Our Week 10 Fortnite challenges guide includes vehicle timed trial locations and a viking ship, camel, and crashed battle bus map.
The Best Battery Cases for the Nintendo Switch
Don’t let a dead battery torpedo a Switch marathon. Here’s our picks for the best battery cases for the Nintendo Switch.
The Best Qi Wireless Chargers
If your phone supports wireless Qi charging you should be using it. Here are the best wireless Qi phone chargers available.
How to Save in Red Dead Online
Saving works a little differently in Red Dead Online. Learn a little more about it with this Red Dead Online wiki.
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle Review
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle begins an exclusive limited theatrical engagement on November 29, 2018 and launches globally on Netflix December 7.
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle is a somber, serious retelling of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, a tale which has become, for better or worse, inextricably linked in the public consciousness with Disney’s animated, family-friendly adaptation. Director Andy Serkis’ Mowgli intentionally avoids any such cuddliness in favor of a less playful coming of age story set in a world full of danger, where learning to keep your guard up is a key lesson for survival. Forgetting about your worries and your strife will get you killed in Andy Serkis’ Jungle Book.
Marvel’s Ironheart Rises Above its Shortcomings
Perhaps the defining challenge of this new era of Marvel is finding a way to balance a renewed emphasis on classic heroes, classic costumes and classic status quos with a sense of experimentation and risk. What happens to all those younger, more diverse characters like Miles Morales and Amadeus Cho and Riri Williams that were introduced or elevated to greater positions of prominence in recent years? Do they get shoved to the side now that Marvel’s core fan-favorites are back in the spotlight? Particularly in the case of Riri, is there a path forward for this character now that Tony Stark has reclaimed the Iron Man mantle and co-creator Brian Michael Bendis has jumped over to DC?
Marvel certainly seems to think so, as Riri is back in her own solo series thanks to the debut of Ironheart. And rather than put this character in the hands of another mainstay creator, they’ve brought in a new voice in poet/academic Eve Ewing. That’s probably a wise move on Marvel’s part. As much as writers like Bendis, Mark Waid and Jim Zub have done to flesh out this new heroine over the past couple years, it might be nice to get the perspective of someone who isn’t a middle-aged white guy for a change. Ewing does bring a fresh voice to Riri’s world, though one that feels as though it needs some time to coalesce.
Red Dead Online is Off To a Promising Start – Beyond 568
BEYOND!
On this week’s episode of IGN’s PlayStation show, Beyond!, Max Scoville is filling in for the usual host Jonathon Dornbush, and he’s joined by Brian Altano, Tina Amini, and Andrew Goldfarb.
The big topics this week are the beta for Red Dead Online, which is off to a considerably smoother start than Grand Theft Auto V had, half a decade ago. There are some rumors of a new Alien game being announced at The Game Awards, and Andrew is very excited about those new Persona dancing games.
Console Wars TV Series: The Battle Between Sega and Nintendo Gets Legendary Adaptation
Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo and the Battle that Defined a Generation, a novel written by Blake J. Harris, is being adapted into a television series.
Announced by Legendary, a deal has been finalized to develop the novel, with Jordan Vogt-Roberts (Kong: Skull Island) directing, and Mike Rosolio (American Vandal, Sean Saves the World) writing the pilot episode. Point Grey Pictures’ Seth Rogen, his long-time writing partner Evan Goldberg and James Weaver will executive produce. Point Grey’s TV credits include Preacher and Future Man.
The novel focuses on the behind-the-scene drama that occurred while Sega attempted to take on Nintendo throughout the 1990s. It follows Sega of America CEO Tom Kalinske as the infamous war between the two industry giants progressed, and includes stories of internal conflicts between Sega’s American and Japanese branches. The novel used various interviews with notable people involved in these events to create its plot.
Path Of Exile PS4 Delayed, And Here’s Why
The wait for Path of Exile on PlayStation 4 just got a little longer. Developer Grinding Gear Games has announced that the PlayStation 4 edition won’t launch in December as planned.
In a blog post, the developer apologised for the delay, and explained that the studio “underestimated the amount of work it would take to finish the certification process during the busy Christmas period.”
Grinding Gear is now expecting to finish the certification process by January, with the game potentially launching in early February on PS4. The studio won’t be sitting by idly twiddling its thumbs between now and then, as the studio said the extra time will allow the developer to further improve Path of Exile’s performance and frame rate for PS4.
“Again, we’re very sorry about this,” the studio said. “We promise that Path of Exile will be awesome on PlayStation 4 when it is released early next year.”
A free-to-play role-playing game, Path of Exile originally launched in 2013, and here at GameSpot we gave it our PC Game of the Year that year. The Xbox One version came out in 2017. In May 2018, Chinese internet and gaming giant Tencent acquired Grinding Gear Games, but the company claims to continue to operate independently.
While Path of Exile is no longer coming to PS4 in December, the game will welcome a new expansion, Betrayal, that month. For lots more, check out GameSpot’s in-depth coverage of Betrayal here, while you can check out the announcement trailer in the embed above.
South Park Takes a Major Nosedive
Warning: Full spoilers for the episode below.
Early on in this week’s South Park episode, we see Cartman ranting about ManBearPig, electric scooters, Black Panther being a lousy movie and pretty much every other recurring plot point from Season 22 so far. Cartman is sure it’s all somehow connected, even if he can’t quite put his finger on it. Cartman seems to be giving voice to the the frustrations of the South Park writing staff in that moment. They seem to want to tie together all the season’s loose ends in a neat little package. But it’s clearly not working, and the end result is the underwhelming “Buddha Box.”
“Buddha Box” tended to play to the show’s worst impulses in terms of taking good jokes and beating them into the ground until there’s nothing but dust left. Both halves of the conflict this week were basically one-note gags stretched well past the breaking point. On one hand, you have Cartman faking anxiety as a way of spending more time on his phone. On the other, you have the PC Babies crying at all the minor social injustices of the world. Neither plot point had nearly enough meat to support an entire episode.