Monthly Archives: August 2017
The Division Update Adds Global Events, New Gear, More
The Division's 1.7 update is out now and it adds several changes to the game.
According to Ubisoft, the free update brings with it Global Events, which are week-long themed events that will let players earn new vanity items and classified gear via earned Tokens. Some of these events will also have global modifiers, which will affect regular PvE missions and the game's map in interesting ways.
Players can also look forward to acquiring the new classified gear sets, which grant bonuses for equipping five or six pieces at a time. There are also plenty of new cosmetic items, with patches and faces masks that can be earned by completing challenges.
NASA Could Send Your Message 13 Billion Miles Into Space
Until 11:59pm (PT) today, NASA is accepting submissions for a social media message to send to the Voyager spacecraft.
Voyager 1 is the single most distant human-made object ever, and the first spacecraft to enter interstellar space, and Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to fly by Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. In essence, whoever wins the #MessageToVoyager contest will have their message beamed 13 billion miles into space.
Batman: Creature of the Night Explores Real-Life Tragedy and Grief
Batman: Creature of the Night, on sale in November, delves into the real-life tragedy and grief of losing your parents.
According to DC Comics, Creature of the Night is a four-issue limited series written by Kurt Busiek (Astro City) and drawn by John Paul Leon (Mother Panic), and it tells the story of an orphaned boy who goes through a similar tragedy to Bruce Wayne's.
Batman: Creature of the Night art, image via DC Comics.
Game of Thrones Once Again Sets Ratings Record
The most recent episode of Game of Thrones, "Eastwatch," brought in 10.7 million viewers, once again setting ratings records for the hit HBO series. The episode marks back-to-back weeks in which the series broke its previous viewership record.
The previous, short-lived record holder was last week's "The Spoils of War," which pulled in 10.2 million viewers, according to TV By The Numbers. Prior to that, the Season 7 premiere was the series' most-watched episode at 10.1 million.
Deadly Premonition Developer Announces New Game
Deadly Premonition and D4 developer Hidetaka "Swery" Suehiro has revealed his next game, a mystery RPG called The Good Life.
In line with the developer's history of bizarre video game premises, The Good Life is set in the fictional English town of Rainy Woods, a place where "all the town's residents turn into cats" during the night. According to the announcement, the RPG stars Naomi, a New York photographer in massive debt trying to uncover the town's secrets, who also becomes a cat at night.
The Good Life's Naomi in human and cat form. Image via Fig
Walking Dead: Season 8 Is Taking the Fight Back to Negan
The Walking Dead returns in just a little over two months on October 22nd, but to preview the new season and look back at the big moments of Season 7, actor Tom Payne came by IGN for a sit-down interview.
The full interview is below, but one of the most interesting things Payne talked about was how the upcoming Season 8 premiere, which is also the show's 100th episode, serves as a jumping off point for what's to come.
"It's been just crazy action, and really exciting to film and to read and to be involved in," said Payne, who plays Jesus. "Scott Gimple's spoken a lot about the 100th episode being a jump off for the next hundred episodes. Season 8 certainly starts with a big bang and then continues to ramp up, which is really exciting. I know the audience will be really happy with certainly how it starts, because they're taking the fight back, and then every single episode in the first half there's a moment which makes you go, 'Wow, oh my god, I can't believe that.'"
New Xbox Controller Adapter Delayed to 2018 in US
Microsoft's new, smaller Xbox Wireless Adapter has been delayed.
Windows Central reports the adapter was originally meant to launch last week on August 8 in the US, with a slow rollout across other markets. However, a Microsoft representative confirmed to the outlet that the adapter will now release on January 31, 2018 in North America.
New Xbox One Wireless Adapter, image via Windows Central
Marvel Legacy Resurrects the Power Pack
Marvel Comics has revealed that the Power Pack will be returning as part of this fall's Marvel Legacy relaunch. A new Power Pack ongoing series by writer Devin Grayson (Nightwing) and artist Marika Cresta (Grimm: Tales of Terror) will join three other current Marvel titles (Guardians of the Galaxy, Spider-Man/Deadpool and Ben Reilly: Scarlet Spider) in being inducted into the Marvel Legacy lineup in November.
Comicbook.com debuted the cover art and solicitation text for these four series. Scroll down to find out what to expect from this new wave of Legacy books.
Captain Marvel Movie Enlists Tomb Raider Screenwriter
Marvel has tapped Geneva Robertson-Dworet to take over scripting duties for Captain Marvel.
According to Deadline, the script was previously being written by Nicole Perlman (Guardians of the Galaxy) and Meg LeFauve (Inside Out), but LeFauve left the project to co-direct Gigantic, Disney Animation's upcoming take on Jack and the Beanstalk.
In addition to Captain Marvel, Robertson-Dworet is writing the upcoming Alicia Vikander-led Tomb Raider movie and the Harley Quinn spinoff, Gotham City Sirens.
The Witch Director Reteams with Taylor-Joy for Nosferatu
The Witch director Robert Eggers is looking to reteam with Anya Taylor-Joy for his upcoming Nosferatu remake.
Variety reports Taylor-Joy, who played the lead role of Thomasin in The Witch, is in talks to star in an unspecified role in Nosferatu.
Anya Taylor-Joy in The Witch
Not much is known about the remake, besides the fact that Eggers will both direct and write the film, with Chris Columbus and Eleanor Columbus producing.