Elder Scrolls Online: Clockwork DLC and Xbox One X Update Out Today
The Elder Scrolls Online's newest DLC, Clockwork City, is now available for free to all Elder Scrolls Online Plus members, or for the price of 2,000 crowns for non-Plus members via the in-game Crown Store.
Alongside the release of the DLC, the base game is receiving Update 16, which is free for all players. The new update allows players to try the first act of Return to Clockwork City for free. The Clockwork City DLC also brings new creatures, monsters, stories, new unique armor sets, customization items, crafting motifs, and more. Here are some highlights of what’s included in the download.
Christopher Nolan Apologized to Netflix Chief Content Officer
Christopher Nolan has apologized to Netflix for his statement on their "mindless" release policy.
Nolan previously slammed Netflix over its policy on theatrical releases during a promotional circuit for Dunkirk, saying the company has "a bizarre aversion to supporting theatrical films."
Nolan still believes Netflix's decision to forgo theaters in favor of launching films directly to their streaming service is a mistake, but upon reflection, he told Variety, "I should have been more polite. I said what I believe, but I was undiplomatic in the way I expressed it."
GTA 5 Has Sold-In 85 Million Copies
Grand Theft Auto V has shipped 85 million copies, Take-Two announced today.
According to the publisher, citing The NPD Group during its latest earnings report, Grand Theft Auto V is now the U.S.'s best-selling video game ever in terms of units sold and revenue. NPD says this is based on physical and digital sales across all platforms.
Sold-in means copies sold to stores and not sold-through, which are copies bought by customers.
Take-Two last reported Grand Theft Auto V sold-in 75 million copies, meaning it has shipped an additional 10 million units since February. Despite initially being released over four years ago, Rockstar's hit open-world game continues to appear on NPD's monthly list of best-selling games in the US, most recently charting seventh in September.
Justice League’s Budget Reportedly Revealed
Thanks to a switch in directors and substantial reshoots, the reported production budget for Justice League has climbed to nearly $300 million.
This report comes by way of The Wall Street Journal, who cites "people close to the picture." While the DC superhero ensemble film was originally positioned as the financial linchpin for Warner Bros. in 2017, the success of Wonder Woman and Stephen King's IT has lessened its importance in that regard.
Director Zack Snyder stepped away from the film earlier this year due to a family tragedy, handing the reigns over to Joss Whedon, who handled the reshoots. Meanwhile, Henry Cavill had to have his mustache digitally removed for the reshoots (thanks to his role in Mission: Impossible 6), which undoubtedly contributed to the rise in Justice League's production costs.
The Best Cases for the iPhone 8
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Last Updated: June 2018
So you've picked up an Apple iPhone 8 - congratulations! Considering the price of smartphones nowadays, you probably want to keep your iPhone 8 safe before an accidental slip sends it hurtling to the ground with a shattered screen or worse ― an all-too-common fate for many of our mobile phones. It can happen to even the least clumsy among us.
Del Toro Offers Details on Canceled Pinocchio Project
Legendary director Guillermo del Toro is a man who’s always on the go. On any given day, You'll find him linked to half a dozen films and television series. Some are real, others merely speculation. His Pinocchio passion project was one of those real films that just needed a big enough budget to get off the ground. According to IndieWire, $35 million to be exact. A large sum, but not unreasonable for your typical Hollywood film.
In a recent interview we had with del Toro discussing the upcoming season of Trollhunters on Netflix, he confirmed the sad truth that his darker version of the little wooden boy won’t be coming to a theater near you.
The Best GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
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IGN recently took a look at several of Nvidia's freshly-minted GeForce GTX 1070 Ti cards from multiple manufacturers. We benchmarked two pretty high-end GPUs from Zotac and Asus, and a midrange card from EVGA. This allowed us to get a pretty good look at the spectrum of performance and features that are possible with Nvidia's newest GPU, and of course we wanted to pass along our extensive findings.
Netflix Publishing First Comic Book After Buying Millarworld
Mark Millar has announced his first comic book series for Netflix after the company's acquisition of Millarworld earlier this year — and it will be Netflix's first published comic book.
The comic, not a Netflix TV series, is called The Magic Order and is described as "magic meets the mob." The story follows a group of five magical families, all consisting of sorcerers, magicians and wizards, who are sworn to protect our world for generations.
"By day they live among us as our neighbors, friends and co-workers, but by night they are the sorcerers, magicians and wizards that protect us from the forces of darkness...unless the darkness gets them first," the official description explains.
The Justice League That Almost Was
Although the era had its share of comic book and superhero successes, the 1990s are generally seen by fans now to be a dark time for the medium. It didn't seem that way at the time, of course; we were still riding on the coattails of the success of Tim Burton's 1989 ultra-smash Batman, and comic books were experiencing an intense sales spike thanks to what is now called a speculation market. There was, in the comics world, a wave of new titles, and a new industry contender called Image Comics was making headlines with its artist-owned characters. Events like the Death of Superman were featured on the news.
These '90s spikes, however, petered out rather aggressively, and fans of the medium saw things to criticize fairly early on. The newly introduced characters weren't necessarily good ones (insert your least favorite Image Comics character here), and the films and TV shows that were based on them were rarely noteworthy; audiences may have responded to the well-received but short-lived The Flash (1990), but this was also a decade when Steel, Spawn, Batman & Robin, Judge Dredd, Albert Pyun's Captain America, and the ill-recalled Generation X TV pilot were creeping around in the background, stinking up the back alleys of comic books' not-yet-salvaged reputation.
Telltale Games Lays Off 25 Percent of Staff
Telltale Games, the developers behind choice-based episodic series like The Walking Dead, Batman, and Guardians of the Galaxy, has announced 25 percent of its staff has been laid off in a company-wide restructure.
The reduction affects 90 staffers across all of Telltale's divisions but are, according to a press release, not going to affect Telltale's already announced slate of games, which includes new seasons of The Walking Dead and The Wolf Among Us.