Watchmen’s Doomsday Clock Ticks Forward
The Doomsday Clock, a metaphorical warning system for world-ending threats, has been moved to three minutes to midnight.
io9 reports that The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which administers the clock, cited global warming and nuclear proliferation as its reasoning behind the move. It has been at five minutes to midnight since 2012, when it was moved up from six due to concerns about nuclear safety. The closer to midnight, the closer we're said to be to a global catastrophe.
This makes the current position tied for the second-closest it's ever been, says io9. It has been at three minutes in 1984 during the Cold War, and in 1949 when the Soviet Union tested its own atomic bomb. It has only been closer to midnight once, in 1953, when both the United States and Soviet Union were testing thermonuclear weapons.
Avengers: Age of Ultron LEGO Images Might Reveal Spoilers
The official images and descriptions for the Avengers: Age of Ultron LEGO sets have been revealed, resulting in even more potential plot revelations. Warning: Potential spoilers follow.
The images were discovered on Amazon Japan and Amazon Germany, and we've already seen them from an earlier leak. However, they now include official descriptions straight from LEGO, and some of the details seem a little too specific to be the toy maker's creative license at work. Check out the slideshow below for the images and descriptions:
Raiden Lights Up in Next Chapter of Mortal Kombat X Comic
The Mortal Kombat X digital-first comic is in full swing, and we've got your exclusive first-look at the upcoming Chapter 4. Plus, we talked to series writer Shawn Kittelsen to learn more about what fans can expect.
Here's your first peek inside:
And here's the synopsis:
As the daughter of Johnny Cage and Sonya Blade, Cassie Cage thinks she’s seen it all. But when she finds herself in an illegal MMA deathmatch, Cassie must decide if she’s ready for her first taste of Mortal Kombat!
The chapter will be available for download on Sunday via the DC Comics App, Readdcentertainment.com, comiXology.com, Google Play, Kindle Store, Nook Store, iBooks, and iVerse ComicsPLUS.
Opinion: Why Cross-Platform Gaming Should Be a Reality
There is a wall that divides the greater community of gamers. It's the barrier that prevents two people who buy the same game, with the same features, made by the same developer and publisher, for the same price, from playing with or against each other, simply because they're on competing platforms. It exists for no real reason, other than that Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo feel the need to guard their walled-garden ecosystems with the jealous ferocity of Benedict Cumberbatch in a motion-capture suit.
Hulu Announces Original Series by VGHS Creators
Online streaming service Hulu has greenlit a brand new series by the creators of Video Game High School. The show will chronicle the behind-the-scenes creation of the video shorts creator Freddie Wong's RocketJump has become known for.
Hulu is working in conjunction with Lionsgate and RocketJump to produce eight episodes and a series of shorts. These episodes will air weekly, and all newly-created shorts will air first on Hulu. RocketJump will produce the show in association with Lionsgate.
RocketJump has amassed a total of over 7 million subscribers on YouTube, with over a billion total views on their channel's content. Video Game High School alone has reached over 84 million views in its first two seasons.
DayZ Standalone Reaches 3M Copies Sold
Bohemia Interactive's mod-turned-standalone game DayZ has sold 3,000,000 copies on PC.
Initially launched over a year ago on Steam Early Access, the team recently announced this sales milestone while also explaining some of their plans for development in 2015.
According to a press release, the development team at Bohemia Interactive is working to re-write the core engine upon which DayZ is built, in hopes to enhance performance and visual effects for players.
Results: Your Thoughts on Venom’s New Costume
We asked, and you answered. With Venom getting a new costume design in this week's Guardians of the Galaxy #23, we polled the IGN community about what they thought. Here are the results.
9.84% said they preferred the previous Agent Venom costume.
16.51% said the new look was amazing, while 22.21% said it was just okay.
OOTP 16 Debuts Official MLB License
Out of the Park Baseball 16 will ship in March featuring something the series never has before: licenses for official MLB and Minor League Baseball.
These licenses allow the long-running baseball sim to use official team and league logos, names, and jerseys from both the American and National League of MLB, all 30 of its teams, MiLB leagues, and historical MLB teams.
Read up on how the licensing agreements came to be on the OOTP blog.
If you're unfamiliar with the series, check out the trailer for last year's installment, Out of the Park Baseball 15, below.
Ronan Will Not Be in Guardians of the Galaxy 2
Actor Lee Pace has been vocal about his desire to reprise his role as Ronan the Accuser in a future Guardians of the Galaxy film, but it appears he won't be putting the Kree makeup on anytime soon.
During a Facebook Q&A, director James Gunn confirmed Ronan would not be making a return in Guardians of the Galaxy 2. When asked about future films, he remained vague, answering with "Perhaps someday."
