Monthly Archives: April 2018
Avengers ‘Road to Infinity War’ Art Features Ant-Man and the Wasp
New artwork for Avengers: Infinity War has been released, and it features many of Earth's Mightiest Heroes, including Ant-Man and the Wasp.
Marvel Studios head of visual development Ryan Meinerding created the art, dubbed "The Road to Infinity War—10 Years of the Marvel Cinematic Universe," for the D23 Summer Movie Spectacular magazine issue in celebration of the 10-year anniversary of the MCU.
The image features the Marvel superheroes in some of their older looks, including Black Widow with long red hair and Captain America in his World War II costume. Check out the art, courtesy of Meinerding's Instagram, below.
The One Avengers: Infinity War Poster With Hawkeye (That Everyone Forgot About)
It seems like the whole Internet has noticed that Hawkeye has been noticeably absent from Avengers: Infinity War's marketing material, but that wasn't always the case. Back in 2017, at San Diego Comic-Con, Marvel was handing out Avengers: Infinity War posters to eager fans that featured a bearded Captain America, Thanos with his gauntlet, and one of the team's most elusive heroes.
That's right, the heroic archer Hawkeye, aka Clint Barton, is tucked away in the upper right-hand corner of the poster (see below) right next to Bucky Barnes. As of late, Hawkeye has been missing in all of the trailers, the 22 new character posters, and virtually every piece of the movie's marketing material except for this single poster. At least he's getting his moment somewhere.
PUBG’s War Mode Will Be Made Into a Limited-Time Event
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds' War Mode, currently limited to custom games and custom servers, will be made into one of the game's new limited-time event modes at some point in the future.
Limited-time event mode was announced last month and PUBG's community coordinator Dan "RoboDanjal" announced that while war mode is in the "very early stages of development" on custom servers, they're looking to bring it to live servers as an event mode, but that it will "see changes between now and then".
Elias Plays Surprise Concert in New Orleans Ahead of WrestleMania
As wrestling fans know, when WrestleMania comes to town the event tends to take over the host city for a solid week. And in a city like New Orleans, where WrestleMania 34 will take place this Sunday, that means you might get surprised by an impromptu concert by Elias on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter.
Check out the on-location fan videos below for some glimpses of Elias' set.
Elias took over Bourbon Street w/ a surprise concert. How cool is that?!
— NXTFanNation (@NXTFanNation) April 6, 2018
: @WWE pic.twitter.com/Sh1bl3arsp
Fortnite Mobile Has Made $15 Million in Its First Month on the App Store
Fortnite launched on iOS last month as an invite-only event, and after opening up to everyone on the platform this week, it's reported that the free-to-play mobile title has made over $15 million in less than a month.
According to market researcher Sensor Tower, since the monetisation of the title on March 15, players have spent over $15 million on in-App purchases. On the day the invite-only requirement was removed, the average daily spend increased threefold, from $620,000 to over $1.8 million in a single day.
IGN UK Podcast #429: A Nice Quiet Place for a Chat
This week we're joined by possibly the nicest man to grace this earth, John Krasinski. Krazzers was in town to talk about his new film A Quiet Place and was kind enough with Gav to chat about The Office, auditioning for Captain America and The Prestige.
We also hear about Alysia's recent trip to the Games Developer Conference and Rory's been playing the new Dark Souls Remastered.
IGN UK Podcast 429: A Nice Quiet Place for a Chat
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Paul Heyman is Here to Crush Your CM Punk Dreams
It's 'Mania season, and with WrestleMania 34 airing this Sunday and fans speculating about which legends might surprise us with an appearance (and Braun Strowman still not having a tag team parter for his match), the inevitable "call for Punk" has returned. Could the self-exiled CM Punk come back for a one-time showing, putting aside the cauldron of bad blood bubbling between him and WWE?
Well, Punk's longtime friend, and former manager/advocate, Paul Heyman is pretty sure that ain't gonna happen. In an interview with the New York Post, Heyman stated “I don’t think CM Punk cares one way or another what’s going on in the world of sports entertainment."
The Avengers’ Secret Weapon to Beat Thanos in Infinity War
Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War will pit Earth’s mightiest heroes against Thanos as he vies to collect all six Infinity Stones in order to wipe out half of the universe with a snap of his fingers. To say it’s going to be tough for the Avengers to stop a master plan of that scale is the understatement of the century, but lucky for them, they already have a secret weapon to beat Thanos. And her name is Wanda Maximoff, the Scarlet Witch.
Watch the video above for a demonstration of Wanda's powers to go along with our theory.
Once Thanos gets his mitts on a few Infinity Stones, he’ll become exponentially more powerful. But Wanda could prove to be a match for his shiny new weapon based on what we saw her do in Captain America: Civil War. She was able to swiftly take down Vision when she used her powers to control the Mind Stone embedded in his forehead. That’s right: it looks like Wanda has the ability to manipulate Infinity Stones.
Jurassic Park Night Vision Goggles Become $449 Collectible
Chronicle Collectibles has unveiled its officially licensed 1:1 scale Jurassic Park Goggles available for pre-order today, priced at $449.
"This has been a passion project years in the making," said creative director, Paul Francis. "We went to Universal and got a hold of the actual screen-used goggles. We then measured, 3-D scanned, and photographed every square inch of them. What the fans are getting is a perfect recreation that they will be thrilled to own."
UFC Fights Cancelled After Conor McGregor Attacks Rival Fighters’ Bus
Three UFC 223 fights have been cancelled in the wake of Conor McGregor's attack on rival fighter Khabib Nurmagomedov's bus, which left two injured. A warrant was put out for the fighter's arrest, and after turning himself in, McGregor was charged with three counts of assault and one count of criminal mischief, reports Sky News.
McGregor and his entourage attacked the bus at a media event at the Barclays Center in New York. TMZ captured the incident on film, which shows McGregor smashing one of the bus' windows. The group of attackers continued to hurl nearby objects at bus, including a metal barrier and a large bin.