The Dark Tower: Stephen King’s Thoughts on the Trailer, It, and Cinematic Universes
I’ve been a fan of The Dark Tower for a better part of my life. Stephen King’s amalgam of worlds, stories, and terrors has served as a basis for my love of storytelling for quite some time. On the eve of its first trailer, I got a chance to talk with King himself, and discuss the movie, his process, and just how far his universe extends.
Asking King what he thought of the trailer, his reaction was simple. “I thought it was fantastic.” He elaborated, “Fans of the books are going to be delighted to finally see Roland and Jake on screen, not to mention Walter, the Man in Black.” Expanding on that, I asked him what he thought of seeing two of our most talented actors portraying these characters that he created so long ago. “It was great to see Idris Elba as Roland. He has terrific focus and tremendous energy as Roland. Mathew McConaughey is very scary and very intense as Walter. I love that right away you set up the tension between the two of them.”
Max Payne Creators’ New Game Gets a Publisher, New Details
Max Payne creator, Remedy Entertainment, has entered into a publishing agreement with 505 Games to work towards its newest title, and revealed that it will be an entirely new project, not a sequel to its previous games.
Announced in a press release, Remedy confirmed that the title will be "a cinematic third person action game set in a new Remedy-created universe". It also confirmed that it will be multiplatform, slated for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC.
"Featuring an intriguing story and a game structure offering a long-lasting experience," reads the release, "P7 contains the deepest game mechanics yet in a Remedy game."
New CoD: Black Ops 3 DLC Seemingly Zombies Map Remasters
A new Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 DLC pack appears to be a compilation of remastered Zombies maps from previous titles in the series, if recent rumours are to be believed.
Following a quickly removed post on the ESRB website (since cached by Google) for a title called "Call of Duty: Black Ops III Zombies Chronicles", speculation had centred on the idea of a rundown of Treyarch's Zombies maps from over the years.
Reddit user DTZcPorter has since claimed to have decrypted to an upcoming Black Ops 3 'Message of the Day' that confirms that fact. The DLC will seemingly include 8 remastered maps from Treyarch's past Call of Duty games, as well as some added extras.
Inside the Making of Prey with Arkane Studios
IGN's Lucy O'Brien and Luke Reilly sat down with Raf Colantonio, Founder of Arkane Studios and Creative Director on Prey, to get an insight into the new sci-fi shooter. Raf gives insight into the creature design, world building and player choice of Prey, and details how he went from IT support worker to videogame creator. Watch the video above or grab the audio version below.
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Rooster Teeth’s Burnie Burns to Deliver Opening Keynote at PAX Aus
Rooster Teeth co-founder and Red vs. Blue creator Burnie Burns will deliver the 'Storytime' opening keynote at PAX Australia 2017, which will be held from October 27 to 29 at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre.
As Chief Creative Officer of Rooster Teeth Productions, Burns’ broad body of work has garnered multiple award nominations from The Webby Awards and International Academy of Web Television.
PAX Aus 2017 won’t be Burns’ first, either; to hear more about how Burns helped build an online video production empire (and a whole bunch of other nonsense) check out this early IGN Happy Hour the Pubcast team recorded with Burns back at PAX Aus 2013.
The 2017 Eisner Award Nominees Revealed
The nominations for the 2017 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards were released today, spotlighting the best comics and creators of the past year across a number of categories.
Fantagraphics had the most representation of any publisher in this year's lineup, with a total of 20 nominations. Image followed with 17 nominations, then Dark Horse with 10, Marvel with 9 and DC with 8.
Mario / Rabbids RPG Reportedly Coming to Switch This Year
Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle, the rumored crossover RPG from Ubisoft and Nintendo, will reportedly release either this August or September for Nintendo Switch.
According to Kotaku, who received art assets for the game, Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle will feature turn-based combat and local co-op for two players.
The game will reportedly feature a total of eight playable characters, including Mario, Luigi, Peach and Yoshi, as well as four Rabbids dressed up as the aforementioned characters. In the art provided to Kotaku, Mario and his pals are seen armed with guns that fire laser beams.
Marvel Legacy: Every Hero and Villain Who Could Return
While Marvel's Secret Empire crossover is just now getting underway, the company is also shining a spotlight on what's coming next. Secret Empire will pave the way for the publisher's latest big relaunch, one dubbed "Marvel Legacy." As the name suggests, Marvel Legacy will see the Avengers get back to basics and Marvel focus on its most iconic heroes and villains again.
Marvel Legacy teaser art by Joe Quesada. (Marvel Comics)
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New The Dark Tower Posters Revealed
Two new posters have been released for The Dark Tower, with the film's first trailer set to be debuted tomorrow.
Stephen King, the author behind The Dark Tower franchise, released two new character poster. The first is of The Gunslinger/Roland Deschain (Idris Elba), who can be seen wielding his two trademark six shooters, and the second is of villain Man in Black (Matthew McConaughey). Check out the posters below.
The Dark Tower poster featuring Idris Elba's The Gunslinger.