Moons of Madness Review

You can tell that a lot of great Lovecraftian games are crafted with love for the 20th century writer’s vision of horror, but Moons of Madness often feels more like an interactive movie than a video game.  And I can’t help but wonder if it could have been more successful if it were. The story is decent though unfocused, but it suffers from the presence of gameplay that’s rarely more than busywork and often left me feeling as cold as the planet it’s set on.

Lovecraft and the cosmic-horror genre have found a comfortable home in video games. The early 20th century Massachusetts writer’s ideas have formed the basis of plenty of them in recent years, including Bloodborne and The Sinking City, but in Moons of Madness, developer Rock Pocket Games takes the ideas of the Ancient Ones in space to its logical endpoint by just putting you on Mars.

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Destiny 2 Shadowkeep – Festival Of The Lost Haunted Forest Full Gameplay

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A New Game Of Thrones Prequel Announced For HBO

It’s been a wild day for Game of Thrones, with one prequel show getting the ax and another one getting the greenlight. Revealed during the WarnerMedia investor event, which mainly covered the upcoming streaming service HBO Max, the Game of Thrones prequel series, House of the Dragon, will getting a 10-episode series.

The story will be based on George R.R. Martin’s book Fire & Blood and take place 300 years prior to the events of Game of Thrones. The series will tell the story of House Targaryen.

“The Game of Thrones universe is so rich with stories,” explained Casey Bloys, president of HBO programming. “We look forward to exploring the origins of House Targaryen and the earlier days of Westeros along with Miguel, Ryan and George.”

Miguel Sapochnik (Game of Thrones, House) will direct the pilot and additional episodes for the series. Saopchnik will serve as showrunner alongside House of the Dragon writer Ryan Condal (Rampage).

No news as to when House of the Dragon will debut on HBO.

HBO Max Acquires the Exclusive Streaming Rights to South Park

WarnerMedia has just announced that its upcoming HBO Max streaming service will be the exclusive streaming home for every season of South Park. Also, new episodes of South Park will be available on HBO Max 24 hours after they premiere on Comedy Central.

During today’s WarnerMedia Day presentation, HBO Max chief content officer Kevin Reilly announced a multi-year licensing deal between WarnerMedia and South Park Digital Studios. South Park’s streaming rights were reported to have kicked off a competitive bidding war that valued the deal at around $500 million. Every episode of South Park will be available in June 2020, a month after HBO Max is set to launch in May 2020.

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HBO Max Release Date And More Info Revealed

HBO Max is coming soon, and the next big streaming service is combining all the content from WarnerMedia. There is a lot coming to the service, and we now know when HBO Max is launching.

During the WarnerMedia investor call, it was revealed that the new streaming service, HBO Max, will be arriving in May 2020. Originally, the street date was simply Spring 2020.

Chairman of WarnerMedia and Entertainment, Bob Greenblatt explained that HBO Max will host the entire HBO service, original content–which includes whatever JJ Abrams is working on, along with a Gremlins animated series–selections from the Warner Bros. library, and more.

HBO Max will have 10,000 hours of content and Greenblatt explained that they’ve removed what he considered “filler” so users wouldn’t spend so much time searching for something to watch. This will be a curated library, which also includes human curation as well.

Every episode of The Big Bang Theory, Friends, and 50 seasons of Sesame Street will be available on the service, along with every Warner Bros. Batman and Superman movie. Additionally, Joker will be on HBO Max at launch. Over 300 episodes of South Park will be available shortly after launch, as HBO Max dives into more adult animated series, this includes anime, as HBO Max is partnering with Crunchy Roll for curated lists.

As for original series, HBO Max will have 31 originals in 2020, and the service will up that number to 50 in 2021.

More is developing with information on HBO Max, so stay tuned for updates.

HBO Max to Launch in May 2020 in the US

HBO Max finally has a firm release window. WarnerMedia has revealed that their streaming service will launch in the US in May 2020.

HBO Max will launch with approximately 10,000 hours of content, featuring a mix of original projects and a hefty lineup of library and acquired programming.

This news comes out of WarnerMedia’s HBO Max presentation. Stay tuned to IGN for more news from the presentation, as WarnerMedia sheds more light on the original projects in the works for HBO Max. For now, here’s everything we know that’s coming to the service.

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GTFO: 8 New Minutes of Developer Gameplay

After being unveiled at The Game Awards last year, GTFO has been eagerly anticipated as an Aliens-ish, four-player player-versus-enemy first-person shooter.

Little had been heard about it for much of 2019, but that has started to change recently. First, we exclusively went hands-on with the latest build and posted a four-player video (see the bottom of this page). And now, the developers at 10 Chambers Collective are showing off eight new minutes of their own gameplay from GTFO, which is due out sometime in 2020. Check out the video at the top of the page.

And here’s the aforementioned exclusive 15-minute gameplay video we made recently, showing off four-player gameplay:

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EA Won’t Release a Battlefield Game Next Year, Breaking Usual Cycle

In the company’s earnings call Tuesday, EA announced that it will not release a new Battlefield game next year. This is the first time EA has broken the usual one-and-a-half to two-year cycle between Battlefield games since Battlefield: Bad Company.

Games industry analyst Daniel Ahmad of Niko Partners noted that EA confirmed it will release the next Battlefield game will ship in fiscal year 2022, which begins April 2021 and ends March 2022.

EA also confirmed that Apex Legends would be its primary focus (as far as shooter games) for 2020. EA confirmed Apex Legends had reached 70 million players, with season 3 performing better than previous seasons. EA is planning on porting Apex Legends to mobile and “other” platforms, as well as making inroads with China’s video game industry and esports industry.

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