I was blown away when I first played Shadows of Doubt last year. The detective sim realizes a city of characters, each with their own routines, jobs, and lives to live, and you’re dropped into the middle of the locale to solve crimes while you chase down a serial killer. As far as the genre of immersive sims goes, this one seemed to have a lot going for it even while it was in Steam Early Access, and now it’s finally coming to consoles alongside its 1.0 update.ColePowered Games’ indie will arrive on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S on September 26 as a digital release, though a physical version will soon follow. Detective games are timeless in their appeal, but I’ve actually never played one that goes to the lengths seen in Shadows of Doubt.
Next year marks the 30th anniversary of Toy Story, the first fully CGI animated film that put Pixar on the map. And at D23, the next chapter of the franchise was officially unveiled. Toy Story 5 is coming to theaters in 2026, and Pixar veteran Andrew Stanton will be the director.Stanton has been with Pixar since the first Toy Story, and he co-wrote all four of the previous films. He also co-directed A Bug’s Life before going solo as the director on Finding Nemo, WALL-E, and Finding Dory.After coming out on stage at D23, Stanton revealed the first promo artwork from Toy Story 5, which also teased the new threat facing the toys: Technology.
It’s been two years since Disney announced a new Marvel attraction at California Adventure’s Avengers Campus featuring King Thanos as the villain. Earlier this week at D23, Disney shared a look at the vehicle that guests will be riding across the multiverse in. Now, the name of the attraction has been revealed as well. It’s going to be called Avengers: Infinity Defense.The story behind the attraction is that Tony Stark has developed new portal technology that can take riders to different worlds. But that’s also attracted the attention of King Thanos, a version of the Mad Titan who won the Infinity War in an alternate reality. Since Avengers Campus is set in alternate MCU where Thanos never snapped half the universe out of existence, the heroes don’t know what to expect from him. Unfortunat…
Read moreSpeak the devil’s name, and he shall appear. Daredevil: Born Again and the rest of Marvel’s upcoming Disney+ original series were missing from Comic-Con 2024. But Marvel made it up to fans at D23 when the studio premiered the first trailer for Daredevil: Born Again. The footage hasn’t been officially released online yet. But if these clips are any indication, fans of the first Daredevil series will be very happy.The common theme in the trailer is that Daredevil is kicking a lot of ass. Matt Murdock is back, and he’s a force of nature. A few familiar faces from the previous show are seen, including Karen, Foggy, and even Wilson Fisk, the Kingpin of crime. Daredevil Season 3 apparently hasn’t been retconned, because Fisk knows Matt is Daredevil, and he’s not afraid of him. They have a scene …
Read moreUpdated on August 11, 2024: Walmart has discounted the Halo Warthog ride-on vehicle to $279, roughly $100 off its current $373 retail price. The Warthog originally launched in 2022 as a Walmart exclusive for a whopping $498.The current discounted price is more in line with other “premium” ride-ons–but yes, it’s still pricey. Nevertheless, we can’t imagine this deal will stick around for long.You can read our original story from 2022 below. I once again asked my son, who is now 3.5 years old if he wanted to play Halo Infinite with me. “I don’t like Halo,” he said. In other words, he still doesn’t know what Halo is. And my wife has once again informed me that our son “doesn’t need that” when I showed her the Warthog. How disappointing for my son, the huge Halo fan in the ho…
Read moreThe fourth and final season of The Umbrella Academy just released on Netflix on August 8, but if you’ve already streamed all six episodes and want more, you should check out the original comic book series the series is based on. Amazon has some great deals on The Umbrella Academy books right now, including The Umbrella Academy Box Set–a one-stop shop for the mainline series–for $32 (was $56). You can also save big on the hardcover editions of each volume, including the Deluxe editions that are bound in leatherette and come with exclusive artwork. The Deluxe edition of Volume 1 on sale for 75% off. Meanwhile, the Library editions of all three volumes–hardcovers without the collectibles–are on sale for about 50% off.
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You’ve just walked out of Deadpool and Wolverine, and you’re probably wondering where you can get some fabulous toys of the movie’s two leading men so that you can recreate the NSYNC intro and some stab-happy moments. The good news is that not only are there some lovely Deadpool and Wolverine action figures available, there are also a few upcoming ones that have an incredible amount of articulation so that you can nail all those wonderful dance-moves. You can preorder Deadpool and Wolverine Bandai Spirits Figuarts action figures at Amazon.
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It’s taken some extra effort, but after numerous delays, the Borderlands movie has finally arrived in a whole new ecosystem for video game adaptations, one in which we no longer expect them all to automatically be terrible. Despite that, some of them will still be terrible–a bad movie is a bad movie, no matter what its source material is. Borderlands is, unfortunately, one such example. But Borderlands isn’t terrible because it’s a video game movie–a large part of the problem is actually how far it deviates from the game’s baseline in order to create a far more generic experience than it should have.Warning: This article will contain multiple major spoilers for the Borderlands movie, including details of its ending, as well as comparisons with the plots of the games. Read more
PT, the playable teaser for Silent Hills, is celebrating its 10-year anniversary today, August 12, 2024. Below, we look back at how even as a demo, it impacted the survival horror genre.Nobody thought much of a new horror title from an unknown studio called 7780, dropped in right as Hideo Kojima was finishing up on stage at Gamescom on August 12, 2014. Mostly, it was just cool they were introducing a game using a “playable teaser”–an idea that, by itself, does deserve to happen more often.Some hours later, it became clear August 12, 2014 was the day horror in video games would be changed for years to come.On August 12, 2014, players who downloaded P.T. booted up the game and began their long walk to perdition, through a recursive hallway. The hallway was dusty and cluttered, …
Read moreBefore the House of the Dragon Season 2 finale, HBO and Max shared the first look at the next Game of Thrones spin-off series, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. That show is already in production, and seven new cast members have signed on for the first season.Via Variety, Masters of the Air actor Edward Ashley will play Ser Steffon Fossoway, alongside Tom Vaughan-Lawlor as Plummer, Youssef Kerkour as Steely Pate, Danny Webb as Ser Arlan of Pennytree, Shaun Thomas as Raymun Fossoway, and Daniel Monks as Ser Manfred Dondarrion. Henry Ashton, who recently appeared in Netflix’s A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, will co-star as Daeron Targaryen. But this Daeron Targaryen is separate from the character who shares his name in House of the Dragon, as the shows are set roughly a century apart from eac…
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