Monthly Archives: May 2017
FOX Moving Gotham to Thursdays
FOX's fall schedule has been revealed, and there's some swapping up of the scheduling of their comic book-based series. With the X-Men-connected The Gifted joining the lineup, that series will now air on Monday nights, after Lucifer. After three years, Gotham will move from Mondays to Thursdays this fall, where it will be paired with the new Seth MacFarlane sci-fi series, The Orville.
Meanwhile, the Sunday night lineup will get the addition of Ghosted, starring Craig Robinson and Adam Scott.
FOX is holding several series -- including the final season of New Girl and a new 10-episode season of The X-Files -- for midseason.
Check out FOX's full fall schedule below (All Times ET/PT)
Rick and Morty Have Made an Alien: Covenant Advert
Rick and Morty is a show that thrives on surprise (see: surprise releasing an episode on April Fools' Day or, you know, practically any episode's plot), and yet it still seems strange to see them advertising Alien: Covenant.
A new short popped up over the weekend, just in time for Alien: Covenant's upcoming release in the US, featuring Rick's innate defence against facehugging. You can watch it below:
Halo Dev 343 Industries Names New Studio Head
343 Industries has appointed Chris Lee to be its new studio head.
Lee, who was the executive producer on Halo: 5 Guardians, will head up the production of future Halo first-person shooter games, 343 franchise development director Frank O'Connor announced on Twitter.
"Follow our new studio head @tefferlee because he's keen to talk about Halo and better at Twitter than me," O'Connor said.
In a subsequent post, O'Connor clarified Lee's position, saying he's "heading the FPS production
not replacing Dan
Here’s What Paul McCartney’s Pirates 5 Character Looks Like
Paul McCartney is excited to join the Pirates of the Caribbean life, sharing a first look at his character in the upcoming fifth film.
On Twitter, McCartney showed off his buccaneer getup for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. The famous Beatle doesn't have a guitar or piano, but instead is holding cards in his hand.
#PiratesLife pic.twitter.com/9GXS5QB931
— Paul McCartney (@PaulMcCartney) May 13, 2017
LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2 Announced
Warner Bros has announced a sequel to LEGO Marvel Super Heroes on the game's Facebook page.
A small teaser trailer for LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2 shows a LEGO Baby Groot - who recently featured in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 - running through an explosive brick world. The 16-second peek concludes with Doctor Strange levitating beside the logo before announcing that the full-length trailer will be available to view on May 23.
34 Images from Marvel’s The Gifted Official Trailer
Fox dropped the trailer for The Gifted, giving us a better look at the upcoming Marvel mutants series.
Bryan Singer, veteran director of the X-Men movies, is directing the show's pilot. Check out the gallery below for a host of images from the trailer.
Fox made it official, ordering episodes of The Gifted for the 2017-2018 season. Burn Notice co-creator Matt Nix serves as The Gifted's show runner, and Nix also wrote the script for the pilot.
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With NES Classic Discontinued, Retron HD Could Take Its Place
Hyperkin wants to pick up where NES Classic Edition left off with the Retron HD, a new console that plays 8-bit classics from Nintendo's home system.
The Retron HD works with original NES cartridges — from both NTSC and PAL regions — displaying them at 720p on screen. The console comes with a controller with a 10-foot cord and HD cable, plus a micro USB charge cable.
Announced earlier this month, the Retron HD looks like an attempt to build off the success of Nintendo's mini console. The Big N discontinued the NES Classic Edition in April, with a company representative at the time stating that the system "wasn’t intended to be an ongoing, long-term product."
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PlayStation Virtual Reality is Back in Stock for Under £327
Amazon have restocked on PSVR Headsets and have reduced their pricing to £326.95. Alternatively, get the PSVR Headset bundled with a PlayStation Camera V2 (worth £44.99) for £349.99, or a PSVR Headset with Farpoint, Resident Evil 7 and a NOW TV 2 Month Movie Pass for £349.99.
Switch Glitch Sees Consoles Taking Random Screenshots
A new Nintendo Switch bug seems to have emerged over the weekend, causing consoles to autonomously take screenshots, seemingly at random, without the user having pressed the screenshot button.
Documented by multiple users on Reddit and the Nintendo support forum (and experienced by Kotaku UK), the glitch reportedly activates the screenshot function - with its associated click sound - at seemingly random intervals, even waking the console from sleep mode to do so.
Overwatch Art Book and Hardcover Comic On the Way
Two new Overwatch books are on the way from Dark Horse and Blizzard Entertainment.
The first is The Art of Overwatch, a 9”x12” hardcover book that shows off never-before-seen art along with commentary from the game’s development team. It will retail for $49.99. Similar treatment was given to World of Warcraft in the previously released World of Warcraft: Chronicle hardcover art books.
There will also be a limited edition (predictably titled The Art of Overwatch Limited Edition) that is the same book but comes packaged in a clamshell box with magnetic clasps and includes an acetate slipcover designed after Overwatch covergirl Tracer. It also comes with two portfolios, one featuring a portrait print and the other two landscape prints. You can see the prints in the slideshow gallery below except for one that’s being kept a surprise until release. The limited edition will run you $100.