Gunbreaker has a fairly intricate attack rotation that’s pretty fun to execute. It goes like this: Keen Edge, Brutal Shell, Solid Barrel, then gain one cartridge in your Powder Gauge. With just one cartridge, you can then execute a more powerful combo: Gnashing Fang, Savage Claw, Wicked Talon. The second combo is also subject to cooldown, so when it’s not available, just use the strong standalone attack Burst Strike.
There are also other attacks like Danger Zone (which lives on its own cooldown) and Sonic Break (which does damage-over-time)–you should use these when available.
Like all Tanks, Gunbreaker’s main goal is to pull enmity (or aggro) and keep enemies away from all other party members–for this, you’ll need to have the ability Royal Guard active. To pull extra enmity, you have Provoke, and to divert it to another tank when you’re in trouble with 8-player raid parties, you have Shirk.
The DC movie universe seems to be thriving once more, following the box office success of Aquaman and Shazam and with highly anticipated movies such as Joker and Birds of Prey set for the release over the next year. One project that hasn’t had much luck getting to the screen however is the Flash movie. It has now been reported that It director Andy Muschietti might soon be attached to the movie.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Muschietti is in talks to helm the Flash film. If the deal goes through, his filmmaking partner and sister, Barbara Muschietti, will produce. The site states that an offer has not yet been made by Warner to Muschietti, but that will happen soon.
The Flash will star Ezra Miller, who previously played the character in the 2017 flop Justice League. However, THR states that Warner will not use the script that Miller wrote with comic book veteran Grant Morrison. Instead the studio is looking to hire Christina Hodson, the in-demand writer who wrote the script for last year’s Transformer spin-off Bumblebee and the upcoming DC female superhero team-up Birds of Prey.
In related news, Muschietti’s horror sequel It: Chapter 2 hits theaters in September. Check the latest trailer out here. He has also been attached to adaptations of two separate classic anime titles over the past couple of years–Attack on Titan and Robotech–but there has been no further news about these projects.
San Diego Comic-Con can be overwhelming. It’s not only the biggest pop culture convention in the world, it’s also packed to the absolute brim with panels, events, activations–you name it–for just about every major franchise under the sun. Sorting it all out to find what’s happening with for your favorite shows, movies, games, and comics can be a nightmare. But never fear, the team here at GameSpot is comprised of SDCC veterans who are happy to help!
So, if you’re a Marvel fan who is San Diego bound this week, you’re in luck. We’ve combed through all the announcements and schedules that have been made available so far to sort everything out into a nice, easy to read list to help you plan your week-long Marvel-focused extravaganza.
Keep checking back for updates to this list as more panels and events are confirmed before the show!
Thursday
Marvel Games, Hall H, 1:30 PM. “Get an inside look at the latest and greatest from Marvel Games! Attendees will see exciting new content from Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order, Marvel’s Iron Man VR, and Marvel’s Avengers, with many unannounced surprises and panel exclusives. Host Greg Miller (of KindaFunny.com) will be joined by Bill Rosemann (VP & Creative Director, Marvel Games) and other special guests from titles throughout the Marvel Games family!”
Marvel’s Agents of Shield, Hall H, 3:30 PM “The cast and producers of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. will return to San Diego Comic-Con in epic fashion as they take over Hall H for the first time ever! Be the first to hear the scoop about the show-stopping conclusion for season six and what awaits in season seven of Marvel’s flagship television show. With your favorite stars in attendance, including Clark Gregg, Ming-Na Wen, Chloe Bennet, Elizabeth Henstridge, Iain De Caestecker, Henry Simmons, Natalia Cordova-Buckley, and Jeff Ward, along with executive producers Maurissa Tancharoen, Jed Whedon, Jeff Bell, and Jeph Loeb, this is a must-see panel to celebrate seven seasons with the world’s greatest fans! This action-packed series from Marvel Television and ABC Studios airs Fridays at 8/7c on ABC. *Please note: talent is subject to change.”
Friday
A Conversation With The Russo Brothers, Hall H, 11:00 AM “For the Russo Brothers, Avengers: Endgame was the culmination of an unprecedented four-film, seven-year journey through the Marvel Cinematic Universe that has included some of the most iconic experiences in modern cinema. Come hear directors Joe and Anthony Russo reflect on Endgame and their epic road to it as they segue into life beyond Marvel with their new company, AGBO, which happens to include an exciting array of new and old creative friends. This new independent studio develops and finances filmed projects in any medium while keeping creative control within the hands of artists. This discussion will be moderated by Collider’s Editor-in-Chief Steven Weintraub.” (Note: this is not an “official” Marvel panel.)
