The hype is building around Borderlands 3 as its September 13 release date draws closer, but if you haven’t had a chance to play any other games in the franchise or would be interested in owning them on PC, here’s a great opportunity: Digital PC key retailer Green Man Gaming is currently offering Borderlands: The Handsome Collection for only $3. That’s a full 95% off the bundle, which still sells for anywhere between $15 and $60 elsewhere. (Rather play on PS4? The Handsome Collection is also free on PS4 for PS Plus members in June.)
After purchasing, you’ll receive a Steam key, so you must have a Steam account to redeem. Borderlands: The Handsome Collection also has full controller support on Steam, if you prefer to use a controller over a mouse.
Borderlands: The Handsome Collection includes remastered versions of Borderlands 2 and Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, with the latter taking place between the events of Borderlands and Borderlands 2. The compilation includes all DLC for the games, including additional campaigns and playable characters. With online or local split-screen multiplayer for up to four players, Borderlands: The Handsome Collection is an excellent multiplayer game for anyone’s collection, although you can play it solo as well.
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In GameSpot’s Borderlands 2 review, the game received an 8.5. “Borderlands 2 doesn’t reach far beyond its predecessor’s scope, but it does do almost everything better,” wrote critic Chris Watters. “Additions, refinements, and fixes all combine to create an appreciably improved experience, one that fully delivers on the promise of the first game. While Borderlands felt empty at times, this sequel is bursting with content and brimming with life, making it an absolutely delightful way to spend hours and hours and hours of your free time.”
Meanwhile, Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel earned a 7 in its review. “Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel is different enough to separate itself from the shadows of its older siblings. Elpis provides some gorgeous scenery, and the low-gravity environments bring an exciting new dynamic exploration and combat,” critic Cameron Woolsey wrote. “No, it never reaches the furthest edges of space, but Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel still offers some the best of what the series has to offer: good loot, good laughs, and good times for many hours.”
Though Samuel L. Jackson’s Mace Windu definitely died in Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, the prolific American actor believes the purple lightsaber wielding Jedi isn’t gone. Revenge of the Sith is the third and final entry in the prequel trilogy releasing in 2005, meaning Windu would’ve been dead for a little over 14 years now. However, Jackson wants “one more run” as the Jedi Master and member of the Jedi High Council–who is absolutely still dead.
Jackson sat down with Stephen Colbert, where he was asked if he’d reprise any of his more iconic and memorable roles. To rapturous audience applause, Jackson said, “I’d really love to give one more run at Mace Windu in Star Wars.”
Windu battled Emperor Palpatine for a brief moment of flashy swordplay in Revenge of the Sith before getting his right hand chopped off and then being electro-blasted out of a window. A fall from such great heights would kill any normal human, and in response to Colbert questioning Windu’s survivability, Jackson said, “There’s a long history of one-handed guys that were Jedis that have lightsabers that still make it. Jedis can fall from incredible heights and not die, like cats.”
The epic space-opera is set to make a huge splash this year. In the video game department, Star Wars – Jedi: Fallen Order will launch on November 15 for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. Over on the film side, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker will debut in theatres on December 20. While Jackson won’t appear in either, he still has a busy second half of 2019, starring in Shaft (June 14), Spider-Man: Far From Home (July 2), and The Last Full Measure (October 25).
The professional wrestling industry is at a very interesting place in 2019, perhaps more exciting for sports entertainment than any other time since the Monday Night Wars (1995-2001) pitted Vince McMahon’s WWE (then WWF) against Ted Turner’s World Championship Wrestling. It’s this year that was founded by Jacksonville Jaguars co-owner Tony Khan, with a mission of offering wrestling fans a true alternative to WWE–and doing it on the biggest stage it possibly can.
AEW will debut a weekly show on TNT–former home of WCW–this fall and has some of the most popular and talented wrestlers from around the world signed to perform and help build the company. From former WWE stars Cody Rhodes and Jon Moxley (formerly Dean Ambrose) to independent luminaries like The Young Bucks and Christopher Daniels, AEW’s roster of talent is one of the most impressive in modern professional wrestling industry.
