Monthly Archives: June 2018
Destiny 2’s Year 2’s First Expansion Revealed, Details Coming This Week
Bungie has given us our first look at its newest expansion, Forsaken, and a small glimpse of what will be showcased tomorrow during the Destiny 2 Year 2 reveal stream.
Though the tease lasts but a few seconds, Cayde-6 and a Guardian are shown arriving on a location that very much looks like the Reef. Destiny 1 Guardians will remember the Reef as the second social space after the Tower and the home of the Awoken.
Drop in for the reveal of the second year of #Destiny2.
HBO Announces Game of Thrones Album With Original Songs for Season 8
While we wait with bated breath for the final season of Game of Thrones, HBO and Columbia Records have joined forces to create an album of music inspired by the George R.R. Martin TV series.
According to Billboard, the officially licensed album titled Music Inspired by Game of Thrones will feature songs inspired by the Award-Winning fantasy series and showcase artists “from diverse musical genres.” The full track listing wasn’t made available with the official press release, so we’ll have to wait and see which musicians will make the cut for the album.
New Justice League Comic Inspired by the Animated Series Debuts This Week
With dozens of comic books to choose from, let us show you which are the best coming out this week. Take a look at this list spotlighting our favorite comics that we know are money-well-spent and new books that look cool and are backed by some top-tier talent.
Justice League #1 - $3.99
Writer Scott Snyder | Artists Jim Cheung & Mark Morales | Cover Jim Cheung (DC Comics)
Ever since Scott Snyder hit his stride writing Batman, the comics community knew he was destined to eventually take over DC’s flagship superhero team, the Justice League. And now he’s doing it in grand style. Both Dark Nights: Metal and Justice League: No Justice have set the stage for this team inspired by the Justice League animated series, who are faced with new threats awakened by the crack in the Source Wall and a group of old foes led by a freshly heel-turned Lex Luthor, the Legion of Doom. Best of all, Marvel mainstay Jim Cheung has come over to the Distinguished Competition to draw the story, so it’s pretty much a given that Batman, Wonder Woman, Superman and the rest will be looking better than ever.
Save Big on a Vizio 4K TV for Your PS4 Pro or Xbox One X
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Both Sony and Microsoft have huge sales ahead of, and going into, E3 2018 week. Microsoft has the Xbox One X on sale and Sony's PS4 Pro is on sale, too, among a ton of other games and consoles to pick up. Both consoles have some performance enhancements over the Xbox One S and PS4 Slim, but if you don't have a 4K TV, you don't get to see what these consoles are really capable of. You can still play Xbox One X or PS4 Pro on a 1080p television but seriously, why would you do that to yourself?
Warner Bros. Teasing New Game Announcement
On the heels of E3 2018, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment (WB Games) is up to something.
In a mysterious Twitter post that went up early Monday afternoon, the official WB Games account posted a short four-second teaser video announcing that a 72-hour countdown has begun before some sort of reveal.
Legally Blonde 3 in the Works
Legally Blonde 3 is reportedly in development.
Deadline reports Reese Witherspoon is in talks with MGM to reprise her role as Elle Woods in the sequel. Witherspoon would also be producing the project alongside Marc Platt and Adam Siegel.
Reese Witherspoon in Legally Blonde.
Kirsten “Kiwi” Smith and Karen McCullah, the writers who penned the adapted script for the 2001 original film, are also in final talks to write the screenplay for the potential Legally Blonde 3. No word yet on who could be directing.
ASUS Republic of Gamers Announce ROG Phone
ASUS Republic of Gamers has revealed the ROG Phone, a "game-changing smartphone."
The 6-inch phone is designed with performance in mind for keen mobile gamers, boasting the "world's fastest speed-binned 2.96GHz octa-core" processor, 8 GB of RAM and a Qualcomm AdrenoTM 630 GPU.
The power is sustained by the GameCool cooling system and a fully detachable cooler accessory to keep the phone (and your palms) at a steady temperature during a high-performance mobile gaming session.
Focus has also been levied on mitigating lag by incorporating Cat 16 LTE and a 60GHz 802.11ad Wi-Fi system.
ASUS chose an AMOLED display with a 90hz refresh rate and 1ms pixel response time, allowing for "great detail and HDR visuals."
Toy Story 4: Bo Peep Actress Says Pixar Threw Out ‘Most’ of Original Script
Toy Story 4 was delayed an entire year because Pixar threw out "most" of the film's original script, according to Bo Peep actress Annie Potts.
Speaking to Radio Times, Potts revealed Pixar decided to rework nearly the entire movie. This forced the studio to push back the film's release date from June 15, 2018, to June 21, 2019, with The Incredibles 2 taking Toy Story 4’s initial slot.
was supposed to come out this year and then they threw out three-quarters of it and rewrote,” Potts said. "Usually, it takes – from start to finish – two years.
Fortnite: Shopping Carts Are a Tad Bit Indestructible
Fortnite fans have discovered that the newly added shopping cart is quite the force of destruction, among other cool abilities.
Reddit user Pataxu used a shopping cart to slam into the side of the mysterious hatch that was discovered a few weeks ago. Nothing was inside, of course, but it was the first time anything was able to break down that door.
It's a similar story with the meteorite over at Dusty Divot. User toxicgiraffe built a ramp and zoomed down with the shopping cart, crashing into the meteorite and smashing it into pieces. Again, no alien machine monster was discovered underneath, but it does show that this little cart is capable of a lot more than it leads on.
Nintendo Partners With Astro for Zelda: Breath of the Wild Themed Headset
Astro Gaming has officially revealed its first product developed in partnership with Nintendo — an all-new Zelda: Breath of the Wild themed A10 headset that's made to work specifically with Nintendo Switch.
The headset is designed specifically for Nintendo Switch and is set to release this winter, with a public showing planned for E3. Astro notes that the Zelda themed A10's will feature full chat capability on Switch “with a new discreet chat cable." The unit has an omnidirectional mic and memory foam ear cushions.
