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Watch the Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Reveal Live On IGN
It’s happening. This Thursday, Activision will reveal Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 — quite possibly the first Call of Duty to launch without a campaign. The fact that it’s supposedly a multiplayer-only game, along with rumors of a Battle Royale mode and close ties to Overwatch, make this one of the most mysterious Call of Duties in years.
Join IGN live on Thursday, May 17 at 9:45am PT / 12:45pm ET / 5:45pm UK (or 2:45am AEST on May 18) as we finally find out what Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 actually is. You can watch it here, or on our Twitch, or YouTube channel!
If the Jungle Doesn’t Kill You, the Parasites Will in Green Hell
Today developer Creepy Jar announced Green Hell, a single-player, open-world survival game set in the Amazon rainforest. It has a focus on realism, with illness, infection, and parasites threatening the player as they try to survive.
Take an exclusive first look at Green Hell in its announcement trailer:
Green Hell calls itself a “survival simulator” instead of just a survival game, with the developer consulting experts on the things you need to craft and the obstacles you encounter. Players will actually need to check their character’s body for injuries they’ve sustained to heal themselves – and also to make sure there’s nothing crawling under their skin.
9 Awesome State of Decay 2 Moments on Xbox One X
State of Decay 2 is loaded with little moments that can make your heart skip a beat and here are a few that got us while playing on the Xbox One X.
Sea of Thieves’ Private Crews Patch Now Live
Update: Sea of Thieves’ latest patch is now available for download for PC and Xbox One players, adding the ability to choose private or open pirate crews.
Sea of Thieves will now present players with two choices — Open Crews will allow players to assemble crews as they’re used, while the Closed Crews option lets a player start a game, which friends can then join when available.
Sea of Thieves Crews Options
This option prevents non-friends from joining. Any number of friends up to the limit on each ship can join a closed crew, with this option replacing the 3-player Galleon and Solo Sloop options.
Justice League: Henry Cavill on ‘Ridiculous’ Superman Marketing and Mustache
Henry Cavill spoke about Warner Bros.’ “ridiculous” decision to keep Superman out of Justice League’s marketing.
While speaking to Empire Magazine (via Batman-News), Cavill seemed to agree not having the Man of Steel in any of the film’s trailers was strange, especially considering Cavill himself was doing press tours for the movie, which all but confirmed Superman was indeed in Justice League.
Jeff Goldblum Explains That Jurassic Park Topless Scene
It may have taken 25 years, but finally the world knows the truth about the topless Jeff Goldblum scene in Jurassic Park. You remember that moment, right? How could you not? Not only does it not make sense, it cements Goldblum’s Dr. Ian Malcolm as perhaps the coolest character in the movie.
After suffering a pretty severe injury to his leg, the camera finds Malcolm laying down, seemingly to ease the pressure on his limb. However, when he’s shown, it’s with his shirt completely undone in what can only be explained as a seductive pose. Within the context of the scene, it makes zero sense. And yet, when all was said and done, Goldblum bared his chest to the world in the final cut of Jurassic Park.
So how did it come to pass? Naturally, the idea was Goldblum’s. Appearing at a 25th-anniversary event for the film, Goldblum revealed to Kong: Skull Island director Jordan Vogt-Roberts that the moment was improvised. “I asked Jeff Goldblum during #JP25 what he remembers about shooting his iconic & smoldering shirtless scene. He told me it WAS NOT scripted,” Vogt-Roberts writes in a tweet. “The AD was on stage and confirmed Goldblum made the decision to unbutton his shirt and everyone just went with it.”
I asked Jeff Goldbum during #JP25 what he remembers about shooting his iconic & smoldering shirtless scene. He told me it WAS NOT scripted. The AD was on stage and confirmed Goldblum made the decision to unbutton his shirt and everyone just went with it. What an absolute legend. pic.twitter.com/0gRxBlHtE9
— Jordan Vogt-Roberts (@VogtRoberts) May 14, 2018
Honestly, that’s the most satisfying answer one could expect to get for this particular question. The actor has proven time and again to be an eclectic and unique force in the universe–whether it’s scatting as his character in Isle of Dogs or embracing his own Jurassic Park roots as part of the Jurassic World: Evolution video game–which he has already awarded “10 Goldblums out of 10 Goldblums.”
As for what made him think unbuttoning his shirt was the best possible solution for the scene, his reasoning is sound. “It’s supposed to be Costa Rica, right? So things are hot and I’m sure I’m in some sort of fever. So all the logic is that we gotta get some of these wet clothes off immediately,” Goldblum recently told Yahoo Entertainment. “As I remember, I don’t think anybody fought me on that.”
Goldblum can next be seen back on the big screen as Dr. Ian Malcolm in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom when it hits theaters on June 22. It remains to be seen whether or not he’ll go shirtless again at some point in this movie.
