Monthly Archives: March 2020
Marvel’s WandaVision Wraps Production With Celebratory Cast Photo
In the accompanying caption, Grabowsky wrote: "Guys, I may or may not have gone a little overboard on the photobooth, though how can you not with these beauts?! Thankful for the BEST crew in the world, and not only were they up to the challenge, every person here helped to make this show beyond special!"
Alongside the message, Grabowsky tagged Marvel Studios together with a hashtag confirming that the photos were taken at the WandaVision wrap party in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Marvel's WandaVision was initially slated to debut in 2021, but the release date was recently moved up to December 2020, edging closer towards the release of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier in August.
As it stands, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier is still set to be the first MCU spinoff series on the Disney+ release calendar, though it appears that this highly-anticipated miniseries is still currently in production.
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While little is known about the plot of WandaVision, Paul Bettany has previously described it as "the oddest of all the Marvel endeavours so far."
To find out more about the mysterious MCU spinoff series, discover how WandaVision might tie into Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, which is also set to feature Scarlet Witch, and check out our deep dive into the comic books that might have inspired the upcoming Marvel "sitcom."
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Adele Ankers is a Freelance Entertainment Journalist. You can reach her on Twitter.Infinite: Exclusive Mark Wahlberg Sci-Fi Movie Synopsis, Logo Revealed
Infinite is produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura (Transformers franchise, The Meg) and written by Ian Shorr and James Coyne. In addition to Wahlberg, who also serves as producer, Infinite stars Sophie Cookson, Rupert Friend, Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson, Jason Mantzoukas, Toby Jones, Dylan O’Brien and Liz Carr. Executive producers are Fuqua and Raphael Crohn. In addition to di Bonaventura, the producers include Mark Vahradian, Mark Huffam, John Zaozirny, Mark Wahlberg and Stephen Levinson.
To help introduce audiences to the movie's unique world, Paramount Pictures partnered up with Little Cinema, an award-winning art collective focused on reimagining film and creating multi-disciplinary live experiences, to develop an immersive reimagining of Infinite for the ISM Hexadome in Austin, Texas at SXSW 2020. The audiovisual installation will make attendees feel the visceral experience of being an Infinite and having your memories span many lifetimes by creating a unique piece of audiovisual content composed and designed for the ISM Hexadome from hundreds of hours of uncut material from Infinite, as well as found footage discovered inside the Paramount vaults.
Designed by the Institute of Sound & Music in Berlin, the ISM Hexadome is comprised six giant screens, Epson advanced laser projection technology and a bespoke 52-channel Meyer Sound Labs spatial sound system, offering audiences complete, 360-degree cinematic immersion.
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Demonstrating the power of shared direct experience through sound, art, film and technology, the ISM Hexadome exhibits exclusive commissioned works from artists such as Brian Eno, Thom Yorke, Suzanne Ciani, Holly Herndon, Herman Kolgen and Ben Frost.
Wahlberg shared the first photo from the set of Infinite back on September 18, 2019, showing him and Fuqua in a hanger, surrounded by a jet and a sleek Aston Martin. In the caption for the Instagram image, Wahlberg wrote, "Excited to be back with #AntoineFuqua who has an incredible vision for this high-concept, ORIGINAL action thriller…it’s a classic story of good vs. evil with an epic twist."
Fuqua and Wahlberg previously worked together on 2007's Shooter, which di Bonaventura also produced.
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Terri Schwartz is Editor-in-Chief of Entertainment at IGN. Talk to her on Twitter at @Terri_Schwartz.FIFA 20 Pros Decide Match With Rock, Paper, Scissors Due to Server Issues
Two professional FIFA 20 players had to decide who would be the winner of a qualifying match for a tournament with a game of Rock, Paper, Scissors over the weekend.
Red Bull's Shaun Galea and free agent Hasan Eker were competing against each other to qualify in the FIFA Ultimate Team (FUT) Champions Cup Stage V on February 29, 2020. Unfortunately, EA's online services experienced many problems over the weekend (now apparently resolved), which meant that both players failed to connect to the servers and each other twice.
Statement on FUT Champions Cup Stage V Qualifier match between Brandsha56 and Hasoo. #FGS20 pic.twitter.com/g0Rt62iSQV
— EA SPORTS FIFA Competitive Gaming (@EAFIFAesports) March 2, 2020
As EA's statement on the matter says, "a double-failure to connect and compete in a qualifying tournament match results in a loss for both participants. This is to prevent connection issues from being exploited as a competitive advantage." However, rather than both automatically lose, the two pros took matters into their own hands and played Rock, Paper, Scissors to decide the winner.
I cannot believe it !! @EASPORTSFIFA @EAFIFADirect We literally had to play a rock paper scissors becauce we couldn’t find each other to invite in an EA LICENSED QUALIFIER . WTF !! I am done
— Shaun Galea (@brandsha56) February 29, 2020
Stehe 3-1, da ich mich im Rock Paper Scissors erfolgreich durchsetzen konnte! pic.twitter.com/PvBcQ8EXqx
— Hasan Eker (@eker_haso) February 29, 2020
Eker won with three rounds to one. However, EA let both players go on to play more qualifying matches afterwards, but neither of them advanced any further in the tournament. EA's statement says that it's "reviewing this really unique situation to understand what occurred and try to prevent this from happening again, especially as both competitors competed in subsequent matches with clean connections."
