Monthly Archives: December 2016
Star Wars Battlefront is Heading to EA Access
Star Wars Battlefront will be available free of charge to EA Access and Origin Access members from December 13.
EA confirmed that the full base game will be "joining The Vault" on Twitter, but those wishing to play Star Wars Battlefront's DLC - say, the new Rogue One-themed expansion - will have to purchase it separately.
In a startling coincidence, the game's season pass is currently on sale for £24.99 on Xbox One - or £22.99 for Access members, who swipe an extra 10 percent discount on all Xbox One Digital Purchases. It includes the full arsenal of Battlefront's expansion packs.
Final Fantasy XV Aiming to Add Custom Character Creation
Final Fantasy XV director, Hajime Tabata has revealed the short-, mid- and long-term plans for updating the new action-RPG.
Alongside the game's six pieces of paid DLC, Tabata used a blog post to explain that the game will receive free updates throughout the next year, including both tweaks to existing content and brand new material.
Most ambitiously, Tabata announces that his team is looking into making "certain key characters playable" (presumably above and beyond the three other main party members, who will each become playable in their respective DLC packs), as well as "considering the possibility of customizable avatars".
Where Agents of SHIELD Is Going With its Next Arc
Season 4's fall finale of Agents of SHIELD, “The Laws of Inferno Dynamics,” concluded with a surprise ending that sets up the show’s next major arc.
IGN visited the set of Agents of SHIELD along with a group of press and spoke with executive producers Jeff Bell and Jed Whedon about what to expect when the series returns in January.
Also, make sure to check out our review of "The Laws of Inferno Dynamics."
Warning: this article contains full spoilers for tonight’s episode!
Attack on Titan Season 2 Is Coming in April
After a long wait, we finally have confirmation that Attack on Titan season 2 will premiere in April 2017.
Animenewsnetwork reports that the wraparound jacket band on the 21st volume of the Attack on Titan manga reveals the news. While we've known to look out for a Spring 2017 release date since July, this is final confirmation of a season that's suffered from delays - it's been a whopping two years since season 2 was announced, and three years since the finale of season 1 aired in Japan.
Mad Max 2: Why We Love The Road Warrior
Some movies you just love, and one of those movies for me is The Road Warrior. Also known as Mad Max 2, the second film in director George Miller’s iconic post-apocalyptic series received a special 35th anniversary screening this past weekend at the brand new Alamo Drafthouse* in Brooklyn. Co-presented by sci-fi convention Wintercon, the event also featured a Q&A with cast members that, for fans, when combined with seeing the film on the big screen, was paradise. The Road Warrior’s old Curmudgeon character couldn’t have put it better himself.
The cast members in attendance were Vernon Wells (who played the insane and dangerous Wez), Bruce Spence (the funny and heroic Gyro Captain), Emil Minty (the fierce, mute Feral Child), Virginia Hey (the tragic Warrior Woman), and Kjell Nilsson (the mysterious hulk Lord Humungus). All had interesting memories and fun anecdotes to relay from the making of the film.
Westworld: 12 Questions for Season 2
Westworld: Season 1 has come to a close and now... we want Season 2! Alas, the wait for a second season will be a notably long one too, as the show is not expected to return until 2018.
In the meantime, the very busy finale laid the groundwork for the future in many notable ways - though with so many characters and storylines, there also were some lingering elements not yet dealt with (Elsie!?) we're still trying to get to the bottom of.
That being the case, click through the slideshow below to see some of the big questions we have for Westworld: Season 2.
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Major Halo 5 Update Monitor’s Bounty Revealed
343 Industries has shed some light on Halo 5: Guardians' latest update, titled Monitor's Bounty, and players won't have to wait long to experience the new content in-game.
As part of a two-day reveal of what's to come in the update on Halo Waypoint, 343 announced the update will go live on Thursday, December 8. With it comes several new gameplay options, including the Custom Games Browser, Observer Mode, and REQ Gifting.
The Custom Games Browser allows players on Xbox One and Windows 10 PCs to search for games in progress from the game's main menu, and the options will be based on privacy settings and when those games were created in the multiplayer lobby. With the browser comes full access to Forge and Arena multiplayer options, though without matchmaking, for Windows 10 players.
What’s It’s Really Like to Work with Michael Bay
This August I was among a handful of writers invited to watch a day of shooting with Michael Bay and the cast and crew of Transformers: The Last Knight. You can read all the new details we learned about the upcoming blockbuster here as well as what the future of the Transformers cinematic universe is here.
The explosions and action sequences we saw were of course amazing and it’s always fun to talk to movie stars. But none of that was surprising. What surprised me and I daresay many of my colleagues was how open and available Bay was, spending at least an hour talking with us throughout the course of the day. To give you an idea of how unusual that is, most other interviews lasted about five to fifteen minutes because everyone was busy keeping up with Bay’s notoriously fast pace. Yet somehow Bay kept finding his way back to our small group to chat about movies (he sees all of them without exception), filmmaking (he's REALLY into 3D and IMAX) and whatever else was on his mind (though he doesn't have any inside info, he personally thinks Bad Boys 3 will never happen).
Iron Fist Showrunner Also Heading Up Inhumans Series
Scott Buck, the executive producer and showrunner on Marvel's Iron Fist for Netflix, will also now head up ABC's upcoming Marvel series, The Inhumans.
According to Variety, Buck (Dexter, Six Feet Under) will assume the same leadership role on The Inhumans, serving as EP and showrunner.
Thanks to a partnership between Marvel, ABC and IMAX, the first two episodes of The Inhumans will debut exclusively in IMAX before the eight-episode series airs on television shortly thereafter.
Will Ferrell to Star in eSports Movie
Anchorman star Will Ferrell is making a movie about eSports.
Deadline reports Ferrell has signed on to star in the comedy film. His company Gary Sanchez Productions will produce the eSports flick with Legendary Pictures, which is behind other gaming-related content like the Warcraft film.