Netflix’s Aggretsuko Is One Of The Best Anime This Year
Netflix’s new anime, Aggretsuko, is based on a series of minute-long web shorts from a few years ago. When I first discovered her in 2016, the star was still Aggressive Retsuko, the Hello Kitty company’s adorable new red panda mascot who also sings death metal–and I was already sold on her. She’s cute and angry! She drinks beer! She hates her boss! Collectively, everyone who grew up loving Sanrio said “that’s literally me” and then maybe bought some stuff with her face on it (I have a hat and a tote bag). I really didn’t expect the full-length anime to be more than just dumb fun.
Like in the shorts, Retsuko’s rage builds as she endures one frustration after another, culminating in her singing death metal alone in a karaoke room. But from the first episode, it’s very clear that Netflix’s Aggretsuko isn’t just a series of jokes and skits. In just 10 15-minute episodes, the show manages to cover an impressive variety of modern workplace frustrations, teach a lesson about relationships, and get you invested in its characters, all while being a relatable and silly office comedy at its core.
Retsuko is a 25-year-old office lady who works in the accounting department of a trading firm, and her boss is a pig named Director Ton who makes derogatory comments about women. (Get it? He’s a chauvinist pig.) She has to bite her tongue when he insults her and hide her frustration as he loudly practices golf in the office while everyone else is busy. Nothing she does is ever correct or good enough, but Ton of course loves a younger female employee, Tsunoda, who sucks up to him all day. By the time Retsuko sings the first song of the show all about her “sh***y boss,” you’re either cheering her on or relating to her really, really hard.
To round out the office, Retsuko has her friendly coworkers–a laidback hyena named Haida and a calculating fennec fox named Fenneko–and the annoying ones, which include the suckup Tsunoda, a gossipy hippo, and Ton’s smarmy yes-man. There are also mysterious businesswomen, Gori and Washimi, who work in a different department and always look impossibly put-together. If you’ve had a job for any amount of time, there’s at least one person you’ve worked with in the lineup.
Finally, Retsuko is up against the soul-crushing reality of having to earn money to live. In the second episode, Fenneko tells Retsuko she’s a corporate slave destined to overwork herself to death. Darker than the sexist boss or the lazy supervisors is the knowledge that she can’t just quit the job she hates because she hates it; she needs a way to survive, whether it’s in a different career or by marrying a rich husband. Her schemes make for some great sitcom antics, but they’re also central to why the show works so well.
Generally, Retsuko’s plans backfire. When she acts too happy, her supervisors get suspicious. When she tries to find common ground with her boss, she ends up angering him more. But at every stage, Retsuko can always use karaoke to control her emotions when she can’t control her environment. Singing death metal isn’t just a funny coping mechanism; it’s her favorite form of self-expression and the way she stays connected to her identity, even when she’s forced to be a corporate drone. It’s both her way to vent and her way to remain Retsuko.
Aggretsuko is both silly and serious, its characters both outlandish and relatable. But most brilliantly, it offers lessons in coping for when you feel powerless against everything wrong in your life. While that’s more than a lot of people might have expected, it’s what a lot of us really need more of.
Borderlands 3 Won’t Be At E3, Gearbox Claims (Kind Of)
Gearbox head Randy Pitchford has publicly denied rumors that Borderlands 3 will be shown at E3 this year. The founder and president produced a string of tweets centered around magic tricks, and embedded the announcement in the middle of them.
4/ For example, I could write it out now precisely and specifically that “Borderlands 3” will not be at E3 and many of you will choose not to believe it. Many of you will find a way to interpret the intent to suit what you want to believe regardless of what is true.
— Randy Pitchford (@DuvalMagic) May 15, 2018
The denial appears clear enough, but it’s just odd enough to keep us speculating. Why is the name in quotation marks? Why couch it in a long talk about illusions and trickery? Why is it phrased as a hypothetical at all? It stands to reason that Pitchford could be attempting some clever misdirection, and that we’ll see Borderlands 3 in some form at the event–even if it’s not called by that name.
Or, alternately, Pitchford could be legitimately telling fans not to expect the game at the show this year, and he’s using some imagery from his other passion–stage magic–to illustrate his point. If that’s the case and Borderlands 3 is nowhere to be found, we can’t say he didn’t warn us.
Pitchford did finish the tweet thread by thanking fans for their passion and support and saying that Gearbox is “working harder than we have ever worked in order to create new and exciting things.” Last year, Pitchford obliquely hinted at Borderlands 3, saying that 90% of the studio was “working on the thing I think most of you guys want us to be working on.” He probably didn’t mean Battleborn 2, so we’ve been expecting a Borderlands 3 confirmation ever since. Take-Two has hinted that one of its biggest franchises will get a new entry by early next year.