Category: Gameinformer

Blizzard is holding their annual convention for all things Overwatch, Warcraft, Diablo, and more again, kicking off with a livestreamed keynote today. What will they show off or announce? With Diablo III also launching on Switch today, will we be seeing anything new announced for consoles? 

Watch the video at the embedded link below so we can all find out together.

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Actress Brie Larson has built a considerable following and respect for her talents after appearing in films like Scott Pilgrim vs. The World and starring in the indie critical darling Short Term 12. She’s also the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Captain Marvel and appears to really dig Metroid!

For Halloween Larson dressed up as the Zero Suit version of Metroid’s bounty hunting, alien-fighting protagonist, Samus Aran:

Brie went on to say on Twitter that she’d love to make a Metroid movie:

Fingers crossed, fellow space travelers.

Captain Marvel releases on March 8. You can watch the trailer here.

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Today, Nintendo murdered every character in their catalog, except Kirby. It was actually a pretty cool trailer, and Captain Falcon is a huge coward. The cinematic trailer for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate’s World of Light single-player mode bears more than a few similarities to the Avengers movie released earlier this year, Infinity War, which is not, like, super shocking. You can only really raise the ceilings on epic crossovers so much without them all bearing a resemblance. 

Fans definitely took notice, however, and there’s already edits pairing the two properties, or ur-properties, together. Check out this video, which cheats a little by using the Robin/Lucina trailer from Super Smash Bros. for 3DS/Wii U in it, as one example.

There have also been reactions on Twitter comparing the two.

With Final Fantasy XIV’s penchant for dramatic trailers, of course that got some crossover love, too.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate releases on December 7 on Nintendo Switch. The next Avengers film, continuing from 2018’s Infinity War, lands in theaters in May.

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The second chapter of Stephen King’s nightmare-inducing book adaptation has gotten a release date. Coming to a sewer near you, Pennywise the Clown will be returning to the big screen on September 6.

Following the story originally penned by Stephen King, the film picks up 27 years after the events of the first movie when the evil entity known as Pennywise the Clown is set to return. At this point all the kids in the Losers Club have grown up and must once again face their worst nightmares.

The cast has long since been announced with big-name actors like James McAvoy, Bill Hader and Jessica Chastain taking on the roles of the now-adult children from the first movie. Once again, Bill Skarsgard will resume his role as the infamous clown and the director of the first film, Andy Muschietti is still directing.

With the first film being a critical success and breaking the box office record for highest-grossing opening weekend for an R-rated film, it’ll be interesting to see how the horrific sequel stacks up. Thus far, no official trailer has been released.

[Source: Collider]

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Pokémon Let’s Go is coming fairly soon, launching later month on Switch and leaning heavily into collaboration with mobile title Pokémon Go, but it appears it might be the momentous for other reasons, as well. In an interview on the official Pokémon website, Junichi Masuda, who has been either assistant director or director on every mainline Pokémon game since Gold and Silver until Sun and Moon, stated that he might be done directing the mainline games.

Masuda was asked about working on a Switch game and the ways it ties into Pokémon Go. He answered talking about how familiar he was with Go and how working on the Switch let them experiment with new things like the Pokéball controller.

“For example, developing the Pokéball Plus and working with Bluetooth to facilitate the connection with Pokémon Go were both very interesting things that I had a chance to work on as the director this time,” Masuda said. “But at the same time, it’s important to have the younger generation at Game Freak take over the development of Pokémon as a series. I do believe this will probably be, in terms of the main Pokémon RPGs, the last time that I work as the director.”

It is possible that Masuda might just be thinking wistfully, or he could be planning to merely oversee the projects, but it does suggest the biggest change in the creative hierarchy of the game’s staff in nearly 20 years. That could put Sun & Moon’s director, Kazumasa Iwao, as the most likely person to follow in Masuda’s footsteps.

Pokémon Let’s Go releases in Eevee and Pikachu variations on the Nintendo Switch on November 16.

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I have vivid memories of watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade as a kid, plopping in front of the TV to recognize characters like Bart Simpson and Snoopy. As a consequence, I would get bored when I saw things that were not recognizable cartoon characters, but thankfully TOEI and Funimation are ensuring that there’s one more reason not to turn off the TV in boredom. This year, Goku comes to the parade.

Maybe not the Goku news some fans wanted today, but it does mark the first time the Japanese anime hero has appeared in the annual event. He’ll be making his appearance in his Super Saiyan Blue form, or Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan for those who want to use the full name. Funimation also put up a video of the float being designed.

The next Dragon Ball movie, Dragon Ball Super: Broly, releases in North American theaters in January. The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is on, well, Thanksgiving.

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Frederator Studios, creators of Adventure Time, are getting ready to premiere their cartoon version of Costume Quest in 2019. To give us a taste of their vision for Double Fine’s game about kids’ Halloween antics, they’ve unveiled the show’s main title sequence.

The video quickly introduces the heroes, four ordinary-looking children that gain extraordinary powers after donning some quirky costumes. Keeping with the 2010 game’s Halloween inspired theme, the children face down a horde of enemies ranging from a scary Headless Horseman to a comical merman.

