In games made by Hidetaka Miyazaki, one can always find the threads of narration and storytelling woven together in a complicated manner, leaving all the players on their own accord to theorize and fill the gaps left by the studio. One such theory that has arisen recently goes over how one of the endings from Demon’s Souls, the director’s first Dark Fantasy game laid the foundation for one of his most famous pieces of work yet.
Cover for Demon’s Souls
Released in 2009, Demon’s Souls became known for punishing players with an intense difficulty level, which attracted many for a change. However, how the game offers multiple endings has caused fans to speculate how one of them leads to the setting of the Dark Souls trilogy.
Dark Souls Trilogy – A Hidetaka Miyazaki Franchise Based On A Demon’s Souls Ending?
The possibility of this theory being true...
Cover for Demon’s Souls
Released in 2009, Demon’s Souls became known for punishing players with an intense difficulty level, which attracted many for a change. However, how the game offers multiple endings has caused fans to speculate how one of them leads to the setting of the Dark Souls trilogy.
Dark Souls Trilogy – A Hidetaka Miyazaki Franchise Based On A Demon’s Souls Ending?
The possibility of this theory being true...
- 5/16/2024
- by Aaditya Chugh
- FandomWire
Kid sisters Aixa (age 9) and Nirvana (age 11) are following in the footsteps of fellow music prodigy Nandi Bushell with their impressive TikTok channel of heavy metal cover songs.
Hailing from a musical family, Aixa and Nirvana performed alongside their parents in many of their early clips, but lately they’ve been tackling impressive renditions of songs by Metallica, Ozzy Osbourne, and Iron Maiden all by themselves.
Nirvana handles guitar and vocals while Aixa lays down the rhythm behind a huge drum kit that threatens to engulf her. But for their age, the sisters already sound like seasoned vets.
Their cover of the Maiden classic “The Trooper” is a prime example and has already amassed over 22 million views on TikTok. While Aixa pounds away at the kit, Nirvana holds down the dynamic guitar lines and the vocals — a challenge that even Iron Maiden never attempted. She also works her pedal board...
Hailing from a musical family, Aixa and Nirvana performed alongside their parents in many of their early clips, but lately they’ve been tackling impressive renditions of songs by Metallica, Ozzy Osbourne, and Iron Maiden all by themselves.
Nirvana handles guitar and vocals while Aixa lays down the rhythm behind a huge drum kit that threatens to engulf her. But for their age, the sisters already sound like seasoned vets.
Their cover of the Maiden classic “The Trooper” is a prime example and has already amassed over 22 million views on TikTok. While Aixa pounds away at the kit, Nirvana holds down the dynamic guitar lines and the vocals — a challenge that even Iron Maiden never attempted. She also works her pedal board...
- 5/3/2024
- by Jon Hadusek
- Consequence - Music
Pieces Interactive’s new reboot of Alone in the Dark is on track to be one of 2023’s most exciting horror titles; with an intriguing mystery storyline, a unique interbellum setting, and an emphasis on creeping dread over bombastic action.
In a recent press conference, the developers managed to allay any fears that this is going to be yet another stinker in the franchise (like 2015’s unutterably awful Illumination). Here, they showcased their reverence for the original game, evidenced a keen understanding of the genre that they are operating in, and even announced that a pair of Hollywood A-listers have joined the cast, in the form of David Harbour and Jodie Comer.
The fact that the game is shaping up so promisingly is a bit of a double-edged sword, however, because it means that the wait until its release on October 25th is going to be even more agonizing.
Fortunately,...
In a recent press conference, the developers managed to allay any fears that this is going to be yet another stinker in the franchise (like 2015’s unutterably awful Illumination). Here, they showcased their reverence for the original game, evidenced a keen understanding of the genre that they are operating in, and even announced that a pair of Hollywood A-listers have joined the cast, in the form of David Harbour and Jodie Comer.
The fact that the game is shaping up so promisingly is a bit of a double-edged sword, however, because it means that the wait until its release on October 25th is going to be even more agonizing.
Fortunately,...
