While many Justice League reviews agree that Aquaman (Jason Momoa) was one of the bright spots of the superhero movie, there was something missing. There wasn't much insight into the character's background. While both The Flash (Ezra Miller) and Cyborg (Ray Fisher) had scenes in the movie giving insight into their characters, Aquaman didn't get the same treatment.
Originally, though, he did. As Momoa previously told GameSpot, there is a cut sequence that follows Aquaman to Atlantis, where the character of Vulko (Willem Dafoe) was introduced. "Vulko's his connection to Atlantis," Momoa says. Instead, the character is nowhere to be seen in film and will instead make his first appearance in the Aquaman standalone film.
As for why the scene was cut, there's really only so much time to tell the story of the movie. With heavy reshoots, a director change, and a studio-mandated runtime of two hours, some scenes just didn't make it into the movie. As Momoa explains to Entertainment Weekly, though, it might have been for the best.
"The challenging part is [the Justice League story] is only about a weekend in Arthur Curry's life. [Fans] might be like, 'Why is he that grumpy? Why's he hiding up there?' We had it all planned out," he says. "A lot of things got cut. But it's not my movie. It's a huge movie introducing three new characters, and for myself and The Flash and Cyborg, there was a lot that was there we just couldn't get in. It could have been two movies."
In the end, the actor is right when he says, "It's not an Aquaman movie, it's a Justice League movie." However, it puts the timing of Justice League into question. With a villain to defeat, a character to resurrect, and three more to introduce, there was simply a lot of get through in this movie. It should come as no surprise that such major pieces would be left on the cutting room floor. Perhaps the superhero origin stories should have come first, given that Aquaman, The Flash, and Cyborg are characters that haven't made it to the big screen before.
Luckily, fans will only have to wait around a year before getting more of the character. The Aquaman standalone movie swims into theaters on December 21, 2018. At the very least, you won't have to wait that long to figure out whether Aquaman can talk to fish.
Black Friday 2017 is quickly approaching, but many retailers and digital stores are already offering Black Friday prices ahead of the big shopping day. That now goes the same for GOG, which kicked off its own sale today, November 21.
Hundreds of PC games are discounted for a limited time on the digital store, and there are some bonus items you can get for shopping during the Black Friday sale. Everyone who visits GOG within the first 48 hours of the sale can download the classic MDK for free; you can claim it here. You'll also get a free digital copy of StarCrawlers when you spend $15.
There are many other titles on sale as well; you can find the full list on GOG. You can find our complete coverage of other Black Friday 2017 deals through the links at the bottom of this roundup.
Prices on 4K TVs have come down dramatically over the past few months and there's more ultra high-definition (UHD) content to stream than ever. In light of new consoles that support 4K streaming, we've rounded up all the popular 4K streaming services and organized them alphabetically in the following gallery.
What you'll Need
In addition to needing a 4K TV and a 4K streaming device like the Xbox One X, PS4 Pro, or Nvidia Shield, you'll want a good internet connection. We recommend one that's rated at least 25 megabits per second.
Amazon Prime costs $99 a year or $11 a month and comes with Amazon Prime Video, which provides access to several 4K movies and original TV shows such as Man in the High Castle, The Tick, and The Grand Tour.
If you're not interested in paying for the faster delivery service and simply want the streaming capabilities, you can pay $9 per month just for Amazon Prime Video.
FandangoNOW
FandangoNOW allows users to rent or purchase from a selection of over 200 UHD movies. Rental prices start at $6 and popular movies include Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, The Fate of the Furious, and more. You can check out the complete list of 4K films here.
Google Play
Google Play allows users to rent or purchase digital copies of 4K movies. There are over 130 UHD films to choose from. You can check out the complete list here.
Hulu
Hulu costs $12 a month for its premium no-commercial subscription. The streaming service offers the entire James Bond collection in 4K along with many of its own shows, which include The Handmaid's Tale, Shut Eye, Chance, and more.
iTunes
Apple's iTunes allows you to stream a plethora of 4K movies including Wonder Woman, Baby Driver, Alien: Covenant, and more. It also doesn't charge extra for UHD content. While iTunes allows you to download standard HD videos, one caveat here is that you can only stream 4K movies, and can't download them. Apple also recommends a minimum internet speed of 25 megabits per second.
Netflix
Netflix supports 4K streaming, but you need the premium tier, which costs $14 per month. The company shoots many of its own shows natively in 4K, including popular shows like Orange is the New Black, Stranger Things, and Daredevil.
Netflix recommends an internet speed capable of 25 megabits per second or higher, or else the feed will dip below 4K.
UltraFlix
UltraFlix is an app that focuses on delivering UHD content. The service has over 600 hours of 4K videos, 100 of which is free. Rentals range between $2 and $10, and are generally based on how recent the movie is. UltraFlix requires an internet connection that's capable of at least six megabits per seconds, but recommends 25 megabits.
Vudu
Vudu is an on-demand service that lets you rent and buy movies that support 4K HDR, such as Wonder Woman, Guardians of the Galaxy, and more. You can check out the complete list here. Movie rentals start at $4 and the company recommends a minimum 11 Mbps internet connection.
YouTube
YouTube offers a plethora of 4K content. In addition to the UHD videos that users personally upload, the streaming service allows you to rent or buy popular 4K movies. To see if the movie you're interested in streaming is UHD-compatible, look to see if it features a 4K tag under its description.
The 20 Toughest Questions To Test Your DC Extended Universe Knowledge
With Justice League in theaters, it's time for you to prove yourself as a trivia superhero. How well you you know the movie universe DC Entertainment is building?
It's time to prove your knowledge with this quiz.
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Q: Who plays Clark's dad, Jonathan Kent, in Man of Steel?
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A: Kevin Costner
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Q: How many Justice League members make cameo appearances in Suicide Squad?
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A: Two
Both Batman and the Flash show up.
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Q: Enchantress and her brother are the villains of Suicide Squad. Name her brother.
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A: Incubus
Incubus is played by Alain Chanoine.
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Q: How many movies are currently in the DCEU?
Don't forget to count the latest release.
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A: Five
Man of Steel, Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, Suicide Squad, Wonder Woman and Justice League.
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Q: Name all members of the Justice League.
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A: Batman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Cyborg, Aquaman and Superman.
There are currently six heroes at the Justice League table... with room for more.
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Q: Besides Jim Gordon in Justice League, what other iconic comic role has J.K. Simmons played?
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A: J. Jonah Jameson in the original Spider-Man trilogy.
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Q: Who plays Superman's pal Jimmy Olsen in the DCEU?
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A: Michael Cassidy
Jimmy was killed in the opening scene of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. He is not given a name in the film but identified as Jimmy Olsen in the credits.
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Q: What comic book is Batman's suit in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice based on?
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A: Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns
The Dark Knight Returns was first published in 1986.
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Q: Who plays Bruce Wayne's parents in the DCEU?
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A: Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Lauren Cohan
Morgan and Cohan also star on the TV adaptation of The Walking Dead.
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Q: Where was Diana Prince raised before becoming Wonder Woman?
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A: Themyscira
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Q: How many members make up the Suicide Squad?
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A: Eight.
The Squad consists of Deadshot, Harley Quinn, Rick Flag, Captain Boomerang, El Diablo, Katana and Killer Croc. Slipknot also briefly appeared as a member of the team but was killed immediately.
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Q: Who is Wonder Woman's mother?
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A: Hippolyta
Hippolyta is played by Connie Nelson.
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Q: What kills Superman in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice?
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A: Doomsday
Right before the monster's own death, Doomsday stabs Superman. Doomsday also kills Superman in the comics.
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Q: In Batman v Superman, what does Lex Luthor give Senator Finch?
