Author: Trafficblast

Spike Lee delivers a funny, frightening and fascinating true story about a black detective who went undercover with the Klan.

A look back at 2001’s Ghost World reminds us that it doesn’t matter how people engage with culture, pop or otherwise, as long as they get something out of it.

Strategy and material drop chances for every large monster in Monster Hunter World.

We’re back at it again with the Black Ops 4 beta, this time with a keyboard and mouse. The PC beta begins this Friday, and we’ll be there with our loadouts ready as we prepare to stream two hours on IGN Plays Live.

So join us Friday, August 10 from 11am-1pm PT/2-4pm ET/7-9pm UK (Saturday, August 11 from 4-6am AET), right here on the front page of IGN.com, or on YouTube, Twitch, or Mixer.

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in a world where audiences will watch just about anything with a shark in it, ridiculous shark movies are thriving. Not standard ridiculous shark movies, like The Meg, but shark movies with a premise so absurd it would have been rejected from the writers room on Saturday Night Live a few decades go. And although many of these shark movies know how ludicrous they are, they’re still spending lots of time and money (okay, okay, “lots” is relative) to turn some truly nonsensical ideas into a reality.

Here, then, are our picks for shark movies that couldn’t possibly be real, but totally are.

Watch our review of The Meg above.

The 2-Headed Shark Attack Series

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During a recent Nintendo Direct, the director of the Smash Bros. franchise Masahiro Sakurai announced the addition of Simon Belmont to the roster of his upcoming game. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate arrives on Nintendo Switch later this year, but the reveal gave us a preview of what to expect from Castlevania’s finest whipmaster.

You can watch the trailer embedded below, and we’ve broken out five moments in the trailer that demonstrate moves we expect will be key to playing Simon effectively in Ultimate.

In this first highlight, we get to see what could be Simon’s horizontal smash or his Forward + B attack. The range looks incredible, as Simon’s whip significant outranges Corrin’s already long spear smash.

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Marvel Rising is the latest attempt by the titular entertainment juggernaut to appeal to its shifting consumer demographics, specifically the rising tide of next-generation female superhero fans. Planned as a multi-platform franchise targeted primarily at tweens, this new flagship universe is kicking off with a series of animated shorts that will tie into an 80-minute television movie premiering this fall – and there will undoubtedly be more to come should the endeavor prove successful.

While all this new attention for female heroes is wondrously luxurious, it could run the risk of feeling a little pandering, and perhaps too little, too late, given how long audiences have waited for heroines like Captain Marvel and Black Widow to get their own solo movies. Yet Marvel Rising: Initiation (a six-episode series of shorts that set the stage for the Marvel Rising: Secret Warriors movie), thankfully manages to sidestep those concerns, as the end result genuinely feels like a much-needed breath of fresh air for Marvel, and a promising sign for its future endeavors.

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