The most exciting member of the roster, though, is likely none other than Kenny Omega. At 35 years old, Kenny Omega has earned a reputation as one of the–if not the–best wrestlers performing today. His long stint in Japan earned him the nickname “Best Bout Machine” due to the high quality of his matches and now, as part of AEW, he’s ready to make his mark on an even bigger stage as both a performer and one of the company’s Executive Vice Presidents.
Omega stopped by the GameSpot Base Station at E3 2019, which you can see in the latest episode of Being the Elite below, and took some time to speak with us about a number of topics, including his upcoming match against Moxley at AEW’s All Out on August 31. “The problem is, is that he’s kind of coming into my world,” Omega said of the former WWE Champion. “And, I don’t want him to think that it’s going to be easy for him. I don’t want him to think that he’s going to get a free ride. You can talk the best game in the world. You can. You can brawl like the best of them. But the fact of the matter is, I made my name by being the best.”
Keep reading for Omega’s take on how AEW plans to be different from WWE, the link between gamers and wrestling fans, and the challenges of taking on a role on the business side of the wrestling industry.
GameSpot: You’re now on the other side of the first AEW show. What lessons did you take away from that as you’re going forward to now looking at launching a weekly program and a full company?
Kenny Omega: I mean, you really have to take a look at the good and the bad, the positives and negatives, and you have to be very constructively critical about your own performance. Now that we’re essentially running the show, we have to be critical about what we can improve moving forward. So for me, I’m a real tough critic of myself. And, so, I unfortunately always look at what can we improve moving forward. So, for me, some production issues. We can clean up some of the camera work. Some of the audio issues. I didn’t like that I could barely hear my theme music. You know what I mean?
But these are things that are such an easy fix. The things that we got right, were actually the hardest things on the show to get it right. We gave a full show, from start to finish, that looked completely different from start to finish. No one match appeared similar to one another. And especially the last three, four matches, they were all so visually different from one another. Different in feeling, different in atmosphere. And that’s something really tough to do in wrestling because when you really dumb down the idea of wrestling, and when you think of it at the bare-bones level, it’s… People think, “Okay, it’s two guys, and they’re oiled up, and they’re wearing Speedos, and they’re grappling with each other, rolling around.”
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Wrestling has evolved to a point where it could literally be anything, and that’s kind of what the whole idea of AEW was founded on, was that wrestling can be anything, and we can expand those ideas. We can expand the entire universe of wrestling beyond what people have come to expect and beyond what people are used to seeing, even. So, in America especially, people associate professional wrestling with one company. And that’s fine. That’s totally cool. We want to be an alternative to that, and we want to expand on that entire idea.
So if you like what they’re doing, that is great. I’m happy you love it. But, if you come over and watch what we’re doing, we’re going to give you not only what they’re doing, but we’re going to give you a bunch of flavors and types of wrestling that are much different than that. And I think, based on the first show, we’re on the right track.
Over in Japan, you were heavily just wrestling.
Kenny Omega: Right.
You’re now all diving into the business side, from putting the shows together to scouting arenas. What has surprised you about that side of the business?
Kenny Omega: Right. So what people don’t understand is that a lot of us, actually, that came from New Japan, that came from Ring Of Honor, we assumed a lot of responsibility there as well. I was kind of the driving force behind a lot of my storylines, behind a lot of my creative ideas. It’s the stuff that you don’t really see. I mean the tech stuff. Some of the set design. Those are things that are new to me, and even agenting matches or working on foreign visas, things like that, these are all things that are very new in my world, and these are the things that keep me awake at night. So, I mean, when we’re thinking about how to plan the show, what order things should go in, how to produce a show, timing-wise and all that, working on sponsorships, selecting the arenas, working on the advertising aspect of it.
