Month: November 2020

George Lucas’ 1988 fantasy movie Willow is set to get a new TV sequel, which is being produced by original director Ron Howard and is being made for Disney+. Three of the main stars of the show have now been announced.

As reported by Variety, Ellie Bamber, Cailee Spaeny, and Erin Kellyman are all in talks to play lead roles in the Willow show. Bamber previously appeared in Nocturnal Animals and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Spaeny recently starred in Devs and the horror sequel The Craft: Legacy, and Kellyman played the mercenary Enfys Nest in Howard’s Solo: A Star Wars Story.

No details have been revealed about their characters so far, and we know nothing about the plot of the show, other than the fact it’s a sequel set many years after the movie. However, it’s been confirmed that Warwick Davis will reprise his role as the movie’s heroic main character, Willow Ufgood.

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Fortnite’s special Marvel season is finally coming to an end this week. Galactus, the destroyer of worlds, is coming to crash the party and change the map tomorrow afternoon. Here’s how you can take part in the battle royale’s special event.

Galactus will arrive in special event servers at 1 PM PT / 4 PM ET / 9 PM BST tomorrow, December 1. You’ll need to arrive early and queue up for the event by selecting it in the game mode menu. Players have missed previous events due to server capacity, so don’t expect to get in if you arrive just before the event starts.

If you won’t be able to make it into the live server, you can watch a streamer take part of the season-ending event on Twitch. Nick “NICKMERCS” Kolcheff and Ali “SypherPK” Hasan are two of many popular streamers who will be attending the event and broadcasting it on their channels. You can browse through Twitch tomorrow to find other Fortnite streamers who’ll be there as well.

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The Wonderful 101 Remastered is getting an extensive demo across all its release platforms, and it includes additional content and easy access to the Bayonetta-inspired character on all versions.

Titled the “Wonder-Sized Cadet Demo,” the free version features the entirety of the game’s prologue and all three acts of its first mission, giving you around two hours of play time to mess around with the game’s distinct combat system. Developer Platinum Games says that any progress you make in the demo will carry over to the retail version of the game should you wish to purchase it.

The demo will also give you easy access to Wonder-Bayonetta, an in-game homage to another Platinum-developed title that was previously difficult to obtain. The character will be available from the start of the demo along with other additional in-game items.

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Rainbow Six Siege’s latest season is about to hit, and it brings a variety of changes to the game. Titled Operation Neon Dawn, the update will add a reworked map and a new operator to the game. But in terms of immediate impact, some players might blanch at the hefty size of the patch itself, which comes in at 60 GB on PC and 35.90 GB on console. That’s in addition to the next-gen upgrade, which is 3.2 GB on Xbox Series X/S and 5.38 GB on PlayStation 5

To be fair, Ubisoft notes that the large patch size is due to the consolidation of data files that will make the overall data footprint of Siege itself smaller. That said, it’s still quite big for a patch. The update will introduce a major rework of the Skyscraper map, as well as the Thai operator Aruni. Aruni uses laser gates to defend vulnerable passageways or corridors from the attackers, though those gates can be disabled by any projectile in the game.

Neon Dawn will also come with many changes aimed at improving competitive play. According to the pre-season designer’s notes, the patch focuses on scrambling what Ubisoft calls the “heavy utility meta” through measures such as removing the amount of projectiles that catcher operators like Jager can deny per round. Hibana is also receiving a configurable shot that allows her to decide how many X-Kairos to shoot, which will give her some much-needed flexibility.

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild posited a completely different blueprint for the open-world genre back in 2017, and it’s taken three years for the gaming industry to take those ideas and run with them. Immortals Fenyx Rising one of the biggest games yet to deliver its own take on many of Breath of the Wild’s most interesting ideas, and now that the reviews are out, check out the roundup below to see what critics think of this mythological adventure.

Heavily indebted to Greek mythology, Immortals Fenyx Rising is an open-world adventure game coming December 3 that’s based around exploration and combat. Overall, the reviewers praise the game’s artstyle and worldbuilding, while decrying its derivative puzzle design and focus on traditional open-world activities. While some reviewers clearly enjoyed the game, they opine that the game ultimately has more in common with Ubisoft’s usual open-world games than perhaps its developer would like to admit.

• Game: Immortals Fenyx Rising
• Platforms: Amazon Luna, PC, Switch, PS4, PS5, Stadia, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S
• Developer: Ubisoft Quebec
• Release Date: December 3
• Price: $60 / £50 / $80 AUD

Below are some choice excerpts from reviews to give you the full picture of what people think about the game. Head over to GameSpot’s sister site Metacritic for more reviews of the game.

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This week marks the start to the final month of the year, and Netflix has plenty of new content planned for its subscribers. From new movies to TV shows to original programming, there is something for everyone for the week of November 29.

If you’re a fan of pocket monsters that are trapped inside balls that you command to fight for you, then Pokémon Journeys Part 3 may be right for you. The series continues the adventures of Ash as he and his best friend Pikachu travel to a new land where he will continue his journey to become the very best, like no one ever was. To catch them is his real test. To train them is his cause. And you can watch Part 3 of that journey on December 4.

Pokémon Journeys may a bit too “kiddie” for some people, but if you still want something animated, check out Season 4 of Big Mouth, which arrives on December 4. The series follows a group of adolescents going through puberty and the awkward moments that revolve around it. Also, there are hormone monsters making these kids’ lives hellacious. You can watch the latest trailer here, which introduces anxiety mosquitos.

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