Monthly Archives: December 2016
PlayStation Plus January Free Games Revealed
The lineup of free games for PlayStation Plus subscribers in January has been revealed ahead of their availability next month.
According PlayStation Blog's announcement, Day of the Tentacle Remastered and This War of Mine: The Little Ones will be available for PlayStation 4 owners, with the former also available on PS Vita via cross buy. For our thoughts on DoubleFine's faithful and "lovingly-drawn" remaster of LucasArts' 1993 classic, read IGN's Day of the Tentacle Remastered review.
Ryan Reynolds Denies Deadpool in Logan Report
UPDATE: Following TheWrap's report about Deadpool making an appearance in the 2017 Wolverine film Logan, both star Ryan Reynolds and director James Mangold have come forward to refute the rumor publicly.
"Sadly, not true. Prisoner 24601 is on a solo mission," Reynolds tweeted.
Via Ryan Reynolds
Mangold tweeted a response to TheWrap's story, writing, "For everyone freaking out, @TheWrap is dealing in fake news. Chill."
DC’s Legends of Tomorrow will Meet George Lucas
SPOILERS: The following article contains the basic plot synopsis for an upcoming episode of DC's Legends of Tomorrow.
A young George Lucas is set to make an appearance in DC's Legends of Tomorrow.
After the recent reveal of Rip Hunter (Arthur Darvill) working as a director in 1967 Los Angeles, Entertainment Weekly reports that the character will cross paths with a young Lucas in the upcoming winter premiere.
Lucas, who will be played by Matt Angel (Grimm), will be a major part of of the episode, titled “Raiders of the Lost Art,” which will have consequences for Nate (Nick Zano) and Ray (Brandon Routh). According to executive producer Marc Guggenheim, episode 209’s time aberration will involve Lucas, and it causes him to never make Raiders of the Lost Ark and Star Wars.
New Deal Brings Over 50 Disney Movies to Hulu
Hulu has landed a deal with Disney that will offer an exclusive library of live-action and animated films.
According to USA Today, the deal will last for several years and includes over 50 different movies. Customers can stream The Nightmare Before Christmas, Sister Act, and Air Bud, among many others, right now. Additional Disney movies such as Lilo & Stitch, Tarzan, The Emperor's New Groove, Muppet Treasure Island, The Princess and the Frog, Con Air, Gone in 60 Seconds, The Mighty Ducks, Pearl Harbor, Step Up, and Romy and Michele's High School Reunion will be available in the coming months.
17 Photos from Dragon Ball’s 30th Anniversary Pop Up Cafe
What better way to celebrate 2016 being the 30th anniversary of Dragon Ball than by eating your way through food and beverage versions of the characters?
During a recent trip to Tokyo, we made a pit stop at the Dragon Ball 30th anniversary pop up cafe at Tower Records in Shibuya to try to sample as many of the Dragon Ball tie-in food and drink items as we could. Click right to view the photo gallery of our culinary adventure.
The first episode of the Dragon Ball anime made its debut on Fuji TV on February 26, 1986. Since then, the anime has spawned multiple spin-off series, all the way from the beloved Dragon Ball Z (which ran from 1989 to 1996) though the currently airing Dragon Ball Super.
Bad Moms 2 Coming Next Year
The R-rated comedy Bad Moms is getting a sequel next year.
Actress Kristen Bell announced Bad Moms 2 on Twitter. "Get ready. It's about to get festive as a mother," she wrote. "A BAD MOMS CHRISTMAS coming for ya winter 2017!"
The accompanying video also indicated the sequel's Christmas setting.
Get ready. It's about to get festive as a mother. A BAD MOMS CHRISTMAS coming for ya winter 2017! #BadMomsXmas pic.twitter.com/JAkR1EXrTz
— Kristen Bell (@IMKristenBell) December 24, 2016
Wrestling Year in Review
It's time to bid farewell good riddance to 2016 - but not before we look back at the year of professional wrasslin'! The year that gave us the "New Era" of WWE, which was a term that was used for the hottest of minutes back in the spring before getting unceremoniously dropped for no particular reason. The era was new, and then it wasn't. We were entering a fresh and exciting age, and then we weren't.
This was also the year when WWE decided to go full-tilt bonkers with their WWE Network programming, offering up something like 7000 hours of things for our eye and ear holes. To make things mathematically more apropos of nothing, Michael Cole informed us that if we were to watch one hour a week -- just a single hour -- it would take us 20 years to get through all the content. Also, if you laid out all the content, stretched it out end to end, it would wrap around the earth five times. So much science. Can't handle the science.
NASA Developing Food Bars For Trip To Mars
NASA is currently in the process of developing special food that will one day be used on manned-trips to Mars.
The food (which can be seen in the video below) is currently being developed for use on the Orion Spacecraft, which is designed to take astronauts beyond low Earth orbit. Orion's upcoming trip, Exploration Mission 2, will take its crew around the Earth's moon "without being attached to any habitation module," explains Orion Crew Support Equipment System Manager Jessica Vos.
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2016’s Best TV Fight Scenes
As we close out 2016 and try to wrangle the wild, untamed 455 (!) scripted shows that were on TV this past year, it's time to look back at the best battles, duels, tussles, throwdowns, and slobberknockers that our favorite stories had to offer. That's right, it's the holiday season, so it's time to fight!
This year we had warring Jedis, clashing pirates, scrapping vikings, and tenacious teens fending off ravenous interdimensional monsters. There was a little bit of everything on the action front, including superheroes overcoming small armies, dystopian warriors fighting for tribal supremacy, and a guy getting his head sucked up into a butt. WE SAID EVERYTHING!
Click through the gallery below to see the best TV fights from 2016.