Monthly Archives: January 2016
Player Recreates Fallout 3’s Tenpenny Tower in Fallout 4
Tenpenny Tower's true location may be in the Capital Wasteland, but one player thought it'd look good with a Fallout 4 skin.
Using the game's settlement tools, Reddit user kadno created their own version of the popular tower and posted an album to Imgur, which features shot-for-shot comparisons with the Fallout 3 original. You can check out a few of the pictures below, or visit the link above to view more.
As you can see, this version is a bit more rustic looking. Maybe that's why kadno calls their creation NoPenny Tower instead.
First Wonder Woman Footage Has Landed
The first footage from Patty Jenkins' upcoming Wonder Woman movie debuted this evening during the CW's DC Films Presents: Dawn of the Justice League special.
The short behind-the-scenes sizzle reel gives us some insight on the character from Jenkins and stars Gal Gadot and Chris Pine, interwoven with footage from the film. Check it out below.
Wonder Woman lands in theaters June 23, 2017. DC also dropped the latest trailer for its villain-centric movie Suicide Squad today, which you can check out here.
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Project CARS Gets a Free V8 Supercar Next Week
The January DLC for Project CARS has been revealed and includes a free 2013 Ford Falcon FG V8 Supercar for all players, plus a pack of premium DLC produced in partnership with auto enthusiast site Stance|Works.
The Stance|Works X Project CARS DLC car pack includes a pair of bespoke BMWs – the iconic 2002 and its modern equivalent, the 2011 BMW 1M – rebuilt from the ground up to represent vehicles the Stance|Works team would build themselves “given the time, money, and opportunity.”
Also included will be Kiwi pro drift driver “Mad” Mike Whiddett’s RADBUL Formula Drift Miata and the KTM X-Bow R.
The content will be available on January 26.
Marvel Makes Steve Rogers Captain America Once More
Steve Rogers will return as Captain America in Marvel Comics, though it won't mean the end of Sam Wilson's reign.
The ABC special "Marvel's Captain America: 75 Heroic Years" dropped the news, outing the name of the new series as "Captain America: Steve Rogers". The rejuvenated Rogers will be penned by Captain America: Sam Wilson writer Nick Spencer, with art by Jesus Saiz.
If you haven't been keeping up with comics Steve recently passed the famous mantle (and its accompanying shield) to long-time comrade Sam Wilson. Rogers, having meanwhile lost his powers and cryogenically preserved youth, took on a supporting role with The Avengers and SHIELD.
Bid on Luke Skywalker’s Blaster for $200,000
You can now bid on Luke Skywalker's DL-44 Blaster from The Empire Strikes Back for a minimum price of USD$200,000.
According to the item's auction page, "The iconic gun is the same model used by Han Solo, a design based on the German issue Mauser C96 pistol and custom made by casting the original prop used in the first Star Wars." The blaster "retains its original flash suppressor and scope," but doesn't fire and never did (as the listing was used in Empire for non-firing scenes).
Check out the prop and a scene it appeared in below:
Jet Li Joins Vin Diesel in xXx 3
Hong Kong martial arts movie superstar Jet Li has been cast in xXx 3.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Li will star as Raif and lead a team of his own. He will fight Vin Diesel’s Xander Cage in the film.
Little is known about the plot at this time so it is unclear if Li is the movie’s primary antagonist.
Jet Li as seen in Lethal Weapon 4
Luke Cage: Rosario Dawson Plays a ‘Very Significant’ Role
Rosario Dawson's character Claire Temple is an important part of the connective tissue that that ties Marvel's Netflix shows together. The nurse with a soft spot for superheroes is going to be playing a role on the upcoming series Marvel's Luke Cage, and star Mike Colter previewed what to expect from her character.
"I love Rosario, we get along great," he said. "I love working with her, so hopefully we'll see more of her and we'll see some interesting twists and turns with her character."
Full spoilers for Jessica Jones: Season 1 continue below.
New Ghostbusters Expansion Available for LEGO Dimensions
The third wave of LEGO Dimensions add-ons is available now in North America and Australia (coming January 22 in the UK, February 3 in NZ).
There are five new packs, including a Ghostbusters Level Pack (featuring a Peter Venkman minifigure and a mission based level pitting the Ghostbusters against Gozer in a fight for NY), a DC Comics pack featuring The Joker and Harley Quinn minifigures, a Doctor Who pack featuring a Cyberman minifigure and rebuildable Dalek, a Back to the Future pack that includes Doc Brown, and a LEGO Ninjago pack with Sensei Wu.
The trailer for the Ghostbusters Level Pack, "A Spook Central Adventure!" is below.
LEGO’s stab at the growing toys-to-life genre was released in September last year. Check out IGN’s review here, and head to IGN’s LEGO Dimensions wiki for a full round-up of all the content available for the game to date.
Apple Offers Temporary Solution for iPhone 6s Battery Percentage Bug
iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus users that have dealt with the battery percentage bug will be happy to know that Apple's currently working on a fix for it.
On it's support page that was updated last week, Apple acknowledges the problem's existence and reassures those affected, saying it's "investigating the cause and a solution." A temporary solution involves restarting the phone, then heading to Settings > General > Date & Time and turning on the "Set Automatically" setting.
The battery percentage bug occurs when someone manually changes the time on their phone or they change time zones while traveling. The battery's percentage will not update, resulting in people being unaware of how much battery life they have left. If you run into the issue again, but haven't change the time or time zone, you're encouraged to contact Apple Support.
Legends of Tomorrow Won’t Return its Flash/Arrow Characters Any Time Soon
DC's Legends of Tomorrow is plucking a lot of familiar Arrow and The Flash characters from their respective TV shows, and it doesn't plan to return them anytime soon.
Both The Flash and Arrow set up in the first half of this year's seasons why Sara Lance (Caity Lotz), Leonard Snart (Wentworth Miller), Ray Palmer (Brandon Routh), Martin Stein (Victor Garber), Mick Rory (Dominic Purcell) Kendra Saunders (Ciara Renee) and Jax Jackson (Franz Drameh) are all willing to go off on the world-saving adventure that Rip Hunter (Arthur Darvill) pitches them in Legends of Tomorrow. Even though those characters will have experiences that tie back into Arrow and The Flash, they won't be checking back into those shows' timelines.