Nintendo has announced the release dates for Yoshi’s Crafted World for the Nintendo Switch and Kirby’s Extra Epic Yarn on the Nintendo 3DS.
Yoshi’s Crafted World will launch on Switch on March 29, 2019, and will see Yoshi exploring a world that is created from such items as boxes and paper cups.
Yoshi will be able to switch the perspective of each stage and allow players to play stages in reverse, which will help find all the secrets and Poochy-Pups (!) hidden throughout each level.
Nintendo has announced the release dates for two upcoming exclusives games. First, the adorable-looking Yoshi’s Crafted World will launch for Nintendo Switch on March 29. Another game with a handcrafted style, Kirby’s Extra Epic Yarn, is due out on March 8 for 3DS, Nintendo announced.
You play as Yoshi, of course, in Yoshi’s Crafted World, with the goal of solving puzzles, collecting eggs and throwing them, and jumping around to make it through levels. Stages can be played backward for another challenge, while the game also supports two-player co-op.
Kirby’s Extra Epic Yarn, meanwhile, is an “enhanced” edition of Kirby’s Epic Yarn from the Wii. As its name suggests, Kirby is brought to a universe where everything is made of cloth and yarn, and the objective is to use the yarn to defeat enemies and solve puzzles.
All of the stages from the Wii version are included in the 3DS edition, while the game also boasts new features like “Ravel” abilities and new mini-games. There is also a new “Devilish” mode that makes each stage more challenging.
In other Nintendo news, some Nintendo Switch and 3DS games are now available through the Humble Store in the United States.
After Marvel Games changed its social handle to “Marvel G4mes,” the company has now further teased a Fantastic Four-related announcement for one of its games.
During a livestream today, Marvel boss Ryan Penagos teased that “something fantastic” is coming to Insomniac’s Spider-Man game for PS4. “I can’t tell you anything more right now…but you’ll want to keep an eye out for this. It’s going to be amazing and fantastic,” he said, according to IGN. Developer Insomniac playfully teased the announcement with the eyes emoji, so it looks like an announcement may be coming soon.
So what is this all about? Nothing is certain at this stage, but one possibility is that Insomniac is adding a new suit to Spider-Man on PS4. Spider-Man was a member of the Fantastic Four, sort of, as part of the spin-off group Future Foundation.
Some of the previously released Spider-Man PS4 DLC outfits have included the Spider-Clan outfit from Marvel’s Mangaverse, Spider-UK from Edge of Spider-Verse, and his look from the Sam Raimi movies.
In other Spider-Man PS4 news, Sony just recently announced that the game reached 9 million in sales as of November 25.
We’ll report back with more details on the new Spider-Man PS4 Fantastic Four news as soon as it’s announced. What are you hoping to see? Let us know in the comments below!
A fresh look at — and the vaguest of details about — HBO’s new Watchmen TV series were revealed this week, including a glimpse of what is apparently the show’s new Rorschach, Jeremy Irons’ aged take on the character of Ozymandias, and teases of some creepy, mask-wearing dudes — include a yellow-masked police force and more. The series, which comes from Lost and The Leftovers’ Damon Lindelof, will debut sometime in 2019.
The brief preview aired during HBO’s Golden Globes tease the other night, and versions of it can also be found on Instagram and YouTube. Lasting about six seconds in non-Instagram form, it starts with Jean Smart (Legion), who reportedly plays an FBI agent investigating a murder. We see her driving towards a large home, apparently in Oklahoma (based on the Tulsa badges on the yellow-masked cops — who have also popped up in earlier HBO Watchmen marketing materials — seemingly guarding the place). This would track with previous reports about the show’s locale, including that James Wolk (Mad Men) has a recurring role in the show as a junior senator from Oklahoma. It’s also an interesting change of location for the Watchmen universe in general, which in the original story by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (as well as in the film version directed by Zack Snyder) was mostly set in Manhattan, Washington D.C., Antarctica and, oh yeah, on Mars.
During Marvel’s Fantastic Four Week kickoff livestream, the comics publisher teased something releated to Marvel’s First Family is coming to Marvel’s Spider-Man on PS4.
