biteho.com

DC’s Wonder Woman: Earth One saga is nearly complete, and IGN has an exclusive preview of the third and final graphic novel in the series.

Wonder Woman: Earth One Vol. 3 reunites writer Grant Morrison and artist Yanick Paquette for one last Wonder Woman epic. In this climactic chapter, Queen Diana is forced to lead the charge in defense of her homeland as Max Lord’s army of robots invade Themiscyra. Can Diana remain a force for love and peace when she’s forced to become the warrior her mother designed her to be?

Get a taste of what’s coming and see Diana interacting with Artemis by checking out the slideshow gallery below:

[widget path=”global/article/imagegallery” parameters=”albumSlug=wonder-woman-earth-one-vol-3-exclusive-preview&captions=true”]

For those not familiar with the Earth One line of graphic novels, they’re simialr to Marvel’s Ultimate Universe imprint in that they reimagine and modernize familiar heroes for a 21st Century audience, with some heroes changing more drastically than others. The Wonder Woman books offer a fairly unusual take on Diana and her world, as they draw heavy inspiration from the original Golden Age Wonder Woman comics and the themes of bondage and subservience that were so prevalent in the work of creator William Moulton Marston. The first volume even drew controversy for its depiction of Diana being the daughter of Hercules, a choice even Morrison admitted he “struggled” with.

“In this particular story I wanted that tension,” Morrison told IGN in 2016. “I wanted that push and pull, and I wanted Diana to be a bit more impure in the sense that, yeah, there is a little bit of masculinity that has been put into her. Originally, Hippolyta does it just for the reasons that Hercules’ DNA will then go on to destroy women, and there would be no more sons, as Hippolyta said. So it’s actually kind of an act of revenge. Diana is used as revenge on the battlefield, which to me seemed much more this sort of thing that people could relate to. She’s a character who’s so pure and so perfect that it seemed like we needed that little bit of dark in the character to give her a chance to grow and to think about things and change.”

Vol. 2 further shook up the Wonder Woman mythology by depicting long-time DC villain Doctor Psycho as a supervillain pickup artist and a critique of toxic masculinity.

“Part of it was my revenge on having seen [this level of manipulation] actually done to someone. You can see the narcissist type, the sociopath type and how easy it is for them get to people — people you wouldn’t even imagine could be that manipulated by anything,” Morrison told IGN in 2018. “It’s a very real problem for young people in the world. There are people out there who are quite willing to use these techniques so I kind of wanted to draw attention to it, but, you know, on the Wonder Woman scale where the guy is a supervillain. I wanted to put these paragon of femininity up against that threat and see how she deals with it — because even paragons of intelligence and grace I’ve watched having real trouble with people like this. Here are the techniques. If you see anyone using these techniques against you, the warnings should go off.”

[ignvideo url=”https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/12/15/wonder-woman-1984-review”]

You can check out IGN’s review of Wonder Woman: Earth One Vol. 1 and Wonder Woman: Earth One Vol. 2. DC is also finally releasing the third volume of Batman: Earth One in 2021, which will introduce a very different version of Two-Face and shed more light on this Bruce Wayne’s ties to the Arkham family.

[poilib element=”accentDivider”]

Jesse is a mild-mannered staff writer for IGN. Allow him to lend a machete to your intellectual thicket by following @jschedeen on Twitter.

Ubisoft has released the patch notes for the latest Rainbow Six Siege test server update. The update is live in the test server now, fixing a few bugs in the game.

Of note, the update addresses some issues tied to Aruni, Siege’s newest defender operator that was added in December 2020’s Operation Neon Dawn expansion. Aruni can erect a laser grid over doorways and windows with her Surya Laser Gate, denying an attacker operator’s entry and destroying projectile gadgets.

The update fixes a bug that was causing Surya Laser Gates to appear deactivated if players were over 20 meters away, which messed with the plans of both defenders and attackers. Additionally, a bug has been fixed that was causing Surya Laser Gates (as well as Kaid’s Rtila Electroclaw) to incorrectly pulse when disabled by Thatcher’s EMP Grenade or seen via IQ’s Electronics Detector.

Beyond Aruni, the update addresses an issue tied to destroying barricades by vaulting and a bug preventing IQ from detecting defender’s phones. All in all, it’s a small update, and in the full patch notes Ubisoft reminds players that “all changes made in the [test server] are for testing purposes and do not have any guaranteed impact on the live-servers.”

Rainbow Six Siege March 8 Update Patch Notes

Gameplay

• FIXED – When players vault over a prop or through an entryway in a wall, nearby barricades are destroyed.

Operators

• FIXED – Aruni’s Surya Gate appears deactivated to players over 20 M away.
• FIXED – Aruni’s Surya Gate and Kaid’s Rtila Electroclaw incorrectly display a pulsing effect when disabled by Thatcher’s EMP Grenade and viewed through IQ’s Electronics Detector.
• FIXED – Defender phones don’t display a pulsing effect when detected by IQ’s Electronic’s Detector.

