Monthly Archives: June 2016
Halo Wars 2 Beta Extended
The Halo Wars 2 multiplayer beta on Xbox One has been extended through June 22.
Originally scheduled to end June 20, the open beta was extended by two days due to high demand, according to a post by 343 Industries’ Dan Ayoub on Twitter.
Following a premature reveal on the Xbox Store, Microsoft announced the beta earlier this week during its E3 press conference.
Orange is the New Black: Season 4 Spoiler Discussion
Welcome to the full-spoiler discussion page for Season 4 of Netflix's Orange is the New Black. This is for those who've watched all 13 episodes of the fourth season and want to read my thoughts about plot specifics or comment down below about the finale or any other spoiler-ific aspect of the show. For my overall, non-spoilery thoughts, click here to read the Orange is the New Black: Season 4 review.
I feel like I should have seen tragedy coming Poussey's way since her love story with Soso this season seemed to spell out doom. It's just the way TV works. We know this. Likewise, I suppose, something awful could have happened to Soso. I think I just didn't see Poussey's enormously sad death coming because she seemed to dodge a bullet back in Season 2 with the Big Vee storyline. But, because this show plays things against the grain, she didn't fall when it was expected. She fell when, essentially, the rug could get painfully pulled out from under us.
No Man’s Sky Developer Settles Lawsuit With Sky TV
After a legal dispute with Sky TV, No Man's Sky developer Hello Games has secured the rights to include the word 'Sky' in the title of its ambitious space exploration game.
Studio founder Sean Murray shared the news in a post on Twitter, saying, "Yay! We finally settled with Sky (they own the word 'Sky'). We can call our game No Man's Sky. 3 years of secret stupid legal nonsense over."
In a subsequent post, Murray noted the dispute was with "the same folks who made Microsoft change Skydrive to Onedrive... so it was pretty serious." Back in 2013, the British Sky Broadcasting Group entered in a trademark dispute with Microsoft, forcing the company to rebrand its cloud storage service.
The Saint Reboot Moving Forward at Paramount
The Saint is getting a film reboot, as Paramount has secured the book series rights with the intention of launching another action-packed movie franchise.
According to Deadline, producing deals are nearing completion, with Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Brad Krevoy and Robert Evans likely to spearhead the project.
Val Kilmer in the original 1997 film.
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children Posters
20th Century Fox has released an assortment of character posters for Tim Burton’s upcoming film Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.
Check out the gallery below to see Eva Green's Miss Peregrine, Asa Butterfield as Jake, Samuel L. Jackson's Barron and many more.
Images courtesy of the movie's official Twitter account.
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is directed by Tim Burton and opens in theaters on September 30, 2016. The film is based on Ransom Riggs' best-selling novel of the same name and tells the story of sixteen-year-old boy named Jacob (Butterfield) who discovers the remnants of a unusual home after traveling to a mysterious island.
Beyond Good and Evil 2 Still Happening, Ubisoft CEO Says
Beyond Good & Evil 2 is in development, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot confirmed during a Youtube Live interview at E3.
"It's still on the way," Guillemot said. "It's something at one point you will see, yes." However, it sounds like the Beyond Good & Evil sequel will take a while.
"Michel
is working on it, but he's doing two games at the same time, he's doing Wild at the same time. It's coming along, but he has to spend more time on it so we can see it faster," he added.
In April, Ubisoft filed a new trademark for the franchise, sparking rumors a new game was on the way. The filing came a month after it was reported Nintendo could fund the Beyond Good & Evil sequel for an exclusive release on Nintendo NX. Neither Nintendo nor Ubisoft confirmed these rumors.
The Legend of Zelda E3 Demo Contains Coded Messages
It looks like Nintendo embedded secret messages into The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild footage from E3.
Zelda fans have already created a translation key for the written language seen throughout Breath of the Wild. They haven't figured out every letter just yet—but they're well on their way.
Image via the Zelda wiki
NeoGAF user RagnarokX mentioned it all began when Nintendo released a teaser image with Hylian text. Another GAFer "noticed a pattern," and figured out the text read THELEGENDOFZELDA. It was enough letters to begin translating the Hylian found in Breadth of the Wild's E3 footage.
CW Fall Premiere Dates for The Flash, Supergirl and More
The CW released its schedule for its 2016 fall premieres, with The Flash kicking things off on Tuesday, October 4 at 8 pm.
Arrow will premiere on Wednesday, October 5 at 8 pm. Super girl -- which is switching from CBS to The CW -- will debut on its new network on Monday, October 10 at 8 pm. The last DC Comics show in the fall lineup, Legends of Tomorrow, follows on Thursday, October 13 at 8 pm. Supernatural also premieres on Thursday, immediately following Legends of Tomorrow.
Here's the full schedule:
Tuesday, October 4
8 pm — The Flash
Is LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures Canon?
Recently, IGN attended a press event for Disney XD's new animated series, LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures, where we got to see the premiere episode and chat with showrunners Bill Motz and Bob Roth, as well as voice stars Nicolas Cantu ("Rowan Freemaker"), Vanessa Lengies ("Kordi Freemaker"), Eugene Byrd ("Zander Freemaker") and Matthew Wood ("R0-GR, aka Roger").
Set in between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, the series follows the Freemakers, a family of sibling scavengers, along with their butler droid "Roger," who run their own shop and scour the galaxy for useful debris they can use to build new ships. But when the trio's youngest sibling Rowan discovers part of the ancient Kyber Saber -- the first lightsaber ever made -- the group becomes a lucrative target for Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader. From there, it's up to the Freemakers to find the rest of the Kyber crystals that make up the weapon before the Sith can get their hands on it.
Pixar Director on Diving Back in with Dory
Andrew Stanton is responsible for some of Pixar’s best loved and most successful movies. He co-wrote all three Toy Story films and is working on the fourth, and also co-wrote and directed or co-directed Finding Nemo, Wall-E and A Bug’s Life.
13 years after Finding Nemo hit theaters and made $936 million at the worldwide box office, he is back underwater as the writer and director of the sequel, Finding Dory. I caught up with Stanton to talk about how Finding Nemo almost gave him a nervous breakdown, how he secured his wish list cast and working on Toy Story 4.
Read on for my chat with Stanton, and then go to page two for my discussion with Finding Dory co-star Kaitlin Olson.