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A: A jar of urine labeled Granny's peach tea
When asked earlier in the movie what he should call her, the senator tells Lex, "You can call me whatever you like. Take a bucket of piss and call it Granny's peach tea. Take a weapon of assassination and call it deterrence. You won't fool a fly or me. I'm not gonna drink it."
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Q: Batman and Superman's moms share the same name. What is it?
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A: Martha.
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Q: Which DCEU director makes a cameo appearance in Wonder Woman?
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A: Zack Snyder
Snyder makes a quick appearance as a World War I soldier in a photo from Diana's past. The photo, which finds the director blurred in the background, can also be seen in Batman v Superman.
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Q: Why did they have to digitally remove Henry Cavill's mustache in Justice League?
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A: He was also filming Mission: Impossible 6 at the time.
The Xbox Store Black Friday sale opens up to everyone today, but those aren't the only discounts you can find this week. On top of the Black Friday sale, the latest weekly Deals with Gold are also now available for Xbox One and Xbox 360.
As usual, most of the game discounts available this week are for Microsoft's newer console, with many of them exclusive to Xbox Live Gold members. The standard edition of Middle-earth: Shadow of War is available for $36/£33, while the game's Silver and Gold editions are on sale in the US for $48 and $70, respectively. Also on sale is NetherRealm's superhero fighting game Injustice 2; the base game costs $20/£22, while the Deluxe and Ultimate editions each run for $35/£35 and $45/£45.
Not content to just let retailers provide discounts on its own products, Ubisoft has launched its own Black Friday sale ahead of the big shopping day. In addition to dropping the price of many of the publisher's newest PC games, you'll also find deals on its older games and a variety of merchandise themed around those games, ranging from South Park figurines to Assassin's Creed clothing.
As for merchandise, you can pick up a South Park: Fractured But Whole figurine of Mysterion for $40 (down from $50) or a Coon tricycle for $60 (from $80). A Wildlands backpack can be had for $30 (from $60), Rainbow Six Siege figurines are $15 each (from $20), and an Assassin's Creed canvas backpack is $48 (from $60).
These prices are available from now until November 26; you can see everything on sale here. At least in the case of the games, you may want to do some comparison shopping--there haven't been a ton of deals on PC games announced so far, although GOG and the Humble Store have both launched their respective Black Friday sales. Steam is expected to do the same on November 22. You can check out all of our Black Friday coverage through the links below.
Capcom has unveiled another batch of DLC costumes for Street Fighter V. A set of Christmas-themed outfits will be added to the game next week, just in time for the holiday season, and they'll be accompanied by a set of retro costumes that same day.
A total of 10 DLC costumes will be released next week, four of which are holiday-themed outfits for Kolin, Alex, Cammy, and Menat. Alex's new outfit has him don a Santa hat and coat, while both Cammy and Menat's costumes feature cat ears. You can check them out in the gallery below.
Alongside the holiday costumes, Capcom is also releasing a set nostalgia costumes for Karin, Birdie, Balrog, and Chun-Li. Karin sports the outfit she wore in Street Fighter Alpha 3; Balrog dons the attire he wore as a boss in Street Fighter II; and Birdie and Chun-Li's new outfits are inspired by the ones each character wore in Street Fighter Alpha. Chun-Li also gets an additional pair of combat costumes. You can see all of them below.
All 10 of the new DLC costumes will be available on PS4 and PC via Steam on November 29. You can purchase each of the outfits individually for $4.
Today, Bungie is set to host the second of three livestreams dedicated to Destiny 2's upcoming Curse of Osiris DLC expansion pack. Whereas the first focused on the new location, story, and characters, this second stream will deal with new activities that you'll be able to take part in on Mercury. The stream is scheduled to take place at 11 AM PT / 2 PM ET / 7 PM GMT (6 AM AET on Wednesday, November 22), and you can watch it through the stream below.
As with the first one, we don't know many specifics about what will be shown. Bungie says it'll offer a look at activities on Mercury, including those in the Infinite Forest, which is a key area we got a look at during the initial reveal and the first livestream. The key tease involves the reveal of a new Public Event, which is the "biggest [Bungie has] ever delivered in Destiny." While we'd assume it involves the Vex, given that they are central to Curse of Osiris's story, we do know that the Cabal are also present on Mercury. We'll report back with all the details once they're announced.
Assuming this follows the schedule from last week, you can expect today's stream to last about an hour. The first one showed off the revamped Lighthouse and other areas on Mercury, new gear for each class, the return of the Heroic Strikes playlist, and a post-campaign system through which you can acquire new weapons. Most notably, though, we learned about Raid Lairs, which are smaller but completely redesigned versions of the Leviathan Raid, complete with new encounters and a different final boss.
The final Curse of Osiris stream is scheduled for November 29 and will further showcase the expansion's new gear. It then launches for PS4, Xbox One, and PC a week later, on December 5. It will be sold on its own and as part of the $35 Expansion Pass. Its release will coincide with that of an update adding PS4 Pro and Xbox One X enhancements to Destiny 2.
By Anonymous on Nov 21, 2017 09:28 pm Goten and Trunks fuse to create Gotenks, the latest character announced for Dragon Ball FighterZ, coming January 2018.
Resident Evil Revelations and Resident Evil Revelations 2 are coming to Nintendo Switch on November 28, but it's only now we're learning the games will not be appearing on store shelves in Europe. Instead, the region will only receive the titles via the Eshop, with their physical versions remaining exclusive to North America.
Publisher Capcom indicated to GameSpot that releasing a boxed version of the games in Europe would not be viable. "Capcom has to take various factors into account when deciding what format to deliver our titles to our fans," reads a statement from the publisher. "These can include but are not limited to overall production costs, manufacturing times, distribution, and first party regulations. In the case of Resident Evil Revelations, we've found that unfortunately it's not viable for Capcom Europe to create a physical version of the title on Nintendo Switch for our territories, however we will be making this available as a digital release."
Even in North America, the games' boxed edition isn't quite complete. The cartridge contains Resident Evil Revelations, but you'll have to download Revelations 2 separately. That physical release costs $40 in the US. In the UK, you can grab the double pack from the Eshop for £40 or each game for £20 individually.
Resident Evil: Revelations originally debuted on 3DS back in 2012 and was subsequently ported to PS3, Xbox 360, Wii U, and PC the following year, before coming to PS4 and Xbox One earlier in 2017. The game stars popular Resident Evil protagonists Jill Valentine and Chris Redfield, who are trapped aboard a derelict cruise ship infested with the zombie-like Ooze monsters. Its sequel was released as an episodic title for last gen, current gen, PS Vita, and PC in 2015 and takes place between the events of Resident Evil 5 and 6.
In other Resident Evil news, Capcom recently announced a definitive Gold Edition of the series' latest installment, Resident Evil 7. That package releases for PS4, Xbox One, and PC on December 12 and includes the base game along with its three DLC expansions: Banned Footage Vol. 1, Banned Footage Vol. 2, and the new End of Zoe. That day also marks the release of the delayed Not a Hero DLC, a free chapter that pits Chris Redfield against the "horrors that lurk underneath the Baker's mansion."
Whether successful or not, Rime is almost entirely focused on evoking emotional reactions. It's a shame, then, that when playing its Nintendo Switch port, I could only think about cold, hard numbers like frame rate and resolution.
As with the PS4 and Xbox One versions, the Nintendo Switch edition of Rime suffers from frame rate issues. It's much worse than those platforms, however. In some of its more open areas, Rime slows down dramatically, dragging you out of the ostensibly affecting story it's trying to tell and into the realm of that most exciting and touching subject: mathematics.
The problem is (mostly) lessened when you're indoors, but here frame dips are still common--and in any case, saying it's fine when you're inside is little consolation when Rime's main attractions lie outside the front door and in its colorful landscapes. Developer Tequila Works and publisher Grey Box have addressed some of the port's early criticism by saying, "Rime runs at 30 FPS in 720p throughout most of the game while docked. This is a considerable improvement from where the game was at earlier this year when we announced the first delay."
