It’s so over, y’all. Yuri on Ice, the gay ice-skating anime that took the world by storm in 2016, won’t be getting its long-anticipated follow-up film, Yuri on Ice the Movie: Ice Adolescence, as the movie has been canceled. A moment of silence for those who were present for the gay cultural reset. We’re hurting. The announcement came from a post via the official Yuri on Ice social media accounts, which was shared in both Japanese and English. Unfortunately, the statement doesn’t say why the...
Nintendo has delivered a brand-new Indie World showcase. It lasted about 20 minutes and gave us a look at some cute and cozy games, a few of which are launching today. Unfortunately, there was no Hollow Knight: Silksong news, but there was still plenty to get stoked about. Little Kitty, Big City In Little Kitty, Big City, you’re the little kitty and you’re exploring a big city. This is a third-person game about doing cat things: knocking people over, jumping on things you shouldn’t be sitting...
Grand Theft Auto VI publisher Take-Two Interactive announced massive cuts in an SEC filing at the end of business today. The company revealed it will lay off 5 percent of its roughly 11,000-strong workforce and has cancelled several in-development projects valued at $140 million in an effort at “rationalizing its pipeline.” “The Company estimates that it will incur approximately $160 million to $200 million in total charges in connection with the Plan,” Take-Two wrote in its filing. “The...
After years of speculation, it was revealed that The Matrix, John Wick, and Cyberpunk 2077 star Keanu Reeves is voicing the broody antihero Shadow in Sonic the Hedgehog 3. Reeves had been a fan-favorite to play Shadow in Paramount’s live-action adaptation since the character debuted in Sonic the Hedgehog 2’s post-credits scene, so by the time his casting was confirmed, years of anticipation came to fruition across the internet in a testament both to the strength of the casting, and the love fans...
With Amazon’s Fallout series tearing up the review charts, you might be wondering if Bethesda Softworks has any other plans to turn its properties into TV shows or movies. The publisher has quite a few IP under its belt, after all, many of which might make for a solid game-to-show adaptation—like The Elder Scrolls. However, Bethesda executive producer Todd Howard has said that, while he can’t predict the future, he would “probably say no” to an Elder Scrolls TV show right now. IGN stopped...
Video game adaptations are en vogue. One of last year’s most critically acclaimed shows—The Last of Us—was one such example, and this year, prestige television has come for another, far more unlikely, property: Fallout. Coming to TV by way of Westworld’s Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan, Prime Video’s Fallout, which purports to be a sequel of sorts to the ongoing video game series, has the task of adapting a widely beloved series of role-playing games heralded for its open-endedness and its dark...