Category: Games

There are popular video games, and then there are games that absolutely take over Twitter. From memes to comics to fan art, two 2019 games are particularly big stars in this regard: Untitled Goose Game and Fire Emblem: Three Houses. I’ve seen my fair share of both Untitled Goose Game memes and incredible (or goofy or lewd) Three Houses fan art, but even then, I didn’t expect to see them combined into one perfect series.

Twitter user Sharlene (@parfait1807), an illustrator and my new hero, has imagined Fire Emblem: Three Houses in the Untitled Goose Game universe. In the series, which is currently eight different images, the goose steals Hero’s Relics from both Byleths and all three house leaders, poses for a painting for Ignatz, and runs off with Ferdinand’s wig, which is now canon as far as I’m concerned. You can see the full FE3H x Untitled Goose Game set in her Twitter Moment.

I also would like to point out that female Byleth’s patterned tights–a contentious feature of her standard outfit–say “HONK” all over them in this universe. That is definitely an upgrade and would get me to consider switching from the school uniform I currently have her dressed in.

If you’re looking for more Fire Emblem, Sharlene has posted quite a bit of Three Houses fan art (and jokes) without the goose as well. For more of the goose, be sure to check out our Untitled Goose Game review, in which James O’Connor said: “There’s nothing else quite like Untitled Goose Game; it’s charming and cute despite being mean, and both very silly and very clever. It’s also probably the best non-racing game ever to feature a dedicated ‘honk’ button.”

M. Night Shyamalan shares the premise of his new unsettling Apple TV seres Servant and explains why he thinks people will be cosplaying the show’s enigmatic central character.

Sony Pictures revealed the first footage from The Grudge remake at New York Comic Con 2019, which pays homage to some of the classic images from the previous movies.

Hasbro announced at New York Comic Con 2019 that the new line of Marvel Legends figures will include six-inch figures of Stan Lee.

Concrete Genie’s best idea – the one you’ll return to over and again across its six-hour runtime – is, for the most part, sort of optional. If you’ve seen anything from Pixelopus’ second game, you’ll have seen that idea in action: lead character Ash pausing his semi-open world platforming to daub living drawings across the sides of run-down buildings. Trees sprout and grow, 2D waterfalls pour from rooftops onto bobbing ponds, and stars sprinkle themselves across brick-backed skies like dropped glitter. Thing is, if you wanted to, you could cynically cover almost every wall in paintings of a few boring blades of grass and still be able to continue. But you won’t. More likely, you’ll spend far longer than is technically required in each area, creating shimmering landscapes across the length of this shuttered city, and for no reason other than your own satisfaction. This is Concrete Genie’s crowning achievement.

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Martin Scorsese is one of my 5 favorite living filmmakers. I was outraged when people picketed The Last Temptation of Christ without having seen the film. I’m saddened that he’s now judging my films in the same way. https://t.co/hzHp8x4Aj8

— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) October 4, 2019

That said, I will always love Scorsese, be grateful for his contribution to cinema, and can’t wait to see The Irishman.

— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) October 4, 2019

Unlike Apex Legends Season 2’s Iron Crown event, Season 3’s upcoming Fight or Fright event will, from the start, allow you to just buy any of its limited-time items. If you’re planning on unlocking them all, it’s cheaper to earn them via the random lottery of Apex Packs, though.

Fight or Fright adds 33 items to Apex Legends, including a new heirloom for Lifeline. Eight of the items can only be earned through completing challenges–these include a new music pack, three badges, a rare weapon skin, an epic Octane skin, and two legendary weapon skins. The remaining 25 are the items you can buy. 12 are an assortment of epic items, 12 are an assortment of legendary items, and the final item is the Lifeline heirloom; which can be unlocked via several different methods.

Of the 24 items you can buy, you can either earn them through direct purchase, crafting, or Apex Packs. The first two methods are ideal if you’re looking to only unlock a few items, while the third method is the most cost-effective for unlocking all 24. We’ve included a cost breakdown below.

Direct Purchase

• Legendaries – 1,800 Apex Coins
• Epics – 1,000 Apex Coins

Crafting

• Legendaries – 2,400 Crafting Metals
• Epics – 800 Crafting Metals

Event Apex Packs

• 700 Apex Coins

New items aren’t all that’s coming in Fight or Fright. For one, Kings Canyon is returning, but with a spooky, nighttime makeover in a limited-time mode called Shadowfall. In Shadowfall, you solo drop into Kings Canyon alongside 34 other people. If killed in Shadowfall, your loot box will spawn killer spiders and you’ll rise from the dead as a zombie-like creature that can run faster, climb higher, and punch harder. In this zombie state, you have unlimited respawns.

Your endgame goal is dependent on whether you’re still alive or a part of the walking dead. When there are only 10 living characters left, the survivors must work together to combat the horde of 25 trying to kill them. The 10 living Legends win if they can make it to an evac ship while the 25 zombies win if they prevent the survivors from escaping.

Fight or Fright begins October 15 and continues through to November 5.

Edward Norton recently opened up about his time playing Hulk in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, saying that Marvel liked the idea of, but ultimately abandoned, a darker and more serious sequel to 2008’s The Incredible Hulk.

In an interview with The New York Times, Norton began by discussing his thoughts on why he appreciates films like ‘Forrest Gump’ or ‘Rain Man’, those that “create an emotional alignment between the audience and an underdog whom you root for not despite their affliction but because of it. There’s a positivity in that.”

This, Norton continues, is in opposition to “now when at a mass-market level so much of heroism is being defined by this high-fructose corn syrup IV line that’s about sitting back and people coming in and saving us.”

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