A Conversation With Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, Hall H, 12:00 PM* “The two writers — who also wrote Captain America: The First Avenger, Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Thor: The Dark World for Marvel Studios — are set to appear Friday, July 19, on a morning panel moderated by Jeff Goldsmith, publisher of Backstory Magazine and host of The Q&A With Jeff Goldsmith podcast.” (Note: official panel time and description not yet confirmed, announcement via THR.)
Marvel Comics #1000 Revealed: A This Week In Marvel Special Event, Room 5AB, 12:30 PM “Marvel’s flagship podcast comes to Comic-Con loaded with secrets, giveaways, reveals, news, guests, and more! And, if you think you’ve got the stuff and want some swag, you can challenge the Marvel crew in a special House of Ideas Throwdown! Join host Ryan Penagos (aka Agent M, VP & Creative Exec, Marvel) along with CB Cebulski (Marvel Comics Editor in Chief) and an array of Marvel creators as they dig into Marvel Comics #1,000, one of the biggest Marvel Comics projects ever assembled, and celebrate Marvel’s 80th Anniversary!”
Marvel Comics: Spider-Man, Room 5AB, 1:30 PM “Get caught in Spider-Man’s tangled web along with Executive Editor Nick Lowe, Assistant Editor Kathleen Wisneski, as well as writers Nick Spencer (Amazing Spider-Man), Seanan McGuire (Ghost-Spider), and Frank Tieri (Absolute Carnage vs. Deadpool, Absolute Carnage: Lethal Protectors) to find out what’s on the horizon for all of your wall-crawling favorites! Spider-Man’s mysterious new foe sets his plan into motion! Ghost-Spider joins the Marvel Universe! And New York experiences Absolute Carnage! PLUS – Don’t miss an exclusive giveaway variant comic of Spider-Man: City At War #5! The stunning rendering by Skan depicts an homage to the classic Amazing Spider-Man #3 cover by Steve Ditko! “
Marvel’s Agents of Shield Signing Event, Marvel Booth #2329, 3:30 PM. Please note this is a ticketed autograph signing event. You will need to get a ticket to participate. They’re distributed via first-come-first-served lottery on Friday morning when the exhibit hall opens.
Marvel Animation Celebrates Marvel’s 80th Anniversary, Room 6A, 3:30 PM “Join Cort Lane (SVP, Animation and Family Entertainment), Kalia Ramirez (Director, Family Entertainment – Development & Partnerships), writers Mark Hoffmeier (Spider-Man: The Animated Series) and Marty Isenberg (X-Men: The Animated Series), and fan-favorite voice actors Josh Keaton (Spectacular Spider-Man, Marvel’s Avengers Assemble) and Jennifer Hale (Wolverine & the X-Men, Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy) as they take a journey through highlights of over five decades of Marvel cartoons. Including behind-the-scenes dish on the making of classic shows, a run-down of all ten of Spider-Man’s series, and a 10th anniversary retrospective of Marvel’s Animation division, this is a panel you don’t want to miss! Plus a special in-memoriam look at Stan Lee’s greatest animation moments.”
Saturday
Women of Marvel: 10 Years and 200 Episodes, Room 5AB, 10:00 AM “Celebrate ten years of Women of Marvel panels and 200 podcast episodes! Join hosts Sana Amanat (VP of Content & Character Development, Marvel) and Judy Stephens (Producer, Marvel) and special guests to talk 80 years of Marvel history, what it’s like working as a woman in comics, and the future of the industry.”
Marvel Comics: Next Big Thing, Room 6A, 1:45 PM “Legendary writer Jonathan Hickman is joined by Editor in Chief C.B. Cebulski and other Mighty Marvel Guests to bring you all the latest and greatest news straight from the House of Ideas! Learn what comes next for the X-Men after the senses-shattering revelations of the House of X and Powers of X!! Plus, stick around for a few things we can’t even hint at yet!”
Marvel Comics: Marvel Fanfare with C.B. Cebulski, Room 6A, 3:00 PM “This is your chance to meet the head of editorial at Marvel! In an exclusive and intimate panel experience, Editor in Chief C.B. Cebulski, along with superstar talents including Rob Liefeld and Skottie Young, will talk about anything and everything involved with Marvel Comics. What secrets are held in the House of X? Can Venom prove himself a true hero in Absolute Carnage? When is Dazzler’s next album coming out? What were C.B., Rob and Skottie’s favorite Marvel characters as kids, and how do they feel about those characters now? Ask these questions and more in the Q&A! Plus, don’t miss an exclusive giveaway variant of Silver Surfer Black #2, Giuseppe Camuncoli’s take on Carnage soaring the spaceways on Silver Surfer’s board!”
Sunday
Making Comics The Marvel Way, Room 5AB, 11:15 AM “A slew of Mighty Marvel guests take you behind-the-scenes and show you how a Marvel comic book is made! Learn about every aspect of production including writing, penciling, inking, coloring, editing, and more – with creators on hand to offer personal insights and anecdotes. If you’re interested in the ins-and-outs of the comic book industry, this is the one panel you can’t miss!”