- 5/26/2023
- by Harrison Abbott
- bloody-disgusting.com
Iron Maiden will be bringing their “Future Past Tour” to the Great White North for three shows this fall.
Previously, the “Future Past Tour” was only scheduled to hit the the UK and Europe this year, but with Maiden playing the massive Power Trip festival in Indio, California, in October, the metal legends have just added three Canadian dates to their itinerary.
Maiden will play Calgary on September 28th, Edmonton on September 30th, and Vancouver on October 2nd. A Live Nation pre-sale begins Thursday, April 27th, at 10 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster using the code Vinyl. General sales start on Friday, April 28th. Fans can also check for deals or pick up tickets to sold-out shows via StubHub, where your purchase is 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s Fan Protect program.
“The Future Past Tour” will find Maiden focusing on their classic 1986 album Somewhere in Time, as well as their latest full-length,...
Previously, the “Future Past Tour” was only scheduled to hit the the UK and Europe this year, but with Maiden playing the massive Power Trip festival in Indio, California, in October, the metal legends have just added three Canadian dates to their itinerary.
Maiden will play Calgary on September 28th, Edmonton on September 30th, and Vancouver on October 2nd. A Live Nation pre-sale begins Thursday, April 27th, at 10 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster using the code Vinyl. General sales start on Friday, April 28th. Fans can also check for deals or pick up tickets to sold-out shows via StubHub, where your purchase is 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s Fan Protect program.
“The Future Past Tour” will find Maiden focusing on their classic 1986 album Somewhere in Time, as well as their latest full-length,...
- 4/21/2023
- by Spencer Kaufman
- Consequence - Music
New York, NY (4/7/23) – Yen Press, LLC held a panel at Sakura-Con 2023, at which they announced twenty-three new acquisitions being published under its Yen Press and Yen On imprints. This Fall 2023 lineup of titles includes sixteen manga titles.
The Deer King (novel)
By Nahoko Uehashi
Van, a former soldier made slave, toils away endlessly in a salt mine. An unexpected chance at liberation drops in his lap when a pack of infected dogs pass through, killing everyone but him and a young girl called Yuna. Van hopes to make a peaceful life for himself now that he's escaped. However, the disease that cleared out the mine is rapidly spreading, placing him and his ward at the center of a conflict greater than any the world has ever seen.
The Deer King (manga)
Story Nahoko Uehashi
Art by Taro Sekiguchi
Van resolves to fight the Zol Empire and save his homeland, only...
The Deer King (novel)
By Nahoko Uehashi
Van, a former soldier made slave, toils away endlessly in a salt mine. An unexpected chance at liberation drops in his lap when a pack of infected dogs pass through, killing everyone but him and a young girl called Yuna. Van hopes to make a peaceful life for himself now that he's escaped. However, the disease that cleared out the mine is rapidly spreading, placing him and his ward at the center of a conflict greater than any the world has ever seen.
The Deer King (manga)
Story Nahoko Uehashi
Art by Taro Sekiguchi
Van resolves to fight the Zol Empire and save his homeland, only...
- 4/8/2023
- by Adam Symchuk
- AsianMoviePulse
An incredible music festival called Power Trip will bring together the biggest names in hard rock and metal: Ozzy Osbourne, AC/DC, Metallica, Guns N’ Roses, Iron Maiden, and Tool. The three-day event is set for October 6th-8th at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California.
Power Trip is produced by Goldenvoice, the company behind Coachella. The vibe is similar to the promoter’s classic-rock-themed Desert Trip fest that happened in 2016, with only two bands playing each night, as opposed to dozens of acts. Fans can register now for the option to buy tickets starting at $599 at the official Power Trip website. Once registered, tickets will become available at 10 a.m. Pt on April 6th.
Friday night (October 6th) will see Guns N’ Roses and Iron Maiden performing. On Saturday (October 7th), AC/DC and Ozzy Osbourne will take the stage. And on Sunday (October 8th), Metallica and Tool will close out the event.
