Monthly Archives: September 2015
Syfy’s Killjoys and Dark Matter Both Getting Season 2
Syfy has announced that both Dark Matter and Killjoys have been renewed for a second season.
Dark Matter will receive another 13 episodes, set to premiere in 2016.
Dark Matter averaged 1.8 million viewers in its first season. The series, created by Stargate franchise writers Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie, follows six people who wake up on a derelict spaceship with no memory of who they are or how they got on board. It's based on a Dark Horse graphic novel of the same name.
Killjoys, meanwhile, will air 10 episodes once more for its second season in 2016. It averaged 1.5 million viewers in its first season.
Next Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Major Detailed
The next big Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournament will be the DreamHack Open Cluj-Napoca in the Romanian city's Sala Polivalenta sports arena, set to take place October 28th to November 1st with a $250k prize pool.
Eight pro CS:GO teams will compete against eight challenging teams determined by online regional pre-qualifiers, a process which will conclude at DreamHack Open Stockholm with a studio and stage offline qualifier in the Annexet Stockholm Globe Arenas, in front of an audience of at least 2,000 people.
The DreamHack Open in Romania will be much larger, seating about 10,000 people in the audience. It will also include a 4-day stage show.
As always, the event will be streamed live. According to the ESL, over 27 million people tuned in to the ESL One Cologne 2015 tournament, with concurrent viewers peaking at 1.3 million. That competition ended with Fnatic emerging victorious over EnVyUs on Cobblestone 16-7.
Collegiate Hearthstone Tournament Offers $100k Prize Pool
Starting this fall, eligible college players will be able to compete in a Hearthstone tournament for their share of a $100,000 scholarship prize pool.
Not unlike the Heroes of the Dorm event taking place earlier this year, this tournament is open to current college students and will be conducted as a 3v3 team format, where each team plays a single deck for the best of five matches.
The tournament will begin on September 28, with the grand finals taking place in January. Anyone interested in signing up can see if they qualify to register via TeSPA's website.
New Star Wars: The Force Awakens Toys Coming
If you've been feeling a great disturbance in the Force, it's doubtless because millions of tiny, plastic figures are anxiously waiting to be released from their packaging during Disney's global live YouTube unboxing event to reveal new Star Wars: The Force Awakens toys and collectibles. That's right, starting in Sydney, Australia and jumping to one of 13 other major cities once an hour, the Countdown to Force Friday will see notable unboxers and Star Wars personalities opening up product for the world to see via live stream. This will be our first look at every Force Awakens toy that will be available for purchase this Friday, September 4.
We Cut an Amiibo in Half and it was Almost Impossible
If there’s anything we’ve learned from trying to split one of Nintendo’s amiibo in half, it’s that they’re damn tough. This was supposed to be a simple assignment - cut an amiibo in half, and document the results for the world.
We've since learned the hard way that Nintendo's line of interactive figures are made of near-impossible to cut polystyrene mixtures, unless you’ve got a hacksaw, some pliers and a lot of willpower.
Lucky for us, we had all of the above:
Wrestling Wrap Up: Rollins to Face Sting and Cena at NOC
I don't know, guys and gals. I was riding a super high wave coming off SummerSlam and that whole weekend and the following night's RAW with the Stinger and the Dudleys and the whatnot. And now...?
This week's RAW be like "Hey, you got three great shows in a row. We're shocked too! It's time to settle in to what you know. Get ready for turds."
So Sting came out (to a tepid Tampa crowd who was bad and should feel bad) to reveal his big motivation for going after Rollins last week. And it was to say that... Rollins was a s***ty champ. Fine. I get that argument for a babyface challenger. Rollins is "a joke." He cheats. He's slimy. Greasy. Oily. Okay, I'm going too far here. But you get my meaning. Even though all Seth's challengers use the same argument, it fits. So then was Sting ALSO back to take out Rollins as revenge on Triple H for hitting him with a sledghammer to gain a win at WrestleMania?
Rogue One May Pull a Hateful Eight
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, the upcoming spin-off film from director Gareth Edwards, may be shooting in the classic 70mm widescreen format.
According to The Playlist, reports suggest the film will be shot using the same Ultra Panavision 70 anamorphic lenses "recreated" for Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight by Panavision. Interestingly, however, at Comic-Con in July Tarantino said that the lenses he used to shoot Hateful Eight weren’t just the same type that were used on classic epic films like Ben-Hur, but were in fact the same lenses.
Aqua Blue PlayStation Vita Now Available for Pre-Order
For the first time since its release in 2012, a differently-colored PlayStation Vita will be available in the United States.
During the GameStop Managers Conference, the game store franchise announced it would be carrying aqua blue PlayStation Vitas exclusively in stores nationwide.
The blue Vita will release on November 6 for $200. Pre-orders for the handheld system are now available through GameStop's official website.
Amazon Prime Video Launches Free Offline Viewing
The convenience of streaming movies and TV shows through services like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video is useless without an internet connection, which is why Amazon has just unveiled free offline viewing for select Prime Instant Video titles, available on iOS, Android, and Fire devices.
Amazon is the first video streaming service to introduce offline viewing, even beating out rival company Netflix. Its new offline viewing mode allows Prime members to download TV show episodes and movies to their phones or tablets while they're online, so they can watch them later without an internet connection.
Prime Video's downloadable selections include TV shows like Hannibal, Under the Dome, and Sons of Anarchy, and movies like Star Trek Into Darkness, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, and Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues.
Get Your Tickets Now for Attack on Titan
Those eager to see the upcoming film adaptation of the popular anime and manga series Attack on Titan can purchase their tickets now.
The film will be released as a two-part feature, with Part 1 debuting in select theaters across the United States on September 30. The first part will also be shown on October 1 and October 7, while Part 2 will screen later that month on October 20, 22, and 27.
Folks in Canada will have to option to see Part 1 on either October 5 or 26, and Part 2 on either October 22 or 26.
"The day Attack on Titan fans across North America have been waiting for has finally arrived," FUNimation CEO and founder Gen Fukunaga said. "This is a limited theatrical release so I encourage fans to find their nearest theater and purchase tickets to both movies now. A movie as colossal as Attack on Titan truly takes two parts to tell. Fans do not want to miss this opportunity."