You Can Now Buy a Picard Facepalm Statue
Star Trek captain Jean-Luc Picard's classic facepalm pose has finally been turned into a statue.
The bust, from IconHeroes, is available exclusively from ThinkGeek. It captures the USS Enterprise-D captain executing his glorious facepalm maneuver. Priced at $65 USD, the statue measures six inches tall and four inches wide.
Jean-Luc Picard facepalm stature, via ThinkGeek
Fear the Walking Dead Actor Asked to Be Killed Off Last Season
Fear the Walking Dead Season 4 showrunners Andrew Chambliss and Ian Goldberg revealed one of the actors in the AMC series requested to be killed off last season.
Warning: Fear the Walking Dead spoilers follow.
Fear the Walking Dead lost a cast member in the latest episode, and it turns out that they'd been eager to leave the series for a little while.
Nick Clark was the latest victim in a line of shocking deaths, gunned down by the 12 year-old Charlie just three episodes into the fourth season. But it's not all doom and gloom. In an interview with THR, Chambliss and Goldberg revealed that actor Frank Dillane wanted to leave the show.
The Tremors TV Reboot Has Been Canned, Says Kevin Bacon
The Tremors reboot TV show has been canned, says Kevin Bacon, despite a "fantastic pilot."
After 25 years, the sci-fi franchise was set to return to our screens as a rebooted TV show based on the original 1990 film. Plans for the series were announced in 2015, and US network SyFy became involved last year.
Red Dead Redemption 2: New Trailer Coming This Week
Rockstar has announced that a new trailer will be released for Red Dead Redemption 2 on Wednesday, May 2.
The trailer will go live at 8am PT / 11am ET / 4pm UK (that's 1am AEST on Thursday May 3), and you'll be able to watch it here on IGN, or on our YouTube channel.
Rockstar's given no word on what to expect from the trailer, but after one trailer focused on the game world and another revealing something of the story, we'd hope for a chunk of representative gameplay to have a look at.
Hellboy Board Game Raises $1 Million in 2 Days
Hellboy: The Board Game has smashed its Kickstarter goal and raised over $1 million in just two days.
The Kickstarter campaign went live last week with a goal of £100,000 (around $140,000 USD). The campaign reached its goal just 18 minutes later, and surpassed the million dollar mark just under 48 hours later.
The current total is sitting at almost £860,000 at the time of writing, approximately $1,178,000, with 25 days to go. A new stretch goal was unveiled yesterday with the addition of a Ragna Rok Rasputin miniature and a new scenario, if the campaign reaches £880,000.
PUBG Hackers Arrested and Fined Over $5 Million
In an update on its latest anti-cheat efforts, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds developer Bluehole has released information on 15 hackers' arrests made last week.
PUBG has been plagued by cheaters for months now, with the studio implementing anti-cheat measures to tackle the problem. In its latest update, the studio shared that 15 suspects were arrested in China last week for developing and selling "hacking/cheating programs that affect PUBG," and have been fined the equivalent of $5.1 million, with other suspects related to the case still under investigation.
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The Witcher 3 HDR Patch Hurts Quality on PS4 Pro
The Witcher 3's HDR patch isn't working out quite as well as planned on the PlayStation 4 Pro, and has brought some visual downgrades with it.
The patch rolled out last month but Digital Foundry has discovered that update 1.61 has had some adverse effects when playing in 4K on the PS4 Pro.
It seems that the patch has affected draw distance and shadows of foliage, and the issues are present in SDR on the PS4 Pro as well, suggesting that the result is unintentional. The problem isn't echoed on the Xbox One X according to Digital Foundry, so hopefully CD Projekt RED will release a fix in the near future.
Blizzard’s Unannounced FPS Seems to Be Moving Ahead
Blizzard has begun the process of hiring design staff for an unannounced first-person game - quite possibly the same game it was building an engine for in 2016.
A new job listing for a Senior / Principal Game Designer asks for someone with "experience in developing weapons, abilities, and gameplay systems in action or first-person shooter games."
In 2016, Blizzard was advertising for a Lead Software Engineer to build a first-person game engine for an action-oriented game that could be played across multiple platforms.
Achievement Overclocked: Looking Back On My Ten Year Gamerscore Obsession
I bought my Xbox 360 in late 2007, during a murky period between quitting a bad retail job and starting another bad retail job, and a week before I received my first paid games journalism commission. The system came packaged with Forza 2 and Viva Piñata, but I also grabbed Mass Effect (which I would only finish two years later) and Call of Duty 4 (which I became obsessed with). It’s one of my favourite consoles ever, and from the very beginning I was impressed by the blade menu system, the growing back-catalogue of games, and Xbox Live. I was also taken with its achievement system, which seemed, to me, like a smart way of tracking progress across your entire game collection.
In the year that followed, as I wrapped up my undergraduate degree, sold phones for minimum wage in my day job, and made my first tentative steps towards becoming a serious games journalist, my Gamerscore started to matter to me. It didn’t take long for me to became focused on overtaking friends who had bought their consoles earlier than I had. I was fixated on pushing myself to reach each new number I could justify calling a ‘milestone’, and while this feeling would occasionally calm down, it never fully went away. Achievement and trophy systems are everywhere now, but none of them are quite so direct and easy to parse as your Xbox Gamerscore, and none of them have grabbed me with nearly the same intensity.