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Alpha Review

Alpha’s not the movie that most moviegoers have been waiting desperately all summer long to see and it’s sliding into theaters with comparatively little fanfare – it’s certainly not the leader of the pack when it comes to the season’s major studios releases. That said, don’t dismiss this as a dud that the studio is trying to hide or purely a family movie aimed at being little more than a distraction for kids at the tail end of their school holidays.

Directed by Albert Hughes and set in the Ice Age, Alpha is the story of a young man, Keda (played by Kodi Smit-McPhee) who is left for dead by his tribe when his first hunt goes wrong and tries to survive alone in the wilderness. Befriending a lone wolf abandoned by its own pack, they set off together to make it home before the harsh winter kicks in, facing various hurdles and strengthening their bond.

New Spider-Man Trailer Reveals New York City Sites

A new Spider-Man gameplay trailer is debuting exclusively on IGN, and it centers on the open-world New York City that Spider-Man calls home.

The trailer, called Just the Facts: Marvel’s New York, consists of Spider-Man swinging, spinning, and swan-diving through the upcoming game’s open-world while a radio show hosted by J. Jonah Jameson plays in the background. In it, Jameson smack-talks everyone’s favorite web-slinger while Peter Parker calls on the show to defend his alter ego.

Some major landmarks are shown off in the trailer, both fictional and real. The video gives us a closer look at the Sanctum Sanctorum, the famous residence of Doctor Strange, and the Avengers Tower, headquarters of, you guessed it: The Avengers. As far as real-world landmarks, the Radio City Music Hall and a riff on MoMA called the Manhattan Museum of Contemporary Art (MMoCA) are both shown off.

Is Gamora Marvel’s New Thanos?

If you’ve been keeping up with Marvel’s latest comic event — Infinity Wars (not to be confused with Infinity War, the movie) — you’ll know that fan-favorite Guardian of the Galaxy Gamora recently had a major reveal, and a pretty dark one at that. So dark, in fact, she may have just solidified her future role as one of Marvel’s next big bads, just like her father. The question is: how did she end up here, and, more importantly, what does that actually mean?

Warning: this post contains spoilers for Infinity Countdown, Infinity Wars Prime, and Infinity Wars!

Soul Searching

Unsurprisingly, Gamora’s descent into madness (?) begins well before all the Infinity Gem chaos really started to ramp up, all the way back in the mid ‘70s before the original Infinity Gauntlet event where Gamora’s consciousness was absorbed into the Soul Gem after her body was killed. In the ensuing years, Gamora’s soul was projected from the Soulworld housed within the gem and given new physical form, essentially resurrecting her and paving the way for the modern Gamora we know and love today.

Batman Day Celebrates The Dark Knight With Free Comics and Big Sales

DC Entertainment is celebrating the upcoming fifth annual Batman Day in a big way.

As detailed on DC Comics’ website, Batman Day will take place on September 15 this year. Thousands of participating retailers worldwide, including Barnes & Noble, Indigo, Books-A-Million and more, will feature Batman-themed events.

Batman Day 2018, via DC.

How Ubisoft Rebuilt Athens for Odyssey

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey is the 11th core game in the franchise, averaging one a year since the original’s launch back in 2007. Considering this, it’s no surprise that they’ve honed their collective skills to a fine edge when it comes to crafting digital reproductions of historic locations, and that in addition to creating one of (if not the) best-looking game in the series, Ubisoft Quebec has poured more effort and detail than ever into their rendition of ancient Greece – and nowhere in it’s massive world map is a better example of this than the city of Athens.

“It’s that booming city of antiquity,” says Odyssey’s Creative Director Jonathan Dumont during a recent interview, “That we tried to picture as a city of light, as a city of the future, for them.” As the cultural, social and political hub of the Grecian world, Athens was many things to many people. A trading port, a center for academia and philosophy, an artistic haven or hotbed of political revolution and more, the diversity of 430 BCE Athens is difficult to put together. This largely stems from the fact that while one of the most famous cities from the era, it had already existed for thousands of years, constantly changing hands between rulers and societies, and would exist for thousands more before Ubisoft’s research teams could begin exploring it.