Season 2 of Apex Legends is now officially underway on PS4, Xbox One, and PC, and a lot has changed in Respawn’s battle royale game. Not only is there a new playable character, the science genius Wattson, there’s a new Battle Pass to purchase, which means a load of new rewards to unlock.
Unlike Season 1’s Battle Pass, Season 2’s works much more like Fortnite‘s Battle Pass, offering a regular stream of challenges to complete as the season progresses. Clearing these tasks will help level your Battle Pass up, which in turn will allow you to unlock this season’s new skins, emotes, loading screens, and other cosmetic rewards.
While the general gist of the Battle Pass is similar to Fortnite, the new Season 2 challenges will work a little differently. Like in Epic’s battle royale game, Apex Legends Battle Pass holders will have access to seven new challenges each week. However, three of these tasks will raise your Battle Pass by one full level when completed. On top of that, there will be three recurring challenges every week, as well as three random challenges (pulled from a pool of 200) to complete each day.
Season 2’s first weekly set of challenges is now live, and they’re all fairly self-explanatory, so you should be able to complete them with a little persistence. The three that will level your Battle Pass up once completed ask you to deal 7,500 damage with assault rifles and finish in the top three using either Bloodhound, Lifeline, or Wraith. There’s also a multi-step challenge that begins by having you to land in Relay. The remaining challenges run the gamut from getting 35 knockdowns to looting five care packages; you can see the full list below.
That isn’t all that’s new in Season 2 of Apex Legends. The game’s map, Kings Canyon, has also undergone some changes, and Titanfall 2’s L-Star has been added as a Legendary Gold energy-based weapon. The more competitive Ranked Leagues are also now available. You can read more about Apex Legends Season 2 in our roundup.
Apex Legends Season 2, Week 1 Challenges
Land in Relay (step 1 of 4) — +1 BP Level
Deal 7,500 damage with assault rifles — +1 BP Level
Finish in the top 3 as Bloodhound, Lifeline, or Wraith — +1 BP Level
It should be a time of celebration for anime fans: Neon Genesis Evangelion, Hideaki Anno’s seminal anime series, is finally streaming worldwide, as Netflix secured the rights to the classic anime. But the fans who should be cheering are not happy.
Evangelion originally aired in Japan in 1995, and it quickly earned a reputation as a controversial, psychologically and philosophically complex series that deconstructed the mecha anime genre. Unfortunately, the series has rarely been widely available, as its English-language licensee, ADV Films, went out of business in the 2000s. The only way you could legally get the series in physical format was by spending over $30 on the VHS release that only had two episodes per tape, or by spending over $100 on the DVD collection in 2005–and aftermarket prices for those versions have skyrocketed since then.
But many of Eva’s most dedicated fans quickly voiced their concerns with the version of the show that was released on Netflix. Fans flocked to Twitter and Reddit to describe the changes made to the show. It all started with Netflix removing the covers of the song “Fly Me to the Moon” at the end of each episode, a change which The Wrap says is due to licensing fees. But that was just the beginning. We listed the biggest changes to Evangelion on Netflix, which includes the lack of translation of some on-screen text, a completely new and more literal script that takes away from the nuance of the original text, a new voice cast, the omission of swearing in the new translation, and the omission of a key piece of gay subtext.
This resulted in many people recommending newcomers to skip the Netflix version altogether and instead seek out the long-available bootlegs in order to watch the show as they experienced it back in the day. This raises some interesting questions: Sure, some of the changes are significant, but is preserving the nostalgia for the original anime really more important than it being easily available for everyone? Are fans overreacting?
I spent most of the weekend Eva hit Netflix debating whether my first experience with the classic anime should be with the apparently inferior version on Netflix, or the various lower quality but higher integrity bootlegs. The question instantly brought to mind memories of another big sci-fi franchise that was only available in low-quality VHS tapes before going through several controversial changes once it was made widely available for the second time. That’s right, I’m talking about the Star Wars original trilogy Special Editions.
The mere mention of the phrase “Special Editions” is one of the scariest and most controversial things in all of Star Wars. You can ask any fan of the franchise and they’ll all have an opinion of the 1997 theatrical re-release of the original trilogy. Sent to theaters with great fanfare, the remastered and altered versions of the original trilogy are nowadays remembered with a predominantly negative connotation. George Lucas decided to update his iconic trilogy of films with updated effects, sounds, and scenes, few of which landed with hardcore fans. There’s a reason those t-shirts with the phrase “Han Shot First” are sold everywhere.
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Like Evangelion, the changes to the Star Wars trilogy ranged from big ones like Greedo shooting first, the addition of “Jedi Rocks,” and the loss of “Yub Nub,” to kind of random changes like adding a ring of fire to the Death Star explosion and adding a bunch of new aliens on Mos Eisley. People hate the Special Editions so much that fans have taken it upon themselves to reproduce the original appearance of the movies with fan restorations.
