the first and only time I’ll be writing that team name. I feel the same way about it that I do about Sasha Banks and Bayley’s tag team name. Yes, I’m being a dumb, stubborn wrestling fan. I’m aware of my own idiocy here. However, there is a lot going on, and we’re going to break it down. War Machine became War Raiders when Hanson and Rowe were signed to NXT. When War Raiders was called up for the Superstar Shakeup, not only was their tag team name changed to the aforementioned title which sounds like a ride at Disney World’s Epcot, but their individual names were as well. Hanson is now Ivar and Rowe is now Erik.
According to Mick Foley, who doesn’t work with WWE currently but has for decades in the past and understands the company’s inner-workings, he said in a tweet, “Anything with the word ‘war’ in it is just not going to fly in WWE in 2019.” By that logic, which is fair, why not just go with The Raiders? Yeah, it’s not great either, but it still acknowledges the past without completely turning them into a 1993 gimmick. The two built a bigger fanbase and made a name for themselves in NXT under the name War Raiders. If we really want to get to the root of this, WWE may have changed the tag team name and individual names to sever ties with their past in Ring of Honor and New Japan. However, the name change is silly. It’s like calling The Bar “The Foreign Villain Experience,” The Shield “The Walking Through The Crowd Experience,” or Shinsuke Nakamura and Rusev “Pot Luck Dinner.” I could do this all day.
Smackdown never gave Sanity a chance, and now, the stable is all but gone after Eric Young was moved to Raw this week. He didn’t get a match, though. He was briefly mentioned by the commentary team as part of the Superstar Shakeup. Everything about this points to Sanity being over with, as it was yet another NXT callup that was dead when it hit the water on the main roster.
Remember when WWE had a bunch of NXT superstars get called up but they were just jumping between shows randomly? Well, they all seem to have a home now, on Raw. Lars Sullivan, Lacey Evans, EC3, Aleister Black, and Ricochet were all officially added to the Monday night show on April 15. At least Smackdown will get Johnny Gargano, and hopefully Tommaso Ciampa when he’s healed up.
Currently, there are 10 tag teams on Raw. I could actually say 11, but I’m not sure if Fandango is still out because of surgery. Smackdown is left with three very solid teams (New Day, Hardy Boyz, and The Bar), three that never appear on television (The Good Brothers, The Colons, and Sanity), and one comedy act (Nakamura & Rusev). The Usos are the heart and soul of that show–no offense to New Day, whom I love. Smackdown has to start elevating their underutilized teams that already exist rather than overwork whoever they get during the Superstar Shakeup tomorrow, which will more than likely be The Fashion Police (my dream) and The Revival.
What is going on here? Everything about this screams Bray Wyatt, but a weird, watered-down, almost comedic version of that. It’s a vulture puppet in a box. Well, we got a new one this week, and it’s a bunch of dolls on a dark soundstage, and one of them is in a rocking chair. Does WWE need another wrestler on the roster? If this is Bray Wyatt, then what point is this trying to get across?
While there are a ton of whiny complaints in here, I am excited to see how all of this plays out. However, the first day of this can be hard to watch, as Smackdown is my preferred WWE show, and having to wait to see what happens while Raw’s roster is stuffed to the gills can be tough. Below, you’ll find the full list for wrestlers who were moved to Raw. Another surprise we haven’t discussed is Cedric Alexander coming over from 205 Live. Does this mean WWE is slowly going to get rid of the show?
Come back tomorrow for a full recap of Smackdown’s Superstar Shakeup.
Microsoft has announced the date and time for its Xbox E3 2019 Briefing.
The conference will once again be held at the Microsoft Theatre in LA in the traditional slot of the Sunday before the main E3 event. You’ll be able to watch online on June 9 at 1pm PDT (9pm UK, 6am AEST) via YouTube, Twitch, Twitter, Facebook, and Mixer.
Hub’s up, briefing’s set, and E3 is officially on the way!
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Amazon has offered some great deals on Apple products lately, and today the internet retailer is doing it again. The latest versions of the iPad Pro, both the 11-inch and 12.9-inch models, have dropped to their lowest prices ever. The only difference between the two is screen size. The display on the 11-inch iPad is already significantly bigger than a standard iPad’s 9.7-inch screen, but the 12.9-inch one is massive, which is perfect for things like work tasks, watching Netflix, and reading comics.
Kit Harington experienced a rather uncomfortable incident while filming one of the Game of Thrones Season 8 premiere’s biggest stunts.
Spoiler warning: episode details follow this video.
While filming the first episode of Season 8’s dragon riding sequence, Kit Harington was required to mount a ‘buck’; a mechanical moving stand-in for a dragon that is later transformed via the magic of visual effects. But while riding the buck during one take, Harrington suffered a… painful incident.
“There is a bit where Jon almost falls off the dragon and swings around really violently,” he describes in a YouTube video on the official Game of Thrones channel. “And my right ball got trapped and I didn’t have time to say ‘stop’.”
Final Fantasy XV director Hajime Tabata left Square Enix last year and announced a new studio, JP Games, in December. Now he’s revealed the studio’s first project.
JP Games is starting in high-profile fashion. The studio is developing The Pegasus Dream Tour, which is the official video game for the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. JP Games is developing the game with the International Paralympic Committee.
“I wish to thank everyone involved, who helped me up to this point and make this announcement today. You’ll be able to enjoy the game when the timing’s right in 2020. So stay tuned,” Tabata said in a post on Facebook.
The Pegasus Dream Tour is officially described as a “completely new sports role-playing game where players participate in a virtual Paralympic Games that takes place inside a fantasy metropolis known as Pegasus City.”
Players control characters who have special abilities known as “Xtra power.” The game is being made for “various platforms,” including smartphones.
International Paralympic Committee president Andrew Parsons said in a statement, “We are eager to explore innovative ways to engage with new and younger global audiences. We believe this game will help boost interest in the Paralympic Games and make it easier for people all over the world to enjoy and experience the heated atmosphere, passion, and excitement of the event.”
He added: “The sport at the Paralympics is outstanding and helps transform attitudes towards persons with disabilities like no other event. I am really excited to see and play this game and see how the outstanding abilities of Para athletes are represented.”
As for Tabata, he said, “This is not just an ordinary video game about sports. JP Games is going to represent fully the wonders that are unique to Paralympic sports in this brand-new role-playing game–a genre we excel in. With this video game, we want to contribute to the future growth of the Paralympic Games, not just as a sporting event, but as entertainment as well, with contents that we hope will have lasting value in the future.”