Switch-tember continues apace with more wild speculation about the Switch 2 or whatever Nintendo ends up calling its upcoming gaming console. This time it’s due to allegedly leaked manufacturing information out of China which appears to show renders of what the Switch 2 might look like as well as its specifications.
Sometimes a voice actor nails a role so well the character becomes inseparable from their talents. That’s how it felt with Kevin Conroy and the animated Batman, and that’s how it feels with Doug Cockle and The Witcher’s Geralt of Rivia. So hearing the voice behind the video game version of the white wolf return for…
Sometimes a voice actor nails a role so well the character becomes inseparable from their talents. That’s how it felt with Kevin Conroy and the animated Batman, and that’s how it feels with Doug Cockle and The Witcher’s Geralt of Rivia. So hearing the voice behind the video game version of the white wolf return for…
The video game Mortal Kombat 1, which was first released last September, is getting a DLC expansion called Khaos Reigns next Tuesday, September 24th, and today a gore-soaked trailer has arrived online to give players a glimpse at the sort of insanity they’ll have the opportunity to get up to if they purchase the Khaos Reigns. The trailer can be viewed in the embed above, and features “guest kombatants” like the slasher Ghostface from the Scream franchise, Omni-Man from the Invincible animated series, Homelander from the TV series The Boys, the T-1000 from Terminator 2: Judgment Day, DC’s Peacemaker, and the Arnold Schwarzenegger version of Conan the Barbarian. The trailer is packed with fatalities and animalities, all building up to a Ghostface fatality that it likely to bring smiles to the faces of most Scream fans.
The twelfth main installment in the Mortal Kombat video game franchise and its second reboot (following 2011’s Mortal Kombat), Mortal Kombat 1 takes place in a new timeline that was created through one ending of the 2019 game Mortal Kombat 11. In this new timeline, Fire God Liu Kang assembles a clique of fighters to participate in the latest Mortal Kombat tournament in Outworld while contending with an alliance formed by Titan Shang Tsung. In the follow-up expansion, Khaos Reigns, Liu Kang and his allies must contend with Titan Havik. Mortal Kombat 1: Khaos Reigns expands Liu Kang’s New Era with a new story campaign and an all-new cinematic experience. Discover how Liu Kang rallies his champions and puts faith in his enemies as he battles the ruthless Titan Havik, who threatens to plunge the realms into khaos. If they fail, the New Era will be reduced to anarchy.
The main roster of characters includes Ashrah, Baraka, General Shao, Geras, Johnny Cage, Kenshi, Kitana, Kung Lao, Li Mei, Liu Kang, Mileena, Nitara, Raiden, Rain, Reiko, Reptile, Scorpion, Sindel, Smoke, Sub-Zero, and Tanya. There are also multiple “kameo fighters” and characters that can be added through DLCs. Khaos Reigns brings Noob Saibot, Cyrax, and Sektor into the mix, along with Ghostface, T-1000, and Conan the Barbarian.
Do you play Mortal Kombat 1, and will you be buying the Khaos Reigns expansion? Check out the bloody Ghostface action in the trailer, then let us know by leaving a comment below.
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Did everyone else already know about Pokearth? Am I the last to discover this astonishing combination of nature documentary and Pokémon? Just in case, I need to make sure you’ve seen them too, because wow. For the last few months, YouTuber EnlargedKai has been making lifelike CG-animated videos that perfectly spoof…
Did everyone else already know about Pokearth? Am I the last to discover this astonishing combination of nature documentary and Pokémon? Just in case, I need to make sure you’ve seen them too, because wow. For the last few months, YouTuber EnlargedKai has been making lifelike CG-animated videos that perfectly spoof…
PLOT: An origin story set on Cybertron focused on the friendship between a young Optimus Prime (Chris Hemsworth) and Megatron (Brian Tyree Henry) before they became arch-enemies.
REVIEW: It figures that the best movie Paramount’s ever made from the Transformers franchise is animated. When I hit Comic Con in San Diego a few months ago, the folks behind Transformers One mentioned that by adopting an animated format, for the first time in the history of the big screen franchise, they were able to make a Transformers movie without any human characters, set 100% on Cybertron. It would have cost about $400 million had this been live-action. And, indeed, with no limit on the story’s scope, for the first time, we have a Transformers movie that can legitimately be called terrific.
Indeed, folks are in for a surprise with this one, which is very much in the vein of the recent animated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot and the Spider-Verse movies. While it’s definitely not as good as either Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse or Across the Spider-Verse, it comes much closer than you might expect.
