Monthly Archives: September 2017
Star Wars: Episode IX Finds Its New Director
Star Wars: The Force Awakens director J.J. Abrams will return to direct Star Wars: Episode IX, Disney and Lucasfilm have announced.
According to StarWars.com, Abrams is also on board to co-write the project with Chris Terrio. Episode IX will be produced by Abrams and Bad Robot, as well as Kathleen Kennedy, Michelle Rejwan and Lucasfilm.
"With The Force Awakens, J.J. delivered everything we could have possibly hoped for, and I am so excited that he is coming back to close out this trilogy," Kennedy said.
Read IGN's Star Wars: The Force Awakens review to find out why we found Abrams' first Star Wars movie to be "a great way to reboot the franchise and open the world up for a new generation of fans."
PUBG Gets New Gun, New Town, Fog And More
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds’ September patch is coming to test servers today, bringing foggy weather, a new town, a new semi-automatic rifle and more details on the upcoming vaulting feature.
In a post on the PUBG Steam page, players have been given a look at a host of new features, bug fixes and soon-to-be-added features. Coming immediately to test servers will be the introduction of foggy weather to lower visibility. Don’t start sweating just yet though, as this will be a, “low probability,” weather effect in the live game (it was noted however that this will occur more frequently on the test servers).
Fortnite Battle Royale Adds Building to Its PUBG Formula
In Fortnite Battle Royale, you’ll skydive onto an island arena, scavenge for weapons, run from an encroaching electricity field, and fight your way through 99 other players to victory. Sound familiar? A carbon copy of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has found it’s way into Epic’s recently Early Access-launched crafting adventure Fortnite with many notable exceptions, but at least two major additions: building and destruction. Fortnite Battle Royale is an unexpected and disconnected addition to the main game, but one that isn’t entirely without merit.
Let’s get the negatives out of the way first. Despite feeling eerily similar to PUBG at times, the build of Fortnite Battle Royale that I played was missing a plethora of quality of life features that were sorely missed from my time spent with Battlegrounds. Vehicles, free look, aim down sights, backpacks, and the ability to sort through nearby items with an inventory screen had not yet been added. Weapon attachments, airdrops, and the ability to go prone were absent too, but those struck me more as stylistic differences.
Sandman: 5 Times The Endless Appeared in the DCU
Dark Nights: Metal #1 was full of surprising plot twists, from the debut of the Justice League's very own Megazord to the return of a long-standing hero. But one twist definitely rose above the rest.
Warning: This article contains spoilers for Dark Nights: Metal #1!
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NES Classic Mini Returning to Stores
Nintendo has announced that we'll see more stock of the upcoming SNES Classic Edition, and a return to stores for its seemingly discontinued predecessor, the NES Classic Edition.
In a press release, Nintendo announced that, "Due to incredible demand for the upcoming
, Nintendo plans to ship the retro-inspired product into 2018. Originally, shipments were announced to cease at the end of this calendar year."
The press release adds that the NES Classic will return on an unspecified date in summer 2018. No further details were given - is it too much to hope that they'll sort out those tiny controller wires, too?
Destiny 2: Scheduled Maintenances Takes Servers Offline Today
Any players of Destiny 2 - and there's at least 1.2 million of you - who have struggled to drag themselves away from their screens since the game's launch last week are being given the perfect opportunity by Bungie, which is taking the servers offline for four hours today for scheduled maintenance.
As detailed on the "Maintenance" section of Bungie's website, servers for both Destiny 2 and the original Destiny will close their doors at 7am PT / 10am ET / 3pm BST (or 12am Wednesday, September 13 AEST). Any players online at that time will be given an extra hour's grace to finish up whatever they're in the middle of before being forcibly removed from the game.
We Reveal 5 New Shadowverse: Starforged Legends Cards
Shadowverse’s newest expansion, Starforged Legends, will be out on September 28, and is bringing 104 new cards themed around the heavens to the game. From what we’ve seen of the set so far, that means cards based around constellations and the zodiac, as well as a healthy dose of Greek mythology – Medusa, Perseus, and the like.
And let’s not forget truly heavenly bodies…
The 13 Worst Schools in TV and Film
We can all agree that high school can suck. TV and film have captured that fact of life with varying degrees of realism. But some have stood out from others, taking the normal teenage challenges of acquiring popularity, dealing with teachers, and succeeding academically to much darker places.
With that in mind, let’s take a look at 13 TV and movie high schools we would absolutely never want to enroll in.
What's the one thing about school that's always amazing, no matter what? Field trips! It's the opportunity to leave school for the day to explore something new or do something fun and it technically counts as learning. What's not to love? Unfortunately, for students at Shiroiwa Junior High in Battle Royale, there's plenty to hate. Something as pure and fun as a field trip could land you on an island and forced to fight for your life until you’re the sole survivor of your class. In Battle Royale's dystopian future, where the government controls the population by pitting kids against each other, the last thing you want to do at school is end up in a shock collar with your fellow classmates trying to murder you.
13 Secrets We Learned on the Set of Star Trek Discovery
Last month I was lucky enough to visit the set of Star Trek: Discovery in Toronto. As a lifelong Star Trek fan, it was quite a thrill to stand on the bridge of a starship, walk its corridors, and climb onto a transporter pad (and, of course, do the Vulcan "live long and prosper" sign too). And with the show set to debut on September 24, CBS is hoping that viewers will also be thrilled by the latest adventure set in Gene Roddenberry's iconic universe.
The show stars Sonequa Martin-Green as Commander Michael Burnham, First Officer of the USS Discovery. Also starring Jason Isaacs, Michelle Yeoh, Doug Jones, Anthony Rapp, Shazad Latif, and Mary Chieffo, Discovery takes place 10 years before The Original Series and depicts a time of war between the Federation and the Klingons.