Three long years after its premiere in 2015, One-Punch Man is finally returning. Viz Media announced on Twitter that the second season of the wildly popular superhero parody anime will be released in April 2019. Its parody of the superhero anime genre is what made it one of the best anime available on Netflix. The second season of One-Punch Man will premiere April 2019, and as of now it’s unclear if there are any plans to simulcast the series as it airs in Japan. In the meantime, the first seaso

Twitch already encompasses a vast range of content ranging from ASMR to K-drama streaming events, but for the next two weeks, things are about to take a swing in the anime direction. Starting today, Viz Media will be livestreaming the first three seasons of 2012’s JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure — 113 episodes total — until Aug. 25 on its Twitch channel. For those unfamiliar with the series, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure is based off of Hirohiko Araki’s manga of the same name. The multigenerational series f

During his all-too-brief filmmaking career, Satoshi Kon had a batting average higher than nearly any director. Perfect Blue, his feature directorial debut, is hailed as one of the most disturbing and captivating anime cult classics of its time. In light of Perfect Blue’s 20th anniversary next month, 500 movie theaters across the U.S. are giving it the big screen treatment it deserves. GKIDS and Fathom Events are bringing this unforgettable film to select U.S. theaters on Sept. 6 and Sept. 10. Pe

According to Doyle, the Sandman Universe was conceived over two years ago, prompted by Gaiman’s work with DC Vertigo on Sandman: Overture. In March, when the Sandman Universe was announced, the author told Entertainment Weekly that he’d “started feeling guilty. While Spurrier and Watters are established comics writers, Howard and Hopkinson were coming direct from their careers as scifi and fantasy novelists. “What happens when you’re a deity and you’re suddenly… without portfolio?” Hopkinson t

Watching the opening of the game makes that clear from the start. What’s remarkable is that from that fluid cutscene, reminiscent of animated films based directly on illustrations or paintings, the game begins. “We’re really seeing video games as a form of art,” Roger Mendoza, co-founder of the Spain-based Nomada Studio, told Polygon. Mendoza compared Gris’ gameplay to that of adventure games with defined aesthetics like Ori and the Blind Forest and Journey. “You’ve grown up, and the game grows

The opening screen in Fortnite currently announces the upcoming arrival of a new heavy sniper rifle, and recent leaks indicate that it could radically shift the game’s basic strategy. “New Epic and Legendary sniper rifle capable of dealing high damage to structures,” the in-game text explains. The Heavy Sniper is “coming soon,” which most likely means that we’ll see it in tomorrow’s weekly content update. Fortnite: Battle Royale Leaks has posted what it claims are the gun’s stats, and they are b

Fallout 76 will do something rare for a PC game: It’s skipping Steam — at least at launch — and will only be available from publisher Bethesda Softworks’ own launcher. According to Bethesda’s senior vice president of marketing and communications, Pete Hines, that’s so the publisher can bypass the middleman and work more directly with players. The game was only available through the Bethesda.net launcher initially, and it took about eight months for Bethesda to bring the game over to Steam. “We h

The PC version of Monster Hunter: World is no longer for sale in China. Governmental regulators in that country have pulled its license, and the continued operation of the game is not guaranteed. The Capcom-developed title, which launched in January here in the United States, was licensed by Chinese megacorporation Tencent for sale and operation in that country. But, days after launch, the Chinese government elected to halt the sale of Monster Hunter: World citing non-specific customer complaint

The latest trailer for Wreck-It Ralph’s sequel shows what happens when a platform video-game icon ventures out into the larger word of the Internet. They fight their way through a Fast and Furious style action racer and then Vanellope drops into a group discussion with Disney princesses Aurora (Sleeping Beauty) Belle (Beauty and the Beast), and a completely unintelligible Merida from Brave. By the looks of it Ralph Breaks The Internet is going to break the fourth and every other dialogue wall of

The relentlessly self-referential, universe-expanding show that is The Venture Bros. boasts one of TV’s most complex continuities — think Game of Thrones meets Arrested Development, but with more pulpy super-science. Or was that all sleight of hand to distract early viewers from the other Venture Bros.? That would be Jonas Venture, Sr., Rusty’s late father, who has haunted the Venture family and its hangers-on since the beginning of the show. That makes this the perfect time to ask: What does Jo

