Monthly Archives: April 2017
Greg Rucka Leaving DC’s Wonder Woman Comic
Writer Greg Rucka will be leaving DC's ongoing Wonder Woman comic as of June's Wonder Woman #25.
Rucka made the announcement via his Tumblr, explaining that the decision was his and that the series' twice-monthly schedule was making it difficult to keep up his commitments to his other projects. "I just can’t maintain the pace on the title while also fulfilling my commitments to my other collaborators. It is, genuinely, as simple as that." said Rucka.
Wonder Woman #1 cover by Liam Sharp. (DC Comics)
Deadpool 2: Josh Brolin Cast as Cable
Josh Brolin has been cast as Cable in Deadpool 2.
IGN can confirm that Brolin, who currently serves as Thanos in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, has signed a four-film deal to play the character who was first teased in a post-credits scene of the original Deadpool film.
The four-picture deal would likely extend beyond roles in Deadpool-centric films, as producer and writer Simon Kinberg has said that both Deadpool and Cable will appear in the planned X-Force movie.
Brolin first debuted as Thanos in Marvel Studios' cinematic universe, which exists separately from Fox's Marvel universe, in 2014. He also made a cameo appearance as the character in 2015's Avengers: Age of Ultron and is set to return in Avengers: Infinity War in 2018. He also starred as DC Comics character Jonah Hex in the antihero's self-titled 2010 film.
Scorpio Supports AMD Freesync Thanks to HDMI 2.1
Microsoft's Project Scorpio supports variable refresh rates, meaning display technology like AMD Freesync and Nvidia G-Sync are compatible with the upcoming console.
In fact, Project Scorpio already supports AMD's anti-screen tearing technology. According to a report by Gamasutra, Microsoft is "working with TV manufacturers to try and ensure Scorpio will support" variable refresh rates "in as many TVs as possible."
Televisions generally come with fixed refresh rates, commonly 60Hz for NTSC regions. When a GPU renders frames, it doesn't always do so at a fixed rate, and this difference in frequency causes screen-tearing. With variable refresh rates, the display can adjust to whatever the GPU throws at it, smoothing out the on-screen action.
The Insanity of Dragon Quest 11
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Chappelle’s Show Star Charlie Murphy Dies At 57
Comedian and actor Charlie Murphy, who was also Eddie Murphy's older brother, has sadly passed away at age 57.
TMZ reports Murphy died from leukemia Wednesday morning in a NYC hospital. He had been undergoing chemotherapy treatment. Murphy's loved ones had believed his health was improving before learning of his death, according to the report.
Charlie Murphy.
Murphy recently co-wrote some of Eddie's movies, including Vampire in Brooklyn and Norbit, and co-starred in films like CB4 and Are We There Yet? He was also one of the main co-stars on Chappelle's Show (later co-host of the Lost Episodes season) and was part of some of its most memorable skits, specifically Charlie Murphy's True Hollywood Stories.
Xbox Scorpio Is a 4K Roll of the Dice for Microsoft
Head of Xbox Phil Spencer has shed light on Microsoft's gamble to pursue 4K gaming with Xbox Scorpio, saying the company created the console with the expectation that the transition to 4K TVs would happen midway through the generation.
"We saw 4K TVs coming, and we made a prediction that 4K TVs were going to be a thing during this generation," Spencer told Gamasutra.
The Xbox exec noted how the transition from SD to HD televisions happened during the shift from the original Xbox to the Xbox 360 era. "It was nice because we could just kind of ride that and say okay, 360 is an HD console. OG Xbox is an SD console," Spencer said, noting that while there were some progressive mode titles on the original Xbox, Microsoft "could use that as a kind of clean cut."
PC Gaming Helped Drive Xbox to Backwards Compatibility
In addition to discussing what's in store for Microsoft's VR plan and Scorpio design goals, Head of Xbox Phil Spencer talked about how his gaming background helped form the push for backwards compatibility on Xbox One.
"...I grew up as a PC gamer, and the thing I love about the PC ecosystem is I can still go boot up Age of Empires 2 and I can go play that game," Spencer said in an interview with Gamasutra. "It's funny, I was looking at the World Video Game Hall of Fame, there's like Solitaire and Donkey Kong....but...console has this construct that actually makes it hard to go back and play some of those old console games. Because the format is so tied to the hardware itself."
Syfy Renews The Magicians for Season 3
The Magicians has been renewed for a 13-episode third season, Syfy announced today. It will air in 2018.
The Magicians second season concludes on Wednesday, April 19 and will continue to follow Quentin Coldwater and his group of friends, many of whom were students at the magicians school Brakebills in season 1. The end of the first season and season 2 opened the series up to the magical world of Fillory, all adapting the trilogy of best-selling Magicians novels by author Lev Grossman.
Syfy has also revealed that the second season is up in several ratings demos over season 1, which is currently available to stream on Netflix. Following its run on Syfy, the network also made an uncensored version of the first season available to stream.
Damon Lindelof on Why it Was Time to End The Leftovers
IGN’s pick for the best television series of 2015, The Leftovers, finally returns this Sunday for the debut of its third and final season. I recently sat down with Damon Lindelof -- who created the series with Tom Perrotta, who wrote the book on which the series is based -- to discuss the approach to Season 3, which will partially take place Australia (a setting that’s been established in previous seasons as having notable importance) and the decision to wrap up the critically acclaimed, yet unfortunately not widely viewed, show in Season 3.
Lindelof also explains his resistance to binging TV shows and his preference that a TV episode feel like its telling its own clearly-defined story, rather than the more nebulous approach some shows take in the Netflix era of treating the entire season like a story meant to be seen in one sitting. Plus, the Lost co-creator discusses whether he'd return to broadcast TV again, now that he's wrapping up a show for HBO.
Ewan McGregor Is Unrecognizable at the Center of Fargo
I'm interviewing Ewan McGregor, and I can't stop my eyes from drifting up to the exposed bald spot on the top of his head.
We're on the set of Fargo in Calgary, and this is not the Ewan McGregor I have seen before. His stomach bulges out as he sits, he has a double chin and a thicker nose, and then, of course, there's his distracting receding hairline. This is McGregor at his least glamorous.
"In a couple of years, everyone will be rocking this look," he says with a chuckle.
Ewan McGregor as Ray Stussy