App Store Update: January 16
Every day hundreds of new apps make their debut on the App Store, and hundreds more are updated or reduced in price. We have sifted through the noise and highlighted those select few that might be worth your attention.
Note: The prices and deals compiled below are accurate at the time we published this story, but all are subject to change.
Socioball – ($2.99)
Arrange tiles to guide a rolling, bouncing ball safely to the goal in this clean-looking puzzler:
Fantastic 4 Trailer Dropping With Kingsman
Whether you're psyched for the film or dreading it, everyone's been waiting to see something -- anything -- from Fox's upcoming reboot of Fantastic Four, especially since the movie is scheduled to hit theaters August 7 and no one's seen or heard anything from it. That's about to change.
Fantastic Four writer-producer Simon Kinberg informed Latino-Review that the first trailer for Fantastic Four will be attached to Fox's other big comic book movie, Kingsman: The Secret Service, when that opens February 13.
NVC: Are You Buying a New Nintendo 3DS XL at Launch?
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IGN Editor Ryan McCaffrey takes off to space in this NVC art by @Pandamusk.
NBC’s Allegiance Isn’t The Americans Says Producer
At first glance, incoming NBC drama Allegiance sounds an awful lot like FX's acclaimed series The Americans. Russian spies? Check. Family drama? Check. Conflicted morals and allegiances? Check, check and check. But according to the series’ showrunner and director George Nolfi, that’s where the similarities end.
“Watch one or two episodes and I think it’s pretty clear that we’re going in a different direction, Nolfi told reporters during the 2015 TCA Winter Press Tour on Friday. “This is a family drama about people who don’t want to be spies. On one side they face the possibility of death and the other life in prison. That’s just an extremely different setup and where we take it is different as well.”
Black Widow, Winter Soldier Back for Cap 3
In case there were any doubts, Black Widow and The Winter Soldier will indeed be back for 2016's Captain America: Civil War.
Sibling directors the Russo brothers disclosed the information during a recent interview in Beijing. Check out their video interview below (via Latino-Review):
Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., and Anthony Mackie star in Captain America: Civil War, which will also mark the big screen debut of Chadwick Boseman's Black Panther.
Mackie has been doing press lately for his new movie Black or White during which time he's also revealed that Falcon will have a new costume in Cap 3 and that the movie begins a five-month shoot this April and will film in Berlin, Puerto Rico and Atlanta.
2014’s Most Downloaded PlayStation Store Games
Update: The original story lists numbers for the EU PlayStation Store. The US numbers provided by Sony have been added.
Sony has shared the top games of 2014 for the US PlayStation Store in a post on the PlayStation Blog.
The US list sees Sword Art Online: Hollow Fragment as the best-selling Vita game of last year, with Minecraft following in second.
Daily Deals: Xbox One Is $350 Again, PS4 Is $370, Grand Budapest Hotel Is $6, Majora’s Mask Pre-Order Discount
Pre-order Grand Theft Auto V on PC for $46.20
Use code SAVE23-PEROFF-MOSANT to save $13 on the PC version of GTA V.
IGN Arena Episode 22: The State of Dota 2
This week's episode is an all-Dota 2 special, because we're joined by GoodGame's Aaron Chambers, who you may know better as Ayesee. The Dota 2 caster joins Mitch Dyer, Brian Albert, James Faulkner to dive deep into Dota 2's evolving meta, and what it means for players and tournaments going forward.
Additionally, expect a lot of talk about The International, Compendiums, and how both of those create a concerning attitude in professional and amateur players alike. Finally, DIREBOYS, the Evil Geniuses-centric documentary about the team's time at The International 4. You can watch that in its entirety below -- and we strongly recommend you do so. It's wonderful.
This Week in the Nintendo eShop
This week's downloads have a retro slant, whether it's the Virtual Console releases of Lufia: The Legend Returns or Street Fighter 2010 (or the release of Super Mario Galaxy 2 earlier this week) or the copious amount of retro-styled games out on Wii U and 3DS. The best part of the eShop this week, however, are the sales. You can pick up Super Mario 3D World, Super Mario Galaxy 2, and Yoshi's New Island for cheap. You can also snag a number of awesome Wii U indie games for up to 60% off (if you bought one of the other participating games). Picking up one of those sale games might me optimal while you're waiting for the New 3DS to arrive next month.
Electronic Super Joy: Groove City ($4.99)
NBC on Constantine’s Performance and if it Could Return
Is there still a chance for Constantine? NBC decided to not order any more episodes this season beyond the initial 13, but were also quick to indicate the show had not been cancelled yet and that that determination was still to be made, depending on how the remaining Season 1 episodes perform.
At the TCA (Television Critics Association) press tour today, I asked NBC president Jennifer Salke and chairman Robert Greenblatt about Constantine’s performance and its chances.
Said Salke, “We wish the show had done better live. It has a big viewership after
in all kinds of ways and it has a younger audience, but the live number is challenging. It hasn't come out in the way we wanted it to, but we love the show. I think it's fair to say we're still talking about it.”