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The final trailer for Far From Home has officially changed Spider Sense to Peter Tingle, and I will forever refer to it as this.

Did the Stranger Things 3 trailer give away too much?

Blumhouse produced remake “The Craft” is still in the works and they may have gotten Cailee Spaeny as lead!

Rim of the World review.

Netflix is losing the Office!

The new Lion King movie may have Elton John competing for an Oscar with…well…Elton John.

Kevin Smith confirms he’s finally got a show. It’s an IP we’re all familiar with, but he’s ONLY confirmed that it’s not Marvel.

The Current War is all of the yes we wanted. A movie about the war between Tesla, Edison AND Westinghouse.

Space Jam 2 has…unfortunately, started initial filming.

The Boys could be that one show we’ve been waiting for.

Marvel’s Spiderman review.

Scooby Doo and Guess Who on Boomerang has…Jaleel White?! AS URKEL?!

Venom 2 is officially happening.

Sony Still has plans for Black Cat and Silver Sable!

Taika Waititi is going to help Fox/Disney do an animated Flash Gordon movie

Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo joined forces and all spoke out against Trumps Tariffs on gaming consoles.

New One Punch Man announced…it looks funny.

Twitch has soft launched a whole new feature, Subscriber-only streams. What do we think?

Feige confirms that Spider-man: Far From Home is the official end to the Infinity Saga. He describes it as showing how Spiderman steps out from Tony’s shadow and becomes the true hero he was always meant to be.

James Gunn’s Suicide Squad will start filming September 23rd and wrap January 31st in Atlanta, Georgia. He refuses to answer if it’s a sequel or reboot David Dastmalchian (from ant-man and the wasp) joins as the Polka Dot Man.Comic book CornerDC Comics has cancelled Vertigo Comics permanently – What does it mean – DC Zoom Cancelled – DC Ink Cancelled – Now only 3 imprints ○ DC Kids from ages 8-12 ○ DC will be 13 and up ○ Black Label is for 17 and up – Makes sense, but what is the secret gossip? The former DC president Diane Nelson created all of these imprints, the new president Pamela Lifford wants the bare minimum of imprints with the most simplistic branding possible. This means that some comics are going to have to either change to Black Label, be cancelled, or be toned down to fit into DC (13 and up).What was initially thought to be a Fantastic Four/Spiderman crossover after Marvel revealed a “webbed number 4” the next day we learned it was a countdown. What did it count down? JJ Abrams has joined his son, Henry Abrams to make a 5 issue limited series called “Spider-man” with a villain named “Cadaverous” Savage Avengers Update • Wolverine can save people with his blood. • They involve Venom symbiote and Punisher. The basic concept of the series, is that the Hand needs the blood of the most powerful warriors to do something big, that’s the justification behind the series. What could go wrong? Meeple Mania Tal Der Wikinger (Valley of the Vikings) has won 2019 Children’s Game of the year. You have little boats filled with coins, you knock barrels over, sounds fun and these award winning games often have staying power if you choose to pick it up. • This will be available before the end of 2019 Jaws. You can play the role of the shark in Jaws the board game. 2-4 players with the shark gaining powers based on how many humans it can eat. Looks cool, plus what could go wrong with eating the characters of the other players? • Now available at Target. Starfarer’s of Catan. A new edition is coming out, I missed the first edition, the new edition has revised graphics and game materials, it sounds fun. • Q4 release date

Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle Earth

Square Enix wrap up: Marvel’s Avengers, More Final Fantasy scenes + Tifa, Final Fantasy 8 remastered

 

Ubisoft wrap up: Watch Dog’s Legion, Roller Champions, Gods and Monsters

 

Nintendo wrap up: Sequel to Breath of the Wild, Lugi’s Mansion 3, Zelda Link’s Awakening, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3, Astral Chain, Collection of Mana, Panzer Dragoon remake, and No More Heroes 3.

 

Star Trek movie could be in the works, directed by Tarantino and it would be rated R

 

John Boyega seems to be trashing Star Wars, he “likes” tweets that trash the last trilogy, has made several comments of his unhappiness in similarity to GoT actors saying they’re unhappy with how the last season of GoT ended.