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And then, you know for me, kind of being the sole Japanese liaison right now, not only am I having to do that during the day, during normal North American hours, I have to be awake for the Japanese time zone. And I have to work with our ladies and men up there to get their visas sorted out, to make sure that they’re feeling comfortable, make sure their flights and their travel’s squared up, hotels, et cetera, et cetera.
So it’s very mentally draining, and I’ve been very under-rested. And then on top of that, when you strip all that away, I was in the first main event, so I got to still worry about my own performance. It’s really tough, and I think when you burn the candle on both ends, eventually it’s going to start to show. My big worry was not that, “Can I do it or can I not do it?” Of course I can. But for how long? Because everyone has their limit. So, right now, we are understaffed. But every week that goes by, we’re finding new talented people. We’re configuring this team and building a team that really wants to join this project and be successful with us. So the first show, to get it all out, was a bit of a struggle. We did it. Next we’ve got Fyter Fest coming up. Already, we’re teamed up with CEO, so we have a lot of people in the [fighting game community], people from the 10-0 crew there that do hard work there, helping us put that together.
So, as time goes by, we’re getting help from the usual suspects but also unusual sources as well. And moving forward, before we hit TV, I think we’ll have our core crew assembled, and we’ll be ready to just hit it home.
Speaking of Fyter Fest, the crossover between wrestling fans and video game fans is insane. You have been able to actually use that as sort of building your character through your attire and your move set. What is it that makes both these two fairly different things appeal to the same exact people? Because I’m always surprised.
Yeah, you know what? It’s funny because I was really surprised myself. When I actually first contact Jebailey, who runs CEO, I said, “Hey, man. Look, I know you’re a wrestling fan, and I just want to know, is there space for me to join your tournament? Could I just come down and hang out? Could I compete in Street Fighter?” And he’s like, “Yeah, yeah, sure. Of course, you can.”
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And I just wanted to be a dude. You know what I mean? I want to try my hand to competing. We don’t have any locals, really, where I’m from in Winnipeg. No majors, especially. No premiers or majors. So I just wanted to go to what people would consider one of the more fun events. And when I showed up, thinking I was just going to be a guy, you know, I had people come to me telling me, “You know, I saw your match. I loved it. I saw this match. I loved it. You’re doing great stuff in Japan.” I was blown away. For this whole new community, this group of people that I’d never met before, they were so inviting and so kind. I just really felt like I found kind of a new family, in a way.
So that’s what sort of inspired Fyter Fest, and even the first CEO-cross-New Japan show. As a gamer, I can play at a decent level, but it’s not like I can offer groundbreaking tech. You know what I mean? I can’t offer things that are going to help people improve their game. I can’t offer new software. I can’t offer new hardware. So I thought, if there’s anything I can give back to the community, it’s my wrestling. So we planned the first ever crossover event last year. It was successful. And then this year, we just want to build on that and groove on it. And, hopefully, whether people are competing or non-competing or whatever, we can give them something to do at night, just to kind of relax and have fun and not worry about, you know, where their standings are or if they drown in pools or whatever. Yeah.
Looking at what you guys have coming up, you have, I believe at current, you have three upcoming shows already in the books and on the go. And you have the weekly TV show.
Kenny Omega: We do.
You mentioned something that stuck out to me about Double Or Nothing. That there was no match was like any other match on that card. How important is that, as you sort of move forward, and you have to move into? Because the other company has five hours of TV, every single week. That can get repetitive. How important is it to keep changing things up to stay fresh?
Kenny Omega: Absolutely. I appreciate all the genres of movie or television show or whatever. Sometimes I’m in a specific mood. Sometimes I want to be scared. Sometimes I want to laugh, sometimes I want to cry. But a lot of times, I would love to feel a broad spectrum of emotion with you. And I feel that when you achieve that, you can engage a larger audience, and you can keep them engaged. When I look at what makes a Marvel film entertaining… What makes them so popular? Why does everyone like them? Why do kids like them? Why do adults like them? Why is it the go-to film anytime a Marvel film is released? Well, it’s because there’s drama, there’s comedy, there are serious moments that make you angry. there’s serious moments that make you want to cry. It has all of those things, but at the end of it, it’s a story of good versus evil, much like professional wrestling.