This game of Rock, Paper, Scissors is far from the only issue that FUT Champions Cup qualifiers experienced over the weekend. Giuseppe Guastella, a pro FIFA player for LA Galaxy, failed to qualify for the North American qualifiers after a last penalty kick wasn't registered as a goal despite it clearly being one.
Guastella provided video proof and released a statement that asked, "how can anyone take the game seriously when EA can't take the game seriously and fix these elementary school issues?"
This is unbelievable from @EASPORTSFIFA. I’m out of the North American qualifiers because of this. pic.twitter.com/RQtSx3hQ98
— Giuseppe Guastella (@Guastella11) March 1, 2020
FIFA pro and head coach for AS Roma Esports, Nathan Horton, also released a statement that expressed his disappointment over the state of FIFA 20 esports. He says that some of the issues with the game have simple fixes and that "blatant cheating needs to be eradicated" from FIFA 20.
Please read: Some thoughts on the recent qualifiers. To any pros struggling and feeling in a bad place with how their season is going, make sure you look for help if you need it ❤️ pic.twitter.com/BXRjjHFJyG
— Zel (@Zelonius) March 1, 2020
Due to the server issues, EA did extend the Weekend League for 24 hours to give players a chance to qualify for the tournament.
In further FIFA 20 controversy, last week EA permanently banned pro player Kurt Fenech from all of its games and online services. EA says that Fenech crossed “a line of decency into very personal attacks and breach our Terms of Service.” A number of EA FIFA staff Twitter accounts were hacked in retaliation to Fenech's ban.
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Dead or Alive 6 Now Charges Money Each Time You Change a Character’s Hair Colour
Dead or Alive 6 recently added the option to change a character's hair colour on PS4, but it costs money each time to do so. Players must purchase a Premium Ticket in order to pick a new hair colour for their fighter. However, purchasing a new hair colour doesn't unlock it forever, as it also costs a Premium Ticket to revert hair back to a previous colour.
The Premium Tickets can only be purchased at a minimum of two, which costs $1.99. They can also be bought as a bundle of 10 at $9.99, or you can get a discount if you purchase them in larger quantities - specifically 20 at $19.99, or 50 at $44.99. That means to change a character's hair even once it costs at least $1.99.
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The new hair colours were added to the PS4 version of Dead or Alive 6 on February 25 with the v1.20 update. Part of this update removed the limit on the maximum number of Premium Tickets that can be purchased - previously it was set at the number of Tickets needed to purchase all the game's costumes.
The FAQ also reveals that "hair color change data is stored in the save data and any hair color changes you have purchased will be reset if you clear your save data." So if you lose your Dead or Alive 6 save then your characters' hair colours will return to their defaults and you'll have to buy each hair colour again.
The price of changing a Dead or Alive 6 character's hair colour has not gone down well with some of the game's fans.
Dead Or Alive 6. Long story short the new hair colours are one dollar each, you can revert them back to the original hair colour for 10,000 in game currency; But if you do that then you have to re-spend a dollar to buy the same hair colour because you did not own it. Bullshit!
— LionHeart100 (@Androktasai) February 25, 2020
Dead or alive 6 is just in a terrible place atm with all the micro transactions
— #IMtrash@COD (@CombatxxWombat) March 1, 2020
Thought about buying Dead Or Alive 6 since I used to love playing the games back on the Xbox and PS2 era of consoles. But seeing Ninja Theory charge just to change a characters hair color in the game is shameful. I can change the hair color of my character in most AC games. Lol
— Josh Bieker (@BiekerJosh) March 2, 2020
Some fans thought that the being charged each time to change hair colour may have been a mistake on the developer's part. But Dead or Alive community forum Free Step Dodge reached out to developer Team Ninja and reports that a representative got back to confirm that it's intentional design.
The v1.20 update also came with new DLC costumes that are available on the PC and Xbox versions of the game too. Some of those costumes are mashups with the characters of Gust, one of Tecmo Koei's game developer studios, mostly known for its Atelier and Ar tonelico series.
Those new DLC costumes are sold separately or as a pack that costs $39.99 / £32.99. The costumes are also included in the Season 4 pass, along with other DLC released between January and March 2020, and that costs $89.99 / £73.99.
This new DLC adds to the long list of DLC that is now available to purchase for Dead or Alive 6, which at its smallest cost when bought on Steam as season passes totals to about $343 / £280. If you were to buy each DLC individually, and therefore at the highest cost, you're looking at a grand total of around $900 / £776. It's worth noting that the Dead or Alive 6 base game costs $59.99 / £54.99.
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In comparison, Tekken 7 offers season passes at $24.99 / £19.99 while all of its DLC sold individually costs about $94 / £77. Street Fighter V sells character passes at $9.99 / £7.99 except its fourth and most recent one which costs $19.99 / £15.99. Mortal Kombat 11 offers a Kombat Pack with new characters and extras for $39.99 / £32.99, and sells individual characters for $5.99 / £4.99, with a max cost of $78 / £65.
We gave Dead or Alive 6 a 7.7 in our review when it came out a year ago, saying that it "proves there's plenty of depth to this fighter beneath its skimpy outfits, but its story mode is disjointed and its multiplayer features are currently bare." Team Ninja is currently getting ready to launch its next game, Nioh 2, on March 13, 2020.
[poilib element="accentDivider"]Chris Priestman is a freelancer who writes news for IGN. Follow him on Twitter.
