Monthly Archives: January 2015
Batman Gets Superpowers in Justice League #38
Beware of spoilers for Justice League #38!
This week's Justice League #38 by writer Geoff Johns and artist Jason Fabok saw Batman getting new bat-like superpowers thanks to being infected with the Amazo Virus. His new powers render him blind but allow him control over sound, including super hearing and a sonic scream not unlike Black Canary's.
From Justice League #38 drawn by Jason Fabok.
343 Reveals Halo: The Master Chief Collection Beta Update Program
343 industries is opening up the testing of an upcoming Halo: The Master Chief Collection content update to select members of the Xbox One Preview program, according a developer blog post.
The developer is branching out to beta testing due to “the scale of the update” and “to ensure the official release is the best possible experience for all players.” The patch includes matchmaking and party system changes and 343 Industries expects to share further details closer to the official release.
Xbox One users who wish to participate in the content update must reside in North America, have a copy of the shooter and are Xbox One Preview program members. Players, selected based on “highest levels of engagement” with the compilation, will be able to download the update on January 23. 343 Industries offers an FAQ about the content update beta and Xbox One Preview program on the developer blog post.
Revisiting the Early Days of LucasArts With David Fox
Cast your mind back to 1982. It was a time of rapid technological progress – the Commodore 64 was introduced, Microsoft’s first Flight Simulator was released, Silicon Graphics and Adobe were founded, Sony debuted the 3.5inch floppy and Tron transported audiences inside the machine. Such was the promise and impact of home computers that - at the year’s end - Time magazine hailed the home computer as the ‘machine of the year,’ in place of its annual ‘man of the year’ cover story. (Yes, man of the year. That didn’t change until 1999.)
Take that, feeble humans!
This Week’s Deals With Gold Includes Skyrim, Sunset Overdrive
This week’s Deals With Gold offers a selection of discounted Xbox One and Xbox 360 titles and downloadable content, featuring Capcom Vancouver’s survival horror Dead Rising 3, Insomniac Games’ third-person shooter Sunset Overdrive and Frima Studio’s couch co-op platformer Chariot.
Five downloadable Xbox One games and DLC have been reduced by up to 50 percent off, such as Dead Rising 3: Apocalypse Edition, Sunset Overdrive and Chariot. Discounted titles marked with an asterisk are only available for Xbox Live Gold members:
Simon Pegg Will Co-Write Star Trek 3
Scotty actor Simon Pegg will be givin' her all she's got, cap'n, behind the camera as well as in front of it on Star Trek 3.
Deadline reports that Pegg, who plays the USS Enterprise's chief engineer Montgomery Scott in the rebooted film series, will co-write the script with Doug Jung, the creator of the TNT series Dark Blue. The original Trek 3 script had been worked on by Roberto Orci, who dropped out of both directing and writing the film. (Patrick McKay and John D. Payne were also writers on Trek 3.)
No Suicide Squad for Jake Gyllenhaal
Warner Bros.' Suicide Squad still needs to find their team leader.
Variety reports that Jake Gyllenhaal has passed on the role of Rick Flag, the field commander of the DC Comics supervillain team. The studio and director David Ayer, who had worked with Gyllenhaal on End of Watch, will continue their hunt for a replacement.
Tom Hardy had initially been cast as Flag, but recently dropped out of the movie (reportedly over either scheduling issues or script concerns, depending on who you ask).
Podcast Unlocked: Is HoloLens the Xbox’s Future?
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Packed show! We distill the Windows 10 event down to what it means for Xbox, including the HoloLens AR glasses that may sound familiar if you remember "Fortaleza" from the big Xbox One leak in 2012. Plus: we reflect on the Halo 5 beta, the Xbox One goes back to $349...again, and Undead Labs CEO Jeff Strain sits in for an epic 50-minute interview that covers his fascinating past working at Blizzard, his present-day State of Decay success, and his online future.
Tune In to Our Advanced Warfare DLC Live Stream Next Week
Next Monday, IGN is bringing you an exclusive first look at Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare's Havoc DLC.
Tune in on January 26 at 11am PT (2pm ET, 7pm GMT, and January 27 at 6am AET) for live gameplay of each new Havoc multiplayer map, followed by a few rounds of the new Exo-Zombies mode.
IGN's Alfredo Diaz and Brian Albert will host the show, alongside members of the Sledgehammer Games development team, and professional NFL players.
Activision recently showed off the characters of its upcoming Exo-Zombies mode in the Havoc trailer above. Let us know if you want us to play as Bill Paxton, Rose McGowan, John Malkovich, or Jon Bernthal in the comments below.
Monster Hunter 4 Demo Codes: Did You Get One?
Nintendo has been sending out Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate codes to lucky 3DS owners in North America. The codes arrive via email, so if you haven't checked your email yet, we'll wait.
Now that you're back, the demo, which Nintendo first announced during last week's Nintendo Direct, has a tutorial mode to help ease gamers into what fans of the series insist is a fun and rewarding, if not a little obtuse, game.
The Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate launch date is February 13, which coincides with the release of the New 3DSXL. It also coincides with the release of a special edition Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate 3DSXL, which carries a suggested retail price of $230.
TV Podcast: 24 Without Jack, No Hannibal Until Summer, More
After two jam-packed weeks at the TCA (Television Critics Association) press tour, Eric and Roth return to look back on all we learned in Pasadena, CA.
After sharing stories of what happened at TCA, both happy and uncomfortable, we move onto all the news that came out of press tour, including the CW giving early renewals to almost its entire current line-up -- including Arrow, The Flash, The 100, Supernatural, The Vampire Diaries, The Originals, Reign and Jane the Virgin -- and a lot of conflicting messaging on whether CBS’s Supergirl can do crossovers with The Flash and Arrow. We also talk about FOX revealing X-Files may be coming back, 24 could continue without Jack Bauer and Sleepy Hollow dialing back from serialization – as the network renewed Gotham, Empire and Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Plus, Zachary Levi was cast in Heroes: Reborn and Hannibal won’t be back until summer.