While the show was originally slated to release in this year, it has been moved back and will premiere as an Amazon Prime Video Original in 2019. If you’re interested in checking out one of the games before Costume Quest’s animated debut, you can read our review of Costume Quest 2 here.

[Source: Youtube]

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Update: Blizzard has gone ahead and confirmed the Treasure Goblin amiibo ahead of Blizzcon, stating that it will be available in December.

There’s no word on the supposed other amiibo found in the datamining mentioned below, but it’s probably a safe bet that they will be on their way.

The original story, posted on October 30 at 4:55 p.m. CT, follows:

With Diablo III coming to Switch, everyone has heard for months in what ways Blizzard was choosing to adapt the game to the Nintendo console’s strengths. Aside from the various Zelda cosmetic items and the portability, the Switch version also has amiibo support, which the game shows the player how to do in a tutorial.

The tutorial screen shows players where to place the amiibo on the Joycon or the Pro Controller, but rather than use a generic amiibo like Mario, as is typically done, Diablo III shows a Treasure Goblin from the game on an amiibo stand. It definitely seems odd to bother with making unique art for the amiibo in the tutorial when they could have simply used an image of, say, Ganondorf.

A post on Reddit yesterday suggested that, after datamining, hints were discovered in the game that point to three unique Diablo amiibo, including the Treasure Goblin shown in the tutorial image. Considering the game releases the same day as the start of Blizzcon this Friday, it seems like a good place for the company to announce or reveal some Diablo-specific toys, as well.

Blizzard wouldn’t be the first third party to get their own amiibo, either. The Solaire amiibo, tied to Dark Souls Remastered, came out alongside the Switch version of the game just a few weeks ago. Indie darling Shovel Knight was the first non-Smash Bros. amiibo to release. Should Blizzard announce Diablo ones as well, they would be within the embrace of precedent.

Diablo III releases on Nintendo Switch on November 2. You can read our review of the Switch version right here.

[Source: DiabloFans]

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After Nintendo’s Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Direct, the live stream continued with gameplay of Pokémon: Let’s Go Pikachu and Eevee and Yoshi’s Crafted World. During the Yoshi’s Crafted World gameplay, Nintendo showed a new mechanic where a Yoshi can ride another Yoshi in co-op, and then those Yoshi’s can ride Poochy. It’s insanity. You can see it in the screenshot above.

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During today’s Nintendo Direct, Sora Ltd.’s Masahiro Sakurai revealed Spirits for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. The mechanic replaces the collectible trophies from previous games, as Sakurai said the trophies wouldn’t work for Ultimate and they were difficult to create.

According to Sakurai, many beloved characters from the game universes represented in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate have lost their physical forms. All characters aside from the fighters on the roster have turned into Spirits. This Spirits can be collected by the player and assigned to Spirit slots to help fighters during Smash battles.

Spirits come in several classes. Standard Spirits are called “Novices,” stronger Spirits are called “Advanced,” even stronger Spirits are called “Aces,” and the strongest Spirits in the game are called “Legendary.” Each Spirit is also assigned as an Attack, Grab, or Shield type. These types work in a rock-paper-scissors manner where Attack beats Grab, Grab beats Shield, and Shield beats Attack. You’ll want to assign a Spirit that has a type advantage over your opponent.

You can equip one Primary Spirit at a time. Primary Spirits enhance stats, adding its power to the fighter it’s equipped to. Some Primary Spirits have additional slots, which can be used to equip Support Spirits. Support Spirits lend additional skills to the fighter, like higher jumps or auto-heal.

If one team’s Spirits dramatically overpower another’s, the rewards will be less for the more powerful team. This means players are incentivized to keep Spirit power ccompetitive.

To win Spirits, you take part in Spirit Battles. These special-condition battles pit you against characters on the fighter roster who either behave like or are assisted by the Spirit you’re trying to win. For example, the Gordo battle has you fighting against King Dedede, but a barrage of Gordos rain from the sky. The Guts Man fight features a giant version of Mega Man relying heavily on his throws. The Owain battle features a cocky version of Chrom who taunts you before unleashes a powerful attack.

If you win the Spirit Battle, you must time one final shot without hitting a rotating shield that’s protecting it. Mistime your final blow, and you damage the shield, but you’ll have to complete the battle again. Thankfully, the shield damage carries over into the next attempt. If you hit the puppet fighter, you acquire the Spirit.

You can trade Spirits in by sending them back to the real world. While this means the Spirit is no longer in your inventory, you get cores for trading them in. You can use cores to summon new Spirits. In addition, you can train Spirits at the dojo, or send Spirits out to explore for treasure. Training and exploration missions continue even when you’re playing other modes or not playing at all. You can also use Spirits to power up Amiibos. In addition, some Spirits have enhanced forms if you level them up.

The Spirits system is more than just a mechanic, as the single-player adventure mode, World of Light uses it as the driving force in its narrative. You can read more about World of Light here. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is set to hit Switch on December 7.

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