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Godzilla is headed to Apple TV+ in the MonsterVerse’s first live-action series
Following 2021's Godzilla vs. Kong, the King of Monsters is now headed to a new live-action series on Apple TV+.
The Queue: I'm rooting for the kaiju
Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Matthew Rossi got suckered into writing it during the podcast. That's right, Pacific Rim fans, I'm calling it now: until you get a jaeger to take on the big G, I'm simply not impressed. Let's get Legendary Films and Del Toro together and make it happen so I can watch Godzilla kick big robot and alien monster behindus. (The word I wanted to use has three letters in it.) And yes, in the end Godzilla destroys everything that even tries to fight him, because he's Godzilla. On to your queries. Godzilla. SparkysShocker asks: Q4tQ: In answering this question, "Can you transmorgify the new legendary cloaks to look like something else?." I am left with this question, Will the spell effects of the legendary cloaks persist if you transmog them to something else? Well, first off, Alex may have answered the question incorrectly. Until a clarification is issued by Blizzard about legendary cloaks, you cannot at this time transmog over a legendary item. They simply cannot be interacted with at all in the transmogrification UI, neither as a source for another item nor as the item you're going to transmog over. I do know that if you are in a form that doesn't show a cloak, the spell effect still happens, so if they allow us to mog over the legendary cloak, then perhaps.
Kaiju Combat Kickstarter on hold over Wizards of the Coast trademark dispute
A Kickstarter project for an indie game called Kaiju Combat: Giant Monsters has been put on hold, due to a trademark disagreement with game publisher Wizards of the Coast. Soon after raising $112,513 for its $100k goal, developer Sunstone Games received an infringement notice from Wizards of the Coast. The notice claimed the name of Sunstone's game violated Wizard's "Kaijudo" trademark, which refers to a collectible card game based on a Hasbro TV show.Sunstone says its lawyer contacted Wizards last December to argue that "Kaiju" (a Japanese word that means "monster") had nothing at all to do with "Kaijudo," and they believed the matter had been settled. But this past week Wizards took the matter to Kickstarter directly, which took the project offline, claiming it was "the subject of an intellectual property dispute."Sunstone's owner Simon Strange says he's working as quickly as possible to get the project reinstated. Going through court costs, he says, would be prohibitive on the company's "limited development budget." Strange adds he's "hopeful" that Sunstone won't have to change the game's name.
Phat Loot Phriday: Tectonic Plate
"So, what you're saying is that it's a German chestpiece?" Throgg asked. Lolegolas shook his head. "No, that's Teutonic. Like Eric. No, this is a Tectonic Plate. You see, it's a clever pun." "Because you can eat off it?" "No, man," Lolegolas responded, pushing his aviator glasses further down his nose. "It's Tectonic Plate. Because, like, this giant earth dragon's got get its 'rawr smash' on. And when that happens, it's gonna drop earth stuff. And, like, so it's not just a plate. It's a Tectonic Plate, like an earthquake." Throgg rested his chin in his hands. "They make these things so complicated. OK, then. How do I get it?" "It's during a big elemental invasion. You might have heard." Tectonic Plate Type: Plate Chest Armor 2,534 Strength 120 Stamina 215 Socket bonus +8 strength 1 red socket, 1 blue socket Improves critical strike rating by 96 Equip Improves haste rating by 72 How do you get it? Drops from one of the Twilight Bosses during the upcoming prologue to Cataclysm. How do you get rid of it? Sells for nearly 17 gold. We're not sure yet what it disenchants into. %Gallery-96786% Phat Loot Phriday brings you the scoop on some of the most ... interesting ... loot in the World of Warcraft, often viewed through the eyes of the stalwart Throgg and indelible Lolegolas. Suggest items you think we should feature by emailing gray@wow.com.
The Digital Continuum: Kaiju MMO
I know there's been a The Daily Grind about this subject already, but I felt like talking about my own personal kaiju (giant monster) MMO and this is just the place for that. Growing up there were certain things I could count on. For instance, there would always be some sort of Anime marathon in the summertime on the Sci-Fi Channel and that very same channel was also usually good for giant monster movies. Oh yeah and you could always count on a new Megaman game coming out that year.It's strange how this never occurred to me but giant monsters are almost perfect as a theme for an MMO. Purely because the theme itself provides a gigantic, epic sort of combat gameplay that is central to the thrill of massively multiplayer online games. Whether it's a game where the players create and control their own giant monsters or fight against the monsters is the choice I've been struggling to answer -- but then something dawned on me. The two game types, when combined, make for a very interesting type of MMO experience.
Giant monsters are coming to Japan
There aren't many details about Daikaiju Battle Ultra Coliseum, but Namco Bandai is bringing the game to Japan this summer. All we know is that it's a fighting game, involving giant monsters. While that's not much to go on, it sounds pretty fun to us -- taking a giant robot (like the weird guy pictured to the right) and beating up on a Godzilla-like character or other monster would be too cool. Hopefully we'll see some trailer footage soon. Thanks to the freeloader and the nature of fighting games, if this one incorporates just the right amount of cheesiness, it might be worth the import.[Via Siliconera]
Chew some fat
I mean this in the 'talking' sense rather than the 'eating whale blubber' sense. One of the things I really enjoy about playing WoW, even all these years later, is the game underneath the game. While I'm awful at math, the old D&D geek in me still enjoys considering my stats, mixing and matching gear to see how it best combines for what I'm going for (in this case, high defense and avoidance.... with the right set I can push 40% block, for instance, but it's a gimmick set, not something I'd actually tank real content in). Last night, due to my raging insomnia, which has in the past rewarded me greatly, I had a very interesting conversation with another warrior in my guild about weapon speeds, co-efficients and why I should keep tanking with my Sun Eater instead of the new dagger I just got.Obviously I'm comfortable with my knowledge of the warrior class and the game (or I'd probably not be able to write here without crying and hiding under my desk) but there's a lot to keep track of, and it was good to have another person to bounce the relative benefits of the weapons off of. One of the benefits of this being a social game is the people: when you have good people around you, make use of them. Ask them for help for quests and instances. Go help them do the same. Heck, just talk to them. Talking about the game, heck, even just talking about why my character's name sounds vaguely like a kaiju has livened up wiping on Malacrass because the mage gone one-shotted by an add before he could sheep it again.There are unpleasant aspects to interpersonal contact in the game... barrens chat, bad PuG's, people who clog Trade chat with their egomaniacal rantings, that one enchanter who spams with his various enchants but when you actually ask him to do one is always afk, constant 'duel me outside Ironforge, if I win you pay 10g, if I lose you get 100g' posts from people who won't actually pay up... but man, a good group of people can really override all that junk with useful sounding boards and fun times. Make sure to keep good people once you find them, because they'll make the game ten thousand times better.
