Extra Life 2019: Hatsune Miku And Persona Rhythm Game Jukebox Segment

Here at GameSpot, we’ve participated in Extra Life charity streams for several years to help raise money for kids in need at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, and this year is no different. Of the many wild and fun segments we have planned for our 72-hour livestream marathon, we present to you: The Hatsune Miku And Persona Rhythm Game Jukebox Session!

We’ll be dancing and jamming this Friday, October 25 at 6PM PT / 9PM ET and will go for two hours for this particular segment. I, Michael Higham, will be hosting while playing songs from five different rhythm games: Hatsune Miku: Project Diva Future Tone, Hatsune Miku: Project Diva X, Persona 3: Dancing In Moonlight, Persona 5: Dancing In Starlight, and Persona 4: Dancing All Night (all on PS4).

Here’s where you come in. If you donate $10 to our Extra Life campaign, you can request a song for me to play from any of those five games. On our donation page, you can leave a note/comment, which we will read off and curate the songs to play. Make sure that the tracklists from these games feature your favorite Miku or Persona song(s), and I’ll be happy to play the song(s) and try my best to get a perfect combo on hard difficulties. (Note that DLC songs may not be available and conditions are subject to change.)

There are few things I love more than Persona, Miku, and rhythm games, so I’m calling on all fellow Persona and vocaloid fans to join in!

Our 72-hour Extra Life live streamapalooza kicks off Friday, October 25 at 12PM PT (noon) / 3PM ET and will not stop until October 28 at noon PT / 3PM ET. Hang out in the chat, and watch several of GameSpot’s staff play games and get silly; your donations will also contribute to getting us to do questionable things, which you can check out in our “Extra Life Battle Pass” (yes, we have a “Battle Pass”).

Please visit our official Extra Life 2019 campaign page. And remember, your generous donations are FOR THE KIDS! We look forward to putting on a show for you all this weekend.

WandaVision (and the Comics That Could Inspire It) Explained

WandaVision is the most mysterious Marvel project in development for Disney+. When the series was announced, Marvel’s Kevin Feige hinted, “WandaVision will be unlike anything we’ve done before.” Actor Paul Bettany, who plays Vision, doubled down on that promise, telling IGN simply, “It’s super avant-garde and weird.”

So what do we know about WandaVision so far? And which books from Marvel Comics could play a part in inspiring it? Let’s take a look at the intertwined lives of Wanda Maximoff and the Vision to get an idea of where this unique series might take Marvel fans. These are the topics we’ll be covering here:

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Jedi: Fallen Order Is Shaping Up to Be a Game of the Year Contender

Beyond!

On this week’s episode of IGN’s weekly PlayStation show, Podcast Beyond, Brian Altano returns from his trip to Batuu to join host Jonathon Dornbush, Lucy O’Brien, and Max Scoville to regale them with his thoughts of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. Brian got to play three hours of the upcoming single player Star Wars adventure and offered his impressions, addressed fan concerns about his preview, and discussed whether Jedi: Fallen Order is shaping up to be a Game of the Year contender.

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WWE 2K20 Review

WWE 2K20 is a mess. The pro wrestling series has never been known for its polish, but this year, just about every issue that has plagued WWE 2K is even worse. It’s bursting at the seams with bugs; many of its character models look even uglier than they already did last year; the lighting effects glitch constantly; there are virtually no noteworthy improvements to the actual wrestling, which feels woefully outdated at this point; its biggest new feature, the 2K Originals, is locked behind DLC and isn’t playable at launch; the MyCareer mode retains all of the same problems as last year but with none of the charm; and, perhaps worst of all, the collision detection and targeting is somehow way worse than ever before.

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The Countdown To Wonder Woman 1984’s First Trailer Has Started

The wait for Patty Jenkin’s Wonder Woman follow-up, Wonder Woman 1984, has been considerably longer than anticipated, given the movie’s delay from a release this year to June of 2020. But the good news is the light at the end of the tunnel is fast approaching. Warner Bros. has announced its plans for a special showcase presentation at Brazil’s Comic-Con Experience or CCXP on December 8 where the film’s first trailer will be shared.

The special presentation will also feature a Q&A, presumably with Wonder Woman 1984’s cast like Patty Jenkins, Gal Gadot, and Chris Pine, as well as other “big surprises,” so start revving your theory-building engines now. For those unable to make the trip to São Paulo this December, the event will be livestreamed on Twitter under the @WonderWomanMovie as well as the @TwitterMovies usernames.

Wonder Woman 1984 hits theaters on June 5, 2020.

All Rainbow Six Siege Halloween Skins From Doktor’s Curse Event

Every Confirmed Actor and Character in Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings

Fans of classical fantasy haven’t been able to revisit J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings universe in live-action since 2014, when the last Hobbit film was released. Thankfully, Amazon is producing a full-length television series set in Middle-earth’s Second Age, starring a whole new cast of characters that we’ve yet to see onscreen. (Well, most of them, if rumors of a young Aragorn showing up are true.) As the show’s development speeds up, there’s been a bit of casting news to give us little hints of where this Lord of the Rings series’ plot may go. So we went ahead and rounded up every confirmed character and actor that’ll be playing a role, as well as a few players from the movies who’ve confirmed that they’re not coming back.

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Pulp Fiction Turns 25: All The Easter Eggs You Never Noticed In The Tarantino Classic

Star Wars: Location Where Death Star II Crashed Identified

Star Tours – The Adventures Continue will soon be adding a brand new destination from Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, and that new location is none other than the ocean moon Kef Bir, the very location where the Death Star II crashed following the events of Return of the Jedi.

Disney Parks Blog revealed the news that Star Tours in Disneyland Resort, Walt Disney World Resort, Disneyland Paris, and Tokyo Disney Resort will be adding the previously unnamed ocean moon that we’ve seen from The Rise of Skywalker’s trailers as a destination on the same day as the release of the film on December 20, 2019.

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