Monthly Archives: April 2018
Invincible Iron Man Features Two Shocking Guest Stars
As the series finale looms, Invincible Iron Man just dropped two major bombshells.
Warning: this article contains spoilers for Invincible Iron Man #599!
As this issue opens, Tony Stark is finally back in action after recuperating from his Civil War II-induced coma. Tony reveals to his biological mother, Amanda Armstrong, that his body regenerated as a result of the many biological modifications he's made over the years. The catch is that those modifications are now gone, leaving Tony completely human and vulnerable for the first time in years.
How Infinity War’s Rotten Tomatoes Score Compares to Other MCU Movies
With a "Tomatometer" score of 86%, Avengers: Infinity War has been "certified fresh" by the leading movie critics aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes.
According to the site, movies "are Certified Fresh with a steady Tomatometer of 75% or higher after a set amount of reviews (80 for wide-release movies, 40 for limited-release movies, 20 for TV shows), including 5 reviews from Top Critics."
As of time of publish, there were 120 reviews for Infinity War counted, with 103 marked "fresh" and only 17 "rotten" for an average critical rating of 7.6/10.
Avengers: Infinity War, however, is not the Marvel Cinematic Universe movie with the highest Tomatometer score. That honor belongs to Black Panther, which was certified fresh in February 2018 with a 96% score.
These Are the Infinity War Characters Fans Are Tweeting About the Most
Avengers: Infinity War is fast approaching, so naturally Twitter is flooded with all kinds of love and speculation about the film.
According to information provided to IGN by Twitter, fans and critics have tweeted over 15 million times about the film this year alone, making it the second most tweeted about movie of the year, behind only Black Panther.
Over the past month, fans all over Twitter have been talking about the many heroes and villains in the film, and since his big debut, it's no surprise the Dark Titan, Thanos is a favorite. Here are the top 5 characters with the most tweets about them:
- Thanos
- Captain America
- Loki
How Did Wolverine Escape His Adamantium Prison?
Hunt for Wolverine #1 just answered one of the biggest questions surrounding Wolverine's recent return.
Warning: this article contains spoilers for Hunt for Wolverine #1!
Logan met with a pretty grim end in 2014's Death of Wolverine. With his healing factor shorted out, the formerly unkillable X-Man was covered in liquid-hot adamantium and left to die inside an unbreakable metal shell. But when the character resurfaced in Marvel Legacy #1 last year, it was revealed that he somehow broke out of that shell. This issue reveals exactly how he managed that feat.
PUBG: How Battle Royale Was Born
The advantages of including your name in the title of a massively successful game cannot be overstated, a fact only Sid Meier and PlayerUnknown are intimately aware of. Sid Meier’s titular signature always struck me as a bit self-congratulatory, and the same could be said for PlayerUnknown but there is a valid reason for their inclusion.
In the case of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, the name confers legitimacy and ownership. Brendan Greene created Arma 2 DayZ Battle Royale, Arma 3 Battle Royale, and consulted on H1Z1 King of the Kill. But Battlegrounds isn’t a mod, nor is it another developer’s work, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is a manifestation of Greene’s uncompromised vision.
Sea of Thieves Update Fixes Flying Ships
Sea of Thieves' latest update, patch 1.0.5, fixes flying ships among other issues as Rare continues its dedication to correcting problems in April before shifting focus to new content in May.
As detailed on a recent forum post, ships will no longer shoot up into the air when sinking. Twitch streamer KonzolvilagRicsi shared a brief video highlighting the strange problem.
GRRM Confirms Winds of Winter Will Not Come Out in 2018
The Winds of Winter, the sixth book in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, will not be released in 2018, the author confirmed today.
"No, winter is not coming… not in 2018, at least," Martin wrote on his blog. "You’re going to have to keep waiting for The Winds of Winter."
Last July, Martin said The Winds of Winter was still "months away," leading many hopeful fans to believe it could be destined for a 2018 release. However, as announced today, the penultimate book in Martin's popular fantasy series won't be released until 2019 at the earliest.
Fortnite Players’ Latest Meteor Theory Is Wild
Fortnite Battle Royale players have been getting ready for a meteor to hit the game map for months now, but one Reddit theory thinks it isn't a meteor at all: it's an alien mothership.
As pointed out by Eurogamer, Reddit user Kensyys thinks people have had it wrong this whole time. While the focus has been on Fortnite's insanely popular Battle Royale mode, the meteor has also been visible in the PvE Save the World mode, and more potential clues there point toward aliens.
Marvel Cinematic Universe Rumors That Turned Out to Be False
Being a fan of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is a full-time job. When you're actually watching the movies, which come out multiple times a year, we're talking about them, speculating about their future, concocting wild fan theories, and voraciously absorbing every news story that arrives online about future films in the series.
The problem (or at least, one of the problems) with that kind of 24/7 fan community is that the need for constant content sometimes transforms speculation into rumors, and rumors into news. Fortunately for us, many of the leading entertainment publications are able to spot the wackier rumors and debunk them pretty quickly, but there are so many rumors out there that some of them become big stories, and for every one of them that's true - or was briefly true before Marvel's plans changed, or which has at least a kernel of truth in it - there are others that are way off base.
Nickelodeon Announces Double Dare Revival
The beloved Nickelodeon game show Double Dare is coming back.
The network announced it is reviving the classic 1980s and ’90s series this summer with 40 new episodes. The reboot will feature all the challenges fans can remember, along with celebrity guests and more.
New Double Dare logo.
Double Dare originally aired from 1986 to 1993, and briefly in 2000. It pits two teams of kids against each other in trivia and physical challenges. Competitors also had to go through the show's infamous obstacle course, which included the wringer, the human hamster wheel, the gigantic mouth, and the Double Dare nose. The series used Nickelodeon's famous green slime as well.