 

State of California is investigating Riot Games

 

Upside Down burger at Burger King and Baskin Robbins upside sundaes

 

Stranger Things, Fornite crossover on the way

 

Hercules live action might have been announced with Chris Pratt, Jeff Goldblum, and Ana Kendrick

 

Thinkgeek merges with Gamestop, which could lead to it’s eventual shutdown

 

Jordan Peele wants to do live action Gargoyles

 

Bush’s Baked Beans dog “Duke” dies from Cancer and Horizon Zero Dawn Lead Producer Patrick Munnik passes away.

 

Shokugeki no Soma gets 4th season

 

Funny click bait article from Comicbook.com, are they click baiting way too hard? (Kevin Smith, Ashley Tisdale)

 

Suzanne Collins announces new prequel to Hunger Games (64 years before the events of the current books) and Lionsgate gets the movie.

 

Samuel L Jackson wants to come back to Star Wars

 

NASA finds Starfleet Insignia on Mars

 

Netflix has an Amazing Jonathan documentary

 

Definition of Kaiju… does Clifford count?

 

Comic Book Corner

Marvel Comics teases a Web in the shape of 4, what could it mean??? Now it’s a 3.

Bill & Ted comics, books, cartoons are all non-canon so won’t be acknowledged in the movie

Birds of Prey Trailer – DCU done right? Unlikely alliance between Harley Quinn, Black Canary, Huntress, and Renee Montoyo as they attempt to rescue Cassandra Cain

DC Movie release Date – Birds of Prey February 7th, 2020.  Wonder Woman 1984 June 5th, 2020, The Batman June 25th, 2021, The Suicide Squad on August 6th, 2021, Aquaman 2 on December 16th, 2022

Abrams is very close to signing on for Superman 2 or Green Lantern Corps

 

Meeple Mania

City Skylines is being turned into a cooperative board game in October.  All we know about it is that its going to be somewhat tetris-like as the group tries to overcome environment, environment, crime, and running out of money to achieve prosperity for the city.

 

New kickstarter by Petersen Games – Eternal Adversary 2-6 players, cool minis, upgrade your hero fighting for chaos or Order, possible for balanced 2 vs 3 play.    https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/petersengames/eternal-adversary

Square Enix wrap up: Marvel's Avengers, More Final Fantasy scenes + Tifa, Final Fantasy 8 remastered

 

Ubisoft wrap up: Watch Dog's Legion, Roller Champions, Gods and Monsters

 

Nintendo wrap up: Sequel to Breath of the Wild, Lugi's Mansion 3, Zelda Link's Awakening, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3, Astral Chain, Collection of Mana, Panzer Dragoon remake, and No More Heroes 3.

 

Star Trek movie could be in the works, directed by Tarantino and it would be rated R

 

John Boyega seems to be trashing Star Wars, he "likes" tweets that trash the last trilogy, has made several comments of his unhappiness in similarity to GoT actors saying they're unhappy with how the last season of GoT ended.

 

State of California is investigating Riot Games

 

Upside Down burger at Burger King and Baskin Robbins upside sundaes

 

Stranger Things, Fornite crossover on the way

 

Hercules live action might have been announced with Chris Pratt, Jeff Goldblum, and Ana Kendrick

 

Thinkgeek merges with Gamestop, which could lead to it's eventual shutdown

 

Jordan Peele wants to do live action Gargoyles

 

Bush's Baked Beans dog "Duke" dies from Cancer and Horizon Zero Dawn Lead Producer Patrick Munnik passes away.

 

Shokugeki no Soma gets 4th season

 

Funny click bait article from Comicbook.com, are they click baiting way too hard? (Kevin Smith, Ashley Tisdale)

 

Suzanne Collins announces new prequel to Hunger Games (64 years before the events of the current books) and Lionsgate gets the movie.

 

Samuel L Jackson wants to come back to Star Wars

 

NASA finds Starfleet Insignia on Mars

 

Netflix has an Amazing Jonathan documentary

 

Definition of Kaiju... does Clifford count?

 

Comic Book Corner

Marvel Comics teases a Web in the shape of 4, what could it mean??? Now it’s a 3.

Bill & Ted comics, books, cartoons are all non-canon so won't be acknowledged in the movie

Birds of Prey Trailer - DCU done right? Unlikely alliance between Harley Quinn, Black Canary, Huntress, and Renee Montoyo as they attempt to rescue Cassandra Cain

DC Movie release Date - Birds of Prey February 7th, 2020.  Wonder Woman 1984 June 5th, 2020, The Batman June 25th, 2021, The Suicide Squad on August 6th, 2021, Aquaman 2 on December 16th, 2022

Abrams is very close to signing on for Superman 2 or Green Lantern Corps

 

Meeple Mania

City Skylines is being turned into a cooperative board game in October.  All we know about it is that its going to be somewhat tetris-like as the group tries to overcome environment, environment, crime, and running out of money to achieve prosperity for the city.

