We just received two news items on the same day relating to Avatar: The Last Airbender and the world thereof, so we might as well combine them into one post. The first regards Avatar Generations, the mobile game that launched earlier this year.
2022 had several high-budget fantasy TV shows premiere at the same time through sheer coincidence. Amazon’s billion-dollar The Rings Of Power squared off directly against HBO Max’s Game of Thrones: House of the Dragon. In terms of viewer numbers, HotD gained a slight edge over RoP despite the latter costing twice as much. But in the corner there was Disney+’s Willow, quietly doing its own thing.
As of today, if you’ve got a Nintendo Switch Online subscription, you can have the full Kirby 90s Experience. The latest update to the NSO archive adds Kirby’s Dream Land 2 to the Game Boy section, which means every mainline Kirby game from 1992’s Kirby’s Dream Land through 2000’s Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards is playable. It just so happens there’s another Kirby game out for Switch (but we hesitate to call it new, it originally appeared on Wii).
Currently WB is throwing all its marketing muscle behind Shazam 2: Fury of the Gods, one of the last DC pictures made under the old rules of “throw anything at the wall and see what sticks.” It’s not the LAST of these though — Aquaman 2 is still going to be a thing, and it comes out later this year.
Confession time: I’m the only gamer in the entire United States Of America who hasn’t played Elden Ring. The reason I’ve been avoiding it is the same reason I avoided Dark Souls and its sequels — From Software games tend to be brutally hard, and I don’t generally enjoy brutally hard games (except for Cuphead for some reason — that 1930s art style goes a long way).
Spy x Family, one of our favorite anime to debut last year, will finally become physical this summer. Crunchyroll has announced a Blu-Ray set for SPY x FAMILY PART 1, which will contain the first twelve episodes of the show along with bonuses like footage of a con panel featuring the English dub cast, interviews with the Japanese cast, and of course, the inevitable Textless Closing Sequence. There will also be a DVD version of the release.
Mythroll Ar—-wait, this is from someone else? Sorry, we’re too used to reporting on dice from those people. Ember Forge, a Grecian metalwork studio, introduced Ember Dice to the market in 2019. Like Mythroll, Ember Forge makes metallic dice sets for tabletop gaming campaigns in ornate patterns. The dice have come in three waves: the Arcanum Dice Set and the Iron Warden Dice Set in 2019, the the Moon Weaver Dice set in 2021, and coming soon, sets four and five: the Atlantean Dice Set and the Yggdrasil Dice Set.
It can’t be easy, living with a homicidal piece of plastic for thirty years. Filmmaker Kyra Elise Gardner was curious just what living with Chucky must be like, so she set out for Don Mancini’s house to create a documentary using that title. We’ll get to see it very soon.
Peacock released a teaser for their upcoming action comedy Mrs. Davis last week, but we never brought it to your attention because it was kind of weak and didn’t tell the full story. We were right to wait…a bigger, more expansive trailer was just released this afternoon, and it’s everything we were hoping for. Scope this out.
It’s official: HBO’s TV adaption of The Last Of Us is a huge success. It brought in 8.2 million viewers last Sunday, an improvement over the previous weekend, and this was against the Oscars. For the record, here are the viewership numbers from week to week, which kept climbing up:
It’s now live! Free League and AMC have united to produce The Walking Dead Universe, a tabletop RPG experience set in the world of the TV show. Don’t like how the last few seasons have turned out? Make your own!
UDON Entertainment has published artbooks before, but few as hefty as the one they’re starting to talk about: a nearly 500-page volume devoted to the beloved anime Gurren Lagann. It’s one of the largest and most extensive book of sketches and art any anime has ever received.