We’re working really hard on Season 4 🚀
We’ve getting very close to launch and we know you’re going to LOVE it 🌚
On Monday 15th March, we’ll post the Release Date Trailer and trigger double Fame Points! 🆒😎

— Fall Guys 4041 🤖 SOON (@FallGuysGame) March 8, 2021

For Season 4, we’re traveling to the future…
🤖 FALL GUYS 4041 🤖
Giveaway to celebrate:
– Follow us and retweet this tweet
– Finish this sentence in your own words as a reply:#FallGuysSeason4 is
20 winners will get 20 crowns each! 👀 pic.twitter.com/USrruU7LtT

— Fall Guys 4041 🤖 SOON (@FallGuysGame) February 23, 2021

Master Chief actor Pablo Schreiber has said he won’t do an impression on the Halo TV show, suggesting he won’t try to replicate Steve Downes’ iconic voice from the video game series.

Writing on Twitter, Schreiber said, “I don’t do impressions, I play characters.” He said the video games focus on Master Chief the super-soldier, but the TV show will provide more depth and insight on the man under the helmet, John.

“I don’t do impressions, I play characters. While everyone knows the Master Chief, this show is an opportunity for all of us to get to know John,” he said. “Thank you for your kind words. We are all working incredibly hard to bring something to the screen that everyone can get behind.”

In 2019, it was teased by Showtime boss Gary Levine that Master Chief’s helmet would come off in the Halo TV show. That’s a big deal because Master Chief keeps his helmet on during most of the Halo video games.

As Schreiber is alluding to in his tweet, it appears the Halo TV show will focus more on John as opposed to Master Chief, so it makes sense that he wouldn’t be wearing his helmet the whole time.

Halo’s transmedia boss Kiki Wolfkill is heading up the production of the Halo TV show for Microsoft, and she recently spoke about how the program will take risks and present something new to fans–and fans may not like it.

“It’s amazing to have these dedicated fanbases and communities. But it’s also hard because there are so many diverse perspectives. At some point, you can’t satisfy all the voices. You need to have your own voice,” she said.

The Halo TV show stars Orange is the New Black’s Pablo Schreiber as Master Chief, with Californication’s Natascha McElhone as Dr. Halsey. Jen Taylor, who voices Cortana in the video games, will voice the character on the TV show as well.

The Halo TV show will premiere in 2022 on Paramount+.

As for the video game series, Halo Infinite launches this fall for Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. The multiplayer element will be completely free-to-play, while Game Pass subscribers can get the campaign at no extra cost.

Ahead of the start of Apex Legends Chaos Theory, Respawn has renamed the new Wattson legendary skin that will be added during the event. Previously announced as the rather problematic Charged Conquistador, the skin will thankfully now be called Chaos Conductor.

“Thank you to folks who reached out about it and kept us honest,” Respawn director of community and communications Ryan Rigney tweeted. “This was an oversight that shouldn’t have happened.”

Respawn’s decision seems inspired by folks pointing out how uncomfortable they were with Respawn naming one of Wattson’s skins after the conquistadors, a group of white colonizers who are well-known for conquering countries through murder and slavery, and killing thousands of people through the spread of diseases. It’s not a good label to give to any of Apex Legends’ characters.

“Definitely no ill intention, it’s one of those things that slip through the cracks,” Respawn design director Jason McCord tweeted. “We don’t have a lot of approval process around skins names, since we release so many.”

Chaos Theory begins March 9, launching alongside a Switch port for Apex Legends. The event introduces a major update, which transforms all four of the game’s defenders, including a new “selfish” passive for Wattson.

Just to set expectations: this is not happening. There are always things we have in the works, but nothing coming soon that would feature game announcements or world premieres like this. https://t.co/nO868SCbpZ

— Aaron Greenberg 🙅🏼‍♂️💚U (@aarongreenberg) February 28, 2021

Halo’s transmedia boss Kiki Wolfkill has shared a few small updates on the long-in-development Halo TV show. Speaking to IGN, Wolfkill said the Halo franchise as an FPS is limited in terms of its storytelling opportunity since the main storyline focuses on one character: Master Chief. But with the TV show, there is an opportunity to widen the franchise and look at more characters and plot points. The steps that Microsoft is taking with the Halo TV show may not please everyone, Wolfkill also acknowledged in the interview.

“In a first-person shooter, there is only so much of a character journey because of that wanting to maintain some of that character for people to pour into him or her,” she said. “So TV gives us a long form ability to really focus on character and story in a way that’s harder to relay in a first-person game.”

Wolfkill alluded to this previously, saying the Halo TV show will be similar to Game of Thrones in terms of the “scope and scale and complexity of relationships.”