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I think that’s very intriguing. This past show was the first time I’ve ever been exposed to the Joshi girls, and that was such an insanely different thing than anything I had experienced.
Kenny Omega: So, for me, there was a time when I was just disenchanted with professional wrestling. Nothing was doing it for me. I felt like I’d seen it all, and what people were giving me wasn’t what I wanted to watch, and it just didn’t seem interesting to me. It wasn’t until I discovered the Joshi, how the style differs, how you can feel the passion resonate in every match in their performance. That’s what brought me back into wrestling, and in a way, it almost kind of made me appreciate everything else as well. So what people don’t realize a lot of times is that there are so much different variety in professional wrestling, in the art of what we do.
People think that wrestling is one way and it has to be that way. A lot of promotions around the world condition you to believe that too. And that’s how they kind of build a fan base and make you believe that what they’re doing is the best out there. And I get that. But for me, I would love… Even if I’m a hot dog company, I still want you to have a burrito, I still want you to have a hamburger, I still want you to have a pirozhki or something. You know what I mean? All of the various cuisines of the world, I want that in my restaurant, so that when you look at the menu and say, “Okay. Well, I can have a hot dog with mustard, a hot dog with ketchup, hot dog with both,” but at the end of that, you’re just getting a hot dog. You know what I mean?
So I want to allow the world to sample the various cuisines of pro wrestling and enjoy them. And if you like one more than others, that’s fine, but guess what? You have all this other stuff, and I’m finding and scouring the earth for the best representatives of said talent. And for a lot of people, you know, they don’t really understand what true Joshi wrestling is like. I mean, sure, they’ve seen some talent from Japan in [inaudible] League. And they’ve got some of the best representatives on the planet, some of my favorites, some of my personal friends.
However, you don’t necessarily see them in their element. You don’t necessarily see them excel to the degree that they can excel in, which is why I brought out six very different Joshi stars, legendary stars, up-and-coming stars, you know, special interest stars. And we threw them all in one match and it was just, “Do your thing. Show us what you’re all about,” and that’s really the only guideline I gave them. It was just, “I want you guys to show what you’re all about and give the world a taste of what Joshi pro wrestling is.”
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Of course, I care about my own performance and when people tell me that I had a great match, but for people to tell me that, “Hey, I didn’t know who those girls were when they came out. I didn’t know what they were doing when they started the match. By the end of the match, I can say that it was really interesting and I respected it,” or, you know, “I want to see more of them,” that’s the greatest compliment that I can receive because that’s something that’s near and dear to my heart. And for people to kind of accept that as well, is the best news I can hear.
And lastly, it was announced that you’re fighting Moxley at All Out, which is very exciting. And he’s been someone who’s been very vocal the past few weeks about how this is his chance to sort of spread his wings and actually get to do the thing that he loves to do. What are your thoughts on this match, and how important it is, not even just for him and you but for the company as it’s moving forward?
Kenny Omega: Yeah, it’s crazy because I remember seeing him on TV. I saw something there. I knew that there was something magnetic about him, something special about him. WWE never showed it. And then when I see him nowadays, when I see these backstage promos, when I see the stuff that he’s done in Japan, when I see the stuff that he’s doing around the world, I see this new enthusiasm. I see the spark. I even see the physical condition that he’s in. It’s unlike anything I’ve ever seen. This is not the Moxley that came from that other place. This is a Jon Moxley that’s reborn. I have to assume that this is a new entity, that this is a new person, and he has a type of enthusiasm and that sort of never-say-die attitude. And, with the skillset that he has, that magnetic charisma, with that ability to sell a match with this promo skills, with that ability to be incredibly physical, he’s kind of like a new-age Terry Funk. You know what I mean? He brings something very new to the table that people clearly enjoy.
