Tag: thrilling
Leigh Wood v Mauricio Lara: Briton loses world title with stoppage defeat in thrilling fight
How James Bond’s Thrilling Chase Scenes Inspired Swordship
Thrilling hunts await when Monster Hunter Rise hits PS5 and PS4 on January 20, 2023
Thrilling Photos of NASA’s SLS Megarocket Launch to the Moon
The most anticipated launch of the year has finally happened, so it gives us great pleasure to show you some of the more memorable moments from this historic event. NASA’s most powerful rocket ever, Space Launch System, has passed its biggest test yet.
Why building the metaverse is going to be a ‘thrilling ride’
Out Of Hands’ nightmare card combat isn’t as thrilling as it looks
Out Of Hands is a fairly “does what it says on the tin” title for this, a game where you play a dude who dreams he is made entirely out of hands every night. It also operates as a decent joke, because rather than being out of hands, he, if anything, has too many. So full marks for the name. The game itself is kind of a deckbuilder but not really, and though it also describes itself as a thriller, I can’t say my heart rate was raised. In fact, behind the (admittedly very cool) visual style there seems to be a pretty run-of-the-mill “a girl I liked is no longer in my life and I’m pretty cut up about that” story. I guess in the full game it might turn out she was murdered, or she mudered the main character, or the main character murdered her – just, some kind of murder, maybe?
But in the four demo levels I played recently, it seemed like a pretty normal breakup. I was really excited to give it a go, but in the preview I didn’t find the contrast between a face made of squirming hands and the well trodden women-be-leavin’ plot to be particularly affective or evocative. The squirming hands are cool, though.
M. Night Shyamalan is back with thrilling ‘Knock at the Cabin’ trailer
Trips to secluded cabins in picturesque woods are the worst family vacation. And M. Night Shyamalan’s Knock at the Cabin is guaranteed to support that argument.
Based on Paul Tremblay’s bestselling novel, The Cabin at the End of the World, Shyamalan’s adaptation sees Jonathan Groff (Mindhunter, Frozen) and Ben Aldridge (Fleabag), go on a family trip to the woods with their daughter (Kristen Cui). And like all family forest excursions in horror, the trip goes south pretty quickly.
Soon after their arrival, a stranger called Leonard (Dave Bautista) arrives with a whole crew of weapon-bearing friends. Then, he cryptically shares that the entire fate of the world rests on the decision of a happy, gay couple. What is the decision they’ll have to make? Who is Leonard? And is there even an apocalypse going on outside these woods?
All these questions and more surface in Knock at the Cabin’s first trailer. For answers, we’ll have to wait until next year.
Knock at the Cabin is coming to theaters Feb. 3, 2023.
Carlos Alcaraz defeats Casper Ruud to win US Open after thrilling final
NFL Blitz returns in a thrilling new package via Arcade1Up – but the league really needs to get over itself
NFL Blitz, one of the best sporting video games ever created, is finally making a comeback in a remastered form thanks to the home arcade company Arcade1Up – marking the first new entry in the wider Blitz franchise since 2012, and the first re-release of the 90s classics since 2001.
Blitz really is something special. I suspect some of the readers of VG247 may not have even been alive when these games first released, but they’re basically the ultimate in arcade sports, alongside NBA Jam (which happens to have been headed up by some of the same development staff).
In short, Blitz takes the sport of American Football and dials everything up to 11 – making it faster, sillier, and more full-on. It was designed to provoke intense competition between friends in the arcade. And also, of course, drain you of your coins. There were a few iterations in arcades and on console between 1997 and 2001, but later entries lost much of what made the originals special.