Monthly Archives: July 2018
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Ms. Marvel Co-Creator Takes Over Wonder Woman at DC
DC Comics' ongoing Wonder Woman series is getting a new creative team, with Ms. Marvel co-creator G. Willow Wilson taking the helm.
Per Newsarama, Wilson and artist Cary Nord are taking over starting with Wonder Woman #58, which will be released on November 14. The storyline will follow Wonder Woman trying to find and save Steve Trevor after his military unit goes missing.
Diana Prince will investigate inside a war-torn Eastern European country and will also run into the God of War, Ares, who Diana will try to redeem.
“I’m delighted to be writing such an iconic character as Wonder Woman and to be working with DC once again,” Wilson said in a statement.
Ms. Marvel Co-Creator Takes Over Wonder Woman at DC
DC Comics' ongoing Wonder Woman series is getting a new creative team, with Ms. Marvel co-creator G. Willow Wilson taking the helm.
Per Newsarama, Wilson and artist Cary Nord are taking over starting with Wonder Woman #58, which will be released on November 14. The storyline will follow Wonder Woman trying to find and save Steve Trevor after his military unit goes missing.
Diana Prince will investigate inside a war-torn Eastern European country and will also run into the God of War, Ares, who Diana will try to redeem.
“I’m delighted to be writing such an iconic character as Wonder Woman and to be working with DC once again,” Wilson said in a statement.
Fortnite Summer Skirmish Series Announced With Prize Pool of $8 Million
Epic Games will be hosting the Fortnite Summer Skirmish series, an 8-week series of competitions with a prize pool of $8 million USD.
Announced on a blog post by the Fortnite team, The Summer Skirmish series will kick-off this weekend with a $250,000 Duos competition comprising of “community creators and Fortnite players who have demonstrated their competitive prowess.”
The team has also noted that “in order to jumpstart the competition, invitations for the inaugural Summer Skirmish matches have already been sent. Stay tuned for more information on how you can qualify for an event.”
Fortnite Summer Skirmish Series Announced With Prize Pool of $8 Million
Epic Games will be hosting the Fortnite Summer Skirmish series, an 8-week series of competitions with a prize pool of $8 million USD.
Announced on a blog post by the Fortnite team, The Summer Skirmish series will kick-off this weekend with a $250,000 Duos competition comprising of “community creators and Fortnite players who have demonstrated their competitive prowess.”
The team has also noted that “in order to jumpstart the competition, invitations for the inaugural Summer Skirmish matches have already been sent. Stay tuned for more information on how you can qualify for an event.”
Twitter Removing Millions of Fake Followers
In an effort to reduce the number of fake accounts on Twitter, the social media giant will be deleting tens of millions of accounts starting this Thursday.
As reported by The New York Times, the reasoning for Twitter deleting the accounts stems from extensive social media fraud, where some users inflate their own follower count by using automated fake accounts in order to bolster their status on the service.
Starting on Thursday, many users will see their follower number fall - even those who haven't explicitly bought fake followers. No specific number of the accounts expected to be deleted was given, though it did confirm that the number would be in the tens of millions. Twitter anticipates that this will reduce the total combined follower count on the site by roughly six percent.
Twitter Removing Millions of Fake Followers
In an effort to reduce the number of fake accounts on Twitter, the social media giant will be deleting tens of millions of accounts starting this Thursday.
As reported by The New York Times, the reasoning for Twitter deleting the accounts stems from extensive social media fraud, where some users inflate their own follower count by using automated fake accounts in order to bolster their status on the service.
Starting on Thursday, many users will see their follower number fall - even those who haven't explicitly bought fake followers. No specific number of the accounts expected to be deleted was given, though it did confirm that the number would be in the tens of millions. Twitter anticipates that this will reduce the total combined follower count on the site by roughly six percent.
Fortnite: Season 5 Downtime and Patch Information Detailed
Epic has detailed what Fortnite players can expect for the launch of Season 5 tomorrow.
Season 4 will conclude at 1am PST on July 12 and downtime for the 5.0 patch will begin immediately after. As soon as downtime begins, Epic will release patch notes detailing new additions and any other changes coming to Fortnite.
In the past, downtime between updates typically lasted an hour, but updates between seasons are typically longer. Epic has stated the patch size this time around will be larger than normal.
Any replays saved before the update will rendered useless after downtime concludes.
An Epic employee teased the upcoming changes in a Reddit comment stating, "The level of hype I've been carrying around has been heavy. Prepare yourselves!"
Fortnite: Season 5 Downtime and Patch Information Detailed
Epic has detailed what Fortnite players can expect for the launch of Season 5 tomorrow.
Season 4 will conclude at 1am PST on July 12 and downtime for the 5.0 patch will begin immediately after. As soon as downtime begins, Epic will release patch notes detailing new additions and any other changes coming to Fortnite.
In the past, downtime between updates typically lasted an hour, but updates between seasons are typically longer. Epic has stated the patch size this time around will be larger than normal.
Any replays saved before the update will rendered useless after downtime concludes.
An Epic employee teased the upcoming changes in a Reddit comment stating, "The level of hype I've been carrying around has been heavy. Prepare yourselves!"
Y: The Last Man Pilot Casts Dunkirk’s Barry Keoghan
FX's Y: The Last Man TV pilot has cast its main characters.
The network announced Dunkirk's Barry Keoghan and Man of Steel's Diane Lane have joined the potential series, alongside Imogen Poots, Lashana Lynch, Juliana Canfield, and Marin Ireland.
Keoghan will portray the main character from the graphic novels, Yorick Brown. He may be the lone survivor of a worldwide plague. Lane will star as Senator Jennifer Brown, Yorick, and Hero Brown's mother. She's a senator in her first term who puts personal ideals above politics.
Meanwhile, Poots will play Hero Brown, Yorick's sister and a tough and confident EMT. Lynch has been cast as a Secret Service agent, Agent 355, while Canfield will play Brooklyn-based knife maker Beth. Ireland will play the President’s senior assistant and right hand, Nora.