 

New kickstarter by Petersen Games - Eternal Adversary 2-6 players, cool minis, upgrade your hero fighting for chaos or Order, possible for balanced 2 vs 3 play.    https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/petersengames/eternal-adversary

Microsoft announced the next Xbox console, Project Scarlett, It will be on sale towards the end of 2020, and forms one half of Microsoft’s video game strategy – the other half being a cloud-powered service that lets you play Xbox games anywhere, on any screen. 

Halo Infinite will be a Project Scarlett launch game – but will also be playable on Xbox One.

At a Final Fantasy-themed concert, Final Fantasy VII Remake, will be out on 3 March 2020.

Cyberpunk 2077 was one of the most-anticipated games going into this year’s. CD Projekt Red used Keanu Reeves to promote it at Microsoft’s Xbox press conference. The game is out on 16 April 2020 and Reeves plays a prominent character.

Gears of War 5 also got a release date, 10 September 2019, alongside a mildly distressing new trailer showing protagonist Kait struggling to keep hold of her sanity.

Speaking of Microsoft’s Xbox press conference, the company showed around 60 games in the course of 90 minutes. Among the most interesting-looking were Bleeding Edge, a competitive brawler from multi-Bafta-winning developer Ninja Theory 

Wasteland 3, a post-apocalyptic strategy role-playing game with a wicked sense of humour

Microsoft Flight Simulator, an eerily realistic return to PC gaming roots

A new Blair Witch horror game

Spiritfarer, described as “a cosy management game about dying”

Twelve Minutes from Annapurna Interactive, a thriller in which you get stuck in an infinite time loop after a romantic evening goes wrong

Way to the Woods, a game about magic deer set in a post-human world. Microsoft has also acquired Double Fine, a San Francisco studio known for its quirky adventures.

Elden Ring, the fantasy game written by George R.R. Martin

Bethesda also announced two games: Deathloop (think Groundhog Day but action-themed) from the makers of Dishonored at Arkane 

Ghostwire: Tokyo, an intriguing Japanese horror adventure. And Ikumi Nakamura is the most precious thing in the universe. 

Doom Eternal, the publisher’s big release this year, will be out on 22 November. In which they showed off a new multiplayer mode titled “BattleMode” 2v1 style combat

‘It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia’ makers reveal they’re doing a show about video game developers titled Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet

Ubisoft drops it’s first trailer for the conference and it’s a whopper, Gods and Monsters is a Breath of the Wild-like game created by the makers of Assassin’s Creed…Odyssey.

The Division 2 is headed back to New York, going on a hunt.

The Division is getting a live action movie

Watch Dogs: Legion is a game where you play…as an NPC?

Final Fantasy VIII remastered, on EVERY platform (except you Stadia…)

Marvel’s Avengers could be the game we were waiting for.

James pees his pants as they show Tifa in Final Fantasy VII

Microsoft brought out Keanu, Bethesda brought out Ikumi Nakamura, and Ubisoft brought a dog and Jon Bernthal. Who won?

Gaming Disorder officially recognized by the World Health Organization. 

Overwatch League’s founding commissioner Nate Nanzer, left Blizzard, for Epic. 

Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, will it be good? 

Did James like Brightburn? 

Inuyasha is coming to Blu-ray for the first time, but only the first 27 episodes. 

Fun Fact: The John Wick body count… 1 dog for 299 lives. 

Solo, do we really want a sequel? Fans are sure clamoring. 

Taika Waititi’s Akira confirmed for 2021 release. 

Sonic’s release date pushed back to fix, well, Sonic. 

Did you sign the petition for Danny DeVito to become Wolverine? 

Playdate developed by Panic is a handheld “GameBoy” with a… Hand Crank? 

Netflix has good shows coming June, Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse, Black Mirror Season 5, and Magic Mike! 

What’s going on with Dauntless?

Reigns: Game of Thrones. An extremely fun text based card game, now set in the Game of Thrones universe. 

Ouya is officially dead. R.I.P. You most likely won’t be missed… 

Telltale games are disappearing from digital stores, get them now before they are gone forever (maybe). 

