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There was a surge of news surrounding video game adaptations this week. Not only did Sophie Turner get Tomb Raider-ready as Lara Croft, but Amazon also announced their pick to become the former Ghost of Sparta, aka Kratos, in their upcoming God of War series.Former Sons of Anarchy star Ryan Hurst has been announced to take on the live-action version of the role for the show, which is being penned by Ronald D. Moore (Battlestar Galactica, For All Mankind, Outlander). For Hurst, it’s hardly new territory, given that he already went toe-to-toe with Kratos (played by Christopher Judge in the…
If you frequent the cozy game space, there’s little chance you won’t have heard of Heartopia by now. While sandbox players have been foaming over Hytale this week, building houses brick-by-brick, the life game lovers looking for their next Stardew Valley-style fixation have been erecting homes with flat walls, swimming pools, and adorable coffee machines. And though Heartopia is crushing it on mobile, skyrocketing to the top of the app store charts and reaching over five million players, the Steam audience is struggling to take to its pastel-palette charm for some increasingly common mobile-to-PC reasons. A PC release of Heartopia…
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck have reunited on screen once again this weekend with their Netflix crime thriller The Rip, and now the Oscar winners have shared some guidelines that were suggested during the film’s development for the streaming service. During an appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience, Damon explained that the go-to route that he and his co-star and longtime friend are used to wasn’t factored in when making a Netflix movie.“The standard way to make an action movie that we learned was, you usually have three set pieces. One in the first act, one in the second, one…
The Sunday Papers is our weekly roundup of great writing about (mostly) videogames from across the web. Sundays are for walking around your home, looking for somewhere to install the home security camera you got for your birthday, and realising a) how few unused surfaces actually exist in this space and b) it was pretty stupid to ask for a home security camera when you knew full well its only purpose would be keeping an eye on the cat while you’re out. And she’s the cat equivalent of a human octogenarian. What, exactly, is she going to do, that might…
In a fittingly full-circle sort of way, it’s taken avid Minecraft enjoyers only a couple of days to splice the best parts of the game that inspired Hytale into Hytale, letting those who have waited seven years for what they might call Minecraft 2 play Minecraft in what is not really Minecraft 2. Yes, I’m being serious. And with a general lack of player direction in the new king of sandbox games, that’s no bad thing, either. In a delightfully short tweet, French YouTuber ‘LAirHisson’ proclaims to have “just coded the end in Hytale.” Now, without proper capitalization, the less…
Every so often, DCU co-head and Superman director, James Gunn, dares to battle against the waves of fandom in order to set the record straight. Whether it’s squashing rumors that have gone viral or addressing fans’ demands about the franchise’s future, he’s a director who’s happy to get involved in the conversation and stop it when things go too far.One such incident recently involved more flames being fanned over the possibility of Grant Gustin reprising his role as The Flash after photos surfaced of him with blonde hair. The color change was enough for fans to put two and two…
12.4 million. That’s how many copies of Arc Raiders Embark has shifted so far – a monumental achievement for a multiplayer game that, this time last year, wasn’t really on most people’s radar. Even I, as someone who enjoyed Embark’s first game, The Finals, and had a close eye on Arc Raiders from the beginning, would’ve never predicted this level of success. But what happens when your game becomes more popular than you anticipated? How does over 12 million sales change your future? That’s what I wanted to find out when I spoke with the game’s design director, Virgil Watkins.…
Warner Bros. looks to be returning to its army of animated Looney Tunes characters and putting all the attention on one of its fastest, with news that a Speedy Gonzales film is in the works. The fastest mouse in all of Mexico has been handed over to director Jorge R. Gutiérrez, who teased the announcement on social media.The director posted a photo on Instagram wearing a similar hat and bandanna that Speedy was synonymous with, and holding a toy version of the character. Gutiérrez wrote, “Guess what movie I might be developing at Warner Brothers Pictures Animation,” which has now…
Saturdays are for… drat, look at the time! I shouldn’t be writing an article. I should be loading boxes into vans. Frantically disassembling furniture. And stopping the friends who are ‘helping’ me move house from pausing to sip cups of tea. It’s like they don’t know how long I spent on the phone to the council booking parking permits. No, I couldn’t possibly tell you. Well, twist my arm. 45 minutes. So, if you’re curled up in bed having a relaxing morning, I envy you. But know that I’m in that blessed window where I can ‘accidentally’ lose all the…
Europa Universalis 5 marks the rebirth of one of Paradox’s defining grand strategy games, and that sort of fresh start always comes with some teething issues. To development studio Paradox Tinto’s credit, EU5 doesn’t make the mistake of simply trying to be EU4-2, and instead leans into its own strengths. It’s got a great core, but that can’t compete with the decade-plus of support and expansions its predecessor boasts, and the further we get from launch the more you can see those frustrations pop up among a community that initially met it with a pretty positive response. Enter Europa Universalis…