Guillermo Del Toro will be taking on a stop-motion, musical version of Pinocchio for Netflix. The Academy Award-winning director has been eying a Pinocchio movie since the early 2000s, but the project was previously shelved as Del Toro focused on other projects. And they are both journeys of understanding, and journeys of evolution of the spirit,” said Del Toro. Del Toro originally eyed Grimly to direct the project and the artist has been involved since the beginning. Production on Del Toro’s Pi

And fresh threats loomed in the handheld gaming market as well, which had belonged almost exclusively to Nintendo for a decade and a half. And, while Switch certainly offers optional portable play, it is not a handheld system in the truest sense of the word. Portable gaming is no longer the sole domain of Game Boy’s children, and it’s all DS’s fault. Namely, mobile games. DS games hadn’t invented this daily micro-session approach; everything from massively multiplayer games to simple Tamagotchi

You can pick up an extra set of Joy-Con controllers for your Nintendo Switch today at Newegg for $24 less than their usual $79.99 asking price. Even if you’re all set with Joy-Con controllers for the moment, it’s likely that you’ll end up buying another pair at some point in time. Obvious as it seems, more Joy-Con controllers also means that more players can jump in for some couch multiplayer. Whether you’re playing Mario Tennis Aces, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe or Super Mario Party, or just prepping fo

These are images that uniquely dot the broad historical canvas of this country, which felt like a literally wide-open world. In more recent years, the idealistic view of that Old West has fallen in and out of favor. Those who dare traverse this nationalized genre, now fraught with tensions hardly probed in its height, do so rarely. But when they do, like with the Red Dead Redemption series, we’re reminded of how the Western has the power to force us as players, readers and viewers to face our fe

Fortnite’s popularity is mostly due to its battle royale mode, but the game originally launched as a co-op experience that still exists in the game’s for-pay Save the World mode. Players need to purchase a $39.99 “founder’s pack” to play Save the World, but Epic Games has stated that the mode will become free in 2018. “We decided to move the free-to-play launch of Save the World out of this year,” the Fortnite Team explained in an official blog post. Save the World has grown consistently since o

Intellivision, the home video game console that first launched in 1979, is planning a comeback in a new, family-friendly format. The modernized platform, called Amico, will include the original’s iconic omni-directional disc as well as a full-color touchscreen on each controller. Intellivision’s leadership team, led by chief executive officer and video game musician Tommy Tallarico, is making some bold claims about its device, which is still on the drawing board. The Intellivision Amico is our a

Artifact, the Dota 2 digital card-collecting game, is still on target for its launch date at the end of November, but its planned beta period is going to be shorter. An invitation-only somewhat public beta had been planned for this month. “Right now we’re planning for that to happen on November 19.”Artifact got its first public showing at PAX West in Seattle. Fans have gotten beta keys at events this summer (such as The International tournament) and from Valve community relations representatives

Far Cry 2 would have felt like a new, minimalist version of open world game that Ubisoft had never tried before. Instead the influence of Far Cry 2 can be felt all through gaming. But, since it came out in 2008, not 2018, Far Cry 2 is doomed forever to be disastrously ahead of its time. In other words, every resource in Far Cry 2, from the guns, to the medicine to the healing was finite. In the intervening years, the franchise has moved further and further from the mechanics that Far Cry 2 intro

A professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player was caught cheating — in a moment captured on Twitter video — which disqualified his team from a tournament in Shanghai and resulted in its dissolution later. Dotesports first reported the cheating and the aftermath; what’s most interesting is watching the player, Nikhil “forsaken” Kumawat of OpTic India, caught in the act. The incident happened at the Extremesland Zowie Asia CS:GO 2018 tournament, a major-tier event with a $100,000 prize po

Dirty Bomb, which dates back to 2013 under another name but only saw its full 1.0 launch in August of this year, is no more. Developer Splash Damage told players this week that it was ending development on the free-to-play multiplayer shooter. Dirty Bomb began life as Extraction and was at first published by Nexon, with Splash Damage reacquiring publishing control of the game about two years ago. “We staffed up a load of developers and tried our best to deliver a Dirty Bomb experience that would

