Canaries: Arrow Spinoff in Development at The CW
Arrow may be airing its final season soon, but some of the characters may continue on in a spin-off featuring the crime-fighting team The Canaries, according to Variety.
An episode of Arrow’s 10-episode Season 8 will serve as a backdoor pilot for the spin-off. The show is currently in development and would feature Oliver Queen and Felicity Smoak’s daughter Mia Smoak (Katherine McNamara) teaming up with Laurel Lance (Katie Cassidy) and Dinah Drake (Juliana Harkavy). Arrow showrunner Beth Schwartz is writing alongside Marc Guggenheim, Jill Blankenship and Oscar Balderrama.
Win $20,000 in this Voice-Controlled LEGO Robot Design Contest
The LEGO Mindstorms toy line features more robotic and mechanical versions of your favorite LEGO figures, and now they’re evolving in a pretty significant way thanks to a new partnership between LEGO and Amazon’s Alexa.
LEGO announced the “LEGO Mindstorms Voice Challenge: Powered by Alexa” on Tuesday. The contest challenges participants to use the Alexa Gadgets Toolkit to connect Alexa to the LEGO Mindstorms’ EV3 software. That in turn will allow the Mindstorm LEGO-bots to use voice commands to perform the basic animations that their software already allows them to perform. Imagine a one-foot-tall battle robot shooting a tiny toy rocket when its owner tells Alexa to “fire cannon.”
Here’s How Batwoman Will Deal With Batman’s Legacy
This September, IGN is highlighting the best TV coming your way in the 2019-2020 season. Today we're sending up the Bat-Signal for The CW's newest superhero series, Batwoman. Three years after the mysterious disappearance of Batman, Gotham is a city in despair. Without the Caped Crusader, the Gotham City Police Department was overrun and outgunned by criminal gangs, leading to the rise of Jacob Kane (Dougray Scott) and his military-grade Crows Private Security, which now protects the city with omnipresent firepower and militia. After a dishonorable discharge from military school and years of brutal survival training, Kate Kane has no interest in being a hero, but when the Alice in Wonderland gang targets her father and his security firm by kidnapping his best Crow officer Sophie Moore (Meagan Tandy), with whom Kate has a complicated history, Kate will have to become what her father loathes, a dark knight vigilante, soaring through the streets of Gotham as Batwoman. We spoke to showrunner Caroline Dries about bringing Batwoman to the small screen and helping Kate step out of her famous cousin's shadow.
Final Fantasy 7 Remake Box Art Revealed
PlayStation and Square Enix have revealed the North American and Euopean box art for Final Fantasy VII Remake alongside some brand new screenshots that show off Cloud, Tifa, Barret, Ifrit, Shiva, and the Equipment & Materia menu screen.
Senior product marketing manager of Square Enix Neal Pabon took to the PlayStation Blog to unveil the box art for the long-awaited remake of 1997's Final Fantasy VII.
The artwork is fittingly an homage to the North American box art for the original PlayStation title and features Cloud Strife ready to take on the Shinra Corporation with his iconic Buster Sword that also features two Materia slotted into the base of it.
20,000 Fallout 76 Power Armor Helmets Recalled For Mold Exposure
Update:
A previous version of this story said the collectible helmet was from the $200 Power Armor collector's edition. It is instead from a different line of collectibles sold through GameStop. Here is Bethesda's statement on the matter:
"The helmets that are being recalled are not from our Fallout 76 Power Armor Edition, but are instead a different line of helmets sold exclusively by GameStop. The Fallout 76 Power Armor Edition helmets are unaffected. Consumers should visit the product recall page for instructions if they have purchased the GameStop helmet"
The story has been corrected with the new information.
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How DC’s Harleen Reinvents Harley Quinn’s Tragic Origin Story
Writer/artist Stjepan Šejić is the latest creator to make the jump to the DC Black Label imprint. Šejić's new miniseries Harleen offers a revamped take on the tragic origin story of Harley Quinn, casting her as an ambitious medical researcher who's driven over the edge by her obsession with curing the Joker.
Read on to find out how this series will revamp one of the most iconic origin stories in comics, and how Harleen began life long before Šejić made the jump to DC Comics.
Creating a new take on Harley Quinn's origin is far easier said than done. The original version as chronicled in Paul Dini and Bruce Timm's graphic novel Mad love is still widely regarded as one of the best origin stories in comics. Šejić acknowledged a certain nervousness in trying to stand alongside a story like Mad Love, though that certainly hasn't stopped him from trying. And as he explained, on big element setting Harleen apart is that it's focusing on the entirety of Harleen Quinzel's life.
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Game Devs Raise Alarm After Google Reveals Pay Plan
Google announced the Google Play Pass today, a new subscription service for Android users. But an FAQ explainer on how royalties for developers work has some industry professionals worried about game sales moving towards a “Spotify-model.” A model that has been heavily criticized in the past.
Google Play Pass is a subscription service where for $4.99 a month, subscribers can have access to a library of games and apps without ads and in-app purchases. This subscription service is similar to the ones offered by Apple and Xbox. However, there is language in the Google Play Pass developer FAQ that caused some alarm in the game development community.
Batman: The Court of Owls Explained
Batman has a well-known and timeless gallery of villains, but one of his more recent adversaries poses one of the greatest threats to Gotham City. The merciless group is known only as the Court of Owls, a secret society with comic origins revealed in the pages of the New 52 relaunch in 2011. In fact, they’re so secret, you might not even know who they are. When Batman donned the cowl under the guidance of the creative team of Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo—a team that would quickly be considered one of the best to ever take on the Caped Crusader—the ruthless cabal proved to be a match for the Dark Knight.
With the Batman Day teaser that the next Batman video game may pit the player against the sinister secret society, let’s get to know this dangerous foe and formidable addition to Batman’s rogues gallery.
How to Train Your Dragon Director to Make Live-Action Debut With Micronauts
How to Train Your Dragon and Lilo & Stitch director Dean DeBlois will make his live-action feature debut writing and directing a Micronauts movie that is scheduled to be released in Summer 2021.
The Hollywood Reporter says the movie will be released through Paramount Pictures and Hasbro's AllSpark Pictures. DeBlois has professionally directed a live-action music documentary and short film but never a live-action narrative movie.
His last ten years have almost exclusively been writing and directing the How to Train Your Dragon movies for DreamWorks Animation, which is one of the highest-grossing movie trilogies in history. The last film, How to Train your Dragon: The Hidden World, was released in February 2019 and made half a billion dollars at the box office and received positive reviews from critics.