But the problem is, is that he’s kind of coming into my world. And, I don’t want him to think that it’s going to be easy for him. I don’t want him to think that he’s going to get a free ride. You can talk the best game in the world. You can. You can brawl like the best of them. But the fact of the matter is, I made my name by being the best. I made my name by having the greatest 20-minute matches, 30-minute matches, 60-minute matches, and I’ve shown that I can do it in all styles of professional wrestling. Now, finally, he has the platform to show if he can be that multifaceted tool. So this is going to be the grandest stage for him, and this is going to be the biggest test for him as well. Yes, he can brawl. Yes, he can talk. But now, can he wrestle? Now, can he win? Now, can he fight? Now, can he have the type of performances that AEW is going to command from him? This is the real test.
AEW’s next show, Fyter Fest airs June 29 on Bleacher Report Live. The event will stream for free.
Fortnite‘s Week 6 challenges have arrived on PS4, Xbox One, PC, Nintendo Switch, and mobile devices, which means you now have another chance to earn Battle Stars and level up your Season 9 Battle Pass. As usual, there’s an extra incentive to complete as many of these challenges as possible; if you clear all seven from a given week, you’ll also complete one of Season 9’s Utopia challenges, which in turn will lead the way to a secret item hidden somewhere in the game–including another Fortbyte.
Each Utopia challenge you complete in Season 9 will reward you with a special loading screen that contains a secret clue pointing you to a free item. Odd-numbered Utopia challenges will lead to a free Battle Star, which will level your Battle Pass up by one full tier; even-numbered challenges, however, will direct you to the aforementioned Fortbytes–a new type of collectible introduced in Season 9.
Fortbytes resemble computer chips, and each one you collect unlocks a portion of a larger picture. There are 100 Fortbytes in total, and while most of them can be acquired by achieving certain milestones, a handful are tied to Utopia challenges. That’s the case with Fortbyte #2. The clue for this particular chip can be found in the loading screen you earn for completing the Week 6 Utopia challenge–or, more specifically, its description, which reads, “Only the best snipers can take out a holo-clock tower lamp from the rooftops of Neo Tilted.”
Just as the description says, you’ll need to go to Neo Tilted to find this Fortbyte. The item will appear on top of the aforementioned clock tower, so simply make your way to the area to collect it. We’ve marked the Fortbyte’s exact location on the map below; you can also watch where we go to collect it in the video at the top of this guide.
Unlike secret Battle Stars, which will only appear once you’ve completed their corresponding Utopia challenge, this Fortbyte is available to everyone who has purchased a Season 9 Battle Pass, regardless of whether or not you’ve finished enough challenges to unlock the above loading screen. That means you can head to the right area and collect it without much hassle. If you do need help completing this season’s challenges, however, you can find tips and guides in our complete Fortnite Season 9 challenges roundup.
Week 6’s challenges arrived shortly after Fortnite’s 9.21 update, which added another new weapon to the game: the Proximity Grenade Launcher, a gun that lobs bouncing explosives at opponents. The Proximity Grenade Launcher comes in Epic and Legendary varieties and can be found in chests, supply drops, vending machines, or from Loot Carriers. The update also kicked off a new limited-time mode called Horde Rush, which features its own set of challenges to complete. You can find the full patch notes for the update on Epic’s website.
The upcoming 2020 follow-up to Ghostbusters will cap off some two decades of “true Ghostbusters sequel” talk. For years, original Ghostbusters co-star and co-writer Dan Aykroyd was quoted saying he was nearing production on Ghostbusters 3, an international take known as “Hellbent.” That would have taken the team into Scotland then back to a spirit-infested Manhattan (called “Manhellton” after a demonic takeover) with planned co-star Adam Baldwin in the villain role. “We kind of lost interest for a while there. After the second movie, it was successful, but everybody went on to new things,” Aykroyd told GameSpot during the lead-up to Ghostbusters Fan Fest in Los Angeles.
