The Minecraft movie will no longer hit its May 2019 premiere date, The Wrap reports, since director and co-writer Rob McElhenny has left the project. McElhenny told The Wrap he had left the movie. That tosses out McElhenny’s script, written with Jason Fuchs (Wonder Woman). Shawn Levy, the original director, left in 2014 over creative differences with Warner Bros.Warner Bros. set the May day for Minecraft in mid-2016. Steve Carell has been rumored to be voicing the lead role (also named Steve) bu

The match, however, follows official FIFA rules — it is abandoned if one side has fewer than 7 players. But what it’s not, said creative director Matt Prior, is anything like Fortnite Battle Royale or PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. That, of course, preceded all this battle royale ruckus, and it’s the real inspiration for this mode, Prior said. Who knows, maybe Fortnite will now reenact goal celebrations from FIFA 19, seeing as how footballers have been doing them to death in real life. Additiona

Some of our favorite indie games get their well deserved time in the spotlight this week at the Humble Store. Humble is running a “Mega Indie Week” sale with up to 90 percent off some excellent games from indie studios. If you like your football in both video and IRL games, Walmart is offering 15 percent off the streaming service NFL Game Pass when you pre-order Madden NFL 19. Polygon Deals is a weekly roundup of the best deals on the internet, curated by Vox Media’s commerce team, in collaborat

Chrono Trigger’s beleaguered port to PC — which back in February was little more than a reconditioned version of its mobile release — has gotten the last of several big patches promised to appease very disappointed fans. (Note: Those who have already completed the game will need to view Chrono Trigger’s ending again, after the latest update is installed, to unlock the extras and endings.) Chrono Trigger on PC was a surprise launch when it showed up on Steam on Feb. 27, but that delight quickly t

And I’m constantly telling people that this is the best game ever, but I still haven’t played half of it. Ben Esposito, game developer (Donut County, Sonic Dreams Collection)The game I’m most embarrassed to have not played is probably EarthBound, because if everyone else is to be believed, it would probably be my favorite game. merritt k, writer, podcast host (Woodland Secrets)The game that I’m most embarrassed that I haven’t played is not some obscure but influential title — it’s actually Fortn

In this week’s This Week at Bungie, the studio revealed the fate of Year One weapons. Many Year One weapons and armor will be retired in Destiny 2’s second year, making them completely unavailable to players who haven’t earned them yet. Bungie clarified which weapons and armor will be retired in September. Included in the random roll system are also a few fan-favorite weapons that are set to return in Year Two, Bungie revealed. However, these are the only items being retired from Destiny 2 that

Things go haywire if you beat the walker: You then get two drones, two of the dogs and another walker, all at the same time. You need to craft a bunch of projectile ammo if you want to farm a few of the big waves for nanites. The best way to farm Nanites is to find an Outpost with a landing pad and a Galactic Trade Terminal inside. These resources have uses, eventually, but inventory space is always scarce in No Man’s Sky, so you should just dump these for credits for now. The best way to explor

If you played Destiny, you may be familiar with Xur, the weekly Exotic item merchant. This scales to your character’s power level, so make sure you’re buying Xur Exotics on your highest level character. The second exotic perk is For the Empire. Its exotic perk, Wraithmetal Mail, will reload all of the Hunter’s weapons when they dodge, which also increases movement and handling speed for a brief time after. However, Hunters already have Foetracer and other excellent PvP exotics to take.

One of the most surprising reveals of San Diego Comic-Con 2018 was that Kelly Sue DeConnick will be tackling a new Aquaman story for DC Comics. “Aquaman is this character where … he is part of the Justice League, so he’s one of the big seven, right? So, I was like Alright, well, what else have we got to work with?”Her Aquaman will move the conflicted king closer to Wonder Woman than Superman. More like … Wonder Woman or Thor would be myth-based characters, as opposed to the alien model. Real

World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth is doing something Blizzard’s MMO has never done before. The opposing faction players will eventually establish a foothold on the other continent, but during leveling, Horde players will rarely run into the Alliance. We played through each of the zones for the Alliance in the Battle for Azeroth beta. Vol’dunWhile the Horde get two amazing zones in Nazmir and Zuldazar, Vol’dun is probably the weakest zone in Battle for Azeroth. World of Warcraft: Battle for A

