Monthly Archives: April 2017
GLOW: New Photos From Netflix’s Wrestling Comedy Series
Netflix has released seven new images from its upcoming wrestling comedy series, GLOW.
Starring Community alum Alison Brie, GLOW's 10-episode first season will debut on June 23. The series was created by Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch. Orange Is the New Black creator Jenji Kohan serves as an executive producer.
GLOW is inspired by the 1980s TV series of the same name. Here's the official synopsis for the new series, courtesy of Netflix:
GLOW tells the fictional story of Ruth Wilder (Brie), an out-of-work, struggling actress in 1980s Los Angeles who finds one last chance for stardom when she’s thrust into the glitter and spandex world of women's wrestling. In addition to working with 12 Hollywood misfits, Ruth also has to compete with Debbie Eagan (Betty Gilpin) a former soap actress who left the business to have a baby, only to be sucked back into work when her picture perfect life is not what it seems. And at the wheel is Sam Sylvia (Marc Maron), a washed-up, B-movie director who now must lead this group of women on the journey to wrestling stardom.
Get to Know Squirrel Girl and the New Warriors
Marvel fans have yet another new TV project to look forward to. Freeform has ordered a New Warriors series, with Cougar Town co-creator Kevin Biegel serving as showrunner. Like Powerless does for the DC Universe, New Warriors will strive to offer a more lighthearted, comedic take on the Marvel U. We'd expect nothing less from a series featuring Squirrel Girl.
Neither Squirrel Girl nor the New Warriors exactly have the brand cache of Spider-Man or the Avengers, and we don't expect all Marvel fans to be familiar with these B-List heroes. But fear not. As we wait for this new comedy series to take shape, here are a few graphic novels you can check out to help catch you up to speed on these quirky teen heroes.
CD Projekt RED Explains ‘Cyberpunk’ Trademark
CD Projekt RED has come forward to explain its decision to register the trademark for "Cyberpunk" as the studio prepares for the launch of its ambitious new role-playing game, Cyberpunk 2077.
"We wish to protect our hard work and we don't plan on using the trademark offensively," CD Projekt RED said in a post on its official Twitter account. According to the studio, the trademark was registered as "a self-defense measure only."
The studio went on to note that Cyberpunk 2077 is "a massive project" that they've "already invested a lot of hard work and resources into." As such, CD Projekt RED decided to file a trademark to make sure they "will be the only entity that can use its exact name and naming scheme."
Titan Xp Graphics Card Has Twice the Teraflops as Scorpio
Nvidia has quietly unveiled this year's Titan graphics card today, the ultra high-end Pascal-powered Titan Xp. It is available now for $1,200.
The new Titan Xp (an upgrade of 2016's Titan X) boasts 12 teraflops of computing power — twice as much as Project Scorpio, which had its full specs revealed by Microsoft earlier today — as well as a full 3,840 CUDA cores running at 1.6GHz. It's kept the same amount of memory as the Titan X at 12GB GDDR5X, but received a boost in memory speed (11.4 Gbps from last year's 10 Gbps) and max boost clock (1,582MHz over 1,531MHz). You can check out the full specs on Nvidia's website.
IGN Partnering With Twitter for E3 2017 Global Live Stream
IGN will be offering over 30 hours of E3 2017 live stream coverage later this year and now, thanks to a partnership with Twitter, it will be easier than ever to watch around the world.
Twitter and IGN today announced an exclusive week-long global live stream partnership for this year's Electronics Entertainment Expo, with programming airing between June 10 and June 15.
So what does that exactly mean? In addition to being able to watch IGN's E3 2017 coverage on IGN.com, IGN's console and mobile apps, and more, our live stream will be available worldwide to anyone who heads to Twitter.com on a logged in device or not throughout the week of E3.
Scorpio Designed to ‘Win Developers Back’ to Xbox
Microsoft is gearing up to release a new console later this year, codenamed Project Scorpio, and the company has come forward to explain the reason behind this new addition to the Xbox hardware family.
Speaking to Eurogamer, Mike Ybarra, Microsoft's corporate VP of the Xbox and Windows gaming platform, said the company is striving to "win developers back" after it lost its place of dominance in the wake of PS4's success, as it transitioned from Xbox 360 to Xbox One.
"With Xbox 360 we had the absolute best platform for developers,
we sort of lost that in a two-year time-frame, so we said how do we win the mind-share of those developers back?" Ybarra explained. "We want the best games running on our box and there are tools, devkits and some arrows like that to win the developers back. So that was a big priority for us as we approached this product."
Zelda Series Will Probably Be Open World ‘From Now On’
Eiji Aonuma has suggested that The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild's open world structure will become the basis for the series' design going forward.
In an interview with Famitsu (translated by IGN Japan), the Zelda series producer was asked whether the franchise would retain the "open-air concept" used in Breath of the Wild, or would return to its traditional gated dungeon progression:
Comic Book Reviews for April 5, 2017
It was another big week of comics, as Marvel debuted X-Men Gold and Royals while also kicking off a new adaptation of Rogue One. DC wrapped up the "I Am Bane" arc in Batman #20 and began a key new conflict in Superman #20. And things just keep getting worse for the cast of The Walking Dead.
Scroll down to check out our reviews for these and various other new releases, and be sure to let us know your favorite books of the week in the comments below.
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The Live-Action Akira’s Tortured History
With the recent release of Ghost in the Shell not faring very well at the box office, we're curious what the future will hold for other live-action projects based on manga and anime source material that are currently in development. The most notorious of the bunch is the long in the works attempt at adapting Katsuhiro Otomo's beloved Akira, the manga turned 1988 anime set in a post-apocalyptic Tokyo (Neo-Tokyo!) which centers on a motorcycle gang of rebellious youth who must stop one of their members from running amok after he acquires dangerous telekinetic powers.
A live-action Akira movie has been in development for 15 years at Warner Bros. as many different filmmakers have attempted to get it made -- we're talking five directors and potentially 10 different writers that we know of. As recently as last month, in fact, Get Out's Jordan Peele was reported as being courted by Warners for the film (other recent names rumored for Akira have included Lights Out's David Sandberg and Life's Daniel Espinosa). Let’s break down the history of this film and its seemingly unending development hell.
Xbox Project Scorpio Tech Specs Revealed
Project Scorpio - Microsoft's Xbox One upgrade - has had its internal specifications revealed in full for the first time, alongside a first simulated playtest.
Revealed to Digital Foundry by Microsoft, the Scorpio - which still does not have an official name or retail price - is, as expected, a more than significant update on the Xbox One. Digital Foundry itself calls it "console hardware design pushed to a new level, with a meticulous focus on appealing to the core gamer."
Specifications are below:
- CPU: Eight custom x86 cores