“We tried different stories. Nobody was happy with the story. I think Hellbent could have worked, but I had other collaborators there, and we were all a team. Harold [Ramis], Ivan [Reitman], myself, Bill [Murray]–no one found a story that we all liked,” lamented Aykroyd.
A well-received Ghostbusters video game came out in 2009 (and there’s an HD remaster due out soon). Aykroyd himself compares that to a third movie, although the script was internally written at developer Terminal Reality. All four stars–Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Bill Murray, and Harold Ramis–returned to their roles. A movie, however, wasn’t to be.
In 2016, Paul Feig directed a Ghostbusters reboot with Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones starring. Aykroyd was one of the executive producers. “I really liked the ladies’ movie. I liked the idea, and I liked the movie, I just wish that I’d been watching the economics of it, as one of the sets of eyes that was producing it,” said Aykroyd.
With a production budget of $144 million, the box office draw was $229 million worldwide. Despite that, thanks to a gargantuan marketing budget, Sony didn’t turn a profit. “You trust the director, and he had his vision, so we let him do his vision, and just economically, it stopped us from doing another ladies’ movie. I would have loved that, and maybe we will someday,” said Aykroyd. “Those are master comediennes there, and really, I think this thing’s going to do really well in DVD and ancillary, and they’re going to make their money back someday.”
Before release (and after too), the cast members became targets of online harassment. At one point, Leslie Jones deleted her Twitter account to get away from the hate. Aykroyd didn’t take the vitriolic response lightly when asked about it. “Everybody that is in comedy, everybody that knows a good performance, and anybody who’s a fan of those four ladies, just loved the picture, because they really delivered. Anything less than that, is simply just straight up prejudice and bias that should not be tolerated in any way, in my view,” he said.
In spite of the 2016 box office, a 2020 film is a go. The still untitled sequel will again see Aykroyd in a producer role, with Ivan Reitman’s son, Jason Reitman, directing. “Jason came up with this idea, which is just so good, everybody got it right away and understood. It will connect, better than anything, to the first movie,” said Aykroyd. “That’s about all I can say about it, but the two movies will connect, in a way that hasn’t been done before.”
With Wizard World’s Ghostbusters Fan Fest recently held on Sony’s studio lot in LA and a 35th anniversary SteelBook 4K Blu-ray release including both original films out now, Ghostbusters fandom doesn’t show signs of slowing down. There’s reason to be excited. Co-star Sigourney Weaver confirmed to Parade she is set to return as Dana Barrett in the new film. She’ll be joined by Bill Murray, and at Fan Fest, Aykroyd and Ernie Hudson were also confirmed.
In between movie roles, Aykroyd makes appearances to promote his Crystal Head Vodka. It’s clear to him the passion is out there. “Out of 300 or 400 people, there will be 20 or 30 Ghostbusters,” said Aykroyd, speaking about cosplayers who show up to his events. “10% come with suits, and full packs… that they’ve built off the internet. They’ve turned the family wagon into the Ecto 1 and 2. It’s so fun to see. They’ve got their kids dressed up as them, and they’re passing it on to a third generation.”
With the two originals, 2016, and untitled 2020 Ghostbusters, this will be a generation lucky enough to have four Ghostbusters movies carrying them through childhood, and likely leading to additional generations hooked on trapping spirits.
San Diego Comic-Con is just weeks away, taking place at the San Diego Convention Center between July 18-21. Each year, the show celebrates pop culture, focusing on movies, television, comics, and of course, toys. As far as collectibles go, the biggest name is still Funko Pops, and yes, the vinyl figure company will be there selling some exclusives.
Funko will be located at booth #3249 during SDCC. And the company will have some Pop vinyls you can only get at their booth. This year, they’ve revealed some cool toys featuring characters from Stranger Things, Marvel, DC, and more. And there is still more to be announced. We’ll be updating this gallery as more is revealed.
In order to get some of these Pops yourself, you’ll most likely need to get signed up in the online exclusives lottery. At this time, there hasn’t been any more info on this lottery, but it seems like the information will eventually be released on the Comic-Con website.
