10 Best Comedies Streaming on Netflix
Life is pretty hard, and although the cinematic landscape is densely populated with rich and meaningful dramas that elevate our minds and enrich our culture, sometimes after a long day you just want to sit down and giggle. And if you’re anything like us, sometimes you’re just too danged lazy to look much further than Netflix.
Don’t worry — we’ve got you covered. We’ve searched through the Netflix database and whittled their whole comedy section down to these eleven highlights, which are practically guaranteed to tickle your funny bone, warm your hearts, and make this rough-and-tumble life of ours a little more bearable for a while.
Huge Image Gallery From the Thor: Ragnarok Teaser
The new teaser for Thor: Ragnarok dropped today, to the delight of pretty much everyone.
Helped along by the rock backing of Led Zeppelin's "The Immigrant Song," the trailer is visually incredible, evoking '80s metal kitsch with the modern Marvel movie aesthetic.
In other words, it looks amazing. To properly bathe your eyes in the Asgardian goodness, check out the slide show below:
The first poster for Thor: Ragnarok also dropped today, showing Thor with his new short haircut and gladiator garb.
Thor: Ragnarok hits US theaters November 3, which, after seeing the teaser, seems like an awfully long ways away.
Konami Code Works With New Bank of Canada Ad
Not only will the Konami code get you extra lives in Contra, but it'll also make it rain money on a new Back of Canada website ad.
The Bank of Canada is currently highlighting a new $10 CAD note. And Kotaku Australia realized that the website is compatible with the Konami code.
The Konami code leads to money raining down and the national anthem playing on the Bank of Canada ad for the new $10 CAD note.
Marvel Comics Responds to X-Men Gold Art Controversy
Marvel Comics has issued a statement in response to the controversial artwork included in X-Men Gold #1.
The issue includes a reference to political protests in Indonesia, as well as a set of numbers that reference a verse from the Qur'an that supports the intolerance of other religions.
Marvel released a statement to ComicBook.com to address the controversial artwork, confirming the references were included without their knowledge and will be removed from future printings. See the company's full statement below:
The mentioned artwork in X-Men Gold #1 was inserted without knowledge behind its reported meanings. These implied references do not reflect the views of the writer, editors or anyone else at Marvel and are in direct opposition of the inclusiveness of Marvel Comics and what the X-Men have stood for since their creation. This artwork will be removed from subsequent printings, digital versions, and trade paperbacks and disciplinary action is being taken.
5 Huge Games Almost Looked Completely Different
All video games go through changes in the early design stages. Designers hold onto the good bits, weave in new ideas, and try their best to bury the bad ones where no one will ever, ever find them. Generally that means minor tweaks and adjustments — you can't massively overhaul a game once you've already begun, right? Actually, you wouldn't recognize many of your favorite games if you stumbled across them early in development.
Below are five beloved games that started out as something completely different.
Unless you've been trapped in an underwater city for the last decade, you've probably played Bioshock. But the earliest version didn't even take place in Rapture, one of the most captivating settings in gaming. The location was a space station bursting at the seams with horrible mutants.
How Does Your Name.’s Opening Box Office Compare to Other Anime Film Debuts?
Your Name. debuted at No. 12 at the domestic box office over the weekend, taking in an estimated $1.6 million from only 303 theaters. And while the film may not have cracked the top 10, it did earn one of the 10 highest grossing domestic opening weekends for anime films.
Despite the small number of theaters in which it screened, Your Name. debuted as the ninth biggest anime opening weekend in the U.S., ranking just below Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F,' which opened in 183 theaters.
All seven films above Your Name. and Resurrection 'F' opened in more than 900 theaters, which makes direct comparisons difficult, but check out the top 10 anime film openings in the U.S. below (numbers via BoxOfficeMojo):
New Naruto Game Revealed Alongside Remastered Collection
Bandai Namco has revealed two Naruto-related projects: Naruto to Boruta: Shinobi Striker, a new entry in the popular anime game series, and Naruto Shippudden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Legacy, a remaster collection of four previously released games.
First, Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker is being developed by Soleil Ltd. This acrobatic ninja brawler will pit up to eight combatants against each other simultaneously in four vs. four matches. Since it's a new entry in the series, Naruto to Boruto will feature a new style of graphics with vivid colors and dynamic third-person gameplay that will seek to leverage vertical fighting arenas. Players can choose to play co-op online and select from series mainstays including Naruto, Sasuke, and Team 7.
Elder Scrolls Online Free to Play This Week
The Elder Scrolls Online will be free to play this week from April 11 to April 18 on PS4, Xbox One, Mac and PC.
The free trial includes access to the full The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited base game and 500 Crowns for players to spend. To play for free, players simply need to download the game starting tomorrow after 7 a.m. PT/10 a.m. ET/3 p.m. UK on the PlayStation Store, Xbox Store or Steam page and create an account.
Any progress you make during the free trial, including any items you might have purchased, will be carried over when you buy the game at a special discounted rate during the week.
This free trial comes ahead of the next expansion for the game, The Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind, which releases on June 6. The expansion will feature a new 4 vs. 4 vs. 4 PvP mode called Battlegrounds, as well as a new class and combat ally.
Everyone’s Least Favorite Version of Windows Reaches Its End
After a long and courageous battle with relevance, support for Windows Vista officially ends April 11, 2017.
The follow-up to Microsoft's beloved Windows XP operating system, Vista sadly failed to live up to its marketing hype. Perhaps most famous for introducing alerts whenever users attempted to make changes, the operating system was best known for constantly interrupting work rhythm with needless alerts.
On top of being intrusive, it also gobbled precious computing resources like CPU and RAM. Generally speaking, people hated it, preferring to stick with Windows XP. In fact, the enormous popularity of Windows XP gave it a life spanning from 2001 all the way to April 2014.
Fable Creator on ‘Big Mistake’ He Made With the Series
Peter Molyneux recently discussed his regrets regarding the Fable series, citing the large time jumps between each game as the "big mistake" he made with Microsoft's fantasy role-playing franchise. "I think we moved through time
too quickly," he said on the latest episode of our monthly interview show IGN Unfiltered. He noted how the original Fable and Fable II were 500 years apart, and, in retrospect, he thinks it should have been a 50-year time jump instead.
"It meant that the world jumped," he continued. "The same with Fable II to Fable III. Again, the world jumped into more of a kind of inspired by Victorian times. I loved the fact that Bowerstone had grown into more of an industrial thing, but we moved too far forward and that meant that we ran out of time. You know, where do we go next? Fable in space? That didn't really fit."