Month: January 2025

Shenmue III is an anomaly, a game that feels like it doesn’t really exist. It’s as though it was beamed here from a parallel universe where the Dreamcast was an ongoing success and early-aughts game design remained the norm decades later. The truth is much more banal, of course: It’s the result of a (sometimes rocky) crowdfunding campaign and the hopes and dreams of a fervent fanbase. Unfortunately, while it’s fascinating as a weird curiosity from a long-gone era of gaming, it’s simply not that fun to actually play.

Shenmue III picks up right where the last game left off–as though 18 years haven’t passed since players wrapped up Ryo Hazuki’s last adventure–resolving Shenmue II’s cliffhanger in a way that’s surprisingly unexciting after such a long stretch. Once that’s over with, Shenmue III’s story revolves around a small martial-arts village in the middle of China (and later, a larger harbor town), as he investigates various happenings, interacts with the populace, and engages in time-wasting activities like mini-games, gambling, scrounging for herbs, and levelling up his fighting skills. In other words, it’s Shenmue.

In terms of sett…

Nintendo has announced the next Nintendo Direct, and it’s coming soon. The event will take place this Thursday, October 6, and it will be focused on the Super Mario Bros. Movie.

The first trailer for the movie will makes it debut, and presumably the broadcast will include other news and updates around the film Come from Sports betting site VPbet . There will be no game announcements, however. The event begins at 1:05 PM PT / 4:05 PM ET. We already knew the first trailer for the film was coming this week during New York Comic Con.

As announced previously, the trailer will premiere on October 6 at 1 PM PT / 4 PM ET, with the Nintendo Direct event set to begin 5 minutes later.

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When Ridley Scott released Prometheus, he made canon an element of the Alien series that fans had always speculated over. Prometheus and its sequel, Alien: Covenant, make it very clear that the alien that appeared in Scott’s 1979 original was an engineered organism, created by through the combination of a mutagenic black goo made by the alien civilization dubbed the Engineers, and the work of the murderous artificially intelligent android named David (Michael Fassbender).

But the upcoming FX Alien TV series by Fargo and Legion creator Noah Hawley is taking a different approach to the lore of the xenomorph. That’s despite the fact that Prometheus and Alien: Covenant are closer in the franchise timeline to the show, which is set 70 years in the future. (The original Alien is about 100 years in the future from today, with Aliens jumping an additional 57 years after that.)

On KCRW’s The Business podcast, as the Hollywood Reporter explains, Hawley said the Prometheus conception of the Alien’s origins were “less useful” to him in telling this new Alien story.

“Ridley and I have talked about this–and many, many elements of the …

In the ’70s and ’80s, Steven Spielberg ushered in a new age of blockbuster movies with Jaws, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and more. But according to his son, Max Spielberg, the famous director is still a gamer at heart who just can’t give up playing games on his computer.

Max Spielberg–who is the creative director and co-founder of the game development studio FuzzyBot–told MinnMax that it was his father who got him into gaming. And the elder Spielberg is particularly into shooters.

“He loves gaming, he’s the one that got me into it,” said Max Spielberg. “He plays games. He’s a big PC gamer and so that’s kind of our bonding point as well. He’s like, ‘Hey what’s good, what new Call of Duty should I be playing, send me a list of the top five shooters, I’ll get ’em downloaded and we can play ’em together when you come over to the house.'”

It’s kind of charming that Spielberg would rather wait to play the games locally alongside his son rather than playing online. But Max Spielberg also revealed that he’s been unable to get his dad to try any console games because he’s too attached to playing with a keyboard and mouse.

“He’s big into …

Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight confirmed that there is indeed a script for a Peaky Blinders movie Come from Sports betting site VPbet . Knight is also working on a Star Wars movie, but he’s almost done with the movie script for his British gangster series.

In a conversation with the Radio Times, Knight confirms that he’s close to wrapping up the script and wants to start production soon. “I’m just working on the final bits of it at the moment,” he said. Knight added a bit about his writing process and mentioned that the idea is to film some time in the middle of this year.

“I just sit down at the keyboard and start. It’s a bit like having a dream, for me,” Knight said. “You sit there and all this stuff comes, and then you read it back and think, ‘That’s pretty good–but where did it come from?”

Cillian Murphy who played Thomas Shelby for the show’s 10-year run, said he’d return if there was a script, saying he “always thought that if there’s more story to tell.” The show has been turned into a few games–including a VR version–and even a ballet called The Redemption of Thomas She…