Sure, many of those changes were unnecessary beyond George Lucas wanting to show off his new special effects technology that wasn’t available in the ’70s, but look at the state of Star Wars fandom before the Special Editions. They’re one major reason why Star Wars is still around.
Before the Special Editions were released in early 1997, Star Wars was no longer a pop culture giant. Those who grew up watching the original trilogy had already moved on to new and shinier franchises like Terminator. Though there was Mel Brook’s Spaceballs, Timothy Zahn’s Thrawn trilogy, and the Dark Horse comics, the beloved galaxy far, far away hadn’t been relevant since 1983’s release of Return of the Jedi. Those who didn’t get to watch the trilogy in theaters had it worse, as they could only watch the films in cropped pan-and-scan VHS copies.
Then came the Special Editions. Say what you will about the changes made and how much you hated watching CGI Jabba meet Han in Episode IV, but the Special Editions put the original trilogy back in the public spotlight. The Special Editions also came out at a changing time for the moviegoing experience, as theater chains were expanding and the multiplex started to become the norm, with stadium seating preparing audiences to experience Star Wars in a new way years before DVDs became a thing. You may hate the changes, but those who hadn’t seen the movies before didn’t even notice them, and the re-release turned an entire new generation into fans. Star Wars was nowhere, and suddenly it was everywhere again.
With Evangelion now available worldwide on arguably the most popular streaming platform, it will only help turn more people into fans. Maybe they’ll finish the series and then seek out the original dub and listen to “Fly Me to the Moon” on repeat, or maybe they won’t–but that doesn’t take away from the fact that the Netflix release is doing more right than wrong.
Preserving art is an important task. I’m not saying you should feel happy that they changed the lines you spent years memorizing. All I’m saying is that glorifying the version of a piece of pop culture you saw when you were younger, and getting in the way of a new generation experiencing that same piece of pop culture now, is not a battle worth fighting.
The changes made to Eva won’t stop brand new fans from enjoying the show, just like the Special Editions didn’t destroy Star Wars, but instead set the table for a world of prequels, sequels, and spin-offs. Netflix didn’t ruin Neon Genesis Evangelion, but it introduced millions of viewers to the magic of Cruel Angel’s Thesis and “Get in the Robot, Shinji.”
A new series of cast shots for Disney’s The Lion King show a very different side to the characters, in more ways than one. The posters show almost every major member of the cast in profile, facing eye-to-eye with their animal counterparts.
The pairings posted to Disney’s Twitter include Donald Glover as Simba, Beyonce as Nala, Chiwetel Ejiofor as Scar, and Alfre Woodard as Sarabi. Other shots show ensembles of characters together, like Billy Eichner, Seth Rogan, and John Oliver as Timon, Pumbaa, and Zazu, respectively.
This is the latest in a series of live-action remakes of Disney’s classic catalog. But as the characters are still computer animated and no live actors are on screen, it has instead been commonly referred to as “photorealistic.” It was directed by Jon Favreau, following his successful and similarly realistic take on The Jungle Book.
Disney had released character posters in May showing each of the photorealistic animals head-on, not in profile with their human voice-actors. The original Lion King is one of Disney’s top-grossing animated films of all time, and so anticipation–and expectations–are running high for the remake. Its initial teaser trailer almost matched Avengers: Infinity War in views in the first 24 hours.
A match-three puzzle game, Dr. Mario World was announced back in February 2019. The game sees you using capsules to eliminate viruses like a good doctor, but there’s more than meets the eye. We’ve now learned of the game’s multiplayer offerings, which allows you to connect with friends to send hearts or viruses.
Dr. Mario World lets you see your friends’ progress in the game’s single-player Stage mode. You will also be able to send your friends encouragement hearts, though these can only be sent once per day. Dr. Mario World features solo play, but it will also launch with a Versus mode in which you can challenge your friends in online, real-time matches.
The crux of Versus is similar to previous Dr. Mario games: You eliminate viruses on your board to fill up an attack meter, which sends viruses in your opponent’s direction, causing their board to fill. Whoever’s board fills first loses. Each doctor has their own attributes, like attack power (which dictates the number of viruses sent) and skills (which act as special movies like clearing one whole column at random). Check out the trailer below.
Microtransactions will make an appearance in Dr. Mario World in the form of Diamonds purchasable through the in-game shop. They can be bought in an assortment of packs–starting with 20 Diamonds for $2 USD / $3 AUD / £1 GBP running all the way up to 1,050 Diamonds for $70 USD / $100 AUD / £55 GBP–and are used to continue gameplay, obtain items, and restore stamina.
Dr. Mario World releases for Android and iOS on July 10.
