By Sean Fallon - July 20, 2019 09:08 am EDT Share 0 Comments 0 Yesterday at San Diego Comic-Con, Hasbro revealed The Black Series electronic helmet that everyone was waiting for - Boba Fett! As with other Black Series prop helmet releases, it's a full-size wearable replica (adjustable fit) that comes with fancy features like a flip-down viewfinder with flashing LED lights and an illuminated rangefinder HUD. What's more, Hasbro has confirmed that pre-orders for The Black Series Boba Fett helmet will open right here for $119.99 with free shipping starting at 8:30pm EST (5:30pm PST) tonight, July 20th. Note that Hasbro has also confirmed that the HyperReal Luke Skywalker figure will also be able to pre-order in the link above at that time. That figure follows the Darth Vader Hyperreal figure that's set to ship from Entertainment Earth later this month and from Walmart in August. On a related note, one of the biggest Hasbro toy releases to come out of Star Wars … [Read more...] about Hasbro’s Star Wars Black Series Electronic Boba Fett Helmet Arrives Tonight
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Hasbro’s Star Wars HyperReal Luke Skywalker Comic-Con Figure Arrives Tonight
By Sean Fallon - July 20, 2019 09:06 am EDT Share 0 Comments 0 The second big San Diego Comic-Con reveal from yesterday's Hasbro Star Wars panel is this spectacular The Black Series Luke Skywalker figure, which joins their new 8-inch HyperReal line. As the name suggests, HyperReal figures are Hasbro's attempt to develop action figures that are as close to flesh and blood (and cyborg bits) as possible. To enhance the effect, the figures include fabric costuming, an interior skeleton structure / hyper articulation for lifelike posing, multiple hands, and detailed accessories. Hasbro has confirmed that The Black Series HyperReal Luke Skywalker figure will be available to pre-order right here for $79.99 with free shipping starting at 8:30pm EST (5:50pm PST) tonight, July 20th. It will join the spectacular The Black Series Boba Fett Electronic Helmet, which will also go up for pre-order in the link above at that time. The official description for the HyperReal figure … [Read more...] about Hasbro’s Star Wars HyperReal Luke Skywalker Comic-Con Figure Arrives Tonight
Seeing Red: The story of CD Projekt
The Witcher 3 comes out on Tuesday, 19th May, and so we've hauled an exciting Witcher-related article out of the Eurogamer archive for you to read again or enjoy for the first time if you missed it. Here, Robert Purchese reveals the story of Witcher developer CD Projekt in an article first published in November 2013.I travel to Warsaw in Poland to visit CD Projekt, celebrated house of The Witcher, and there's one thing I discover that I can't stop telling people: The Witcher 2 was very nearly canned, and the entire company almost collapsed. It was 2009, two years after the first The Witcher, and the global economic crisis had CD Projekt on its knees. The money from the first game had been burned trying to clear up the mess of The Witcher: White Wolf, the console game that never was. Elsewhere, the publishing-distribution business CD Projekt was founded on had become a black hole, sucking money away, and GOG was barely big enough to sustain itself.It was the scariest moment in Marcin … [Read more...] about Seeing Red: The story of CD Projekt
The Witcher 3: The Skyrim debate, the game on PS4, nuggets of clarification and a whiff of multiplayer
The open world RPG yardstick is Skyrim. That's the game, the series, the success that The Witcher 3 has in its sights. And to listen to CD Projekt Red, you'd believe the Polish studio could better it. Game director Konrad Tomaszkiewicz raised eyebrows when he said Skyrim's story and quests were often "generic". He said he couldn't name five characters from the game by memory, and he played the game a lot. His point was that The Witcher 3 could improve on that. It could be an open world RPG like Skyrim but with a strong story as well. It could be, he said, the "perfect RPG". "He was harsh too much," reflected Adam Badowski, managing director of CD Projekt Red, when I spoke to him last week. "What does it mean, generic? It's a different type of gameplay experience. We know how to make hand-crafted quests and we have tonnes of ideas for quests. It's a different level of detail. "We have different tricks for how to fulfil - how to make the living world. And really it's not the same way … [Read more...] about The Witcher 3: The Skyrim debate, the game on PS4, nuggets of clarification and a whiff of multiplayer
The Witcher game that never was
The Witcher 3 is out today, and so we've hauled another exciting Witcher-related article out of the Eurogamer archive for you to read again or enjoy for the first time if you missed it. Here, Robert Purchese reveals the story of the Witcher game that never was in an article first published in June 2014.In all the hubbub at E3 surrounding The Witcher 3 - many people's game of the show - it was surprising for me to discover that there was another Witcher game, a long time ago, that I had no idea existed. It wasn't made by CD Projekt Red - in fact it didn't have anything to do with CD Projekt - but it was being made in Poland.It was being made by Adrian Chmielarz, the developer best known for leading People Can Fly and Bulletstorm [and now the excellent Vanishing of Ethan Carter]. Long before the PCF days he worked at another studio that he co-founded with a school friend - a studio called Metropolis. And it's here that in 1996 and 1997 - six years before developer CD Projekt Red was … [Read more...] about The Witcher game that never was