Reign of the Supermen Exclusive Trailer Debut

Reign of the Supermen is the upcoming sequel to 2018’s The Death of Superman, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment’s animated adaptation of the classic DC Comics storyline. You can watch IGN’s exclusive trailer debut for Reign of the Supermen in the player above or embedded below.

The film, which is slated to arrive on Blu-ray and Digital in early 2019, picks up after the events of The Death of Supermen where a world without the Man of Steel is suddenly populated by several mysterious Supermen: Steel, Cyborg Superman, Superboy, and The Eradicator.

In the meantime, Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen and even the villainous Lex Luthor are left to ponder what to do about these new Supermen who have arrived on the scene. The cast of characters also includes the Justice League, Cat Grant, and G. Gordon Goffrey.

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Halloween: Jamie Lee Curtis Tells Us Which Records It’s Broken

Halloween has had one of the best openings for an October movie ever, but star Jamie Lee Curtis wants fans to look beyond its $77.5 million USD in opening weekend sales.

“OK. I’m going for one BOAST post,” Curtis recently tweeted, listing the new film’s accolades. “Biggest horror movie opening with a female lead. Biggest movie opening with a female lead over 55. Second biggest October movie opening ever. Biggest Halloween

opening ever.”

In the film, Curtis reprises her role of Laurie Strode from the 1978 original. Halloween smashed the franchise’s previous record holder, Rob Zombie’s 2007 remake of the ’78 original, which took in $26 million USD.

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Black Ops 4 Will Receive ‘Several’ Updates to Improve Network Performance

Since Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 launched last week, some players have experienced issues with network latency that have kept them from fully enjoying its online multiplayer modes. However, developer Treyarch plans on this being a temporary problem, as the studio is currently working on a fix.

“For a game launch with as massive a population as ours hitting so many global servers at once, we configure our infrastructure to ensure game stability as the highest priority over all other factors,” Treyarch said on Reddit. “Now that we’re past the initial launch of the game, we are focusing on fine-tuning network performance across the globe, using the real-world data we have collected.

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Netflix Has Renewed Disenchantment for 20 More Episodes

We’ll be spending a lot of time in Dreamland over the next three years; Netflix has renewed Disenchantment for 20 more episodes, in addition to the 10 episodes still remaining in Season 1 that have yet to premiere.

The rest of Season 1 will debut in 2019, with 20 new episodes rolling out over the course of 2020 and 2021.

Creator Matt Groening gave a statement to accompany the news: “We’re excited to continue this epic journey with Netflix. Stay tuned for more cranked-up suspense, infuriating plot twists, and beloved characters getting knocked off.”

Disenchantment follows the misadventures of hard-drinking young princess Bean (Abbi Jacobson), her feisty elf companion Elfo (Nat Faxon), and her personal demon Luci (Eric Andre). Along the way, the oddball trio encounter ogres, sprites, harpies, imps, trolls, walruses, and lots of human fools. Other members of the voice cast include John DiMaggio, Billy West, Maurice LaMarche, Tress MacNeille, David Herman, Matt Berry, Jeny Batten, Rich Fulcher, Noel Fielding, and Lucy Montgomery.

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Fallout 76 Factions Revealed, Including The Enclave

When you emerge from your vault in Fallout 76 you will be given many choices on how to survive and thrive in the wasteland. One of these choices will be your decision to side with or against various factions that will inhabit the world with you.

Announced via Fallout’s Twitter, five factions have been revealed and while some are familiar – Brotherhood of Steel, Enclave, and Raiders – two new factions will also vie for your attention – the Free States and the Responders.

The Brotherhood of Steel, formed by Captain Roger Maxson in November 2077 in a “Californian bunker of Lost Hills,” used a satellite to help spread their reach, and that influence and message made its way all the way to West Virginia.

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Devil May Cry 5’s Ultra Limited Edition Costs $8,000

Cosplay isn’t cheap, and Capcom Japan is taking that to the next level with the Devil May Cry 5 Ultra Limited Edition.

Created for the most dedicated Devil May Cry fans, the Ultra Limited Edition comes in three varieties and will set you back as much as $8,000 USD (£6,100 / $11,100 AUD).

As first reported by Eurogamer, the three versions of the Devil May Cry 5 Ultra Limited Edition – currently sold only by Capcom Japan – each include a jacket worn by one of the game’s three playable heroes, Nero, Dante, and V.

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Top New Games Releasing On Nintendo Switch, PS4, Xbox One, And PC This Week — October 21-27

This episode of New Releases has some great picks for both fantasy and anime fans with Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales and My Hero One’s Justice. October is also the perfect time to jump back into Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and Rondo of Blood in the new Requiem collection, or you can just boogie down with Just Dance 2019. Oh, and a little game called Red Dead Redemption 2 is launching this week. Maybe you’ve heard of it.

Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales — October 23

Available on: PS4, Xbox One, PC

Once the single-player campaign of the Gwent spinoff, Thronebreaker has become its own full-fledged adventure. You’ll be engaging in card battles and solving puzzle as Meve, the queen of Lyria and Rivia. With multiple endings, her story is one you’ll probably want to shuffle through a few times.

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Just Dance 2019 — October 23

Available on: PS4, Xbox One, 360, Switch, Wii U, Wii

Yep, there’s a notable game coming to the Wii this week. Just Dance 2019 continues the series’ trend of getting down with either motion controls or your smartphone. This year’s game includes hits from the likes of Ariana Grande, Britney Spears, Maroon 5, and many more.

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Red Dead Redemption 2 — October 26

Available on: PS4, Xbox One

There’s almost too much to say about Red Dead Redemption 2 in a simple paragraph. You’ve got a massive open world where you can commit crimes, ride horses, get into gun fights, customize your firearms, and generally get into trouble–and the world will react to it all. You’ll be in the boots of Arthur Morgan for this outing, though fan-favorite hero John Marston will also make an appearance.

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Castlevania Requiem — October 26

Available on: PS4

It’s the perfect time of year for Castlevania, and Requiem includes two big ones: Symphony of the Night and Rondo of Blood. They’ve both been modernized for PS4 with 4K/1080p upscaling and optional pixel smoothing. You can play in the borderless Blackout mode or let your gameplay sit atop some stylish HD backgrounds.

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My Hero One’s Justice — October 26

Available on: PS4, Xbox One, PC, Switch

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before, but this is a fighting game based on the anime/manga series My Hero Academia. You can play as both the heroes and villains and tag in sidekicks to perform crazy multi-character combos. The battlefields have destructible environments too, of course.

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The next episode of New Releases is coming right at the tail end of the month, so we’ll be looking ahead at what November has to offer. It’s a big one, with some heavy hitters like Fallout 76, Pokemon Let’s Go Pikachu / Eevee, and Battlefield V.

New Halloween Movie Opens To A Huge Box Office Number

The new Halloween movie starring Jamie Lee Curtis opened in the United States and Canada over the weekend, and it was a massive success. The movie pulled in an estimated $77.5 million over the Friday-Sunday period, according to Entertainment Weekly. That’s good for the second-biggest October opening in history, only behind Venom, which made $80.3 million for its first weekend earlier this month. It’s also the second-highest start for an R-rated horror movie, behind only the killer clown movie It ($123.4 million).

Halloween, which is a direct sequel to John Carpenter’s 1978 classic, had a reported budget of only $10 million, so it’s already a huge commercial success, it would seem. Jamie Lee Curtis responded to the box office numbers with a tweet that also mentions that Halloween is the biggest opening for a horror movie with a female lead and the biggest start for any movie with a female lead over 55. She also points out that Halloween set a new franchise record for how much money it made on its first weekend.

The new Halloween is directed by David Gordon Green, who previously helmed the Seth Rogen stoner movie Pineapple Express, as well as the Sandra Bullock film Our Brand Is Crisis.As mentioned, Jamie Lee Curtis returns to play Laurie Strode as she yet again fights against the masked murdered Michael Myers. John Carpenter, who directed 1978’s Halloween, is attached to the new film as a creative consultant.

GameSpot’s review of the new Halloween was mostly positive.

Halloween doesn’t reinvent the wheel or create a new subgenre of horror. What it does is take the best parts of all the films in the franchise, and deliver the ultimate companion piece to Carpenter’s 1978 masterpiece,” reviewer Rafael Motamayor said. “It’s a film that not only has something to say about trauma and PTSD, but also delivers a bloody, fun time at the theater. Will Michael Myers return again? Who knows, but we sure as hell welcome him home.”

For more on the Halloween franchise, check out GameSpot’s ranking of the Halloween films. You can also check out GameSpot’s interview with producer Jason Blum where he talks about how they were able to convince John Carpenter to return.

The new Halloween movie crushed the competition at the US/Canada box office this weekend. You can see the full Top 10 list for October 19-21 below.

  1. Halloween — $77.5 million
  2. A Star Is Born — $19.3 million
  3. Venom — $18.1 million
  4. Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween — $9.7 million
  5. First Man — $8.6 million
  6. The Hate U Give — $7.5 million
  7. Smallfoot — $6.6 million
  8. Night School — $5 million
  9. Bad Times at the El Royale — $3.3 million
  10. The Old Man and the Gun — $2.1 million