Power Trip is produced by Goldenvoice, the company behind Coachella. The vibe is similar to the promoter’s classic-rock-themed Desert Trip fest that happened in 2016, with only two bands playing each night, as opposed to dozens of acts. Fans can register now for the option to buy tickets starting at $599 at the official Power Trip website. Once registered, tickets will become available at 10 a.m. Pt on April 6th.
Friday night (October 6th) will see Guns N’ Roses and Iron Maiden performing. On Saturday (October 7th), AC/DC and Ozzy Osbourne will take the stage. And on Sunday (October 8th), Metallica and Tool will close out the event.
- 3/30/2023
- by Spencer Kaufman
- Consequence - Music
Former Iron Maiden singer Blaze Bayley has been hospitalized after suffering a heart attack.
According to a statement on social media from Bayley’s management, the 59-year-old metal singer suffered the heart attack on Saturday evening (March 25th) at his home. He is currently hospitalized in stable condition and awaiting further treatment. As a result, he has postponed his upcoming shows.
The statement reads as follows:
“We sincerely regret to announce that Blaze had a heart attack at home yesterday evening & is now in hospital in a stable condition, awaiting news of further surgery/treatment. He is in good spirits in the circumstances but utterly disappointed to have to postpone our imminent shows due in March & April. Ticket refunds will be available at source but we truly hope you will keep your tickets & make it to the new dates which we will be announcing as soon as they are scheduled.
According to a statement on social media from Bayley’s management, the 59-year-old metal singer suffered the heart attack on Saturday evening (March 25th) at his home. He is currently hospitalized in stable condition and awaiting further treatment. As a result, he has postponed his upcoming shows.
The statement reads as follows:
“We sincerely regret to announce that Blaze had a heart attack at home yesterday evening & is now in hospital in a stable condition, awaiting news of further surgery/treatment. He is in good spirits in the circumstances but utterly disappointed to have to postpone our imminent shows due in March & April. Ticket refunds will be available at source but we truly hope you will keep your tickets & make it to the new dates which we will be announcing as soon as they are scheduled.
- 3/27/2023
- by Jon Hadusek
- Consequence - Music
Exclusive: Nacelle, the studio behind Down to Earth with Zac Efron and Grant, Kevin Hart’s Guide to Black History, has struck a deal to distribute a feature-length doc filmed during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The company has taken worldwide rights to Comedy of War: Laughter in Ukraine.
The doc comes from filmmakers Christopher Walters and Krista Liney, who runs producer Maiden, and shows the brutal reality of the conflict through the lens of stand-up comedians touring in war-torn Ukraine. Nacelle plans to take the doc to film festivals before launching worldwide sales.
The documentary follows four rising stars of Ukrainian stand-up comedy, each with a unique perspective on the war currently being waged in their homeland. Performing in converted bomb shelters, they laugh in spite of the war, not at it.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine began almost a year ago and has left tens of thousands dead and millions displaced.
The doc comes from filmmakers Christopher Walters and Krista Liney, who runs producer Maiden, and shows the brutal reality of the conflict through the lens of stand-up comedians touring in war-torn Ukraine. Nacelle plans to take the doc to film festivals before launching worldwide sales.
The documentary follows four rising stars of Ukrainian stand-up comedy, each with a unique perspective on the war currently being waged in their homeland. Performing in converted bomb shelters, they laugh in spite of the war, not at it.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine began almost a year ago and has left tens of thousands dead and millions displaced.
- 2/1/2023
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Plot: A young orphan girl discovers she’s a Hell Maiden who has been assigned a pair of personal demons named Wendell and Wild.
Review: About thirty years ago, director / stop-motion animator Henry Selick teamed up with Tim Burton to create a film that has been embraced as both a Halloween classic and a Christmas classic: The Nightmare Before Christmas. Now Selick has joined forces with genre filmmaker Jordan Peele to craft another stop-motion animated film that may not quite reach the level of The Nightmare Before Christmas, but is sure to earn its own solid fanbase. Based on an unpublished novel Selick wrote with Clay McLeod Chapman, the film is called Wendell & Wild – and it’s about a pair of goofball demons.