They continued: "With Rime being very open in many locations, it's incredibly difficult to get these level segments small enough to not cause a hiccup in performance. We were faced with the choice of adding loading screens throughout the stages, rebuilding the game completely to be more closed in (undermining the product vision in the process), or living with these small hiccups to preserve what the game was intended to be. We chose the latter."
Undocking the Switch can help smoothen out the frame rate a little, but playing Rime while on the go isn't ideal either: this drops the resolution down to levels of blur only seen when I try and use my iPhone after eating a pizza. The decrease in fidelity makes it hard to see what you're doing or where you're going, and distracts from the story Rime attempts to tell.
"When looking at the handheld mode, we had to make a choice between lowering the resolution, removing/replacing major parts of the level geometry, or having a bigger hit in performance," Grey Box and Tequila Works said of the game in undocked mode. "We decided to go for the former, because it allows us to maintain the integrity of the gameplay experience."
Of course, Rime's allure mostly lies in its aesthetic rather than in raw graphical power, and much of that natural beauty has survived the porting process. However, some textures appear rougher than on PS4 and Xbox One, and our nameless protagonist has grown a jagged edge or two.
Rime's comparisons to Zelda may have helped its public perception before and even after its PS4 / Xbox One release. But with this Switch port now complete and available worldwide this week, any such comparisons are no longer favorable for Rime. In a time and on a console where the big and beautiful Breath of the Wild exists and looks as good as it does, Rime's shortcomings are exposed more than ever.
Nintendo's latest mobile game, Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp, is available now worldwide on both iOS and Android. That's a day ahead of its intended release date, November 22.
Be warned: although the game is live on the App Store and Google Play, some players are reporting its servers as being unstable right now, with with occasional connection errors. (Pocket Camp requires an internet connection to work.) Things seem to have improved in the past few hours, however.
The game's design, sound, and overall gameplay will be familiar to anyone's who's played the full-fledged entires in the series, and there'll be an assortment of returning activities and mechanics. In addition to customizing your character and your living area (in this case, an RV camper), you'll also lay out furniture and themed items across the game's campground setting. There'll be a real-time day/night cycle, and you'll have the ability to visit shops run by the regular game cast to purchase new clothing and furniture to customize your personal space. And it wouldn't be an Animal Crossing game without the ability to go into deep debt. Instead of Tom Nook, however, Pocket Camp has OK Motors, where you can purchase major upgrades that expand your RV's interior and allow you to trick out your in-game camper.
Pocket Camp is free on iOS and Android, though it does contain microtransactions; you can spend real money to purchase "Leaf Tickets" to speed up your progress. These can also be acquired through gameplay.
Pocket Camp was initially due out sooner, but Nintendo delayed it to make room for Fire Emblem Heroes and Super Mario Run. Now it's out however, Pocket Camp will receive regular content updates, including "seasonal events" along with furniture and outfit items that you can get for a limited time.
Pokemon Go's latest event, titled the Global Catch Challenge, is now live worldwide. It tasks players with catching huge numbers of Pokemon to earn rewards for everyone. The top level prize will see Farfetch'd being made available to catch around the world after previously being exclusive to Japan. Japanese players, meanwhile, will receive the previously Australia-exclusive Kangaskhan.
Those rewards will unlock at Gold level--after 3 billion Pokemon are caught around the world. Bronze level (500 million monsters caught) has already been reached, unlocking double XP and 6-hour lures. If you want to join and help the community get to 3 billion catches, you'd better be swift: the event ends on Sunday, November 26.
Join Erick and Miguel as they check out Gear.Club Unlimited the first racing car game to come to the Switch.
Winter Soldier, Black Widow and Venom are joining the fight this December.
Goten and Trunks fuse to create Gotenks, the latest character announced for Dragon Ball FighterZ, coming January 2018.
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