Monthly Archives: April 2019
The Tick Season 2: Dangerboat Returns and More
I have been onboard Dangerboat!
Last summer, I visited the set of Amazon Prime’s The Tick as the cast and crew were hard at work shooting the second season of the show. And yes, that meant I got to climb inside the sentient, lovestruck, high-tech craft which once watched the show’s Arthur (Griffin Newman) take a shower. It was great.
Peter Serafinowicz is back as the Tick, as is Newman as his trusty sidekick. And creator and showrunner Ben Edlund is also steering the ship (and Dangerboat) once again in Season 2, which just debuted on April 5. Read on for some of the highlights from my visit!
Some very vague spoilers follow for The Tick.
Peter Serafinowicz is back as the Tick.
Annabelle Comes Home Sets Loose the Demon Doll
The release of Avengers: Endgame, now just weeks away, kicks off 2019’s summer movie season. This year, we’re foregoing a traditional summer movie preview -- a single list-style film preview -- in favor of a month-long series of IGN First summer movie spotlights, featuring exclusive video debuts, image reveals, interviews and more.
IGN First is IGN's editorially-driven month-long spotlight of exclusives around upcoming film titles that both our audience -- and our staff! -- are excited about. We'll be rolling out exclusives on some of the most exciting new movies opening between the beginning of May until the end of August, so make sure to check back for even more exclusives throughout April.
Mark Hamill Pitched a Different Ending for The Force Awakens to JJ Abrams
Mark Hamill, Luke Skywalker himself, recently described a different ending to Star Wars: The Force Awakens that he pitched to director J.J. Abrams that would have been a touching call-back to A New Hope.
Talking to The Hollywood Reporter on the Awards Chatter Podcast for his role in History's Knightfall, their discussion eventually went to Star Wars. During their conversation, Hamill revealed a pitch he gave to Abrams that would have led to the reunion of Luke, Leia, and Han.
“You can still have me come in at the very end,” Hamill explains. “But how about this? Leia’s trying to contact me telepathically. She gets frustrated because there’s no answer so she rushes to the new Death Star…that's three so far...and she almost gets there when she’s stopped by two Stormtroopers. Just before she’s abducted, one Stormtrooper turns to the other and blows him away, pulls off his helmet and says, “Hi sis, I’m here to rescue you.”
Netflix Is Launching a Comedy Radio Station
Netflix is launching its first audio-only channel that will broadcast snippets from the streaming platform's comedy specials around the clock, in addition to other original content.
Netflix Is A Joke Radio will launch on April 15 and air on SiriusXM's Channel 93.
The station will be home to highlights from a stable of talent including Adam Sandler, Aziz Ansari, Bill Burr, Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, Ellen DeGeneres, Gabriel Iglesias, Jerry Seinfeld, John Mulaney, Ken Jeong, Ricky Gervais, Sarah Silverman, Sebastian Maniscalco, Trevor Noah, Wanda Sykes, and more.
"Netflix Is A Joke Radio on SiriusXM will be an audio extension of our award winning stand-up comedy on Netflix,” said Ted Sarandos, Netflix's chief content officer, in a press release via TechRadar. “We are thrilled to feature some of the greatest and funniest performers in the world with highlights from Netflix shows as well as original programming that further celebrates the art of comedy, and we are excited to do this in partnership with SiriusXM.”
Nvidia Delivers Ray Tracing to GTX GPUs and Several Tech Demos
Last month Nvidia announced it was bringing "basic ray tracing" to some of its non-RTX GPUs in April, and that update is now live on Nvidia's website. You can download the new graphics driver from Nvidia in order to enable this functionality, but keep in mind that "basic RT" effects are limited to just Pascal GPUs, and the GTX variants of its Turing cards, such as the GTX 1660 Ti and GTX 1660 (as well as laptops with equivalent GPUs). People who own RTX cards don't get much out of this update, other than the ability to say, "welcome to the party" to people with lesser GPUs in the comment sections of websites such as this.
Apex Legends Glitch Turns Gibraltar’s Shield Into a Bounce Pad
Apex Legends players have been having fun with an exploit that lets them attach Legends' items to Gibraltar's shield.
Not usually the most popular Legend, thanks to his huge hitbox and lumbering movement, Gibraltar's glitch has made him the belle of the ball. Players have discovered that when Gibraltar pulls out his shield, it acts as a solid surface that allows other players to deploy their various abilities on top of it, like Caustic's gas traps or Octane's launch pad.
What's more, sticking a launch pad onto Gibraltar's shield allows him to bounce around the map like a majestic volleyball, as demonstrated by YouTuber urnotjusti, via GamesRadar+.
Dark Souls Creator Would Like to Make a Rockstar-Style Narrative Game
The creator of Dark Souls, Bloodborne, and Sekiro has expressed interest in creating a game where the story is the focal point, rather than the gameplay.
Talking at the opening keynote presentation at Reboot Develop, a games industry event in Dubrovnik, Croatia, VG247 reports that FromSoftware’s Hidetaka Miyazaki explained that he’d love to make a game where story is the focus. He namechecked Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption 2 as an example of the kind of game he was thinking about.
Miyazaki spoke about this in a wider conversation about the idea of favouring gameplay over story. He appeared alongside Fumito Ueda, the creator of Shadow of the Colossus, who is also famed for prioritising gameplay mechanics.
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Mad Photos Reveal New Sims-Inspired Fashion Line
A range of The Sims-inspired clothing will soon be released by Italian fashion company Moschino.
The collection, which launches April 13, features pixelated designs, and a variety of accessories including the Sims’ iconic plumbob as an earring. It has been created in partnership with EA, as announced by an Electronic Arts press release.
“I love the idea of being able to imagine, design and bring to life a world of individual personas with The Sims universe,” said Jeremy Scott, Creative Director of Moschino. “That concept emulates what I get to do for each collection at Moschino as I create a fantasy universe of spectacular storylines and characters.”
How Days Gone Aims for Fun Above All
BEYOND!
On this week's episode of IGN's weekly PlayStation show, Beyond!, host Jonathon Dornbush is joined by Brian Altano, Max Scoville, and Jon Ryan to discuss Jon's trip to Bend Studio to learn more about Days Gone.
And, as you may have noticed, Beyond! is back in video form. You can find us in video, or in podcast form, each week at 3 p.m. PT on Wednesdays.
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