The Top 25 DC Heroes
It's been over 80 years since Superman first debuted in the pages of Action Comics #1 and jump-started the superhero genre. Since then, DC has spawned thousands of heroes and villains across countless comics, TV series, movies, and video games. But through it all, a select few have emerged as the best of the best. We hear that Batman fellow is still pretty popular.
With the DC Universe constantly growing and expanding in comics, TV, movies and games, it's all the more important to remember those heroes who have defended it all this time. That's why we're counting down the 25 greatest heroes who live and fight in the DC Universe. Obviously that leaves out independent DC franchises like Fables and Y: The Last Man, and we also left out the Sandman crew, as they're a bit above the concept of good and evil. But everyone else in the DCU is fair game. Read on to see which heroes made the cut, and let us know your favorites in the comments section below.
AMD Ryzen 3rd Generation and Aorus Push SSD Speeds to 15,000MB/s
Shortly after AMD Ryzen 3rd Generation processors hit the scene, we’ve been seeing NVMe SSDs break all sorts of sequential read and write speed records approaching 5,000MB/s. However, Gigabyte’s premium gaming brand, Aorus, has managed to blow past the 5K Rubicon and deliver an 8TB setup that runs up to 15,000MB/s read and 15,200MB/s write.
This incredibly speedy drive from Aorus is actually made up of four individual 2TB NVMe SSDs strapped together on an add-in card (AIC) that plugs into a PCIe 4.0 x 16 slot on an X570 motherboard. Typically, these drives would max out at 5,000MB/s just like the latest PCIe 4.0 SSDs from Corsair and Patriot, but Aorus went one step further and arranged the drives in a RAID 0 arrangement to multiply its sequential data transfer speeds.
Teen Titans Go! Vs. Teen Titans Exclusive Trailer Debut
The Teen Titans of the 2003 animated series team up with their comedic modern-day counterparts in the upcoming animated feature film Teen Titans Go! Vs. Teen Titans. You can watch our exclusive first trailer for the movie in either the player above or via embed below.
In Teen Titans Go! Vs. Teen Titans, the two teams are pitted against each other when villains from each of their worlds join forces. The two very different Titan teams will need to set aside their differences and work together to combat Trigon, Hexagon, Santa Claus (yes, Santa Claus) and time itself in order to save the universe.
Produced by Warner Bros. Animation, DC and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, Teen Titans Go! Vs. Teen Titans features the beloved multi-series cast of the past 17 years: Greg Cipes as Beast Boy, Scott Menville as Robin, Khary Payton (The Walking Dead) as Cyborg, Tara Strong (Batman: The Animated Series) as Raven, and Hynden Walch as Starfire.
Red Dead Online Players Discover a New Land Beyond World Boundary
A group of players found a glitch in Red Dead Online that lets them push through the game boundary into a vast new world of open landscapes.
As reported by Kotaku, a group of game devs from Australia, who call themselves The Grannies on Twitter, pushed past the barrier. Members in the posse are, Ian MacLarty, Andrew Brophy, Marigold Bartlett, Thomas Bowker, Jonothan Rubock, and Kalonica Quigley.
Kratos Was Almost Cut From God of War
God of War director Cory Barlog has revealed that Sony Santa Monica had discussed cutting Kratos from the game during the early planning stages for the 2018 PS4 game.
Talking at Gamelab in Barcelona, Eurogamer reports that Barlog said “Early in discussion, people were saying we had to get rid of Kratos. It was like, 'he's annoying, he's done'."
Barlog went on to describe that members development team felt that Kratos’ anti-hero design had been played through in the original trilogy, and that the new game needed a fresh protagonist. The argument was that the mythology was important to the series, not the character of Kratos.
Epic: Exclusives Are The ‘Only Strategy’ To Disrupt Steam’s Status Quo
Epic Games founder and CEO, Tim Sweeney, has defended the Epic Games Store’s current exclusivity strategy, stating that the tactic is the only way to change the current status quo.
Talking as part of a thread on Twitter, Sweeney said “We believe exclusives are the only strategy that will change the 70/30 status quo at a large enough scale to permanently affect the whole game industry.”
This question gets to the core of Epic’s strategy for competing with dominant storefronts. We believe exclusives are the only strategy that will change the 70/30 status quo at a large enough scale to permanently affect the whole game industry.
Bandai Namco Announces 3v3 One Punch Man Game
The very first console game based on the incredibly popular anime and manga series One Punch Man has been announced.
One Punch Man: A Hero Nobody Knows will be produced by Bandai Namco, and is a 3v3 game in a similar vein to 3D fighters such as Jump Force.
The announcement trailer reveals a cast of characters including protagonist Saitama, as well as Genos, Hellish Blizzard, Speed-o'-Sound Sonic, and Mumen Rider. The announcement tweet teases that more characters are to be announced.
The first ever console game based on ONE PUNCH MAN is coming to PS4, X1, and PC! Get ready to play 3v3 battles as Saitama, Genos, Hellish Blizzard, Speed-o'-Sound Sonic, Mumen Rider and more in ONE PUNCH MAN: A HERO NOBODY KNOWS!
The Batman: Andy Serkis Rumored for Unspecified Role
Andy Serkis is reportedly set to play a role in Matt Reeves’ upcoming The Batman.
Batman on Film reports the rumour, detailing that Serkis has been cast in an unspecified non-motion-capture role. That means we’ll actually be seeing Serkis’ physical face and form in the movie, which potentially rules out some of Batman’s more monster-like foes that would likely be rendered in CGI, such as Clayface.
Serkis and Reeves have a professional history, with the pair working together on Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and War for the Planet of the Apes. Reeves directed Serkis’ performance as Ceasar in both films.
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Aussies: Check Out Amazon’s Prime Day Deals Now!
Amazon Prime Day, the online retailer’s biggest yearly sale this side of Black Friday, is now live on the Australian site, and will run for 48 hours. After that, an additional 17 hours of deals from the U.S. will still be available to Aussie shoppers, ending July 17 at 5:00pm AEST. This means that Australian shoppers will enjoy 65 hours of sales in total, making our Amazon Prime Day event the longest in the world.
It’s not as easy as logging on and frantically adding to cart, however. Amazon Prime Day deals will only be available to Amazon Prime members, so if you want in on the bargain bonanza you will need to set up a subscription in advance. You can sign up for a 30-day free trial today which will cover you for the upcoming Amazon Prime Day period, and beyond that you can either subscribe for AUD $6.99 a month or AUD $59 per year. Outside of getting access to Amazon Prime Day deals, Australian Amazon Prime subscribers also enjoy free two-day domestic delivery, free standard international delivery on eligible orders over AUD $49, as well as access to Prime Video, Prime Music, and Prime Reading. A Twitch Prime Membership is also included, which brings with it free monthly PC games and more.