Monthly Archives: September 2017
Sean Penn to Star in Hulu’s Mars Series The First
Sean Penn is set to star in his first regular TV role for a new Hulu series.
Variety reports Penn will play the main role in The First, a series from Beau Willimon that's set in the near future and follows the first human mission to Mars. The First promises to explore the different challenges associated with attempting interplanetary colonization.
Sean Penn in The Gunman
Details about Penn's character are currently unknown. Penn's acting career spans a wide array of films, including Mystic River, Milk, I Am Sam and The Gunman. While he's also appeared on various shows, like Friends and Two and a Half Men, The First will be the actor's first recurring leading role on a series.
Phil Spencer Joins Microsoft’s Senior Leadership Team
Phil Spencer has been added to Microsoft's Senior Leadership Team, a group of the company's top internal advisors, CEO Satya Nadella announced yesterday.
According to ZDNet, as part of the move, Spencer has also received a new job title; he will now officially serve as Microsoft's executive vice president of gaming.
Spencer took to Twitter to share his thoughts on the announcement, saying it's a "great show of commitment" by Microsoft to its gaming division.
Terminator: Linda Hamilton Will Return for New Film
Linda Hamilton, who starred as Sarah Connor in the original 1984 The Terminator and the 1991 sequel Terminator 2: Judgement Day, will return for James Cameron's new installment in the sci-fi film franchise.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Cameron shared the news at a private event to celebrate the Terminator series, expressing his desire to make a statement on gender roles in action films.
Hamilton as Sarah Connor in Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Get Tickets to See FOX’s New X-Men Series, The Gifted
FOX's The Gifted is bringing the story of the X-Men to television in a way you've never seen before, and now some lucky fans will get a chance to witness it before it makes its broadcast debut.
IGN is hosting an advanced screening of The Gifted's premiere episode in Los Angeles. Click the link for IGN and FOX's The Gifted screening, which is being held at The Grove on Wednesday, September 27th at 7:30 p.m. PT. Please arrive early, as seating is on a first-come, first-serve basis.
After you sign up for the screening, hear from the cast about how they're bringing the world of the X-Men to life on The Gifted:
Produced in association with Marvel Television, FOX's The Gifted stars Stephen Moyer (True Blood), Amy Acker (Person of Interest), Jamie Chung (Once Upon a Time), Emma Dumont (Aquarius), Coby Bell (Burn Notice), Natalie Alyn Lind (Gotham) and Percy Hynes White (Night at the Museum 3), Sean Teale (Reign) and Blair Redford (Satisfaction). The family adventure series tells the story of a suburban couple whose ordinary lives are rocked by the sudden discovery that their teenage children possess mutant powers. Forced to go on the run from a hostile government, the family seeks help from an underground network of mutants and must fight to survive.
Square Enix Hiring for Nier-related Project
I appears Nier fans may have more content to look forward to, as Square Enix is looking to bring on new talent for "planning work" and "product scenario creation" related to the franchise.
As reported by Hachima Kikou (translation via Gematsu), Square Enix is hiring for someone to handle sub-quest plots and scenario framing, as well as writing item descriptions and design instructions for in-game use.
Sonic Forces: Your Custom Character Can’t Be as Cool as Sonic
The upcoming Sonic Forces features a new mode that allows players to become a hero of the game with a custom avatar, but the development team’s approach to the character creator is more simplistic.
As previously announced by Sega, players can choose one of seven animal archetypes to customize for their Hero Character. Sonic Forces Producer Shun Nakamura said, with the help of a translator, that the creator isn’t anywhere near as complex as something like Fallout, but said players will instead get to pick from set characteristics, kind of like a doll maker.
“What the team wanted to have people do is create a regular character that exists in the world and have that character go on this great adventure with classic and modern Sonic and become a hero,” Nakamura said.
Super Mario Odyssey Feels Like It’s Taking Cues from Zelda
Nintendo’s made no secret of the fact that it’s trying to recreate the delights of Mario 64 with Odyssey - but it’s invoking a less obvious influence alongside that Nintendo classic.
The more recent 3D Mario games - Galaxies 1 and 2, and 3D World - have tended to prize challenge, creating short gauntlets themed around occasionally genre-defining design (often throwing those ideas away as soon as they’re done, because there’s something new to concentrate on). Odyssey is not that kind of game. Leisurely, surprising and outwardly comedic (this already feels like the funniest mainline Mario game), Mario’s latest truly is a return to the sandbox style last seen on GameCube.
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See Halo Wars 2’s Expansion Running in 4K on Xbox One X
Halo Wars 2 looked and ran just fine on the standard Xbox One or Xbox One S, but the top-down real-time strategy game is a natural choice to benefit from the added power and resolution of the Xbox One X. We had a chance to sit down with the upcoming expansion pack, Awakening the Nightmare (out next week). Take a look at the video above for our full playthrough of the expansion's entire first mission, played on an Xbox One X running at 4K resolution. And if you're unfamiliar with Halo Wars 2, take a look at our review of the game below.
Final Fantasy XV Multiplayer DLC Gets Release Date
Final Fantasy XV's upcoming multiplayer expansion, Comrades, will be released on October 31, Square Enix announced at Tokyo Game Show 2017.
In Comrades, players will be able to create their own character and take on quests with up to three friends online. By equipping royal sigils, players will be granted special powers from the Lucian bloodline as they strategize and form a balanced team to take on the challenges that await.
As a survivor from Kingsglaive, it's your mission to discover more about the disappearance of Noctis, following the events of Chapter 13 in Final Fantasy XV's main story. You'll be able to take on various multiplayer quests, as well as single-player mission to improve your characters.