“A lot of the background of Halo is this sort of political drama. It’s something that [is touched on] really lightly in the games and you see more of in some of the other mediums,” she said. “Some of that [Game of Thrones-style] complexity is interesting.”

Unlike Game of Thrones, however, the Halo TV show will not feature incest. “No incest planned at all for this show, I’ll say that. If you’re looking for that, you won’t find it here,” Wolfkill said.

Going back to the IGN interview, Wolfkill said it has been a “very long journey” to making the Halo TV show. The show has been in various stages of production for years, and it faced a setback recently when production was paused due to the pandemic. Filming has restarted in Budapest under certain health and safety protocols, Wolfkill said.

“We’re making progress. It feels good. We got a bunch of shooting done this winter in this post-COVID protocol world,” she said.

Wolfkill also spoke about the challenge of making the Halo TV show as it relates to expanding the universe beyond what Halo players might expect or feel comfortable with.

“It’s such an interesting needle to thread with beloved characters. How do you give a different perspective on them, how do you make their journey meaningful in a different way while respecting their past journey and the things that people love about the journeys they’ve been on already,” she said. “It’s a constant challenge; sometimes a struggle. There’s different burdens that will go onto the TV show than the game carries. So if we can navigate where we have a little bit of freedom to try and explore some different ideas or express a character differently, we try and take those.”

Wolfkill said she’s happy that Halo has such a strong fanbase and community, but this also presents a challenge.

“It’s amazing to have these dedicated fanbases and communities. But it’s also hard because there are so many diverse perspectives. At some point, you can’t satisfy all the voices. You need to have your own voice,” she said.

The overarching goal for the Halo TV show is for it to tell a story that fans enjoy and that doesn’t invalidate their feelings about the video game, Wolfkill said. “The hope is you can play the game and you can have this sense of who this character is, and you can love that, and then you can stop and put that aside and enjoy this other experience and get taken on a different journey,” she said. “And see that character in a different way without feeling like it’s impeding on the character you already have in your heart around the game.”

The Halo TV show stars Orange is the New Black’s Pablo Schreiber as Master Chief, with Californication’s Natascha McElhone as Dr. Halsey. Jen Taylor, who voices Cortana in the video games, will voice the character on the TV show as well.

The Halo TV show will premiere in 2022 on Paramount+.

Tornadus is back in Pokemon Go for a limited time. The Legendary Cyclone Pokemon has returned to five-star Raids as part of the game’s Season of Legends. Not only does this give you another chance to catch the Legendary if you’ve previously missed it, but this time around you’ll also be able to encounter its Shiny form. If you need some assistance, we’ve rounded up some tips to help you beat and catch Tornadus below.

Tornadus Raid Schedule

Incarnate Forme Tornadus is appearing in five-star Raid Battles again until 8 AM local time on March 11, giving you only a couple of days to catch it. Before you can participate in a Tornadus Raid, you’ll need to have either a Raid Pass (to join the battle in-person) or a Remote Raid Pass (to join the battle remotely). Both are available to purchase, but you can also get one Remote Raid Pass as part of Niantic’s free weekly item bundles, which are available in Pokemon Go’s in-game shop every Monday in March.

Following Tornadus’s departure on March 11, Incarnate Forme Thundurus will return to Raids until March 16. After that, Niantic will bring all three Forces of Nature back to the game in their Therian Formes–the first time these variants will be available in Pokemon Go. Therian Forme Tornadus will appear starting March 30.

How To Catch Shiny Tornadus

As previously mentioned, you’ll have a chance to encounter Shiny Tornadus during its current stint as a Raid boss. However, your odds of finding one are fairly small, and there’s no way to tell if Tornadus is Shiny until you’ve beaten it in battle and made it to the catching phase. If you’re looking to catch a Shiny version, your best chance is to participate in as many Tornadus Raids as you can before the Legendary leaves the game again.

Tornadus Weaknesses And Counters

Unlike the other two Forces of Nature, Tornadus is a pure Flying-type Pokemon, which makes it vulnerable only to Ice, Rock, and Electric types. Any Pokemon of those types will be especially helpful when you’re battling the Legendary, but you can see some solid recommendations for each below:

• Ice: Lapras, Mamoswine, Glaceon, Weavile, Kyurem, Galarian Darmanitan
• Rock: Golem / Alolan Golem, Tyranitar, Rhyperior, Rampardos, Omastar, Regirock
• Electric: Zapdos, Mega Ampharos, Raikou, Electivire, Luxray, Zekrom

Types To Avoid

Flying Pokemon have an advantage over Fighting, Bug, and Grass Pokemon, so you’ll want to avoid using monsters of those types when battling Tornadus. The Legendary may also have a Dark- or Grass-type attack at its disposal, which is something to keep in mind if you bring along Rock, Ground, or Psychic Pokemon.