The Meg, a movie about a ginormous shark menacing Jason Statham and a bunch of scientists in the deep ocean, has wildly outperformed box office expectations, raking $44 million domestically and another $97 million overseas, according to Box Office Mojo, to give Warner Bros. a surprise hit late in the summer moviegoing season. The monster movie is the week’s biggest grossing flick in North America, surpassing the third weekend of Mission Impossible — Fallout, the sixth installation of Paramount’s

Two more virtual reality projects are in the works based on Arkane’s Prey and MachineGames’ Wolfenstein series, both of which offer very different experiences. Arkane’s Prey: Typhon Hunter add-on is the more interesting of the two VR projects. It’s an escape room experience in which players are dropped into Prey protagonist Morgan’s office and must hunt for clues and study objects scattered about the environment to solve a multi-stage puzzle. Ricard Bare, lead designer at Arkane, said Prey: Typh

Bethesda Softworks’ top spokesman made a remarkably candid comment to Game Informer yesterday: Platforms that don’t allow cross-console play may be cut out of The Elder Scrolls: Legends’ launch later this year. Though Pete Hines did not specifically name PlayStation, Sony or the PlayStation 4, there’s no other console presenting any obstruction to cross-platform play. Hines said Bethesda is still discussing the matter with its platform partners, which basically means Sony. At its E3 2018 show, B

On Monday, Amazon ran a Gold Box deal for $50 off the SNES-inspired edition of the New Nintendo 3DS XL. It’s the same deal Amazon ran on Prime Day, but was overshadowed by the flashier Switch deal. Consoles and HardwareGamesMiscellaneousCommerce Team PicksEarlier this week, Nintendo treated us to a Nintendo Direct presentation all about the upcoming Super Smash Bros. The game launches on Dec. 7, but you can already pre-order on Amazon to take advantage of that 20 percent Prime discount. You can

Hemsworth was expected to return as Kirk’s father, a role he played in 2009’s Star Trek. The Hollywood Reporter says negotiations with stars Zoe Saldana, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, Simon Pegg and John Cho are expected to close soon. Paramount is said to be balking at such demands, considering Star Trek not to be a franchise at that kind of a pay grade. Pine and Hemsworth are contending they already have agreements in place that Paranount and Skydance Media are trying to lower following a disapp

“I don’t play with female gamers,” says Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, Twitch’s biggest streamer and one of the faces of the Fortnite fandom. Fans assume Twitch streamers are in a relationship just as often as they speculate on their marital status. Respect is a major part of playing Fortnite and other games. In contrast to the reality of being a woman on Twitch, Blevins’ choice to draw a line feels like a conservative gesture — even a familiar, divisive one. Still, the Twitch streamer is sticking to hi

Vlad Coho, who had been vice president of marketing for Nexon America, was to be the speaker. That said, out of respect for the BKP team, I’ve pulled the talk and won’t be mentioning LawBreakers or Nexon if/when I do speak at DevGamm,” he told Destructoid. Nexon backed the class-based shooter, which launched for PlayStation 4 and Windows PC in August 2017. Lawbreakers’ servers will close down next month, and its studio “is effectively no more,” Bleszinski said in May. Boss Key followed that with

Fallout 76 is a massively multiplayer game with player-versus-player combat. This raises questions of how the game will manage the more malevolent members of the player base, those hellbent on killing other human players and disrupting their enjoyment. Furthermore, players will be alerted to these “wanted murderers” presence on the mini-map — they’ll be flagged by a big red star. Fallout 76 will also feature a “revenge system” whereby players killed by another human player can go back, find them

Fallout 76, the upcoming multiplayer survival game from Bethesda Game Studios, will employ a card-based system for character customization, game director Todd Howard explained at QuakeCon today. Like other Fallout games, Fallout 76 will used the SPECIAL system that determines a player’s strength, perception, endurance, charisma, intelligence, agility and luck. As players level up in Fallout 76, they’ll be able to add points to each statistic. Early on in the game, Fallout 76 will drop new packs

Fallout 76 commanded a huge panel this weekend at QuakeCon 2018. Highlights (video is at bottom):SPECIAL, the attribute framework governing player creation, does return, but players will find it supported by a card-based perk system. In other words, the higher a player’s number for their attribute, the more perk cards they may apply. Bethesda is mindful that with a PvP combat system there may be malefactors bent on running around and killing other human players. “Given the online nature [of Fall