Let’s speak a word of charity for one of the silent soldiers in your backlog battalion: the sports video game. But sports video games are different. It’s that each of the big sports video games has, for about a decade now, comprised a suite of four or so modes that could each be video games unto themselves. these modes could each be video games unto themselvesUltimate Team modes are another realm where I feel like I’m just wasting value. I wish I could commit to a single sports video game (or ju

The Darkest Minds begins in an elementary school cafeteria rather than the middle of a revolution. Unlike other popular YA dystopian films, The Darkest Minds, the live-action debut of Jennifer Yuh Nelson (Kung Fu Panda 2), takes place in a not-so-distant future. The Darkest Minds’ evergreen theme of youthful resistance harkens back to Alexandra Bracken’s source material, and aligns with today’s activist culture. Whether or not it gets the go-ahead for the sequel (there are two books remaining in

The second weapon in the Overwatch collaboration between the Nerf Rival line of toys and Blizzard was revealed at ChinaJoy in Shanghai and, lo and behold, it’s D.Va’s Light Gun. Other features include a spring-action mechanism, a safety, a ready indicator and, of course, D.Va’s bunny charm dangling from the grip. The unveiling comes about a week after the first weapon in the line, launching in 2019, was revealed. For those who are less arts-and-crafts inclined, these packaged goods from Hasbro w

Intimacy is a new card game, out this week, in which players touch one another with their hands and discuss their feelings about physical connections. Created by Aubrey Isaacman, it’s designed to promote physical consent as well as closeness. The game features cards that suggest a particular way of touching with hands (say, touching another’s forearm). Other cards prompt discussion about physical and emotional intimacy. “Throughout development, I’ve thought of my autistic brother who could use t

One of Destiny 2: Forsaken’s biggest features is the new Collections tab, which will let players track and re-acquire weapons or armor that they’ve gotten over the past year. In anticipation of this new change, the current collection tab attached to it will be disabled one week before Forsaken’s launch. Compared to what we’ve seen of Forsaken’s Collections tab, the current offering is very limited. Players can currently re-acquire any exotic weapons or armor that they’ve already collected in Des

Call of Duty is back from the trenches of World War II and this time it’s flinging players, once again, into the near future of the Black Ops series with Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. The result, at least in this beta, is a game that feels slower and more interesting than any Call of Duty game released since. The right tools for any jobThe most important of those decisions comes thanks to Black Ops 4’s completely new health system. Rather than the regenerating health of previous entries in the seri

Restoration Games made waves when it launched a Kickstarter campaign to re-invent and relaunch the classic and visually stunning board game Fireball Island. Today, the company announced it’s hoping to do the same thing for Milton Bradley’s Dark Tower with a Kickstarter campaign that’s launching in 2019. The game, Return to Dark Tower, is scheduled to ship in 2020. What made Dark Tower so special? “Taking center stage in the game — literally — was the titular tower,” Restoration Games explained i

With Stardew Valley multiplayer out on the PC, many seasoned and new farmers are likely heading back to the valley to get to work with some friends. While this feature adds a new wrinkle to the gameplay, it’s the same old Stardew Valley. But, even if you’ve combed through our Stardew Valley beginner’s guide, there are some new tips that’ll get you and your friends started off on the right foot. GETTING STARTEDWhen you load the latest version of Stardew Valley, you’ll notice a brand new option: c

Blizzard released another World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth cinematic, the second this week. Unlike the Warbringers’ drawn look, Old Soldier is a fully rendered cinematic featuring Saurfang, one of the Horde’s oldest soldiers. A few players on the World of Warcraft subreddit have even started an in-game movement to support Saurfang. After the cinematic went live, multiple posts went out suggesting that players remove or hide their shoulder pieces in support of the true Horde Warchief, Varok

A recent assault on the 100% speedrun record for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time culminated two days ago with the first ever run completed in under four hours. The milestone and world record belong to speedrunner zfg111, who snipped the wire at 3:58:45 in this run (above) on Aug. 1. (speedrun.com lists 16 100% runs on Ocarina of Time in all in the past 22 days). Ocarina of Time is speedrun.com’s fifth-most run game, so this is a significant record in a top-flight event. Since the renewed in