Here’s What Paul McCartney’s Pirates 5 Character Looks Like
Paul McCartney is excited to join the Pirates of the Caribbean life, sharing a first look at his character in the upcoming fifth film.
On Twitter, McCartney showed off his buccaneer getup for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. The famous Beatle doesn't have a guitar or piano, but instead is holding cards in his hand.
#PiratesLife pic.twitter.com/9GXS5QB931
— Paul McCartney (@PaulMcCartney) May 13, 2017
LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2 Announced
Warner Bros has announced a sequel to LEGO Marvel Super Heroes on the game's Facebook page.
A small teaser trailer for LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2 shows a LEGO Baby Groot - who recently featured in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 - running through an explosive brick world. The 16-second peek concludes with Doctor Strange levitating beside the logo before announcing that the full-length trailer will be available to view on May 23.
34 Images from Marvel’s The Gifted Official Trailer
Fox dropped the trailer for The Gifted, giving us a better look at the upcoming Marvel mutants series.
Bryan Singer, veteran director of the X-Men movies, is directing the show's pilot. Check out the gallery below for a host of images from the trailer.
Fox made it official, ordering episodes of The Gifted for the 2017-2018 season. Burn Notice co-creator Matt Nix serves as The Gifted's show runner, and Nix also wrote the script for the pilot.
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With NES Classic Discontinued, Retron HD Could Take Its Place
Hyperkin wants to pick up where NES Classic Edition left off with the Retron HD, a new console that plays 8-bit classics from Nintendo's home system.
The Retron HD works with original NES cartridges — from both NTSC and PAL regions — displaying them at 720p on screen. The console comes with a controller with a 10-foot cord and HD cable, plus a micro USB charge cable.
Announced earlier this month, the Retron HD looks like an attempt to build off the success of Nintendo's mini console. The Big N discontinued the NES Classic Edition in April, with a company representative at the time stating that the system "wasn’t intended to be an ongoing, long-term product."
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PlayStation Virtual Reality is Back in Stock for Under £327
Amazon have restocked on PSVR Headsets and have reduced their pricing to £326.95. Alternatively, get the PSVR Headset bundled with a PlayStation Camera V2 (worth £44.99) for £349.99, or a PSVR Headset with Farpoint, Resident Evil 7 and a NOW TV 2 Month Movie Pass for £349.99.
Switch Glitch Sees Consoles Taking Random Screenshots
A new Nintendo Switch bug seems to have emerged over the weekend, causing consoles to autonomously take screenshots, seemingly at random, without the user having pressed the screenshot button.
Documented by multiple users on Reddit and the Nintendo support forum (and experienced by Kotaku UK), the glitch reportedly activates the screenshot function - with its associated click sound - at seemingly random intervals, even waking the console from sleep mode to do so.
Overwatch Art Book and Hardcover Comic On the Way
Two new Overwatch books are on the way from Dark Horse and Blizzard Entertainment.
The first is The Art of Overwatch, a 9”x12” hardcover book that shows off never-before-seen art along with commentary from the game’s development team. It will retail for $49.99. Similar treatment was given to World of Warcraft in the previously released World of Warcraft: Chronicle hardcover art books.
There will also be a limited edition (predictably titled The Art of Overwatch Limited Edition) that is the same book but comes packaged in a clamshell box with magnetic clasps and includes an acetate slipcover designed after Overwatch covergirl Tracer. It also comes with two portfolios, one featuring a portrait print and the other two landscape prints. You can see the prints in the slideshow gallery below except for one that’s being kept a surprise until release. The limited edition will run you $100.
343 Says There Is No Halo 3 Anniversary Remaster
10 years after Halo: Combat Evolved, we got Halo Anniversary. 10 years after Halo 2, we got Halo 2 Anniversary as part of The Master Chief Collection. 10 years after Halo 3 we... probably won't be getting anything.
343 community manager Brian Jarrard (better known as sk7ch343) responded to speculation about a celebratory remaster on Reddit, saying, "OMG stop. There is no Halo 3 Anniversary."
Fans were responding to Jarrard's previous comments about the fact that while Halo 6 will not be at E3, 343 will "have a little something". Back to the drawing board on that one, seems.
SEGA Planning to Revive ‘Major IPs’
SEGA has revealed plans for a revival of “major IPs” within the SEGA Sammy group’s new “Road to 2020” document, released following the March 31, 2017 end of the fiscal year.
The presentation does not specify precisely which “major IPs” SEGA may be seeking to exhume at this stage, though it does stress the company will also seek to expand existing properties and challenge for potential new franchises.
The strategy to resurrect major IPs is noted as one of the major points in SEGA’s goals for the “packaged game field.”
SEGA Sammy's "Road to 2020" plans.
Martin Says Fifth Potential Game of Thrones Spinoff in Development
Game of Thrones scribe George R.R. Martin has revealed that there are potentially five spinoff Game of Thrones series in development, one more than the originally reported four.
In a blog post, Martin said that the fifth is a recent development. "We had four scripts in development when I arrived in LA last week, but by the time I left we had five," the author wrote. He said he would wait for HBO to announce the fifth writer once the deal has closed, but called him a "really terrific addition" who knows Westeros inside and out.