I was hard pressed to find any sympathy yesterday when Sony said Days Gone was delayed another two months, now launching in April 2019. I’m going to have my first polyp removed before a proper motorcycle gang video game comes out on consoles. Every mid-life crisis trigger I’ve had I can self-medicate with a video game, except this one. spinoff premiered on FX in September and just got renewed for a second season — got into a deal for a video game adaptation. If I was a video game, I would kill t

Ultimate bundle pre-order at Amazon, Walmart, GameStop and Best Buy for $359.99 (to be released Nov. 2). Xbox One X 1 TB Fallout 76 bundle pre-order at Amazon, GameStop and Best Buy for $499.99 (to be released Nov. 14). Nintendo Switch Pokémon: Let’s Go Pikachu bundle pre-order at GameStop and Target for $399.99 (to be released Nov. 16). Nintendo Switch Pokémon: Let’s Go Eevee bundle pre-order at Amazon, GameStop and Target for $399.99 (to be released Nov. 16). PlayStation Classic pre-order at G

Soulcalibur 6 launched yesterday and in the first 24 hours, naturally, someone used its character-creation toolkit to give Lizardman a huge pecker. Players have also used it to pay tribute to some of the most beloved figures in pop culture. This thread at ResetEra asked everyone to keep it SFW, so here’s Doctor Strange, by Flousn. So, on the whole, Create-a-Soul’s a good thing if people are having this much fun with it. Soulcalibur 6 is available now on PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Xbox One.

The short film Digimon Adventure served to introduce the franchise to audiences, premiering a day prior to the TV anime’s premiere. “When I did the Digimon movie, Ghibli producer [Toshio Suzuki] came to me, saying, ‘We have a feature coming up. Hosoda was asked to direct, a huge get for a director who had previously only directed one feature-length film. “If I had to make Howl’s the way Ghibli wanted me to make it, I think my career would have been over,” he said. Mirai, the latest in his slate

The Horror Story auto rifle is the exclusive weapon for Destiny 2’s Festival of the Lost, 2018. It’s essentially a remake of the Origin Story auto rifle from the Vanguard in Year One, with a fixed roll guaranteed to drop at 600 power. This is the ultimate question here, and it’s unfortunately very easy to answer: Horror Story is a bad auto rifle. But the impact — better thought of as damage — is very low, so the weapon feels more like a peashooter than an auto rifle. I’d rather have a cosmetic S

In Destiny 2: Forsaken, the Haunted Forest is the new mode that comes with Festival of the Lost, the game’s s Halloween event. In Haunted Forest, you want to climb as high as you can as fast as you can. In this guide, we’re going to give some tips on how you can improve your Haunted Forest runs, and the best way to work with your Fireteam. Mod your mask and craft your loadoutCrafting your loadout is a big deal in any mode, and Haunted Forest is no different. Chain your SupersA big part of making

For many Steam developers, this two-tiered and algorithmically curated culture of “one Steam for the popular, and one Steam for the rest” is leading to dissatisfaction, resentment and confusion. Negative review. Negative review. So the users know the negative review will get attention, because they know devs don’t want a negative review. The company did not even bother to respond, these Indie Megabooth developers told me, and absolutely nothing has changed.

The comics world is big and varied — and it’s also never been so relevant, as comic book adaptation after comic book adaptation hits every theater, console and streaming service available to humankind. Buy it on Comixology | DC Comics | Your local comic shopCOMIC BOOK HISTORY OF COMICS: COMICS FOR ALLNo matter how much you think you know about a subject, you can always learn more. Comics for All is the second installment in writer Fred Van Lente and artists Ryan Dunlavey and Adam Guzowski’s Comi

Harlem’s Hero will not be returning for another season as Netflix and Marvel Television announce that Luke Cage has been canceled after just two seasons. This is the second week in a row that Netflix has canceled a Marvel show as last news broke that Iron Fist would not be returning for a third season. These cancellations come at a time when the two companies seem to be distancing themselves as Marvel’s parent company Disney prepares to launch a streaming service of it’s own. While there has yet

The makers of Elite: Dangerous last night showed off scads of new features players can expect from the last major update to the spaceflight game planned for this year. Elite Dangerous: Beyond — Chapter Four comes to the game Oct. 30 as a beta, with a full launch later. • Visually, Elite: Dangerous players will notice brighter stars and deeper blacks in space. Elite: Dangerous is available on PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Xbox One. Exploration is a major component of the game and its community, a