In it, we get a deep dive into the history of the Autobots and Decepticons, tracking how Optimus Prime and Megatron liberated Cybertronians from virtual enslavement before being split into two warring factions. In this one, the young Optimus, here called Orion Pax, and Megatron (D-16) are two miners who don’t have transforming cogs and exist in the lower echelon of Cybertronian society, which Jon Hamm’s Sentinel Prime lords over. Chris Hemsworth and Brian Tyree Henry do a good job evoking the buddy-movie chemistry needed between Orion Pax and D-16, with much of the movie playing almost like an animated version of Tango & Cash as the two embark on a mission that leads to their eventual transformation into the iconic characters as we know them.
While it all sounds like you have to be steeped in Transformers lore to appreciate what director Josh Cooley (Toy Story 4) and his writers are going for, the movie is much more compelling than you’d think. It starts off as your typical sci-fi adventure movie, complete with a humorous sidekick (Keegan Michael-Key as Bumblebee before he lost his voice) and a robot love interest (Scarlett Johansson’s Elita), but eventually takes a dark turn as the truth about Cybertron emerges, and D-16’s more ruthless side comes to the surface. You can’t help but get invested in the brotherhood between the two robots, and when they eventually turn on each other, it feels pretty epic.
The voice work by Hemsworth and Tyree Henry certainly helps it. While many may have issues with Peter Cullen no longer voicing Optimus, Hemsworth works in many vocal references to his predecessor, paying homage to his iconic performance as the film goes on. Likewise, Tyree Henry’s vocal performance once he becomes Megatron begins to change, and he imbues the character with a surprising amount of pathos.
It also doesn’t hurt that the film is gorgeous to look at. The animation style is fresh-feeling, and it makes an effort to be distinctive while also paying tribute to the old cartoon show and 1986 film. It’s also set in the same timeline as the modern Transformer movies, but it’s distinct enough that you really don’t have to have seen any of them to enjoy it.
One thing worth noting is that the audience I saw this with REALLY seemed to love the movie. They laughed and cheered throughout, and when it was over, the audience gave it a huge round of applause, which is something you really never get at free screenings in my neck of the woods. There’s a reason why Paramount’s been doing so many word-of-mouth screenings, as this has the potential to be a major hit, and, again, it’s the best Transformers movie ever made by a wide margin.
Check out this trailer with a sweet JoBlo quote off the top!
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A new rating for a yet-unannounced Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered was spotted on the official Entertainment Software Rating Board website, seemingly confirming the previously rumored remaster.
A new rating for a yet-unannounced Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered was spotted on the official Entertainment Software Rating Board website, seemingly confirming the previously rumored remaster.
Transformers One is about to hit screens and it’s already accumulating a bevy of positive responses, which is headlined in the final trailer that quotes our very own Chris Bumbray as saying it will be “The best Transformers movie ever!” It was also implicated that the new movie, while animated, can serve as a prequel to the Michael Bay films. While Bumblebee and Rise of the Beasts were soft-reboots of the franchise with new filmmakers at the helm, the property started to dabble in shared universes with a tease to the G.I. Joes at the end of Rise of the Beasts.
Collider has now revealed that franchise producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura confirms that the next live-action film will crossover both Transformers with the Joes. He states, “Well, we’re going, again, subject to success, we’re going to do a sequel to this, and there will be an animated version, and it will exist completely separately to whatever we do live-action. The next live-action movie will be a crossover. Where it will be particularly affected is the fact that we now know what these robots are capable of emotionally in a way. So we’re going to have to figure out how to create that room, that we can afford that, and create a story that you can take more advantage of that. So one of the things that I’m particularly interested in doing, and we’re still in the development phase, so nothing is by any means written in stone, but I think we need to do more now from the robot point of view in the live-action because that’s the only way you’re really going to get inside them.”
Di Bonaventura also wanted to clarify that the hybrid film will give both character factions equal time to shine, “Instead of them reacting to humans or reacting to the human plot, what is their drive, has to be part of that story now. So it’s going to be complicated because now the hardest thing about a lot of franchise movies is how many characters there are, and the more characters you try to manage, the harder it is to make a bunch of really good ones. You kind of got to keep going, keep it smaller, keep it smaller. So we’ll be in that process for a while where we’ll start with a bunch of Joes and a bunch of Transformers and I’ll say, regular humans, and then you’re going to do this. That’s kind of where we are right now, is trying to put the larger thing in place. The trick in this one, like we were talking about here, in trying to find that tone and balance is like, ‘Well, how much of the Joes do you want? And how much of the Transformers do you want?’”
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