InkyPen, a new comic subscription service, will be brought to the Nintendo Switch this November, making it possible for users to read comics on the handheld device. It will also be the first international non-game app to come to the eShop on the Switch, according to Variety.
The app will let comics be read in either the handheld or TV mode and will be launching at $8 per month. InkyPen will have a library of over 10,000 graphic novels, manga, and European comics.
With dozens of comic books to choose from, let us show you which are the best coming out this week. Take a look at this list spotlighting our favorite comics that we know are money-well-spent and new books that look cool and are backed by some top-tier talent.
Once you check out our picks, head to the comments to let us know what you’ll be buying this week!
It looks like Disney’s upcoming streaming service has a name.
Per Variety, Disney CEO Bob Iger has referred to the service as Disney Play. However, it’s currently unclear if this will indeed be the final name for the video platform, which is launching sometime in 2019.
Disney will reportedly be losing an estimated $300 million in annual revenue when Disney Play launches next year, as the company will no longer be gaining revenue from Netflix for pay-TV rights.
Starting with 2019’s Captain Marvel, every Disney film released in theaters will only come to Disney Play instead of Netflix. Ant-Man and the Wasp will also now be the last Marvel movie to come to Netflix.
Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red is hosting a livestream on its Twitch page, hinting that something new may be revealed about its open-world RPG imminently. The stream currently shows lines of code being typed out on a screen, and there doesn’t seem to be any obvious indications of when something else will be shown or what it’ll be. Of course, we’ll stay glued to our screens and keep you updated on developments as they happen.
Cyberpunk 2077 was shown to press at GamesCom behind closed doors and GameSpot was in attendance. During GamesCom, CD Projekt Red also released new Cyberpunk 2077 screenshots, showing characters and environments from the game. These images were taken from the GamesCom 2018 and E3 2018 demos. Furthermore, concept art for Cyberpunk 2077 was also released and, hidden within them, was a link to another image that displays the phrase “more than meets the eye.” It could be that the image tease and the stream are linked somehow.
During GamesCom we also got to chat to producer Richard Borzymowski, who talked about how CD Projekt Red switched gears from the fantasy universe of The Witcher to the sci-fi world of Cyberpunk 2077. He also discussed making the jump from the third-person perspective used in The Witcher series to a first-person for Cyberpunk 2077. You can watch the interview above.
In another interview, Borzymowski said Cyberpunk 2077 is playable from start to finish, but noted that is doesn’t have all its assets, and bugs that have been discovered during playtesting haven’t been addressed yet. Despite this, the studio is confident in the experience. “[Playing through the game] gives you the answers to all of your doubts,” he said. “It just feels great.”
Cyberpunk 2077 is set for launch on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. However, it doesn’t have a release date yet. At the close of GamesCom, we discussed some of the best games that we saw during the show and Cyberpunk 2077 was included, you can see us discuss the game, along with a few others, in our Best of GamesCom 2018 feature.
The Witcher developer CD Projekt Red has initiated a mysterious stream on its Twitch channel.
The stream is currently titled “Data Transmission in Progress_,” with lines of white code streaming by on a black background. It’s unclear exactly what the stream’s purpose is, though. As of press time, the stream is currently connected to the Twitch game category “Cyberpunk 2077.”
This vague stream follows Cyberpunk’s latest showing at Gamescom 2018. During the gaming convention, IGN broke down differences from E3 to Gamescom that we saw in the behind-closed-doors Cyberpunk demo.
Warning: this review contains spoilers for the entire third season of Preacher.
Just a quick note to start things off. Since we’ve stopped running weekly reviews for Preacher, this article will serve as a combined take on the season finale of Preacher and the season as a whole.
Without burying the lede, Preacher’s third season is easily the strongest and most consistently enjoyable of the series to date. Both previous seasons had some fundamental hurdles they were never able to overcome. Season 1 spent far too long focusing on characters and storylines that didn’t matter in the end, almost completely wiping the slate clean so that Jesse Custer’s road trip could finally begin. Season 2, like so many seasons of so many other comic book shows, was too long and never justified its 13 episode focus on the New Orleans storyline.
HBO released the first trailer for True Detective Season 3 ahead of the Sharp Objects finale on Sunday night, and Nic Pizzolatto’s atmospheric crime drama seems to be going back to its roots in its third outing.
Starring Oscar winner Mahershala Ali, True Detective Season 3 “tells the story of a macabre crime in the heart of the Ozarks, and a mystery that deepens over decades and plays out in three separate time periods.” Ali stars as Wayne Hays, a state police detective from Northwest Arkansas, with Carmen Ejogo, Mamie Gummer, Scoot McNairy and Stephen Dorff rounding out the main cast.
