Monthly Archives: March 2016
Capcom’s Having a Huge Resident Evil Sale
To celebrate 20 years of Resident Evil, Capcom is having a big ol’ sale.
Prices vary from platform-to-platform, and there’s some big savings if you’re picking up stuff from last-gen. Nevertheless, here’s everything that’s being discounted.
- Resident Evil Revelations 2 Episode One
- Resident Evil Revelations 2 Deluxe Edition
- Resident Evil Revelations 2 Costume Pack
- Resident Evil Revelations
- Resident Evil Revelations Complete Pack
- Resident Evil Operation Raccoon City
Driveclub Team Looking to Stay Together After Studio Closure
Following Evolution Studios' closure, tweets from game director Paul Rustchynsky and senior community manager Jamie Brayshaw suggest that the team behind Driveclub are looking to continue working together.
As reported by VideoGamer, Driveclub team members are responding to fans with messages of positivity for the future:
@HarryBarnes We're hoping to stay together and do something awesome. We're figuring it all out atm.
The Tick: Guardians of the Galaxy Actor Peter Serafinowicz Cast in Title Role
Deadline reports that Shaun of the Dead actor and voice of Darth Maul, Peter Serafinowicz, has been cast as The Tick in the upcoming Amazon reboot of the superhero spoof.
After it was announced that the original cast of the cult 2001 live-action show would not be returning for the upcoming pilot, there have been questions about the title role. Serafinowicz created UK comedy series Look Around You and appeared as a Nova Corps officer in Guardians of the Galaxy (you know, the "A-holes" guy), and looks to be donning the big blue suit.
Marvel’s Most Wanted Showrunner Breaks Down Big SHIELD Moment
Full spoilers for Marvel's Agents of SHIELD continue below.
It's time to say goodbye to Bobbi Morse (Adrianne Palicki) and Lance Hunter (Nick Blood) -- but hopefully not for long. The two Agents of SHIELD stars had their farewell episode in "Parting Shot," and in doing so set up their in-development spinoff series, Marvel's Most Wanted.
ABC ordered the show to pilot earlier this year, and Palicki and Blood have since shot it with showrunners Jeff Bell and Paul Zbyszewski, both of whom are also producers on Agents of SHIELD. They're still putting the finishing touches on the pilot before sending it off to the network to see if it will be picked up to series, and Bell got on the phone to talk about the Mockingbird and Hunter goodbye and what is potentially to come on the new show.
Nintendo Denies Wii U Production Set to End Soon
Nintendo has denied reports that Wii U production is due to cease this year, confirming that production of the console will continue “into the next term and beyond.”
Earlier today a Nikkei report claimed Nintendo would stop manufacturing the Wii U by the end of 2016. Speaking to Famitsu Nintendo has refuted the report and has asserted no such announcement has been made by the company.
Civil War: Captain America and Bucky’s Love Story
Captain America: Civil War is a love story, among other things, according to director Joe Russo.
Steve Rodgers and Bucky Barnes are at the heart of what Russo explicitly called a love story, though he's certainly talking about a fraternal one. "These are two guys who grew up together, and so they have that same emotional connection to each other as brothers would, and even more so because Bucky was all Steve had growing up," he told Empire.
As the Russo brothers have discussed before, the film's characters are "emotionally invested in the storytelling," with Rodgers and Barnes relationship framing the plot.
NASA Catches the Flash of an Exploding Star for the First Time
Spotting the initial flash of an exploding supernova is extremely rare, to the point that NASA has only just managed to do it for the first time.
Known as a "shock breakout," NASA used the Kepler space telescope to capture and analyze the light of 500 distant galaxies every 30 minutes for 3 years. The international team behind the discovery observed two red supergiants in an attempt to catch the beginnings of a supernova. The first, KSN 2011a, which is 300 times the size of our sun, didn't present the desired shock breakout, while KSN 2011d, a supergiant about 500 times larger that the sun, did.
New to Netflix for April 2016
Netflix in April means more original shows (Kimmy Schmidt returns, The Ranch debuts, AJIN marks the streaming giant's first original anime, etc) along with a nice assortment of movie offerings. A better list than some of the more recent months, which have felt a bit slim following the uptick in original programming.
There are two classic Kubrick films, The Princess Bride, Scrooged, V for Vendetta, Boogie Nights, a new Patton Oswalt special, and more. Plus, on the TV front, Bob's Burgers, How to Get Away with Murder, Girl Meets World, and Lost Girl.
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Biggest GoT Action Sequence Ever Coming in S6
Just when you thought a battle couldn't get more epic than Hardhome in Game of Thrones, writer-producer Bryan Cogman is promising something even bigger in Season 6.
Speaking with EW, Cogman teased "the biggest
" for Game of Thrones in the upcoming season. “We’ve always wanted to get to a place — story-wise and budget-wise and time-wise and resource-wise — where we would be able to do a proper battle, with one army on one side, one army on another side."
While Cogman couldn't delve into specifics of the clash, he did reveal that Hardhome director Miguel Sapochnik is returning to helm the battle-heavy episode. In fact, principal photography for the epic confrontation took roughly a month.
Fallout 4 Survival Mode Now in Beta on PC
UPDATE: Bethesda confirmed today that the overhauled Survival Mode is now on beta on PC and will come to consoles next month. Survival adds "additional challenges including no fast travel, saving only when you sleep, increased lethality, diseases, fatigue, danger and more."
Original story follows:
Fallout 4's overhauled Survival mode will enter Steam beta on PC "soon," according to Bethesda. Although no other specifics were given, we've reached out for an official date and will update if we hear anything back.
Bethesda provided the release window on Twitter in response to a fan.