Monthly Archives: November 2015
Xbox One’s Free Fallout 3 Promotion has an Expiration Date
If you're yet to cash in your cheque and claim the free copy of Fallout 3 that comes when pre-ordering the latest installment in the franchise on Xbox One, you may want to get your skates on.
During this year's E3, Bethesda's Todd Howard announced copies of Fallout 4 on Xbox One would include Fallout 3 - it was later revealed this would be a pre-order bonus.
Now, Gamespot has noticed that Fallout 4’s store page on Xbox One reveals the deal expires on February 8, 2016. While it's unlikely to affect many of you, best to redeem your code sooner rather than later so you don't forget.
With Alien 5 on Back Burner, Blomkamp Circles Time-Travel Movie
Director Neill Blomkamp doesn't seem to be letting the news Alien 5 is on hold affect him, as he's reportedly already being wooed for another project.
Deadline reports Fox has acquired the rights to The Gone World, the next sci-fi novel by Thomas Sweterlitsch, and is in negotiations with Blomkamp to script and direct it. Though the book isn't published yet, it's apparently all about time travel.
Blomkamp shot to prominence thanks to his debut feature District 9, which picked up an impressive five Oscar nominations. This was followed by Elysium and Chappie.
Kurt Russell Gives Big Trouble Remake His Blessing
Kurt Russell has been talking about the Big Trouble in Little China reboot, stating he doesn’t think the 1986 action flick is sacred, and that he hopes any remake is better than the original.
A new film is being developed with Dwayne Johnson potentially starring, and Russell says he has no problem with someone else having a crack at the title.
“I don’t think anything’s sacred,” he explained. “I know why we did a remake of The Thing with John Carpenter. John wanted to do a movie that was called The Thing, but it was really from the short story Who Goes There? I thought that was exciting – it was a movie about paranoia. I liked that – it was quite different from the movie that was made in 1951 so ours was quite different.
New Fast & Furious Pack for Forza Horizon 2
There’s a new salvo of DLC available for Forza Horizon 2 today, although it comes in the form of an existing pack of downloadable cars for Forza Motorsport 6.
This Fast & Furious themed pack for Forza Horizon 2 contains 10 cars made famous by the film franchise, including the off road modified 1968 Dodge Charger from Furious 7, the 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona and 1970 Ford Escort RS1600 from Fast & Furious 6, the Terradyne Gurkha Light Armored Personnel Vehicle and 1963 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport C2 from Fast Five, the 2002 Nissan Fairlady Z from The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, the 1999 Nissan Skyline GT-R and 2001 Honda S2000 from 2 Fast 2 Furious, and the 1995 Mitsubishi Eclipse GS and 1995 Toyota Supra RZ from the original The Fast and the Furious.
Black Ops 3 Design Director Talks Fan Feedback (and Nickelback)
“Did you just compare us to Nickelback?” laughs David Vonderhaar, studio design director at Treyarch. I’m chatting to Vonderhaar in Activision’s Sydney office about Call of Duty: Black Ops III and my Nickelback question hits the room like a sharp, misjudged fart. I am, after all, likening a series he’s been a part of for over a decade to a band Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney once singled out as the precise reason rock ’n roll is dying.
While it seems clear to me that neither of us are Nickelback fans, Vonderhaar hears me out. Strangely enough Nickelback and Call of Duty are bizarrely alike. Both attract tsunamis of criticism and hostility, and yet both remain massively popular by any measure. It has to be a weird pill to swallow for both parties. I ask Vonderhaar if this is a hard thing to reconcile.
Check out IGN’s New Star Wars Hub
With Star Wars: The Force Awakens a mere 37 days, 7 hours, and 38 minutes away (but who's counting?), we have been covering everything related to the beloved franchise, from the games to the comics to the toys. With so much Star Wars content, trying to find it all can be like navigating an asteroid field, so to help you out with those 3,720 to 1 odds (thanks, C-3PO) we've launched a hub where you can satisfy all of your Star Wars needs in one place.
The 20 Greatest Sci-Fi Video Game Worlds
For decades video games have offered fantastic escapes into detailed and memorable sci-fi worlds. But which stand out in our memories? Which sci-fi universes have we enjoyed poring over the most? Below we've compiled 20 of our favorite sci-fi gaming worlds.
All the worlds we selected had to exhibit three qualities:
- Originality - Does the world present at least one fresh idea or concept we haven't seen tackled in fiction dozens of times before?
- Plausibility - The world can be a silly or outlandish place, but does it at least include some foundation in reality we can recognize?
- Consistency - Does the game play by the rules it sets for itself? Is it internally consistent and logical?
New Photos From The X-Files’ Return
With The X-Files back on TV in just two months, FOX have released a trio of new images for the series. Check out the gallery below to see David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson back as Mulder and Scully, along with the returning Mitch Pileggi ("Skinner") and William B. Davis ("The Cigarette Smoking Man")
The X-Files returns on Sunday, January 24th on FOX, followed by another new episode in the show's regular Monday night timeslot on January 25th.
Steam Machine Release Prompts Mid-Week Steam Sale
The first Steam Machines went on sale today - and to celebrate, Steam is having an impromptu sale on many of its games for the platform.
The Steam Machine launch sale takes up to 80% off games that you can play on your new Steam machine. Dozens of games have been discounted, but notable titles include Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor for $17 USD, Alien: Isolation for $25, and XCOM: Enemy Unknown for just $7.50.
You can view the whole list of discounted Steam Machine games on Steam. Which of these will you be picking up for your new Steam Machine?
FOX Winter Schedule: Gotham Taking 3 Month Break, More
FOX announced today a big reshuffling of its primetime schedule as the network heads into winter.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine is moving away from "Animation Domination" Sundays and over to live-action comedy Tuesdays to join New Girl and new shows The Grinder and Grandfathered. American Idol kicks off its final season with a two-night event on January 6th and 7th. New shows Second Chance (formerly Lookinglass, formerly The Frankenstein Code) and Lucifer debut on January 13th and January 25th, respectively. And Gotham takes a three month break, with its midseason finale happening at the end of November and the midseason premiere airing on February 29th (a similar break seems to be in store for Empire as well).