Speaking on the livestream, Marvel’s Ryan Penagos said “Something ‘fantastic’ is coming to Marvel’s Spider-Man real soon. I can’t tell you anything more right now…but you’ll want to keep an eye out for this. It’s going to be amazing and fantastic.”
Penagos did not elaborate further on the stream, which also highlighted Fantastic Four appearances in other Marvel games.
Spider-Man developer Insomniac Games has only retweeted Marvel’s tweet with the “eyes emoji.”
It was revealed yesterday that Alien: Blackout would be headed to mobile devices, and the internet isn’t too happy about that.
Alien: Blackout features Alien: Isolation’s Amanda Ripley, but it isn’t the direct sequel to the 2014 survival horror title that many were hoping for, and we have gathered some of their reactions.
Some, like AzureAceHD, can’t understand this decision and feel as if the game looks like a clone of Five Nights at Freddy’s.
We hope you kept up on your reading in 2018, because the comic book industry definitely isn’t slowing down in 2019. The new year is bringing with it some epic new superhero crossovers, relaunches of fan-favorite titles, new directions for licensed properties like Transformers and Buffy the Vampire Slayer and some very promising new graphic novels.
To help make sense of it all, we’ve broken down the 19 big releases we’re most looking forward to read in 2019. Check out our slideshow or scroll down to find out what’s coming down the pipeline this year.
Sony’s PlayStation 4-exclusive God of War launched in April behind rapt praise from critics and commercial success. Some fans might have expected DLC to follow, but that never happened. It remains to be seen if the action game will ever receive any additional content, but what we do know is that game director Cory Barlog pitched a DLC idea that was too ambitious. As a result, this expansion, at least in the way Barlog imagined it, may never see the light of day.
“I had a really fun idea for a DLC that I only regret because I would love to have done that,” Barlog told Kinda Funny. “But it was too ambitious.”
Barlog said it would have been like The Last of Us 1‘s Left Behind or Uncharted Lost Legacy releases, which were big enough to warrant their own standalone releases.
“It would [have] ended up being its own thing,” Barlog said of the mystery God of War DLC. “Rightfully so, everybody said, ‘Dude, this is crazy, this isn’t DLC, this is a little too big.”
One of the only regrets that Barlog said he still has about God of War is that the team wasn’t able to release the Photo Mode and New Game+ options at launch. Instead, these were released through free updates after the game was released. The New Game+ mode did add some new armor and customisation items, but it might not have been the proper expansion some fans would have wanted.
God of War was one of GameSpot’s favourite titles of 2018, while it beat out Red Dead Redemption 2 to win the overall Game of the Year award at The Game Awards in December. The game may not be finished winning awards yet, as it is nominated for a top writing award at the Writers Guild Awards this year.
At CES 2019, Samsung unveiled its new 75-inch MicroLED TV. Despite its size, this is actually the smallest MicroLED TV that supports 4K resolution. Even though both OLED and LCD technology are already pushing 8K resolution, CNET’s coverage of CES reports that Samsung plans on further developing its MicroLED technology so that it can rival the two older display types by the end of 2019.
Samsung first showcased this MicroLED TV technology at CES 2018, showcasing how the screens were composed of millions of individual LEDs. Individuals screens could be combined to create massive displays, which the company calls The Wall TV. Previously, the smallest size for The Wall–that could support 4K–was 146 inches. The company could go larger and still support 4K though, and it proved that this year with the reveal of a larger 219-inch version of The Wall too.
According to CNET, Samsung is taking advantage of the new-generation display’s thinner panels to make plans for selling MicroLED TVs to US consumers in 2019. The panels have previously been 80mm, which is more appropriate for industrial use. However, they’ve recently been shrunk down to 30mm. Samsung will announce the TVs’ release date and prices at a later time.
Just because Samsung plans on promoting MicroLED, does not mean the company plans on abandoning its OLED and LCD TVs. At CES 2019, Samsung revealed a new 98-inch 8K QLED resolution TV. Relying on 33 million pixels, the television is about the size of an average living room. For context, if you were to play Red Dead Redemption 2 on this TV, it would probably display a nearby horse close to a believable real-life size. No price has been announced for this TV either, but Samsung sold last year’s 85-inch 8K QLED TV for $15,000 USD, so you may want to expect at least that price.