Holmes and Watson Was So Bad, Even Netflix Wouldn’t Buy It
In recent years, Netflix has become synonymous with saving properties that other networks and studios have cast aside - from canceled TV shows like Lucifer and The Killing, to movies like The Cloverfield Paradox and Mowgli, projects that might have underperformed through traditional distribution models have thrived on the streaming service.
Bird Box: Netflix Reveals How Many Accounts Watched in its First Week
Bird Box, the Netflix original thriller starring Sandra Bullock, has been viewed by over 45 million Netflix accounts in its first seven days.
According to Netflix, precisely 45,037,125 accounts watched the film in the week following its worldwide debut on the streaming service on December 21. Netflix claims this is the best first week for a Netflix film ever, though it wasn’t specified if that number also includes non-Netflix original movies.
Took off my blindfold this morning to discover that 45,037,125 Netflix accounts have already watched Bird Box — best first 7 days ever for a Netflix film! pic.twitter.com/uorU3cSzHR
NASA May Use a ‘Tunnelbot’ to Search for Life on Jupiter’s Moon
Scientists have proposed a way to retrieve samples from Jupiter's icy moon, Europa, which is believed to contain a liquid ocean underneath that could hold microbial life.
Andrew Dombard, associate professor of earth and environmental sciences at the University of Illinois (UIC), along with colleagues, presented a solution by using a nuclear-powered tunneling probe to go deep under the surface of the moon, according to a report by UIC.
“Estimates of the thickness of the ice shell range between 2 and 30 kilometers (1.2 and 18.6 miles), and is a major barrier any lander will have to overcome in order to access areas we think have a chance of holding biosignatures representative of life on Europa,” Dombard said.
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What Black Mirror: Bandersnatch’s Endings Say About You
This interview contains light spoilers for Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, which is currently available to play/watch on Netflix. You can check out our spoiler-free review here.
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Netflix is calling its latest entry in Charlie Brooker's imaginative Black Mirror anthology series an "interactive movie." And while the interactive elements of "Bandersnatch" are clearly there - featuring a unique decision-making system that alters how the story unfolds - it's difficult to not notice the similarities the film shares with video games.
The Best Optical Keyboards for Gaming
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The best optical keyboard for gaming you can buy right now is the Razer Huntsman Elite (See it on Amazon). It's got everything you could possibly want from a flagship $200 keyboard, including tank-like build quality, a nifty volume wheel, fancy RGB lighting, and of course, high falutin' optical switches.
Why Frank Castle Puts the Vest Back on in The Punisher Season 2
Spirits were high this past summer as a cast of newcomers and returning vets assembled on the Brooklyn set of The Punisher Season 2, unaware that in a few months time the universe of The Defenders would come crashing down.
In the span of weeks, Netflix canceled Iron Fist, then Luke Cage, then Daredevil, which was (reportedly) one of its most watched series. The fate of The Punisher is now in doubt as Disney, home of Marvel Studios, plans to launch its own streaming platform, Disney+, in 2019. Reps for Netflix did not respond to IGN’s most recent requests for comment on the matter, so for the time being at least, it seems it’s business as usual. With a surprise January premiere announced in the past few weeks, there’s a new set of 13 episodes for Marvel's grumpiest gunslinger to unpack.
NBA 2K’s Mike Wang Says Tech Has Made NBA Players More Unique
Mike Wang has been embedded in the world of sports video games longer than some of its fans have been alive. As the gameplay director for NBA 2K, as well as a brief stint on EA’s NBA Live series, Wang is the perfect person to tell us just how far we’ve come on this month’s episode of IGN Unfiltered.
Most notably, Wang points out how the evolution of technology in sports games does more than just make LeBron’s face look more realistic, or makes more beads of sweat appear on Steph Curry’s brow. It’s also allowed developers to increasingly mimic the exact motions that individual players make while playing ball, lending an extra level of personality to each moment.
Scientists Have Discovered a New Material Called Black Silver
Researchers in Singapore have engineered a new material called Black Silver, that has potential for applications such as solar energy conversion to biomolecule detectors, reported by Science Daily.
Black Silver is an inexpensive, nanomaterial that interacts with visible and infrared light and was developed by researchers at Singapore University of Design and Technology (SUTD).
The nanomaterial is created without using acids, which means it can easily be coated over other materials such as plastics, which can give those materials a new purpose.
Batman’s Psyche Is Perfectly Mirrored in the Gotham of Arkham Knight
Stories do not happen in a vacuum. A story’s setting can be as much of a character as the actual characters inhabiting it, reflecting both them and the thematic elements of the plot. This is true of games, books, and movies—in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, for instance, a great and mighty evil renders the land of Mordor into, quite literally, a festering, pulsating, and decaying wasteland that is inhabited by orcs and other beings who personify the very evil that corrupts the once bucolic realm of Mordor.
There’s perhaps no better representation of this than Batman: Arkham Knight. The character, layout, and visual starkness of Gotham City act as a malleable mirror to Batman’s psyche within the Arkham-verse. The story sunk its bat-fangs into me but Gotham, the city itself, is what truly stands out as both the home and the harbinger of the dichotomy of good/evil that brings the city to grimy, pulsating life.