There’s a Snacks and Sweets Expo… why aren’t we there yet? 

Reviews of Cloak and Dagger, No Man’s Sky, Dauntless, Mortal Kombat 11, and Hearthstone.

 

Comic Book Corner:

Marvel Editor in Chief teases more permanent comic book deaths. What does this mean?

New DC Black label (the label where they showed what’s under Batman’s utility belt, if you catch my drift) comic is coming, it’s 9 issues and called Joker/Harley:CriminalSanity

Captain Marvel originally had comic book accurate Kree Supreme Intelligence (yes, the blobby thing)

Marvel is reportedly targeting Keanu Reeves to star in The Eternals

 

Meeple Mania:

Blockbuster the game available at Target! Who cares how it plays we just need it!

Metal Gear Solid Day 1 nearing release, and it better have a damn Metal Gear in it.

So Long, My World: a very weird, but interesting psychological/horror card based, economy game.

We talk with Comic Book writer William Dickstein about how a writer gets started, superheroes and the works he’s written including the most important one, “Ch05en”. What does it take to become king of the “Dystopian Suphero” genre? Did you know that was even a thing?

Come listen as we discuss how a “new” way to get superpowers could spawn an entire universe of lore.

Also, we got it first here, go buy the book here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07S76PB79?fbclid=IwAR0Ory9KqlHqVXFEWxFOvv0cKmVO2KN5M7F4TmbKJZh-2lpKqQVX10eSgKo

We talk with Comic Book writer William Dickstein about how a writer gets started, superheroes and the works he's written including the most important one, "Ch05en". What does it take to become king of the "Dystopian Suphero" genre? Did you know that was even a thing?

Come listen as we discuss how a "new" way to get superpowers could spawn an entire universe of lore.

Also, we got it first here, go buy the book here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07S76PB79?fbclid=IwAR0Ory9KqlHqVXFEWxFOvv0cKmVO2KN5M7F4TmbKJZh-2lpKqQVX10eSgKo

Tardar Sauce, better known as Grumpy Cat passed away this week

Japan wants to make English speakers put Family name first, is that an issue?

Someone drop kicked Arnold…why? Why would you do that?

Streaming News:Playstation Productions was just formed to make to film and TV series for popular Franchise games, such as Twisted Metal and Last of Us

Disney+ is producing a muppet show that’s…unscripted variety?

Falcon/Winter Soldier is going to have Baron Zemo and Sharon Carter in it.

Movie Madness:Mortal Kombat reboot receives a 2021 release date, its being filmed in Australia, pre-production began this month.

Avengers: Endgame passes Avatar to become the highest cinema release, exceeding 2.7 billion worldwide.

Glitter Batman’s (Robert Pattinson’s Batman) villains reportedly the Penguin and Catwoman

Tom and Jerry is going to get made as a hybrid Live Action/CGI movie and they’ve already cast Michael Pena

Gaming:World of Wacraft’s Classic mode hits beta, it’s widely received. However, some people are reporting bugs that, aren’t bugs.

No Man’s Sky is good again! What does it mean now?

The Sims 4 is free right now! You can apparently download a mod to square up with a toddler

Riot Games is working with Tencent to “port” League of Legends to mobile

ComicBook Corner:

Issue one of Superman: Year One will come out in June explores a coming of age story for Superman in his teenage years.

The x-men mini-series House of X and Powers of X have a few more details being released, House of X will be about a pivotal month for movies, and Powers of X will be about the history of mutants, with each issue being synchronized to give details about the other. These two mini-series, which replace the entire x-men line of comics, begin in July

Ghost-Spider (formerly Spidergwen) will be relaunched and spending much more time in Earth-616. She will be attending Empire State University in the main Marvel universe. Why?

Red Hood: Outlaw #37 teases joining Lex Luther as part of DC’s summer event “Year of the Villain”, August 28th

In August Starro (Jarro as named by Batman, his latest Robin) takes control of the Justice League to try and figure out if they are ready to take on Lex Luther’s Legion of Doom (this is all part of the Year of the Villain)

Meeple Mania:

Sushi Go has been remade into Sushi Roll, finally we can both play a game about making sushi and enjoy puns at the same time.

We talk with the awesome fashion expert Brittany about things we don’t know…and some we do.

We talk with the awesome fashion expert Brittany about things we don't know...and some we do.