Marvel’s Inhumans Has a Unique Way for Black Bolt to Speak
If there's one thing you need to know about Inhumans King Black Bolt heading into the series premiere of Marvel's Inhumans, it's that his voice is his superpower in the worst way possible. One word from Black Bolt can level a city, destroy an army or, worse, kill someone close to him. That's why it is his superhero burden to never, ever speak.
Black Bolt's inability to speak due to his power creates great dramatic tension in comic books when the audience can live inside of the character's mind, but is a bit more challenging to convey on a TV show. As the leader of the Inhuman Royal Family that lives in the city of Attilan on the dark side of the moon, TV show Black Bolt needs to be able to communicate with more than just strong eye contact. Anson Mount took on the role of the leader of the Royal Family knowing he would never speak a word as his character, but the series did have a different approach to allowing him to communicate.
PS Plus Games Announced for September 2017
Update: Sony has released a revised list of free games coming to PS Plus next month, removing Monster Jam Battlegrounds, Hustle Kings, Hue, and Sky Force Anniversary from the list.
Four more games have been added in their places, viewable in the list below:
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September 2017's list of free PlayStation Plus games has been revealed, with Infamous: Second Son and Strike Vector Ex headlining the list.
Check out the full list of free games, via PlayStation Blog, along with what platforms they are available on below:
Wrestling Wrap Up: John Cena Just Owned Roman Reigns
You all saw that, right? The heated shoot-style segment on RAW wherein John Cena, with all his veteran superhero promos skillz, ferociously tucked Roman Reigns into bed and gave him a savage pat on the forehead, wishing him good dreams and a peaceful rest?
Now, word has it that, as loosey goosey and off-the-cuff as it felt - oh, and there were moments of improv for sure - it was all scripted to feel real and organic. It was basically a "controlled burn." Not to say that there were parts that didn't come from real, genuine places, but in the end it all came from a script.
17 Games Highlighted in Today’s Switch Showcase
Nintendo’s latest Switch Nindies Showcase featured 20 games announced, dated, or detailed for the Switch throughout the rest of 2017 and into early 2018.
IGN has already highlighted the reveals of Shovel Knight: King of Cards, Kentucky Route Zero: TV Edition, and No More Heroes: Travis Strikes Again.
No More Heroes for Switch Officially Revealed
After teasing the project earlier this year, Nintendo and Suda51 have officially revealed Travis Strikes Again, the latest No More Heroes entry coming to the Nintendo Switch exclusively in 2018.
Unveiled as part of today's Switch Nindies Showcase, Travis Strikes Again features the No More Heroes star being confronted in his trailer by TKTK, only to be pulled into the game he was playing — Hotline Miami.
A partnership between developer Grasshopper Manufacture and various indie developers will delve into six different games and beat their respective bosses.
Suda51 teased Travis' return — as wel las the game's subtitle — during the Switch reveal event earlier this year.
Terry Pratchett’s Unfinished Works Destroyed By Steamroller
All remaining unfinished novels by the late author Terry Pratchett have been destroyed by steamroller - at his specific request.
Pratchett, diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 2007, continued to write, increasingly with assistance from other writers, up until his death in 2015. He made a specific request, as relayed by his friend and fellow author Neil Gaiman, that anything he was working on at the time of his death should be "put in the middle of the road . . . and
a steamroller to steamroll over them all".
There goes the browsing history... Many thanks to @steamfair. Soon to be on display at @SalisburyMuseum in September https://t.co/Di8tvTO4Hi pic.twitter.com/onGGWLDYL4
The Best Sci-Fi Movies Streaming on Netflix
There ain’t no fiction like science-fiction, a broad and expansive genre that includes high-concept brainbenders, fanciful action/adventures, inspirational family epics and desperate cautionary tales. But at the heart of all these films is a shared fascination with what technology can do to a human life and for civilization as a whole, and also a serious contemplation of where we’ve been and we are headed. The future stems from the past and present, and the past and present dictate what we expect from our collective future.
Which is all just a fancy way of saying that sci-fi movies are about big ideas, filtered through a wide variety of subgenres. That’s why when you look at all the sci-fi films on a streaming service like Netflix, you can easily be overwhelmed by the variety on display. Fortunately, we’ve put Netflix’s selection of sci-fi movies under an electron microscope, and isolated only the very best examples of the genre that are currently available on the service.
Kentucky Route Zero Coming to Nintendo Switch
During today's Nindies presentation, Nintendo revealed that Kentucky Route Zero: TV Edition will be coming to Switch in 2018. The five act, episodic adventure game made its debut on PC in 2013, with the final installment set to hit alongside the Switch version sometime next year.
Developed by Cardboard Computer, the fantastic point-and-click adventure game is set in rural America and dripping with magical realism. It doesn't really focus on puzzles, instead leaning heavily on an evocative mood, incredible music, and beautiful writing. It's one of the closest analogues to Twin Peaks in all of gaming.
In our glowing review of Act 2, we said "Kentucky Route Zero is most affecting when you stop and let the surreal visuals, beautiful music, and masterful prose swirl together and fill your lungs."
Shovel Knight: King of Cards Confirmed for 2018
During the Nindies Summer Showcase today, Yacht Club revealed Shovel Knight: King of Cards, the final campaign for Shovel Knight.
King of Cards will arrive in early 2018 and features four new worlds and 30 new courses, according to today’s presentation.
King of Cards is a prequel that will tell the story of how King Knight ascended to the throne. It will also feature a new mode with card battles.
The King Knight campaign was previously announced and follows already-released bonus campaigns Plague of Shadows (featuring Plague Knight) and Specter of Torment (featuring Specter Knight). The boss campaigns are stretch goals from Shovel Knight’s massively successful original Kickstarter campaign, which launched in 2013.
Prototype Nvidia Shield 2 Found in Pawn Shop
What appears to be a prototype version of the unreleased Nvidia Shield Portable 2 has apparently been discovered in a pawn shop in Canada.
As reported by PCGamer, in a post made on the Nvidia subreddit user "FwrigginRwootBeer" has posted images and specs of an item he picked up in a pawn shop that appears to reportedly be the Portable 2, with specs that appear to match Nvidia's plans for a follow-up to their original, 2013 handheld.
Is this the Nvidia Shield Portable 2?