Monthly Archives: January 2017
Life-Size Majora’s Mask Replica Available For Pre-Order
First 4 Figures recently announced a life-size Majora's Mask replica, and it's now available for pre-order for $354.99, or $384.99 for the exclusive, light-up version.
Both versions stand at 25 inches tall (63cm) from the base to the tip of the horn, are 23 inches (58cm) wide, and weigh a whopping 17lbs (8kg). Check out the images below - click right to see them all:
The Limited Edition number will be set after 2 weeks of pre-orders, and each individual piece comes with a hand-numbered base and an authenticity card.
You can pre-order the Regular Edition here, and the Exclusive Edition here.
TWD: Season 7B Premiere Synopsis and Photos Released
With The Walking Dead's Season 7 return on the horizon, AMC has released three new teaser images and a lengthy synopsis to preview what's happening in February 12th's midseason premiere.
The three images focus on how Rick responds to the events of the midseason finale, showing him taking charge in the upcoming premiere.
The second half of the season will focus on Rick preparing to rise up against Negan and gathering allies to join the fight -- though the synopsis promises some treachery is looming as well. Read the full synopsis below:
"The first half of Season 7 saw Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and the group broken by Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), forced to fall under his will and brutally convinced to live under his rules. The second half of the season will focus on preparing for war and gathering the supplies and numbers to take Negan down once and for all.
Looking Back at 2016 TV and at New Shows We’re Excited For
Our first episode of 2017 covers a lot of looking back at 2016 in TV, plus some discussion about shows on the horizon.
And we throw in a reader email that we are then very unhelpful about, sorry! But keep your emails coming and we'll no doubt stumble upon topics we can help you with!
So listen on for:
-Our favorite shows of 2017-The show that ended that we'll miss the most
-The 2017 series we're most excited for
-Reader email on Spielberg and Hanks' The Mighty Eighth
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Deadpool Just Landed a Pretty Huge Nomination
The Oscar race is in full swing and one of the biggest indicators of which movies might earn Best Picture nominations is the Producers Guild of America. Today, the PGA announced their nominees for the 28th annual Producers Guild Awards and Deadpool was among the 10 live-action films up for The Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures.
The other nine nominees include Arrival, Fences, Hacksaw Ridge, Hell or High Water, Hidden Figures, La La Land, Lion, Manchester by the Sea, and Moonlight.
While Deadpool may have been shut out of the BAFTAs, 20th Century Fox's X-Men spinoff is up for a Writers Guild of America award and had been nominated for two Golden Globes. But even more importantly, IGN readers named Deadpool their People's Choice as Best Movie of 2016!
1980s Gaming Game Show Starcade is Coming Back
One of the first-ever video arcade game shows, Starcade, is coming back.
Multi-platform media company Shout! Factory has acquired the TV rights to Starcade from creators James Caruso and Mavis E. Arthur, with Shout! Factory set to executive produce a reboot of Starcade along with several other projects with JM Production Company, which also produced the original 1980s show. No release date has been set yet.
“We’re thrilled to be part of this Starcade revival,” Caruso and Arthur said in statement. “We look forward to bringing the show back for all those avid Starcaders who have been waiting for years, as well as a new class of gaming heroes."
Starcade in the 1980s.
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Wrinkle in Time Film Hasn’t ‘Shied Away From the Darkness’
Ava Duvernay's adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time is a reimagining of the classic 1963 science fantasy novel for a modern audience, and star Bellamy Young says the forthcoming Disney film will embrace the story's darkness.
"The book meant the world to me as I was growing up, so just to be a part of it at all was such an honor, but to be a part of Ava's vision of it? She has such thoughtful grace to all her work," Young told IGN at the 2017 Television Critics Association, where she was representing her ABC series Scandal. "She's kept all the hope but not shied away from the darkness, and I think it's going to be as magical as your own experience of the book."
Jim Carrey’s New Stand-Up Series is About “Edgy Truths”
Set in LA's celebrated, infamous stand-up comedy scene of the 1970s, I'm Dying Up Here -- premiering Sunday, June 4th on Showtime -- delves into the inspired and damaged psyches that inhabit the hilarious, but complex business of making an audience laugh.
Executive producer Jim Carrey -- along with the cast and writers -- appeared at the Television Critics Press Tour recently for a Q&A session about the series, which is set decades ago on the Sunset Strip where comic geniuses like George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Steve Martin, Dave Letterman, Albert Brooks, Jay Leno, Andy Kaufman, and Robin Williams all began.
"We were coming out of the '60s," Carrey explained. "We were coming out of Vietnam and Nixon. And it was a very intense time, and that helped give birth to a new attitude and a new desire to express yourself and say those edgy things and those edgy truths. And it changed comedy."
For Honor Closed Beta Start Date Announced
The closed beta for Ubisoft's upcoming melee-focused action game For Honor will kick off on January 26 and run until January 29.
The beta will be available for those on PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4. You can sign up to participate in the beta here.
Alongside the closed beta, Ubisoft will hold an event called War of the Factions, which will run for a limited time and track multiplayer activity across all three platforms during the beta. Participants will receive rewards, with the winning faction receiving additional bonuses.
Additionally, all who participate in the closed beta will be able to receive rewards, and everything earned—be it from the closed beta or specifically from War of the Factions—will transfer over to the final version of the game.
Gears of War 4 to Get 2 Classic Maps in Huge Update
Gears of War 4 is getting a major update this month, bringing with it two classic multiplayer maps that series fans will no doubt recognize.
As detailed on Xbox Wire, Blood Drive returns and blends together the classic Gears 2 map with the "improved flow" of the re-imagined successor featured in Gears 3. Check out the video below for a sneak peek new version coming to Gears 4:
Clocktower will also be added to Gears 4's selection of multiplayer maps this month, "re-imagined as the stunning Bank of Bronn as it's slowly claimed by the Swarm." Watch the clip below for a fly-through look at Clocktower: