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The world got its first extended look at Final Fantasy VII Remake during Square Enix’s E3 press conference on Monday and it impressed absolutely everybody.

Following a short trailer that dropped Sunday night that included that game’s March 3, 2020 release date, audiences were primed for more FFVII. Little did they know it would blow their minds.

Here’s a look at a breakdown of the remake’s combat system, including a beautiful fight in the second half with Cloud and Barrett:

And here’s the extended version of the game’s trailer:

Even if you aren’t familiar with Final Fantasy VII, it’s hard not to get swept up by this game.  Read more…

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Yesterday, Microsoft gave us Keanu Reeves. Today, Ubisoft presents: dog.

The multi-day video game expo where hundreds of developers and publishers descend on downtown Los Angeles to market the hell out of their upcoming projects (aka “E3 2019”) hasn’t even officially begun, but already the battle for best publicity stunt is underway. And, as it turns out, Ubisoft is way in the lead.  

At the developer’s annual press conference on Monday afternoon, Ubisoft creators announced new titles, shared never-before-seen in-game footage, and welcomed Jon Bernthal, star of Ghost Recon Breakpoint and former The Walking Dead actor, to the stage with (wait for it) A DOG. Read more…

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Anton Yelchin was just 27 when he died due to a horrible accident at his L.A. home. Though he was known best as an actor, the trailer for the upcoming Love Antosha makes clear that he was much more, and that he left behind a rich body of work and legacy that still resonates deeply with those who knew him.

Love, Antosha, directed by Garret Price, premiered this winter at Sundance and traces Yelchin’s career, personal life, and all the in-between spaces where he thrived and explored art and identity. It includes interviews with Yelchin’s costars and colleagues from Hollywood, including Kristen Stewart, Bryce Dallas Howard, and the stars of J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek reboot. The trailer also reveals heartbreaking footage of Yelchin’s mother Irina Korina Yelchin.  Read more…

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Apple’s mysterious TV+ service just added one more series, and it’s from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia creator Rob McElhenney.

Mythic Quest is a video game-centric comedy starring McElhenney as Ian Grimm (that’s pronounced EYE-an Grimm), the creative director behind the most popular online role-playing game in the world. This first look teaser gives a taste of what to expect and, well, if you like It’s Always Sunny, you’ll probably appreciate the vibe here as well.

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Instagram has always been a safe haven for book lovers, a place where people can show off their private libraries full of white oak bookshelves, novels organized by color, aloe plants, and inspirational coffee mugs. 

But there’s a deeper, stranger, and far murkier part of book Instagram, known colloquially as “Bookstagram.” Here, you’ll find some of the platform’s more eccentric thematic offerings — a satirical dating profile account for a Southern Gothic writer, a page dedicated to bizarro horror fiction, and one that celebrates the weirdest ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s Young Adult (YA) fiction. 

This is a level of Bookstagram that only the bravest — and the most bored — typically enter. I call it “Deep Bookstagram.” In many ways it’s the exact opposite of traditional Bookstagram, which usually comes with a cheery, gratingly cozy demeanor. Deep Bookstagram loves to make fun of the sunny nostalgia of traditional Bookstagram. Deep Bookstagram isn’t afraid to be weird.  Read more…

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Here’s Ubisoft’s pitch for a games subscription service: pay $15 a month, get absolutely everything.

The service, called Uplay+, will be a PC-only proposition (for now) when it launches on Sept. 3. Users will get immediate access to a library of more than 100 games — Ubisoft titles of the past and present — as well as all their attendant add-ons and downloadable content releases.

This isn’t a streaming service, though Uplay+ will be coming to Google Stadia in 2020, with more details to come on that later. It’s more like Xbox Game Pass or EA Origin Access in that there’s a library of “free” games that you can click on and install at your leisure. Read more…

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Ubisoft unveiled a handful of new trailers and busted out some big announcements during its E3 press conference on Monday.

For your convenience, we’ve compiled all the best bit and coolest trailers all in one place. Check it out.

Watch Dogs: Legion

To kick off the conference, Ubisoft started with an intense gameplay reveal for Watch Dogs 3, showing a very interesting new take on the series wherein London has been turned into a technological police state and players get to control a huge variety of characters to fight back and resist against tyranny.

Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet

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Big Little Lies didn’t need a second season. But in the world of television high demand can make second seasons appear regardless, and it’s the lack of necessity that makes coming back to Big Little Lies so much fun. 

Forget closure. Forget questions. The premiere of Big Little Lies Season 2 delivers on what’s really important about the show: spending time with our five wonderful wives.

The glamor and allure of the five women at the center of Big Little Lies was a massive part of Season 1’s appeal and that continues into Season 2. Their clothes, their houses, their over-the-top rich (mostly) white lady-ness — they all blend together in an effervescent fantasy of wanting to know them and be them. It’s the easiest thing in the world to become obsessed with these women, these wives, and worship them as icons they are.  Read more…

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Bethesda talked up some of its biggest — and in some cases, newest — franchises at its E3 2019 press conference on Sunday, touching on Fallout, Elder Scrolls, and Doom.

Here’s some of the biggest news to come out of Bethesda’s evening of trailers and announcements all in one place.

The Elder Scrolls: Blades

Surprise! The Elder Scrolls: Blades is out on mobile devices on Sunday night, for free. Not only that, Bethesda announced that Blades is coming to the Nintendo Switch in fall 2019.

Fallout 76: Wastelanders

Fallout 76 is getting its first major expansion and this, just like Blades, is also free. It adds new content and human NPCs for the first time since the game launched. Not only that, there is a free Nuclear Winter update coming to Fallout 76 which adds a battle royale mode to the game. Because of course. Read more…

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Leave it to Keanu Reeves, one of the greatest human beings to ever grace this planet, to outshine every video game that Xbox showed off at E3 on Sunday.

It turns out that Reeves is in the highly anticipated game Cyberpunk 2077, which is being made by the same developer who gave us The Witcher series. And to help hype up the game and the news of its release date, Reeves himself came on stage to deliver the good word.

Someone from the audience clearly yelled out to him that he is breathtaking, which is objectively true, and he yelled back that they, in fact, are breathtaking. And then he elaborated that everyone is in fact breathtaking, including you and me. Read more…

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