Monthly Archives: March 2016
5 Totally Mundane Things Wonder Woman Does in BvS
Wonder Woman made her live-action feature film debut in this past weekend's Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. And while finally seeing her in costume and in battle on the silver screen was certainly one of the film's highlights (Gal Gadot's Wonder Woman was listed as one of the positives in my 6.8/10 review), there were far more scenes of her alter-ego Diana Prince doing ... really basic day-to-day things.
Here are five examples of totally mundane things the DC superheroine does in her movie debut. (We're just having some fun here so easy on the hate mail!) SOME SPOILERS ahead:
Nintendo Reveals Next New Character For Hyrule Warriors
Nintendo has confirmed Marin from Zelda: Link's Awakening will be available in the upcoming Link's Awakening Pack for Hyrule Warriors.
While the final character design has yet to be unveiled, a tweet from Nintendo of America showcases concept art of fan-favourite Marin.
Just announced! Marin from Link’s Awakening will be available in the 2nd #HyruleWarriorsLegends DLC for #3DS + #WiiU pic.twitter.com/agAoksoeFN
Google’s AI DeepMind Turns its Gaze to Hearthstone
Researchers at Oxford University are setting Google's artificial intelligence DeepMind loose on analyzing Hearthstone and Magic: The Gathering playing cards.
According to Kotaku, the AI analyzes card data such as resource cost and damage, and turns it into code that a machine can read.
Here's the abstract from the paper titled 'Latent Predictor Networks for Code Generation': "Many language generation tasks require the production of text conditioned on both structured and unstructured inputs. We present a novel neural network architecture which generates an output sequence conditioned on an arbitrary number of input functions. Crucially, our approach allows both the choice of conditioning context and the granularity of generation, for example characters or tokens, to be marginalised, thus permitting scalable and effective training.
Nintendo’s Miitomo Has a Release Date
Nintendo mii-centric iOS and Android game Miitomo will launch on March 31.
That’s the news according to the Nintendo UK Twitter account. Although the release date applies to both Europe and the US.
The Nintendo social app has been a big hit in Japan, with the game garnering over 1 million users to date.
What exactly is Miitomo? Well, it’s a kind of social conversation app. What does that look like? Here’s what we said after a recent hands-on:
Deadpool Now the Highest-Grossing R-Rated Film of All Time
Fox's Deadpool has broken more boundaries than just the fourth wall, becoming the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time.
According to Box Office Mojo (as reported by The Guardian), Deadpool has now taken $745m in box office earnings worldwide, surpassing previous long-time record holder, The Matrix Reloaded's $742m.
The film had already broken the record for the biggest R-rated opening weekend, and is now the eighth biggest comic book adaptation in US box office takings.
Valve Guilty of Breaching Australian Consumer Law
A legal case that began back in 2014 has just about come to an end, and Valve has been found guilty of breaching Australian Consumer Law.
In August 2014, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) announced it was suing Valve, saying the company had made false or misleading representations under the Australian Consumer Law with its refunds policy.
At that time, Valve had not yet implemented its refund system, which was introduced in June 2015. The accusations in 2014 said Valve stating its consumers are not entitled refunds "unless required by local law" meant that it had "excluded, restricted or modified statutory guarantees and/or warranties that goods would be of acceptable quality."
Call of Duty 2016 Will Be Set in the Far Future, Say Rumours
Rumours say that this year's installment of Call of Duty, developed by Infinity Ward, will be "full on sci-fi" with space combat - and will not be a sequel to the same developer's Call of Duty: Ghosts.
On NeoGAF, proven industry insider, shinobi602 has said that the new game's future setting "makes Black Ops 3 feel like the stone age". When asked if he meant the game would be in the style of Battlefield 2142, he simply replied: "Very far future. Space Combat. Full on sci-fi."
Five Years After Release, Two Worlds 2 Is Getting Story DLC
November 9, 2010 saw the release of action-RPG, Two Worlds II. 5 years, 4 months and 17 days later, developer Reality Pump Studios announced two new pieces of story DLC, set arrive this year.
Announced via the DLC's new website, Reality Pump announced Call of the Tenebrae and Shattered Embrace, two story updates that will come alongside eight new multiplayer maps.
The game will also add an engine update that will allow for "a much higher level of character and landscape detail, an HD-GUI, in addition to tons of in-game achievements, co-op multiplayer, and lots of new in-game features and upgrades.
The first single-player update, Call of the Tenebrae will release in Q2 of 2016, and involves the game's original Hero fighting off a new enemy race, rat-like humanoids called The Chosen.
Blizzard to Change Overwatch Pose Following Fan Complaints
Blizzard is removing a victory pose for Overwatch character Tracer following fan complaints.
"What about this pose has anything to do with the character you're building in Tracer?" asked fan Fipps in a recent post on Battle.net (via Eurogamer). "It's not fun, it
s not silly, it has nothing to do with being a fast elite killer. It just reduces Tracer to another bland female sex symbol."
"We aren't looking at a widowmaker pose here, this isn't a character who is in part defined by flaunting her sexuality. This pose says to the player base, oh we've got all these cool diverse characters, but at any moment we are willing to reduce them to sex symbols to help boost our investment game."
The Pokémon Go Japanese Field Test Has Begun
The field test for mobile AR game, Pokémon Go has now started in Japan.
According to a roughly-translated Google Plus update from developer, Niantic Labs, potential users will be invited by email, with more invites sent over the course of the coming days.
Earlier this month, Niantic said that once the field test was live in Japan, it "will expand to other countries in the weeks to come."
Pokémon Go is a mobile AR game that has players travelling to real-life locations to capture Pokémon revealed on their phone. The field test is a beta period, prior to the game's full release on an unspecified date later this year,