Monthly Archives: June 2015
CBS Announces Fall Premiere Dates, Including Supergirl
CBS has announced the broadcasting network's primetime premiere dates for the upcoming 2015-26 TV schedule, revealing that Supergirl will debut at 8:30 p.m. Monday, October 26 (with a new episode of the hit The Big Bang Theory used as a lead-in) before settling into a regular 8 p.m. time slot the following week.
The Big Bang Theory will kick off the fall season for CBS, with the show's ninth season premiering at 8 p.m. Monday, September 21. Life in Pieces will make its series debut at 8:30 p.m., followed by the season premieres of Scorpion and NCIS: Los Angeles.
Limitless, based off the Bradley Cooper-starring feature film, will begin at 10 p.m. Tuesday, September 22, premiering after NCIS and NCIS: New Orleans. Survivor will return for the reality show's 31st season on Wednesday, September 23, with Big Brother having its season finale afterward.
All Halo 5: Guardians DLC Maps Will Be Free
On top of the 20 multiplayer maps expected to launch with Halo 5: Guardians in October, 343 will also offer 15 additional DLC maps at no extra charge.
In Game Informer's Halo 5 cover story, 343 studio head Josh Holmes said they're looking to keep the player base united.
"When you have paid map packs and content, you divide the player base into two groups: the haves and the have-nots," Holmes said. "The people that have the map pack can play together but the people who don't cannot. That to us is a real problem. So we're delivering all the maps to all players free so everybody will be able to play together. That, we feel, is really important to having a great multiplayer ecosystem."
Xbox Live Gold Not Needed for Halo 5 Co-op
Despite Halo's longstanding ties to Xbox Live, Halo 5: Guardians won't require a Gold subscription to play 4-player online co-op.
The news comes from Game Informer's Halo 5 July cover story, which goes into detail on 343's upcoming campaign, multiplayer and cooperative features. According to the outlet, players won't need an Xbox Live Gold subscription to play online co-op. However, Halo 5, unlike previous series entries, won't support split-screen co-op.
During its time with a hands-on demo in Halo 5's campaign, Game Informer described the dynamic between the Master Chief and his Blue Team squad mates. Although they all have the same Spartan-II abilities, individual members have different spawn loadouts based on their area of expertise. Meanwhile, Sergeant Locke and the rest of Fireteam Osiris have access to slightly more advanced tech than the Chief and his team; Locke's Artemis Tracking System (ATS) points out alternate paths through missions, which will reportedly be numerous throughout the campaign.
Daredevil: Jon Bernthal Cast as The Punisher for Season 2
The role of The Punisher has been cast for Season 2 of Marvel's Daredevil on Netflix.
Daredevil: 5 Things We Want from Season 2
Per Marvel.com, Walking Dead alum Jon Bernthal will portray Frank Castle - aka The Punisher. Per the press release, he is, "One of Marvel’s most popular characters. He is a vigilante who aims to clean up New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen by any means necessary, no matter how lethal the results."
LEGO Marvel’s Avengers Coming Holiday 2015
LEGO Marvel's Avengers will be released this holiday season, Warner Bros. Games and TT Games announced today via an official E3 trailer.
The new trailer gives us a look at the Avengers in action, including Captain America breaking apart an enemy with his shield, Thor taking out a group of baddies with his hammer, and Hulk stopping the action to take a couple of selfies.
The tie-in to Marvel's Avengers films will feature notable events from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, including the Avengers' showdown with Loki in the Battle of New York.
Announced earlier this year, LEGO Marvel's Avengers will be released on Xbox One, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, Wii U, 3DS, and PC.
Halo 5: Guardians Will Feature Blue Team, Four-Player Co-Op
New details from Game Informer's Halo 5 July cover story reveals more about the role Blue Team will play in Guardians' campaign.
Frequently seen in Halo's expanded fiction, the Blue Team will be a major part of Halo 5's campaign, allowing not only for squad members Chief can issue orders to in combat, but also for four-player cooperative play. Chief, along with Linda, Fred, and Kelly, will each have their own unique loadouts suited to their combat abilities, and will all appear in cut scenes.
The Halo: Nightfall character Jameson Locke and his own personal Fireteam Osiris have been given the task of finding Master Chief and Blue Team after they've been declared AWOL by the military. Both stories will be present throughout Halo 5: Guardians' campaign, with Osiris sporting slightly more advanced tech than the Chief and his Spartan-II allies.
World of Warriors Expands to PlayStation
Mobile franchise World of Warriors will be coming to PlayStation.
Mind Candy announced its partnership with Sony Computer Entertainment Europe to bring the franchise to PlayStation, but didn't specify which PlayStation console.
Shahid Ahmad, director, strategic content at SCEE said SCEE believes World of Warriors as a console game "is going to appeal to a wide audience."
Mind Candy chief commercial officer Darran Garnham said the partnership with SCEE will bring "additional expertise, audiences and global distribution to the Warriors franchise."
Described as a "combat adventure-strategy game," World of Warriors puts players in control of a warrior drawn from history, be they Vikings, samurai or beyond, with a cutish style that you would expect from the company that also makes the Moshi Monsters franchise. Moshi Monsters is a browser-based game for kids wherein they adopt and care for cute monsters.
Podcast: DVD and Blu-ray giveaways with the ‘Gods
From their secluded home-theater compound, film critics Wade Major and Mark Keizer mix insightful commentary with irreverent banter, covering the latest DVD and Blu-ray news and new releases of the week, including studio, independent, television and special-interest titles.
Digigods Podcast, 06/9/15 (MP3) -- 30.2 MB
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The Top 10 Moments in the Jurassic Park Series
This article was originally published in April 2013.
To celebrate the release of Jurassic World - and just because we love the hell of the series - here are the most thrilling, awe-inspiring and outright terrifying moments in Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, and Jurassic Park III.
Spoilers ahead.
Fox Wants You to Forget About the Old Fantastic 4 Films
20th Century Fox really wants you to forget about their earlier Fantastic Four movies.
According to THR, the studio has pulled their original pair of big screen adaptations of the Marvel comic from digital platforms -- including iTunes and Amazon -- ahead of this August's release of the Fantastic Four reboot.
The trade's source claims Fox yanked the movies "so as not to distract from promotion of the rebooted franchise, which is seeking to establish a different tone than the previous releases. The source says the older titles might cause confusion in the marketplace. ... The source also indicated the older films could once again be available digitally after this summer's Fantastic Four comes out."