GameSpot will be at San Diego Comic-Con, so make sure to check back in during that weekend to see our interviews, pictures from the show floor, and whatever hijinks we get up to at the biggest comic book convention in the country.
For a limited time, Best Buy is offering discounts on certain Turtle Beach gaming headsets for PS4, Xbox One, and Windows PC. That discount ranges from $15 off the entry-level Stealth 300 models to $70 off the high-end Elite Pro 2 with SuperAmp. Turtle Beach is one of the premier manufacturers of dedicated gaming audio, often ranking among the best gaming headsets, and their headsets offer a combination of sound quality, comfort, and control that’s optimized for each platform.
A dedicated gaming headset can be one of the most essential accessories in any gamer’s collection, whether you’re a conscientious roommate looking to keep the noise down, an aspiring esports pro looking to communicate with your team, or an audiophile who wants to immerse themselves in your games’ stereo soundscapes. If you’re looking to trick out your setup, or that of a gamer in your life, check out our guides to essential accessories for the Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch, respectively.
E3 recently wrapped up in LA, but several sales on games, consoles, accessories, and more are ending soon, so check out all the best PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch deals while they’re still available.
During Bethesda’s E3 2019 presentation we got a good look at the upcoming first-person shooter Wolfenstein: Youngblood. Though this year’s E3 may have ended, news about the convention’s biggest games continues to trickle out. One such piece of information is the length of the Wolfenstein spin-off.
Machine Games’ executive producer Jerk Gustafsson sat down with GamesBeat to talk about Wolfenstein: Youngblood and discussed the new characters–BJ Blazkowicz’s twin daughters, Jess and Soph–the game’s length, and more.
GamesBeat asked Gustafsson just how long Wolfenstein: Youngblood is, to which Gustafsson said the game is the studio’s “biggest game yet, but it’s a pretty short production time.” Gustafsson said, “I think we’re looking at at least 25 to 30 hours if you play through everything.” He added that the “level progression and the non-linear narrative” makes the game longer than their previous titles. Game length statistic site How Long To Beat reports that Wolfenstein: The New Order and Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus both have main storylines that take approximately 11 hours to finish.
GamesBeat also asked how Machine Games settled on two-player co-op. Gustafsson said, “We know that Anya [Blazkowicz’s wife] was pregnant with twins. It made sense to do something fresh and new in the ’80s when the twins were older. We also wanted to do a story about growing up and the transition between adolescence and adulthood. Those were the main reasons for going with the two characters.”
Wolfenstein: Youngblood launches on July 26 for Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.
If you’re up for something new to watch on Netflix, but don’t know what to stream because you have no clue what’s new, and Netflix’s “New Release” section is relatively awful, don’t worry, we have you covered. Let’s take a look at what’s coming to the streaming service this week.
This is a big week for releases, with the most of it all coming on Friday. As far as non-Netflix originals go, on Sunday, the 2015 film Cop Car hit Netflix. The Kevin Bacon movie follows a police officer who finds two teenagers who have stolen his car for a joy ride. Additionally, the 2018 movie Big Kill arrives on Tuesday. The western follows a group of people in a boom town, and the adventures they have. The film stars Young Guns alum Lou Diamond Phillips.
As far as originals go, there are a few you may want to check out, like Season 2 of the Dark. The series follows a family in Germany, and there’s a whole supernatural twist tied to the series. The new season arrives on June 21. And if you’re looking for a new stand-up special to watch, as Netflix has a million of them, check out Adam Devine’s “Best Time of Our Lives.” In the stand-up special, Devine discusses his Pitch Perfect audition and his awkward celebrity encounters.
This is a much better week for anime fans, specifically those who love Evangelion. On Friday, The End of Evangelion, EVANGELION: DEATH (TRUE)², and Neon Genesis Evangelion will all be released. To see what else is coming out this week, you’ll find everything coming to Netflix below and make sure to see what else is coming for the rest of June.
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The Missing: Season 3 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
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Adam Devine: Best Time of Our Lives — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
