Monthly Archives: November 2015
Skullgirls Dev Lab Zero Adding Indie Guests to Indivisible
Skullgirls developer Lab Zero Games has revealed its new 2D action role-playing game Indivisible will feature guest characters from other indie games.
According to Polygon, Lab Zero said Indivisible will have more than 25 playable Incarnations—characters the game’s protagonist Ajna can fuse with or fight alongside with—to include Annie from Skullgirls, Shovel Knight, and Zackasaurus from Super Time Force Ultra to name a few.
Lab Zero CEO Peter Bartholow also said “each character’s abilities and personalities” will be adapted into Indivisible’s combat system and they hope to add more guest characters later.
Hearthstone’s Co-op Tavern Brawl Challenge
Hearthstone's Tavern Brawl mode, which presents a new competitive challenge to players each week, will play host to something a little different this week.
In Unite Against Mechazod, players actually team up to defeat Gearmaster Mechazod, a 2 attack, 95 health minion. How does it work? He sits on the board like any other minion, and players must work together to defeat him. Each player is given a pre-built deck, and if one player dies it's game over.
A teaser of how this week's Brawl will look.
PS4 Users Can Purchase Avatars Soon
Beginning next week, PlayStation 4 owners will be able to purchase avatars from their consoles.
The official PlayStation Twitter account sent out a tweet saying PS4 users can purchase avatars now, but no options are available on the console or the PS Store website. A PlayStation representative confirmed the tweet was in error and the PS4 avatar update will hit next week.
Update! PS4 users can now purchase avatars through PlayStation Store. Previously purchased PS3 avatars will transfer over in the coming days
Rumor: Slave Leia Bikini Merch Being Retired
It appears Disney is phasing out Star Wars’ Slave Leia bikini merchandise and marketing.
The costume, which Princess Leia actress Carrie Fisher wore in Star Wars: Episode VIII - Return of the Jedi, has been a mainstay in merchandise and cosplay for many years.
Making Star Wars ran a story about how a reader tipped the site off to a Facebook conversation with Star Wars comic book artist J. Scott Campbell about Disney “wiping out” the Slave Leia outfit.
We Talk Ash vs Evil Dead, Gotham and Supergirl
Hey guys, on this week's Channel Surfing, after chatting about this year's Halloween, we discuss, among other topics:
-Supergirl's premiere ratings-When Person of Interest should grab a new viewer and how it changes from Season 1
-If Gotham: Season 2 has shown improvements
-New shows that have been given full-season orders (and a few that are clearly on their way out)
-Ash vs. Evil Dead
Channel Surfing Podcast Episode 254
Key and Peele Team With Nightmare Before Christmas Director
The Nightmare Before Christmas and Coraline director Henry Selick is working with Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key to produce a new stop-motion film called Wendell and Wild.
The animated feature is based on one of Selick's original works, which, the director tells Variety, "is a comedy about two scheming demon brothers who must face their arch-nemesis, the demon-dusting nun Sister Helly, and her two acolytes, the goth teens Kat and Raoul."
Fox Theme Park Includes Simpsons, Aliens and Predator
Fox has licensed a branded theme park to be built in Dubai, called 20th Century Fox World.
Planned attractions include ones themed after Planet of the Apes, Aliens, Predator, The Simpsons, Titanic, and Sons of Anarchy, alongside more kid-friendly inclusions like Ice Age, Rio, and Night at the Museum. The announcement promises that the rides will tell "new stories based on Fox film and television."
Naturally, the theme park will also feature shops, restaurants, and the first themed resort hotel centered on Fox properties.
It's set to open in 2018. This will be the second Fox theme park to open, as one is under construction in Malaysia. The deal with Al Ahli Holding Group also allows for up to three more Fox resorts in areas outside Dubai.
Sennheiser’s Orpheus Headphones Return With a $50,000 Price Tag
Sennheiser's Orpheus HE90 headphones were once called "the best headphones in the world," but the German company has finally created a successor to the name after 25 years. They will cost $50,000, however.
The new Orpheus headphones posed something of a challenge to Sennheiser's engineers, and it took them nearly a decade to modernize and perfect the hardware's electrostatic design. The end result is a pair of headphones made up of over 6,000 components all carefully selected to provide the best audio experience possible - from the tube and transistor amplifiers, to the spring-loaded, marble housing that prevents any noise caused by the headphones themselves.
10 Things You Forgot About Pokemon’s First Episode
Eighteen years, 18 seasons and 721 Pokemon later, it's an understatement to say that the Pokemon anime series has come a long way since its premiere in 1997 in Japan (1998 in the United States). But every story needs to start somewhere, even if the tale evolves along the way, and for Pokemon it started with "I Choose You!"
Despite watching and rewatching the adventures of Ash Ketchum and his best pal Pikachu over the years, there probably are a few elements of that first episode that aren't quite what you remember. Here's a trip down Nostalgia Lane to highlight the 10 moments you might have forgotten about, listed in the order they appear in the episode.
Everyone remembers Ash was just a kid when he started his Pokemon Trainer journey, but did you remember that he was only 10 years old? No wonder his mom was a bit nervous about sending him out solo -- especially since his primary Pokemon had a tendency to electrocute everyone in sight. If she'd known that he'd become the target of a criminal organization and nearly die multiple times, maybe she would have kept him at home for a few more years.
Jailbreak For Apple’s iOS 9 Worth $1 Million
A team of hackers has successfully cracked Apple's iOS 9, claiming a $1 million USD prize as a result. The prize was offered by security company Zerodium, with the announcement of the jailbreak made by the company on its Twitter account.
To qualify for the prize, the remote, untethered jailbreak of the device needed to" lead to and allow a remote, privileged, and persistent installation" of an arbitrary app on a fully updated iOS 9 device, according to the terms of the bounty on the Zerodium website.
The attack needed to be executed via webpage or SMS/MMS and needed to be a full jailbreak to qualify for the reward. Only one team made it before the October 31 deadline, but Zerodium founder Chaouki Bekrar told Wired another team made a partial jailbreak and "may qualify for a partial bounty."