Monthly Archives: October 2016
Daily Deals: Battlefield 1, DualShock 4 Controllers, Logitech Wireless Headset
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Our verdict is in on the latest sequel in the Battlefield series, and friends, the outlook's looking good. As Chloi says in our review, "Battlefield 1 does an amazing job of transplanting the fantastic chemistry of the series’ traditional multiplayer action into the weaponry and vehicles of World War I."
Arrow: Is Vigilante Secretly Prometheus?
Arrow recently added another major player to the Season 5 lineup with the debut of Adrian Chase (played by Josh Segarra), a character who will have increased importance on the show.
For now, Chase is simply Star City's new District Attorney, but it's only a matter of time until the show begins exploring his nightly exploits as the costumed hero Vigilante. As both DA and Vigilante, Chase looks to be a valuable ally in Oliver Queen's never-ending crusade to save his city. But is that really the case? We think that not only is Chase more foe than friend to Team Arrow, but he may even be the man underneath Prometheus' hood. Here's our theory about how the two characters are one and the same.
In Tyranny, Fallout: New Vegas Devs Go Old-School
Fans of RPGs are always looking for games where choices really matter. For years, Obsidian has been at forefront of experimenting with player choice, with ambitious projects like Alpha Protocol and Fallout: New Vegas both filled with fascinating ideas but rushed execution. With Tyranny, Obsidian is going all-in on player choice.
Two things make Tyranny super well-suited for this kind of role-playing: 1) it’s based on the Pillars of Eternity engine, and 2) you play as a villain. The Pillars engine was an intentional throwback to 1990s RPGs like Baldur’s Gate, and it gives Tyranny a couple advantages. First, it’s built around text. Tyranny is a video game for people who like to read, and the potential amount of text gives the game’s writers and designers the space to add in-depth options, like spending an hour exhausting every single option in a party member’s dialogue.
Black Sails: Giving Flint a Worthy Adversary
Black Sails: Season 3 arrives on Blu-ray next month and IGN's premiering an exclusive new clip from the bonus material - all about Nassau's adversary, Woodes Rogers.
Check out some of the material below as Luke Roberts' complex pirate hunter, Woodes, is described as a "strange mirror image of Flint" by star Toby Stephens. Watch as the "civilized" Woodes wrestles with the monster within...
Black Sails: The Complete Third Season arrives on Blu-ray + Digital HD with Ultraviolet and DVD from Anchor Bay Entertainment on November 8th, 2016.
Walking Dead Premiere Draws 17 Million Viewers
AMC's The Walking Dead reached 17 million viewers during its October 23 premiere, taking the top spot for broadcast and cable programming.
The Walking Dead beat out Sunday Night Football, Empire, and its own Season 6 premiere, according to Deadline. The Season 7 premiere, "The Day Will Come When You Won't Be," just missed record-breaking numbers currently held by the Season 5 premiere from 2014.
Season 5's opener reached 17.3 million total viewers, with 11 million of those in the 18-49 age demographic. That's a two percent decline in total viewers and a 10 percent dip in the 18-49 age demographic. Compared to the Season 6 premiere, though, Season 7 was up 16 percent. From the Season 6 finale, Sunday's premiere was up 20 percent in total.
Comic Writer Reflects on the Fate of Red Robin
DC's revamped Detective Comics series has been at the forefront of their new rebirth lineup this year. So far, writer James Tynion has introduced a new team of costumed heroes led by Batman and Batwoman, severely complicated the relationship between Kate Kane and her estranged father, and delivered what might be the most emotionally devastating issue of the DC Rebirth era so far. Not bad for an opening story arc.
Warning: this article contains spoilers for recent issues of Detective Comics!
Tynion is now kicking off his second major arc in Detective Comics #943 this week. "The Victim Syndicate" introduces a group of villains with very personal grievances against the Batman family. We recently had a chance to chat with Tynion at length about the new arc and the general future of Detective Comics. Check out our exclusive preview of issue #943 below, and then read on to find out how Batman's team is dealing with the loss of Red Robin Tim Drake, why the Victim Syndicate are out for revenge, and what's in store for Batwoman as she prepares to fly solo once more.
Cumberbatch Plays 2 Marvel Characters in Doctor Strange
Spoilers!
No, seriously, this story contains lots of spoilers for Marvel's Doctor Strange, which came out in UK theatres today.
Doctor Strange features a secondary villain, the Dread Dormammu, who is summoned by Mads Mikkelsen's Kaecilius. Dormammu plays a significant part in the film's final act, yet no actor is listed as playing the role in the closing credits.
When IGN asked the movie's director Scott Derrickson who played Dormammu, he confirmed that Benedict Cumberbatch, in part, brought the iconic Marvel villain to life.
"The voice was a British actor whose name I don't know, and Benedict – Benedict did the facial capture for it," revealed Derrickson.
Netflix’s Gilmore Girls Revival Gets a Full Trailer
With Netflix's revival of Gilmore Girls a month away, the streaming service has released a full trailer for the new series, Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life.
Comprised of four, 90-minute movie-style episodes (each set in a different season), A Year in the Life features returning stars Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel reuniting with series creator Amy Sherman-Palladino, and nearly all notable supporting and recurring cast members back as well, including Scott Patterson, Melissa McCarthy, Milo Ventimiglia and Jared Padalecki.
Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life debuts November 25th on Netflix.
Fast and Furious Director Making New Knight Rider Series
NBC's 1982 television show Knight Rider is being rebooted as a digital series, and Fast and the Furious director Justin Lin is on board to produce alongside Machinima.
The series is being created in a partnership between Machinima, NBCUniversal Brand Development, YOMYOMF and Lin. The reboot is now in development and targeting a potential release sometime next year.
"Knight Rider is an iconic franchise whose concepts of AI and autonomous vehicles were science fiction in the 1980s and are now science fact," Machinima CEO Chad Gutstein said in a statement. "Justin is one of the leading storytellers of his generation and we couldn’t be more excited to work with him on re-invigorating Knight Rider for a new generation of fans."
Alternate Walking Dead Season 7 Premiere Death Leaks
Back in June, it was rumored that AMC filmed multiple variations of The Walking Dead's Season 7 premiere death.
It was reported that all cast members involved had filmed their a death scene, one of which has now leaked.
Spoilers: You won't want to read ahead if you haven't seen the episode.
In the clip, which you can watch below, it's Maggie that gets the bat—but before that, Glenn has an outburst and gets smacked, too, though not by Lucille. As for the actual outcome, it's still horrifying and brutal.