Monthly Archives: August 2018

Disney’s Star Wars Land Cantina Will Sell Alcohol

Oga's Cantina at the new Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge attraction at Disneyland will be the first place alcohol will be served at an open attraction within the Disneyland park in it's 63-years. The only other place guests have been able to enjoy alcohol is at the invite-only Club 33 that is concealed in New Orleans Square, THR reports.

Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge attraction is set to be completed in 2019, as announced on Disney Parks Blog.

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Disney’s Star Wars Land Cantina Will Sell Alcohol

Oga's Cantina at the new Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge attraction at Disneyland will be the first place alcohol will be served at an open attraction within the Disneyland park in it's 63-years. The only other place guests have been able to enjoy alcohol is at the invite-only Club 33 that is concealed in New Orleans Square, THR reports.

Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge attraction is set to be completed in 2019, as announced on Disney Parks Blog.

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Chris Hemsworth Teams with Russo Bros. for Action Thriller

Chris Hemsworth is teaming up with the Russo Brothers for a new film.

According to THR, Hemsworth will star in Dhaka, an action thriller from first-time director Sam Hargrave. The Russo Brothers wrote the film and will serve as producers on the project.

The movie tells the story of a mercenary, played by Hemsworth, who takes a job to save the son of a businessman. Dhaka is a Netflix production, and filming starts in November.

Hargrave is a stunt coordinator who works as Chris Evans' stunt double.

Hemsworth most recently appeared in the Russo Brothers' Avengers: Infinity War, playing Thor. Hemsworth will reprise the role in the next Avengers film coming out in May. Hemsworth was also slated to appear in Star Trek 4, but negotiations have reportedly stalled.

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Chris Hemsworth Teams with Russo Bros. for Action Thriller

Chris Hemsworth is teaming up with the Russo Brothers for a new film.

According to THR, Hemsworth will star in Dhaka, an action thriller from first-time director Sam Hargrave. The Russo Brothers wrote the film and will serve as producers on the project.

The movie tells the story of a mercenary, played by Hemsworth, who takes a job to save the son of a businessman. Dhaka is a Netflix production, and filming starts in November.

Hargrave is a stunt coordinator who works as Chris Evans' stunt double.

Hemsworth most recently appeared in the Russo Brothers' Avengers: Infinity War, playing Thor. Hemsworth will reprise the role in the next Avengers film coming out in May. Hemsworth was also slated to appear in Star Trek 4, but negotiations have reportedly stalled.

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What is Ray Tracing, and Should You Care?

Be sure to visit IGN Tech for all the latest comprehensive hands-on reviews and best-of roundups. 

Nvidia’s new RTX line of graphics cards is coming soon, and this time around they’re offering more than just the typical performance boost over the previous generation. The RTX series GPUs are the first consumer GPUs that are capable of performing real-time ray tracing, which is a pretty awesome advancement in 3D graphics as it will, in theory, allow games to look more realistic than ever before. Let's take a look at what this technology actually is, why you should care, and why it's still pretty hard to for even this new hardware to pull it off.

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Sony Says the PS5 Can Do Ray Tracing, Here’s What That Means

We just learned a whole lot more about the upcoming PS5, thanks to another interview with system architect Mark Cerny. In it, he delved a bit more into how the PS5 will deal with ray tracing⁠—the ultra-realistic lighting effects that have been all the rage on gaming PCs this year⁠. Let's take a look at what this technology actually is, why you should care, and what it might look like on Sony’s upcoming console.

Real-time ray tracing demonstrated in Battlefield V at an Nvidia press event. Real-time ray tracing demonstrated in Battlefield V at an Nvidia press event.

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Every TV Show Coming to Apple

Apple may be late to the digital streaming game, with the likes of Netflix, Amazon and Hulu already dominating most of the online entertainment conversation, but with a market value of over $1 trillion, the tech giant is more than capable of making its own mark in the highly competitive "original programming war."

Currently, Apple has 26 shows in production or development, featuring a wide range of programs, from reality TV series, like James Corden's Carpool Karaoke, all the way to ambitious science fiction projects, like David S. Goyer's adaptation of Isaac Asimov's seminal sci-fi epic, Foundation

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Every TV Show Coming to Apple

Apple may be late to the digital streaming game, with the likes of Netflix, Amazon and Hulu already dominating most of the online entertainment conversation, but with a market value of over $1 trillion, the tech giant is more than capable of making its own mark in the highly competitive "original programming war."

Currently, Apple has 26 shows in production or development, featuring a wide range of programs, from reality TV series, like James Corden's Carpool Karaoke, all the way to ambitious science fiction projects, like David S. Goyer's adaptation of Isaac Asimov's seminal sci-fi epic, Foundation

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Game of Thrones: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Shares “Emotional” Goodbye to Jaime Lannister

In an interview with Huffington Post, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau expressed that it was an emotional goodbye to his longtime Game of Thrones character.

Coster-Waldau, who plays Jaime Lannister in the HBO series said there were many teary goodbyes and farewell dinners throughout the season, so there was so much build-up at the end.

"When my turn came around, I really didn’t think it was going to phase me," Coster-Waldau said. "But I have to admit that right when they said, “This is a series wrap for Nikolaj,” there might have been a tiny bit of moisture in the air, just around my eyes.

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Game of Thrones: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Shares “Emotional” Goodbye to Jaime Lannister

In an interview with Huffington Post, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau expressed that it was an emotional goodbye to his longtime Game of Thrones character.

Coster-Waldau, who plays Jaime Lannister in the HBO series said there were many teary goodbyes and farewell dinners throughout the season, so there was so much build-up at the end.

"When my turn came around, I really didn’t think it was going to phase me," Coster-Waldau said. "But I have to admit that right when they said, “This is a series wrap for Nikolaj,” there might have been a tiny bit of moisture in the air, just around my eyes.

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