EA Sports Boss: MVP Baseball Could Return Someday

When asked if EA was still thinking about one day returning to making baseball video games, EA Sports Executive Vice President Cam Weber simply says “the answer is yes.”

“I would love to have a baseball game in our portfolio,” Weber says. “It’s something that once again, every couple years, we take a look and we talk about and theorize about what it might look like to get back into something like baseball.”

In this month’s IGN Unfiltered (see the full interview above), Weber sat down to discuss his career journey, from The Simpsons: Road Rage to managing the world’s largest sports game company.

Why Did Batman Go Back to His Old Costume?

Batman #53 features the return of Batman’s classic costume, and now we know exactly why the Caped Crusader is rocking his retro look.

Warning: this article contains spoilers for Batman #53!

This issue wraps up the “Cold Days” storyline, as Bruce Wayne and his fellow jurors deliberate and try to decide the fate of Victor Fries. Bruce is convinced that his mistakes as Batman have condemned an innocent man (in this case, anyway) to die. But short of admitting that he’s Batman, Bruce’s only option is to convince the rest of the jury that they put too much faith in Batman. He’s not the infallible god Gotham believes him to be.

Why Netflix’s Ozark Season 2 Is One of TV’s Best Crime Dramas

This is an advanced SPOILER-FREE review of Ozark Season 2. You can stream all 10 episodes on Netflix on August 31.

Netflix’s gritty Missouri-based crime drama, Ozark, is back with a darker, and much stronger, second season, which pushes the money-laundering Byrde family to the brink of collapse, as they struggle to not only survive, but also thrive in a criminal underworld filled with drug cartels, crooked government agents, and rapacious politicians.

When Ozark first premiered in 2017, comparisons were made to AMC’s seminal Breaking Bad, and rightly so. Marty Byrde (Jason Bateman) and Walter White (Bryan Cranston) are both hardworking, law-abiding individuals, who after suffering extreme circumstances, decide that a life of crime is their only way out. While those similarities are difficult to ignore, Ozark Season 2 does a solid job of distinguishing itself from other series within the same genre.

Guardians 3: Chris Pratt Says It’s ‘Not An Easy Time’ For Cast After Gunn’s Firing

It’s not been an easy time for the Guardians of the Galaxy cast following James Gunn’s firing, according to Chris Pratt.

Speaking to the AP, Pratt explained the cast loves Gunn but everyone still wants to move forward, with the recent controversy being complicated for everyone.

“It’s not an easy time,” Pratt said. “We all love James and he’s a good friend of ours, but we also really love playing the Guardians of the Galaxy. It’s a complicated situation for everybody.

“And you know, we just want to move forward and do what’s right and be the best people we can be.”

Pratt and the rest of the core Guardians cast released an open statement defending Gunn. The filmmaker was fired by Disney after a series of older offensive tweets from the director recently surfaced. Pratt reiterated the open letter from the cast is mostly all they have to say about the situation.

Hollow Knight’s Next Expansion Changing Name to Avoid Potential Legal Action

The upcoming Hollow Knight content pack formerly known as Hollow Knight: Gods & Glory is now officially Hollow Knight: Godmaster – this change is likely to avoid potential legal conflicts with another similarly named game.

Announced by developer Team Cherry, this fourth and final free content pack for Hollow Knight is still coming to Switch, Windows, Mac and Linux on August 23, and it will reportedly contain the exact same content that it was going to before the name change. To announce this, Team Cherry poked a bit of fun at the situation.

“So why the 11th hour change?” asked Team Cherry’s co-director William Pellen. “Well not only is the new name 100 times cooler, more distinct, more ‘Hollow Knight’, it also doesn’t conflict with the title of a certain mobile game, made by a very large, very powerful video game company! It’s a win win all-round! Now, let’s all take a moment to enjoy this stylish upgrade.”