One of the biggest complaints people had with The Walking Dead’s seventh season was how the show spent too much time drifting between different camps and locations. [Warning: The following contains spoilers for the seventh season of The Walking Dead and possibly for the eighth.] The seventh season spent a large chunk of its time checking in on four different communities — if you include the Saviors — and that non-linear storytelling method was disappointing to more than a few fans. This season s

Netflix unveiled the first poster for Stranger Things’ second season yesterday and people have begun to theorize about what a certain tagline could be referring to. [Warning: The following contains spoilers for the the first season of Stranger Things.] The tagline for Stranger Things’ second season is “some doors can’t be closed” and while that obviously refers to the Upside Down — the strange world where Will Byers disappeared to last season — diehard fans are theorizing that it could also be a

There’s something missing from superhero movies. And Spider-Man: Homecoming is the first time that I’ve felt like I was seeing it in a major superhero blockbuster. It’s one thing to like watching superhero movies because they do impossible things. Homecoming finally gives us a superhero movie where the lead isn’t trying to live up to a personal ideal of heroism — but a very specific, fictional cultural one. And now that I’ve seen how good a superhero movie can be when I’m not mentally filling in

Instead, Black Panther will be a cross between James Bond movies and The Godfather, focusing on a dysfunctional, powerful family and incorporating themes of espionage. “So hopefully we’re getting the best of both worlds.”Much has happened since Captain America: Civil War, which was the first time Black Panther was introduced to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Killmonger is an associate of Ulysses Klaue, the arms dealer who was introduced in Civil War and played by Andy Serkis. “It’s shortly after

Today, Activision Blizzard unveils the first seven teams to become part of the Overwatch League. As you can see, owners are a mix of traditional sports team owners, entrepreneurs and tech companies. The rising tideOne major aspect of the Overwatch League is that it will include a profit sharing system involving every team in the league. “We are launching a global league,” Nanzer told us, “and so the league is going to drive a lot of economics at the league level. There will be no relegation in t

Nate Nanzer, commissioner of the Overwatch League, tells Heroes Never Die that the integration of a type of gambling called fantasy sports is in the planning stages. We’re definitely looking into something like that.”In traditional fantasy sports, participants come together to draft real-world players onto a pretend team. In traditional sports, daily fantasy is dominated by two companies — Fanduel and DraftKings — which control 90 percent of the market. That’s a situation the Overwatch League wo

The Dota 2 community has, once again, broken an esports record, boasting the largest prize pool for any esports tournament ever held. The prize pool for The International 7, the massive annual Dota 2 event held by the game’s developers, has surpassed the prior record held by last year’s event at $20,770,460 USD. The base prize pool starts at $1.6 million, and 25% of sales through the aforementioned options and items go directly into the prize pool. And those numbers are only growing; at the time

Half-Life is nearly 20 years old, but Valve is still fine-tuning the PC game. It’s not the most interesting list of patch notes, although they’ll be appreciated by those who play to Half-Life to this day. Fixed crash when loading a specially crafted malformed BSP file. Fixed malformed SAV files allowing arbitrary files to be written into the game folder. Fixed crash when setting custom decalsHere’s another thing that this update fixed, according to one Redditor.

Yoko Taro, director of Nier: Automata and wearer of bizarre headgear, is a master of making the most innocuous interview worth reading. Taro’s list is mostly filled with action and role-playing games, which makes sense, considering his background on the Nier and Drakengard games. This game and its content created over the course of 10 years is unparalleled and unique, and I enjoyed it a lot. The man is known to have an obsession with death, but maybe let’s not interrogate that claim any further.

