Monthly Archives: February 2016
Supergirl: First Photo of Silver Banshee
Back in December, CBS announced Italia Ricci (Chasing Life) would be joining Supergirl as Silver Banshee, and now, the first official photo of her in character has been unveiled.
Check out the terrifying alter-ego of Siobhan Smythe below, courtesy of ET.
Ricci as Silver Banshee in Supergirl
"We are so excited to be working with Italia. We've been a fan of her work for years and we cannot wait to see her take on this iconic comic book role," executive producer Andrew Kreisberg told ET.
See Game of Thrones’ Melisandre at a Baby Shower
Game of Thrones actress Carice van Houten appeared as her character Melisandre in a hilarious baby shower skit on last night's episode of Late Night with Seth Meyers.
In the clip, a group of women gather together for Seth Meyers' baby shower, during which Melisandre offers some rather grim words of inspiration, saying: "Clutch your child close to your breast, woman. For the night is dark and full of terrors."
During the skit, Melisandre also sets a chair on fire and spouts off other priceless lines, like: "Pray that it’s a son so the Lord of Light can look down upon him with favor."
Game of Thrones: Season 6 debuts Sunday, April 24. Series creator George R.R. Martin is still at work on the series' next novel, Winds of Winter, which won't be finished before the show's return.
Is The Revenant Now the Oscar Favourite?
After cleaning up at the BAFTAs, is The Revenant about to do the same at the Oscars? Maybe. We also chat about the latest Batman v. Superman trailer and how it has finally got us excited about the movie.
So, put the kettle on, get out some biscuits and settle down with the friendliest podcast in town.
IGN UK Podcast #319: Is The Revenant Now the Oscar Favourite?
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Quantum Break Has Gone Gold
Creative director at Remedy Sam Lake has taken to Twitter to announced Quantum Break has gone gold.
This means development on the game has been completed. Quantum Break is due for release on Xbox One and PC on April 5.
Gone GOLD #QuantumBreak @remedygames pic.twitter.com/ClINo3dkv7
— Sam Lake (@SamLakeRMD) February 19, 2016
According to IGN's preview, Quantum Break is a "shooter with brains." It mixes time manipulation with combat and superpowers to create a "refreshingly different action game."
Ragnaros & Alexstrasza Look Glorious in Art Preview
With Dark Horse's new hardcover World of Warcraft: Chronicle Volume 1 releasing on March 15, we've summoned up a 21-page preview of the tome that will tell the history of Azeroth.
The book features stories and artwork about Azeroth's most iconic and powerful characters like Ragnaros the Firelord and Alexstrasza the Life-Binder. Look, you've probably raided Blackrock Mountain and downed Rags a dozen times, so you at least owe it to yourself to learn the ancient history of the guy.
Also, Dark Horse has made it so you can download these pages for yourself, DRM free, until the book hits on March 15. It will retail for
First Images Released of Stephen Amell in Legends of Tomorrow
Stephen Amell has taken to social media to show off the first images of Old Oliver Queen on DC's Legends of Tomorrow.
The first video promo has also dropped that teases the upcoming episode, which will guest star Stephen Amell. Check that out below.
Amell posted two pictures to Twitter with the accompanying captions "I count 6 Legends and.......... 2 GA's?" and "Get up old man."
I count 6 Legends and.......... 2 GA's? pic.twitter.com/n8V1niHlte
Fallout 4 Wins Game of the Year at DICE Awards 2016
The 19th annual DICE Awards have wrapped, and Fallout 4 was the big winner of the evening.
The announcement was made this evening at the Pete Holmes-hosted affair at The Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas. Other notable winners were The Witcher 3, Ori and the Blind Forest, and Rocket League with 3 gongs each.
As well as the standard game awards, late Nintendo president Satoru Iwata was the recipient of a posthumous Lifetime Achievement Award, while Hideo Kojima was inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences' Hall of Fame.
The Academy is made up of publishers, developers and members of the Independent Game Developers Association.
The full list of nominees is below, with the winners in bold.
11 Awesome Batman v Superman Toys Coming This Year
With Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice only a month away, there was an awesome variety of merchandise on the show floor at Toy Fair in NYC this weekend.
DC announced a brand new line of action figures based on DC Entertainment films - the first few being Batman v Superman licensed. The figures feature up to 40 points of articulation and the first wave launches this fall with Batman and Superman from Dawn of Justice, as well as Zod and Faora from Man of Steel. Click right to see the whole line:
If you're on mobile, check out the album here.
DC also showcased the Dawn of Justice statue line, which will be releasing alongside the film for $150 USD each. Click right to see them all:
Pokken Tournament Aims for More Pokemon, Less Tekken
Pokken Tournament, by the development team’s own admission, may have started life as a “Tekken engine
with some Pokemon characters” thrown in. But it most certainly didn’t end up that way.
“As we worked on it,” began development director and producer of the Tekken series Katsuhiro Harada, “We knew we wanted to show off the Pokemon, and that led to implementing the
Field Phase, and we just really realized quickly in that prototype phase that we needed to just kind of create this whole thing from scratch. We even built an entire new rendering engine, and kind of came up with and entire new battle system for it.
“But it really is just built from the ground up for this entirely new type of fighting game.”
Geoff Johns Likens DC’s Rebirth to Star Wars
With the cat finally out of the bag as far as DC Rebirth is concerned, DC Chief Creative Officer spoke to Comic Book Resources about the motivation behind this massive comic book relaunch and how it'll reshape the DC Universe moving forward.
First, CBR posted the video message Johns recorded for comic books retailers attending the ComicsPRO convention today. Check it out below:
In his interview with CBR, Johns was candid about what he sees as some of the mistakes that have been made in recent years and his desire to build the DCU into something bigger. "I've been a fan for years -- I have over 60,000 comics and 99 percent of them are DC Comics. I really see this as an opportunity, and like I've said before, take all the characters and thematics that we love -- from the past and the present -- and build a story that brought them all together, revealed new secrets and truths and mysteries, and moved it all ahead. Again, as someone who absolutely loves the DC Universe, to me it's maybe lost some things. Not only characters, but more intangibles. Some essence to what makes the 'DC Universe' unique and brilliant and unpredictable. And every single character matters -- from Batman to Cassandra Cain to John Stewart to Saturn Girl to Blue Beetle to Lois Lane-- everyone is someone's favorite. And in comics, anything's possible."