The lead character in the film is actually Kat Elliot (voiced by Lyric Ross), a young girl whose parents were killed in a car accident five years earlier.
Review: About thirty years ago, director / stop-motion animator Henry Selick teamed up with Tim Burton to create a film that has been embraced as both a Halloween classic and a Christmas classic: The Nightmare Before Christmas. Now Selick has joined forces with genre filmmaker Jordan Peele to craft another stop-motion animated film that may not quite reach the level of The Nightmare Before Christmas, but is sure to earn its own solid fanbase. Based on an unpublished novel Selick wrote with Clay McLeod Chapman, the film is called Wendell & Wild – and it’s about a pair of goofball demons.
The lead character in the film is actually Kat Elliot (voiced by Lyric Ross), a young girl whose parents were killed in a car accident five years earlier.
- 10/28/2022
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Concrete Valley.Hopefully you’ve been following along, but over the last decade there’s been a wonderful surge of young Canadian directors making exceptional short- and feature-length movies, all on a small, independent scale that should be invigorating to makers and audiences alike. While no one would (nor should) ascribe any kind of movement label to them, being eclectic in origins and approaches, it has been notable how many of the films hinge upon explorations of mental health, the search for well-being, and the weaknesses and strengths of community. Films as disparate as the substance abuse and social work documentary The Stairs (2016), the immersive impressionism of mental anguish of Anne at 13,000 Ft. (2019), and this year's Queens of the Qing Dynasty (2022), a striking story of social difference, hospitalization, and friendship filmed in Cape Breton, are among these adroit new Canadian films fueled by human inquiry and empathy.This note is...
- 9/17/2022
- MUBI
The Maiden, Graham Foy’s feature film debut after a series of impressive shorts, shows a lot of formal skill but a lack of flair for dramaturgy. The film initially centers on Colton (Marcel T. Jimenez) and Kyle (Jackson Sluiter), two unremarkable teenagers who nonetheless function as outsiders within the Canadian province of Alberta, a conservative oil nexus that’s lived in the shadow of Texas. They kill time outside of class the old-fashioned way: not on their computers or smartphones, but skateboarding through Calgary, exploring nature, and even flat-out tossing shit around. Of course, Kyle in particular is a perfect cipher for this kind of film—he’s both a dumb teenager and has artistic inclinations of hardcore music and graffiti art, as probably any director making a film within this setting can’t imagine it without some sort of surrogate for themselves.
Yet during a nighttime adventure, Kyle...
Yet during a nighttime adventure, Kyle...
- 9/12/2022
- by Ethan Vestby
- The Film Stage
“The Maiden,” Graham Foy’s finely tuned story of adolescent mythmaking, togetherness and grief, has its world premiere Tuesday in Venice Days before heading to Toronto, but the film’s impressive international journey actually began in Cannes two years ago.
Based in Toronto since 2008, Foy grew up in suburban Calgary where “Maiden” is set, spent teenage summers near the graffiti-covered railroad bridge and ragged ravine, where much of the film was shot, and, like one of the characters, was an avid skateboarder.
He had been tapping away at the “Maiden” script — which draws from his experiences but is not autobiographical — for several years when his short “August 22, This Year” was selected for the 2020 Cannes’ Critics’ Week.
“It was the year the pandemic shut down Cannes, so we couldn’t go, but the festival did a lot for the filmmakers,” said Foy, who spoke to Variety from Venice last week, in advance of the festival.
Based in Toronto since 2008, Foy grew up in suburban Calgary where “Maiden” is set, spent teenage summers near the graffiti-covered railroad bridge and ragged ravine, where much of the film was shot, and, like one of the characters, was an avid skateboarder.
He had been tapping away at the “Maiden” script — which draws from his experiences but is not autobiographical — for several years when his short “August 22, This Year” was selected for the 2020 Cannes’ Critics’ Week.
“It was the year the pandemic shut down Cannes, so we couldn’t go, but the festival did a lot for the filmmakers,” said Foy, who spoke to Variety from Venice last week, in advance of the festival.
- 9/6/2022
- by Jennie Punter
- Variety Film + TV
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