The Detective Pikachu movie was heavily inspired by its video game predecessor, but in the process of making it to the big screen, plenty of details about Tim and Pikachu’s adventure were changed – though I’d argue many of the changes made their story better for the movie.
This list of changes and similarities was put together based on the most impactful changes to characters and the story.
Warning: this article contains spoilers for Pokemon: Detective Pikachu and Detective Pikachu the game!
Designing and developing a game is daunting enough, but for many studios the process doesn’t end with its release. These days, games are supported as services, with new content offered to ensure that players stay engaged for months, and sometimes years, on end. Overwatch is one such game. The competitive multiplayer shooter initially launched in May 2016, but in the time since has transformed into a much bigger experience.
One way developer Blizzard Entertainment has kept interest in Overwatch healthy is through the introduction of new heroes. These characters come with unique abilities to learn and nuances to understand. They often feel and play like no other hero on the roster, which means finding their place within the broader experience, without upending it, is a delicate process.
That job falls on Geoff Goodman, among others. As lead hero designer on the Overwatch team, he’s at the forefront of coming up with new hero designs, refining them, and implementing them, as well as ensuring that they’re balanced properly. The process is complicated and, in Episode 4 of Audio Logs, Goodman walks us through the process using the latest hero, Baptiste, as a case study.
In the video, you’ll get to see Goodman talk about the origins of Baptise as a prototype hero called Gadget, then go on breakdown each of his abilities, how they were conceptualized, the considerations put into how they’d work, and the process of iteration that transformed them into what we see in the game now.
If you’re a fan of Overwatch or have an interest in competitive multiplayer games, whether that’s fighting games, shooters, or strategy games, it’s a must-watch.
Audio Logs is a weekly show where the people behind the games we love tell us the stories of how they’re made. You can watch more episodes of Audio Logs on YouTube. We’ve got God of War director Cory Barlog breaking down one of the game’s most impactful scenes; Cuphead’s lead game designer, Jared Moldenhauer, talking about the inspirations for King Dice’s Dice Palace; and Dead Cells’ game designer Sebastian Benard revealing the amazing design tricks they used to make the game super satisfying to play.
Be sure to subscribe to GameSpot on YouTube to see more episodes as they’re released. You won’t want to miss it!
SPOILERS AHEAD for Avengers: Endgame.
In Captain America: The Winter Soldier, it was revealed that Captain America’s love, Peggy Carter, was married and had two kids. According to Avengers: Endgame writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, the man she married was the Captain America from the main MCU timeline who went back in time at the end of the film.
Speaking to Patrick Shanley of The Hollywood Reporter, Markus and McFeely said that while they can’t decide Marvel’s future plans, especially with time travel now in play, it was their “intention that he was always the father of those two children” after marrying the love of his life.
Pottermore and Warner Bros. announced Saturday a new, joint relationship to release Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts content online under one roof, called Wizarding World Digital.
The news came in a statement from Pottermore, which detailed that all quizzes, features, and articles will be moved over to WizardingWorld.com around May 15, and that Wizarding World Digital will be managing both sites from then on, including Pottermore.com.
“Be on the lookout for even more digital experiences brought to you by Wizarding World Digital – a new joint venture between Pottermore and Warner Bros.,” the statement read. “We can’t wait to share what we’ve been up to…”
Full spoilers ahead for Avengers: Endgame!
The consequences of using the Infinity Gauntlet in Avengers: Endgame are already being depicted on the big screen, as the new trailer for Spider-Man: Far From Home revealed that the Snap damaged the fabric of reality enough to expose the existence of a multiverse.
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Howdy ho, weekend internet users! Welcome back to another brand episode of Up At Noon, IGN’s premiere comedy variety show and/or weekend nonsense programming block for designated horsin’ around.
If you somehow missed the previous episodes amidst the constant deluge of granular Avengers: Endgame explainers, breathy Game of Thrones think-pieces, hard-hitting Detective Pikachu deep-dives, and frothy Sonic The Hedgehog manifestos… Well, Up At Noon is back. The three previous episodes can be found here, here and here.
If you take a trip across the pond (or simply browse through one of your streaming providers), you’ll find that the UK has no shortage of marvelous cop thrillers: Luther, Sherlock, Happy Valley, Broadchurch, Marcella, Endeavour, etc. And if you’ve never heard or seen any of the aforementioned series, we highly recommend checking them out.
Line of Duty is another critically-acclaimed UK cop-drama that will make its Season 5 US debut on AcornTV on Monday, May 13. Per AcornTV, “In Season 5, Stephen Graham stars as John Corbett, the ruthless leader of an Organized Crime Group (OCG) who hijack a seized drugs transport. AC-12 investigators Superintendent Ted Hastings (Adrian Dunbar), Detective Inspector Kate Fleming (Vicky McClure) and Detective Sergeant Steve Arnott (Martin Compston) suspect corrupt police officers of leaking information. As the body count rises, AC-12 realize they’re facing their most vicious adversary yet.”