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Hmm... Codex Alera: the different elements serving as your classes, with some ability to multiclass. Sanderson's Cosmere: have all the worlds (crazy, I know; but fuck it, we're wishlisting), with them connected by magical means. Your character's world of origin determines the kind of magic...

To expand on that, all of Sanderson's books take place on different worlds in the same universe. For most of the books, this fact isn't really mentioned (except for the fact that Hoid shows up in all the books), but Stormlight is where it starts to become relevant--it's still not the focus of...

Amusingly, while you describe the combat as "slogging", fights in Warhammer are lightning fast compared to previous Total War games. There's a low-level but constant level of bitching about it from the dedicated Total War fans.

Daemons, Chaos Dwarfs, Ogre Kingdoms, and I'd be willing to bet we'll see Kislev as well. And hell, if we can get Norsca, then why not the Hobgoblin Khanate, or something? The fact that minor factions are now an option does expand the possibilities a little.

Why is that so high quality? If it wasn't for the women making "fuck me" faces, I could've bought that being real Justice League artwork.

Yeah, apparently it's a way to dodge an M rating; if they charge for it separately, it's not part of the base game, and they can stay at T. Doesn't excuse why they don't just sell it for $0.10 or whatever, but there you go.

In terms of the actual battles, dwarfs are the easiest, as the core of their tactics is what the Total War community calls a 'noob cube': set up your ranged, then make a box of infantry around it, then just sit there and let the enemy come to you. Their campaign's not bad either, as long as you...

Yeah, that they need to dump. "Play the game, not the UI" does need to be a rule.

So here's a fucking weird leak that's been making the rounds today. Target (who, if I recall correctly, has leaked games in the past) has a page on their website for a Game of Thrones game made by Bethesda. Link. Definitely up for another open-world rpg, but Bethesda doesn't remotely have the...

With the exception of the blood DLC, to use Game 1 Content, you need Game 1; to use Game 2 content, you need Game 2. A few weeks after launch, they'll release the Combined Campaign, in which, if you own both, you can play on a combined version of both games' campaign maps, with all the factions...

Seriously, what is their plan here? Are they trying to reboot the movie continuity without saying they're doing so? Are they going to have two separate cinematic universes running in parallel? Is it going to be Justice League sequels in one continuity, with every solo film going forward being...

Really, the ?s aren't that bad... except the water ones in Skelige, those ones are 100% worth skipping. Going after those ones was easily the most mind-numbing experience in the game.

Really, they just needed to have him adopt the costume (or at least the mask) so that a stuntman could come in and do the action scenes.

Anything to pull History away from Pawn Stars and Ancient Aliens is alright by me. The fact it's a Vikings-esque show about the Military Orders is just icing on the cake.

IGN had an article this morning saying that it wasn't settled yet what will happen with Marvel and Star Wars, it's just Disney and Pixar that are definitely jumping ship so far. Hopefully it stays that way.

The accompanying patch has also done a shit-ton of changes for the existing factions, basically getting them in a good place in preparation for the WH 1&2 combined campaign. Mostly, it involves Legendary Lords getting new skill trees and bonuses, but Chaos has had its campaign altered a fair...

The game just got a new race DLC in the form of Norsca. Still a maurader-based army, but they've been fleshed out with mammoths, ice trolls, fimir (now there's a fucking pull), and werewolves. This is also the "early adopters' bonus" for Warhammer 2. So you can get it for free if you...

Basically. Apparently, Miller wasn't just doing this movie as a blatant cash grab, but saw it as a platform for advancing the cause of liberalism, and feminism, and recruiting to take the fight to Trump, and things along that line. So people seeing the movie as trash is destroying his Grand...

So coming at this from the perspective of someone that hasn't read the books, this was a reasonably entertaining fantasy-western-action movie, somewhat weighed down by having a kid in a prominent role. Although, even having not read the books, it was still clear that they were trying to cram too...

Christ, that's so on point.

So Pantheon fans are the Amish of the MMO world?

For Sanderson, I would actually recommend reading in roughly release order. All his stuff is good, but he is one of those authors who gets stronger the further he goes on, so backtracking might feel like a step down in quality. If you go that route, then you're looking at: Elantris, Mistborn...

Oh yeah, and why is probably-Superman t-rexing that glass of water in the final shot? Plot twist, and it's actually Doomsday again?

Also, the Captain Marvel movie is supposed to be set in the 90s with her fighting Skrulls, and with pre-eyepatch Nick Fury making an appearance.

Eh, trailer looks good, but so did the trailers for BvS. That said, Wonder Woman has earned D.C. a little goodwill from me, so I'm not dismissing it out of hand.

Not top tier, but a fun movie over all. Only real complaint is with the big final set piece battle; solid concept, but didn't quite nail the execution. Aside from that, focusing on the whole "a teenager has superpowers and wants to be an Avenger; let's see how that pans out," angle was very...

I'm actually in the middle of doing a sorcerer playthrough, and yes, magic is perfectly viable (mostly*). As Fedor implied, you do have to actually lock on when doing magic--doing it freehand is way too finicky. The only exception to that is casting while using the binoculars; it takes a bit of...

Hmm... there's a random Chinese guy teaching kung fu, but no Wayans brother, I'm afraid.

It's all a matter of expectations. If you go into this looking for, you know, an actual King Arthur movie, you're going to hate it. If you go into this looking for one of those "the historical events that created the legend" style movies, you're *really* going to hate it. If you go into this...

So, ending with sick Matrix battles with immortal Mayan priests and space AIs? David Cage games are such wonderfully entertaining trainwrecks.

Tech demo for Beyond Good and Evil 2 It's very No Man's Sky, although they look to be basically sticking with one solar system, rather than trying to do a whole galaxy. Hopefully that's scaled back enough that they can actually create content for it. I haven't played the original, but I'm at...

Eh, whatever. They're hardly the first ones to do the whole "slacker backer" thing--Obsidian with Pillars 2 being the last one that comes to mind. Granted, I don't drop money on kickstarters anyway, so I don't really have a horse in that particular race.

Okay, possessing monsters with the hat's an interesting mechanic. Well, that was an abrupt end.

More on Mario+Rabbids, followed by Rocket League. And now Mario Oddessy

Fire Emblem Warriors. Showing the DLC for BotW.

And a teaser for Metroid Prime 4. Followed by a Yoshi's Wooly World game.

Pokken's coming to Switch, and work has begun on a mainline pokemon game for the Switch.

Opening with Xenoblade. And now Kirby on Switch.

Well, Devolver wins on presentation, but in terms of content? Yeah, I'd give it to Sony.

Well, not quite the god tier of last year, but I'd still call it the best conference this year.