EA and DICE finally laid out their almost-complete plans for Star Wars Battlefront (opens in new tab)’s post-launch content, and there’s even good news for folks without the season pass: a handful of new maps and new features are on the table for all players. But first, about that pass: …
Read More »The Walking Deads Lauren Cohan to be killed off in Batman v Superman
Lauren Cohan has been playing zombie apocalypse survivor Maggie Greene for five years now on AMC’s The Walking Dead, but it looks like she’s about to see what it’s like on the other side of the grave. Entertainment Weekly (opens in new tab) reports that Cohan will play the role …
Read More »Spotlight review
And the Oscar goes to…? From the director of Adam Sandler’s The Cobbler comes the frontrunner for the Best Picture Oscar, an ode to old-fashioned journalism with nary a shred of sentiment or, one histrionic scene aside, sensationalism. Tom McCarthy’s sobering drama demonstrates disciplined filmmaking built upon scrupulous storytelling, clear-eyed …
Read More »Check out the Saints Row game you never got to play
Lots of game developers have old prototypes sitting in their utility closets. Far fewer are willing to dust one off, solder some dev kit cables to a streaming setup, and broadcast the buggy old thing on Twitch. Volition is an exception, and next week we’ll get the rare treat of …
Read More »Fassbender reveals why Magneto serves Apocalypse in X-Men: Apocalypse
Michael Fassbender will soon be reprising his role as (young) Magneto in the new X-Men film out later this year, but rather than taking on the role of the big bad, as he has in the past, this movie will see him serving a new master in the form of …
Read More »Bryan Singer FINALLY explains the new X-Men: Apocalypse timeline
X-Men: Days of Future Past decimated the established timeline of the franchise. Wolverine’s time-hop to 1973 led to mutants being exposed to the public many years earlier, and if you stuck around for the final scene, a ton of character resurrections. It wiped the slate clean, effectively undoing the events …
Read More »Tap Ganondorf to take extra damage in Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD
You won’t want to leave Ordon Village without your plastic figurine collection. No, not that plastic figurine collection. Nintendo has confirmed how amiibo can be used to expand and aid your journey in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD, including granting access to the mysterious Cave of Shadows. As …
Read More »Mortal Kombat XL bundles every character and skin in March
If you want to play every Mortal Kombat X character (opens in new tab) but would rather not futz around with all that DLC business, Mortal Kombat XL is X-actly what you need. Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and NetherRealm Studios today announced they will release an all-in-one edition of their …
Read More »Get free in-game gear for The Division (& watch movies, but mainly FREE STUFF)
Ubi are offering up four sets of free gear to use in The Division (opens in new tab) that will include different visual looks and specific skills to use in the game. These are the sets in question: Paramedic, Firefighter, Police and Hunter (that latter one is slightly worrying for …
Read More »X-Men: Apocalypse writer promises “the biggest X-Men movie weve ever done”
Mutantkind was on the brink of extinction in X-Men: Days of Future Past, but for this summer’s followup, X-Men: Apocalypse, it’s the whole world on the line. Speaking in a new Q&A video, writer Simon Kinberg called Apocalypse “the biggest X-Men movie we’ve ever done,” a proclamation made possible by …
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