Just days before its release, Emma Stone's new TV series The Curse has been met with divisive critic reviews online and on Rotten Tomatoes despite its current 83% score.
20.10.2023 - 21:15 / polygon.com
Bet you didn’t have “The Pokémon Company doing an American Psycho parody on its social media” on your bingo card for this Friday. But this is the reality we live in, where a Marshtomp plush stands in for delusional sociopath Patrick Bateman in a contest of (non-business) cards at the Pokémon offices, where Pokémon do their mergers and acquisitions.
We should specifically call out the Pokémon Trading Card Game folks for the following impressive spot of comedy, in which Marshtomp compares Larry trainer cards with his colleagues Quagsire and Slowpoke. The latter, presumably having acquired it due to infinite levels of patience, shows off its ultra rare, full-art holo card, sending Marshtomp into an existential tailspin.
Also funny: a notepad on the table with a downward-trending line graph and the word “Lechonks” scribbled on it.
It is both amazing and a little shocking to see The Pokémon Company riffing on American Psycho’s infamous business card scene, in which a quartet of interchangeable white businessmen flex their interchangeably white business cards. American Psycho is, of course, a darkly violent satire that was initially slapped with an NC-17 rating for its displays of sex and violence. The film’s initial release was met with protest that echoed boycotts of Bret Easton Ellis’ original novel on which Mary Harron’s movie was based.
And now we have Pokémon doing (really good) goofs on it!
There is precedent for such a parody, though. A decade ago, comedian Demi Adejuyigbe created an infamous and convincing recut of the scene, in which Bateman throws down his Cubone, only to be shown up by his colleagues, and ultimately Paul Allen’s Snorlax.
The Pokémon Company is busting out American Psycho jokes for the upcoming release of the Scarlet & Violet — Paradox Rift expansion for the Pokémon Trading Card Game. Out officially on Nov. 3, Paradox Rift will introduce Ancient and Future Pokémon and Trainer cards to the collectible card game.
Just days before its release, Emma Stone's new TV series The Curse has been met with divisive critic reviews online and on Rotten Tomatoes despite its current 83% score.
Coach Chuck Goldstein often finds himself jumping up and down on the sidelines of the field -- trying, in vain, to get his players' attention. That's because all but one of the players on the Gallaudet University American football team, in Washington, are all deaf or hard of hearing. "If our player is not looking at us, they're not gonna know what we're telling them," Goldstein tells AFP.
The first trailer for Marvel Studios’ Echo is full of surprises. It’s shockingly violent, as we watch Kingpin beat a man half to death, and see his adoptive daughter Maya Lopez (the eponymous Echo) throwing savage blows and snapping the necks of street-level scum. There’s even a very brief Daredevil cameo. (OK, that last part is not really a surprise; we knew that Charlie Cox and Vincent D’Onofrio would return as Matt Murdock and Wilson Fisk, respectively, for Echo.)
The release of has been met with wide approval, praised for its strong storytelling and creepy atmosphere. Naturally, as a sequel to a game made in 2010, many wonder whether experience with the previous entries in the franchise is necessary to play or understand. Like many sequels, the story of directly follows the events of the first game, but the question of whether it's required to play other Remedy Entertainment games like is a bit more nuanced than a yes or no answer.
PlayStation has confirmed new suits will be coming to in DLC. Currently, there are 39 available suits for Peter and another 39 for Miles, including the five for each hero that came with the Digital Deluxe Edition, and the pre-order exclusive suits. Many of these suits also come with an additional three «suit styles.» which are color variants to allow for further customization.
39 years after its original Famicom launch, the demon-themed Pac-Man clone Nintendo was afraid to release for NES has just gotten its first North American launch courtesy of the Nintendo Switch Online service.
American McGee has spent the past several years trying to make Alice: Asylum, a third entry in his series of action-horror games inspired by Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. That fight produced a crowdfunded 414-page design bible but came to an end earlier this year when rights-holders EA rejected the pitch, and McGee declared that he had "no other ideas or energy left to apply toward getting a new Alice game made."
The for the upcoming manga chapter of are now available. We’re going to find out more about Kuma and Ivankov’s past. Here is a guide on the .
American McGee has released a new video, sharing what he says will be his final words on the ill-fated Alice video game series. This comes after EA rejected his proposal to revive the series, leaving it on ice since the 2011 sequel, Alice: Madness Returns.
American McGee's Alice is a series that saw two games released roughly a decade apart: the eponymous original came out in 2000 on PC, and Alice: Madness Returns followed in 2011. The games were published by Electronic Arts and, over the last few years, McGee has been trying to drum up interest from both EA and fans in a third entry to be called Alice: Asylum (another mooted entry, Alice: Otherlands, was the subject of a Kickstarter but was never released).
Either Miles Morales has taken a secret Cuban lover for whom he harbors a sense a national pride for, or the developers of Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 made a pretty big mistake in the recent game.
American McGee, the lead creator behind EA's Alice game series, has asked fans to "move on" after a proposal for a sequel was turned down by the publisher earlier this year.