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Take Another Look at Captain Marvel With Brand New Footage
During the College Football Playoff National Championship, viewers were treated to a brand new look at the upcoming Captain Marvel film.
This newest trailer focuses on Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel and the younger Nick Fury, but also gives us another peek at some new and familiar faces.
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— IGN (@IGN) January 8, 2019
PlayStation 4 Sales Exceed 91.6 Million Units Worldwide
The PlayStation 4, as of December 31, 2018, has officially sold more than 91.6 million units globally.
Announced by Sony Interactive Entertainment, the 2018 holiday season saw over 5.6 million PlayStation 4 units being sold, pushing the system to its new sales milestone.
As for the games, more than 50.7 million PS4 games were sold during the holiday season, bringing the worldwide total to over 876 million PS4 games sold since Sony's latest console launched on November 15, 2013.
Marvel's Spider-Man, which is PlayStation's fastest-selling exclusive of all time, continued its success story through the holidays with sales reaching over 9 million units globally as of November 25, 2018.
How Obsession Helps and Hurts Path of Exile
The recent announcement of Diablo Immortal sent quakes of doubt, hesitation, and anger throughout much of the games community. Despite its best intentions, Blizzard’s initial news of a Diablo mobile game hit the ground with a thud, and the weeks it spent scrambling to salvage the situation didn't help matters. Disappointed and left without direction, many Diablo 3 players who were looking forward to a potential sequel instead looked elsewhere to get their ARPG fix, eventually finding solace in Path of Exile, with PoE’s community welcoming them with open arms.
Path of Exile is an online ARPG developed and published by New Zealand-based Grinding Gear Games, released on PC in 2013, ported to the Xbox One in 2017, with a PS4 release sometime early 2019. It features six character archetypes with an unlockable seventh, abundant skills with complex methods of enhancing or changing them, and an extensive and memetic skill tree that has amazed and scared newcomers for years. Its newest league, Betrayal, has players teaming up with new allies against a mysterious faction called the Immortal Syndicate.
Venom 2 Confirmed, New Director May Be Hired
After the success of the recent Sony/Marvel antihero film Venom, it looks like Sony is already making progress towards a sequel.
Variety reports Sony has made negotiations with Venom screenwriter Kelly Marcel to return for Venom 2. Sources are saying Marcel will also take on a role of executive producer for the sequel and that Tom Hardy will return as Eddie Brock.
Michelle Williams and Woody Harrelson are also expected to return for Venom 2, but a director has not yet been named. It's unlikely we'll see the original Venom director Ruben Fleischer return, as he’ll likely be hard at work getting Zombieland 2 ready for an October 2019 release.
HBO Boss Has Seen Game of Thrones’ Final Six Episodes: ‘I’m in Awe’
HBO CEO Richard Plepler has seen a rough cut of the final six episodes of Game of Thrones and he is "in awe" of them, even without any CGI.
Plepler spoke to Variety during HBO's post-Golden Globes party last night and said, in regards to Game of Thrones, that "everybody's in for an extraordinary treat of storytelling and of magical, magical production."
“It’s a spectacle. The guys have done six movies. The reaction I had while watching them was, ‘I’m watching a movie,’“ Plepler said.
Plepler continued by praising showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, saying that “they knew the bar was high. They’ve exceeded the bar. I’ve watched them twice without any CGI and I’m in awe. Everybody’s in for an extraordinary treat of storytelling and of magical, magical production.”
Overwatch: New Short Story Explores Soldier 76’s LGBTQ Backstory
Blizzard has released a new Overwatch short story called Bastet, which reveals a small piece of information confirming original roster-member Soldier 76 as an LGBTQ character.
Announced on the official Overwatch Twitter account, the 14-page story features heroes Ana and Jack Morrison (Soldier 76) meeting up for the first time after thinking the other dead. The pair strike a deal to take on an evil organization in Egypt, and reminisce about the past.
BASTET: A fierce protector arises from the shadows . . .
ASUS’ ROG Mothership Laptop Is a 2080-Powered Beast
ASUS' new Republic of Gamers Mothership laptop shows off a capable desktop replacement in a creative form-factor to accommodate the powerful components inside.
The laptop is convertible, with the keyboard and screen coming apart and back together again for several different configurations, depending on user needs. The screen stands on its own, almost like a Nintendo Switch, something ASUS says helps facilitate the flow of "more air into its advanced cooling system."
The Mothership features a 17.3-inch 144hz G-Sync IPS display powered by an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 graphics card and an Intel Core i9-8950HK processor.
ASUS says part of the motivation for the detachable keyboard comes from watching gamers connecting an external keyboard to their existing laptop to play games. Its research showed, not surprisingly, "gamers prefer their keyboards off to the side and at an angle" when playing games.
Disneyland Ticket Prices Raised Ahead of Star Wars Land Opening
Ahead of the new addition of Star Wars Land, Disneyland has started raising ticket prices.
According to the Los Angeles Times, Disneyland has raised the prices for daily tickets, annual passes and parking. The cheapest daily ticket will now cost $104, up from $97, for a low-demand day. For a regular-demand day, the price has increased from $117 to $129, and a ticket on a high-demand day has gone up from $135 to $149. Daily parking prices have also gone up from $20 to $25.
The news of the price hikes comes months before Star Wars Land, officially known as Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge, is expected to open at Disneyland in summer 2019. Star Wars Land will open at Walt Disney World in Florida later in 2019.
Young Justice Returns to Comics This Week
With dozens of comic books to choose from, let us show you which are the best coming out this week. Take a look at this list spotlighting our favorite comics that we know are money-well-spent and new books that look cool and are backed by some top-tier talent.
Check out our picks, then head to the comments to let us know what you’ll be buying this week!
Young Justice #1 - $4.99
Writer Brian Michael Bendis | Artist Patrick Gleason (DC Comics)