It turns out Star Fox 2 wasn’t canceled, it was just delayed 22 years. Dylan Cuthbert, the game’s lead programmer at the time, found out that the sequel to Star Fox was coming out after all when Nintendo announced the news last month. Star Fox 2, which has to be unlocked by beating the first level of the original Star Fox, is one of 21 titles pre-loaded on the $80 Super NES Classic Edition. Back in the mid-90s, hot off the success of 1993’s Star Fox, Cuthbert and a team at Argonaut Software bega

The title track from Iron Butterfly’s 1968 album In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida is coming to Rock Band 4, developer Harmonix announced today, giving players an opportunity to jam through all 17 minutes-plus of the psyche rock hit. Because of its extreme length — the song has a two-and-a-half-minute drum solo, during which the rest of the band can just chill — Iron Butterfly’s “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” will cost $2.99 to download. At 17 minutes and five seconds, “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” will be the second-longest tra

The eponymous company behind Cards Against Humanity is re-releasing its flagship card game in a new, just-for-women package called Cards Against Humanity for Her, the company announced today. Cards Against Humanity for Her contains all the same cards as the original game, with the same exact color scheme of black prompt cards and white answer cards. “Cards Against Humanity for Her makes me feel like my type of beautiful,” said Lisa Beasley, a writer at the company. It comes with 30 menstruation-

The Royal Menagerie is one of several story trials in Stormblood, which constitutes version 4.0 of the main game. After players cried foul, Square Enix patched the fight to reduce several enemies’ HP and damage, which made it at least a bit easier to complete. Playing through Final Fantasy 14’s story quests isn’t required, but beating Stormblood’s final battle does unlock a new vendor who sells some powerful gear. Update: Square Enix commented on the mixed feedback around The Royal Menagerie in

Stranger Things’ second season is set to premiere in just a few months and a description that accompanies a new poster for the sophomore batch of episodes includes some interesting hints. [Warning: The following may contain spoilers for the first season of Stranger Things. Since then, however, it seems like the producers and those involved with Stranger Things have gotten a little annoyed with the number of questions about Barb. “I’ll give one example that I’ve been asked about a hundred times w

In an interview with Polygon about the success of the show, the conversation turned to Shankar’s next project: an animated adaptation of Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed franchise. The series, Shankar said, will be about more than assassins hopping around town and taking down people who stand in their way. “In the same way that Castlevania is about generations of a family across different time periods, Assassin’s Creed is more about a warring ideology,” Shankar said. That is the core mechanic of what

Hulu has announced an exclusive agreement with 20th Century Fox to stream every episode of the latter’s hit animated shows, including Bob’s Burgers, Futurama and American Dad. Animated shows aren’t the only Fox TV series that have been removed from Netflix. As it stands, Hulu will only be the exclusive streaming home to the animated series, according to its press release. This new migration of Fox animated series seems to clinch that Fox is pulling out of Netflix wholesale in favor of Hulu. Star

HBO and the Game of Thrones showrunners know what’s at stake if huge plot points get revealed earlier than anticipated. Still, Mazzara said, they had to write fake scenes just in case someone did get their hands on it. It’s impossible to trace.”The Walking Dead is perhaps a perfect example of just how far a show is willing to go to throw people off. It makes total sense that HBO would want to do everything it could, including spending a few extra dollars to throw paparazzi and reporters off, in

The Umbrella Academy, a strange, absurd and funny “superhero” comic from My Chemical Romance frontman, Gerard Way, is about to become a live-action series on Netflix. Steve Blackman, best known for his work on FX’s Fargo, will act as showrunner. The Umbrella Academy follows a dysfunctional family of siblings with unique powers. The Umbrella Academy and its spinoff, The Umbrella Academy: Dallas ran for a total of 12 issues between them — and three additional short stories — between September 2007

Rogue are the champions of the second ever BEAT Overwatch invitational after taking down Immortals in a seven game series. The tournament was held with a double elimination playoffs with both a winners bracket and a losers bracket. Immortals and Rogue met in the finals of the Winners bracket where Rogue 3-1. During the final series Rogue went up 3-0 early, before Immortals took the next three games putting the teams even at 3-3 going into the final map — Volskaya Industries. Rogue narrowly took

From cries of betrayal when Final Fantasy 7 jumped ship to PlayStation to frustration over the story changes Final Fantasy 15 underwent during its tortuous 10-year development process, there’s simply no such thing as an easy birth when it comes to Square Enix’s biggest franchise. Amidst this turmoil and the uncertainty surrounding the online-only Final Fantasy 11, fans could at least rest assured that the next numbered Final Fantasy would be a mature, grounded work created by some of the most ta