TepidShark

I do hope that if Giant Bomb shuts down as an active website someday, they find a way to archive all the stuff they've made. Would be a tragedy if they shut down the site and all the 13 years was just gone forever like happens when other websites get shut down.

I can remember streaming the live show when they announced premium memberships while I was on study abroad in Australia. Shocked and saddened but hopefully good stuff comes out of it.

Jeff Cannata seems like he's doing better. He wasn't on the Slashfilmcast last week (the Mortal Kombat episode) because his daughter had been diagnosed with a rare disease.

The pilot of The World Ends With You anime is out today. Don't know about other countries but in the US it's on Hulu & Funimation. It's only in Japanese with English subs. Don't know how many episodes it's supposed to be but you have to assume it will end not long before the sequel game Neo comes out on July 27th.

The one that stands out to me is the PS5 stream where they asked if they were going to get a price for the system, Vinny asked if Insomniac was going to be on there, and when they said yes, he said then for sure they would get a Price.

Announced that Kingdom Hearts Orchestra tour, the Kingdom Hearts III DLC will be out in the Winter (No Price or exact date yet). Here's the brief trailer:

What this trailer details (which it's unclear if that's everything in it or not):

• New conversation between Young Xehanort and Unknown figure (believed to be Master of Masters from Back Cover)
• Riku, Aqua & Roxas playable in Keyblade Graveyard encounters.
• Oathkeeper form.
• New cutscene between Xigbar & Luxord in Olympus.

Disney held a D23 Expo event in Japan and had some new Kingdom Hearts info:

First Kingdom Hearts content is coming to Final Fantasy Record Keeper:

Second, a new trailer for Kingdom Hearts III was revealed:

Third, Utada Hikaru is contributing a new song titled "Oath" for the Japanese version and "Don't Think Twice" for the English version to KHIII

Finally, the release date for KHIII will be revealed at E3. Still planned for 2018.

When I first came out of Force Awakens, I thought it was the worst Star Wars film because my thought process was while the prequels are bad at least they were original and not copy and pasting from a previous film. As time has gone on and I've watched it more times I can appreciate it more but I still don't love it and wish it wasn't as safe as it was. After seeing this movie, I think I'm back to not liking the Force Awakens (though I can't make an argument they are worse then Menace & Clones) but it's because I've kind of had enough of the JJ Abrams mystery box.

So for The Last Jedi Rian Johnson could have done one of two things: attempt to try to find the most profound answers to the questions he could think of or answer the questions as simply and as unceremoniously as possible so the story can move on from it. The second option is what Johnson did and I personally think this is the right call because more often then not the answers are not as good as the questions. If you think of the Sequel Trilogy like Justice League Snyder/Abrams had this grand design that went over several different movies and then he didn't get to finish it and then Whedon/Johnson got a look at things and said this is a mess lets make this a lot simpler. I have to imagine based on how he resolves everything in The Last Jedi if Johnson was doing 9 it would be a much more straight forward movie. So for me the idea of a 150 minute episode 8 that is basically about undermining Force Awakens, I'm personally in favor of. But at the same time I could see if you liked Force Awakens, how The Last Jedi resolves things would be very disappointing. I just hope that the people who don't like The Last Jedi win out and I hope JJ Abrams' Episode 9 isn't about retconning the hell out of everything Episode 8 did.

First look at the reboot of Tomb Raider movie series with Alicia Vikander:

I don't know, if this is supposed to be influenced off the 2013 reboot of the game series, shouldn't Vikander's portrayal be of a less confident Lara?

I don't know if this means much but on the Fire TV app (which is seeded via the GB API) Kingdom Heartache now has its own section (Vinnyvania, Steal My Sunshine, Blue Bombin', etc have their own sections too).