Monthly Archives: January 2015
NBC’s Allegiance Isn’t The Americans Says Producer
At first glance, incoming NBC drama Allegiance sounds an awful lot like FX's acclaimed series The Americans. Russian spies? Check. Family drama? Check. Conflicted morals and allegiances? Check, check and check. But according to the series’ showrunner and director George Nolfi, that’s where the similarities end.
“Watch one or two episodes and I think it’s pretty clear that we’re going in a different direction, Nolfi told reporters during the 2015 TCA Winter Press Tour on Friday. “This is a family drama about people who don’t want to be spies. On one side they face the possibility of death and the other life in prison. That’s just an extremely different setup and where we take it is different as well.”
Black Widow, Winter Soldier Back for Cap 3
In case there were any doubts, Black Widow and The Winter Soldier will indeed be back for 2016's Captain America: Civil War.
Sibling directors the Russo brothers disclosed the information during a recent interview in Beijing. Check out their video interview below (via Latino-Review):
Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., and Anthony Mackie star in Captain America: Civil War, which will also mark the big screen debut of Chadwick Boseman's Black Panther.
Mackie has been doing press lately for his new movie Black or White during which time he's also revealed that Falcon will have a new costume in Cap 3 and that the movie begins a five-month shoot this April and will film in Berlin, Puerto Rico and Atlanta.
2014’s Most Downloaded PlayStation Store Games
Update: The original story lists numbers for the EU PlayStation Store. The US numbers provided by Sony have been added.
Sony has shared the top games of 2014 for the US PlayStation Store in a post on the PlayStation Blog.
The US list sees Sword Art Online: Hollow Fragment as the best-selling Vita game of last year, with Minecraft following in second.
Daily Deals: Xbox One Is $350 Again, PS4 Is $370, Grand Budapest Hotel Is $6, Majora’s Mask Pre-Order Discount
Pre-order Grand Theft Auto V on PC for $46.20
Use code SAVE23-PEROFF-MOSANT to save $13 on the PC version of GTA V.
IGN Arena Episode 22: The State of Dota 2
This week's episode is an all-Dota 2 special, because we're joined by GoodGame's Aaron Chambers, who you may know better as Ayesee. The Dota 2 caster joins Mitch Dyer, Brian Albert, James Faulkner to dive deep into Dota 2's evolving meta, and what it means for players and tournaments going forward.
Additionally, expect a lot of talk about The International, Compendiums, and how both of those create a concerning attitude in professional and amateur players alike. Finally, DIREBOYS, the Evil Geniuses-centric documentary about the team's time at The International 4. You can watch that in its entirety below -- and we strongly recommend you do so. It's wonderful.
This Week in the Nintendo eShop
This week's downloads have a retro slant, whether it's the Virtual Console releases of Lufia: The Legend Returns or Street Fighter 2010 (or the release of Super Mario Galaxy 2 earlier this week) or the copious amount of retro-styled games out on Wii U and 3DS. The best part of the eShop this week, however, are the sales. You can pick up Super Mario 3D World, Super Mario Galaxy 2, and Yoshi's New Island for cheap. You can also snag a number of awesome Wii U indie games for up to 60% off (if you bought one of the other participating games). Picking up one of those sale games might me optimal while you're waiting for the New 3DS to arrive next month.
Electronic Super Joy: Groove City ($4.99)
NBC on Constantine’s Performance and if it Could Return
Is there still a chance for Constantine? NBC decided to not order any more episodes this season beyond the initial 13, but were also quick to indicate the show had not been cancelled yet and that that determination was still to be made, depending on how the remaining Season 1 episodes perform.
At the TCA (Television Critics Association) press tour today, I asked NBC president Jennifer Salke and chairman Robert Greenblatt about Constantine’s performance and its chances.
Said Salke, “We wish the show had done better live. It has a big viewership after
in all kinds of ways and it has a younger audience, but the live number is challenging. It hasn't come out in the way we wanted it to, but we love the show. I think it's fair to say we're still talking about it.”
Total War: Attila Will Have You on the Run from the Huns
“Roamer, wanderer, nomad, vagabond – call me what you will!” the famous Gothic leader and despoiler of Rome, Alaric, is famously quoted as saying. Or maybe that was Metallica. I get them confused a lot.
In a first for the strategy series, Total War: Attila will allow certain factions to roam, wander, and vagabond without being tied to a permanent settlement. Such is only appropriate to model what is often called the Migration Period of the 4th to 8th centuries, when dozens of (mostly Germanic) tribes were displaced by the movement of the Huns into Europe. These warlike tribes were forced to abandon their homes and seek refuge in the lands of their neighbors. Said neighbors would either successfully kick the invaders out, or be crushed, and have to pick up and leave themselves. The end result was a lot of disgruntled people with axes, bouncing around the continent fighting each other and the already-collapsing Roman Empire for every bit of non-Hun-despoiled dirt.
DC Reveals Convergence Variant Covers From Chip Kidd
April will kick off DC's latest big event, Convergence. This two-month storyline involves both the weekly Convergence mini-series and 40 two-issue comics that focus on various DC heroes pulled from the publisher's pre-New 52 history. Today, DC revealed that all 40 mini-series will feature a variant cover illustrated by acclaimed artist/designer Chip Kidd.
DC's Convergence Event Brings Back the Old DC Universe
We have the exclusive reveal of all 40 of these covers. Check those out below, and scroll down to read our email interview with Kidd, where he discusses his design process and the inspiration behind the striking color palette in these images.
Every X-Man Ever
Feared and hated by the world they have sworn to protect. These are the strangest heroes of all! The Uncanny X-Men!
Yes, we love the X-Men. Who doesn’t? But there are so many of them... It’s hard to keep track! And that’s one of the reasons we put together this video timeline and infographic (watch it above!) detailing the long and storied membership of Professor Xavier’s merry band of mutants. This was no easy task, as there have been so many offshoots and side teams and kinda-sorta-teams over the course of the X-Men’s 50-plus year history. But we channeled our mutant power of OCD and did our best to nail down a complete membership history of the core X-Men team (in the comics only). Oh, and we’re also including a written version of this feature below for those of you who don’t have video capabilities in your X-Mansion yet…