Monthly Archives: October 2016
Overwatch Halloween Event Appears to Leak
It looks as though Overwatch could be following up its Olympics-themed Summer Games event with the expected Halloween celebration.
Posted by Reddit user ChronosHero, a seemingly accidental Xbox Store listing shows a Halloween-themed loot box (an exploding pumpkin), the game's reward for leveling up, and its primary microtransaction.
Another Reddit user, TowerNine also posted a video of the listing. Blizzard has not yet confirmed anything about the event.
First Look at New Arrival Posters
Arrival is quite simply one of the best films of the year. Denis Villeneuve's super-smart sci-fi stars Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner, with the official synopsis as follows:
When mysterious spacecraft touch down across the globe, an elite team – led by expert linguist Louise Banks – is brought together to investigate. As mankind teeters on the verge of global war, Banks and the team race against time for answers – and to find them, she will take a chance that could threaten her life, and quite possibly humanity.
We reviewed the film at Fantastic Fest and absolutely loved it, though while Arrival doesn't hit screens till November, you can feast your eyes on two brand-new posters featuring the film's stars now...
New Iron Fist Poster Released
Following its premiere date reveal, and ahead of seeing a new trailer this weekend, Marvel has revealed a new poster for the upcoming Iron Fist series on Netflix.
Created by Marvel stalwart Joe Quesada, and revealed by way of a Facebook video (below), the concept art poster goes through several revisions, ending up with an image of Danny Rand chanelling his Chi in typically imposing fashion.
Daily Deals: PlayStation Virtual Reality Games, 49-Inch 4K HDR TV, Mafia III
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The cheapest place we have seen the PlayStation Virtual Reality headset go for is at Flubit.com who we got a price of £327.28 from. Tesco and Amazon have it for £349.00 which is a bit more expensive, but a good back up. Available October 13th, 2016.
9 Fantastic Films We Saw at the Greatest Genre Fest
Fantastic Fest is basically heaven for fans of genre cinema. The festival – which is based in and around the world-famous Alamo Drafthouse cinema in Austin, Texas – features scores of amazing films from all over the globe, which screen alongside parties, karaoke competitions, quizzes, debates, eating contests, live podcasts, stand-up comedy, and boxing matches in which you can watch movie fans pummel each other to pieces.
We reviewed some of the biggest films at this year's fest, including Denis Villeneuve’s amazing new sci-fi Arrival, heartbreaking creature feature A Monster Calls, the crazy Colossal, in which Anne Hathaway telepathically controls a giant kaiju stomping all over Seoul, and Raw, the cannibal movie that’s been making people faint (though not IGN - we're made of sterner stuff).
Oculus Founder Skips Company Event to Avoid Being a ‘Distraction’
Palmer Luckey, founder of Oculus VR, the company behind the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, decided to skip this week's Oculus Connect 3 to avoid being a "distraction," Polygon reports.
Speaking at the conference the company revealed it and Facebook, which owns Oculus, would be donating $10 million to diversity initiatives. This announcement comes just mere weeks after Luckey found himself in hot water after a recent controversy over his alleged contributions to a divisive political non-profit came to light.
War for the Planet of the Apes Footage Reaction
Caesar and his apes arrived in Manhattan today for New York Comic-Con, only to find that the Statue of Liberty was doing just fine, thank you. But nonetheless, War for the Planet of the Apes star Andy Serkis, director Matt Reeves and producer Dylan Clark used the occasion to debut a behind-the-scenes look, a seven-minute scene, and the teaser trailer for the upcoming film.
Here’s the logline for War: “In War for the Planet of the Apes, the third chapter of the critically acclaimed blockbuster franchise, Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the journey finally brings them face to face, Caesar and the Colonel are pitted against each other in an epic battle that will determine the fate of both their species and the future of the planet.”
Archer: Season 8’s Time Travel Plotline Explained
A loud, excited New York Comic Con crowd was treated to an equally raucous panel for Archer today, the animated spy comedy now moving to FXX for its 8th season next year.
For those of you wondering whether Sterling Archer is still alive following the Season 7 cliffhanger, the answer is, not shockingly, yes... sort of. As revealed this summer at SDCC, Season 8 -- also referred to as Archer: Dreamland -- will take place entirely in the year 1947. As the producers explained at the panel today, it will include all of the regular cast back in action, although in slightly different roles with slightly different origin stories.
In this 1947 timeline, for instance, Sterling Archer (H. Jon Benjamin) is no longer a spy, but rather a private investigator on the hunt for the person who murdered his old partner, Woodhouse - George Coe, the actor who voiced Woodhouse in earlier seasons passed away in 2015.
Tons of New Star Wars Rogue One Toys Revealed
Hasbro revealed a whole bunch of new toys from the upcoming Rogue One: A Star Wars Story film opening in December. It also revealed new figures from The Force Awakens.
Among the toys on display are new Rogue One entries into its Star Wars Black Series line of figures, as well as 3.75-inch figures. Perhaps the most exciting of the new Black Series figures, however, is Darth Vader, the original big bad of the Star Wars universe.
Black Series toys are premium 6-inch figures with good detail, while the 3.75-inch are more inline with the sort of action figures you might have buried in a sandbox in your youth. Although the modern 3.75-inch figures, while not as detailed as the Black Series counterparts, are world's above the old (but still awesome) Kenner figures of yore when it comes to detail.
Pokemon Go Will Make Gym Training Easier in New Update
Less than 24 hours after announcing its new update for Pokemon Go, which will make catching rare Pokemon easier, Niantic Labs revealed new additions coming to the mobile game that will make training at gyms easier for players at all levels.
Posting to the Pokemon Go website, the developer explained players will now have the option to bring six Pokemon to a friendly gym, rather than the previous one. The new update will also allow enemy Pokemon's CP to be temporarily lowered during training matches to match the training player's CP. Niantic has not yet revealed when the update is expected to roll out.